Mrs. Culp Revisited: June 9, 1937

A loss at the card table assuaged with strawberry shortcake

Walter drove Mrs. Culp to her sister Trude Boaz’s home to spend the day. Trude had invited some friends over to play cards. “I lost six cents,” Mrs. Culp noted, but the dessert — strawberry shortcake and lemonade — no double eased the pain of her loss! Perhaps Trude had used the new shortening, Spry, which was introduced by Lever Brothers in 1936 and ha…