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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 28, 1899
Page
3
A garbled collection of humorous anecdotes and dialogue fragments depicts domestic life and social manners. Characters argue over apologies to a cook, mistaken hats, bribes, and family training with playful misunderstandings. The piece blends light satire with snippets of gossip and class-tinged humor from a bygone era.
Aestyle and care tips cover laundry, skin care, and housekeeping. Practical remedies include whitening clothes with egg white and borax, air drying flannels, and using sour milk to refresh palatable paint colors. Harsh skin is treated with an oatmeal wash and a myrrh emulsion, wax, and rosewater emollient. The article also notes a shift away from millinery-centered dinner table decor toward durable silk embroideries, lace borders, and laundry-friendly centrepieces in refined table settings.
The passage discusses hunger driving cannibalistic urges among shipwreck survivors and notes that authentic cases are mostly seabound. It cites the Sith Regiment and Cape Breton wreck as examples, arguing famine drives but land cases are rare, with a focus on the psychological pull of survival instincts.
The guide details velvet stocks and lace collars, describing bow and pleat designs, adjustable pins, veiling techniques, and fashionable accessories. It explains how to extend wardrobe variety with ribbon stocks, lace ruffles, and veiling, including maintenance steps for reviving shrunk veils.
A collage of humorous vignettes and brief sketches from Scottish and Welsh life. Jokes about aldermen, a photographer's prices, temperance talk, heaven and Adam, a Lochmaben Provost gag, Millais and photography, an Irish court misadventure, Welsh place names, a late Ayrshire farmer, and a strolling player in a village inn.
Fashion notes describe velvet returning to prominence with silk gowns. Ladies pair rich Lyons velvet with white satin collars, lace overlays, and airy fichues. Accessories include nets, chemisettes, belts of jeweled fabrics, and elaborately carved enamelled buttons.
The piece celebrates current child fashion with Puritan caps and bonnets, velvet trimmed hats, Dutch and peasant dresses reaching near the feet, road-toed shoes with small buckles, boy outfits with knee breeches and long coats, and warm garments like capes with deep collars and bishop sleeves for outdoor wear.
An 19th century scene shows Mr Pepper surrounded by friends in his home during Christmas. Squire invites tenants to lunch while Stubbins jokes about tiny fowl and war sounds echo in the room. A faded reference hints at a medical remedy and a mention of Edouard Remenyt.
Ne Tompintia the Americap story follows a provocative theatre moment where Mrs Wigle, a noted American novelist using a masculine pen name, is scrutinized by Mrs Craigie. The scene hints at a dramatic resolve to be kissed to death and the possibility of immortality after the public display.
Arriving home he sat down to write a brief account for the King then joined dinner as if unharmed. He whispered to his wife that he had been shot at but no harm was done and urged they continue. The dinner conversation centered on the minister president’s escape. The Countess vowed a violent push if she were in heaven and saw the culprit on a ladder to hell, prompting her husband to hush her with a gentle reminder.
The article describes the sacred running oxen of Ceylon, the smallest breed of cattle never over 30 inches tall. A specimen sent to the Marquis of Canterbury in 1891 stood about 22 inches high and weighed roughly 20.5 pounds, used for light loads and fast travel. Legends say they can pull a two-wheeled cart with a 200 pound load and have crossed 60 to 70 miles daily, with reports of 100 miles in a day and night without food or water. A priest’s tale explains their origin via a miraculous escape through a stone prison wall shaped as a square, yielding a tiny beast to bear him to safety.
A clipped quotation from James Anthony Froude contrasts the casual passerby’s remonstrance with the police officer’s decisive action against misbehavior. It asserts a lifelong difference between the man with firm conviction and one whose thoughts never rise above doubt, highlighting moral distinction and duty.
A collection of brief toasts from gatherings shows cynical jests and sharp witticisms. Guests toast self reliant women, a deaf dumb couple, and a writer’s health while jokey lines target the bench and bar and gender roles.
Education officials urge teachers to learn that diphtheria can spread from recovered children through throat germs. The guidance calls for standard sanitation, with emphasis on hygiene to prevent transmission in classrooms and shared saliva contact.
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