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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1928
Page
4
A historic kitchen guide details marmalade methods using Seville oranges lemons and sweet oranges. Steps include washing trimming peeling shredding pith and preparing rinds, boiling pips with water, straining, cooking with sugar and testing for setting point to yield a glossy preserve. Different proportions cover Scotch and easily made marmalades.
An old jumper can be unraveled to reuse silk and artificial silks for new crafts. Patterns suggested include duchess sets, table runners, cushion covers, glove cases, and lamp shades. Careful unraveling yields materials for dyed or multi coloured pieces that fit various color schemes.
A Victorian style guide describes crocheting and knitting pieces such as mats and lamp shade covers. It notes using one colour with a thin silk accent for a striking effect and suggests edging with orange or bright hues for washable, fast dyed artificial silks.
A humorous tale unfolds as an old crowd recalls Hob Smitty a legendary figure known for wit and stubborn pride. The setting shifts to a May conversation where old rivalries surface and the tale crescendos with a man dubbed Glasesfisted Miser Tob, whose past generosity becomes a focal point of communal memory.
In Mondro, a once generous man named Bob Smith becomes frugal amid public mockery. He discovers a crying girl and learns her parents are sick and hungry. He feeds the child, visits the ailing family, and then devotes all savings to their needs, facing sneers and social contempt with stoic resolve.
Customers can depend on securing the best of beef pork and mutton with prompt attention to their requirements.
A narrator recalls a village fable about a white man named Smith who starved for his pride yet faced a fatal reckoning. Amid memories from Monaro, the tale contrasts perception and truth as the old man says one should not judge by appearances while paying a high price for deceit.
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