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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1949
Page
1
Practical built-ins solve furnishing and storage problems for small homes while remaining budget friendly. Clever shelf layouts in the living room and bedroom maximize space, display items, and adapt to windows, walls, and room divisions with decorative yet functional appeal.
Clever fashion hack notes using small pins and spring backs to create glittering accents. Describes combining four matching pins to form cuff links or jewelry embellishments, and using cluster pins as sparklers on hats, shirts, or bands. Guidance emphasizes simple, inventive styling with existing pieces.
New York fashion opens feature cape-back coats as spring news. Designers Monte Bano Maurice Rentner Samuel Kass present cape backs in coats and suits with belted, side drape, and bolero versions. Lace appliques and perfume bottle silhouettes add variety to ladylike ensembles for Easter collections.
Handkerchiefs and similar items stay popular for monogrammed gifts. Designers emphasize quality embroidery and careful planning, noting monograms should match decor and reflect careful taste.
A text discusses how monograms express individual taste beyond changing fashions. It notes that skirt lengths and hat silhouettes may shift while monograms stay personal, with size color and embroidery reflecting private style. Guidance suggests tailoring gifts to the recipient's preferences.
An old catalog style ad promotes Pattern 7361 featuring a peacock among morning glories with easy stitches. It offers charts photos directions and a 20 cent reply mail to The Trays Record for a Brooklyn mail order pattern catalog item with additional crochet knitting and embroidery designs.
Farmers can enhance farm or country home aesthetics with carefully chosen ornamental trees. Consult a nurseryman to select sugar maples, American elms, European lindens, ashes, and oaks. Move large trees if needed, with January 1 planting for frozen ground, and plant a tree for each family member to create a lasting, multi generational landscape.
Dr Ernest G Osborne cautions parents on child appetite. Loss of appetite may signal illness or fatigue and overexertion can disrupt eating. Forcing food wastes effort. instead address underlying cause and allow recovery to restore intake.
Dinner delays at the Jazzi prompt a method to keep mashed potatoes warm. Use an enameled double boiler with hot water, cover, and check moisture. If dry add a splash of cream and stir thoroughly before serving.
Porcelain enameled refrigerator dishes in large medium and small sizes ideal for storing fresh and leftover foods. These double duty utensils also serve for convenient reheating of leftovers. Full measure notes use of a cup with space above the one cup mark to prevent spilling and avoid skimping measurements.
A dated youth feature argues about necking and dating norms. Peg, age sixteen, distrusts boys' advances while Ted and friends push for quicker physical progress. The piece claims many girls share Peg’s view, while promising a book Why Neck? to help navigate and avoid fragile dating situations.
The text contrasts poor and better ways to identify yourself when calling a private home. It suggests saying your name and asking politely for the person you want, addressing the homeowner directly as Mrs or Mr. Jones. It emphasizes proper, respectful communication rather than using office style scripts.
The Inquiring Reporter asked young women whether beauty or brains mattered more. Most answered brains matter more, arguing education and drive open paths to a career and marriage success, while beauty alone offers little chance for a woman to build a life.
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