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The Iowa Homemaker vol.17, no.5
The Iowa Homemaker: Volume 17, Issue 5
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Hair styles are heading for new heights this fall, in length, in curls, and in popularity. You who have finally mustered courage enough to change the long-worn bob, prepare yourselves for a boom- hair is rising to the top of the head!
There is something in the intitimate appeal of Christmas cards made by the sender that makes them doubly valuable. A card of this kind reflects the personality of the sender. It is her own. Her design, the colors and paper she uses-all are expressions of the girl herself.
Busy people! Like the world, they are too much with us. So busy with things they have to do, they never know the sustained satisfaction of also being able to do the things they'd like to do, and they feel vaguely cheated because they can't.
"Christmas in mid - what? Did you say, 'Christmas in mid-summer!?"
Yes, I did-and I know that to you, with the first snow flurries already here and mid-winter just round the corner, that sounds topsy-turvey. In my country, Christmas does come in midsummer; and, what is more, it comes on December 25 just as it does with you! And, what is still more, daffodils bloom in August, and log fires burn in June, and ---, but why not come with me and see for yourself?
Eyes wide in anticipation, Larry Wendell at nursery school said, "Only three more Saturdays until Christmas and then Santa Claus leaves the packages and we open them and there are presents inside!"