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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
6
A bright cheerful kitchen setup sets a positive tone for the day. Recommend green and white check or orange gold floral curtains with cream green cupboards and green bowls with fresh flowers to create a welcoming, uplifting space.
The piece discusses a dual purpose kitchen breakfast room in Australia. It warns the fuel stove as a potential problem unless maintained. Enamelled stoves need daily cleaning while wrought iron stoves require weekly blackening. It then moves to color choices with brightness and proposes green as the base tone.
The text advises installing green and white checked linoleum for the floor and possibly on the kitchen table top. It claims the floor is easy to maintain with weekly washing and polishing. It also suggests calseinming walls in a light cream primrose yellow with a checked oil-skin paper frieze.
The article extols using flowers to brighten rooms with minimal effort. It advises planning before arranging bowls, matching blooms to backgrounds, and using curtains and arches for new effects. It notes peach tree buds as a spring detail and emphasizes economical home beautification through floral decor.
A brief home canning guide describes making pepper relish from eight large capsicums boiled until tender, seeds removed, then prepared with a strawberry jam mixture. It instructs combining four rounded cups strawberries, four rounded cups sugar, lemon juice, and lemon slices for preservation.
Pattern 5935 offers a windmill design transfer pattern 15 by 1 inches with color key chart and stitch illustrations. Include material list and how to order by sending 1/L to United Press Household Arts Dept ex 4123 WW GPO Sydney NSW. Name and address required.
Fragmentary notes describe dissolving sugar in white wine vinegar, adding mashed capsicum, and boiling to a jelly. Also mention a marrow marmalade with six pounds of vegetable marrow, crystallised ginger, two oranges, and three (units unclear).
Poem recounts a blind beggar and the speaker who kneels in gratitude for sight. The narrator reflects on daily tasks like baking bread and making tea, realizing how much they overlook before acknowledging their many blessings. The verse closes with thanks to the Lord for opened eyes.
Instructions describe adding freesia and certain flowers to a base cluster. Use a blue bowl with a light background for a bright, natural arrangement and avoid dark backgrounds to maximize charm and visibility.
The note highlights combining acum flies spring blossoms pink and gold poppies blue delphiniums freesias and fern in natural coloured bowls to brighten a room. It advises low tables dark corners brass bowls and contrasting flowers for immediate character and dignity and cautions against overuse of similar greens.
The instructions describe stirring in sugar and salt, passing marrow and ginger through a mincing machine, adding thinly sliced oranges and lemons, and letting the mixture stand overnight. The next day simmer gently for about one hour and sixteen minutes to finish.
Twelve large red peppers are chopped and salted to rest several hours. Pepper pulp is simmered with vinegar water and sugar until jamlike, about one hour of gentle cooking. Remove seeds and combine with salt then finish into jam.
A decorative passage compares scarlet poses with blue forget-me-nots and mignonette in a spring garden. It highlights delicate sprays, violets, delphiniums, pink carnations, maidenhair fern, and sheller strands, urging imagination to create unusual floral effects indoors for pleasure and pride.
Instructions describe placing pot on stove and stirring sugar until dissolved then boiling for 12 minutes skim as needed and jar seals. Process continues with washing fruit removing skins separating pulp and skins cooking until seeds release then combining pulp with skins boiling five minutes and sealing jars after cooling.
A compact recipe notes peeling and cutting pears, cooking with water until tender, adding lemon juice and zest, ginger, and sugar. Simmer to jam consistency, then fill jars and seal when cooled.
A magazine quotation argues women learned from the last war, rejecting romance with uniforms. It notes a sharp rise in marriage rates and fewer engagements, suggesting history repeats as society anticipates future conflict.
Red Cross will supply patterns for knitting socks and making pajamas upon application. The patterns help prevent size or cut mistakes and reduce fabric waste.
A slice of rural Holland shows both modernized houses and old traditions. Farmers and families nurture guests with quiet cleanliness and warmth, using stovenretser warming boxes, visiting Raadhuis discussions, and creative fowl housing as a sign of village life.
The speaker urges daily charitable acts done without publicity to truly help others. Those seeking public praise miss the point, as real charity lies in assisting the needy for the sake of kindness, not recognition.
A writer portrays a simple farmhouse life where women toil on small farms yet feel content. The scene centers on winter leisure by the fire, flax spinning, and a cowshed integrated into the living space. The cow dominates farm life, treated with care and cleanliness throughout.
A probing view of a farmer's home showing a vast linen press as the family wealth, a winter weaving routine, and stored goods in wall cupboards. The living room houses two beds one for the couple and a show bed while farmhands sleep with the cows and heat comes from stove and hayloft with cured meat hung from the roof. The piece ends noting long severe winters forcing laying of bacon and hams.
The article extols gardens as a frame for the home and a source of relief from daily cares. It urges digging planting and designing beds to ease burdens and find respite while enjoying nature.
A shopper notes a strong appetite and stores food to last until spring, signaling careful provisioning for lean months and a need for reliable supplies.
The family relies on simple winter staples with hearty preparations. Balkenbry uses fat and buckwheat meal thickened into porridge served with treacle. Krindmges combines buttermilk, meat, vegetables, celery, herbs and smoked bacon. Rolpens is minced beef wrapped in tripe with apple sauce. Potatoes and Boeren mik are common, and farmhouse bread is a brown raisin loaf baked when ovens are unavailable.
Mrs E L of Waanyarte Victoria describes chronic fatigue and despondency, then credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restored nerves and energy. She reports stronger health, renewed interest in life, and ease with housework after starting the remedy sold at chemists for two shillings per bottle.
The family travels to church on Sundays wearing elaborate outfits. Women and girls sport multiple petticoats heavy skirts embroidered bodices and ornate caps and ornaments some districts use solid gold. Men and boys wear stiff Sunday clothes and wooden shoes. Carved painted Sundays icons are kept outside the church and homes as residents wear thick stockings in public.
A brief meditation recalls how earlier generations enjoyed meals without modern nutrition science. The text contrasts carefree dining with today's demand for scientific information on vitamins and nutrition.
Ann Rutherford displays a summer evening dress featuring a blue and white checked gingham skirt and bodice with a lime waist. The camisole blouse uses batiste with narrow white lace trim and black velvet draw strings. Red rickrack borders accent shoulders and hem.
The text argues for a well balanced diet with milk eggs cheese meat or fish potatoes and vegetables, fruits and cereals. It stresses variety to prevent monotony, new serving methods to aid digestion, attractive garnishes and a well set table to boost enjoyment of family meals.
The piece notes that Australians, including society women and workers, form voluntary service groups and engage in air raid and first aid training. Many knit socks and prepare since the Munich agreement era, with a 25 year old woman earning a driving licence, completing a mechanic course, and driving a truck for experience, shared by her father.
A raw egg yolk is placed on pastry dough then folded and deep fried in a process described as Wriks. The eater pinches two corners and nibbles the pastry to check that the yolk runs softly when broken, ensuring it is not overcooked.
A fragment advises adding a bit of lemon juice or washing soda to washing-up water to remove fish or onion odours. It also suggests painting a shabby umbrella with cold tea to improve appearance, noting satisfaction with the result.
The Associated Opticians Co G W Fist Cyptometrist at 23-23 Central Arcade Berth offers Ontical Service described as reliable and guaranteed. Established 1908 telephone 63333.
A cleaning tip describes removing grease by making a paste with Fuller's Earth and hot water in equal parts. Apply while hot, let it dry, then brush off thoroughly.
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