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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 21, 1941
Page
2
A reader’s fragment offers home craft ideas for decorative reading cushions and advice on foot care and skin health. Tips include sewing petite cushions from scraps, using kapoknee covers, repurposing embroidered gown parts, and selecting upturned shapes. It also includes advice on foot care and removing skin blemishes, plus beet and almond skin handling methods and kitchen packing uses for cardboard cartons.
The article urges foot care for busy people and dancers, stressing the need for proper preparations to prevent tired, sore feet. It recommends stocking foot powders, a brush, cooling scents, and toilet waters, plus a before bed foot soak and gentle massage to ease strain. It advises taking these items on holidays and using a rotary brush for scrubbing and refreshing the feet.
A recipe fragment outlines slicing lamb, using jelly sauce leftovers, and creating gravy with vegetable stock or water. It suggests spicing with currant or apple, pepper, and salt, heating to simmer, then resting slices off heat for 10 minutes.
The article discusses heredity in sheep, stressing the importance of potency in sires and the conformation of both sires and ewes for successful breeding. It notes that about sixty percent of an animal’s qualities may come from the sire, and highlights the studmaster’s skill in mating to achieve desirable traits. The text references The Charleville Times printery capabilities for rapid printing needs.
Step by step archaic kitchen directions describe assembling a lamb dish with veal gravy and milk, frying vegetables, and baking under a voone crust. It covers cutting meat into pieces, simmering in stock, thickening with batter and butter, adding lemon juice, and garnishing with bacon and green peas for serving.
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