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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
1
A writer describes secret beauty methods in a voluminous 1902 dressing room scene. The piece details makeup preparations with fresh steaks, facial masks, tongue-in-cheek irony about arsenic poisons, facial massage, hair removal by electricity, facial enamelling, and the perilous quest for a flawless face. It notes risks of scars and new hair growth, and compares practitioners’ allure to healthy labor.
A 19th century training note argues bone quality determines a draught horse's strength and hardworking ability. It rejects the idea of “bone” as mere leg thickness, preferring flat, well-developed joints, tendons, and a balanced leg shape. It warns against fat legs and a feathered coat indicating poor stamina and temperament.
Boils arise from neck infections and general ill health. Prevention stresses fresh air, bathing the body with emphasis on the neck, and hot poultices after discharge. Treat with ointment of zinc and acids, lime and gasoline, and tonics like cod liver oil iron and quinine. Early bed and rising advised. moderate stout if not abstaining.
A damaged passage presents a child and mother discussing heaven and reunion after death. The child insists on seeing deceased loved ones again in a promised land as the mother asserts belief in heaven's milk and peace, mentioning biblical themes and a medicinal claim for a product.
A collage of old time hints for mending gloves with court plaster, making lemonade, banishing flies with a resin, stopping shoe creaks with soft soap, filling nail holes with glue and sawdust, cooling hot foods before eating, and various kitchen and household tricks. Also includes bird care notes and a fragility on preserving food and fabrics with simple remedies.
A Frenchman named Wallarda travels by train with a young man who plans a prank to steal his uncle’s pouch. The bag is slipped to the next compartment and the elderly man wakes to claim a robbery. Laughter ensues as the nephew is revealed to be the thief’s accomplice and the bag vanishes with cash.
A sick Scotchman, near death, asks his enemy's forgiveness and his doctor for reconciliation. The visitor pledges peace, but the dying man warns that if he survives this time, the feud may resume, and he may not leave the world in enmity.
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