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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 25, 1904
Page
5
Housekeeper notes lead summer headwear in shades from burnt straw to deep gold and pale, with navy highlights. New styles include high back Na hats trimmed with cockades or floral rings, saucer-shaped chip brims with ribbon knots, and picture hats with forget me nots and Banksia roses.
A reflection on maintaining youth through positivity. The speaker describes an 80 year old woman with snowy hair and boundless energy who hides age with kindness and pleasant words. She practices empathy, avoids conflict, and treats others as she wishes to be treated to secure happiness.
Fashion notes describe a resurgence of high head dresses with a casque style. Hair is combed back and twisted into a rouleau at the back, secured by a long tortoiseshell comb or jeweled accents. Front height comes from Pompadour frames, torpedo and Marie Stuart frames shape the forehead, while undulations remain essential.
A brief note on fat and oil use in cooking, detailing methods to render and clarify fats for clearer understanding and easier use in the kitchen. The piece mentions multiple regions and cooks, emphasizing practical, economical techniques.
Advice on using leftover bread and stale crumbs in soups gravies and pies. Suggests drying bread in water used for boiling meat for soups and making French canes with cold bread. Also mentions mashing with butter and baking in a pie dish or forming balls to fry or bake and keeping caramel for browning gravies and soups.
Step by step directions describe clarifying fat by simmering 2 pounds of mixed fat with water, stirring and straining. The method includes chopping fat, boiling with four pints of water, simmering covered, then uncovering to evaporate water and cooling before use.
A simple caramel method: burn sugar with a spoon of water in an iron pan, add the rest of the water, stir until dissolved, boil to treacle thickness, then pour into a wide necked bottle and cork tightly. This indicates a basic sugar candy process for sweetness and preservation.
Poast bread and cut it hot. Melt cheese with butter pepper and salt. Stir in grated yolk of a hard boiled egg. Spread on toast and brown before the fire.
A fragment quotes sages urging personal choice in reading and living honestly. It contrasts fixed tastes with individual freedom, noting reading should be part of life rather than imposed. The passage blends aphorisms from Brooke Tolstoi Horatius Bonar and Seelie Stephen.
Ladies column surveys current attire with tailor made coats and full skirts versus fitted styles, praising gauged skirts under careful construction while warning local dressmakers on cloth handling. It notes sleeves, yokes, wide cuffs, capes, blouses, and the shift away from extreme Victorian details, predicting summer’s end for trendy novelties.
A traditional recipe uses macaroni, red cheese, milk and breadcrumbs. Boil the macaroni, make a milk thickened sauce, stir in macaroni and half the cheese, then bake in a greased dish with remaining cheese and breadcrumbs until brown.
A nineteenth century style date pudding combines stale breadcrumbs flour suet and dates with brown sugar egg milk nutmeg and baking powder. The mixture is boiled in a floured cloth for two hours and served with sweet sauce.
A compact historic recipe for a sweet omelette with two eggs sugar butter water and jam. The whites and yolks are beaten separately then combined with melted sugar and water poured over yolks. Butter is melted in a pan and whites folded into yolks before cooking briefly then finishing under a grill and serving with jam and sugar.
Fashion notes praise striped flannel materials for river and seaside wear with delaines and heavier flannels. Delaines suit shirts and blouses while striped flannel costumes serve tourists and holiday-makers on summer trips. A pale blue or grey dress with a white bodice and pleated center is highlighted as a popular seaside look.
A reflective note on the enduring value of small virtues. The text praises making new friends while cherishing old ties, calling them silver and gold, and urges steady habits and fidelity over fame.
The passage notes a line of stitching along each pleat edge and stitched skirt straps. Cuffs on the sleeves are deep and tight fitting, fastened with gilt buttons. Groups of three gilt buttons appear on the blouse centre panel and at skirt strap points.
Tassels and buttons dominate summer frock adornment. Pendant tassels at the four corners of square collars in guipure and yokes lift the overall effect. A wide leather or suede belt and a new cravat collar of embroidered canvas or lace-trimmed lawn add smartness to the ensemble.
Hats for summer resemble gardens with rose trimmed brown straw crowns. The design features ten roses and green velvet ribbons crossing the crown, backed by foliage. Veil styling shifts from chin drape to brim fall, requiring tasteful arrangement to avoid ridicule and to reflect Parisian chic.
The United States possesses about 182500 miles of railway in a global tally. The figure highlights the nation's extensive rail infrastructure amid broader world totals.
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