WOMAN'S KINGDOM.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 590, 12 December 1906, Page 2

WOMAN' S KINGDOM.

SINGEING TIIL: F. !i?. i Singeing the hair is soiK-tttFiiig tluu is earnestly advocated by the hair specialists, but it is doubtful if it 'does the hair much good, after all. Yet-, since there are so many who believe in it, tliere is no harm in mentioning it. To singe the hair, you tako a lock and roll it tightly down to tha very end. No«-, with tlie tip of your finger you run along- the look, releasing the loose ends. A lighted taper does the rest. Take the taper in your hand, with rile- flame burning clearly, and run it quickly alojig the lock. The ends of the hair will burn off, wliile the rest of enc lock, if youhave managed skilfully, is not injured. Ifc can be done r.s often aa once in two months. Women who want glossy hair have varioua ways of managing. Here is a Paris recipe, purchased from a French hair culturist-: Take enough finely-ground cornflour to fill a teacup. Have it ground threo times, to be cure it is fine. Now scatter it in tho hair, which should be done dry, and let it lie upon the scalp -for. just five minutes. Take a perfectly new hair brush, or one has been, washed and bak»d. in. the orem, and run it through the hair. Continue to Torush until there ie not a particle of cornflour left. The. hair will soon be dry and shining. A tooth brush may be required to take the meal off the acalp. WAVING THE HAIE. Waving the hair is a distinct art, and few have acquired it. The hair should bo very dry, and, to insure this, one cannot wave the hair the day it is washed, because there will be moisture left, no matter how carefully it is. dried. The time to wave the hair is a day later. Before beginning, take your perfume-spray and lightly sprinkle the hair with scent. Let it dry for five minute*. Now heat your waving-tongs, whioh should be large and round, and, taking a lock in your hand, twist it around the tongs, giving a final turn to make the hair tight. Do not have the tonga hofc, # but have them just warm, enough to penetrate the oils of the hair. Twist" the hair well around the iron, and hold it firm while -you count sixty. There ia a famous hair-waver in Paris who lets his patients count sixty wliile he holds the tongs. In this manner he goes over the entire head. CULTIVATE. PUNCTUALITY. Habits of punctuality cau be cultivated. Slow coaches can be cured. Someone has said that the only way to catch a train is to start in time, and in this pithy sentence lies the gist of the only cure of the habit of unpunctuality. Two rules grow out of it. One is, "Always begin in time to get ready," and the other is, "When there are several things to be done, decide which is the most important, and do that first." Perhaps these rules are best explained by illustration. No. 1 means that if you have an engagement for five o'clock and it takes you thirty minutes to get ready, start promptly at 4.30, and let no siren voice tempt you to delay beginning until 4,35. Be resolute, be firm, in thi». But in No. 2, suppose you had to dress to go out by a certain hour, and you have also a note to write. You decided to write first; the note lengthens into letter, your pen ruus rapidly away with the time y. you add a postscript for a very important item, and then you have barely time to dress, using all speed, and as you begin in haste a button pops off, or you cannot find your gloves, and after this unavoidable delay (?) you hurry to your rendezvous to find your friends waiting. In spite of their gracious assurance "that it makesno matter," you know that it does. But suppose you had thought your engagement of paramount importance, you would have dressed first, mended the button calmly, then written the note without any lengthening of it, and neither your friend nor your correspDndent would have suffered. Believe it, punctuality is a comofrtable virtue in a family, and entirely depen-" dent upon your will. HOW TO MAKE CHUTNEY. The following recipes for chutney will be found very good: (1) Eemove the peel and cores from 21b. of green cooking apples; chop them up; put them into a saucepan with three breakfast-cupfuls of vinegar, and boil to a pulp. Turn the pulp out into a basin, and when cold mix in

; hz. euch of chink's and garlic, 2oz. of ; sii allots, all finely chopped, loz. of ground ginger. 2oz. of salt, ioz. each of mustardseed arid tamarinds. 12oz. of stoned and chopped iaisin.-s. and lib. of moist sugar, and stir well. Put she chutney into bottles; place them near the fire for several days; cork them up, and keep in a cool place until wanted. (2) Put into a marble mortar 4oz. of salt, 4oz. of raisins stoned and minced very finely, Boz. of onions, 3oz. of garlic, ' also finely minced. 2oz. of mustard-seed well bruised, ancl ioz. of cayenne pepper. Pound these well; then mis with them, very gradually, 14 oz. of sour apples (weighed after the yhavo been pared and cored, and boiled with 1 pint of strong brown vinegar and 4 oz. of sugar). Mis all the ingredients thoroughly; bottle, and? cork tightly. Tho longer this sauce is kept the better it will be. . WOMEN AND HOME. The deftness of woman's fingers enables, her to turn and twist the things that are old into decorations that are new aud lovely in effect. She can select harmonious colours when she buys inexpensive furnishings, and so tone, the aspect of her home that rest and ease may welcome every new visitor; she may become so essential to the happiness of each child in the home that its first inquiry when returning from play or from school will be, "Is mother home?" She may live her young years over agahi with the loving childhood about her, if she will share the joys and sorrows of her boys and girls. To every woman a home is essential, whether it may be her own or somebody else's. But wherever she lives it is right that she should bring the heart into her life. Lovo . begets love, and wherever it is present the joys of daily life counterbalance the ills. ■--.'•' How to make a home? Why, let the two who build it be of one mmd — that it is to be the happiest spot in the whole earth. Include in your desire not only the purpose to make yoursolf happy, but to brighten the lives of everybody else. And be sure to keep your, windows' open to the sunlight. So many times the best rooms iv our homes are treated as. if they were too good for everyday life. And their chili and discomfort v/hen experienced by an unwqMcted guest make her dream of "cel-lar-damp and creeping things." Let life in the home be free and easy and yet orderly. But do not despair if the sticks of wood piled up for use in the fireplace are not perfectly straight and just or to brush tho carjiet each time a neighbour calls to see you; else you will become the victim, to a dust-pan and brush ! THE HABIT OF FAULT-FINDING. Has it ever occurred to you that we criticise most severely in others the faults we possess: ourselves? A merciless criticism is at times indulged in by the people whose own lives are marked by the ehortconvinga they think no bad in other*. The matter had best he met by a. resolve to restrain all fault-findings and what more fitting opportunity to turn over a new leaf than now? There is no time like the present. Try the experiment of looking

for the good, and shutting your eyes to the evil in. those amongst whom your lives are cast. To the woman who is the- mistress of a house thia resolve is most necessary. She has so many opportunities — her servants, her children, her husband, are all more or less in her charge, and she feels it her duty to point out their faults. It is most unpleasant; certainly, to have to live with those who arc doing things tliat irritate you; but you can call attention to them in some playful, roundabout manner that will never cause yoti to be accused of fault-finding. \ There are people who act upou the belief that those, under tliem will never do their best work unless subjected to constant fault-finding, and that the only way to keep work up to the mark is to point out every possible flaw. A little praise and encouragement when a thing is done well would do fifty times more good than a scolding for something which has been neglected or forgotten. A most useful lesson to be learned! by everyone is, .what to see, and what not to see; what to hear, and what not to hear. We might then be able to give sympathy . where others sneer, or. encouragement where others rebuke or condemn. j ARRANGING ORNAMENTS IN A ROOM ; - ■' The difficulty in arranging the bric-a-brac, pictures, and moveable articles in j a room is that people do not know what they want. Tliey don't understand the the- j ory of arrangement, and results are consequently haphazard— -sometimes, good and sometimes bad. Now, the human face preserves certain defined rules of expression that can be literally followed in matters of house decoration. Thus: When the lines which form the mouth and eyes remain parallel with the lines of the nose, then the face is in repose ; when the lines are lengthened to form downward angles, the face expresses joy; when lengthened to form upward angles, grief is depicted. Apply these principles to your home surroundings, and the .expression will be tho same. Straight lines, as well as curved lines, pioduce the effect of solidity, durability,, and support. On this principle wainscoting, doors, and mantels are built in straight and curved lines. But it would be manifestly wrong to furnish a mantel with ornaments whose tops or proportions give a rounding or straight effect, unless you desire such a room to ho stiff and prim* ? -— i