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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1939
Page
9
Dr. Claud North Chrisman notes how grandmothers gathered dandelion greens and watercress as greens left scarce by winter. Today fresh watercress provides a vitamin rich, iron filled food used as appetizer and tonic, contrasting winter meals of meat and canned produce.
A breezy porch luncheon idea for sultry spring days features sandwiches and spiced iced coffee. The article presents a banana bran nut bread recipe and suggests elegant sandwiches with dark and light bread, all prepared quickly for family or guests.
The guidance says to suggest a replacement only if an illness prevents attendance and to ensure the substitute is known to the hostess and fits with other guests.
Watercress serves as a garnish and flavorful ingredient in dishes yet is more than ornament. It grows in nearly all US waterways, especially spring-fed brooks, and its foliage provides a pungent peppery taste with a slight saltiness. Ancient societies valued it as medicine and food for growth, health, and preventing scurvy. the Chinese have long prized it for flavoring dull foods. Rich in vitamins A C B and G and minerals, watercress supports nutrition beyond lettuce cabbage or spinach.
Five times more iron than cabbage celery or lettuce and higher than spinach. It provides copper for the blood, adds body to soups, and can be cooked like spinach or served in salads. Chinese use dried watercress for flavor. a California firm makes tablets with watercress mustard greens and turnip tops for arthritis treatment with colloidal sulfur noted as beneficial.
A Vassar graduate known as Andra gains attention with the pamphlet Vista in Radio City New York. She writes bold pieces including letters to Roosevelt and calls for change while avoiding conventional press paths. Andra emphasizes independence over money and plans to continue publishing her own work despite opposition.
A reader asks for affordable skin cream for very dry blotchy skin. The columnist recommends a lanoline based cream that melts at skin temperature and suggests alternating mild washing with cream and tonic cleansing as the skin improves. For hair, the advice favors commercial waving lotion over an egg white mix and cautions to apply after partial drying and not to attempt complex styles.
Short cuts advise scratching water spots from silks and wool with a fingernail or stiff brush. To wash berries lift fruit from water, not pour out. dirt stays bottom. Pack dresses flat in a suitcase with tissue between folds and cardboard supports. Unwrap meat immediately on delivery to curb juices on clean dish.
Ann Delafield urges women to test dresses only after removing all makeup to ensure color matches skin and hair. The article explains color choices for three hair types, highlighting blue green and blue red shades and detailing specific makeup to enhance natural coloring and personality.
A luncheon menu features stuffed tomato with cottage cheese and chives, chopped watercress pinwheels with olives and celery, hot butterscotch roll, coffee, fresh fruit salad with lemon French dressing, cheese cornucopias, chocolate cake, and spiced iced coffee.
A recipe for iced coffee flavored with cinnamon cloves and coffee, plus detailed instructions for serving. Outdoor sandwich ideas describe cornucopia shapes with spread butter, cheese, olives, watercress, and parsley, plus pinwheel and ribbon variants with butter and meat spreads and cream cheese mixtures.
Fashion notes from a spring luncheon highlight veils in chartreuse and pink, with Hope Williams in Roman stripes and a cyclamen turban. Countess Asti wears green tones. Tallulah Bankhead appears in a burnt straw hat and blue reefer, while fur jackets and crinolines gain attention in Paris and New York.
Jane Wyman offers her grandmother's glycerine and camphor lotion with lemon juice. Dannielle Darrieux prefers a rose glycerine base. Dorothy Lamour endorses a whitening mix with peroxide ammonia and glycerine. Billie Burke recommends a glycerine and rosewater rub for skin softness.
Loren Carroll presents Conversation Please a witty guide to talking at dinner and social events. The piece cites parental romances, the craft of conversation, and the perils of overtalking while noting that both charm and wit affect social appeal. It contrasts silent and loquacious traits with examples.
A regional note links Johnny Cake to Journey Cake from Daniel Boone era. It claims no settler left the frontier without a sack of corn meal, the key ingredient of Johnny Cake.
The piece argues small talk aids social progress and notes that couples often commit conversational sins. It highlights the habit of finishing others' sentences and urges careful speech as a key to smoother relationships. The excerpt cites the book Conversation, Please and ends with a quip about watching your step.
A new house dress features rows of shirring at the shoulders that move with the wearer. The design allows reaching up stretching bending freely so ripped shoulders and under sleeves become unnecessary and the garment remains comfortable throughout activity.
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