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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 29, 1928
Page
7
Ladies page suggests transforming a worn woollen coat into a new garment. It explains reducing sleeves, removing collar, overhauling vents, and cutting edges, with embroidery options for fronts and neck. Advises careful stitching, color harmony, and using steamed vegetables as diet tips.
Diet advice claims obesity often stems from food quality rather than quantity and offers a three month plan focusing on exercise, portion control, and disciplined eating. It prescribes water intake, limited breakfast with lean meats and eggs, midday and evening greens, avoidance of fried foods, and favors steamed or boiled items, with grated vegetables and fruit for quick results.
The pattern No. 6325 offers a girl’s frock with two styles, long or short sleeves and various necklines, with a side sash. Suitable fabrics include muslin and silk alternatives. yardage specified for 4 and 1 year sizes. Available from Madame Weigell Puy in Richmond or T E Robinson, Sun Shine news agent.
An old ad copy urges using peroxide and glycerine to whiten the neck. The formula includes rosewater and wine, applied after washing, to achieve a soft pale skin tone. It promotes nightly and morning use as a remedy.
The passage offers kitchen advice on improving fruit preserves and baked goods. It covers adding juice to tinned fruit, improving stewed apples, reducing oven odor by adding common salt, beating egg yolks and whites separately for light cakes, and properly handling flour. It ends with a moral about economic activity, noting that advertising drives buying and selling and earnings.
An easy ginger beer method uses camomile flowers and nettles in a muslin bag boiled with water for twenty minutes. A healthful beverage is made with three gallons of water two ounces of yeast three pounds leaf sugar two lemons one ounce cream of tartar one ounce ginger brule the ginger add to the water and other ingredients stir, ferment overnight, skim the yeast and bottle. Lemonade adds flavor by including thinly peeled lemon rind for extra zest.
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