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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 12, 1928
Page
6
An article notes a shift from sombre tones to brighter colours in women's golf styles. Cherry and deep blues top popularity, greens favored with white accents, and lightweight knitwear and spun silk fabrics shape the season. Embellishments include crystal buttons and tonal fastenings, with striped wall designs and wide wavy stripes in fashion items.
A correspondent discusses chicness and elegance in women, noting money and time enable fashionable appearances while true style also depends on how clothes are worn. The essay contrasts chic with unfashionable elegance and underscores the skill of styling, including hats and accessories, as essential to personal presentation.
The article describes angora and Juniper knitwear in soft muted tones with nude double kolt shades and bright original designs. It covers wool pullovers with net backgrounds, skirts with inverted pleats, a new tweed golf suit with a pivotal sleeve, wide shoulder seams, and large pockets for balls. Suede lumberjack coats in waterproof, light fabrics, short coats with belts and upright collars, popular in new shades.
The piece urges girls to avoid constant powdering as it clogs pores. It warns that surface powder remains after a week of dancing, dulling skin. It recommends washing with warm water and bathing the face before nightly cold cream to prevent blotchy skin in later years.
A vintage beauty tip advises bathing hands twice weekly in worn olive oil and massaging upward toward the elbow. It recommends nightly lemon applications and a regular routine to improve hand appearance, claiming pluminess and whiteness with consistent use.
Instructions describe using three quarters of an ounce of lemon juice with four pearl shirt buttons dissolved over about twenty four hours. Shake, the mixture will appear white, then apply nightly with a rag to the corn until it fully comes away.
A fragmented fashion note discusses which coats wear better and mentions a heavier coat design. It describes a potential Russian style front slip over the head with patent fastenings at pockets and sleeves.
Wash milky glasses in cold water before hot drying. Ammonia or vinegar sponging cleans a shiny collar. Use half sugar when adding to stewed fruit after cooking. Datalora bakes faster after a hot water pre-soak. Rub grates and oranges with turpentine rag then black lead and vinegar. Gelatine dissolved in hot milk can substitute for three eggs in cakes and puddings. Do not discard belled starch from wash day. Add it to petrol water to improve shine.
Quick advice for splinters and thorns in a gardener’s hand. Do not squeeze the wound. Apply a wet bandage and cover it, then wait about an hour for the thorn to surface.
To wash blankets, pick a sunny windy day. Dissolve half a pound of good soap in two quarts hot water on the stove then pour into a tub with cold water. Add four tablespoons powdered borax soak blankets all night. Next day wash in same water squeeze do not rub. Wring, rinse in lukewarm water, turn often, dry in sun. Add blue to water to correct yellow tinge.
Roll one pound icing sugar free from lumps rub through a aleve. Add cream and twelve drops of retafla cascace and mix. Bind with whipped egg white to form dough. Add almonds and muscatel thinly. Shape paste onto sugared board cut pieces place almond or muscat on each and roll in sugar. Dry in a warm place.
Simple batter uses plain flour baking powder salt sugar and eggs beaten with milk to a creamy mix. Whisk egg whites separately fold in then rest seven to eight minutes. Fry small batches until honeycombed and browned turn once. Butter hot and serve.
To clean aluminum pans boil fruit such as quinces lemons sour apples and rhubarb in water in the pan until soft then rinse and scrub with a pot scrubber. If badly burnt repeat with a second batch. Avoid burning as it can roughen the surface. alternative method uses a kerosene paste and polish.
Crowds in Westminster flocked to watch a large bird perched atop Big Ben for hours from seven in the morning until evening. Spectators debated whether the visitor was a pigeon, heron, cormorant, white headed eagle, or vulture. Ornithologists in the House of Commons weighed in, suggesting it might be a coarse eagle.
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