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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 22, 1914
Page
2
A collision of lines from Byron and Herbert echoes mortality and beauty. The poem fragments mention roses, tears, death, and nature, with references to Sweet Day, Sweet Spring, and musical devotion, ending on a note about a virtuous soul.
Poet John Keats contemplates mortality and the fear of dying before his work and love are fully realized. He envisions books and fame as harvests of ripe grain and fears never seeing his beloved again. The meditation ends with the shore of the wide world where fame sinks to nothingness.
In a Brunswick Garden flat Mrs Cardella meets Mr Smith who reveals his lifelong ambition to write and stage a successful play. He describes funding, plotting for actors, and a dark past involving Pant Spencer and a lover, while hinting at a planned dramatic curtain fall at the proper moment.
Chapter Xil by telephone builds tension as Cannon Cardella seeks revenge on a vile capitalist. Smith, watching the drama, contemplates the looming smash and hints at a planned playlike finale. Lunch offers a wary pause before the next developments unfold tonight in London and Fairford.
In a tense London house Cardella faces a dangerous blackmail threat during a late dinner with Mr. Smith at Fairford Cottage. A phone scare and a masked caller warn Cardella to relay a false story about Morton and Mrs. Scarsdale, while upstairs in Grant Lea Hubert Morton plots to protect May and uncover a jewel box from Spencer's safe.
Sy Ida Meller argues that well dressed style comes from suited, intelligent wardrobe planning rather than sheer quantity. She notes a shift from pastels to bold color, diverse coat styles, and practical designs, with patterns and techniques for a tailored two piece coat and skirt, plus crochet embellishments for a crown edge.
A crocheted or knitted scarf is described as useful for holiday wear. It can be made in one or two colors to match a cap, requires about five ounces of wool, and uses simple single crochet after a twelve inch chain to reach 32 inches in length. Tassels are added along the edges with eight inch wool lengths.
The fragment cites a remark by Mrs John Lane on virtue and character formation. It contrasts views on women and the creation of lore or idols, noting the sequence from creation to worship and calling it a matter of great importance in shaping a humane character. The tone is moral and reflective.
Crochet instruction for a close fitting motor cap using white and navy wool. Begin with a seven inch chain from forehead to crown, work back and forth in single stitch, increasing around the head to form the cap, with a back peak to shield the neck.
Patterns of all designs featured in this column are available weekly by mail. Send ninepence or stamps for each pattern desired including coat skirt blouse or full costume to Misandu Meller c/o Australian Fashion Publishing Co 97a Liverpool Street Sydney New South Wales. Mark envelope Patterns and order by number.
Practical tips on keeping milk fresh with leaf sugar, preventing blue residue in fabrics with soda solution, frying fish with salt for easy turning, cutting flowers with a knife for longer stems, boiling bacon briefly before frying, and removing stains from white flannel using glycerine and egg yolk mix.
A guide on chest development through simple exercises, including bringing hands together behind the back with arms aligned to the chest and a second motion of clenching hands at the shoulders and throwing the arms outward. Massage is suggested to speed tissue nourishment and chest development.
A renowned physician advises dyspeptics to drink warm liquids before meals but not forbid all drinks at meals. The schedule recommends 5-6 ounces hot liquid before lunch at 11:90 a.m., 2-3 ounces with dinner, 5-6 ounces before 7 p.m., plus a hot drink on rising, aiming to aid digestion regardless of dyspepsia form.
Pure air is essential for sleep and waking. Do not let children sleep with older persons. Feather beds spread disease. make beds daily, tuck sheets firmly, and secure blankets. Air bedrooms for 30 minutes each morning. shake pillows, place on chairs, then open windows. Heating to 60 degrees during sleep is advised by a prominent authority.
A recipe guide outlines a cake method using eggs sugar flour chocolate butter and vanilla with baking powder and ground rice. Steps include creaming butter and sugar, dissolving chocolate in milk, adding eggs, sifting dry ingredients, folding into batter, and baking about an hour in a moderate oven. Decoration suggests diagonal crisscross of chocolate and chopped nuts for half the cake.
A historical pastry icing method describes melting chocolate with water then stirring in sifted sugar. The mixture is cooled off heat to avoid graininess, adjusted with more water or sugar, and poured over cakes to set. Nuts shaped as tiny shamrock decorations crown the finished loaf.
Simple baked cake recipe lists ingredients and steps for a no egg cake. It requires flour currants sugar lard or butter mixed, milk, and carbonate of soda. Lard creamed with sugar then liquids added, mixed with fruit, baked slowly for 60 to 90 minutes.
A readable fragment describes baking an egg free cake with flour currants sugar ginger pepper carbonate soda and milk. The method mentions beating sugar with other ingredients then folding in flour and baking slowly for about one hour.
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