TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 5

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

(Specially .Written for The Dominion.) ! : . PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY 'AN EXPBET. - TUESDAY. Lentil Soup. Stuffed Loin of ■ Mutton. Potatoes.- - Baked Parsnips.- Queen of -Paddings. ■ QUEEN or PUDDINGS. ■Put a cupful of crusts of bread into : a largo basin.- Cake crumbs or oven biscuit .crumbs may bo used instead of these. Pour on!to thom 'pint >Of: : iboilihg:.inilk\ or;-milk ;and water. • thom stand fpra quartorof anhour, and I then brat them, vrell together, .-beating 'into . thom thd yolks of.' two eggi; a .dessertspoonful of sugar, and variilla to taste. Butter a piodish and pour half of this mixture into it, and i then spread jam over it. .Then add the.rest! of.the bread and;rtnlk, wipo .the-rim'of the i pie T dish, and sprinkle over the pudding chopped | i butter, dripping, or suet. Suet is very nice in-1 deed. diilke this puddingxvory. slowly. :To 6ave ■trouble the pie-dish containing tho pud- - . ding, may,jbo i placed :in a larger pie-dish containing .water. .Put: them, thus-in tho oven, . and they will,be less :likely-, to burn. If tho ■ padding-is cooked'in-this way take it out of ' the -water., five or - ten minutes before it is • coked .in .order: to- let it. day. I ihavo.- often . cooked, in order to let it dry: I. have often . .pudding :and. cake -want\ a little; longer'to /cook, - say. about half an- hour.. Make -a merin-. gue with the white of-egg and some sugar, and sproadht-over the pudding, putting the pudding back into tho ovon m order to set tho niennguo. ( ' TOE TO-MORROW. ■ Corned beef,^ turnips,.potatoes; iyster sorip,; one-gill; of, milk,' two eggs. WOMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS. "iHE POLICEMAN QUESTION. Isn't -it about timo the Wellington*woman : waked, to. the_ fact that: she possesses a vote/ that , she is: in her. way. as-directly responsible for. tho-good government: of the; coun- . try;:, as,.any man -living "here, • and that tho ; question*, of: having sufficient polico ■ protec- . tion is-one that concerns her as much as \ her 'brother . husband. ? Tho - women of. New:.Zealand gained - their, easily, . andi.sthe.'result-is-that they ; have nevor realised what powers it has placed-in their • hands.- Had thoy::liad longer to wait for- it they would, porhaps have been more fully •• •■ informed as-.to v the opportunities-- -it --would '••( bring ; themV'; ;A man, knows that if' he', doe's ■ notjiliks -the way he is governed, or. mis-. ']. governed,'the best thin;? -he. : can do is '.id', say -.; B0,:to and get things altered ; but: the women ;are still far too much-dis-posed to say,-It is • a shame, ■ and - something should be, done;", but while-as to saying, or ,doing,-.the-..thing-.themselves, nothing: is■ turj:,; their,,ffom- : ;their. thoughtsi. /-v-v .V;;'., Tako:-, tho -question, of ..polico protection for instance.::, .Therev,should be- in . Wellington enough'policemon :to r patrol-the-streets at • . and;.-to :-look .after'. tho\ affairs ,of . the Btreetk.-Muring/ the, .day; ! Whereas .-it , is' , notorious, ; that'.there are not nearly ■ enough .. ineii.,for,:,these;,duties.... A-, policeman; is'.like bommunity,'?but;in":'cas6;.bfriraflden'iHness;-he-'s shoiild;be: i On.-hand.' , .;Th^ i ',woman'.'\vHo',finds'a •'-! ,'Ga?e;;^^uiring|'; , tho i ; - iii^ariy'.'oi'.our-.'^ all;she, has to. do .is 'to, ring.' up; the.'. central i office and.ask that someone may he senr,, buti oiikkly/bo; advised/,toigo afid.'fihd the : one;wta;is patrolling: thafr special: street; It. inay .bei on.Lambton .Quayjv arid, she .will then havo the-,whole street..to search through; The ; best'thing -she ,can do send' a cabmari- on'. the ijob,-and; waiti patioritly tilUlie returns. ' , •, <^*.Ifif. she.! be jalarriied Vat '-night ;- by;, a (burglary ''. V' let' r.her.; not *. cpmfprt,-.herself I with'-, the; know- '. ledga/Jthati: Ker ';<hpus6l is'; on •; the* telephone,' ap(T'tlia.t:'she,:can'get' rescue . -just Las-iquickly as!, ever' they. !o*an run.. ~ Nothing; of :,the. sort.-/ .They y will, come;' .but ' the'.burglar-will-have plenty ;of -time to make the* spoons into half-crowns before.they ,-ar- . riyo. ',/They . are ; anxious!'enough; 1 no' doubt,- . ,to^help,lier!,;,They. : iriay.havd.the basiiiritentions inVthe; world;;:.they; niay be -knight/,'errarits, of' the best '.type,'.', but .there" aren't enough to ;do : tho . work; '^s. time,;residents; of Kelbu'rne;'iirid : other, peoplo ' who walked through the '-/Gar-' ..: dens/' : have ; been, liablo to ,be afarmed-by :a man of weak ,intellect' who. loved to terrify , ;.women, iirid children by. -sudden,' unpleasant \ ; appeai'arices'. ;; A • few-; wee^S : ago. the.; polico" \ ' made.' tin-.aiTest, : arid it -is -commonly ;helieyed that tho,-trouble : is over.\. But-I have heard of -mbre than of;them as.late Speared ; .to .women . talking in'., or .near- tne Gardens., In one caso: tlio ivomen wererin. .Salamanca -Road,;-.when,,a.';shout. attracted ■ ..their a.'ttcntion to; the outskirts- of the, Gar- ;. dens.Jand they;were assailfed-'-withia^^ist'orm' of abuse/-.This , sort of thing has been, going on- jar too lohg. ;^ It is understood..that tho "police have the matter in handj'but,', after all, tlio Gardens 1 , are -iiot 1 so large, nbr 'so : densely- ; b'u'shed,;;that '.the ' task; of capturing the, offender 'should be'; a; work, of weeks; -It is an, urgent case. Numbers .of women and children visit' . Gardens'; daily, * many.'. are 6bmpell^d;.'tof'wallf-',through. thom,''-/r ■ suffer, great- inconvenience,. and;-.it' : ;is• the -ilutyVof :' Gardens: are , safe 'for; th'em : : to walk in.; If , a dozen 'more ''-Mli^inm:'^' ; • eljrfii! v Wellingtony to-ihake it. safe-'-for them-,to walk ;thrpu'gh ,th(3 'streets/at'ni"-ht,' if ; twice -thatCnumber are ' necessary, '- tk'ey: V : Bhould' 1 ; bo r 'appbihtedi' and, tEe "woiqen- should ,- - noti'iresti until;.--for ;the; ,sako .of' themselves : and - their' ■ children,:' thlj'. appointments are mode. i ,