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Canberra Times

Location

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date

Aug 15, 1928

Page

6

Paris Fashions Emphasize Robe de Style Travelling From Paris

The Paris scene centers on toilettes de soiree with robe de style silhouettes. Parisians admire the renovated eighteenth century aesthetic, with full skirts, delicate corsets, and moonlit color degradations. Designers showcase luminous nets, chiffons, and monochrome palettes to evoke Versailles era elegance.

Paris la Pompadour Eyery Couturlures Tullerica Versailles Founees

Hints for the Housewife from a Shabby Fragment

Practical kitchen tips cover cornflour use to prevent coking salt and enamelware cleaning. Advice includes how to remove stains from enamelled iron, dust control on carpets, treating pickled onions, pan cleaning, cheese stains, reheating meat, lemon for fishbones, and improving stew flavor with a teaspoon of something unnamed.

Stalin

Dry cleaning at home tips for velvet hats and gloves

The guide advises warming dry cleaning powders for better results. Velvet should be treated with hot bran and beaten to remove dirt. Felt hats require Cullers earth and brushing, or beating with a cane before applying hot bran. Gloves are cleaned with willow soap and warm milk, then dried and dusted. sunde gloves are rubbed with oats and given a good brushing.

Honda

Carpet Care Tips for Home Cleaning and Maintenance

A vintage style note suggests avoiding excessive vacuuming and using a damp cloth for carpet care. It recommends weekly vacuuming, avoiding harsh cleaners, and regular gentle washing to preserve color and condition.

Undefined Historical Bread Recipe Steps

A fragmented recipe describes mixing wholemeal dough with ox fat Adel wung out and milk to form a soft dough. The dough is rolled to a thick round shape, placed on a greased sheet and baked twelve to fifteen minutes until hot and buttered for serving.

Castor Kumar

Boiled Apples Recipe Clipped Instructions Include Lemon Zest

Fragmentary cooking note describes boiling apples with JB and sugar, melting butter with lemon juice and rind, stirring, adding putty paste, layering with some mixture, and baking twenty minutes in a quick oven. The text is garbled but indicates a dessert preparation sequence.

Qubek

Apple Snow Dessert From Early Recipe

A fragmented instruction describes using two pounds of apples with grated lemon rind and juice. It beats egg whites to stiff peaks and folds yolks into a custard, then mixes with apples and whipped cream. The dish is assembled with whipped cream and colored jelly for garnish.

Caring for Hands in Wartime Housework

An article guides women on hand care amid heavy housework, detailing cleansing routines, exfoliation, and moisturizers. It emphasizes gentle washing with warm water, avoidance of harsh soaps, and regular use of nutritive creams and massage to maintain soft, pale skin.

Notions for Crafting Cheap DIY Lamp Shades

A guide for making inexpensive lamp shades using plain paper, paraffin wax, dye, and a simple folding method. The process covers tracing a design, wax casting, crackling, dye seepage, mounting between newspapers, ironing to set, and assembling paper strips into a shade with a top cord and bottom folds for a finished look.

Cream Biscuits and Cinnamon Sugar Treats

A recipe fragment describes making cream biscuits by mixing butter and one cup cream, letting batter rest, rolling out, cutting, and baking. While warm, biscuits are dipped in melted sugar with cinnamon and dusted with more sugar as they cool on a plate.

Hean's Tonic Nerve Nuts Promoted For Nerve Ailments

An advertisement touts Hean's Tonic Nerve Nuts as a health restoring nerve food and tonic. It claims relief for nerves neuritis anemia and overwork related ailments and highlights portability and convenience in taking the product. It notes a price point though the exact amount is unclear due to damaged text.

Hean

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