WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

[Br Viva.] "Viva" will in this column answer all feasonable questions relating to the home, Jookery, domestic economy, and any topic of interest to her sex. But-each letter must bear the writer's bona lido name and address. No notice whatever will be taken of anonymous correspondents. Questions should be concisely put, and the writer's nom de plume be clearly written. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Miss A."—Wash in water to which a little methylated spirit has been added. Iron while still damp on tho wrong side. " Inquirer."—Add a few drops of liquid nmnroiua to soma Godard's plate powder. Then rub well with this, polish with a clean chamois, and brush the crevices welL The ammonia is splendid. " Tired Mother."— Have you tried Dr Mackenzie s arsenical soap? It is a little more ena ! ve than usual, but it is excellent. !<w*9'" —kook in recipes for pot-pourri. Valerie."—Pickled Cucumbers : Required— Oho gallon of water, half a teaspoonful of red pepper, five heaping tablespoonfuls of salt* fifty grape leaves, twelve cucumbers. Pub the water, salt, and pepper in a twogollort deep earthehware jar, and allow it to stand one hour until salt is thoroughly dissolved. Wash your cucumbers, which must be of medium sizo and not thick, and put them in the solution. Wash the grape leaves and put them on top. Select a flat stone or any suitable weight, and place it on top of tha leaves so that the cucumbers are kept well below the top of the water. If they get to the top they will spoil. Throw away the Did leaves every few days, putting fresh ones r.n; keep the jar out of the sun. If preferred, you can use capsicums or bird's-eye chirks in place of the red popper. If procurable, an old port wine cask is much better than the vine leaves. Before placing your cucumbers in the cask wash each one and prick the top with a knitting needle. The cucumbers should be ready for use -in a month or six weeks. HUCrSEHOLD RECIPES. Celery Soup.—"Celery soup may be made with white stock. Cut down the white of half a dozen heads of celery into little pieces and boil it in four pints of white stock, with a quarter of a pound of lean hum and two ounces of butter. Simmer gently for a full hour, then strain through a sieve, return the liquor to the pan, and stir iu a few spoonfuls cf cream with great rare. Serve with toasted bread, and, if liked, with a little flour. Season to taste. Noodles for Soup.—B~at up one egg light, add a pinch of salt, and flour enough, lo make a very stiff dough ; roll out very thin, like thin pie-crust, "dredge with flour to keep from sticking. % Let it remain on tho board to dry for an hour or rrore; then roll it up into a tight scroll, like a sheet of ramie Begin at the end, and slice it into slips as thin as straws. After all are cut, mix them lightly together, and to prevent them from sticking keep thorn floured «i. little until ycu are ready to drop them mto your soup, which should be done shortly before dinner, for if boiled too long they will go to pi-ces. Pish and Oy; ter Pie.—Required : Any remains of cold fish, such as ccd, two dozen oysters, pepper and salt to taste, breadcrumbs, sufficient for the quantity of fish, halga teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, one teaspoonful of finely-chopped parsley) Clear the fish from the bones, and put a 'layer of it in a pie-di-h, which sprinkle with pepper and salt; then a layer of breadcrumb, oysters, nutmeg, and chopped parsley. Repeat this till the dish is" quite full." Ycu may form a cover cither of breadcrumbs winch should be browned, or puff-paste' whi.-h should he cut off into Ion," strips' and laid m cress bars over the dish, with n hne of the past > fir t laid round the putting on the top. pour in some nvd* melted butter, or a little thin whit" sauce and the oyster-liquor, and bnke. 15 cooked fish it will t->ke a quarter of an .nra\ if made of fresh fish and puff-paste ;hii?«sqrnarfc?7B of an hour to cook. _ Lobster Patties—Cut somo boiled lobster ;n nieces, then take the small rkw* ana the spawn, put them in a mifcable d>'h and jam them to a paste with a potato masher. Now add to them a hdfrW of gravy with a few breadcrumbs. Ret it over the fire and boil, stnr'.n it through a strainer or sieve, to the thickness of a cream, and put htlf cf it to your lobsters and save the other half to satice them w.-'tli after they are baked. Put to the lobsters Ihe bigness of an eg? m butter, a lit tip pepper and salt, squeeze in a lemon, and warm .these over the fire enough to melt Hie butter. Set it to cool, and sheet vour pacty-pan or a plate or dish with crood miffpaste, then put in your lobsters, and cover it with a paste; bake it within thnvouarters of an hour before vcru want it when it is baked cut up voar cover and warm up the other half of vonr pance abovementioned, with a little butter, to the thickness of cream, and pour lit'over your patty, with a little squeezed lemon Cut yc.ur_eov.er in two. and lay it on the top. two inches distant, so that what is imd'r may be seen. You may bake crawfish shrimps, or prawns the same way; nnd they are all proper for plates or little dishes for a. second course.

Chicks Croquette.'.—Put a cupful of milk ma saucepn.n, set it over the fire, and when it boils add a lump of butter as hr<"> as an eg 2 , in which has been mixed a tabfespoonful of flour. Let at boil up thick" remove from ; the fire, and when, cool 'mix wttn it a teaspoonfnl of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, a bit of minced onion or parsley one cup of fine breadcrumbs, and a pint of finely-chopped cooked chicken cither roasted or boiled. Lastly, beat tip two eggs, and work in with "the whole luour your bunds and make into small round, flat cakes : dip in e<r<* (ind breadcrumbs, and fry like fish cakes, in butter and rrcod sweet lard mixed, or like fried cakes in plenty of hot lard. Take them up •with a skimmer and lav them on brown paper to free them from the grease. Servo hot.

G'old Roa*t Warmed.—Cold roast beef mav be made as rood as when fresh I v cooked bv slicing, seasoning with salt pepper, and bits of butter] put it in a plate or pan with a spoonful or two of water, covering closelv, and set in the oven until hot. but no longer. Cold stealmay be shaved verv fine with a. knife aM u<ed in the same way. Or, if the meat m m small pieces, cover fhem wrth Tittered letter-paper, twist eyh end tightly, and. bro'T them on a crridiron. spri.nMin.rr them with finelv-chonped h-rn". Still another nice way of using- cold meats is to mince the lean portions very fine, and add to a batter made of on© pint o* milk, one cur. of flnir. and three errs, y vv \j\- p fritters and serve wiith dnwn bu+ter or satire Cnlf* Fftid 'Cheese.—Boil n ™iPs bed in water enoncrh to cover it until the m-at lc-veis the bones, tbm take it with a skimmer into a wooden, bowl cr trav. frOm it every of br.rv\ chop ifc small, season with nenner and salt, and a ryamnrr t'-blesnonnful of wit .?~d a tea sroonf'd of penrer will be snnvje.it. jf Mrerl. add a t-bHnxionfnl of fi.relv-cbopp°cl sweet herbs. hv in a clcth in a put the* rrrnced mr>at into it. then fold the cloth closely over it. lav a p'afe over, and on it a irTvfle weirrht. When cold it maybe filioed thin for supper or sandwiches. Srwfl each slice with nvnde mustard. _ Chili Sauce.—Boil together two dozen ripe tomatoes, three small Green peppers, or a'half-tenspoonful of cayenne pepper] one onion cut fine, half v a cup of' mwar' Boil until thick, tlien add two cups" of vinerrar, then strain the whole, set back on the fire, and add a tablespoonful of salt and a teasnoorfu] each of finger, allspice, cloves, and cinnamon. 801 l all' for five minutes, remove, and seal in 'glass bottles Potato Biscuit.—Boil six good-sized potatoes with their jackets on, take them out with a skimmer, drain and squeeze with a towel to ensure be : ng dry. Then remove the skin, mask them perfectly free frcm lumps, add a tablespoonful of butter, cne egg.and a pint c r r-nveet. milk. When cool beat in half a cup of yeast. Put in just enough flour to make a stiff dough. When tlTis rises, make into small cakes. Let them rise the same as biscuit, and bake a delicate brown. This dough is very fine dropped into-meat soups for pot-pie. Lemon Pie—Required : One coffeecupful "of sugar, three eggs, one cupful of water, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one heaped tablespoonful of flour, the juice and a little of the.rind of one lemon. Res ive the whites of the eggs, and after the pie is baked spread them over the top, beaten lightly, with a spoonful of sugar, and re-l-noa to the oven until it is a light brown.

This may be cooked before it is put into the crust or rot, but it is rather better to cook it first iu a double boiler or dish. It makes a medium-sized pie. Bake from thirty-five to forty minutes. Solid Cream.-—'Required: Four table- , spoonfuls of pounded sugar, one quart of cream, two tablespoonfuls of brandy, the juice of one large lemon. Strain the- lemon juice oyer and add the brandy, then stir in the- cream, put the mixture into a pitcher, and continue pouring from one pitcher to another, until it is quite thick, or it may be whisked until the desired cons'stency is obtained. It should bo served in jelly glasses. Pot-Pourri.—Take 'the petals of the pale and red roses, pinks, violets, moss roses, orange flower, lily of the valley, acacia flowers, elove-gilliflower, mignonette, heliotrope, and jonquds, with a very small quantity of the flowers of myrtle, balm, roemary, and thyme. Spread out forsomo days, and as they become dry put into a j jar with alternate layers of dry ealt, mixed with orris powder, till the vessel is full; I close for a month, then stir -the whole up ! and moisten it with tox water. You may use petals of any flower you like, but those i with the strongest perfume are most .vuitI able.

Almond Cakes.— flour, lib butter, lib sugar, two eggs, chopped almonds, essence of vanilla to taste. Mix dry ingredients together; add butter, eggs, essence, and almonds; work all into a nice dough; cut spices; shape and dip into beaten white of egg; then into sugar, and lastly into almonds. Bake on buttered slides in a moderate oven. Castor sugar is best for these cakes. HINTS. If a fish bone becomes stuck in the throat a raw egg swallowed immediately will generally cany it down. To darn a tear neatly use ravellings of the material, and press' carefully ou the wrong side with a hot iron. To purify the air.—A little coffee burned on hot coals will purify a sick room* and destroy objectionable smells. Don't slice apples for cooking. Instead, quarter and core theni. If tho apples are very large, divide each quarter in two.

To heat dishes steep them for a few minutes in hot water. This is a much better way of heating them than putting them in the oven.

Copper saucepans should be washed in hot soda water, and cleaned with, soap and silver sand. Rinse and polish with a leather and dry- whiting. Common kitchen salt thrown upon the fire will put out a tire in the chimney. All tho doors and windows in the room should be closed to prevent draught. A Hint to the. Cook.--When making pastry leave the edges quite untouched. The air in the paste causes the flaket, so it must not be pressed out. This rule holds good when making all kinds of pastry.

When chopping suit it is a good thing to sprinkle it with a little ground rice This will prevent it sticking to tho knife, and it will chop quite easily A spoonful of vinegar put in the water in which meat or fowls are boiled makes them tender.

Before frying bacon soak it in water for three or four minutes. This will •prevent the fat from running, and will make the bacon go further.

To prevent made mustard from drying and caking in the mustard pot, mi':; a, little ealt when making it, and it should always be made with boilina; water or milk.

Stains on knives, however obstinate, or long standing, will dir-anr-oar if nibbed with a piece of raw potato dipped in brick dust.

It is a mistake to lay scrubbing brushes with the bristle side upwards. They should always be put with the bristles downward, otherwise the water will seak into the wooden part, and the bristles very soon become lcose. THE SIMPLE LIFE. The members of the Women's Club, one of Chicago's most- powerful female organisations, have framed a practical prescription dealing with the above, and have recommended its adoption not only hy their own clientele, but by all true women in the United States. But it has not to be used intermittently—that would be purposelessit must be taken four times daily: on arising every morning, before luncheon, again before dinner, and, lastly, before retiring. It is believed that, if foken regularly, the remedy will work greater wonders with the modern woman than did the concoction of the enchantress Circe with the followers of .Ulyss.-s. Before the prescription was-ac-cepted the members of the Women's Club reached the conclusion .that the most dangerous ailments' from which woman is suffering to-day are the' habit of extravagance in everything, prodigality in and love for the "froel.ed -aid tucked existence," instead of devotion to the simple life' The following is the test of the prescription :

Discard your silk petticoats. Direct your energies to the cultivation of your soul instead of to the ruination of your digestion. Save your time, your money, and your opportunities.

Go back to the home and seek your greatest pleasure there. Make your own skirts, so you will not be unnerved by standing for" hours in a dressmaker's establishment while you are being fitted. Make your skirts round and simple. Do not allow punctuality to be the thiol of time. Turn your back on frivolity. Simplify your lives in every way. WOMEN AS WAGE-EARNERS. At Bedford College, London. Mr G. H. Wood, F.S.S., recently addressed a meeting convened by the Women's Industrial Council on "Ike Economic Position of Women as Wage-earners.' He raid that during the last fifty years some very remarkable changes had taken place. For instance, in agriculture in 1851 there were three men to one woman, but now there were eighteen mtn to each woman. That made it obvious that women had left agriculture more than men. 'Perhaps the chief women's industry apart from domestic service, was the cotton trade. There, in 1851, men and women were practically equal, but in 1901 there were ten women to every seven men. In the lace trade, on the other hand, men s-eemed to be slew I v displacing women. While in the last fifty years the number of males employed in that industry had grown from 9.0G0 to 15.000, the number of females had fallen from 52,C00 to 24,000. Generally speaking, women -seemed to be getting', hold of the lighter centralized forms of employment .During the pas"t twenty \ears wom~ifs wages had increased in cotton, wool, and wonted and holsery. but had lost in other trades. It was very significant that wher; as among men theio ua, a marked tendency to leave badly-paid trades for those where better wages could be obtained, no such movement could be observed among women. The first trade which came handy seemed to be • the one which a woman adopted, i.'he seemed to make no attempt to find the best outlet for her labor. NOVEL GROUND OF DIVORCE. Monsieur 8., teacher of foreign languages in a public school at Algiers, married Mdme B. before the Kaiser went to Tangier. The lady is a German, though not a Prussian, being from Baden. She has, of course, become French by marriage, but her feelings remain true to the Fatherland. Monsieur 8., on the other hand, is a vigorously patriotic Frenchman. They agreed" not to mix up politics with matrimony, and all went well until the German Emperor's visit to Tangier. Then the lady's feelings got the better of her resolutions. She removed a non-committal statuette of Psyche or Diana, of the usual drawing room "pattern, from the mantelpiece, and set up in its stead a bust of Bismarck. The patriotic professor nearly fell down when the Iron Chancellor faced him from the fireplace. The next morning pictures of Napoleon I. and Sadi Carnot had disappeared .from the drawing room, and portraits of German officers in full dress glared down at Monsieur B Finally, the Grand Duke of Baden, in the uniform of a Prussian general, was hung in the place of honor. This was too much for Monsieur 8., and he instantly commenced proceedings for a divorce, "on the ground.of outraged patriot-

ism." He pointed'out that Mdme B.'s be-1 haviour in the present state of European politics was unbearable, more especially I as Algeria adjoins Morocco, which had provided the occasion or the excuse for the prevailing tension. Mdme B had, accordingly, done petitioner a "grave injury" within the meaning of the Act, and lie was entitled to a decree. But the Courts have' impatriotically decided otherwise, and seemed, in fact, inclined not to take Monsieur's grievances seriously. The First Tri-. burial rejected hU petition, because an injury done to petitioner's patriotic feelings, , though regrettable, was nob tantamount to injuries of another kind such as could constitute a sufficient ground for divorce ; and the Court of Appeal of Ahjiers has just dismissed' his second suit for the same' reason. He will'have to go on looking at •Bismarck over his fireplace, unless he has the spirit to defy Mdme B. and remove the obnoxious Iron Chancellor himself, which does not seem to be the' case. QUEER- TRADES FOR WOMEN. According to recent census returns, out of 303 occupations in which men aa© engaged in the United States, women arc found in 300. The following table of thenumber of American women engaged in, diff rent pursuits will be of interest to .Engl suwomen who earn their own livelihood : —193 blacksmiths, 190 livery stable keepers, 3 steam boilernvakers, 126 plumbers, 409 electricians, 1,04- architects, 167 stonemasons, 545 carpenters, 45 plasterers, 1.750 house-painters, 241 paperhangers, 989 quaniers, 904 teamsters, 84 civil engineers, 1.663 railway employees, 48 street car employees, 571 machinists, 186 millers, 325 undertakers, 5,574 barbers, 8,119 doctors, 807 dentLts, 11,031 agists, 2,193 journalists, 1,010 lawyers, 3,378 preacliers, 946 commercial travellers. 10,556 business agert:s, 85,246 clerks, 74.153 bookkeepers, 150.000 .-aleswomen. 7,000 messengers, 3,000 porters, 879 watch-woni-en, 86,118 typ.sts. DOUBLE BRIDAL VEILS. Brasses lace veils are so fu.hkmable now for the purpose of covering the bride's countenance th.it quite a brisk business is being done by clever coiffeurs, who, m addition to dreeing the bride's hair, niuko an art of arranging the veil, the tiara of orange blossom-, or, whatsoever other ornament the bride elects to wear. There are two ■ major difficult ias in the way of arranging a tulie veil and a Brussels lace veil. A tulle one. if it be placed on the luiad wrong the first time, cannot be tampered w;th to 'work impiovemesi'ts. Another length of the fabric must be substituted for it, or the effect will be a failure. Almost as potent an objection applies to the veil of Brussels lace, which distorts the features by half luiding them, ox else blots them out altogether. Moreover, it Very much- obstructs tha vision of its wearer. In order to solve the difficult question of overcoming a.LI these drawback., a recent, bride- introduced" the new custom of wearing two veils. Over her face the orthodox tulle one was disposed like a cloud, but hanging down her back was the rich Bnp-sc!i3 ku.-e one, Looped up in graceful folds, with chimps of orange blossom behind eacli car. In the vcs'Uy the tulle veil was removed, and the rich lace one was left iloatimy duwn the train of the toilette. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. An extraordinary double wedding has taken p ace at the Chinch of Ste-Mark-de.'.'-Batignoilos, Pans. Two twin brothers married twin s sters, and were attended bytwo twins as L\.yt men. The bridegroom's were MAI Alphonse and Gabriel Chanteau, both well-known' artists, and so much alike ;\s to be constantly mistaken for each other. The brides were Mdlles Genevieve and Suzanne Renaud, also \o alike as to bs indistinguishable except in the matter of costume. The best men were twin cousins cf the bridegrooms, MM. Gustave and Maurice Frounzur, who likewise are identical in appearance. It \7as a case of doubles all round, but they were sorted out all right at the aitar, to their great satisfaction.

_ A romantic' affair is reported -from Brescia, near the Swii.s-ltalia.fi frontier. A rich Italian lady fell ill, and a sister from a neighboring convent wes sent to attend on her. At the house the aister often met an Italian musician, and they fell in love with each other. On her return to the convent the sister gave her confidence to the mother superior, on whose advice the young lady renounced her vows, with a view to an early marriage with her musician lover. _ A fortune of £830,000 is awaiting the rightful heirs of the. late Duchess Felicitasf Bevilacqua de la Masa. widow of the Duke c!e Masa, one of Garibaldi's generals, who died without issue. The story of the deceased lady reads like a romance. A

found ling, she was adopted by a childless couple nt Valdagn-o named Bovilacqua, in whose house she was ;i general seiTant until he> beauty. attracted the attention of the drke, who afterwards married her at Venice in 18-18. Much excitement reigns at Yaldagno, where several families bearing the name of Bevilacqua, mostly belonging to the- working chides, are still living. Though a marriage with the duke was known to have taken place, no certificate in proper legal form could be found, and so the elaima of the distant relatives must, for the present remain in abeyance. Renewed searches are now being made, says the 'Secolo' of Milan, in the parish register? in Venice to discover the all-im-portant missing document. A sad love tragedy was enacted a. week ago at the village of Dado, in the canton of Tessin, Switzerland. The belle of the village, a girl of eighteen, had been secretly eiigaged to a farmer, but her father refused bifj consent to the marriage. Finding that entreaties had no effect, the young couple decided to commit suicide. The farmer bought a revolver, and a walk through the woods he fired four shots at his sweetheart, killing her on the spot. He then carried the body to the cemetery, a mile off, placed it on a prave, and shot himself through the heart The bodies were discovered by a frnwrdigger. A young student of the Technical High School at Chariot tenburg has been arrested in Berlin, caught red-handed in cutting off a long plait of hair from an unsuspecting young lady's head. For some time past the streets of Berlin were a terror to young ladies wearing their hair in the Gretchen style. Some unknown person had shorn off the tresses of a number of L'.'rl' vr.d, not Withstanding the watchfulness of the police, he managFd to evade detection The lolice oiPiCers who virihd his lo!:-- ngs. b nnd thirty-one long .'ails of ha:r n-.-tlv tied w.th ribbon. On each 1 hbon was the date cj which tho plait I o-:->raied iad bitn cut oft.

The other day 'M. Merou, a rfs;dtnt of Plassy (France) was married *o t: c daughter of a wealthy mi reliant, who <:ave her a ' marriage portion oJ £IO,OOO. The other morning the newly-married tou )Ie rcci lved the cheque from the lawyers 01 the bndo s father, and returned home. During tie momentary absence of her husband, the bride slipped out of the house, taking the cheque with her, and spraaag into a cab in which the conductor of a Hungarian gipsy band awaited her. The cab then went off with all haste. The husband has thus lost his bride and £IO,OOO four days after his marriage. After the declaration of the Wirral poll, Mr Lever, of Sunlight soap fame, motored to Port Sunlight. Four thousand operatives were awaiting him in the theatre, and a scene of wild enthusiasm followed. Prominent in stature and looks was a bonnie young forewoman. " Oh, I should like to kiss you, if I dared!" said she, excitedly. "Well, you Sic," diploiuathjij'y replied the new member, " Mrs Lever is ucrc." " May 1, ma'am? " a.?ked the girl, and Mrs Lever smilingly • nodded assent, her husband, being, soundly kissed forthwith. Other girl's followed "this one's example, and if Mr Lever had not hurriedly left the premises he might have beaten the record of Lieutenant Hcbeon, of the U.S. Navy, on a memorable occasion.