Thought For Today To Morrow Burden
A brief aphorism from George Macdonald notes that only when tomorrow's burden is added to today's burden does the weight exceed what a person can bear. The quote reinforces endurance and limits of human strength.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1929
Page
2
A brief aphorism from George Macdonald notes that only when tomorrow's burden is added to today's burden does the weight exceed what a person can bear. The quote reinforces endurance and limits of human strength.
A vintage advice piece urges women to combat fatigue with adequate rest and proper grooming. It warns against overtreating features, advises 8 to 10 hours sleep, gentle facial care, and natural tones for powders and rouges. Hair care emphasizes thorough drying and careful styling for different hair lengths.
The article offers practical methods for making cold desserts without ice. It recommends placing the mold in a dish of salted water to help chilling and provides selected recipes suitable for those without access to ice.
A historic kitchen instruction lists detailed steps for making several fruit based desserts. It covers Fretch Tart-Cut stewed fruit with a top icing, Ice the cake with a meringue, decorate with cherries and nuts. Apple Sponge Pudding uses sponge cake and stewed apples in a mould. Summer Pudding layers stale bread with mixed fruit then weights. Lemon Pudding blends arrowroot butter sugar rind and lemon juice, finishing with a meringue topping and cold serving.
A historical recipe outlines two luncheon or evening party dishes. It lists salmon with white sauce and cream jelly set in moulds served on salad, plus a fish preparation with butter and cornflour as an optional fish base. The instructions mention anchovy essence, gelatine, whipped cream, lemon juice, and cayenne.
A recipe suggests preparing two to three large potatoes boiled until tender, cooled, and sliced. In a buttered baking dish, layer potato slices with brown sugar and small pieces of butter, repeating until the dish is full for a novel potato bake.
An article urges better home ventilation in heat and sun. It warns against bright sunshine entering rooms, recommends bare summer rooms, lighter upholstery, and storing heavy textiles. Sunblinds are essential with attractive options in greens, stripes, and linen.
The text advises using dark blinds or thick curtains to block bright sun, opening bedroom windows day and night, and airing downstairs early. It notes tropical practice of opening windows early, lowering sun blinds before direct sun, then closing them to keep heat out and reopening in late afternoon.
Sunday supper features two salads with rice and olive oil dressing. Rice is cooked and cooled, mixed with spring onions parsley garlic and eggless mayo with cream and gelatine, then set in moulds or bricks and frozen. Garnish with lettuce olives and watercress before serving.
A flood of notes from Gordonvale and Cairns Post readers reveal school friendships and clubs. Mt. Rosem ary, Betty Alley, White Rose and Meddlesome Matty share circles, stamp collecting, and new basketball teams. Ferns, cards, and puzzles thread through the correspondence with family greetings and birthday wishes.
Schenectady scientist Dr L R Koller announces a new daylight recorder with extreme sensitivity. The device reportedly records light intensities across the full range from starlight to direct sunlight in a single measurement.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday wishes to Eddy Riding Hood Great Heart Dorothy Perkins Cedar Leaf Honey Dew and others. Each message includes a short motto about home life kindness books friendship and virtue signed Rosemary with affectionate greetings from The Bairns Circle.
Caroline Cooling cooks cakes quits quickly. Wise mice like nice rice. Three blue and three blue brown heads in a blue black bottle. Never black brown boots said the black bootblack to the white boot black.
A child sits by the fire on a cold winter night while Grandma crochets. The verse playfully follows a kitten batting a ball of wool, slipping under Grandma’s chair, and causing the child to drop stitches, ending with the kitten being sent away.
A fragmentary verse piece by R. Herbert Millington speaks of deep shadows and a rough path. The speaker prays for aid as despair and fear rise, then hears a voice offering faith. The text promises guidance through darkness toward light and eventual triumph.
An early morning sighting of an aircraft 10 miles east of Deeral at 9.40 am prompted speculation of a wartime salute as explosions from nearby dynamite disturbed the scene. Separately, Umbane Regatteri reported a twelve foot alligator seen along the Mulgrave River during his morning hunt, drifting with the tide.
The Department of Agriculture estimates that last year 44,138,600 gallons of ice cream required nearly 46,000 cows to produce the necessary milk.
Winter goods include all wool white blankets for single and double beds priced 36/6 49/6 and 59/6. Grey blankets 54 by 72 price 32/6 and 66 by 80 price 23/6. Grey birch rugs 80 by 95 priced 28/6 each.
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