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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 23, 1930
Page
6
A detailed guide on cleaning and repairing hair brushes. It covers drying, peroxide dipping, trimming bent bristles, protection during transport, drying directions, alum solutions, and avoiding soda on rubber or water exposure on ivory brushes. Emphasizes preserving bristle integrity and wheel-like, even wear.
Article discusses two methods to use moulds for decorative home fabrics and curtains. It details painting moulds in bright colors with woven and raffia accents, or covering with wool before sewing. It describes patterns with leaves, borders, and colored braids, plus examples like a hand bag and table runner with vivid color schemes and stitched embellishments.
The article discusses thumb length and placement as indicators of intellect and personality. A longer thumb implies strong reasoning and willpower, while a short thumb suggests emotion over logic and less independence, with extreme lengths signaling rigidity or impulsiveness.
The article describes how the thumb length and position near finger joints indicate temperament. A normal thumb length is a quarter inch below the second joint, and if it reaches the joint it is short. A balanced temperament is shown when reason is tempered by kindness.
A recipe article promotes jellied salads as bright alternatives to plain greens. It describes making tomato juice and vegetable jelly, layering with lettuce, salmon, peas, and tomatoes, and serving in moulds for dinners, lunches, or picnics.
Practical kitchen hints describe peeling onions and boiling briefly before frying to prevent burning. It mentions washing up with water and vinegar additions, and includes obscure references to cleaning metals and using paraffin for polishing items.
Mrs John Tuck heads the VOW LOS pean group as classes begin this month. Activity centers include French shorthand speed dressmaking debating English literature and Bible study with many interest clubs forming for the summer term.
A guide to enhancing gravies and sauces with nuts herbs and spices. It suggests adding Brazil nuts walnuts chestnuts and a trace of nutmeg to white sauce, and pairing vanilla lemon orange with light syrups. It advocates subtle flavor boosts for vegetables and fruit dishes.
A cooking instruction fragment describes melting butter and curry powder in oil, mixing with salt and pepper, simmering slowly until sauce is smooth, then mincing a gill of prepared ingredient. The text is garbled with measurement errors but centers on a curry flavored sauce preparation.
A colonial recipe describes rolling a shrimp and mouse mix into rounds with short pastry, folding to form balls, dipping in beaten egg and breadcrumbs, then frying in smoking hot fat for a quick bite.
Fragment of a fruit cake recipe lists ingredients and steps including flour malt butter milk cream eggs and sultanina. Instructions describe creaming butter with sugar folding in eggs then flour and fruit soaking and baking about 36 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve warm with butter.
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