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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
6
Ladies look to autumn coats and wraps with the Inverness style and wing sleeves leading trends. Fur imitations, long-haired furs, and butterfly shaped fur collars dominate, with tight-fitting basques and caps, velvet collars, hoods, and stitched details appearing on various coat designs.
A loose house robe in princess fashion is shown as a handy garment that can substitute for a dress. The design features a tea-gown inspired body and skirt with a wide silk bow at the front, a waltz-bind attachment to a dress, and a guipure lace collar with flounced lace.
The description notes frilled sleeves with lace and a gauged bodice fullness at the neck. It suggests soft silk or cashmere for the robe and a fastening at the left side.
A school coat pattern for children age six or seven features dark blue serge or red fabric with box-pleated or straight dresses, serge skirts, and blouses in flannel. The design includes long back straps, front straps, braided or stitched details, and a harmonized waist, cuffs, revers, and extended collar.
Autumn millinery trends favor high crowned hats in straw, felt, and velvet with plaited chenille accents. Velvet dominates Directoire styles and shaded tones like flame tangerine red, while wide ribbons and roses decorate crown trims. Shaded felts ribbons feathers and colors define the season’s striking effects.
A fragment discusses tannin digestion, noting that tannin converts to gallic acid while tannin remains a useful food substance. It mentions vapets in conjunction with all matter and references a meal dear to hearts, implying a broader context of digestion chemistry.
A Parisian fashion maker candidly discusses dress and deportment. The piece highlights how personal style reflects social expectations and professional standards in the couture world.
The article lauds American women for carrying themselves with erect posture and confident deportment, contrasting with English and French styles. It notes American style hinges on posture, shoulders back, chest up, head up, while Parisian wearers also know how to present outfits to best advantage.
The article promotes coffee as an asthma remedy advising very strong black coffee, without sugar or milk, served hot and on an empty stomach. It warns weak coffee is harmful, large quantities are disadvantageous, and drinking with meals or late in the day may trigger attacks.
A historical note stresses cleaning and disinfecting old drains weekly in cold weather and daily in heat to prevent disease. A nearby diphtheria outbreak followed a clogged drain, where a boy’s severe illness and odour exposure underscored the link between drainage and public health.
Useful advice covers keeping tea and coffee pots fresh by placing a stick across the top to air them out and deter mustiness. It also suggests removing marble stains with spirits of wine and lemon juice, and preserving boots by rubbing castor oil into leather monthly for softer, crack resistant wear.
A brief clipping presents household recipes associated with Amy Monroe and the principal council, noting community guidance and practical kitchen tips. The readable fragment highlights domestic tips and wartime household ingenuity.
A brief recipe fragment lists curried rabbit with onion and curry, flour, sugar, salt, lemon juice, butter or dripping, and water. It mentions measures such as one teaspoonful curry and flour, one teaspoon sugar, and two tablespoons butter, suggesting a simmered dish with aromatic seasoning.
Wash and dry the rabbit. Fry the apple and onion until golden. Add the rabbit back with seasonings and simmer about an hour until tender. Stir in lemon juice, adjust salt. Serve hot with nicely boiled rice.
A home recipe describes steaming rice pudding using rice, sugar, egg, milk, and flavoring. The method includes washing rice, boiling water, simmering rice in milk until soft, then adding yolk and flavoring before steaming in a wet mould for about half an hour.
A recipe uses six apples lemon rind water sugar butter and stale bread to make an apple charlotte. Apples are peeled halved and simmered in a sugar syrup with lemon rind then buttered bread lines a dish. Pulp is added, more bread tops the dish and it bakes until brown served with custard.
A vintage recipe lists LUNGHEON CAKE ingredients including flour butter sugar sultanas currants candied peel and lemon rind with two eggs and milk. The method describes browning leaf sugar in milk then mixing with butter and dry ingredients, adding milk and beating, then baking in a greased tin for 30 to 40 minutes.
A simple economy method uses half a pound of coffee, two quarts of water, and a pinch of salt. Place ground coffee in a muslin bag, tie securely, simmer in a saucepan for a short time, then remove and dilute the strong brew with boiling water.
A collage of quotations from Sarah Grand de Genlis and Wordsworth on rest labor happiness and marriage. Notes urge virtue and contentment while reflecting on memory and thoughtful living.
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