The Art of Living in Australia
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- Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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1. Front matter2. DEDICATION3. PREFACE.4. EPIGRAPH5. CHAPTER III. ABLUTION—THE SKIN AND THE BATH. Important and numerous functions of the skin—The skin itself and its different parts—The use of the scarf skin—The structure of the true skin—The perspiration tubes—The tubes of the oil-glands—Great value of the cold bath—Importance of the rubbing down after the cold bath—The cold bath as a preventive of disease—The cold bath in the maintenance of health—The warm cleansing bath—The beneficial effect of adding salt at the end of a warm bath—Other interesting hints6. CHAPTER VI. DIET—IMPORTANCE OF BREAKFAST, FRUIT, TEA, COFFEE, ICED DRINKS, TOBACCO. Breakfast usually scampered through—Monotony of the ordinary breakfast—A plea for something better—Butter during Australian summer months—The ice-chest an absolute necessity— Breakfast should be a substantial meal7. CHAPTER I. THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.8. CHAPTER II.9. CHAPTER III.10. CHAPTER IV.11. CHAPTER V.12. CHAPTER VI.13. CHAPTER VII.14. CHAPTER VIII.15. CHAPTER IX.16. CHAPTER X.17. CHAPTER XI.18. CHAPTER XII.19. CHAPTER XII. (continued 2)20. AUSTRALIAN COOKERY RECIPES AND ACCESSORY KITCHEN INFORMATION.21. CHAPTER XIII. THE KITCHEN22. CHAPTER XIV.23. CHAPTER XV.24. CHAPTER XVI.25. CHAPTER XVII.26. CHAPTER XVIII.27. FISH AU GRATIN28. CHAPTER XIX.29. CHAPTER XX.30. CHAPTER XXI.31. CHAPTER XXII.