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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1939)
FASHIONS (By Hazel Griggs for ANP) Short skirts and wider has been the important fashion trend to watch for some time now, and with skirts gored, slhaped like an um brella or cut ciruclar and fully seventeen inches from the floor, hosiery ha9 been given a new lease on fashion, for now it is fully one third of the costume. Because of this, perhaps it will be well to know what the hose mart predic tions are for spring and summer. Here are the highlights: First, hosiery colors are design ed to blend with rather than con trast with the costume, and some in three categories—the rose or pink tones, the yellow or golden shades and the neutral beige tones. <)f these three categories, parti cular stress is laid on the rosy shades with a sustained depth of color, not only because they are ■designed to bo worn with the great range of fuchsias, cycla mens, violets and purplish blues that are so much a part of spring and summer fashions, but because they are flattering in themselves. Second, a new note is to match your hoee to your accessories, and the tie-up between stockings and *hoe9 has won higher favor. There fore, among the rose colors and pink tones, we find shades design ed ta harmonize witlh such shoe colors as oherry or japonica and st/mong the yellow tones .shades to blend, brown and caramel leath era. Third, we find more emphasis than ever on sheer weaves. The eoncensun of opinion everywhere seems to be that the two-thread stocking is destined to be most popular simply because the flat tering stocking is the impoifant stocking when skirts are short. Fourth, more attention is given to fit, especially to lengths. Short skirts definitely require a great er demand for well-proportioned stockings an the right lengths. Also, it is important to insist up on action hacks, stretch '‘ops and all tfiie other comfort features which are designed to make stock ings fit. Fifth, toe and heel interest. Not short skirts but the open toes and heels of the newest shoes are re sponsible for mesh toes and the rib-bow, a mesh woven with a stripe effect for extra strength as well as pattern interest at the back of the foot - Your Neighborhood Dry Goods Store MIKE COLTON'S 24th & LAKE STS. JA. 5757 «-@ Spring and summer pilgrimages to the Nation’s Capital will have an added meaning to the count lass. Through the joint effort of the Historical Records Survey Pro jects of the Works Progress Ad ministration and the National Youth Administration. F. Doug lass Memorial Home and its fif-( teen acres of surrounding grounds are being restored into a fitting shrine in memory of the life and work of the famed Abolitionist. P“I wanted LIGHTER SKIN!” <‘XTOU wouldn't believe it now, but X a few months ago my skin was so dark, coarse and oily I was ashamed. My mother said I was foolish to keep trying remedies. But I refused to give up hope! I read an 'ad' in the paper about Nadinola Cream. That night I began using it. Soon my skin got softer and lighter so that I forgot all about my past disappointments. Noth ing else makes a girl so happy as a gloriously beautiful skin!” Let Nadinola Help You Famous beauties preserve their love liness because they take infinite pains to care for it. Most girls have much greater beauty than they even suspect. And it frequently isn't a bit hard to bring it out 1 It’s the duty of every girl to try, for the sake of her own happiness. » Do you want men to admire you— women to 'invy you? Do you want a soft, smooth, lighter skin? Then try [ famous Nadinola Bleaching Cream! ! Simply smooth this fragrant cream on every night. No rubbing, no mas saging. Unlike most creams, Nadinola speeds up the natural process of exfo liation-—bleaches the skin to a lighter shade, loosens blackheads, clears up surface pimples and other externally caused blemishes. Soon you’ll see a marvelous improvement. You Can’t Lose! Money-Back Guarantee Get Nadinola today. But be sure you get genuine Nadinola I Don’t trust your loveliness to any unknown sub stitute. Every cent you pay for Nadi nola is refunded if you’re not fully satisfied. At all drug stares, 50c— large money-saving size, $1.00. ass The top row of photographs* i (left to right) show a view of the Nation’s Capital from tho North entrance to the Home; a view of tho Home from the main approach and some of the fifty NYA work ers beautifying the grounds. Left to right across the mid dle strip of pictypea ia Mrs. Julia — ...i.,.111. W. Davis, supervisor of the WPA project at the shrine, giving three of the Historical Records Project workers the facts concerning the relics on display at the Home. The walking stick she holds once be longed to Abraham Lincoln. Next is a photograph of Frederick Dou glass. The picture to the right shows a project worker checking tho significance of the book" in the Douglass library valued be tween $15,000 and $20,000. The gold spoons presented to Frederick Douglass by Gueen Vic toria are shown to the left in the bottom row of picture*. The bed room of the Abolitionist is next. To tbo right is a WPA worker inspecting the condition of a flag carried by John Brown at Harper’s Perry, 1859. AJ1 o«f the books, documents, let ters, furnishings and art objects in the Home are being recorded for their historical significance by sev en workers on the WPA project The Frederick Douglass Home and grounds are open to the public daily. The projects of the WPA and NT A at the shrine fulfill a dream and a long struggle to main tain the Home as a fitting mem orial, a showplace for sight-seers and a source of historical re search for historians and students* i RECIPES • • SOUFFLED SPOON BREAD— Two cups of boiling water, one cup of yellow cornmeal, one table spoon butter, one ond one half tea spoon salt, four eggs, ne half cup milk, one half cup sifted flour, two tablespoons sugar, two table spoons baking powder. Sprinkle cornmeal on top of boil ing water. Add butter and salt, cook in double bowl. Add well bea ten egg yolks and mix to cornmeal. Add flour, sugar and baking pow der sifted together and mixed well. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry, fold into cornmeal mixture. Pour into buttered dish. Bake in hot oven thirty to thirty five min utes. Serve once from dish. POPOVERS—Two eggs, one cup of milk, one cup sifted flour, one fourth teaspoon salt, one teaspoon melted butter. Beat eggs slightly, add milk and combine with flour and salt. Beat with rotary egg beater for two minutes. Pour batter into very hot gTeased custard cups or iron muf fin pans. Bake for thirty minutes in very hot oven then reduce tem perature to moderate and bake for fifteen minutes longer. EASTER MUFFINS—Two cups of sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one fourth cup sugar, one 'half teaspoon salt, one cup milk, ono fourth cup melted shortening, two eggs. Sift dry ingredicnt3 into bowl. Beat eggs until light, add milk and shortening and pour all at once over dry ingredients. Mix quickly twenty to thirty seconds and turn into hot greased muffin pans. Bake twenty to twenty-five minutes in hot oven. MEXICO LIFTS COLOR LINE RESTRICTIONS FOR TOURISTS New York, March 31—American Negro citizens may now travel freely in Mexico without being subjected to discriminatory pra ctices of customs officials at the border of the country. Reliability of this Information was vouchsafed by Joe S. Quinones Mexican Consul stationed ait St. Louis, Missouri. The Consul’s statement was contained in a let ter to the St. Louis branch of the Association in response to inquir ies. The statement in full reads: “I take pleasure in advising you that there exists in Mexl , co now, no distinction or dis crimination with regard to Ne gro Americana visiting Mexi co for pleasure purposes, and consequently, they are not re quired to deposit any sum of money to be admitted into Mexico. m It is necessary however, for each person fifteen years of age, or older to obtain a tourist card at the Mexican Consulate nearest his place of residence. Tho cards are issued at a cost of $4 each, Mexican currency, and allow the persons to whom they were issued to remain in Mexico up to six months. Ac cording to the regulations, it is necessary for all American ci tizens to prove that the sole purpose of the trip to Mexico is pleasure, and that they have $60, U. S. Currency, for each month to be spent in Mexico." I Tho National Association for i the Advancement of Colored Peo ple has sought, for a long time, to break up the practice of dis crimination indulged in by border officials to prohibit Negroes from traveling in Mexico, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN PRIZES FOR INSURANCE ESSAYS NATIONAL NEGRO INSUR ANCE ASSN. AND STATES SPONSORS Durham, N C. April 8 (ANP)— Insurance nyfcn tfhroughoiut the nation will celebrate National Ne gro Insurance week this week with a distribution of prizes in an es say contest, one of the richest at large is being invited to write about the subject, “The Relation of Insurance Service to the Eco nomic Needs of the Negro,” and all papers will Have to be in the hands of the judges not later than midnight, May 15, George W. Cox, of Durham, N. C chairman of the national Negro Insurance week ce lebration, announced here Tues day, The National Negro Insurance association itself will give $175 in cash prizes to the essays judged the best. First prize will be $100; second prize $50 and third przie, $25. In addition, a number of state prizes will be announced from states in which Negro companies are operating and which will con sist of $10 first prize, $5 second prize, and ten additional prizes of $1 each. It is estimated that up ward of $500 will be offered in the combined prizes. The goal for National Negro Insurance week this year, Mr. Cox said, will be the writing of twenty millions of life insuranc© in one week by Negro companies on the lives of the Negroes of America. Last year fourteen mlilion dollars worth of insurance was written by week. Certificates of salesmanship merit are to be awarded to those of the 8,000 agents employed by the companies who produce a min imum of $6 worth of industrial business or of |5,000 worth of or dinary business during National Negro Insurance week .Last year 1,250 agents <{uhUfied for this merit award, and the organisation hoped to exceed that record this year. Essayists may address George W. Cox of Durham, N, C. -—oOo OPEN PRACTICE HOME MAK ERS HOUSE AT DllLIARD New Orleans, La., April 6—The new Homamaking practice house at Dillard University, a g-ift of the General Education Board, will ■be opened formally by a recept ion to the University Trustees and Faculty on April 3 and an open house on April 4. It is planned that all of the young women of Dillard Univer sity in the course of their college career will live for some we-dcs. in this house and thus receive instruc tion at first hand in the making of a home. This is a part of the unique program of Dillard Univer sity in giving training both to young men and young women stu dents is the- art of homemaking. oOn __ MRS. ROOSEVELT CONFIRMS DAR RESIGNATION Los Angeles, April 8 (ANP)— Long awaited confirmation of her reported resignation as a member of the Daughters of the American Revoluton cams here last Thursday when Mrs. Frankln D. Roosevelt, j lecturing before an audience of 2,500 and asked the question. "Do you intend to resign from the DAR," replied: "I have resigned from the DAR.” Mrs. Roosevelt’s affirmation was also in answer to a statement made the previous day ip Boetpji by Mrs,. | F'Tank L. Nason, t) Aft registrar I general, that tihe First Lady’s re | signation had ft6t bean m^ved. Several weeks ago the Precedent's wife reportedly withdrew . from DAR m protest against that Apdy’s action in refusing to permit famed Singer Marian Anderson to appesr in recital at Washington’s Consti tution Hall, which is DAR owned. HELP HIM AND HE WILL HELP OMAHA A GOOD OFFICIAL A GOOD FRIEND Vote For “ ROY N. TTOWL (FORMER MAYOR) —FOR— CITY COMMISSIONER This Ad Contributed by Colored Friends Political Advertisement