Ripe Cherries and Diet Advice Highlight Digestive Health
A health column urges balanced eating to ease indigestion. It stresses understanding food composition, avoiding rushed meals, and cooperation with physicians to maintain digestion.
Winchester Evening Star in Winchester, Virginia
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
12
Mother Roper Aids Seamen in Search of Families for Fifty Years
Mrs Janet Roper known as Mother Roper directs the missing seamen bureau for the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Celebrating fifty years of service, she has reunited 5 605 seamen with families and since January found 122 missing men. She posts bulletins where seamen gather and travels to fronts of docks and dives to relay messages. Married in 1915, she lives in Brooklyn with three daughters and has no plan to retire, insisting time fades when you do what you love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Roper
Roper
The
Seamen's Church Institute of New York
Boston
Seamen's Friend Society
New York City
Ocean
Digestion Begins in the Mouth with Saliva and Appetite
The article explains that digestion starts in the mouth as food is chewed and saliva begins to soften and break down fibers. It notes ptyalin in saliva converts starch to sugar, and warns against swallowing too quickly as saliva acts before gastric juices intervene.
Short Cuts for Sandwich Bread and Cheese Freshness
Use day old bread for sandwiches as it slices best with a firmer texture. Spread butter thinly over the cut end of a large piece of cheese to prevent drying out and preserve flavor.
Fashionable mixed outfit for fall sportswear and more
A brown teal striped tweed jacket with a brown pleated skirt forms a versatile fall sports outfit. The text also provides cherry dessert recipes including cherry rolly polies and cherry tapioca, plus a cherry fruit bowl and pickled cherries method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairchild
Cherry Roly Polies Made With Buttermilk
Ripe cherries are featured in a vintage style recipe for cherry roly polies with buttermilk. Instructions include boiling juice and sealing jars, plus a summer drink made from cherry juice. Readable steps cover washing, mashing, simmering, straining, sweetening, and serving over ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Wilson
Grilled Lamb Patties and Side Dishes Menu List
A menu item set featuring grilled lamb patties with buttered peas in potato nests, clover rolls with jam, iced tea, jellied consommé, chicken potato balls en casserole, mixed green salad, cherry roll-polies with cherry sauce and coffee.
Three Slit Frankfurters for Picnic Cooking
For a simple picnic treat make three crossway slits in each frank. Stuff with sliced onion and spread mustard inside the slits. Broil carefully or fry in a bit of bacon fat to finish.
Hair ends dry and lightened by sun damage
Harriet asks how to cover dry split ends after frequent permanents. The reply suggests sun exposure as a cause, recommends brushing and using oil or brilliantine, and proposes shampoo oil tints to recondition and darken badly burned ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet
Soft and Stylish Manicures With Oils and Flowers
Jacqueline Hunt describes nail and hand care trends from glossy make up to oil manicures and scented creams. Readers are urged to experiment with moods using color, accessories, and floral accents while noting new heated nail oils and hand masks from major manufacturers.
Cottons Take Town Fashion Shift In Plaids and Seersucker
New York fashion notes reveal cottons leading this summer with plaided ginghams and seersucker in dresses and jackets. Gingham checks appear in younger garments while puffed pique trims and dimity accents add feminine detail, with braid, lace edgings, and ribbons popular in accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Dimity
Factory method for sewing children dresses
Using a factory approach, you can cut three or four dresses at once with varied materials. Complete them through different finishing options to save time and effort on large batches.
Cynical Slurs on Marriage Fail to Mar Its Happiness
Marian Mays Martin notes that cynical quotes about marriage persist yet marriages continue. An anecdote from a dentist's waiting room contrasts childlike wonder with adult cynicism, then offers guidance on choosing pictures for a child's room and on enduring an unsuccessful marriage with resilience and self improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian Mays Martin
Joseph Collins
Fosdick
G. B. Stern
No Substitute for Marriage Brings Caution and Laughter
An editorial laments and defends marriage, arguing there is no substitute that truly works. It notes young women mock marriage as a modern stance while warning men against temporary relationships and the hollow notion of love.
Monogram Choice for Glassware Formal Gift
The correct monogram uses your given names initials plus your husband surname initial. Use your Christian names initials followed by his surname initial to form the standard three-letter set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D
Nonacid Vegetables Require Steam Pressure Canning
The piece explains that peas and beans like most vegetables except tomatoes are non acidic and must be processed in a steam pressure canner to reach 240 to 250 degrees Fahrenheit for safe sterilization within a reasonable time.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Claud North Chrisman
Talbot Lake
Judith Wilson
Cherry
Jacqueline Hunt
Eleanor Gunn
Tot
Jane Herbert
Goward
Mrs. Martin
Mrs. Goward
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