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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
6
A guide to sunny day style notes for the modern woman detailing sandals, crownless hats, and foot care. It covers cleaning nails with orange sticks, cuticle removal, whitening nails with peroxide, varnish application, cuticle cream massage, drying, and powder between the toes to prevent reformation.
A peculiar reader advice piece suggests removing corns with a terr bleach solvent and soaking feet in warm water. It also recommends visiting a chiropodist for corn under the toenail.
Advice on trimming toenails with sharp scissors to avoid painful overgrowth. Do not cut nails too short and avoid edges to prevent ingrown nails. Use emery board to bevel edges and soak feet for five minutes in a bowl of water or solution for softening.
Bride and groom planners can obtain wedding cake boxes complete with card and tin for postal transmission under Commonwealth regulations. Priced at 3 shillings 6 pence per dozen, available at the newspaper office or United Press Ltd, 971-3 Hay Street, Perth.
The article extols daily scalp massage and brushing to boost hair growth, color, and shine. It explains that kneading from forehead to neck improves circulation, delays greyness, and keeps hair healthy. It warns that scalp neglect leads to scarf, dryness, brittleness, and hair loss, while proper massage reverses many issues.
A fragment noting the joy of cooking, contrasting it with poetry music and knowledge. The text ponders whether civilization can endure life without cooks and dining, suggesting eating as a fundamental need beyond books hope love or passion. It emphasizes dining as essential to humanity.
A fragmented domestic column offers recipe notes for soups using kidney and vegetables, plus advice for housewives on Monday chores and weekly meals. It mentions boiling beef or mutton scraps, adding onions carrots and potatoes, and thickening with flour, with references to cutting meat and preparing a hearty cold weather meal.
A recipe style passage describes making a meat dish using beef or mutton with onions parsley and tomatoes, simmered in stock then combined with sliced meat and served with mashed potatoes and fried bread. It details variants with veal, a macaroni accompaniment, and poached eggs, emphasizing gentle heating to avoid toughness.
Beef is minced and mixed with mashed potato then baked in a buttered dish under a layer of potato. Top with cheese crumbs and butter, bake briefly for browning. Line a greased basin with suet crust and fill with seasoned underdone mutton and gravy, then cover and steam or boil.
A fashion feature describes humorous crown names like the pork pie crown and weather vane hat, notes on fur and grosgrain usage, and creative trim details. It highlights fitting tips, two wearings, and avoids overly flashy hats for tailored outfits. Dolores del Rio and Lang Turner are cited among models.
The passage details browning kidney and flour in oil, adding water to boil and skim, then simmering two hours with vegetables. It suggests sauce addition and serving, with options like chopped parsley, small peppered vegetables, potato pulp, grated carrot, and notes on neck of mutton or bones. It ends with a reflection on midweek chores driving menu choices and renewed ideas.
A reflective poem urges readers to seek kindness on life’s road. It speaks of generous hearts, smiling strangers, and nature’s wealth as solace. It counsels courage, patience, and looking up to meet friendly eyes in times of sorrow.
A reader’s frugal cookery note describes potted meat using cold meat scraps, spices, and nutmeg, plus serving ideas with breakfast dishes or sandwiches. It offers suggestions for veal as best, links to rice or barley additions, and includes a method for a meat stock soup with bones, parsley, and a two hour simmer, plus a tip to clean greasy silk with magnesia.
A detailed historic recipe describes making a savoury egg pie. It covers pastry preparation with flour lard butter and water, shaping two thin rounds, layering cheese and eggs with salt and cayenne, trimming and sealing, decorating the top, glazing with milk, and baking about half an hour until served cold with green salad and tomatoes.
Miss LM B of Yolla Tas reports pimples and poor health improve after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She notes clearer skin, better energy, and stronger legs, urging others with blemishes and dull blood to try the famous old remedy. Available from chemists and stores in three bottle packs.
Penelope offers cross stitch pillow top and scarf to match using a case design. Features transfer patterns 12 by 13 inches and two 6 by 6 inch motifs, colour schemes, stitch illustrations, and material needs. Request pattern by postal note with pattern number and sender address to Box 4190% GPO.
A fragment outlines brushing tennis balls after use and storing in a dark, airtight box to extend life. It then gives kitchen tips: turdhes likely tomatoes with milk curdling from acid, add carbonate of soda, heat but do not boil, and a sunburn cure using lemon and milk juice.
A handwritten ad promotes a homemade nasal antiseptic and cough remedy using concentrated HLENZO in sweetened water. It touts use as a nasal rinse, gargle, and internal cough cold and bronchitis treatment for adults and children. The page also includes a stray poem fragment about someone who helps others with a cheerful attitude.
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