WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 14515, 5 November 1910, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

> j [By Viva.] "Viva" will in this column answer all reasonable questions relating to the home, cookery, domestic economy, and any topic of interest to her sex. But each letter must bear the writer's bona fide name and address. No notice whatever will be taken of anonymous correspondence. Questions should be concisely put, and the writer's nom de plume clearly written. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Molly."—Have given the recipe for ginger beer this week. "Country Reader."—Make a paste of equal quantities of ammonia and fuller's earth. Apply to the spot, allow to dry, then brush off. It may be necessary to repeat the process several times. " Troubled."—Boracie lotion is excellent. With a tiny brush or a piece of wadding drop it gently, a drop at a time, into tho eye, and also bathe tho lids and lashes with it. ' " Home-made."—l always boil them together. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. A Plain Schoolroom Cake.—Rub half a pound of clarified dripping into two pounds of floor into which three teaspoontuls of baking powder have been mixed. Add three-quarters of a pound of sugar, and mix with a pint cf milk. Macaroni Savory.—Boil and drain quarter of a pound of macaroni; mix with it a small half-pint of white sauce, a cupful of finely-chopped ham, pepper, salt, and mustard. Place in a fireproof dish, scatter bread-crumbs over, pnt a few bits of butter on the top, and bake till brown in a hot even. Fruit Sponge Pudding.—Required: Four ounces oi flour, four ounces of butter, four ounces of Demerara sugar, two tablespoonfuls of milk, two tablespoonfnls of any 6toneless jam, two eggs, half a level teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Well grease a mould or pudding basin. Beat the butter and sugar until quite soft and creamy. Sieve the flour and castor sugar. Beat tho ems until frothy, then stir them gradually into the butter and sugar. Beat tho mixture well, next add the flour, milk, and jam. Mix very thoronghly. Turn the mixturo into the mould, twist a piece of greased paper tightly over the top of tho basin, and steam the pudding for two hours. Then take off the paper, turn the pudding carefully out on to a hob dish, and serve with it any nice sweety sauce. Note: Good dripping can be used instead of butter, and any stoned stewed fruit in place of jam. Also, the mixture may be cooked in small moulds or cups instead of in a large one. And it is very nice if baked instead of steamed. Scotch Toast.—Required : The remains of a dried haddock, one tomato, toast, two or three 6heDed walnuts. Remove all 6kin and bone from the haddock, chop it, and season it with pepper, and cut the tomato into slices. Have ready some neat rounds of toast. Spread a layer of haddock on each round, lay a slice of tomato on the top, and, lastly, half a walnut. Put the toasts in the oven till they are very hot and the tomato tender, then serve at once. Egg Fritters.—Required: To three hardboiled eggs allow two sardines, ono raw egg, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, vinegar. Boil the eggs for fifteen minutes, shell them, and lay them in cold water for a minute or two. Cut them in halves lengthways, take out the yolks, being careful not "to break the whites. Skrn and bone tie sardines, then mash them and the yolk* smoothly together, seasoning the mixture to taste with salt, pepper, and vinegar. If Hked, rub the mixture through a wire sieve, as it will make it smoother, but this is not necessary. Refill tho cases with it, smoothing it evenly over. Beat up the egg, brush each case all over with it, then cover with crumbs. Have ready a pan of frying fat, and when a faint bluish smoke rises from it pub in the fritters, one or two at "a time, and fry them a golden brown; drain them well, but do not pack them (if for a picnic) until cold. N. 8.: These fritters are delicious eaten hob for breakfast, lunch, or supper. Sultana Cake.—Required •. 'three-quarters of a pound of flour, six ounces of butter or good dripping, six ounces of sugar, eight ounces of sultanas, three ounces of mixed peel, four eggs, quarter of a pint of milk, one lemon-rind grated, two level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Sieve the Hour, baking-powder, and a pinch of salt together. Beat tha sngar and butter to a soft cream, tlun ad 1 the eggs one by one. beating each well in. ")'ext add the flour very lightly, and lastly the fruit, after stalking and cleaning it, tho chepped peel, and the grated lemon-rind. Lastly add the milk. Put the mixture into a caketin lired with two layers of greased paper, and bake it in a moderate oven If the top begins to get too dark before the middle has had time to bate, lay a piece of kitchen paper across the top of the tin. To make sura it is done enough, stick a clean skewer through the centre; if it comes out free from mixture the cake is done, if tho least bit is adhering to it it requires longer in the oven. ■'"Trench Steaks.—Required: Ono pound ' of fillet steak, two tablespoonfuls of salad oil, one ounce of butter, two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley, two teaspoonfuls of vinegar, two teaspoonfuls of chopped chutney, half a pound of new potatoes. Cut the meat into two neat rounds Lay tkeso en a dish, dust them with salt and pepper, and pour the oil and vinegar over them. Let them "marinade," as it is called, in this for about a quarter of an hour, then grill the steaks over a clear, bright fire for ten to twenty minutes, according to their thickness. Mfrr.iine, work together the hotter, parsl" and chopped chutney. Put the steaks on a hot dish, spread the"butter mature over tho top of each steak. Boil the potatoes (choose small ones of tho same size) in suited water with a sprig of mint; when cooked, drain off all tho water, and add a small piece toss Ihem about over the nro for a minute or two, then arrange them in heaps round tho dish. Serve at once. Note.—lf preferred, new carrots can bo used either as well or instead of the potatoes. Ginger Beer (by request).—Required : Two gallons and a-half of boiling water, two pounds and a-half of brown sugar, two ounces of whole ginger, five lemons, half an ounce of cream of tartar, two largo tablespoonfuls of brewer's yeast, or two ounces of compressed yeast. Pare the rinds of the lemons very thinly, and place them in a iarge jar or basin. Take off every scrap of pith from the lemons; slice them thinly, and take out all the pips. Put tho slices of lemon, sugar, and cream pf tartar in the basin with tho rinds. Bruise the ginger well- (the best way to do this is by beating it with a hammer or a flat-iron), and add if. to the other ingredients, then pour over all the boiling water. Cover and leave until tepid. Then, if you are using brewer's yeast, you merely stir it in, but if it is compressed yeast, mix it first with two teaspoonfuls of castor sugar, . when it will become liquid, and can be stirred in like fresh yeast. Put tho basin in a warm place, and let it stand for twenty-four hours. Next skim off the yeast carefully, and strain the liquid into clean, dry bottles. If possible use new corks for the bottles. Cork them down tightly, and tie the corks in their place. Lay the bottles on their aides, and in three days they will be ready for use. If yon have bottles with screw tops, so much "better, for you will get good results ««h infinitely less trouble. A Pink Cake.—Required: iwo ounces of butter, two ounces of sngar, one ounce of fine flour, one egg, one small teaEpoonfnl of baking powder, ono packet of raspberry Wane mange powder. Beat tie batter to a cream, add the sugar and some oi the floor (having uret mixed the pink powder and flour together), then add the eggs well beaten,' 'the rest of tho flour, , and the bakingjpowdeT. Bake in round, shallow tins. This quantity makes four totwU, Spread raspberry jam on two

of them, torn the others on to thsm, and cut across several times. They should not be baked until they are crisp; they should be rather soft. A Walnut Cake (by request) .—Required : Half a pound of butter, half a pound of castor sugar, quarter of a pound of flour, one toaspoonful of flavoring, naif a pound of chopped walnuts, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the batter to a cream, add the sugar and then the flour mixed with the baking powder. Mix well, and add the walnuts, flavoring, and eggs well beaten. Bake in a quick oven. When cold, cover with icing and ornament with, a few half walnuts. Bachelor's Buttons.—Rub two ounc«6 of butter into five ounces of flonr and five ounces of white sugar. Beat one egg and put it to tho other ingredients; add almond flavoring according to taste. Roll them in the hand till about tho size of a large nut; sprinkle them with sugar and place on tins with buttered paper. They should bo lightly baited. HINTS. A Grease Extractor.—A grease extractor is very useful for removing stains from dresses. It can be made by boating together in a mortar a quarter of a pound' each of soft soap and fuller's earth. Form the paste into cakes, and let them dry. When wanted for use, moisten the greasy spot with water, rub it with the cake, and allow tho flatter to dry on. Then rub tho spot with a eponge and warm water. When dusting do not use a frather duster except for pictures, as it simply moves the dust from one place to another. Tho uest plan is to have at hand a bowl of clean, cold water, wring a cloth out of this as dry as possible, and neo it to remove the dust. Then quickly polish with a clean, dry duster. If allowed to dry beforo rubbing, the furniture will look smeary. Books should be dusted at least once 1 a fortnight. A dry duster must be used for this, as a damp one might cause mildew. If the bindings have become mildewed, try rubbing them with a very iittle ammonia. They should be rubbed dry with a clean duster immediately afterwards.

For bruises and sprains we use our own embrocation, as good as any inan'6, and costing a more nothing. It is made in the following way :—The ingredients are two oggs, a wineglassful of turpentine, one of vinegar, and a wineglassftu of sweet oil. After beating up the eggs, work tho rest of the ingredients in gradually, beating well, so that they mix and work up into tlie consistency of cream. As it is so cheap one may indulge in real luxury, should stiffness or rheumatism assail the joints. Empty half a bottle into a hot hip bath. It-feels 60 ex travagant that that in itself is a pleasure, but the sensation of restfnlncss and the soothing effect makes ono declare that if it cost treble it would be worth it. -Japanned trays should never bo touched with hot water, for it will cause .the varnish to crack and peel off. To clean these trays rub a little olive oil on, and then polish it off with flannel. £SOO NECKLACE FOR NOTHING. Quite a romance attaches to a pearl necklace owned by Mrs Baker, of CosgrovcHall, Stony Stratford. Nearly a month ago, whilst motoring from Lincolnshire to ter home in Buddnghamshire, Mrs Baker lost the necklace, which was insured at Lloyd's for £SOO. Lloyd's paid Mrs Baker's claim, and advertised "a reward of £SO for the return of the article, the bills being widely ciraulated all along tho route taken by Mrs Baker. Nothing, however, wad heard concerning tho necklace till this week, when a Stamford jeweller notified the police that ho had a pieco of jewellery in his possession which appeared to correspond with the missing item. And sure enough the pawnbroker had come into possession of Mrs Baker's necklace. Its adventures after Mrs Baker lost it were rather remarkable. By some means it had been dropped from trie motor car on the road between Woodhall Spa and Stamford, in Lmrolnshire. Some hours after the car had passed it was picked up by a laboring man named Howard, who, thinking it was only one of the common imitation affairs that can be bought anywhere for a few pence, garve it to a chum named Lovejoy, who pnt it in his pocket, and forgot all about it for Geveral days. Then he turned it out of his pocket in the presence of his landlady. She took a fancy to it, and Lovejoy being " hard up " offered it to her for "a tanner." Ensued a period of bargaining, and finally the landlady became possessed of the necklace for 4£d. She appears to have had some notion that it was worth a good deal more than she -gave for it, for her next move was to go to the local pawnbrokers and negotiate a sliilling advance on it. The pawnbroker taw at onco that the necklace was very valuable, and declined to accept it in pledge. He gave the woman a shilling, and, retaining the jewel, pnt himself into communication with the police. They in turn notified Mrs Baker, who repaired to Stamford and identified the necklace, which, though it had been lying some hours on a highway much patronised by motors and general vehicular traffic, was practically undamaged, only one peaTl out of the seventyseven being broken, and tho diamond clasps were intact. Now there is a squabble between the original finder Howard Lovejoy, his landlady, and tho pawnbroker as to which of them is entitled to tho £SO leward.—London correspondent. WANTED, UGLY GIRLS. Pretty girls in American cafes, restaurants, florists, and other business establishments invariably many well, and sometimes in 6uch feverish haste, the 'Daily Telegraph' correspondent observes, that they leave without giving notice. A film of florists in St. Louis, Missouri, complain that they endured endless inconvenience because they could not keep a pretty girl as a cashier, and so in desperation they advertised for an "ugly cashier." Two hundred and fifty St. Louis answers were received. Some of the applicants were positive frights, others were beautiful, and nearly all declared that they had overlooked tho word "ugly" in the advertisement. A large proportion of the applicants were excessively fat, several weighed ever 15st, some wero absolutely destitute oE teeth, and the physiognomy of others was picturesquely described as having been ** trampled upon by hobnailed boots." Only 60 per cent* of the applicants were positively ugly, and it was from tho betterlooking girls that the choice was finally made. "My idea in advertising for an ugly cashier," the senior partner of the firm said, "was to get one who did not have such great personal charms that she would bo proposed to by the first unmarried customer who happened to 6py her." Within tho last year this St. Louis firm had five pretty cashiers, all of. whom left to marry.

« DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT." Tho "Domestic Relations Court," New York's latest experiment in the administration of justice, was recently opened, and tho presiding magistrate (Mr Cornell) will henceforth hold daily sittings for the benefit of downtrodden and neglected wives and husbands. Tho court was crowded when the proceedings commenced. Mr Cornell took his seat, and without any formality announced "The court is opened," adding that all applicants for his assistance must state their grievances quietly, and that no bickering would be permitted. A 6hy little woman, with a sickly child in her arms, walked to the front, and asked for a warrant for the arrest of her husband, who had deserted her. She was followed by a young woman called Sarah Held, who was accompanied by her husbana, Louis, and her father, a patriarchal Hebrew, with a long, flowing beard- Alter listening to the husband's 6tory of hk father*rn T law's behaviour, th« magistrate exclaimed "Where is this father-in-UVw?" " There t" shouted the husband, pointing an accusing finger at the old man, who slowly advanced and quaveringly announced : "My son supports me, but I live with my daughter." " Then henceforth," decreed the magistrate, "you most live with your eon, and allow these two to be happy themselves." "That's what I want," said the husband, and left the court hand-in-hand with his wife.