LADIES' COLUMN.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

» [Edited by "Clio."] The Editress will be glad to answer any questions pertaining to fashions or cookery. FASHION NOTES. Maroon brown is ia favour again. Those to whom brown is not becoming make the front of the bodice of cream Irish lace. A collarette of cream lace, falling low over shoulders from a black ribbon band, makes such a dress suitable for blondes or brunettes. Here is a tasteful walking dress. A beige coloured homespun made with a blarer, or else a cut-away coat and vest. The vest is of white or cream-coloured wool, and is single-breasted, cut high, with smalt revers. This discloses a standing collar of lineu, and a small square bow of shot and black satin. In these days of cheap sales when one can get remnants for a mere nothing, an elegant dress may bo made at a very small cost by buying two remnants of harmonious colours. One remnant may be a fine double-width woollen, such as Nun's veiling, honeycomb crepon, or any suitable material for the skirt, the width serving far the length of the skirt, and only 3 yards and a half being required. The part sloped away at the seam at the back will make a small Mikado or Figaro jacket. A second remnant of changeable Surah will make a Bhirt, with large sleeves, and shroud, repeat the colours of the skirt, or else be in contrast with it. Belts are so fashionable this season that they are worn over waistcoats. Thus an Eton jacket of serge, either black or navy blue, is worn over a vest of white pique, and this vest is crossed below the second button by a thickly ribbed belt ribbon, sewed inside the back of the jaoket, and clasped by a Roccoco buckle of old silver. More showy belts worn with the new belted blarera of navy blue serge are of gilt galloon, sometimes inwrought with old silver, at others of bright gold. Many of the sac back coats that are not becoming, have now a belt of the cloth fastened across the back, extending from the under arm seams. Black vesta dotted with tiny red squares are much worn with tailor made gowns of blue serge. They are single-breasted, with small revers, and are fastened by small buffalo horn buttons. They are worn with cut-away coats. For riding, single-breasted habit coats are buttoned by one or two buttons, as best suits the figure, and are worn over a separate waistcoat, preoiaely like those worn by men. The standing linen collar, the scarf, and pin, are also decidedly masculine. Figured Foulard shirts are in favour for wearing with coloured serge skirts, with or without a jacket. They are simply made, with a frill down the front, a turned over collar, and shirt sleeves. White Foulard, with flowered designs; blue Indian silk, with white flowers; and dark red Indian silk, with black figures, are most used. New sailor hats have a red, blue, or brown chip brim, slightly turned up round the edge. The bow on the left side is of velvet and braid. Two black quills are tbrust through this bow. A blue hat is made gay with a red bow and red quills. The Mephisto ornaments, two or four curves of jet, set high in front amid loops or a bow of ribbon, are very popular. Shawl Cask.—A useful shawl case for travelling may be made as follows: —Stout unbleached calico or brown holland is used for this. A piece a yard and a half long by 24 inches wide is required. Tho ends are each turued up 12 inches deep, and joined at tho sides for a pocket. Between the two pockets, on a space 4 inches wide, stitch down a strip 6 inches wide, forming a loop, through which to pass umbrellas. A pocket 8 inches by 6, is set on each outer side, one vertioal and even with the upper edge; that on the other side horizontal, and an inch below the edge. The edges are bound, and the pockets tied with brown ribbon, and loops are attached at the top for a leather handle. The outside is embroidered with a aimplo design in red, blue, and bronze cotton. FEMININE CHIT-CHAT. Dr. Conan Doyle, Mr. J. M. Barrie, and Jerome K. Jerome are going together through Norway. They will go in a steam yacht. It will be a pleasant party. Eosa Bonheur, the great animal painter, has her farm near Fountaiebleau. She has horses, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry, and a pair of lions. All these are used as studies by the artist. She lives very simply, her house plainly furnished except for choice pictures. She is now seventy, but is still vigorous, and paints out of doors dressed in a short black dress, covered by a large apron, coarse shoes, and a weather-beaten straw hat. It is said she has never had a love affair, and is more attached to her animals than to any human being. Three dozen saohets, costing 250 dollars, are included in Miss Pullman's trousseau. She has sachets for her gowns, for her handkerohiefs, her gloves, and her veils. Those for her more delicate belongings are perfumed with heliotrope and orris root. Miss Elizabeth More, of Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, has recently built with her own hands a neat little cottage, laying the foundation, doing all the carpentering work, and even plastering the rooms. She is a very pretty girl. The Ladies' Pictorial has the following : " It is deplorable to know that the National Society for the prevention of cruelty to children is so sadly crippled by lack of funds that last year it was> only able to deal with 19,000 out of 30,000 cases. It is especially woman's work to shield helpless childhood from adult brutes of either sex." Judging from the two cases of appalling cruelty that have come under notice within the last few days—tho one, tho starving and neglecting a poor helpless infant, and the other, the fearful ill-usage of a girl of fifteen, makes one feel that such a Society is sorely needed hero. It is to be hoped that if guilty, the accused will be canvioted, and that their sentences will be as severe as can be made, for nothing stirs one's blood to righteous anger so much as the ill • treatment of the weak and helpless There are some sad items to be found in a newspaper. This is one: — A poor man drowned himself in Liverpool. In his pocket, empty of aught else, whs found a piece of paper on which was written, "Starving! God bless my child and its mother. None better ever lived. —C." What a terrible story of hopeless struggle of vain attempt to save the loved ones from want, and finally of the awful madness of despair, is told by these few words ! Mr. Frederick Harrison has lately said that " home life and home influence were to a great extent annihilated now-a-days in the training of tho young. All the oldfashioned ideas about filial respect, home ties, the charm of the family circle, the good influence of mothers and sisters over eons and brothers, aro being engulfed by that devourer of sentiment —the higher education." "It is the family," he says, " not the individual that is the essential unit of life." RECIPES. Indian Sandwiches.—Pound 2ozs. of cold chicken with loz. of cold ham or tongue ; moisten them with a little gravy or stock in a stewpan ; add a dessertspoonful of curry powder, pepper and salt, and let it simmer for teu minutes. Mix into a smooth paste, and spread on a, slice of fried bread, covering it with another slice. Cocoajtut Macabooxs. — Ingredients — Whites of three oggs, v few dropß of essence of almonds, pint of fine bread crumbs, ilb. of dessiciited cocoanut, Jib. of white sugar; beat tho eggs to a stiff froth, and mix the other ingredients with them. Have a flat tin with well-buttered paper ; di-op the mixture on it in small heaps, and bake jn a moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes. Chocolate Caramels.— Take a pint of sugar, dissolve it in as little water as possible, \ cup of butter, a tablcspoonful of vinegar, and a cup of grated chocolate. Boil until thick, and cut into squares when nearly cold. Imitation Preserved Giugeb.—lngredients—3lbs. of vegetable marrow, 3Jbs. of loaf sugar, loz. of ground ginger, rind and juice of three lemons ; peel the marrow; slice into pieces about an inch thiok and two inches long ; strain the lemon juice, and cut the rind very fine. Put all the ingredients into a stewpau, and boil till clear, about au hour u:.d a hulf. Tie down iv jars. HOMELY HINTS. Castor oil when taken in meal is very nearly tasteless. Corns are cured by first paring, and then binding a slice of lemon on them. A little turkey rhubard chewed in the morning ia good for indigestion. Two eggs are equal to half a pound of beef-steak. Stewed prunes are invaluable to those of a costive habit. They act as a gentle medicine. The smaller the driuk the cleaier the head, the cooler the blood. Cariou oil (by request).—Mix equal parts of linseed oil and lime water; shake well. Apply to scalds or burns on lint or cotton wool. A little vinegar put into the fuh kettle with the fish will make it firm and preserve its colour. To get rid of tho smell of fre&h paint in a room, stand a Im ;ket of cold water with a handful of hay in it. Lemon juice is a good thing for cleaning sponges.

The ratio of suicides among tho stokers employed in the mercantile marine i 3 stated by the Registrar-General of Shipping to be 1 in 900, while among the general population it is 1 in 10,000.