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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
4
Lily Pons declares garden life nourishes beauty beyond blooms. The column discusses goiter types, risks of adenomatous and toxic goiters, and treatments from rest and diet to X-ray therapy or surgery, stressing early examination and expert judgment.
Simple tips on home care including quiet floors, card recycling for welfare centers, and stain removal. Squeaky boards are fixed with talcum powder. Used cards go to welfare institutions. Salt and lemon plus sun help lift iron rust stains from fabric.
Profile of Dot Keafer, a cheerful switchboard worker, recounts peculiar visitors in the office. She describes bizarre encounters from a man claiming to die with a heavy chest to a backward-speller and a moon claimant. The piece hints at Dot’s forthcoming book sparked by these oddities.
The latest jewelry fashion highlights gold worn as subtle accents to white ensembles. This follows a trend of white or cream dresses featuring gold buttons or gold trim for a polished spectator sports look.
A 1938 Fairchild bolero slacks ensemble features sturdy blue cotton with a white nautical shirt accented by double-breasted buttons and dark braid. A matching cap completes the coordinated set.
Eggs are praised as inexpensive self packaged summer food suitable for breakfast lunch and dinner. Readers are urged to buy two or three dozen for emergencies and store in refrigeration. A weekly menu lists eggs in multiple dishes from breakfast to dinner with desserts and beverages. Parasols trending with London dressmakers link to Queen Elizabeth's garden party style.
French opera star Lily Pons, a keen southern Connecticut horticulturalist, treats gardening as healthful outdoor activity. She emphasizes energy burning bending and digging as good exercise, using annual beds and bed preparation to stay active and engaged with nature.
The singer Lily Pons details her gardening routine emphasizing comfort and practicality. She wears loose slacks a sweatshirt and low heels to protect clothing from stains while choosing appropriate equipment including gloves to safeguard her hands from dirt and scratches.
Miss Lily Pons advocates gardening as easy exercise and stress relief. She details gloves for digging and pruning, skin care with pumice lemon juice and lotions, and using suntan oil even on cloudy days. Gardening routines help appetite, fitness, and sleep after busy days in the city.
This column offers hair care guidance including hot oil treatments, softened water, wave setting products, brushing, and a egg white cleanser method for non wet days. It also gives skin color improvement tips with outdoor exercise, mild masks, and makeup advice using rosy beige foundation plus rose rouge and lipstick.
The note advises using a stiff wire brush on hot waffle irons and suggests a small brush made for this job. If picture wire shows it should be painted to blend with walls and hung discreetly. Oven-browned pié dishes need soaking in borax solution to ease cleaning. Pound flour into meat to preserve juices during tenderizing.
King Edward VII wore Queen Elizabeths natural pearl earrings at his coronation with the same two pearl drops and diamond accents as when made for the Virgin Queen. Elizabeths love of natural pearls extends through the royal line to the present Queen and princesses. Blue for August from Paris notes couture will feature two blue shades in August coats, one deep stone blue and one lighter hue, per authoritative color sources.
An essay contrasts host gifts with hospitality and argues a parent’s anger when spanking a child signals lack of love. It explains children judge love by actions, not words, noting angry punishment increases disobedience and harms trust.
In Paris the latest jewelry trend features tangled pearl strands, conspicuous earrings, and pink enamel flowers with green leaves near the cheeks. Hindu style combos of uncut rubies emeralds sapphires and pearls appear in bracelets neck laces clips and fob like brooches, including a carved emerald piece with emeralds rubies and a pearl tassel worn on the coat lapel.
A reader asks if a 22 year old woman can travel solo on a two week cruise. The columnist assures it is proper for a self respecting woman to go alone and urges common sense, advis ing not to initiate advances with men and to consider ship staff for social introductions.
A mother asks if an 18 year old daughter should invite a boy she met while away to a weekend at their home. Mrs Charles L responds to welcome the guest, discourage judgment, and suggests bringing another girl if the daughter agrees to friendly company.
The answer states a visiting card invitation suits semi formal functions. Acceptance or regret should be written on white note paper or a regular correspondence card, never on a visiting card.
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