WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 12640, 21 October 1905, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

[By Vrca.] ?▼!»*" wffl «n this column asswer al reasonable questions relating to the home, ecokery, domestic economy, and any topio of interest to her sex. But each letter must bear Um writer's bona fide name and address. K« notice *haterer will be taken of anonymous correspoaaents. Questions should bt concisely put, and tne writer's nom de plume le citarly written. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Anxious." —Would not advise you to try fiiher. Take a cupful of boiled milk on ixiiig to bed. Grate a little nutmeg into it. ic is splendid. •'A.J.G." —Before serving add a lump of sugar; it greatly improves the flavor. " Marie."—Clean your coral by boiling! for a few minutes in a soapy latiier. Rinse in clear water, and leave until dry. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. A Chicken Hot-pot.—Required : One 1. j-go fowl, three-quarters of a pound of ham. three ptunds of potatoes, half a pound of onions (Spanish, if possible), three-quarters of a pint of stock or water, i ;•(■ ounce of butter, salt, pepper. Have ■od-sized casserole or regular " 1i0t- !>...." Wash peel, and parboil the potan.od for ten minutes in salted water. Then cut them in rounds about threequarters' of an inch thick. Peel and cut the onions in rings. Cut the ham in large squares, and the chicken in convenient joints. Fill tint pot with layers of, first, chicken, then ham, opion, and seasoning, and potato till the casserole is full. The top layer must be of potato, and let the .slices overlap each other slightly. Pour in the stock. Put the batter"in small bits on the potatoes. Put on the lid and bake in a slow oven for about two hours and a-half to three hours. For the last hall-hour remove the lid, so that the potatoes may brown. If necessary, add more stock if it dries up at all. Hat-, and Rice Cutlets.—Required : One | pound of ham, quarter of a "ound of j boiled rice, hilt a gill of thick white I sauce, three eggs, one ounce of butter, I salt and nep.n r, two teaspoon fills of ; chopped parsley, cue tcaspoonful of i chopped onion. l>rer-r:i crumbs. Chop the i nam tineiy with tho rice and parsley, j Melt the batter in a pan, and fry the I onion in ii for three or four minutes. | .Next add the ham, etc. Make them hot , thi-oaga, tbe.'i add the white sauco, and j beat well. Separate the yolks and whites ] of two eggs, beat n? the volks, and stir j them into tho mixture. Season it well, j then spread it on a plate to cool. Next j shape the mLrtnre into small cutlets. Beat up the remaining egg, cover each cutlet wi.h crumbs, then \vith the beaten egg, and hustly with egg. Have ready a pan ] of frying fat; when a faint bluish smoke ri.-ea from it put in some of the cutlets and fry them a pretty golden brown. Drain them on kitchen paper. Place a piece of parsley stalk at the end of each cutlet to represent the bone, and serve on lace paper. Hydropathic Pudding.—Required : Half a pound each of red and black currants. cherries and raspberries, half a pound of sugar. Stalk and carefully look over the fruit. Put it in a pan with the sugpr ' ■j,nd stew it nicely. Line a plain mould I or basin with pieces of stale bread. Fill | in tho centre with the hot stewed fruit. | place a round of bread on the top. Put ! a plate over the basin, with a weight on j it to press the pudding well. Leave it till cold, then turn the pudding carefully ! cat on to a. hot dish aE<l serve with it : some cream or good boiled custard. It is advisable to make the pudding the day : before it i 3 required, as it is then firmer ; ami easier to turn out. I

Stuffed Tomatoes.—Required : Four or six ev.-n-si/.'d tomatoes, three ounces ui a:iv cold meat or poultry, two tablespoonfi'ls of bread crumbs, two teaopocnfuls of chopped parsley, one teaspooninl of chopped cnion (if liked), and pepper, one oui'vo of butter or good dripping. Wipe the tomatoes, and with a sharp knife remove a

piece from the centre of each, then scoop cut nume of tho pulp, so as to have a cavity in which to put tho meat mixture. Jli:i'--» the meat finely; mix with it the ciumbs. parsley, onion, and a seasoning >.f salt ai:d pepper. Put these infrredinnts in a saucepan, add to them the pulp taken out of (he tomatoes and a little stock or gravy. also tho butter. Ptir these over the fire, thru fill in the tom:Uoes carefully, th? mixture well down: it should be slightly he-ipc-d up on tho top of each. SpnnVle over it a few nicely-browned bread crumbs. Put the tomatoes on a baking tin in the iron till thoy are hot through and just 30ft. 'rrange each on n neat round of but er 1 t".:. l ;t, ard serve them hot.

Mat p of Fruit.—Required: Half \ pouii'l ■■•' - '' -tiuc ir, on* lemon, one pint of water. li.iii j, pound fti-cb of laspberries, led and white entrants, strawberries, cherries, and apricots, quarter of a pound of grapes. Put the water, sugar, and thinlypared lemon-rind in a saucepan on the fire, and let it boil for ten minutes: there should be no lid on tho pan. Skim tiki's s;rup, then add the raspberries, which must first bo carefully looked over and stalked. Brirg it to tho boil, and skim it well, then leo-vo till cold. Pick over the currant-* and strawberries, stone the cherries, and stcr.e and quarter tho apricots. ?dix these iill together in a bowl. Pouv over the synrp and the juico of half the lemon, ar.d if possible leave it on ice till required. If any of tho fruit mentioned cannot be obtained. any other soft fruit in season rrrcvv be substituted. CVic.T-p S'poi tre Cake.—B. at two eggs with a little less than a teaspoonful of castor s*!2r*-r for twenty minutes; add a teaspoonful of oranje flower water or a little vanilla, and stir in a cupful of flour Do this cjuieklv. Pour into a. buttered tin. Bake for one half-hour. Ficnk' Patties. —Cut some very small French rolls in half, scoop out the crumb, put a thin laver of cucumber inside, round tho sides and at the bottom; fill with •ithcr minced ehifken. lobster, or salmon mixed with thick mayonnaise sauce, and a chopped gerkin. Oaroish with a littlo tspic jelly if at band, and dish round with dressed salal. » HINTS. Mitrl stains on b'-sck c'.oth will yield 1 to a rabbin? with th* rut sift.* of a raw potato. A little sfoip mixed with stove blaekmc will produce better and more lasting lustre than without. P.nb a creaking with a, very sort fcwl tippcS. To'clean copper boilers and oftor copper ar*l bras? cookins utensils, half a lemon dipped in salt will bo as efficacious as oxalic a-cH. Potato peelimrs, if dried in the oven, are said to be very useful for fire kindling. If strffieientlv abundant, they may be used instead of wood, but in any case they will economise it. Chamois is one of the few things which crimes out smooth and soft from washinir if wrunir directly from the «>apßuds witho'it rinsing in clear cold water. The latter process tends to harden it. In a house where a large number of Irmps are used, it is better to keen them in a little closet by themselves than to cvpose them on a shelf m the kitchen, V:re thev are sure to collect dust. i"nk spilled on the carpet may be taken without leaving a stain if dry salt be >'.ied immediately. As the salt be-<■■-i diroolored brush it off and apply : r . Wet slicditly. Continue until the i lias disappeared. Many nervou? women affirm they find ■resolves greatly benefited when they fol- '':.•. tho plan of every hour or two toking ri.ik of water, cool and fresh. Medical declare that we should 1 be helped in ■■•us ways if we were more thoughtful persistent in this respect. *rer sw<*epinjr the carpet, rub it ower i a cloth \rrang oat in vinegar and .', arid, if possible, do not let it be -.'. •.:!,< d upon untu it is dry. Tho quantity of vinegar is a teaenpful to a ptdl of warm w:it»r, and this treatment often has a wonderfully good effect in wvrring the faded coior of an old carpel.

Apply glycerine to « scald directly tho accident happens, and cover it with strips «i rags soaked in glycerine. If glycerine is not at hand, arppry salad oil in the tamo manner.

Even when there is cream in the coffee thi? stain of ft may be removed from silk a*d other defceato iahrica. far, brnrtrinryiho

'spate -with pure gryoerine. The glycerine must then be raised out in lukewarm water, and the spot pressed out on Che wrong side with a warm iron. WOMEN AS C»NVEKSATIONAIJSTS. "It is strange, in reflecting about tho memorable talks I have held with different people ** (a contributor to the ' Oornhill' remarks), "to find that I remember beet the talks that I have bad with men rather than the women. There is a kind of simple openness, an equal comradeship in talks with men, which I find it difficult to attain in tie case ■of women. T suppo&e that some unsuspected mystery of stat creepe in, and that with women there is a ■whole range of experiences and emotions that cmeTaoes not share, so that there is an invisible and intangible harrier erected between the two minds. I feel, too, in talking with women' that I am met with almost too nfuch sympathy and tact, so that one falls into an egotistical mood It is difficult, too, I find, to be as frank in talking with women as with men j because I think that women tend more than men to hold a preconceived idea of one's character and tastes, and it is difficult to talk simply' and naturally to anyone who has formed* ;i mental picture of one, especiullv if one U aware that it is not correct. B'.it men nre slow to form impressions, and thus talk is more experimental; moreover, in talking with men, one encounters more opposition, and opposition puts one more on one's mottle." PETTICOAT PHILOSOPHY. Ther» is another extreme that we are falling into in this twentieth century—en eve-for an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth brand of liin-wendejioe, while the brotherhood that should blond and sweeten all our dailractions is treated as a vocation, a thine set apart, and labelled " Charity" or " Social Service." It seems to me that the Christian law of silent burden-bearing is far finer and more subtio than t&js, in that it leav?s no obligations in its wake.— " Barbara." An empty human heart is on abyss earth's depths cannot match.—Anne C Lynch. Nice distinct joins are troublesome; it >-; so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbor is good for nothinc than to cuit-cr into all the circumstance"! that would oblige you to modify that opinion.—George Wot. liiT-eral notions are generally wrong.— Lady Mary Wortiey Montagu. To acknowledge our thoughts when we aro blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness is confidence ; but to preach them to the world, i/ one. does not take core, is pride.—Joanna South cort.

An ig-ftoraoco of ireans may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Makes it inrrpo-sihle to be great at all. —FJizabith Barrett Browning.

Man dwcl's ajxyt, though not alone, Ho walks among bis poem unread; Tho be.it of thoughts which he hath known. For lack of listeners are not said. —Jean Ingeiow. Small occasions in tho path of life Lie thickly sown, while great are rarely scatter'd. —Jciuira Baillie,

ENGLISH LADIES' DRESS IN INDIA. Mr Samuel Smith, M.P., writes to the 'British Wceklv' as follows:

I noto that some of the newspapers are dis-ev.ssinjj social questions during tin? holiday season. May I be allowed to raise one question wh ch is rarely or never referred to, but which has much to do witn vromoa's inflTjonce for good? A visit to India last winter impressed mo v.-ith the ex 'Sterroo of a grave hindrance to nrisskn work, iund a serious obstaeie to the f--ppexui of Christian civilisation. The Indian people, and indeed all Oriental nations that 1 krow of, have a dep eease o! the im-port-mce of female ritxhs-ty. They iiit-ist upuji see'ijy attire, and revoli at the fash ions of London society. Yot I raw in Indian hotels several ladies extremely de eoliete. In the verandahs, wiiich arc about as open as the streets at homo, yvu see kidies parading in the seini-nude attire of London ballrooms, quito unconscious that they are. shocking the rcliinous convictions of the Indian people. Indeed. th'»s cause does not .a little to neutralise the splendid influence of the missionaries ia India—at least, in the groat cities. Out national position in India depends far more on moral than material force. On the whole, the people of I rid-a believe that, ouj civilisation is superior to theirs, and they sf-o many fine examples of duty-doing and earnest lives anions the official class. But woman's influence speaking broadly—is r.ot what it should be, partly from the want of home duties and partly from th? importatioa of fashions -which a-ro repuy riant to Indian opinion.

Uow this th to be remedied I know not, but tho r-.al source of the evil is in London society, uhoso fast men and women are lowering tho moral (standard in all portions of the British Rmpire. The real danger to Britain is in the relaxed morality of many of the richer classes. This has spread like a miasma all over the land, and oimj of the signs of it is the decay of womanly refinement in theco circles. Tlw the amusemtnts, and the dres3 of this idl» and luxurious class aro wholly unchristian. Thero is a mad thirst for pleasure, witi, no regard to consequences, pod I with anxiety the effect upon the hundreds of millions of dependent zaeej, who look to us for light and leading. Yet alongside of this corrupting current there » a, pure stream of imselfish Christian life. I saw not a little of this in India, and it was by no means confLned to missionary circles, while at home there » undoubtedly a rising spiritual tide proceediing from relickrus revival. Is it not a time to aak whether we cannot do something to restore more modest and seemly modes of dress? Should not Christian ladies deoline to follow unwholesome fashions? Should not every every act of our Evesbe subject to the great law—"Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God "1 Could rot a movement be started by ladlies of character and social position to correct these abuses? If you should open your columns to a discussion of this subject, perhaps it would lead to fruitful suggestions, and a public appeal might afterwords be made by r prcsentative mo.n and women, which I feel sure wonkl evoke a widespread response.