Bathtime Remedies For Pedicure Beauty Routine
A vintage guide highlights bath products from salts to brushes, lotions, and powders. It stresses cleansing the skin, warm soaking, nail care with orange wood sticks, and trimming nails straight across to prevent ingrown edges.
Beauty Bargain Cautions Against Prewash Before Home Perms
Do not wash hair with soap or oil based preparations before a home permanent. A film on hair may retard action of the waving lotion and affect results.
Grilled Cheese Delights And Other Cheese Luncheon Dishes
Abundant dairy in June inspires cheese centered luncheon dishes. Recipes include Grilled Cheese Delights with olives and mustard sauce, Asparagus with Almond Cheese Sauce, and Potato and Cheese Souffle. Each uses American cheese, butter, milk and simple pantry ingredients to serve six.
Gradual Weaning for Emotionally Dependent Children
Advice column urges parents to slowly desensitize babies to separation without punishment. Mothers told to let fathers or familiar adults care for the child, gradually increasing time apart, and to avoid spanking while guiding a child toward social interaction and tolerance of others.
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Dad
Grandma
A Tooth Quiz For Parents A Dental Health Card
A two part oral hygiene quiz from the Greater New York Oral Hygiene Committee tests parental knowledge and actions on children's dental health. Part A asks knowledge questions about teeth growth, decay, diet, psychology, brushing and fluoride. Part B asks about actual dental care actions for kids.
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Greater New York
Corree
Beef Chuck a Better Buy Than Hamburger
Food column touts chuck beef as superior value to hamburger citing fat water waste in store ground meat. Home grinding twice improves tenderness and yield. Includes dinner menu and recipe for French tart pastry and poached strawberries with step by step preparations.
Lowered Resistance a Factor When Canker Sores Appear
A health note explains canker sores arise from a virus infection linked to herpes simplex and lowered resistance. It notes common treatments such as zinc chloride delays and camphorated phenol, with relief from a balanced diet, fluids, vitamin B complex, and medical evaluation for chronic diseases.
Toasty frankfurters and braised meat tips menu
A vintage cooking note suggests toasting frankfurters in bread with mustard and butter, held by toothpicks. It also covers pork chops with onion celery salt and poultry seasoning, and braising pot roast or Swiss steak with flour dredge, browning, onion rings, liquid, and long slow cooking.
Concentrated Efforts Promised by Influential Backers
The text urges practical ideas and well planned aims to attract support from influential people. It advises thorough preparation before seeking higher approval or funding, notes potential initial friendliness with possible counter proposals, and highlights a birthdayChild born today as practical, energetic and ambitious.
Fisherman Finds Lighter Inside 15-Pound Grouper Near Pensacola
A fisherman dragging in his catch near Pensacola Florida dropped a cigarette lighter into the Gulf. Five minutes later his companion hauled in a 15 pound grouper and found the lighter inside the fish.
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Pensacola
Florida
Gulf
Home Sewing Tips for Wool and Rayon Jersey
A reader shares practical advice for sewing jersey fabrics. Tips include choosing pre shrunk wool, avoiding tight patterns, careful pattern placement, folding along the center rib, using fine needles and mercerized thread, stitching from the bottom up, reinforcing edges with tape, and allowing garments to rest after fitting before hemming.
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Jersey
Words of the Wise Reflections on Speech and Action
A compact reflection on how talk can tire listeners and how self judgment differs from others judgments. The quotes by Lord Chesterfield and Longfellow contrast speaking and deeds, urging restraint and measured ambition.
The Practical Book of American Wallpaper
Lois and William Katzenbach present a guide for selecting wallpaper that complements room architecture and furnishings. The book emphasizes pattern, texture, and color to harmonize walls with the home, including illustrations and twelve full page color samples ranging from Williamsburg restoration to modern abstract designs.
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Lois and
William Katzenbach
Williamsburg
Drapery Budget Tips and Household Cleaning
A window treatment tip suggests choosing affordable fabric if yardage is limited, arguing better to have no drapes than skimpy ones. Instructions describe washing yarn by squishing suds through strands and then rinsing, wringing, shaking, and drying. Also advised is brass polishing with vinegar and salt, followed by rinsing and polishing.
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