TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

(Specially Written for The Dominion.) PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN , EXPERT. MONDAY. / .' Tomato Soup. ' Eoast-Mutton. "'Potatoes.' Cauliflower. ' ■■ ' Carrots.. . ■ -V, •" Thornton Pudding. • Thornton Pudding.. ... : . Ingredients—Two. eggs, > their.". 'veight in lour, weight ef . ono egg . in. sugar and butter, raspberry.' or. strawberry '-jam■ (two; tablespoonfills), carbonate of. soda .-.dissolved in a-little , i , e *)" aTm m '" c Cinif-feaspoonful). , '.■!■■■'■ , Method.—Crown' the b>itler''.;md. su'gir', ad'l the eggs (well-beaten) and jam, then tlie soda. bteam;<in buttered cups or moulds -'three- , . . guarters/of.an-hour. - Only half fill the clips. Bern with a good l ,sauce., ; A NEW ZEALANDER IN THE STATES ' MissWilhclmina Sheriff Bain, , a ladv who has .lived , for : years , in' ..various ' parts of • New Zealand, and -is well known in Inrercargill,; Christchurch, Taranaki, and• Auckhas just*- returned from a three:years' residence in .Amorica. :Somo years, ago Miss Baip, who is interested in a great, many reform movements, was president of, the 'Can-terbury-Women's Institute)".and as she .held that office at the .tiirio of the initiation of the New..Zealand..National Council • of' Ti7o-men,-it.happened,.'that she,wasActingsrei "'dent of thefirst, Council'meeting,'-which . was held that .year, in Christchurch. Miss -BaiiS's connection c with the- National Coiincu continued for years, during which she either - attended.' or "contributed' papers to, its meetings, dealing- especially with the question, of .pcace.and arbitration, - a subject that interests her intensely. .. After a stay of some years, in Taranaki.'and, Auckland, Miss, Bain was..-requested/to.;'represent; the'"New. Zealand, National Council of Women at the quinquennial meeting of "the International Council of Women, held in. Berlin in 1904: Here sho met many of the most interesting women -in America;' and AEurope; rind took lipr share in 1 the Council's' deliberations, speaking, chiefly ■ on her 7 favourite question. As : a . .she .was; officially; invited -.to, attend the International Congress Vof Poaco and .Arbitration, held' in -Octooer. of tho same year : in Boston. -Miss - Bain addressed seve-. ral'of,-,.t1i0 meetings there, and spoke later , on in votlicr. cities ■in -the St&tcs. .New ,Zea--land ; .has.- frequently .been the subject,of, her discourse* and she has; addressed audiences; of: every sort, 'from schoolboys; to the gravo and/ reverend seigniors of Boston. Shelias found-people everywhere-mucli interested in Nfew,;Zealand, .some applauding the enterprise of' otir legislators',' and -others" condemning the ofthe■: Socialistic experiments., i: Miss Bain foimd that special interest was taken in. the, working o£ the In'dustrial - Arbitration. Act and the old' age pensions .• scheme,yand 'in the effect of. wo-, . rnenis- enfranchisement. . Latterly, Miss "Baiif has been working,in.South:California in aid; of .women's, suffrage.-. ~ The American' leaders of the movement - have,.been working .'very, actively 1 in the ' Eastern States, where there is the best prospect of nea'r "None of them is'iidopt- ! ing the tactics of their, English cousins, and, jn fact,"4hose- tactics 1 would not be /effective in America, where. the.-' conditions ; of j the contest are quit'e-unlikd those obtaining in England.'.,• N ■'- pPemperance reforra ; is -anothor in.' which Miss - BamVhas taken a great interest- 'It •■ is": sweeping , rapidly . through . America, es-. • pecfally in. the Southern States. ;. Miss Bam , new . reason- for,' its , success there! . There,tsho' saysj/it (peculiarly -illustrates tlie. complexity-of human interests. The'negroes: are numerically powerful, while they, are ex-' oessiyelv'susceptiblo .to:ahiluenecs :'of; good or ' evil. The • poison • sold 1 to /.them under < the name of alcohol :a{fects'!.th.em'<'eVeh' .to^-mad-i ■ ness; and 'the white: population - dccrees that vast,, districts- shall :''go-dry."—because. .thus - only, can tliorebe a possibility- of- general well-being.' ■.■„ A CLEVER AMERICAN WOMAN. - The Boston " Women's Journal " tells of a remarkable young American- woman, Miss Claudia Leßlanc, 'of Fall River, Mass., who, at the age of 27, has made a fortune,-in-busi- ' ness. , : Sho is ■ connected with - many large concerns, and is head of tho Aetna Loan Company of Boston. Miss Leßlauc caine to , Massachusetts, froni Quebec with her parents, when,very young. -'At 13, sho ran-away from school and. found .'employment ;iiii a fruit store 'in Lowell. ;liater sho ; wont -to work- in a. hosiery mill.as a loom girl. -With her earnings' she paid for., a course-in a commercijil 'school, borrowed money and opened a shoe store in Lowell-at the ageof 19.- She made large profits; and bought -real estate,- gradu-ally-working into a-regular real estate business.. • Than :-sKe.; branchal; into, brokerage,- and to-, , day 'slia ,omis-40 - brokerage-.offices NewEngland.: She employs 478 people, giving the preference ;_to women, 'has ■30 tenements in Lowell, 31 in Fall River, six stores and much real estate in various New England- towns. During the . great/-Fall, River strike Miss Leßlanc won tho love of the working. people by throwing open all her 31 tenements, rent free, to. the needy strikers. ■ - i r : . PRACTICAL PRINCESSES. ' ' A princess is not'necessarily a helpless and useless being. , /lho Duchess, Philip of :Wurtemberg, fcr instance, one of the most popular ltoyal ladies in Germany, has contrived,'.so . scientiffic t a bandage that jt' has been taken up by manufactiu'er's and patented. ■ Tho Archduchess Friedrich' of Austria has : a curious hobby: in thp making of scented wax candles, which she moulds ajid prepares with her own'fingers. Sho lately raised a tempest m a teapot in Austrian court circles by cliaractorising'as " preposterous extravagance " a time-honoured custom observed in all' Austrian palaces, that a candle once extinguished may never bo relighted. • t of , Guise (who. was Princess i'Sabollo of Bourbon-Orleans) is a skilful milliner' and maker of artificial- flowers:' She alwa.ys has her dresses trimmed with her-own handiwork. " Boston- Journal." CHARACTER I.V, F£ I-7l'. ' ■ Most Parisiennes uso .their feet with'won-derful-lightness,'and grace (says an 'American writer). They, do not mine ivith them, nor hug their, knees together, which often gives an Anglo-Saxon . tooappearanco of being likely to topple off her. balance if startled. The Parisienne; can cross .the muddiest street in, the thinnest of shoes,,- and, lifting her pretty ankles like a cat, arrive on the opposite, side-walk without a Spatter. In a drawing room she knows that ion" steps mako for grace in walking, ; and tliat in - sitting/; -however, long: and -' voluminous her skirt hems, both feet must b© in evidoncc to 'beautifully complete the body's line. Thero is nothing .so-pretty as .to .watch the feet of a-.party of lovely women in a restaurant, Th«y sit.-down -with . their skirts twisted , in SM*e marvellous fashion, one. silk-stockinged ankle and 'long pointed satin..slipper crooked -about the chair, the other tipped back on- its toe, and both as full of. character and interest as somebody's eyelid or hand. The next time you get the: opportunity,. notice if tho admired' " she " keeps - her feet together in. a huddle under the dinner table. .• Mrs. Nancy Rose ,is the oldest of the 33 women who keep lighthouses for tho American. Government. She/has had charge of the lighthouse at Stony Point, Hudson Rivor, f«r nearly 50 years. . But .though Mrs. Rose is the oldest, Ida Lewis is the most famous of women Imhthouso.keepers. She has saved 18 lives. The women employed in the lighthouse service are for the most part the widows or daughters of former keepers, and thouglr tho responsibilities of their position are.'great, they generally prove very efficient- i • . -. . '