Mrs. Gunn's Diary: Feb. 3, 1942

She attends a tea benefit for sailors; Phillips' Milk of Magnesia touted for hangovers

“Busy all morning and the afternoon was full,” Mrs. Gunn wrote in her diary this Tuesday. She repeated her review of the play “Arsenic and Old Lace” for a drama club in her Wesley Heights neighborhood, and then went to a tea “for benefit of soldiers at sea — naval patrol I guess is the name.” I doubt those proud sailors would like being called soldiers!

An eye-catching ad aimed at women in today’s Washington Evening Star offered a solution for over-indulgence. Paid subscribers can read on about the wonders (and history) of Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia.

The vintage cobalt-blue bottle in which Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia was sold is offered for $18 by a dealer on eBay.