WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 11451, 19 January 1901, Page 7

WOMAN'S WORLD.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. - " Esma-”—Squares or oblongs of Htmiton lace or other point are particularly effective as table centres when placed over a slip o£ sateen or pongee silk to which a full frill has been added, so that it may project beyond the lace cover. Old gold shows up well through the lacc, and cau-de-N 11 lights up well at might. Kathleen M.' I —l should certainly advise ■you to become a teacher; you have method, patience, and a capacity for steady work. Being of a cheerful disposition, you should go in for a thorough training cl kindergarten work. “ Cornflower,”—l have always found ammonia and water (weak solution) is the moat effectual remedy for stain marks or surface blemishes oh woolleh goods. Sponge it caro•fully. and iron it orf’tne Wrong side. Sponge the serge over lightly, and do not make the mixture too strong. You may have to do • this from time to time, but it will eventually keep yougprge ail right. “ Daisy, —“ Viva ” declines to answer •■anonymous correspondents. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. Cheese Meringue.—Melt two ounces of sliced cheese, half Gruyere and half rich English. As soon as the cheese begins to melt add one ounce of butter and a tablespoonful of water, and stir till the whole is a creamy mass. Stir in some sifted flour to •form the whole into a paste, add the yolk of .an egg, and beat the whole mixture well. Grease two dessertspoons; take the mixture in spoonfuls; shape each with the second spoon, and drop it on a buttered bak-ing-sheet. Bake until a nice brown in a moderate oven. Whip the white of egg to a froth; season with cayenne; coat the cheese balls with the meringue, and pub them in the oveh again for a few minutes till they are brown. Dust with' coral in 6 pepper. A forcing pipe-will be required to icoat the balls.

Steamed Bread and Butter Budding.— IButter a small pudding basin that will bold sufficient for two people. Cut some thin bread and butter; decorate the bottom of the basin with candied peel cut in stars, or a few raisins or preserved cherries. When full, beatup an egg with half a pint of milk, flavor with essence of almonds, and 1 , strain over the pudding. Leave to soak for a ■while, cover with buttered paper, and steam for an hour and a-quarter. Turn out, and serve with custard or wine sauce.

Potato Koullle.—Take two teacupfuls of cold mashed potato, and Into it beat the yolks of two eggs and two tablespootifals of cream. Add a little finely-chopped parsley, and season with salt and pepper. Beat ■with a fork till all is perfectly smooth, and then stir in the whites of two eggs, whisked to a stiff froth. Put into a, well-buttered pie-dish, and bake in a hot ovCn till the top •is a good brown. Serve at once. Good Fig Pudfling.— Take half a pound •of bread-crumbs, a quarter of a pound of suet chopped finely, three-quarters of a pound of figs, three eggs, and a quarter of a pound of dark-brown soft sugar and half a brcakfasteupful of flour. 'Mix well together, and boil in a well-greased basin for two hours.

Savofy Rizine Souffle.— You will find this an excellent variety of souffle, and ouite easy to make. Beat up the yolks of three eggs. Warm one ounce of butter, and add it to the beaten yolks. Next chop finely one teaspoonful of onion, one clove of garlic. otie teaspoonful of parsley, two small mushrooms, and half a ten.sponnful ' of thyme. Add these with a grating of nntmev and lemon rind to the eggs, etc. Mix well? Mix two tablespoonfids of rizine smoothly with half a pint of milk, and add to the other ingredients. Lastly, beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth, and add lightly to the mixture. Well butter a souffle pan, pour in the mixture, bake in a quick oven.’ When done it should be a nice broWn and vvell puffed up. Like all souffles, it must be earned quickly to table, or it will sink. Indian Toast.—loti need about half a pound of any cooked fish. It is therefore a dish that you would arrange to have on the morning following a dinner of boiled or fried fish of some kind—there are almost always scraps over. Besides that, allow an ounce of butter or good dripping, a teaspoonful of anchovy essence, a teaspoonful each of curry powder and chutney, salt, pepper, and a few fir Ops of lemon juice. Take away all bones, and skin, and rub the fish through a coarse ■n ire sieyr. Melt the butter in a stewpan, and stir into it the chutney and curry powder Now put in the fish, and stir all well together. Season carefully, and add the lemon juice. Notice if it appears dry, and if so pour in a tablespoonful or so of milk or cream. Have ready a, round of buttered toast for each guest: mind it is thin, crisp, and has no crust left on. Arrange a neat heap of the mixture on the lop of each piece, and sprinkle over a few browned crumbs. aVlaivß t’Gfy liot in llie rtv£ti, and it once fPrepare only the fish at night.) Elderberry Wine.—To every three gallons of water allow one peck of elderberries • to every gallon of juice allow three pounds of sugar, half an ounce of ground ginger six cloves, one pound of good Turkey raisins, and a quarter of a pint of brandy to every gallon of wine. To every nine gallons of wme three or four tablespoonfuls of fresh brewer s yeast. Pick the elderberries from the stalks, pour on them three gallons of boiling water, and let them stand for twelve hours. Strain through a sieve or a baoand press out all the juice. Measure the liquor, and to every gallon add throe pounds a. sugar. Boil the juice and the sugar with the ginger, cloves, and raisins for an hour, skimming the whole time. Let the liquor stand tin lukewarm, then put it into a dean dp- cask, with three or four tableapaonfuls of fresh yeast to nine gallons of wine. .Let It ferment for about a fortnight, then add the brandy, bong up the cask, and let it stand some months before it is bottled, and it will be found excellent. A bunch of hops suspended to a string from the bung will some persons say, preserve the wine good for several years. Elder wine is usually mulled, and is served with sippets of toasted bread and a little grated nutmeo . P! cke t n Bie-—Skm and cut up two fowls into joints. Put the necks, legs, and backbones in a stewpan with a pint of water an onion cut in slices, a bunch of herbs and a blade of mace. Let these simmer for an hour or more until the stock has reduced considerably, then strain and use for <rraw for the pie. Put some of the fowl at the bottom of a pie-dish, over this a few slices of ham (par-boiled), then a layer of veal forcemeat. Season each layer with penoer. salt, and nutmeg. Continue this ■with alternate layers till the dish is full Pour in the gravy, cover with a good crust? brush this Over with beaten era. anr i bake in a moderate oven for about nrThour and a half.

Apple Sauce.—Peel one pound of pood cooking apples. Cat them in quarters and thiw them for a minute in cold water. TJis helps to keep them white. Next nut them in a saucepan with half a pint of hot water, one and a-half ounces of sugar and aw ounce of butter. Boil till quite’soft. TTien rub them through a hair or wire sieve Ke-heat. and serve in a hot tureen. Macaroni au Macedoine.--This is a prettv appetising-looking dish. First of allbreak three ounces of macaroni into small pieces, then boil d=kkiv till soft in boiling salted water. Have ready half a pint of hot. thick white sauce. Mix half of it with the cooked ■macaroni, and season well with pepper and salt. Am the remainder of the sauce with about three-quarters of a pint of rooked vegetables such as peas, shreds of beans, v a !T OtS l nd lumips—the more hot ’ better. See they are thoroughly

, , r .. hints. a y° u Wft nt to put CutToFroi b -° n - vonr lvall tT T this plan, need a P nd if nth K‘ ' arger than you Tav the paper 011 the u-all is faded, Jay the patch in a sunny place for a dav or ‘Snarv wav oVer it in the 1 and tear a strip of th^pateh^t^h^'d 00 ’ palling it ?, e o -leave a thin edge at the colored part on to . men smoothly pasted down the jo n w i scarcely show, if t> ic paper i s torn betor' the paste M applied, the thin edge gets oo sodden, and the paste is apt to oozo out leaving a dirty mark all round To Thoroughly Clean a Carpet.-Provide two largo pans of water, one nice and hob and the other tepid. Put enough soap-jeliy into the hot one to make a good lather take t the carpet, a square at a time, and wash first a flannel wrung out of hot water, then

■wring another flannel out of the tepid ■prater, and wipe the washed piece till all soap is removed. Then dry by rubbing with dusters. The great things arc not to'make the carpet wetter than is necessary, and to wine as dry as possible afterwards*. Change the nicp 8r 7 te " ' f • Vo V l want thc ca rpet to look nee. It is possible now to buy a, special k-nd of soap for carpet renovating, but vou can get excellent results with the ordinary

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w3| le i pa t r , lngs of encumbers will destroy Waek beetles. At night put them on S boot makes a good manure. Dry soot Se?a n nd "T** St Brlrl' omei - yMuable tooth powder. JSfcj'SK gr “° b,i “ -*• Jit ES’fc. ** <*• f b r fn ra f«r^ ter ’ Sh ° uld - vou haro need to boil tirto nf i 7 purp ° sc > S r eatly improves the Ster nTt .V s0 ifc imtc “* uf Plain ,; ufc shollld you need bran water for some other purpose—such as washing a deli- ; ® i ! l J~ do lloL throw the bran awav, for U may be given to the fowls. droned ded Potatoes, if they cannot be reIrCo.cd for table, may be used as soap. They mako tho hands £o(t ;m(] K 1 nn!f CC r'T , eilVes makc fhe best of soils for potted plants. Tu,-n the leaves over frequently and chop them up. Leave thmn decompo liU «« sufficic^

H^ ir " , °f ordinary 3 ~° blue in the rinsing water, after ashing, improves the appearance of white wiH H° ndCr i X | U l ' V t' B ' ;ras (which, mixed elp-ir - is excellent for cleansing dark hair) should never be used after it us turned grey, as it gives the hah 1 a yellow tinge. For a .Headache.—A cloth wrung out' of hot wa.cr to which a little eau-de-Cologne rL T l V n T V has bcen bound lound (he forehead and renewed about oventen minutes, gives great relief in the case 0l ~' ,n ordinary headache. Fo Improve the Texture of the Skin.— Cocoamit unite well nibbed into the skin at night after washing improves the texture of some skins wonderfully. To obtain it. m-ate a fresh cocoamit, then place in a cloth and squeeze out the milk. Wash your face -with it, nibbing it in as much as possible, and wipe with a soft cloth.

Ihq rcet.—The best treatment for tired feet is a prolonged nightly foot bath in tepid water, to which a good-sized lump of ordinary washing soda may be added/ A handful of bran in the bathing water will also make a restful foot bath. There should be a Irequcnt change of footwear, and the shoes and stockings should bo changed upon coming in from the street. The feet need a great deal of ventilation, and for this reason a change of footwear is Very advisable It is a good practice to keep several pairs of shoes ready for wear. It is a little more expensive at first, but it is cheaper in the end. The shoes will wear longer. A FEMALE NIMROD. Mrs Johann Colenbrander, who drid lately in Buiuwayo. was described on one occasion by the late Lord Lodi us ihe bravest woman in South Africa. And indeed her record is such as to amoly justify such an eulogium. .She was an excellent horsewoman and driver, a splendid shot with Me and gun, and absolutely fearless. Mr Colenbrander’s position as representative of the Chartered Company led him into all sorts of danger!? and adventures, and he was always accompanied by his beautiful and imreptd wife. “What! a woman with a gun .’ exclaimed Umbandini, King of the Swazis, the first time he saw her cleaning her weapon. “What are you going to do with it?’’ “Why, I can use a gun.’’ returned Mrs Colenbrander; and she forthwith challenged the King to a. rille match, and he had presently to own himself handsomely defeated. Her adventures were so many and so varied that to tell a half of them is impossible. Soon after her marriage the dire intelligence arrived that all Idr Colenbrander s stations had been wrecked by the Boers in their raid on Usibebo’s territotr, and that consequently he was a ruined man. The brave pair packed a couple of wa .?S ons > mid trekked into Swaziland. They were chased by lions, and escaped with difficulty. The veldt caught fire, and most of tiisii oxen ers'-destroyed. They "were seyeral times in danger of drowning ■ and during the period in which they paid a daily visit to Lobengula, the time immediately preceaing Dr Jameson s Raid, they may be said to have carried their live's in their hands. It was part of Mr Colenbrander’s duty to pay this visit, and they hud to ride through a host of warriors, who would seize their bridles at every few yards and threaten them with death'if they did not turn back. Probably their calm courage saved them. The smiling face of the handsome Irishwoman, the ease with which she managed her horse, and the familiar manner in which she carried her rifle commanded sullen admiration. From Lobengula they had less to fear. He smiled as°they apaddressed them invariably as “ The Twins,” and his last words to a European were his kindly spoken words of farewell to Mrs Colenbrander. She was the first white woman to go to Matabeleland after Dr Jameson’s occupation, and she and her sister were the only ladies present at the famous second Indaba or peacemaking between Cecil Rhodes. Colenbrander, and the rebel chiefs in the Matoppos Hills? the presence of the women doing much to reassure the suspicious natives. AN OLD COUPLE. In Guernsey there dwells an old lady who, if Fate spares her to earth for a few more years, will have lived in three centuries. She was born on May 13, 1792, and lias thus passed her 108 th birthday. Mrs Margaret Anne Neve—for such is her full name—is no doubtful centenarian. Her baptismal certificate is there to refute the ungallant sceptic. The earliest definite recollection she has concerning herself was going to school, as a girl of about ten, to Bristol, a journey which had then to be. made by sailing boat. In her habits of life Mrs Neve has always been extremely careful, and to this she attributes the preservation of her health and strength. She is not an abstainer, but takes a, glass of ale and a half of old sherry at her mid-day dinner, and a little weak whisky and water at supper. In diet she does not'greatly restrict herself, but she has always objected to eating and drinking between the regular hours of meals, and even afternoon tea has been rigidly excluded from her household programme' She has always been an early riser, and has never permitted herself any coddling or selfindulgence. but has shown a somewhat Spartan strength of will in refusing them. Her constitution has been very sound, and she has scarcely known illness.—London ‘Telegraph.’ , A record in domestic service was achieved by Mrs Elizabeth Allsopp. who has celebrated her hundreth birthday at Bramley, near Guildford, in the Mother' Country. .She was in the service of one family for seventy-four-years. A GOOD SOUL. An amusing incident occurred to Princess Victoria of Wales during her recent visit to the Cumberland Lakes. The Princess and the party, who had been cycling, rode up to a station in order to entrain for another part of the district. They Were tired and dusty, and in want of some refreshments. There was no time to leave the station, and a messenger was sent to a neighboring hotel, and returned with a waiter, who took an order for some lemonade and biscuits. “ What sort of people are they?” inquired the landlady, when asked as to the charge. “ Oh, ordinary people,” replied the waiter, in blissful ignorance.

" Ah, puir things ; just charge them for the lemonade, and never mind the biscuits, - ’ said thn,jy(ipEip.treiis. /

It came as a surprise to her later oh to learn that she had been entertaining Royalty unawares. an Expensive wedding. The wedding of Louise Pierpont Morgan, daughter of Pierpont Morgan, the wellknown financier and multi-millionaire, to Herbert Livingston Satterlce, which took place at St. George's Church recently, was one of the most brilliant social events of thc year. The church was packed, fully a bilbon dollars being represented among thc 2,500 invited guests. The bride wore a superb TN ortji gdWn of white satin covered with exquisite point d'Aldncon. The floral decorations in the church and residence 'surpassed anything before witnessed in New iork. Orchids, roses, and tropical flowers were used with lavish profusion. The wed-ding-cake weighed nearly a quarter of a ton. Ihc bride received 400 presents of gold and silver plate, jewellery, etc., estimated to be worth £20,000. Mr Morgan presented his daughter with a diamond tiara, collar, and corsage of fabulous value and a country house adjoining his estate on Hudson River, rbc hndc s trousseau, which cost a- fortune, includes several gowns trimmed with cloth of gold, precious stones, and the rarest antique laces. lire total cost of thc weddinv is estimated at over £20.000. The bride* groom has no fortune. He is a member of a New \ ork law firm, belongs to one of the old Dutch families, anti is a flephew of Dr oattcrlcs, Bishop of Washington. AS AUTHORESS. IN NORWAY. Miss Beatrice‘Harradcn is recovering from the seirous accident which she sustained while in Not u ay, and is Uow back at her home in Hampstead, and able to take short walks. Bhe slipped from her pony while on a mountaineering expedition, seriously injuring her ankle and foot. After lying'in a shed on the mountain lop until a little recovered from the shock, she was obliged, with the a : d of her Incnds, to make thc two hours’ descent on horseback with her broken limb unset. After procuring temporary surgical attention at the village at the foot‘of the hill she proceeded on a nine hours’ journey to Christiania to obtain the services of a specialist, and was fortunately in time to prevent lameness for life. She spent the succeeding ten weeks recruiting on the beautiful fiord of Christiania, living entirely amongst Norwegians, learning the language and studying the life of the peasantry. While in Norway Miss Harrnaen received a startling revelation of the free-and-easy way of the foreign translator. On examining thc Norwegian translation oi Ships that Pass in the Night.’ Miss Harraden found (Ao her astonishment that the last chapter had been omitted. She remonsrated with the perpetrator of the outrage, who replied coolly that in her judgment the storvwas greatly improved bv the omission of the last chapter.—- Daily Chronicle.’

THE CULMINATION OF A ROMANCE. Many peop.e are interested in the an- ? 0lI ?- ( ; e ,? enfc of thc betrothal of Miss Marv L. Wilkms to Dr Charles Freeman. Miss VV ilkirts is unquestionably the leading American authoress, although her novels have never enjoyed the vogue in England which the works of some other less gifted American wiper.., nave attained. Like Mr Kiplinw she shrinks from publicity, and avoids the interviewer. She has been engaged for some time, but hoped to keep tho fact of her engagement a secret until the eve of her marriage, which comes as the culmination of a romance almost like the plot of one of her own novels. Years ago she met her fiance while visaing friends, and he asked her to be his wife bhc accepted, but the betrothal a\as kept secret; then a combination of circumstances drove them apart, and a complete separation seemed inevitable. A year ~..,, tne difficulty was removed, and nnw'both are looking forward to the appropriate ending of all romances-marriage. Miss Wilkins ], forty years old, but looks considerably .vounger. Dr Freeman is a few years her junior. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Lady Henry Somerset, speaking at Clifton on the Duxhurst Homes, said the Inebriate r eii m. Colony had been six jn existence, and from 60 to 65 per cent', of those who left were steading well. They had this year ionised 3,000 cases for want of room. If d.c could live her life over again she would use it to tiy to show the suffering the children had to bear through drink. Lady Harberton, presiding at a meeting of the Rational Dress League, held in Porchestcr Hall, wore a grey'suit consisting of a cmvt and knickerbockers. At least a score ot ladies present wore bifurcated garments. HnrbeUon, in iin address, condemned the long skirt. Probably it would in time bo considered as foolish for a woman to walk out in a long dress as for a man to go into the street in a dressing gown. Mother Hupcrior Teresa and Sister Evangeline. two nuns who nursed the sick 'and wounded during the siege of Mafeking, were , presented to the Queen at Windsor. They will shortly return to Mafeking. Tiie Queen of Holland has intimated her “ sincere thanks ” to her Dutch subjects at home and abroad who have expressed their sympathy and fidelity ' 1 on the occasion of her betrothal.

furs Lain. Fisher (once of Rockhampton, Queensland) recently acquitted herself of a considerable feat by swimming from Bembridge (Eng.) to Eea View and back, a distance of seven miles, with but a brief interval for rest between the two trips. Mi-s Fisher, who was in London for the marriage of her cousin. Miss Violet D’Arcv, is about to return to Sydney. Princess Radziwil). whose jewels were the subject of an action in the Court of Queen’s Bench, is the descendant of a srreat Polish family. She is a woman of great personal charm and remarkable gifts! Bismarck found her so clever in Berlin that lie virtu ally banished her from Germanv. The Princess, who takes a keen interest in international affairs, had written a semi-political novel, which did not meet with the Chancellor's approval, mid as the royal novelist was also a, warm friend of the Empress Frederick the Prince had a double interest in getting her out of the way. Princess Radziwil! knows Mr Rhodes at home, and talks of him in the sumo breath as Cicsar

and Peter the Great. Mr Rhodes, she declares. will live because he has realised the biggest problem-—the using of money for high aims. “He has handled it,” she wrote not iong ago. “ as Cortes did his sword and Ciesar ids legions—to give his country an empire.”

Some of the leading ladies in Parisian society have started a fund of which Gic object is to give the work girls of the capita.] the treat of an occasional visit to tlie theatre. The Mi mi Pinson fund—it would have been difficult to choose a more appropriate name- is the outcome of a campaign carried on with irrepressible zeal by M. Gustave Gharpentier, the rising composer, whose ‘ Louise,’ produced at the Opera Comique, has been the event of the musical season. The subscriptions that ha.ve already come in amount in a very respectable sum. The work girls arc now invited to send in their names to the organisers of the fund, and in turn they will receive a free pass for “ paradise "-—which, in the language of these young people, means the upper gallery. Early last year Mass Agnes Slocum, the daughter of a. Vermont fanner loccordyjg to the ‘Westminster Gazette’), heard that strawberries were selling in the Philippines at, a pint. Within a few days she was on her way to the islands, carrying with tier 500dol capital and a stock of. strawberry plants. Her first letter home reported that, she had secured two acres of excellent land,’ and that all her crop for the-first season had already been engaged. She is now a prosperous planter, being the owner of a strawberry farm of considerable dimensions. ■ Mrs Nancy Follifield, who lives near Ellenboro - , North Carolina, is believed to be the oldest woman in the world. The Rev. C. Lee, D.D.. investigated her history six years ago, and found her age then to be 115. Dr Lee, who died in his ninetieth year remembered Mrs Hollifield. who is a woman of color, as his nurse. She had then several grown children. A Londom correspondent is assured that Her Majesty the Queen has expressed a distinct hope that the widows and orphans of the men who died at the front will he generously treated. This hope was expressed to Lord Salisbury personally. It was stated at the War Office that as a. result of this request a special provision will *hc made in the next Budget. The Queen is, as is well known in official circles, resolved to make provision herself for the upbringing of a number of orphans, °