WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 7

WOMAN'S WORLD.

TO GORftfeiioNDENTS. "Orchard," SunlftdaleV This is a good rc«ipe for any fruit wine: —Take eight pounds of fruit txrono e&Hon of water. put- Ik li sizzle jar, mashing -fcko irxitt, atad stirring every day foir one week. Strain into a barrel. T6 every quart of liquor put one pound of sugar. Leave in barrel from si* to night weeks, uncovered; then bottle securely. "Anxious," Duncdin.—Consult a specialist at once, and -you Will be well in a few weeks. "Girl," Milton. Write to Miss Clough. You can get any of the materials there you require for any of your fancy Work. "Viva" thanks her correspondents for Christmas and New Year cards, and wishes all A Happy New Year. HOTJSEHOI/D RECITES. Anchovy Savoury.—Bone four anchovies;. beat them to a paste with a little butter, some cayenne and mustard; put them in the hot mixture, with a tablespoonful of cream beaten up with the yolk of an egg; stir, and cook for five minute*. Serve on toast. Beef Olives.—Cut some tender steak into slices; mix two ounces of bread crumbs with two ounces of chopped suet, a dessertspoonful of chopped parsley, pepper and s;:lt; put some of this forcemeat on each slice of meat; roll up and tie securely; etcw gently in good stock or gravy for about t"«"o hours ; lift out tHe meat, remove toesiring, and place tta olives on a hot dish, thicken, flavor, and strain the gravy over them.

Fish Rissoles.—Flako some cold fish with two forks; mix with an equal quautity of mashed potatoes and a little finelycliopped parsley, pepper, salt, and nutmeg, an ounce of butter, and a well-beaten egg and bread crumbs, and fry in deep hot fat; •» drain well. Serve very hot, garnished with fried parsley. The Good Manager's Soup.—Take the bones of any scraps of cold meat, fowl bones, and, in fact, anything one has in the way of meat; put them in a saucepan with salt, pepper, carrot, turnip, onion, celery, a bunch of herbs, an onion (fried water to cover the. bones and vegetables; (!iirk brown), and boil for several hours in strain the stock when "it has boiled long enough; cut ;i stick of celery, two cabbage leaves and three leeks j fry these in butter till parti}- cooliect, then pour the strained slock over them, and add four large potatoes; when the vegetables are all'cooked mash the potatoes. This soup, though so economical, will be preferred by many to julienne, as the flavor given by the carrots in the latter are not liked by everybody. Pied de Veau a la Duchesse.—Put two calf's feet in cold water: bring this to boiling point, pour off the water, cover the feet with second stock, and simmer for four hours; tako out the bones, and press the meat between two plates till cold. Meantime melt two onnces of butter in a saucepan ; mix in an ounce and a half of flour, add;a. pint of white stock, simmer for ten minutes, and season with pepper, salt, and lemon juice. Ginger Omelet.—Beafc the yolks of three eggs in a basin, with a dessert-spoonful of castor sugar; whip the whites to a stiff froth and mix them lightly to tho yolks; melt half an ounce of butter in a small omelet pan, pour in the eggs, and put the pan in a very brisk oven for three or five minutes, taking care that the omelet does not catch. When a pale brown color turn it on to a very hot dish. Heat some ginger in a small saucepan, with a few small pieces of ginger out of a jar; put the pieces in the centre of the omelet. Pour the syrup round, and serve at once. .Queen of Pancakes.—Beat up two eggs with two ounces of creamed butter, two ounces of castor sugar, two ounces of flour, and about a gill of milk; pour in a small buttered tin, and bake in a quick oven for about twenty minutes; take out and cut in four; spread two of the squares. with apricot jam, cover with the other two, sprinkle with castor sugar. Serve. Chester Pudding.—Boil half a pint of milk -with a strip of lemon peel, strain over three ounces of bread crumbs, add two wellbeaten eggs, a little sugar, and an ounce of butter, and two tablespoonfuls of brandy; % stir all well together; line a pie-dish with puff paste, cover with a layer of strawberry jam, turn in the bread, cte., and bake for an hour in a moderate oven. Serve cold, with castor sugar sprinkled over the pudding. Half the above quantity will be sufficient two people. Turkish Delight.—Put three pounds of loarf sugar into a saucepan, cover with six breakfast-cupfuls of water, and boil it to «. syrup; clarify it with the juice of a lemon and the whites of three eggs. While it is boiling stir in six ounces of wheat starch dissolved in. three cupfuls of water, and strained. Continue to boil until the liquid is reduced to two-thirds, of its original quantity and quite thick. Add some essence, stir well, and let the mixture cool a little. Rub some almond oil or clarified butter on a tin; • pour the sweetmeat on it, about an inch in thickness; leave till quite set, then dust with castor sugar and cut into pieces. Orange Pudding (baked).—Reqcired : Six ounces of stale spongo cake, six oranges, a pint of milk, six eggs, half a pound of sugar; break the cakei into crumbs, and T>onr the milk on them. Xftis RhffiiJr] 1)0 Koilmg. Rub fche rind of two oranges on the sugar, and add this, with the juice of the whole six oranges, to tie other ingredients. Beat Up the eggs, stir them in, sweeten to taste; put the mixture in a pie-dish lined with puff pastry, and bake for rather more than half an hour. Turn it out of the dish, and strew with castor sugar, and serve. Cocoanut Buns.—Required : Two pounds of flour, half a pound of desiccated cocoanut, three-quarters of a pound of crushed loaf sugar, ten ounces of butter, three eggs, a dessert-spoonful of baking powder, and as much carbonate of soda as will lie on ;i. threepenny piece; mix all these ingredients, and moisten with a little milk. This quantity will make three dozen buns. To be baked in a quick oven. Snow Cake (a genuine Scotch recipe).— Required: A pound of arrowroot, half a pound of pounded white sugar, half a pound of butter, the whites of six eggs, flavoring to taste with essence of vanilla, almonds, or Union; beat the butter to a cream, stir in the sugar and arrowroot gradually, beating the mixture all the time; whisk the eggs to a stiff froth and add them; beat well for twenty minutes; put in whichever flavoring may be preferred, pour the cake into a buttered mould, and bake in a moderate over for an hour to an hour and a-half. 'lbs quantity is sufficient to make a niode-li'le-sized cake. Quince Tart.—Wash about a pound of npe quinces, put them whole in a preserving pan with Water to cover them; let them sunnier till they can be easily pierced with a skewer; boil a pint of water and ./ three-quarters of a pound of sugar to a ■ syrup; put in the quinces, and boil them to |)Ulp, with some grated lemon rind to flavor them. Roll out some good short crust, and cover a good-sized tart tin with •it I lay on the quince mixture very thickly, and cover with more pastry; pinch the edge* together, brush over with white of egg, sprinkle with castor shgat, and 'bake for half an hour Ail! the jasiry is well done. Serve with cream or custard. Guildford Pudding, —Required; Five qiuiws of bread crumbs, two ounces of anet, , two •ounces of castor sugar, foilr ounce* of raisins. 6no lemon, two eggV"ipia-rt£r" of a pint of niilk, one teaspoonful of ffratetl nutmeg Grease a pudding basin or mould; Make the bread crumbs; mix With them ftod l6mon rind •> shred,.and chop the suet, using the crumbs to keep it from sticking Wgether; stone the falsifis, bub do not pull them quite hi half, all Over the inside of the greased basin stick the raisins, pressing the inside of the raisin downwards; beat up the eggs, add to them the milk; stir these to the crumbs, etc. • do it carefully or the raisins will be knocked out of ploee. Tie a scalded and floured cloth over tho basin ; put into a pan of fastboding water, enough to.well cover the basin, and boil for two hoars. Turn out carefully, and serve with any sweet sauce, HINTS.

If a little vinegar be kept boiling on the stove While onions or cabbages are cookine it will prevent the disagreeable odor thrbagh the hottee. i . b ° A Preventative for Corns.—At the first •igo of a com of bunion the feet should be

bathed every morning in cold or warm water to winch a littlfc alum or vinegar has* been added. u This is a soothing. bath, also for swelled feet, and leaves a nice sensation of freshness. Feet that are inclined to. corns or bunions should be sponged at night with lavender- water- or very slightlv diluted -vrinegar. People who suffer from weak nnklefi shoTzlcl -pub plenty of sa-Ifc in tie -water in which ihey bathe their feet, and should use the waijef cojd. , . . Weak Eyes.—Eyes that readily grow tired should be relieved by frequent bathing. Distilled laurel water is supposed to be one of the best things with which to sponge the eyes in order to refresh them. It should be used warm, the bottle for this purpose being placed in hot water. Extremes of heat and cold, light and darkness, are to be avoided in the case of weak eyes. A nice lotion for them, -when laurel water is not. at hand, is one at Wmuw 'mi m- 1 * solution of- camphor (one part) mixed with eight parts of warm elderflower water or rose wafer. Lotion Against Loss of Hair.—A famous physician gives the following prescription .against baldness-:—Eau de Cologne, two ounces; tincture of cantharide», two drachms; oil of lavender or ioseihary ten drops. This lotion must be. used once or twice a day for a considerable time, unless the scalp becomes tender, in which case discontinue the- lotion for a time, or use it at longer intervals, than before. Tomatoes can be easily skinned by first dipping them m.iot water. hJu jTHT* I d ?f creaki,l rT' ™ h * little m\ Or oil on lis hst it . di rectly, Stains on enamel saucepans can be removed by rubbing with a little moistened i* °vL. P - our in * ome water - t0 which add a little soda, and let it simmer. Coffee pounded, in a mortar and roasted on a hot shovel, sugar burned on hot coals, and vinegar boiled . with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick room arc excellent deodorisers. A person' with intestinal ' indigestion should avoid all starchy foods and take a milk and poultry diet.'

Borax, if regularly used, will drive awav beetles and cockroaches. Windows and doors should be thrown open early in the morning so as to freely admit sunshine and light; then they may be closed, during the day to exclude the heat and again opened at ni^ht. Gloss lor Shirt FtoniiL—Pound u a ounce, of fme white gum arabic to a powder, put rt c i" •?• P' tc^er ' and P onr over it one pint of boding- water. Cover and let it set all night. Carefully pour from the dre<;s into a clean bottle. Cork and keep for use. One tablespoonful stirred into a pint of starch produces ajovelv gloss on linen, and is quite harmless to the material. It is most unwise to crimp or curl children's hair if it is at all inclined to be weak. Either let it hang straight down, simply tied with a ribbon, or plait it very loosely. The ends should be clipped once a month and a good tonic applied two or three times a week. Hot milk is the newest panacea for all complexion ills. If the face be wrinkled, freckled, or otherwise afflicted hot milk will cure. Converts declare that the face, after being washed with milk at night, feels wonderfully refreshed, while the skin soon becomes very white and soft. For sweeping a room neativ there is nothing like newspaper aid. Take a page of newspaper at a time, wet it in hot water, and squeeze it until it ceases to drip. Tear into small pieces of about the size of vour hand, and cast them all over the carpet Then sweep, and most of the dust in the room will be gathered into the paper. On matting use large pieces of paper, pushing them ahead of the broom to take up any fluff there may be before beginning the regular sweeping. Occasional and unexpected falls of soot, which are so objectionable, can be swept up without difficulty if salt is scattered over the soot.

The Importance of Salad Oil.—Salad oil forms a most" useful article of diet for delicate people. The invalid who cannot touch cod-liver oil should be encouraged freely mayonnaise dressing, and in eating salad to pour over it a liberal supplv ■ of°oil. In cases where the taste for this is not natural it can generally soon be acquired. For some cases of debility and weak digestion small doses of salad oil will do-wonders. Many people have been able to.give up the almost daily rise of drills by taking instead a dessertspoonful of salad "oil on goiug to bed. In the nursery salad.oil should be used for rubbing into the chest—back and front—when there is any tendency to weakness of the lungs. The pores of the skin will absorb it readily,- and it will be found trt have a nourishing and strengthening effect. WOMEN'S FANCIES FOR CATS. Some of the advertisements and answers to correspondents in English papers devoted to women make very amusing rcadintr, especially those in the column headed "The Kennels," " Hunting," " Cat Gossip," etc. A young lady offers a happy country home to dogs and puppies during owner's absence. Another is willing to take dogs walking in the afternoon. A third wishes for a companion who really understands cats. The answers to correspondents include the following:—"lt is a. cast of e'ezemre. ;lnd the principal tiling is to chimo lliq patient's diet. I..et her run free, and give her twice daily ateaspoouful of Kepler's Extract of Malt and Cod Liver Oil. Give hei' rawmeat for supper instead of fish." " Let the cat be out of doors as much as possible, but keep him from over-excitement, especiallyin the hot sun." "No ; too much fish is bad for him, he will get run down." A fierce argument was carried on for some time in the columns of one paper as to the size of the scraps of meat for cats' meals. One indignant correspondent declared that only the most lazy owner would resort to a mincing machine, and that, for her part, she always found meat cut the size of dice was in every way the most satisfactory. That it made her flesh creep to hear of anyone feeding a cat on cooked meat or Sop! " What would the poor old puss in the back yard think cf all this, with his tattered ears/ scarred face, and mangy tail. He is as far removed from the elegant Persian as the aristocratic baby, dressed in velvet and fur, and wearing bangles and brooches, is from the small gutter-snipe. His diet is never considered ; he feeds out of rubbish boxes, and catches occasional rats aiid sparrows. He sleeps anywhere, and considers human beings his natural enemies. The fashionable cat probably does hot know a rat or a mouse when he sees one, loses all the joys of hunting, of midnight howls, and lives "a decorous life, in which excitement in the hot sun is forbidden Probably the yard cat has no wish to change places with him.

THE QUEEN'S OLDEST SUBJECT. On the-island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, there is a beautiful estate whore dwells Queen Victoria's oldest subject Mrs Margaret Anne Nevfe, born on May 18, 1792. A newspaper reporter was received by Mrs Neve a few weeks ago in tho most cordial manner, and found her to be a really wonderful example of happy old age. Her sight is so strong that she seldom needs spectacles; her memory is surprisingly good, and although her hearing is defective she converses most intelligently on topics of general interest. Her voice is clear, artd her enunciation' rcnarkably distinct. An amusing incident that occurred in Mrs Neve's 103 rd year illustrates her wonderful activity. She was missed from the house, and the niece Who lives With her instituted an anxious search. Finally she was discovered in the barn on.the topmost rung of a ladderlpjaced against the loft, where she had climbed to IhSpect the potatoes that were laid there for seed (purpdseSi She smiled at tho dismay of her family and descended Rttfely. Mrs Neve has a heavy briiss belt buckle, with letter" N in the centre, whieh she found oh the field of Waterloo not long after the battle. She shows with eqtial pride the birth certificate that enables iter to claim to be " the oldest subject of Her Majesty," and is delighted to see callers. On her 108 th birthday, last May, she "received" fot several hours continuously Without apparent fatigue. Her autograph is clear, although the characters show the tremulousness of age. One receives some idea of the length of time that bos elapsed since Mrs Neve's girlhood by learning that she was educated in the seminary of the Gottis, who were friends of Hannah More, whom she often saw. She was the daughter

of John Harvey, and married John Neve in 1823* becoming a widow in 1845), alter which she occupied her time, for a number of ywrt in travelling. With, her .sister, Mrs Neve visited Italy, Spain, and nearly every other European, country, and even made lift excursion into Algiers, which' "Was a. tess'ordih&rv journey ( hen tlwn" now, Her plan of Ml ■tras a. good one to follow, tvs the "winter preceding every trip was spent in reading the history and studying the language.of the country to-bo visited the following summer. As a result of this preparation) and her keen powers of observation, Mrs Neve still,converses interestingly and brightly upon the countries she has visited. The last joufaey of the sisters was to "Poland in 1879. In 1884 Miss Harvey died in her ninetieth year. Since that lime Mr* Neve has remained oti her estate in cheerful activity. A ivOMAN OBGAN-GHINDEB." In the 'English Illustrated Magazine' an amusing articlo entitled 'A Lady's Experiences as an Organ-grinder' is given. Attired in approved Italian fashion, and accompanied by a man and a boy, the 'Writer says she reached Fetter lane, London, stopped outside a publio-housc, and began to barrel-organ. " I played as if for dear life, for I felt both self-conscious and awkward. My grinding over, I returned to the side of the organ, and remained there demurely with the boy. For the life of me I could not summon up courage enough to go round and ask for money, and not a penny was ziven me. Down Fleet street we xruirchetl, hearing on the -way- personal Temarks that by no means added to my comfort.. Several times we stopped and tried to cheer up the despondent denizens with a strain of ' The last rose of summer,' but each time a policeman hastily moved us on. Splashed with mud, panting, and tired, wo at length reached Trafalgar square." In the Square rain fell in torrents, and although no money was reaped by the lady amateur organ-grinder, the day's experience ended amusingly, and to the advantage of the man and the boy—in Sloane square. THE QUEEN'S SERVANTS. There is a certain pardonable curiosity extant as to how Her Majesty fares' in these democratic times with the domestic servants of the household; but a ladies' paper declares *' probably no woman, of however cxiiltod riiuL has cvqp had bettor sonanti than Queen Victoria, ot has been a better mistress to them. It is a very great mistake to suppose that the domestics employed in her ■ various establishments are overpaid and underworked, for the Queen knows what it is to do a good day's work herself, and can very well gauge how much can be done in twelve hours thoroughly, but without hurry. One great secret of the smoothness with whicli the domestic wheels run in Her Majesty's homes is that everyone is up betimes in the morning. The Sovereign herself is, and always has been, an early riser, and of course everything and everyone must bo ready for her, for the Queen has a very sharp eye for duSt, and is a great lovet of neatness and order."

THE ART OF HAPPINESS.—SARAH GRAND'S VIEWS THEREON. If there were nothing very new or original in Madame Sarah Grand's admirably-deli-vered lecture on. the ' Art of Happiness' at St. George's Hall, London, lately, it was" racy, uncompromising, and full "of sturdy common sense. Her .ground theory proved much the same as yours, my gentle colonial reader, or mine^ —viz., that to be happy yourself you must make others happy. Only, she streaks it with a veneer of cynfeism. Said Madame Grand : —The Eastern sage, when all out of sorts, declared that man was made for misery as surely as sparks flew upwards. That assertion was wide of the truth. Man made his own misery; and so in an even greater degree did woman. There was nothing women understood so little about as how to make life worth living. The resignation of many worthy people would be better described as stagnation, when it was not the outcome of idleness and incapacity. ■ Woman was too penny-wise, owing to habits formed-in days when few pennies came her way; and the consequence was doctors' bills. The strongest bent of our nature was to pursue happiness and avoid pain, and every healthy function of the mind and body helped that endeavor. The greatest pleasures of life might be rare, but there were an enormous number of minor pleasures, and as they were cumulative in effect •they made up a happy life. The highest forms of happiness werethe most easily obtainable. Simple hospitality, offered with grace and affection, gave more happiness than tho magnificent entertainments of the rich, .whose indifference and insolence towards their guests was only equalled by the chronic state'of irritation of their guests towards them. In "Smart society," as it was called, to distinguish it from good society, there was no silch thing as noblesse oblige. ... The art of happ'iness was still in its infancy; but everybody knew how to bo disagreeable. Tfie power to please came of practice only, and depended on qualities of heart and head that could not be assumed. From a wife's manner of calling her husband "my dear" in public you often had u. shrewd suspicion that she, adflrewrefl him as" ymi ftIUW " in priTiltt, Wc found in the commonplaces of the humorist a key to the miseries of life. What a blessing if the law would decree that all " chestnuts" about mothers-in-law should be burnt! Then there was the husband who stayed out late at night amusing himself in a, disreputable way, and afterwards excused himself to his wife, on the plea of having been detained by business. Representations were given of the man who carefully took ofll his boots at the bottom of the stone steps leading to an underground station for fear his wife should hear him going upstairs. Then there was Phil May's picture of the married menagerie manager who had taken refuge among the lions in the cagfe, and whose wife, standing without in impotent wrath, could only articulate, as she shook, her fist at him, the one word " Coward!" Yet marriage was the niost perfect state, and were the conduct of it right, happiness must ensue. A voice came from the colonies crying " Send us wives!" ahd a thousand Benedicts replied "Take ours t" Idleness was at the bottom of the gluttony, drunkenness, sensuality, and base intrigue which were compassing the destruction of a certain section of society at the present time. When men had no regular occupation, if they did not make work for themselves they generally degenerated. Women also were in a bad case whose lives were purposeless—who had not formed the habit of living for others. Some of them thought that if they had the suffrage—and Were allowed to vote once in seven years—that would cure them. Some relied .on cigarettes. Many women sought to escape from the details of life in their attempt to prematurely reach the great events. A fertile source of misery was confusion of mind, of which teachers of religion had not been guiltless. There were those who had taught that man was made iii God's image, and then they proceeded to castigate the image of God in order to improve it. No one with any sense of humOr could possibly ,usc a Whip as an argument. Joy was the reaction from sorrow. To prophesy evil Was to bring it about. She once knew art old gentleman who in his youth resolved never to grumble about the weather, and the practice Of that principle had a most salutary effect upon his character. Happiness was very much a patter of .discipline. There was much in the power of suggestion, as was discovered by three clerks. On their comrade reaching the office one exclaimed: "Hullo! how ill you look!" Later, another said to him: "Why, what's the matter? You look terribly t out of sorts:" the third found an opportunity to say: "My dear old fellow, you look as if you ought to be in bed." Beads of perspiration Wfere on his brOW, and he replied that he feared he ought to be. Nexb mOrning tie master of the three clerks thus addressed them : " You will all be grieved to hear that poor S has been taken seriously ill—so seriously ill that I have felt bound to give him leave of absence for three months, during which time you must divide up his work amoligst yori.* ,PERBQRAL AND GENERAL. A- pretty story is told that Queen Wil.helmina, of Holland, before giving Duke

Heinrich any other sign'of favor, begged of him to learn the Dutch language. Some weeks later, when she again met him, she asked what progress he had made. The Prince took out a pocket book, and showed her the. words written in Dutch " I love, I love, I love." The Kaiser, who -was infitl'Unlental in b*lhgin& about tile alliillee, is naturally pleased with his, success. lOnglish papers give a -short account of Lord Darnley, formerly the Hon. Ivo Bligh. After remarking oti his fine figure* and handsome features, and givine"-. llis atf«, which is forty-two, a little, story iS-told of his. meeting with Miss FlOrehee Morphy, Who became his wife. "In the. cours© of. a match cm the Melbourne ClUb ground he : rutired to the pavilion to have a cut bandaged. The dressing room attendant borrowed a lady's handkerchief for the purpose. M it chanced, ioWevoi it vm not needad, and Mr Biign, with old-world courtesy, insisted on returning the handkerchief himself, in order to thank the owner, Miss Morphy. The.acquaintance ripened into intimacy, and two years later they were married. At Crowland, in the Feh country (England), a woman has just been appointed sexton at the parish church. The former gvavedigger of Crowland recently relinquished both his life and his office, and thereupon the local vestry appointed his sister to succeed him. The sextonship has been in the same family for two hundred years. The loves of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke Henry seem Very much like the heart affairs of other even. to. the 1 disagreement regarding that historic qtiestioii the rights of mothers-in-law-. Duke Henry objects id residing under the same roof as his fiancee's mother. His excuse is that he has a superstition that to begin life in the same house as a mother-in-law is to court certain disaster. N I don't think much of this excuse on the grounds of originality, but perhaps several husbands will agree with him as to the wisdom of putting his foot down at once and starting fair.—' Echo.' A frenchwoman named Heron has just won a-romantic lawsuit at Auxerre, involving a fortune of £49,000. The money was inherited from her father and mother, who had died intestate, but a cousin claimed it, stating that this claimant was not the child of the deceased, but had been bought by them when a baby from a strolling actor. The Court decided that as the child had toen registered as the offspring of the fle« ceased couple, and had borne their name for twenty-five years, the money was rightfully hers. A famous farmer is Lady Do Rothschild. At Aston Clinton, in Hertfordshire, she has a model farm, which is kept in a most methodical way, quite a complex system of bookkeeping being in use. Of course, there is a dairy—always a prominent feature in feminine farmland. The cattle and poultry have homes such as will be found on no other farm, and the sheep are of prize breeds. It is officially announced that the marriage of Queen Wilhelmina will take place at the end of January or the beginning of February.