USEFUL READING

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 5

USEFUL READING

Medicine in the Kitchen “QIMPLE Home Remedies for Everyone,” by Sister A. Parry. (Australia: Angus and Robertson.) Any woman with a family has every now and then to play ’doctor' for all sorts of minor ills- and accidents. More often than not she makes a rather alarmed and. inefficient attempt, ,for she is» afraid of doing the wrong thing and making bad worse. Sister Parry’s little book will dispel that fear. It is directly and simply written with no frills and furbelows —straight commonsense on the variety of problems that bother the housewife. Its object is to show how the well-stocked kitchen can become in emergency a'complete medicine chest and it certainly reveals uses for familiar ingredients which have been long forgotten or never learnt bymost people. In 150 pages Sister Parry has managed to compress an immense amount of home lore and practical hints. Her book will be chiefly valuable in the country, where medical aid is more difficult to get, but it will be a good friend, too, to many women in towns and cities. It will show them how to avoid, at no expense, the small discomforts and trials that are now borne resignedly as part of,the daily round. It will make any home a more healthy ana more comfortable place even than it is.

TOO MUCH TALK OF DIVORCE “A visitor from’ Mars reading our newspapers, both secular and religious, would imagine that divorce and other disagreeable things are the usual experience of married people. There is a great need to-day that people who have -found marriage to be a happier and more joyful thing than they ever supposed it could be in their most sanguine moments, to express this view to the young people who came within their sphere of influence,”—The Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr. Henry Wilson.