NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 38, 13 February 1913, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

(From Our Lady Correspondent) WOMAN'S FIGURE TO-DAX. Dr. T. P. Mnller, a well-known specialist in physical training, has this week declared that, probably owing to the more commonsense ideas that rule womankind to-day with regard to health and physical education, the figure of the modern woman is gradually approximating to that of the classic beauty of long ago. WOitEX LAWYERS' VICTORY. Great is the rejoicing over the passage into law of the bill to admit women lawyers in Russia to the fiar. that has just been passed by the Duma by a huge majority, and that enjoys the distinction of practically being the only Liberal Bill adapted by both Houses •without dissension. WOMEN'S SCHOOLS. After some months of deliberation, the Berlin educational authorities have decided to divide the city up into ten areas, and in each of these upen a continuation school for women at which they can graduate, aftrr a three years' course, in trade and commercial subjects and in housekeeping. There is to 'be, it is interesting' to note, a special school for would-be shop assistants. SYMPATHETIC LADY GUARDIAN. Tramps have every reaeon to be grateful to the electors who placed a lady on the Winchester Board of Guardians, for. entirely owing to her interest, the short night-shirts supplied to tramps have been lengthened by six kiches, ■while, instead of the wooden blocks hitherto provided, there are now American cloth pillows stuffed with straw.

REFORM IN RUSSL\. So appaling are the labour conditions in some of the districts round Moscow that, according to recent statistics, no less than sixty per cent, of children born to women in the mirror trade, and fifty per cent, of those in the match trade, die before or at Wrth. It is hoped that women's trade unionism, wiiich once started is growing rapidly in Russia, will alter this horrible state of things.

THE FORTUNATE FIN. Finnish women, who are already regarded by the voteless in England as beings who have much to be grateful for, have, from possession of the vote, passed to further recognition still, viz_ ecclesiastic. A new Church Law Commission there has recently decided that a certain number of ecclesiastical posts shall be opened to women who may be now, for instance, elected lay readers, and given various administrative positions.

COM3IOXSEXSE The Housewives' League, of America, incensed at the dealings of a huge egg trust in New York, which has been selling, labelled as new-laid, cold-storage eggs at 2/6 instead of the usual 1/ a dozen, has opened fire in an eminently practical manner. The league has sent an ultimatum to the retail dealers declaring that, if they do not undertake to sell these eggs at 1/1 a dozen, the members will -band themselves together and undertake to undersell them. If the trust failed to "cave in" before W-ednnesday of this week, operations were to begin, numbers of country dealers having undertaken to support the women, even to sending the goods by post.

BLACKBERRY PRESEHTTES

Blackberry Jelly.—Place *he 'blackberries in a large jar, and cover closely. Stand in a warm oven for two houT? or until the juice runs out freely. Drain this away through a sieve after crushing the fruit a little with a wooden spoon. Do not press the fruit through the eieve, or the jeily will not be clear. Place the juice in a pan and ■measure carefully. For every pint of the juice allow a pound of sugar and the juice of a large lemon. Heat the sugar in the oven until quite liot, but not melted, and add to the juice as coon as it boils. Simmer carefully, and remove all the scum. Allow the jiiice to boil hard for the last few minutes, and boil it twenty -mdnutee in all. Teet bhe jellj- 'by placing a few drops on a plate and standing it on ice. If it the jelly is done. If not, simmer for a few ■minutes longer until it does eet. Pour into email jans, and wipe the outside.s clean at once with a cloth wrung out of hot water. When cold, lay a rounu of brandy paper on top, and cover the whole with parchment paper. Store in a damp-proof larder.

■Seedless Blackberry Jam.—Take six! pounds of blackberries and half a pint I of cold water, an-d place in a pan und bring to the boil. Simmer until the fruit is soft and pulpy. Turn into a coaree sieve, and with a wooden spoon pueh all the pulp through, leaving the seeds behind. Take four pounds of best preserving sugar and the jukre of a large lemon- Crush the sugar, and place it and the lemon juke and blackberry pulp in a ele-an pan, and stand over a slow fire. Stir continually, as this jam soon burns. Simmer geatiy, removing the ectun as it rises. Boil for twenty minutes. Have ready a quarter of a pound of blanched and sliced sweet almonde: add these to the jann, and eimrocr for ten minutes longer. Pour into email jars, and when cold cover in the usual way. Blackberry Jam.—Take six pounds of blackberries and place in a pan with a pint of coM water. Simmer gently until bhe juice runs freely. Heat four pounds of sugar very hot. and turn into the pan with the grated rind of two large lemqne and the juice of one. Bring all to the boil, and simmer gently for thirty minutes, removing all 6cnm it rises. When a little eets when tested on a plate, pour into jars, and wihen cold cover in the usual way.

Blackberry and Damson Cheese— Place equal quantities of damsons and blackberries in a large jar, and place in a cool oven until the fruit id cooked an-d pulpy. The fruit should never rpl too hot, and must not reach boiling point at any time during the procese. Turn the contents of the jar into a coarse sieve, and with a wooden spoon rub the fruit through. Place the pulp in a clean pan after measuring it care fully, and aiknv a pound of crushed tviisra-r for every pint. Crack the stones and blanch tie kernels, and add to the contents of the pan. Place on a. cleaA fire, and boil until the mixture gets rather stiff—about half an hour. It, requires constant stirring, as the mixture burns very readily. When dojie place in email jare or 'niouldo. When coW cover finst with a round of brandy paper, afterwords -with parchment paper, and store in a cool, dry lardsr. When required for use it should be turned out like a jelly into a> glass disbx-