WOMAN’S WORLD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2678, 11 August 1913, Page 8

WOMAN’S WORLD.

Some Ideas. There ia no greater happiness for « man than that of possessing the -unquestioning devotion of a woman s ®oui. —M. V. Humboldt. Our hearts are automatic fountain pons. They liave been filled onoe, but they write for all eternity. Carmen Sylva. Ho who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. William Hazlitt. The Right to be Courted. “The Bight of Every Girl to be Courted Under Decent Conditions” was (according to the Chronicle) one of the subjects discussed by the Recreation Congress at Richmond, Virginia. “Courting” came up for discussion m connection with the demand for more open spaces and. parks, where, in addition to providing recreation grounds for children, young couples could do their courting “in God’s pure air and under the blue sky,” as one speaker put it. If Children Travel. Children so easily find restricted areas irksome that, unless provided for, they can become a nuisance in the small space in a railway carriage. Simple puzzles will give those able to read some enjoyment, scraps cut from periodicals,' and kept in a large envelope will amuse many a child, and a drawblock and pencil will provide an artist in embryo with enjoyment both during the journey and act as a provision for the inevitable wet days of the holidays. Siuoh little things (says the Pall Mall Gazette) are worth remembering for the relief they bring both to the children and to those who are travelling with them. Girl Athletes. The athletic girl is less liable to succumb to temptation than her sister who does not go in for athletics, is the opinion of Dr Dudley A. Sargent, director of athletics at Harvard. “Social evils are the result of life’s forces being turned into wrong channels,” the Express quotes Dr Sargent as saying. “The external longing to externalise oneself that is, to find an outlet for the emotions —ia an inherent one in human nature. Woman is more emotional than man, and atheltics offer the girl who is budding into womanhood not only tho opportunity to acquire a sound, healthy body, but a moral and mental equipoise which 1 believe can bo acquirer! in no other way. It is certain that girls of athletic tendencies are less liable to get astray, because they find in athletics a safe outlet for tho emotions.” Cotton Frocks. The cotton frock of tho moment is cut in tho straightesfc fashion, and, although there is seme fullness at the ' waist, the skirts aro extremely narrow at the ankles. Many sleeves are inset, but where tho Magyar style is adopted the sleeve is only a few inches below ’ the shoulder, and a longer and separate sleeve is inserted below. In fact, ' says the Lady, the later Magyar ar- | rangernents merely give a lengthened ’ shoulder of the seamless typo, into ! which tho ordinary sleeve is inlet. The J collarless neck with tho tiny V opening is quite popular, and is most otfec- ’ five with a Robespierre collar and frill. Naturally, it is only for the young person, but filled in with a chemisette of ‘ finest not, lined with flesh-pink-ninon. , it is becoming to all, and, if untrim- „ mod, and the collar-band is rimless and . closely fitted, the decollete effect is pro- , served. Value of Fruit. Fruits aro natural adjuncts to the ; daily menu, especially when cooked, says Dr Kenwood in Health in Busi- ' ness. Of raw fruits, oranges, grapes, bananas, melons, and lemons are the best. Raw apples are very well digested by some folk, hut others they ' are quite the reverse. Tho old proverb, that “an apple is gold when eaten in the morning, silver in the ! afternoon, and lead at night,” has more than a modicum of truth in it; but a baked apple is one of the must convenient and effective laxatives we know. Rhubarb has a peculiar effect ' on the stomachs and skins of some people, causing indigestion and a violent eruption of nettle-rash to result, it also seems 10 provoke an attack of rheumatism in persons subject to that complaint; it contains a powerful acid which probably produces this effect, but to those fortunates who feel no ill effect after taking rhubarb it is a useful spring medicine a.s well as a palatable dish. A Long Motor Ride. ( Miss E. L. C. Watson, who had the courage to undertake a lonely 2000 , miles motor cycle trip from Cape down to Pretoria, has returned to London. She is none tho worse for her journey. When .she arrived in South Africa she round that almost every motorist ad- , vised her not to proceed with her plan. “Von will never do it,” they said. “Even if nothing else stops you, the sand and rough roads will.” She accomplished the journey in spite of tho sand and the rough roads, which caused her to dismount many times and wheel her cycle, bqt the * new outfit with which she started is scattered along the waste of country. She wore riding breeches, a habit coat, high lace-up bools, a motorist’s peaked' cap, and rode a 2.j-horse-power motor cycle. “I noi still of opinion,” Mias Watson told a representative of tho Standard, “that for that kind of work a light machine is the host. But the beautiful outfit! It was all sacrificed to the necessity for light travelling. First tho tea basket, which 1 had packed so carefully, was discarded. Then a hat went, then a can of lubricating oil, and even superfluous tools. Even two gallons of spirit far from a place where I could got petrol. Tho farmers use it for their engines.” A Women’s Pilgrimage. Mrs Henry Fawcett, the president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, writing in Common Cause, says: —The National Union is planning the biggest thing it has yet done in the way of a demonstration. The plan briefly is that each of the Federations shall organise a Women’s Suffrage Pilgrimage and march to London, joining other Federations on the way, each procession to hold mootings. distribute literature and information, and collect subscriptions and promises on tho way, and. to have as their final goal a great Hyde Park meeting on Saturday, July 26. The Pilgrims will march along the great trunk roads converging on London, Tho main routes win ho the Great North Road, Waffling Street, the Bath Road, and the Portsmoqth Road. The Societies on the various lines of march will bo asked to help in ©very possible way, bv swelling the number of Pilgrims, by offers of hospitality, by loans of traps and cars, by help in the organisation of meetings, and the collection of funds. The keynote of the pilgrim- ( age will be the joyousness of self- , dedication to a great cause. There , will be nothing dismal about it. Every ‘ Pilgrim will have in her heart a deep sense of reverent happiness that it has fallen to her lot to have the chance of dedicating herself to one of the great- I est movements which has ever taken c placa in th® history of tha world. t

Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, tho American poet, has given her views on “Votes for Women” to a representative of ] the Standard. “The fact of my poem ] ‘ The Awakening ’ having been adopted j as their official hymn by tho suffragists has led to some misunderstanding. < 1 did not originally intend it to ho put ’ to that use. I wrote it one Easter i Sunday in Paris, and 1 was approached with a request to allow it to bo set to . music. But it could never bo understood as an incitement to violence. I i think men might very well have dealt with the big things of life if they had gone the right way about it years ago, and that women would have been content to let them do so, supplementing their efforts and strengthening their hands. But the time has gone by for that. Men have not made good! And to-day women are forced into a different posilioxi. The root of all this agitation and uprising of women is that the majority of men have not appreciated women’s achievements in her own domain at their true value. They have not sustained her in the beauty and dignity of the position she holds when she is child-bearer and educator, homo organiser and economist, not to speak of wage-spender. They have been niggardly of their sympathy and respect. English women started to work out their freedom long before we did. Many of the better-educated class were working side by side with men before women in the United States began to chink much about social and, political questions. Of late years we have taken the position with a rush, as is our way, and we have more than ■ caught you up. But your militants have undoubtedly acted as a drag on ■ the suffrage movement. They have put back what they profess so ardently i to desire. They are retrogrades, not progressives. Their attacks do not affect the right men; they simplv fall on innocent victims, many of whom are women and even children. Could anything be more stupid than spoiling the ’ letcers in a pillar-box? There is no militancy in America; the movement has made an ordinary and dignified: adJ vance, without any checks. Frankly, ’ I do not think our men would have stood what has now been going on for ' a long time in England.” RECIPES AND HINTS. Artichoke Cream Soup. Half a dozen • artichokes, 2 large white onions, piece 1 celery, 1 bunch herbs, 2oz butter, 2oz i. rice flour, 2 quarts milk, 1 gill of cream, [ cayenne and salt, croutons. Prepare i and slice vegetables, and drain well. ; Melt hall the butter, add the vegetables, i and stir without discoloring; add the j stock, and simmer gently for about one • hour, until tender; rub through a sieve, adding the milk to help it through; wipe your saucepan clean, melt the rest of the butter, add the rice flour, and cook for ono or two minutes; then add the stock, and stir till it boils and ’ thickens; cook well, stirring all the ; time, for about five minutes; then add salt and oayenjge to taste, and just be- ; fore serving, add the cream, off the fire; - servo in a hot tureen with croutons ox fried! bread. Grilled Beef Mix together three ' tablespooufuls of made mustard, one of i pepper, a tablespoonful of Worcostershire sauce, one small onion sliced and 1 fried, and spread tho mixture on one • sido of eight slices of cold roast beef. ’ Grill for live minutes and serve very ’ hot. Dressing Cold Meat. —Cut the meat .■ iu pieces and lay them in a mould :n layers well seasoned. Then pour over 1 aud fill tho mould with some clear ’ soup, nearly cold, which, when left to : stand some hours, will turn out to be as ’ firm as isinglass, especially if shank bones were boiled in the soup. Should tho cold meat bo veal or poultry, the additions of some small pieces of ham or bacon, and of hard-boiled eggs cut in slices, and! put between tho layers of 1 meat, is a great improvement. Another way to dress cold meat is to have ’t | minced very line, well seasoned, and put in patty pans, with a thin crust below aud above it, and baked in a. quick oven. Cold meat cut in small pieces and put in a piedish with butter poured over it and baked until tho batter rises, 1 is another good way of using cold meat. The meat should he cut in pieces and covered with mashed potatoes and then put into the oven to bake until the potatoes are well browned. , French Stow with Dumplings.—For . this dish use 31b of the under-cut ot the round of beef. Cut tho meat iuto 2in. cubes; melt the fat cut from the edges, and when smoking hot dust the meat, with flour and brown quickly. Lift the meat from the pan, add two tablespoonfuls of flour to the oil remaining, stir until very brown, then add one quart of water. Place the meat in a lightlycovered kettle, pour in juices from pan, and add seasoning. Cover and simmer for two Ilnurs. After cooking one Hour, add a cupful of prepared tomatoes. For the dumplings mix together ono pint of flour, half a teaspoonfui of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Make a dough of these ingredients by adding sweet milk until as soft as can be handled; roll, and 1 cut into small biscuits. Twenty minutes before serving lay these biscuits over the top of the stew in the kettle. Cover closely, and cook without lifting tho cover. In dish-

iug, place the dumplings about tho outer edge of tho platter for a garnish. and tho stew in the centre, with tho sauce from the cooking strained over the meat. Tarnished Silver Brushes—Ammonia is excellent for cleaning these. Moisten a flannel with the ammonia, rub till all stains are removed, and then rub with a soft chamois leather. Wash the bristles in hot water to which ammonia lias been added, and well rinse in clear cold water. If you have a bottle with a glassstopper that refuses to be removed, try the following method: Take the bottle in one hand, and pour boo water over its neck. The heat will cause the glass to expand, but the stopper, remaining cool, will keep it normal size, and can therefore be quite easily withdrawn. A dainty perfume for the breath is made of the white of an egg, the juice of a lemon, two toaspoonfuls of sugar, a dash of almond oil, and another of rosewater. These must be beaten and stirred for hours, and then carefully bottled. A half-dozen drops in a wineglass of water and used to rinse the mouth will make tho breath softly sweet. To clean and brighten oil paintings sponge the panning very carefully with a pure soap and lukewarm water and dry thoroughly with a soft cloth. With a piece of chamois skin dipped in sweetoil rub all over the surface of the picture. Tho result will be a pleasant surprise. This cannot injure the finest work of art. To clean white straw hats brush the straw thoroughly to' remove the dust, then rub into it with a small brush a mixture of sulphur and lemon juice. This should be of a consistency of thin cream. Leave to dry, then brush again with a clean brush. If necessary tho sulphur may be removed by rinsing the straw in cold water, but generally it will be found to brush out quite well. To clean white kid gloves make a i mixture of equal parts of finely powdered fuller’s earth and alum. Rub well into the gloves with a piece of = soft flannel, and then thoroughly brush p off with a soft brush.