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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1894

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Vanity Fair. to Keep One's Youth

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 2

A distinguished English scientist, Mr. William Kinnear, in a magazine article insists that the secret of perennial youth is to be found in the use of distilled water and…

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Vanity Fair. Queer Uses of Fans

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 2

There are many curious uses of fans in Japan. The umpire at wrestling and fencing matches uses a heavy on, shaped like a huge butterfly, the handle being the…

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Robertson Supplementary Show

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 5

A supplementary show, under the auspices of the Robertson Agricultural Society, was held on their ground on Queens Birthday. Owing to the society suffering a loss with…

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Vanity Fair. London Fashion Letter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 June 1894 · page 2

Taller-made costumes, whatever their ultimate fate, are in the ascendant just now, and two out of every three women you meet are arrayed in such garmonts, if they have…

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Poultry Show. (To the Editor of the Scrutineer.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 June 1894 · page 4

Sit,—It ia quito evident that the B.D.A.H. and I. Society intend holding the Poultry show annually. As I notice it has been announced that a ball Trill take place in aid…

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Vanity Fair. New York Notes

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 June 1894 · page 2

Crepons are quite as fasinionabie as last year, though they lave some new features as being brocaded or barred by [?] striped, while a few have inch wide silk…

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Vanity Fair., FASHIONS

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 2

The most changeable period of feminine fashion was in France between the outbreak of the Revolution and the Reatoration in 1816. Daring this time 289 different…

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Art Society's Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 3

ON Wednesday afternoon, the large attendance at the exhibition must have been very gratifying to those interested in the society, fully 200 being present. The…

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Bowral Art Society, First Exhibition

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 4

The inaugural exhibition of the Bowral Amateur Art society was opened on Wednesday afternoon, a large and fashionable assemble age being present. THis society has…

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Vanity Fair. French Dinners

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 June 1894 · page 2

'Madame [?] Such is the invariable phrase with which the dinner is announced in a French house in there ia even one [?] It is a preliminary…

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Vanity Fair a French Dinner

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 June 1894 · page 2

A French woman not only huys the [?] for dinner [?] she also helps to [?] the viands she knows that servants are and wasteful with charcoal, so…

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Vanity Fair. COSMETICS

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 July 1894 · page 7

The finest of these [?] for warding off wrinkles is water. The practice of experienced beauties is to wash the face well at night with soap and hot water, rinsing with…

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Amateur Photographic Exhibition

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 July 1894 · page 3

The Council of the Sydney Railway Institute have decided on holding an intercolonial exhibition and competition of amateur photography in tho Institute building…

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Vanity Fair

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 2

Young ladies are far more ready than might be expected to admit a liking for the well informed young man, oven though a prig, or for the police young man, even if…

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Vanity Fair. London Fashion Letter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 July 1894 · page 7

Seriously, I do not know what we are [?]oming to in the matter of colours. I am not bigoted, but I do think, peach, Iemon, emerald green, forget-me-net and robin's…

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Vanity Fair. London Fashion Letter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 July 1894 · page 7

One of the results of present English weather will be the shortening of our skirts, and I should not be at all surprised if it led to a pretty general adoption of undergear of…

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Vanity Fair. American Fashion Letter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 7

I went into the inner sanctum of a man's shop who makes a speciality of women's shirts. There I learned how they are to be made, and what inad of…

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Vanity Fair. the Fashion for Men

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 August 1894 · page 7

Paris—Artist tailors who dress the exclusive society man study their model as Felix studies a woman for gown. They occupy themselves with judging and…

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Vanity Fair. Parisian Items

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 7

The very last touch of elegance is given to a mousseline de [?] or any other thin vapory afternoon gown with a velvet bolero [?] small that it is out of just below the [?]…

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Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 August 1894 · page 2

A COMMITTEE, meeting of the Berrima[?] District A. H. and I. Society was held in[?] the Bowral School of Arts on Monday[?] afternoon. The members present were [?]…

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