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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1939
Page
2
Article notes 1870 style revival in Paris as Bustles reappear for autumn, contrasting past and present fashion. Dr Claud North Chrisman discusses intestinal toxemia and shifts in medical thinking about bacterial toxins and digestion influence on health across decades.
Physicians report chronic indigestion and mucous colitis linked to colon irritation. Diamricinoleate soricin, a non toxic clarified castor oil soap, degrades toxins and hinders bacterial growth. Tablets with enteric coating show rapid improvement when used with vaccines in several weeks of treatment.
A concise guide to social conduct covering introductions, place settings, and utensil use. A gentleman rises when introduced. Bread and butter are removed after salads or with the main course. Strawberries are eaten with fingers. asparagus is discussed as a finger food. For stationery, white paper with the address printed or engraved on the top.
London born Edith Dodwell heads 27 stewardesses aboard the Cunard White Star liner Mauretania. She rose from Russian ship Czar to Mauretania and old Mauretania, with a family history of seafaring. Dodwell notes more women travel alone now, self reliant and less need for a stewardess, and she plans to stay at sea rather than settle ashore.
Paris premiere fashions feature bustles, necalines, and hats with Schiaparelli designs. Readers see Paris silhouettes mirrored in New York style notes, with commentary on hips and fit, plus a recipe punch for home cooking and a Cape Cod pudding variant.
The piece catalogs season styles with crinolines and pencil gowns, notes on hair and hats, and mentions London outfits. It adds etiquette guidance for beauty salon visits, advising respect for stylists, proposing experimentation, and detailing makeup tips and beach sun care.
Summer skin care urges daily baths as heat and sun dry and tauten skin. An English bath oil blends to counter sun water effects, keeps skin soft, cleanses pores, and resists rancidity. Use with a matching soap and bath powder for a smooth, hydrated finish. Send a note to Miss Hunt with a stamped self-addressed envelope for names of preparations.
A five year old boy named Bobby shows repeated headaches that doctors cannot find a medical cause for. His mother, skeptical of the diagnosis, pursues second opinions and later learns the child may be acting to gain attention due to neglect.
An early 20th century note promotes wearing a plaid percale suit dress with a cotton hopsacking jacket for summer wear. It urges parents to teach children to swim early, citing safety and enjoyment, and contrasts past “rope and breakers” bathing with modern, practical swimming. A related letter discusses vacation plans and engagement.
A reader Betty B asks about a trip to meet fiancé’s family and whether it is appropriate. The columnist says 16 is proper for the visit and advises decisive, cautious action to avoid gossip, noting the engagement era is sensitive to conservative scrutiny.
Short cuts suggest cook potatoes in roomy pots to prevent bruising. Advice covers washing cut glass with ammonia in soap suds, rinsing in matching temp water, and drying with lintless cloth. Cautionary note on fabrics, avoiding bright sun and hanging in shade.
A home recipe describes making peach ice cream using milk heavy cream sugar and fresh peaches. Steps include mixing milk and cream adding sugar cooling flavoring then freezing halfway adding peach pulp and finishing freezing, then removing the dasher and packing the ice cream to ripen before serving.
The best plain cooking in the world comes from New England and now 600 recipes of thrifty pioneers who settled there have been printed in The Yankee Cook Book by Imogene Wolcott who collected edited and tested each one herself.
A historical menu lists a lunch with Yankee succotash chowder mixed hot breads jelly and jam garden sass with tomatoes onions cucumbers maple cream tarts tea. Dinner features Vermont corned beef boiled potatoes new cabbage carrots beets wilted lettuce and blueberry slump iced coffee.
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