Watchnight Party Ideas and Formal Menu for New Year
A guide to formal New Year watchnight entertaining with a white and silver color scheme, limiting decor, and room for dancing. Includes recipes for caviar canapes, bacon canapes, roquefort nut bites, a lime custard dessert, and a pomegranate spritz dessert, with detailed steps and serving notes for a 25 guest event.
Women Strike Into New Jobs Frontiers of Business
A feature discusses women creating new jobs by leveraging skills rather than chasing traditional roles. Insights from Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse highlight trends toward cooperation over cutthroat competition and the need for women to forge pioneering paths in business.
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Chase Going Woodhouse
Institute of Women's Professional Relations
America
Industrial design as a path for women in the workplace
A writer argues the discovery of the consumer and desire to please her create jobs for women in hotels utilities and domestic advising. She highlights beauty in business and industry and Federal involvement in social work, predicting industrial designers will lead postwar optimism while noting male forays in design remain possible but limited.
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Moses
Beauty Resolutions For A Fresh Start In The New Year
A guide urges women to make and keep beauty resolutions. It stresses simple steps starting with facial washing using warm water, bland soap, and a complexion brush or wash cloth. Instructions cover neck to ears cleansing with a rotary motion and finishing with cold rinse, promising further tips on complexion brush use tomorrow.
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Breathing Through Cold Weather Keeps Bodies Energized
CLAUD NORTH CHRISMAN MD explains how deep breathing nourishes blood and lungs, improves posture, and boosts warmth and energy. It advises elevating the head, expanding the chest, and breathing fully to ward off chills and prevent colds.
Help for Muscular Action Pain Relief Through Breathing
The article explains that many pains come from minor muscle spasms and congestion. It urges deep breathing, full diaphragm use, and gentle rubbing to improve circulation and relieve pressure. It notes that abdominal engagement and voluntary exercise support core organs and comfort.
Short Cuts for Everyday Cooking and Cleaning
Spinach omelet made from leftover spinach provides a nutritious lunch. Chop spinach finely and heat slowly then mix with beaten egg season with salt and pepper and fry in butter. Veal cutlets become tastier spread with mustard dip in eggs and crumbs. Soak pastry boards in warm water to whiten then scrub with cleansing powder. Choose green well filled pea pods as fresh peas snap when broken.
Profile of Colby Chester as General Foods leader
A profile profiles Colby M. Chester succeeding Edward F. Hutton as General Foods chairman. Chester, son of Rear Admiral Chester, blends military upbringing with law background from Yale and NYU. Born 1877 in Annapolis, he rose from Postum Cereal treasurer to director across firms, and favors conservative policies and a national business stimulus. He holds Greenwich Connecticut civic roles and manages a handsome estate.
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General Foods
Edward F. Hutton
Colby M. Chester
Tremendous Cereal and Canned Goods Company
Hutton
Chester
Postum Cereal Company
Annapolis
Yale
New York University Law School
Charles Evans Hughes
Greenwich
Conn
Apple Dish With Cinnamon Syrup and Oatmeal Filling
A recipe features Core four medium apples boiled in a syrup of 143 cups sugar 2 cups water 5 teaspoons cinnamon and 2 teaspoons nutmeg The tender apples are removed from the syrup and filled with cooked oatmeal or whole wheat cereal then served with cream Ceci B De Mille noted as the dish’s favorite.
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Ceci B. de Mille
Wardrobe and beauty tips for a fuller figure and oily skin
The reader is advised to wear simple tailored dresses with long straight lines and center or diagonal closures, with narrow belts if used, and to choose coat and shirtwaist dresses. For skin, cleanse with warm water and soap, rinse, pat dry with cold astringent, and use a weekly mask. hair should be styled away from the face, with options for a classic knot or a sculpted high side part, avoiding fullness at the sides and center parts.
Egg Nog Recipe with Cognac and Cream
Separate 10 eggs and beat the yolks until thick. Beat in 1 cup sugar and gradually add 2 cups cognac and 4 5 cup Jamaica rum, beating constantly. Beat in 2 quarts rich milk, then fold in 2 cups whipped cream and the egg whites beaten until stiff. Pour into glasses and top with nutmeg for 12 servings.
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Jamaica
Assorted Holiday Foods Menu Summary
Assorted canapes cocktails and New Year punch include crabmeat au gratin buttered finger rolls tomato ring with potato salad and a holiday snow pudding with cherry sauce. Coffee onion soup assorted cold meats sandwiches and hot rolls accompany a green salad with piquant dressing white fruit cake pomegranate sherbet coffee eggnog salted nuts and bonbons.
Sleeved Evening Mode Dominates Dressy New York Styles
New York fashion notes highlight sleeved evening mode as the formal standard with rich fabrics and ornate trims. Mainbocher showcases a white crepe frock with long sleeves and gold bead embroidery, while Lanvin offers a white heavy sheet piece with gold paillettes.
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New York
Schiaparelli
Paris
Modes and Manners Quiz on Wedding Etiquette
A reader asks about seating at dining with a wife and mother and is told the man should sit between the two women so he can split his attention. Another query covers moving an engagement ring from left to right hand and keeping the wedding ring on the left. A third asks about addressing invitations to a couple and their grown son, answered by issuing separate invitations to the couple and to the son.
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E.D.S
John Smith
Woman’s Place in Work and Pay Weighs on Opinions
The article argues that wage equality favors men unless women pursue fields seen as their domain. It urges women to excel in specialized roles where they are strong, noting the feminine touch still brings money in commerce. It highlights lingering doubts about women’s rightful place and the rarity of men in roles like stenography and certain sewing.
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