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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 22, 1904
Page
5
The text advises soaking hands for five minutes in lukewarm water with soap, drying thoroughly, then rubbing with lemon and cold cream, followed by oatmeal. Continue rubbing with oatmeal until completely dry, then finish with leather. The oatmeal use is praised as an excellent remedy.
A fashion column describes muslin frocks with white ground prints in black, delaines, and taffeta trends. It advises washing-friendly designs with separate slips, frilled underslips, and easy care bodices, highlighting pale pink and lemon frocks trimmed with delicate lace and fichu draping.
A survey of colour beliefs across cultures notes blue as mystical and green tied to elves, red seen as lucky, and black deemed doomed among uncoloured tribes. It mentions red charms in various folk practices and cites China and royalty links with red and purple.
Amy Monro presents a collection of household recipes from the Principal Cookroom at the Mexican Consulate in Sydney. The booklet features practical dishes and traditional methods aimed at home kitchens and family menus.
Fragmentary recipe notes list curry soup ingredients including two quarts stock two ounces flour three ounces rice two onions lemon juice two teaspoons curry powder one teaspoon sugar. Instructions are garbled noting peeling chopping browning onions and mixing with stock and spices.
The text suggests returning through a sieve, adding lemon juice and sugar, boiling rice as for curry, and serving in soup or separately. It notes making household stock by boiling bones in water for hours and improving flavor with fresh vegetables, bacon, bones, rind, or seasonings.
A historical kitchen note outlines preparing maricot mutton with chops onion turnip carrot and flour thickened gravy. Steps include browning chops boiling water adding pepper salt straining onion from gravy returning gravy simmering vegetables and serving with parsley.
A recipe instructs making a beef Yorkshire pudding with tender beef steak kidney flour eggs and milk. Mix flour with eggs and milk, season with pepper and salt, prepare steak and kidney, assemble in a baking tin, pour batter over and bake for an hour.
A compact recipe for plain seed cake lists ingredients including flour baking powder butter sugar eggs milk salt and caraway seeds. The method directs rubbing fat into flour adding dry ingredients beating eggs with milk then baking in a prepared tin for one hour.
A vintage pudding recipe lists 6 oz bread crumbs 6 oz flour 1 teaspoon soda beef fat 2 oz sugar half a pint jam 4 gills milk 1 egg Mix dry ingredients with suet crumb then beat egg add milk combine steam three hours serve with sweet sauce.
A compact note lists reflections on daily labor and virtue. Quotations from More, Adam Smith, Samuel Longfellow, and Pliny reflect duty, benevolence, fear, and true glory. The collage-style item signals a reader interest segment rather than a full article.
A collage of quotes praises nature and pure hearted virtue. It juxtaposes reflections on love service and humility from authors including Dwight Hichens and Espinosa, underscoring serene nature and selflessness as ideal.
A clipped, fragmentary reflection discusses fate and duty, noting that a person’s path is what God intended and that individual influence may be limited by natural course.
The quote reflects the toll on the soul from social interaction and suspicion. It laments how small cares and differences in conduct create weariness, describing intercourse as a line life where heat and poison are born from doubt.
The article details season color trends from Paris and London, from deep sapphire and emerald greens to browns and flame reds for evening wear. It notes the shift to dark hues for balls and theatres, elbow dress styling with long gloves, puffed elbow sleeves, sleeveless evening bodices with chiffon drapery, lace and satin shoes, and Lisle lace stockings as the summer hosiery trend.
Tailors display numerous linen and cloth costumes with straight front panels on the skirt and pleated or gauged skirts. Bodices sit softly over the waist as sketches illustrate a pretty dress fit for soft linen or fine cloth.
A garment described with waist depth of an inch or two, bell cuff sleeves, lace frills, a bodice featuring a fichu-effect trimmed with small buttons, and a neckline opening revealing a lace vest.
A pretty frock suitable for a garden fete or understated wedding. The skirt flatters the figure while a simple bodice falls over a satin ceinture. Elbow sleeves puff at the top, finished with lace and long gloves. Edges may be lace on spotted Swiss or printed muslin. Skirt and bodice fasten at the back.
The piece argues beauty rests on youth yet notes famed women such as Diane de Poictiers Cleopatra Agnes Sorel Lady Hamilton and Aspasia retained impact beyond youth. It cites photographers smoothing wrinkles and the trend of older women marrying younger partners, praising cheerfulness as key to lasting looks.
A historical skin care tip advises daily hand care to avoid sleep gloves. For occasional events the recipe suggests mixing oil of sweat deal rose water and tincture of benzoin, then applying inside light kid gloves overnight followed by warm water and soap in the morning.
A fragment notes a performer directing with a baton, though the text lacks clear attribution or context. The phrase hints at a conductor asserting authority through baton gestures, but the source lacks full details or names.
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