WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 10901, 8 April 1899, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S WORLD.

, fltorVm.) TO \ ■- < " Housewife.*--A mistress is under no legal Obligation to give s "character" to a domestic %bo is leaving her service, but if one be given Is must be truthful, whether good,or bad Tor the mistras will be liable to an action.' An «mployer may get tid of a servant without notice by paying wages for the term the girl was engaged for—i.e., a week or a month, as cm case may be. . j., Cavershjim.--«Hotoe. sweet home' Wa*toit rang m the play of 'Clair, the Maid •f Milan,' in 1823, by Miss Marion Tree. The music was composed by Sir Henry Bishop. James.~Black fly on chrysanthemums. Apply fir tree oil soap. Paris green is tlmcst •pre to injure the plants if one uses it in sufficient strength to kill the fly. lire C. J., Mornington.—To remove kerosene from wall-paper: Cover the spots of kerosene with fuller's earth or French chalk. By holding a piece of blotting paper over, and butting a warm iron on the outside of the paper, you may be able to absorb a part of the grease into the chalk. e "Vera."—You should have small occasional tables arranged from the head to the foot of the room m rows. At each table should be placed four chairs. M scon as the ueople at the top table finish their number of games (the number already arranged), a bell is' run", Upon which all the other cards are laid down. The table that has the same number of tricks ss the first table receives either a seal on a eard or a colored ribbon; then the people at the tables move ono place down each, and the Brat tabl* again ring the bell when the tricks are finished, and so on. At the end of the ©arty th* ribbons or seals are counted. The lady and gentleman possessing the greatest number of ribbons or seals get the winning prizes, aai the lady and gentleman receiving the least ribbons gain the "booby" prizes. Suitable prizes are, for a gentleman, cigarette Solders, matchboxes, penknives, and tobacco pouohes; for ladies, scent or scent bottles, sweets, handkerchiefs, and various other useful articles. Little finger sandwiches, sardines, eggs, or potted meats, lettuce, or cucumber, cut very thin, and seasoned, coffee, cocoa, or tea and cordials, is all you require. autsl!,xiUl,lJ K irOiPhs. Apple Float.--Beat the -uhil.es of four eggs until light: add four tablespoonfuls oi powdered sugar, and beat until fine and dry. Have ready two good-sized apples; pare and srrate them in a little at a time, beating carefully until you have just hs much apple as the meringue will hold. Have the bottom of a glass dish covered with either soft custard or cream, float the apple mixture on top, and send to table. Cheese Straws.—Put four tablcspoonfuls of flour into an ordinary soup dish, add half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne, four tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, and two tablespoonfuls of bread-crumb*. Make «i well in the centre of the dku, k puc in the yolk of one and about a tablespoonful of ice water: mix and carefully roll out into a thin hard sheet, which should look like si skee: of roodles. Cut into straws about five inches long and the width of a straw, dry in a moderate oven, and serve in bundles. Raisin Cake.—Beat two eggs, without separating, and pour over half a pint of milk, scalding hot; add two tablespoonfuls of butter. When lukewarm add half a yeast cake dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of cool water; stir in sufficient Hour to make a thick batter; stand aside for two hours until light, then add one cup of rai&ins that have been stoned and well floured ; turn into a Turk's head, and when light bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes. Irish Potato Cakes.—Boil carefully four full-sized potatoes. When doue, drain, dry, and mash. Add half a cupful of hot milk, a tablespoonful of butter, a small teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, and heat until the mixture is light and smooth. Stir in not more than half a cunful of sifted flour. Make into small cakes; bake in muffin rings on a griddle, or they may be baked in gem pans. Ginger Snaps.—Rub a pound of butter into two nounds of flour, then add half a pound ot brown sugar, a tablespoonful of ground ginger, and a dash of cayenne ; mix well, and add one pint of molasses; roll out into thin sheets, cut with a small round cutter, and bake in a very moderate oven until a light brown. Caramel Filling.—Boil together a cupful of sugar and half a pint of cream until it spins a thread; then add this to ax tablespoonfuls of sugar that have been melted and browned. Chocolate Cake.—Dissolve two ounces c f chocolate in five tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and add gradually a cupful and a half of granulated sugar. Beat the yolks rf four eggs, add them to the butter and cream; then add the melted chocolate, half a cupful of milk end a cupful and threequarters of flour; then give the whole a vigorous beating. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth; stir carefully into the mixture; add a teaspoonful of vanilla and a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix quickly and lightly, and bake m a moderate oven. . , ~_. . Ra&rit {roast).—Make a forcemeat with a quarter of a pound of bread-crumbs, the grated rind of a lemon, a quarter of a pound of chopped suet, an egg, the chopped liver of the rabbit, a little parsley, thyme, cayenne pepper, and salt. Stuff the rabbit with this, truss it for roasting, and baste first with milk and afterwards with butter. .The rabbit must have a piece of fat bacon on the ba E k gg Savory.-Boil two eggs very hard, leave them till cold in a bowl of cold water; .hell and cut them in halves, lengthways. Take out the yolks, pound them in a mortal with a small piece of butter, a tiny piece of Seed ham or lean bacon, finely-chopped parsley, and a dash of pepper and salt, hi L the whites with the mixture. Serve cold with a garnish of watercress or dressed Ba p June Pudding.-Chop. finely two ounces nf suet and add to it six ounces of flour, two'otcSof citron peeL and half a pound of prunes, stoned and chopped; mix with an effi; oeaten in a gill of milk and a small saltsuoonful of carbonate of soda; pour Jnto a greased mould, which should be only two-thirds full. Tie over with greased paper and steam three hours. Dainty Pudding.-Tw.o small stale ncc cakes half a pint of milk, one egg. one tab Spoonful o? sugar and a smal piece of butter, melted : cut the cakes into diets, putthem in a small dish *ith the butter, the beaten egg. sugar *nd . muk. Bake in a hot oven for hve or t™; Brain Fritters.—Required: Bums, bat ter, seasoning; blanch the brains and W them till tender; leave them to Ret cold, cut into convenient-sized pieces and flour them well. For the batter, mix half a pound of flour with a pinch of salt, an egg, IS half a pint of milk, and either a little curry or herbs or chopped parsley, and grated lemon peel may be used as a seasoning Dip the pieces of brains in the batter, ~nd fry in deep hot fat; dram Serve at once with a garnish of fried parley. Russian Pancakes.—One and a-half ounces of butter, two ounces of flour, two ounces of Sigar, two eggs Beat the butter to a cream; then add the sugar, then the four bv degrees. Beat in a separate basin the SgTuntil very light; add the eggs to the other ingredients quickly, and beat all well together* Grease well four breakfast saucers, and half fill them with the mixture. Pake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Place a little marmalade or jam in each, and fold them together. Very ?ood with sugar only. Delicious Ki.lneys.-To each sheep s kidr .-v allow one large rasher of bacon. bpUt thf kidneys open, cut the bacon very thm, Mid divide each rasher into two pieces. On cie half lav a kidney, and place the other oi- the ton."so that the kidney is sandwiched between the bacon. When ready lay them in a shallow tin, and bake in a moderate oven for ten minrtes. When done place on a hot dish wish gravy made this way: lut a little salt, pepper, and flour into the tin with half a cupful of water; stir well over the fire till it simmers. When cooked this Way thev are nics and *<vr\der. Canary Pudding.—The weight of three eggs in sugar and butter; the weight of two eggs in flour; rind of one small lemon, and three eggs. Melt the butter, but do not allow it to boil; add the sugar and finelyminced lemon peel; gradually dredge in the flour; keep the mixture well stirred. Whi*k the eggs, add these to the pudding, beat all the ingredients until thoroughly blended and put tiiem into a bnttered mould. Boil for two hours, and serve with sweet sauce. HINTS. To keep eggs for the winter they may be packed with the small ends down in salt.

' foisiu •£* to the bottom ai cake tM th* Utter is too tab, or the raisins 'hsW not been floured, Ftuit stains may, be removed from linen by carefully brushing with dilute oxalic fifcid, and plungina tae-linen at once initfiv water to which has been added a few drops of .ammonifo 4 - Cleaning an Ebony Table.—Rut) with linoleum reviver'on a piece of soft flannel every day for a tfreek until the polish return!. Cooking r ßeefßteak. Beefsteak should certainly not be chopped nor pounded before it is cooked. The only correct way is to have the steak tender, cut thick, andTwoiled . over a perfectly clear fire. The pounding , or chopping allows the juice to escape, rendering the meat dry and tough. ! Photographers' paste will fasten pictures ' on cardboard or glass. Regilding.—You may purchase at any art . material store dry or liquid gilt to be put on as paint with an ordinary soft brush. A bilious child should not eat sweets of any kind, nor fried food nor soft cereals. Whatever .starchy foods are taken should be properly baked and thoroughly masticated. How to Take Care of an Umbrella.—After coming out of the rain let the umbrella down, and stand it on the handle that it i may dry in this position. The water will i thus drip from the edges of the frame, and the coyer dry unifoiknly. When placed with the handle upwards, as is frequently done, the water runs to the top of the umbrella, and the moisture , is there retained in the lining underneath the j ring for some length of time, causing the | silk or fabric with which the frame is covered j to become tender, and soon perish. A silk umbrella is much injured by being left j open to dry. The silk becomes stretched ! and stiff, and will sooner split thus cared for. j When not in use let the folds lie loose, not fastened down. The creases are less apt to split from this usage. If you want to wash your face just before going out in a cold wind use milk instead of water, and there will be no danger of your face getting rough. Lotion to Keep the Hands Soft.—Six drachms of powdered borax, three-quarters ur urn v/w...v, r~"= b i.,wiU«/, t»i>J .igKf minces rosewater. Rub a little into the hands every night after washing. A FASHIONABLE BETROTHAL. Lord Rosebery's countless Australasian friends, acquaintances, and admirers will be much interested to read the announcement of his younger daughter's betrothal to the Earl of Crewe, whom the colonial Premiers (you may remember) visited at Crewe Hall during their Jubilee tour, and who was erstwhile Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland. Though Lord Crewe is more than double the age (18) of Lady Peggy Primrose, he looks a fine, handsome man, in the prime of life and vigor, and will probably make her a more satisfactory husband than many of the younger lordlings in the matrimonial market. Lord Rosebery seems very pleased at the engagement, and as the bridegroom is an extremely wealthy man it cannot be hinted by even the most ill-natured flaneurs that the Rothschild shekels with which the Ladies Primrose are so liberally endowed had anything to do with his choice. The announcement has, however, given society something to talk about. The present season is only Lady Peggy's second.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Among the staff of the American Commission at Paris was a young lady of IrishAmerican extraction named Miss Marie MacNaughton, who has the distinction of earning a bigger salary than any woman in Government employ. She is a French translater at the Bureau of American Republics, and draws from Uncle Sam's coffer* 2,500d0l per year. She obtained the position about a year ago through competitive examination, far distancing several college men who entered the race with her. She accompanied the Peace Commission to Paris, and her beauty attracted much notice there. At the age of fourteen she was sent to school at Geneva, in Switzerland, and remained there for five years. On her return to Washington she became governess to three little motherless children. Then she obtained the position of private secretary to Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian Minister, and held that post until she passed into Uncle Sam's employ. She is twenty-three years old. Professor Lombroso's daughter Paola has been sentenced in the criminal court of Turin to twenty-two days' imprisonment and a fine of sixty-two lire. Her crime was publishing an article in a Socialistic paper, in which she described the misery she herself had seen among the poor people, and declared that the social system which made such evil conditions should be overthrown.

A new drawing room game has come greatly into vogue of late in the Old Country. A party is arranged whereat each guest or-, rives wearing a, badge descriptive of the title of some well-known book. When all are assembled, paper and pencils are distributed, and all write down their guesses at the titles depicted. A prize is awarded to the one who guesses most correctly. To illustrate: One lady oarries a scrap of cheese; that is, 'The Mite-y Atom.' Another a couple of knives—whence ' Edged Tools' j a third a packet of needles—' The Sowers'; a fourth, a purple cotton hood—- ' The Lilac Sun-bonnet'; a fifth, a moth with a singed wing—'The Slave of the Lamp.' And so forth. Mrs Nansen, the wife of the great explorer, was before her marriage a singer. Like most Swedish women, she speaks Pnglish well, and is very fond of. British illustrated papers. Indeed, most of the leading periodicals find their way to her picturesque home at Lysaker, a village near Christiania.

The senior girls of Wellesley College (the American Girton) gave a " death's-head" party on the marriage of one of their classmates, named Isabella Wood (the New York correspondent of the ' Morning Leader' says). The directress's rooms were adorned with skulls containing candles, and draped in black and white. On the walls were crosses and papier-mache dragons and devils, and a purple light was thrown on the scene by cauldrons in which burned alcohol and brimstone. Each girl brought all her old love letters, and these were in each case read aloud by the owner, while the lemainder in chorus sang 'Miserere.' Two of the girls actually grew hysterical during the proceedings, and screamed for air, upon which the entire party rushed out and rolled in a snow bank in the college park. Madame Sarah Bernhardt's new playhouse in Paris is to bear her name. She is well satisfied with the place, which will enable her to produce big spectacular plays, like ' Theodora,' without being cramped for stage room. The great actress has resolutely put her foot down in the matter of an advertisement drop seene, although she will lose some thousands of francs annually by refusing to allow chemists, grocers, drapers, hatters, wine merchants, and tailors to call attention to their establishments in her theatre.

Mrs Phcebe Hearst, of San Francisco, has determined to leave her native State far more beautiful than she found it. It will be remembered that she provided the fund which enablad the best architects in America and Europe to furnish elaborate plans for the reconstruction, on a grand scale, of the grounds and buildings of the University of California, and now she proposes to set the minds of the ablest engineers in two continents to work on plans for rearranging the streets of San Francisco, opening and grading new boulevards, and constructing a new system of sewage for the city. The citizens of San Francisco are delighted, as they well may be, with this prospect of civic improvement on a gigantic scale.