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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1941
Page
10
A housewife notes a housefly’s threat to public health during a time of national mobilization. She praises a houseman for relentlessly swatting the insect, warning that if unchecked flies spread disease to babies and adults alike. She highlights how flies carry typhoid and other illnesses and urges cleanliness to prevent summer sickness.
A column urges caution about flies contaminating food as a housefly feeds from filth and then lands on cups, jam, bread, or a baby’s nipple. It describes how a fly carries dirt and regurgitates onto victuals, urging readers to avoid contaminated coffee and other foods.
The article promotes a talcum brush as an upscale bath accessory replacing the woolly puff. It features a transparent powder-holding handle with sifter holes, a removable washable bristle end, and a reusable plastic case. Emphasis is on keeping tools immaculate for fragrant powders.
Dr Grace L Morley director of the San Francisco Museum of Art leads the Office of Coordinator committee on Art for Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. She has organized two modern American art shows touring East and West Coasts of South America.
A feature on sandwiches as a main dish suited for any season notes bread choice and hearty fillings. It lists several fillings such as chopped ham with apple butter, egg with spinach and onion, corned beef with mustard, liverwurst with Bermuda onion, veal with pineapple, and a meat mixture with tomatoes and cheese. Also describes toast methods, mushroom sauce, and cold meat sandwiches with chili sauce, plus an orange nut bread recipe and a fig loaf preparation with ingredients and steps.
A school lunch menu lists mixed vegetable salad crackers cream cheese sandwiches and dinner items including tomato juice hot meat sandwich with mushroom sauce buttered kale or spinach mashed potatoes rhubarb pie and coffee. Pineapple nut bread recipe combines flour sugar salt baking powder soda bran walnuts crushed pineapple egg butter and milk baked in loaf pan. keeps moist a week and tastes best sliced for sandwiches or tea.
Outdoor gardening is portrayed as a full body workout to slim hips and tone muscles. It advises digging, wheelbarrow work, raking, and squatting with proper form, plus postwork skin care and sun exposure tips to develop a fit figure and a safe tan.
Fashion writer Eleanor Gunn highlights novelty clocks in stockings, open work hosiery, and bold shoe colors coordinated with handbags. She notes belts, metallic threads, velvet ribbons, Point d esprit fabrics, and white gloves as key spring style elements, with suggestions for care to keep gloves pristine.
A spring benefit dress features a crepe print seen in a mirror. An afternoon gown with a form fitting bodice and a full unpressed pleated skirt has a shirted neckline and a large shoulder flower.
A set of practical home tips covers keeping tea from tasting musty with a lump of sugar, using stale bread to lift smudges from wallpaper, restoring discolored aluminum with lemon juice, rinsing with hot water, and baking icing with a pinch of salt to enhance flavors. It also advises softening sugary jam by gently warming it and removing meat juice stains from table linen with cold water.
A reader asks how to handle a four year on again off love affair as indifference flares. The piece contrasts coping with a restless lover and guiding children’s play, urging warm steady patience and redirecting energy with gentle activities. It likens restraint to managing Niagara Falls and suggests easing into spring gardening to build stamina.
A reader argues against prolonged engagements and indecision in love. She notes open love but doubts a marriage proposal will come and condemns men who monopolize a woman's time without clear matrimonial goals, urging decisive action.
A correspondent counsels a young woman to be honest about her desires and future with a man. She may find him a habit or prefer a devoted substitute, yet instability suggests an eventual break unless she acts to salvage pride. The piece warns against expecting constant romance.
All purpose hats are described with chic shapes and colors for country and town wear. Notable styles include stream lined felts with rolled sides and grosgrain bows, jaunty fedoras, and back veiling options. Helen Hayes and Eve Curie are cited as wearers. A new casual crown with an ear brim is noted. Walter Plorell offers moulded crowns and feather accents. A coarse strainer is praised as a quick food ricer substitute.
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