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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1937
Page
4
A discussion noting some children naturally resist eating and suggesting mothers avoid pressuring. It advises a nutritious, freely offered diet with regular meals, modest portions, and ample water. Focus remains on normal health, gradual dietary adjustments, and reducing parental anxiety to prevent feeding problems.
The text outlines gradual feeding for babies, advising mothers to avoid pressure and allow the child to taste and adjust to new foods. It emphasizes patient, calm meal times, a steady environment, and not nagging, with reintroduction of foods after brief withdrawals. It notes potential constipation and stresses modeling good eating habits and routine.
A fragmented ad lists wedding cake resources and cards. It mentions postal regulations, dome posts, and mentions Brent Lads Bris Haystreet Perth as possible suppliers or sources. The wording is garbled but centers on wedding cake supplies and related postal details.
A Melbourne retailer advertises Dr. S. Warrens latest book The Wifes Guide and Friend priced at 1/8, sealed wrapper edition. The booklet claims to provide surprising and reliable information for concerned readers.
Practical kitchen guidance covers making various shortbread shapes and tips for handling dough. Includes Scottish bannocks recipe, pastry handling, oven timing, and decoration ideas, with notes on weather effects and shaping variations for beginners. Also mentions stain removal and fabric tips for household cleanliness.
Gather scraps of embroidery wool and stitch a patchwork coverlet for a spare room. Cast on twelve stitches on No 8 needles and work until forming a perfect square, edge each square with two rows of brochet in a contrasting colour, then join multiple squares into a larger coverlet.
A broken OCR recipe for a fruit cake called Your Christmas Cake. Instructions describe creaming butter with sugar, adding eggs and spices, beating whites to stiff froth, folding in chopped dried fruit and brandy, then baking two to four hours in a oven. Finish by wrapping and aging like a wedding cake.
The article reflects on Christmas gift giving as a sacred custom with divine origin. It urges generosity as a noble human act that enhances happiness, fosters fellowship, and steadies faith during troubled times. It cites the Magi and God’s gift of salvation as foundations of the practice.
Instructions describe sewing rough bottom edges, applying black icing border, ironing and drying techniques, and securing with nails. Guidance covers crocheting squares to form cushions and covers, joining to create distinct black lines, and suitability for elderly or infirm knitters. Also includes a confused recipe note about butter and batter.
A recipe describes blanching and skinning almonds, shredding them, then rubbing with butter and sugar to form a firm paste. The dough is rolled to a quarter inch, cut into rounds, pricked, edges crimped, and baked on an ungreased tin in a slow oven about thirty minutes until lightly browned.
A reader shares a method to mend a jumper elbow using backward and forward wool through the eye to create a ladder effect. Start at the top with a row of cross threads then stitch down each row, forming chain stitches that resemble knitted work and blend with the fabric.
A festive message describes warm Christmas preparations in town with lights on shops and crowded streets. The author mentions travel plans for holidays, desire for peaceful country life, and hopes to attend a concert while noting the Brown Competition results.
The article advises women to prepare early for Christmas with limited cash. Gather leftovers and store them in containers, save jars from jams, and use cans and fabrics to create homemade gifts. Collect change, repurpose leftovers, and assemble a Christmas box to reduce festive season worry.
A fragmented instruction list offers kitchen tips for carrots cauliflower and sugar substitutes. It suggests parching carrots then cooking in sauce with butter, use brown sugar substitute by mixing white sugar with focus, and tying cauliflower for steaming. Also covers pearl buttons cleaning with glycerine and nail powder, jelly handling, and bacon and grease tips for furniture.
The second revised edition of the CWA Cookery Book and Hou ints has been published by Wiggants Ltd Ty under the direction of the Country Women's Association of Western Australia. The booklet aims to be a boon to housewives and is issued in a spirit of goodwill to pass on contents with helpful guidance.
Practical household advice shared for Australian housewives on economical, reliable methods. Soak new stockings in cold water with salt, rinse, and avoid wasting a worn carpet. A tip recommends brushing and drying bran to prevent sticking, improving oven cleanliness.
An ad describes De Witte Antacid Powder providing immediate relief from stomach burning and acid discomfort. It highlights kaolin colloids protecting inflamed stomach lining and claims faster digestion with three action points to neutralize excess acid and ease pain.
Readers from Convent of Morey Bridgetows seek two pen friends aged 12 to 14, Ethel Gibbet expresses broad interest, while Palgarep looks for a 11 or 12 year old in arts and knitting. Potts seeks a 10 to 14 year old stamp collector. Joy Walker and Douglas McKenas request 14 to 15 year olds or any 12 to 14 year old with a photo.
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