Home Notes

June 5th

Liz

Hello and welcome to Bread and thread a podcast about food and domestic history. I'm Liz.

Hazel

I'm Hazel, we are two friends who studied archaeology together and love history and making things and trying out making historical things and also eating food I'm sorry I'm very tired this week [maybe you should go eat some food] we normally start by talking about what we have been making and our baking. So go ahead what have you been up to?

Liz

I have been giving Tunisian crochet another go (oh exciting)  so during April I had COVID again

Hazel

hmm

Liz

And my mum's very lovely response to this was I bought you this big pack of yarn

Hazel

that's such a good like care package

Liz

so I finally cracked that open it now being mid May but you know, I have large projects that I'm working hard and also I had COVID So I'm Tunisian crocheting a shrug for myself (ooh what out of) it's it's just some acrylic from Aldi, but it's a nice kind of tangerine color. (cool) And yeah, it's, it's basically a rectangle, which I have done before because I did a scarf. But then I'm gonna fold it over and sew it and then try and do short rows of a different color just out of my stash to do little cuffs and probably like a little lapel (that sounds really nice) It should be and it will be cozy. (Yeah) What have you been up to?

Hazel

Ah, not that much. I'm on placement again. And I have to travel like give or take two hours there and back. So yeah, it don't. I'm very tired. (that is a trek) Yeah, but it's only for seven weeks. And then I can go back to hashtag Student Life. Except i'm going straight into my dissertation. Anyway. Um, I am. I do have a lot of train time. So I have been spinning on the train

Liz

of course you've been spinning on the train

Hazel

Is that unusual? I have no no frame of reference.

Liz

Yes. But also you seem the type

Hazel

I'll take that label.

Liz

it's natural progression from crocheting in lectures is just spinning on the train.

Hazel

Yeah, absolutely, no one has remarked on it or even noticed, I think just like people on trains at half past six in the morning don't care about anything.

Liz

And they're right, that is not a good time to be on a train.

Hazel

Yes.

Liz

They might be hallucinating it.

Hazel

I did see some deer on the train the other morning. That's cool.

Liz

from the train not on the train. Right?

Hazel

That. Yeah, there's an like either llama or alpaca. I'm not sure. I like not farm but like that. Somebody's got some South American fluffy animals. I can see those from the train too. And it's great. What are they talking about? Oh, yeah. Making stuff. Yeah. Spinning spinning. I've been spinning my yellow wool that I dyed with onion skin and dandelion. And then spinning up on my new Turkish spindle. I can't remember if I talked about it last time. (I think you did) I did. Okay, yeah. So I'm continuing with that. And that's basically all that I've been up to. Since we last recorded but it's nice. Is is very kind of nice. Just like watching is a nice journey. There's a lot of like You know, green spaces and  hills and things so I just watched that go by and I spin a little and I try not to fall asleep. It's fun it's a good travel spindle because it's really light. But yeah, so this might be a little shorter episode than usual and it's gonna be quite a relaxed one I haven't done a huge amount of like researching basically is going to be a flip through of an interesting book that I happen to have and sort of a live podcast reaction if you will.

Liz

What book is it

Hazel

two history nerds react to home notes 1906 compilation

Liz

what would we do a reaction video to though?

Hazel

Um, I don't know popular archaeology articles.

Liz

Oh, oh, that just got like flashbacks to some of the ones I've read that no, no!

Hazel

Ancient Aliens

Liz

are you trying to hurt me?

Hazel

Would that be too t-That wouldn't be that wouldn't be a family show would it? Okay, so, um, this is a book

that has been in the family for a while.

It is an annual

of a magazine. So it's a monthly magazine called home notes. And it's all of the issues for that year compiled into like a hardback. But home notes was a women's magazine in the late 19th, early 20th century. Or rather, in fact, it was it started in 1894. And it ran until 1958,

Liz

which I didn't go in.

pretty good going

Hazel

It is I didn't realize it ran quite so long. At first, but yeah, then I looked it up for this episode. And it did run all the way until 1958 Which is quite remarkable. And as you might guess, from the title, it was kind of aimed at middle class or like aspiring middle class women. It it says according to this it was founded by Sir Arthur Pearson first Baronet. With with the aim of competing in the penny magazine market, so I can assume that it cost one penny which was as a respectable sum back then. And

Liz

you could've read a whole book of orrible murders just for that

Hazel

exactly which, depending on your point of view, might have been better reading. But there are some absolute gems

Liz

in this book. Now, as I said, it has been in the family for a while.

Hazel

It actually as far as I know, it was collected by my great grandmother, this is Ida Fish who is becoming a regular on this podcast

Liz

friend of the podcast Ida Fish!

Hazel

and I'm not really sure why she bought it but I've got a feeling she probably bought it at like a jumble sale or something apparently that was like a thing she'd like to do is like go around the jumble sales and the secondhand places and like you know, get some some deals. And I'm not really sure why she bought it because this is a very it's a very like kind of late Victorian upper middle class aspirational magazine. Like it's got articles on like how to deal with your servants and society gossip pages and stories about nice young ladies who ended up marrying aristocrats.

Liz

Okay, so it's like the Mrs. beatons but as a magazine.

Hazel

Yeah, kind of and she was like a pretty ardent like working class anti upper classes, suffragette who like she left, what like many rural girls, she went into service at the age of 13. She was a children's maid. And it basically made

Liz

her like

Hazel

hate the rich for the rest of her life. She rage quit the WI because the local lady of the Manor was trying to control it.

Liz

So, I don't know,

Hazel

maybe this was just like nostalgia for her. You know, maybe she bought it when she was older. And it like reminded her of the days of her youth. I don't know.

Liz

Maybe it was espionage.

Hazel

Maybe it was (see what they're up to) we actually - a fun tangent, we actually still have her basket that she took with her when she went away to be a servant at 13. (that's cool) Yeah, it is cool. So I can only assume she was like leafing through this and chuckling to herself, but - much as we are about to do.

Because

there are some great things in here. So I'm just gonna have a little bit of a flip through and see what we find. There's a couple of things that I've bookmarked. And this is for night- this is for the year 1908. Is this into 1909?

Liz

Yeah, no, as far as I'm

Hazel

aware, this is just 1908 and it is a British magazine. So that would be the Edwardian period for us. So pre World War One, but after the end of the Victorian age,

Liz

Gilded Age,

Hazel

yeah. Topical

Liz

topical now not so much when this comes out in like two weeks.

Hazel

Yeah, that's That's true. For future reference, for people who are definitely going to be binge listening to this podcast, we're talking about the

Liz

Met Gala. And the year is 2022.

So

Hazel

let's start with behind the scenes stage gossip and stories of the week, weekend in July the second 1908 we have got a picture of the very glamorous Miss Fanny ward. I'll put some pictures of this book up on the Twitter. She's got a lot of foliage in her hair. And according to this article, Miss Fanny Ward, who created a sensation as kitty in the marriage of William Ashe at Terry's theater possesses the most lovely diamonds possible which are the mighty envy of all the female hearts in the theater. This fascinating little actress was born at St. Louis in the United States and is thoroughly American. She also claims Scotch blood as her real name is Buchanan. Then there's some things about

Liz

I love this description. It sounds like a dating profile.

Hazel

I know. It's just I love this style of writing of this time. Yeah, so it there's a bit about different things that she's appeared in. Oh, and then we have five years after that she married Mr. J. Lewis and left the stage for a while, but she could no longer resist the footlights and she returned last June into the stage to appear in the bishop's carriage at the waldorf theatre. When I am not acting, she said my favorite pastime is going to see other plays and other actresses. I adore my work and have no interests apart from it. Well, good for you Miss Fanny ward.

Liz

Still sounds like a dating profile. I don't care that she's married. It's MIss Fanny Ward Looking for people to have an affair with

Hazel

through doing it through the papers, that is next level. Oh, there is also an A little piece on Miss Ethel Smith, the foremost woman composer who Oh, there's an interesting little bit in this that kind of describes the political climate of the time. So it talks about her she's written an opera called The Wreckers which was recently

Liz

performed in the in Britain. And every foreign

Hazel

critic has praised its musicianship. Its originality, and its complete freedom from Wagnerian influence. Indeed, Miss Smith frankly dislikes Wagner. Although in England she has been accused of having to succumb having succumbed to his influence. She hopes someday to be allowed the opportunity of telling the public how she produced her other opera Der Wald at Berlin during the Boer War when Anglo phobia was at its height.

Liz

I mean, I would like to read that story.

Hazel

Yes. Yeah. No, it is, it is an interesting story. And I like stuff like this, because it does, it provides some, like, information about like, general kind of social political climate during the time just through the lens of a whole bunch of other like, more domestic stuff. Because like, I mean, during the Boer War when Britain was very unpopular, like, especially in Europe, because, you know, I mean, for good reason, like, that was the war in which like, we kind of invented concentration camps. But yeah, it and people were mad about it. So there you go.

Liz

What else have we got? Um,

Hazel

ah, there is a story. So these magazines would contain serial stories like many other magazines of the time, like quite famously, a lot of Dickens books. This is going back a little bit were published in serial form in magazines or periodicals. But these stories much like in the kind of like weekly magazines today are like a bit lighter. So this story is called The Marquis's - marqui- marqu. How? He's a marquis

Hmm. And it's his garden party. Is it marquis' The Marquis garden party or the marquises Garden Party or the

marques-

Liz

I'd say Marquis because you don't usually say the S.

Hazel

Yeah, but there is an S.

i'm so uncultured.

I don't even know how to pronounce marquises

Okay, well, it's

called the marquis' garden party. And it is in fact about a lovely, modest young lady who catches the eye of a marquis and ends up being the marquee-s I don't know what it is. I don't really know what a marquis is, either. But

Liz

I could not tell you. there are too many titles and we should just abolish the whole concept of gentry

Hazel

Yeah, I'm not sure what he is, but he's very rich. And there are illustrations with people in some lovely costumes. And our heroine, Monica Chang, who is a doctor's daughter, and her father is very anti aristocracy, which is played for laughs

Liz

Well, of course What a ridiculous position to hold

Hazel

and yes, hilarity ensues. And romantic misunderstandings, when her father finds out the young man that that she's interested in is a member of the upper classes. But of course, all's well that ends well. It's basically like an Edwardian rom com.

Liz

I do kind of want to read this now.

Hazel

I have read it a few times over the years. It's quite, it's quite amusing. We've got a fashion section.

So particularly, there's like patterns for children. There are patterns that are being advertised. So there's like a feature on these patterns with illustrations. I think they are being sold by the magazine company like you can send off for them. And then they also have a free pattern in each issue as well. Which you like it's quite small, obviously because it's printed. It's in the magazine though I assume you're meant to just like copy it and, and draft

like it gives you the measurements I think so I think you're just meant to draft it like and copy it yourself

Liz

manually scaling it up.

Hazel

Yeah, basically.

Liz

Okay.

Hazel

so yeah, we've got some some charming costumes for tiny children aged two to four years they've got some very silly hats on.

Liz

It's the era of silly hats, isn't it

Hazel

and we have an article on the use and abuse of pins. A common insignificant pin

is an article that all women use and many abuse how often one hears a remark that so and so is such an untidy person, her clothes are literally pinned on. Now the fault lies not in pinning the clothes but by allowing people to see the pins and then goes on to tell you how best to pin your clothes together, put your hats on. And this is quite an interesting point, I think it tells you that you can pin on all your trimmings. So like if you have an evening dress, you can pin all the trimmings on and then that saves you like like having to have more clothes because you can just retrim the same one. And you know works for all sorts of events and it'll look like a different dress.

Liz

So I guess also like if you want to clean if you want to launder the lace say you can do that separately to the rest of the garment. Give it different treatments.

Hazel

Yeah, exactly. So yeah, I think a lot of people were doing this because again, this isn't an upper class magazine. It's a middle class magazine so like people aren't that rich and they are going to make it want to look like they have more clothes when in fact they have maybe a few really nice dresses which you know is so like more than the average person is going to have but ah we've got some adverts always good.

Liz

Oh we love vintage advert

Hazel

we do I will also put some pictures of these up on the Twitter because one, but it's just people are thirsty exclamation mark exclamation mark in large letters. (they sure are) What is it? Oh, people are thirsty turn it to profit by making and selling non intoxicating beer made up from Mason's extracted herbs.

Liz

Squash.

Hazel

Ah, I guess you can make it for tuppence a gallon, figure that out 60 and a half pint glasses. At any rate, make it to drink yourself. It's the best non alcoholic drink in town. Send one penny stamp for booklet hints on brewing. So basically, it's an Edwardian pyramid scheme.

Liz

That's spectacular

is wonderful. Um, so yeah,

Hazel

there's adverts for that. I guess we've got personal washing powder. We've got Pearson's disinfectants. We've got some med medicine adverts, Dr. Hummels hematagen

the only safe tonic for children and adults. And London physician physician writes I have pleasure in stating that I found Hummels hematagen a most valuable tonic in the case of children during convalescence of their many

ailments

Liz

is literally the one working medicine is their claim.

Hazel

Apparently Oh, free,

absolutely free to introduce our illustrated illustrated catalogue. We give this handsome gold wire, friendship ring. Absolutely free, free gifts.

Liz

Oh my goodness. no magazines do that these days, bring it back.

Hazel

I know! you do have to send a half Penny stamp to them so they can send it to you.

Liz

I just I'm greatly enjoying the combination of brands I've heard of with just absolute nonsense

Hazel

there's some wild stuff in here but also Yeah, it's interesting to see the long running brands the persil slogan is No Toil Only boil

Liz

like you don't you don't need to actually wash the clothes you just make them hot with soap and it'll sort itself out

Hazel

Yeah Which is awesome I guess yeah it's the comparison of like I'm used to just putting personal in a washing machine and not having to boil my laundry but there you go.

Liz

You don't have to toil or boil

Hazel

oh i like this one. Ladies, do you know that the grand magazine is the best all fiction magazine and good fiction too there is none to equal it July number on sale now price four and a half pence. a rival magazine

Liz

Like, I absolutely understand why advertising standards are a thing. But I also love vintage adverts that are just like, this is the best thing ever. prove me wrong.

Hazel

I kind of like when they make like these hyperbolic claim. Our product is the greatest thing you have ever seen in your entire life. Oh, gosh.

They've got so this section is called the roundabout pages and it's just like little, like jokes, and games and just like little tricks and things. Um, yeah, there's one capital match trick. I'm telling you how to do a trick with 12 matches.

Liz

Have you attempted the match trick?

Hazel

No, I haven't. I'll give it a go. Things i do for bread and thread

Liz

you need to report back on the next episode

Hazel

we've got a little bit of like wisdom about predicting the weather based on the color of the sunset.

Liz

Okay, that's a classic.

Hazel

Yeah. Oh, like this little bit. Think of the birds in your garden in dry weather and place shallow tins of water for them to drink from. Oh,

Liz

yeah, do that.

Hazel

And there's a couple of puzzles. And then we've got Aunt Hilda's letter, which is for the children. My dear little sunbeams

Liz

strong start

Hazel

In a few weeks time you'll we will be going away for your holiday some to the seaside, others to the country, and I can just imagine how much you're looking forward to a simply lovely time. optimistic. Oh, oh, here we are. Now doesn't it seem strange to think that holidays are quite a new idea? Why when our grandmothers and grandfathers were little sunbeams folk seldom even thought of holidays. Dear me, I really do not think I should like to have lived then would you?

Liz

I mean, she's right.

Hazel

I guess. All right. I'll give it to Hilda.

Liz

Yeah. I support Aunt Hilda

Hazel

I don't think you will in a minute. Because like the next bit of aunt Hilda's page is clever young Colonials.

Liz

Oh god.

Hazel

Which is about it's a competition for children living in the British colonies. It is 1908

Liz

Hmm.

Hazel

So you know, there's a bit of this and a bit of that

Liz

I'm curious what the competition is for is it bad?

Hazel

Um, let me see she's waffling on a bit about like, home notes having to be exported abroad. They had to write a short essay called a day in my life so like, I guess it's not too bad.

Liz

It's not too bad but some of the things they're going to be writing about.

Hazel

I mean, yeah, like it's

Liz

I would to read some essays from small children living a colonial life i'd be curious what they'd be like

Hazel

we've got how to tame birds

Liz

I guess we are in the  everyone wants a wild bird in their house especially if it's brightly colored period, aren't we? (Are we?) pet birds were like a fad at this point I think

Hazel

I did not know that. Wow, what's the fashion? birds.

Liz

They probably ran out of interesting fads by that point.

Hazel

Maybe Eiffel Tower bun flower. What, sorry? (I'm having to double check now i'm questioning myself) Oh, well no

it It definitely sounds like a thing the Edwardians would do. Hints for holiday makers, we have an advert for cake flour called caycoma.

cake coma?

Yes, caycoma is a cake flour of the finest quality containing all the dry ingredients required for a cake mix and ready for use. What another concept it saves the time trouble and difficulty of weighing and mixing and makes any cake and many puddings. Many puddings

Liz

that's fun. I didn't realize convenience food was such a like, like I know fast food was a thing. I feel like convenience food is a different category.

Hazel

Yeah, I feel like yeah, just anything labor saving,

I think

is probably going to be popular. Toothache and neuralgia

cured instantly by bunters nervine

Liz

bunter's nervine is it saying what's in bunters nervine is it just opioids

Hazel

it doesn't say there's just a picture of a pretty young lady with toothache.

Liz

oh no get her some nervine

Hazel

Little little piece on what rickets is

Liz

I mean,  that probably would have been a problem at that point.

Hazel

Yeah. Oh, oh no. Oh, this is

there's an advert for asbestos lined iron

Liz

why?

Hazel

The brand name is as best oss. Oh, no.

Liz

Terrible.

Hazel

Did you ever stop to think that the blistering, sweltering discomfort of using the ordinary iron is because it leaks heat because so much heat rises up against your hand instead of being more concentrated upon the goods that you are ironing. Just hold your iron against the light and see the hot flames rising from it. Blah, blah, blah. The asbestos sad iron has an asbestos lined cover which is placed over the iron proper. This bottles up the heat and confines it to the spot where it's needed.

Liz

Oh, good.

Hazel

right. Well, let's move on.

Liz

I have found the ingredients of bunter's nervine amazing.

Hazel

Please tell me

Liz

creosote.

Hazel

I don't know exactly what that is.

Liz

kind of a wood tar which is used as an antiseptic.

Hazel

Okay, that doesn't sound great to like inhale

Liz

camphor Okay. Which sure not too bad. shows up in modern cough preparations as does balsam and tolu which is also an ingredients and then alcohol and chloroform.

Hazel

Oh, I mean, I guess that will make you feel some kind of way you that will

distract you from pain

Liz

yeah

oh patent medicines.

Hazel

Oh my goodness.

Liz

If I mean if I was like if it was 1908 and I had a toothache I feel like there are worse options I could go for.

Hazel

Yeah, to be fair. I mean, there's always tying your teeth to a string and tying the other end up to the door handle

Liz

while I was trying to find the ingredients, I did also find a vintage like almost like a metal poster. Those used to be a thing for advertising there was a couple of taglines on it but one of them was saves extraction because you're too out of it on alcohol and chloroform to think maybe I should have this tooth removed.

Hazel

Wow. I've just come across an advert for hoes sauce. And yes that is h-o-e. Once you try hose sauce

Know its flavor tas- taste its appetizing properties and no other will satisfy you. Hmm, so there's that

every woman should possess a copy of our book entitled The woman's friend and medical advisor. It is acknowledged by 1000s to be the best book ever written.

Liz

I'm guessing that they have no evidence.

Hazel

You really weren't joking about those claims. Okay, and then here we have some recipes. (Oh, here we go) Here we go. We've got grilled plaice and anchovy butter. With what ham and egg salad good all good. We got cruit au pot, which is kind of soup, I think. And then we have got mock duck.

Liz

What is mock duck made of?

Hazel

Well, if you are wanting to impress your guests, but you might not quite have the budget for duck. Here's what you can do. Required calf's liver (strong start) yep, calf's liver, two

or three ounces of unsmoked bacon, two onions, tablespoon full of chopped sage, three rashes of pork, pepper and salt, half an ounce of flour. So it's just a whole bunch of other meats.

Liz

I mean, it sounds nice. I enjoy some liver and bacon. (i guess) Doesn't sound like it would taste like duck.

Hazel

No, it doesn't Is it supposed to look like? I don't know, scald one lobe of a calf's liver when cold lard it with strips of unsmoked bacon, fry two onions in a steel pan with one ounce of dripping place the liver in it nearly cover it with stock or water thrown a tablespoon full of sage etc etc. Simmer all till tender, probably this will be two hours

Liz

it's a liver that's been boiled to death. (Place the liver) but wrapped in bacon so it looks kind of like how you serve a duck breast?

Hazel

I think so because it says you're supposed to mold it carefully into the shape of a duck. thicken the gravy with flour, add burnt sugar coloring and pour over sufficient to make the quote unquote duck. Look well. garnish with Green peas.

Liz

I feel like you'd be disappointed biting into that

Hazel

I guess it's just meant to make it look like duck but just taste. You know, meat it's just meat

Liz

. I mean, the the brown the burnt sugar sauce thing though. That's legit. (Okay) well, it's you get it in Caribbean food sometimes it's called browning. (uh huh). And that's that's basically what it is. (Oh, okay. Sounds pretty good. (Quite nice)

Hazel

We've also got chocolate baba, babaroi babarois?

Liz

What what is this?

Hazel

Some kind of some kind of set custard. I think Yeah, got gelatine in it

Liz

okay

Hazel

we've got a gooseberry gateau which sounds pretty good. Yeah, I mean so we've got a delicate tomato savory involving tomatoes chickens livers Parmesan cheese bread crumbs, sho- shallots and Sherry

Liz

so it's not too bad recipe wise.

Hazel

Yeah, like it's, I guess as like fairly average like, mix of recipes you would expect in a domestic magazine.

Liz

Yeah. I'm a little bit disappointed. I'll be honest. I guess we're simultaneously too late and too early for for the really wacky stuff.

Hazel

there's a whole page advert for Woodward's gripe water which for three generations has nourished and strengthened infant vitality. Oh, and the magazine is selling miniature portraits of famous people.

Liz

Okay,

Hazel

Pearson's beautiful colored miniatures, neatly mounted in the form of pendants, brooches, pins, or bangle charms they're selling merch.

Liz

they're selling merch.

Hazel

you can also send them your own photos, okay. Or maybe it's just someone else called pearson and not the magazine owner this is confusing household hints when ironing

rub your iron to clean it on a piece of brown paper well sprinkled with rough salt

Liz

I can see that one working

Hazel

oh I'm not sure about this one. perspiring hands are often a trouble to needlewomen. They should try bathing them with strong alum water. So alum as in aluminium sulfate, I think which like I use that as a mordant and as far as I know it's non toxic, but I'm not sure I would like bathe in it we've got advice on how to renovate black lace to make flannelette non inflammable to sharpen scissors, what to do with old stockings

Liz

sorry I look I looked up the bathing in alum thing because I thought it's familiar. It pops up on wellness blogs apparently as an alternative to using deodorant. (really?) I don't know if it works because wellness blogs (wow), it's still a thing people do

Hazel

. Yeah, it's amazing that that's still a thing Yeah. And then we've got society gossip.

Liz

So is that different to the regular gossip?

Hazel

That's different to the stage and screen, Yes. Not screen I suppose. But the stage gossip. Yeah. Master Edward George John, the Humphrey caddigan. Only son of Lord and Lady Chelsea and grandson of Earl caddigan is five years old and a small personage of great importance

Liz

a lot of name for a little kid.

Hazel

That it is indeed even if he is a small personage of great importance. So there you go. We've got society gossip about a five year old

Liz

it's like celebrity magazines

Hazel

it is yeah, it's the celebrity pages. We've got some gossip about Miss Ethel Roosevelt. the 17 year old daughter of the American president

Liz

ah yes tumblr likes her

Hazel

Oh does it what does she do?

Liz

She was a bit of a tearaway

Hazel

excellent good for her. Oh yeah, here we go.

Recently during a visit to the south with her mother she has delighted her friends and herself by acting as an amateur engine driver Okay.

Liz

i'm into it

Hazel

with the consent of her mother, she persuaded the engine driver to let her keep him company and under his direction to pull the levers, blow the whistles, et cetera. She proved herself a courageous and intelligent pupil and proudly drove the train into Atlanta punctually to the minute. it has been the jolliest hour of my life and I'm so sorry it has finished said Miss Roosevelt as she left the engine

Liz

she's living her best life

Hazel

oh dear there's there's some talk about Lady Sefton who recently shot her first lion

Liz

don't do that

Hazel

Yeah, not enjoying that one of the prettiest and most charming of future marchionesses is Lady Cary. I don't know what a marchioness is either.

Liz

I mean, they're all just people whose money comes from exploiting others

Hazel

um, yeah, then it's just a whole whole bunch of other posh people. Um Oh, no,

we've got a little bit on signor bonei? bonet? I the principal tenor in the opera house at Covent Garden. He suffers from stage nervousness. The popular singers condition is pitiable on the days he sings. He cannot eat and usually locks himself in his room and plays patience until it is time to go to the theater speaking to no one once before the footlights with the applause of the public ringing in his ears he becomes transformed his voice which before is husky and unreliable rings out pure and true. It is under perfect control and every graduation of tone color can be produced at will. From being a perfect wreck he becomes joyously personified his beaming face showing clearly what the appreciation of his audience means to me.

Liz

Okay, that's kind of adorable

Hazel

I love signor bonet here's here's the only valid person in this section

Liz

No Ethel Roosevelt as well.

Hazel

Okay all right, all right. Prince Alexandra of Battenberg et cetera et cetera yes Tsar Nicholas, the second is expected to visit the King and Queen at Sandringham this year hmm

Liz

I'm sure nothing bad will happen to him.

Hazel

Yes. Yeah, it's just it's weird reading this stuff with is it dramatic irony when the audience knows something that the characters don't?

Liz

I believe so.

Hazel

Yeah. It's weird reading this one. You know what happens?

Liz

Yeah, it's it's always an odd one with history. I think just reading someone either reading about someone or reading someone making predictions being like, so about that?

Hazel

Yeah. I think it's

as well because this is so this is quite immersive because it's just like, very domestic and like social and it kind of it kind of has you in the mindset of like someone who's just chilling reading a gossip magazine. Like in 1908. And then you remember that you you know what happens to this historical figure? Oh, there's an article on famous women balloonists. Now that balloon ascents are the craze with fashionable women.

Liz

Are they?

Hazel

Apparently! it is interesting to recall that the smart woman of today is but following the example of someon equally tearing of her sex many years ago. Madame Blanshard was the first lady professional from 1805 to 1819. She held first place in the annals of aerial navigation. She was born an aeronaut and died in a balloon. Wow,

there we go.

Miss Stocks was an English girl who commend- commenced her experience of the balloon ascent by nearly being the victim of a fatal accident. Miss Stocks happily recovered from her injuries and was undaunted enough to make many more

ascents. well done miss stock

Liz

sure

Hazel

should girls marry their first love? Currently, yes, you should according to this because you might not get another offer.

Liz

Wow. I feel like that is maybe the note to end the episode.

Hazel

Yeah, sorry, I said this is gonna be short, but honestly, I could go all day with this. But there you go. That is the kind of things that are contained within the pages of this magazine. And I hope you enjoyed it.

Liz

So yes, we we do not have merch like this magazine, but we do have a patreon. You can find us at bread and thread if you want access to a Patreon exclusive discord, as well as monthly recipes. And at the 10 pounds a month or above level, we will make a bonus episode on any subject that you want be it within our normal purview or not.

Hazel

we also have a Twitter at breadandthread where you can find hints to upcoming episode pictures of things we talked about on the podcast. Anything that we think is interesting. And we are also Bread and thread on YouTube where you can find audio, YouTube, audio only versions of the podcast because some people prefer that.

Liz

We're also on Tumblr, posting and reblogging various relevant things. Occasionally chatting to people, we you can send us an ask on there or if you want to request an episode. You can also message us or make a request by emailing breadandthreadpodcast@gmail.com

i think that's it.

Hazel

And that's it. Thank you very much for listening. Hope you enjoyed it, and we will see you next time.

June 5th