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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1915
Page
6
A writer shares a long beauty routine focusing on a complex bath and facial regimen, including salt and violet ammonia baths, a cold cream face treatment, bowing to the sun bath, and a detailed homemade rosewater cream recipe. It also reports coffee preparation experiments comparing boiling, steeping, percolation, and filtration methods and ends with a drip coffee recipe and guidance on grinding, water temperature, and filtration.
After washing, stiffen bristles by dipping hair brushes in an equal mix of milk and water and then drying before the fire.
To remove fruit stains from table linen apply powdered starch to the stained parts and leave for several hours until the discoloration is absorbed by the starch. This practical guide suggests a simple stain treatment using household starch.
Ash the feet with soap and water and dry them gently. Then dip a piece of cotton in methylated spirits and apply except where skin is broken. When dry, dust the feet with a powder of starch and boracic powder in equal parts.
After washing oilcloth and dinoleum, dry it properly to prevent rot. Do not use excess water, wring the cloth, and pass it lightly over the surface to avoid damage.
A method to remove stains from knife handles and prevent ivory from yellowing involves rubbing with a cut lemon, then washing with soap and water and drying immediately. The sequence emphasizes citrus bleaching followed by thorough cleaning and pat dry.
SWAYS advises drying scrubbing brushes with the bristles facing downward to extend life. Drying bristles upward wastes water and rots the wood, shortening durability.
Instructions say rove parts of ammonia and turpentine will remove paint from clothing yarding with hard or dry stains. Saturate spots two or three times then wash in warm soap suds.
A writer recalls taming house and garden spiders, noting eyesight varies by species. The piece describes ballooning dispersal, silk weaving instincts, and feeding trials with fake prey, plus differences between sedentary web weavers and roaming hunters like jumping and wolf spiders.
A fragmented blurb discusses a satirical marriage piece in a chapter of Forces Mining and Under China by Rowland R. Gibson. It critiques British depictions of Chinese customs and hints at wealth and education themes, noting a harsh view of the word millionaire as Sanscrit for robber.
The author critiques British handling of crime as barbaric compared with China’s method of punishment and wealth control. He argues marriage should be arranged by a middleman to prevent blunders in choice, noting Chinese practices yield happiness while British society appears muddled.
A sharp critique of English attitudes toward marriage and theatre. The author satirizes married life and the British musical comedy industry, accusing ringed lyricists and Vienna sourced works of cultural mimicry, claiming plays rely on routines rather than plot and music.
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