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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1937
Page
8
Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common chronic rheumatic condition causing more disability than heart disease TB and cancer. It typically begins before age 35 and often lasts a lifetime with unknown cause and no specific cure. Patients appear ill underweight pale and frail with swollen painful small hand joints and clammy hands.
The skin is cold and joints hot early, with limited motion and fever. Over time more joints are affected, muscles weaken, and deformities may appear. Early treatment is essential before enlargement and stiffness, but rest of joints is costly. Public hospitals lack early care. patients are anemic undernourished with poor digestion. Pain relief is palliative with sedatives and aspirin.
The text advocates removing focal infections and avoiding cold and wet exposure. It recommends cod liver oil high doses or substitutes, iron in large doses, and digestion aids. It also discusses arsenic and iodine use, injections of vaccines, and moving patients to a dry warm climate with baths and sun treatment as long term strategies.
How to eat a marshmallow in cocoa with minimal melt and what to do when a dish breaks. Serve the marshmallow with two spoons. keep the dessert simple and discreet. If a dish breaks, apologize, help clean up, avoid awkwardness, and attempt to replace or match the dish if possible.
The Irish tenor and naturalized American citizen John McCormack, aged 52, says he will retire to rest for months. He notes the contrast between age and ability and hopes listeners will remember his golden voice from concert halls and phonographs after he stops performing.
A navy blue fitted coat showcases a slate blue dress beneath it. Red high heels and a matching red leather bag accent the outfit. A trim navy blue straw hat with a roll brim completes the smart New York style impression.
A stylish frock features tucks and pleats in black marquisette over a taffeta slip. The bodice uses shirtwaist lines with a front fastenings of pearl and rhinestone buttons.
The guidance favors a cleansing cream with daily soap and water, a nighttime lubricating cream, and cold water rinse or skin tonic. It recommends paste rouge over powder for less drying and natural look, plus a No 2 or rose-brunet powder shade for gray-green eyes and medium brown hair, with suggestion to test for best match.
A vintage guide describes affordable at home manicures with a ten cent steel file orange sticks and polish. It details steps from removing old polish filing nails shaping tips pushing back cuticles to applying polish and finishing with a cream. It also covers treating brittle nails white spots and hangnails with simple home care tips.
Easter Sunday meals should be artistic and festive. Use glycerin to keep color, mix 244 cups flour with baking powder and salt, reserve 1 cup for dredging fruit, cream shortening and sugar, fold in flour, add floured fruit, beat egg whites with lemon juice and sugar, fold into batter, bake for 3 hours in a greased pan.
Fashion notes on daytime silhouettes and the Egyptian influence for brides. Katherine Cornell in Wingless Victory inspires a dramatic line. Damask gowns shift to pure white taffeta or gyps—refining traditional wedding fabrics. A coronation influence dominates bridal fashion of the era.
A cleaning hint suggests blotting lipstick stains with a solution of one part glycerine one part glacial acetic acid and three parts wood alcohol. The method is touted as effective for indelible lipsticks and is pitched as a pro cleaner secret worth trying.
The piece discusses ideals of appreciation vs effort in attaining gifts, and explores how love and romantic interest are viewed by a boy Lawrence and his parents. It includes dialogue about a girl, ridicule of romance, and the impact on a child’s feelings. Puppy love is described as natural and worth gently supporting.
A reflective dialogue contrasts male reluctance with female marriage plans. It argues men rarely seek marriage unless deeply engaged, while women view it as a valued institution and pursue benefits of faithful partnership. The piece suggests over eagerness harms chances for partnership.
A historic menu lists Easter offerings including breakfast items such as Orange-Grapefruit Sections hot or cold cereal baked eggs in bacon nests marmalade muffins and coffee. Dinner features seafood cocktails honey glazed ham with fruit baked stuffed sweet potatoes buttered asparagus orange endive salad peach tarts a la made coffee. Supper includes Cream of Celery sour with cheese croutons mixed vegetable salad jellied Easter eggs with chilled custard sauce.
The article suggests yellow spring tones for table settings with tulips in crystal bowls or hat boxes and light linen fabrics. It then provides traditional Easter recipes including sausages baked in bananas and an Easter Fruit Cake with lemon orange citron and maraschino cherries.
A columnist argues that cultivating broad friendship with men increases marriage chances. Overanxious pursuit scares off potential partners while a man who values companionship may propose when he discovers one woman embodies all desirable traits. Women, not men, are the gainers by marriage.
Soak cold water to remove eye stains from linens and cottons before laundering. Salt helps silks. launder with care. Turn off gas before removing pots to save on bills. Do not cook over flames larger than the vessel. Use caper oil for specific bags. Rub briskly. Pastry flour, from winter wheat, yields tender pastry.
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