FOR WOMEN'S EYES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR WOMEN'S EYES.

All vegetables gathered fresh from the garden cook in less time than do those bought in the markets. The time given for green beans in this table is under rather than over the amount necessary.

When entertaining a company it is well to remember a little table of quantity, which requires: 1 quart of oysters to every three parsons present.

5 chickens and 15 heads celery, Jot salad, to every 50 guests.

1 gallon ice cream to every 20 guests. 6 to 10 quarts wine jelly to every 100 guests.

130 sandwiches to every 100 guests,

4 dozen biscuits for every 20 guests,

There is another table, which I call the table of propinquity, which it is wall to know, as it keeps in mind the fitness of things in preparing a menu. Every one knows that roast pork should have its accompaniment of apple sauce, hut there are other combinations equally fitting, which are often overlooked, to the discomfort of the gastronomist.

A useful article to hold cabinet photographs may be made at very little ro-t. in the following way: Procure a p ; ece of deal, 24 inches long, 6 inches wide, and one inch thick, and plane both sides. Mako one end round for the top, nud about two inches from the top bor;- a hole. Then get some plush and cover the whole and nail it to the back. Next procure fou. pieces of cardboard. oigH inches long and 1£ inches wide, why h also cover with plush. These should 1)9 nailed at thi sides with bra'fes tacks nt equal distances of six inches. To complete;, put a piece of ribbon matching (lie plush through the hole, and it is ready to hang. The photographs should be.put in cornerwise, as the effect is much prettier.

What the novelist called "opulent curves" are no longer fashionable. Indeed, curves are decidedly out. To be as lean as a lathe is now the mode. The ideal figure looks as if a deal board wore bound to the front of it under the limpest of gown, which is drawn so smooth and so tight in the skirt that it fits like a pair of trousers. A fashionable modiste in Melbourne says that she is making skirts with a seam on the side from the ankle to the hip, and this seam makes the dresses so tight the wearer cannot sit down. So she asks all'her customers when this style of skirt is to be cut if they want a dress in which they expect to stand up and look smart, or sit down and look sloppy. —"Adelaide Critic"