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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
6
A June bride’s kitchen shower idea suggests practical, affordable gifts to ease married life. Recipes, kitchen tools, and a starter recipe box with guests’ favorites encourage homey, informal menus and hands-on advice for new homemakers.
In New York Blair, a reclusive glass artist, rents a top-floor room to work on a church window. Delia Dexter, a homesick stenographer, cleans his studio by accident and destroys his rough glass, provoking rage then unexpected friendship. Blair asks Delia to sit as the model, naming her his true angel as the project nears completion.
Four practical homemaking booklets ideal for a new bride. Better Baking Easy Entertaining Feeding Father Household Hints each priced at 10 cents. Send 10 cents per book with order details to Eleanor Howe at 919 N Michigan Ave Chicago Illinois. Western Newspaper Union releases this offer.
A Wisconsin farm boy, Boris Gilbertson, gains acclaim for two 13 by 5 foot bas-reliefs of a bison herd and a moose family in the Interior Department building. His road to art fame started with Fond du Lac post office sessions, study at Chicago Art Institute, and work as a rail laborer and stone carver.
Easter Island, sighted by Roggeveen on Easter Day 1722, is famed for colossal statues with tall red hats on stone platforms. Evidence shows two migrant groups the long ears artists with hats and script and the short ears who outpaced them, leaving legends and undeciphered signs. science traces origins to Pacific and Australasian regions but cannot explain why the islanders surpassed others.
A compact historical note cites Thomas Paine on the thin line between the sublime and the ridiculous. It discusses how one step below the sublime is ridiculous and one above becomes sublime again, illustrating enduring wit.
A compact selection of maxims and literary quotes on warning, resilience, navigation, memory, forgiveness, and tenderness. Notable figures referenced include Sandt Emerson Gibbon Christina Rossetti and Frederich W. Obertson. The items present aphorisms on learning from others, surprises in life, and the power of forgiveness.
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