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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1938
Page
9
The article argues that sleep serves restorative functions and that proper sleep habits are essential for overall efficiency. It explains how brain fatigue reduces responsiveness, why overindulgence and stress affect sleep, and the need to balance the sleep budget for optimal vitality.
The text argues sleep quality affects perception, memory, emotions, and personality. It states authorities oppose using bedtime as punishment for children and asserts sleep patterns can be regulated through consistent routines. It emphasizes personal effort to identify obstacles to restful slumber and restore needed rest.
Profiles for today describe Liechtenstein as a tiny Rhine valley state with liberal corporate laws drawing foreign companies. Prince Franz I, 84, abdicated for personal reasons amid Nazi disfavor tied to his Jewish wife and immense wealth accumulated through dynastic titles and European holdings. Tomorrow features a piece on a library-teaching figure.
A reader asks how to toast in a birthday dinner. Remain seated and do not touch your glass while others toast you. If a speech is requested, rise and speak honestly, thanking friends for their kindness and wishes. For a second course, keep the knife and fork on the plate and do not place used pieces on the table.
Fashion notes highlight lighter jackets for milady this season. Anne Shirley, film star, selects a hand tailored adobe run jacket with a pencil skirt in earth brown. She finishes with a beige saucer rimmed sailor hat trimmed in dark brown grosgrain.
Daily twenty minute workouts improve posture and tone. If overweight combine exercise with a diet and consider body massage. For underweight count calories and gain curves before swimsuit season. Exercises include arm reach twists, leg crossovers, knee to chest rolls, and kneeling back stretch repeated as directed.
A reader asks how to correct large pores and use a skin cleaning brush. Advice includes cold cream, hot cloth steaming, rotary brushing with gentle motions, rinsing, and a home-made astringent. The second question seeks breast firming ideas. doctor approval is advised, then massage with lotion and arm exercises to strengthen pectoral muscles.
The Federal Bureau of Home Economics shows there are at least 300 potato recipes. Featured dishes include Duchess potatoes Shepherd's pie potatoes au gratin and baked potato soup. Recipes cover Cream Parsley Potatoes Sweet-Potato Croquettes Dutch Potato Casserole and a Potato Roll with creamed meat filling.
Neck ribbons tied around the neck offer a stylish distraction from hollow collarbones with strapless gowns. At a recent high end style show one ribbon featured an old fashioned cameo while another displayed pink roses, adding visual interest to an unlovely neckline.
A Paris society note highlights bleached silver fox for evening wear with silvery reflections, new fur boleros, cross fox capes, sable dyed kolinsky details, and marten capes. It mentions a Cecile Sorel inspired jacket, blue accents from Agnes, and lavish flower hats for weddings and garden parties amid spring fashion buzz.
An article discusses how parental expectations shape childrearing and the emergence of individuality in daughters under dominant maternal guidance. It also offers practical advice on interpreting infant cries and teaching self-help skills like retrieving a dropped rattle.
A garbled kitchen notes fragment covers frying fish with little salt and heating oil, washing garments with warm soap, large paper bags to keep clothes dust free, and cooking cabbage with a splash of vinegar to preserve color. An apple is also mentioned.
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