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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
6
Lace, once a simple trim, is now a dominant fabric in summer fashion. Cherie Nicholas highlights lace varieties that cover bathing suits, redingotes, hats, gloves, and tailored jackets. She notes pleated skirts and jacket dresses in delicate lace, with colors from pastels to blacks, suitable for day and evening wear.
Sylvia, 26, asks her lifelong protector Donald for help with a wedding dilemma. He reveals his own secret love and, in a tense emotional turn by the lake, confesses his passion as she finally realizes he is the man she loves. The greasy boat setting frames their pivotal confession and shift.
CBS Star Helen Wood debuts a necklace of corn kernels while vegetable jewelry gains fame in California. Necklaces feature seeds pods and brass beads with coral chips, praised for being light on neck and wallet.
Paris showcases masculine silhouettes with natural shoulders and slim waists, featuring redingotes in patterned wools and silks, tailored silk suits in checked sarah, horizontal striped doubles, and organdy blouses with frilled fronts. Feminine notes appear in linen boleros, white pique trims, and floral bouquets for manly lapels.
The cotton evening skirt paired with a lingerie blouse emerges as a leading summer fashion. Favorites include a full peasant style with a flower print, lace-trimmed blouse, and skirts in plaid ginghams, sheer crinkled cottons, and lace cottons with dark jersey bodices. The teen market favors flowered glazed chintz skirts.
Readers learn of new shoe models focusing on comfort and appearance. Designers emphasize soft leather and notably lower heels to deliver easier wear and modern appeal.
In African wilds natives use tom-toms and hollow wooden drums to create rhythmic music and a drum signal system. Drum orchestras, wooden box drums, and metal pots produce varied tones while a tube xylophone nicknamed the African piano adds melodic variety.
The world gathers on January 25 to honor Robert Burns, Scotland’s famed poet. Born near Ayr in 1759, he rose from plowboy to celebrated writer, later serving as an excise officer before his 1796 death. His enduring fame makes him a premier lyric figure of his people.
A nostalgic picnic guide suggests using plump cheeseburgers for outdoor meals. The recipe covers 8 patties with American cheese and a piquant sauce of chili sauce, pickle relish, and mustard, plus optional Worcester sauce, served on buttered buns.
A collection of picnic dishes including marshmallow and graham cracker dessert sandwiches with hot marshmallows, frankfurters prepared with mustard and pickles, a kettle boiled potato and frankfurter dish, buttered buns with ketchup and fruit, and a chocolate ice cream recipe. The ice cream method uses unsweetened chocolate, condensed milk, water, mace, and whipping cream, frozen in a refrigerator unit for six servings.
The article offers hamburger prep tips for picnics including patty formation with onions and seasonings, waxed paper storage, bun filling hash, hollowed rolls filled with hash, butter brushed tops, and 15 minute oven bake. It promotes oilcloth table coverings, windproof ground covers, and new lunch kits with vacuum bottles and a metal lunch box.
A homemaking note highlights a bright new slip cover that makes an old sofa look fresh. It promises easy self made covers with cut and sew details and diagrams in a 32 page booklet. Includes chair covering tips fabrics and color guidance. Send for your copy to:
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