WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

m Viva 9 will in this column answer all reasonable questions relating to the home, cookery, domestic economy, and any topic of interest to her sex. Hut each Utter must hear the writer’s bona fide name and address. No notice? whatever will be taken of anonymous correspondence. Questions should he concisely put, and the writer** nom dc plume clearly written. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “Don’t Know.”—Have given the bint re waterproof this week. “Anxious.”—Try a little ammonia and fulteFa earth in equal quantdi s, naked to a unooth paste Apply to the spat, let d:y, then brush off with a clean brush. It may be necessary to repeat the process. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. Mulligatawny Soup.—Required : A fowl, two quarts of cold water, ono carrot, one onion, a few slices of apple, curry powder to taste, a teaspoon fill of lemon juice, u little flour, salt and pepper, an ounce of beef dripping, boiled rice. Cut the fowl into small pieces, ami put thorn, with the Water, in a pan on the tire, bring them lo the boil, skim well, then let- ail .-humor Sently for uu hour and u-’ulf. Molt the ripping in a stewpaa. Whoa i: is hot put in the sliced carrot, onion, and apple, and fry them a good brown, then add the curry powder and fry that carefully. Take the fowl oat of tho stock, and put it on one side, add the vegetable.', etc., to the stock, and let them simmer for about an hour, until they are tender. Remove the bones from tho fowl, and rub the moat as much as possible through a sieve with the vegetables and stock. Rut it back in the saucepan, add the lemon juice, and salt snd pepper to taste; bring it to tho boil, then pour it into a hot tureen, and baud with it some boiled rice. To hoi! the rice: Put it in a pan with plenty of fastboiling salted water, and let it boil untd the grains are tender, then drain off the water by pouring it through a colander, and wash the rice thoroughly by pmumg boiling water out of the kettle on to it m the colander. Turn it ou to n plate and serve.

Mock Whitebait.—Required : Fioundei. sole, or any kind oi white fish—or a mixture of different kinds is excellent—-egg. breadcrumbs, salt and jsepper. ono ieunm. two Übleepoonfuls of flour. Cut- the tish into thin strips an inch and a-half long. Mix about one tcaspoout'ul of suit and half a teaspoonful of pepper with the flour; dip all the pieces of tish in this seasoned flour. Beat the egg up on a plate, and put the crumbs on a piece of paper; brush the pieces of fish over with egg, three or fcui_ pieces at a time, then cover them with crumbs. When a faint bluish smoke rises from the frying fat put in the tish, a few bits at a time, and try them a delicate Brown. Drain well on kitchen paper. Squeeze a little lemon juice over them, and pile them up. on a doily. Garnish with dices of lomnn and fried parsley, and hand with this dish thin brown bread and butter.

Cal Fa Head with Maitre d’Hotel Sauce.— Required: Half a small calf’s head, cdo water, one small onion, half a carrot and sarnip, a piece of celery, a small bunch of parsley and herbs, six peppercorns, two cloves, two allspice, call and pepper, maitre d'hotsl sauce. Clean the head very thorougldy. Take out the brains and lay them in cold water. Put the head in a Basin of cold- suited water, and let it soak lor two Louis. ' Then put it in a saucepan with cold water to covet it, and a little salt. Bring the water to the boil, let it boil for ten minutes, then drain off and throw away the> water. Put in fresh cold water enough to cover the head, add a little salt, the vegetables cut in pieces, the spice tied up in a piece of muslin, and the herbs tied together. Let these simmer very gently from three to four hours, removing all scum as it rises. To servo it tut off all the meat in large pieces, and arrange them on a Jtot dish and pour the sauce over.

For Maitre D’Hotel Sauce.—Required ; Half a pint of milk, half a pint of white stock, quarter of a pint of cream, two ounces of butter, one and a-hali ounces of flour, one small onion, a piece of carrot, a bunch of parsley and herbs, six pepperebrns, a small bit of mace, salt and pepper, nutmeg, two te&spooniuls of chopped parley. hall a teaspoon ful of lemon juice. Put the milk and stock in a saucepan with the carrot, onion, herbs, and spice. Let these simmer until the milk, etc., is nicely flavored—probably 15 to 20 minutes. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour imoothly, stir these over the tire for a few minutes without browning in the least, and then strain the milk in gradually, stirring it until it boildl well. Season the sauce carefully with salt, pepper, and a grain or two of nutmeg. Pass the sauce through a fine strainer, reheat it, add the cream (this may be left out), and it is ready for use.

Stewed Pears With Rice Border.—Required: One quart of milk, four ounces of nee. one lemon, three ounces of sugar. For the Pears: About eight stewing pears, one pint of water, one inch of cinnamon, about a pound of sugar, ono and a-half gills of cream (if liked), cochineal. Bring the milk to boiling point. Wash the rice well, and add it to the boiling milk, with the sugar tad thinly-pared rind of lemon. Put the lid on the pan, and let the rice cook slowly until it has absorbed the milk and is a thick, creamy mass. Keep it well stirred ur it will bum. When cooked take out the lemon rind. Rinse out a border mould with cold water, put in the riee, and leave until cold. Meanwhile stew the pears. Put the water, sugar, and cinnamon into a raaaerole or stewing jar.- Color the water i very deep pink with cochineal. Peel and lalve the pears, leaving on the stalks. Put the fruit in the jar with the peel over hem. Put on the lid, and let the pears dew gently either in the oven or on the itove until they are tender, and can be jasitv pierced with the head of a pin. When tender lilt ort the pears, strain the juice into a clean pan, and boil it quickly with the lid off the pan until it is reduced to halt. Turn the border of rice carefully on to a glass dish. Arrange the pea,' found on top, and pour over the syrup. If cream is to ha used whip it until it will just hang on the whisk, sweeten and flavor it to taste, and heap it up in the centre. 1 f preferred this mav he omitted altogether. Savory Biscuits.—Required : Six or eight milk biscuits, or any other plain, unsweetened variety, one ounce of butler, four tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, half a teaipoomol of made mustard. Put the butter, mustard, and cheese, all but about two teaspoon!uls, in a basin, and work thorn together. Season them well, and reread a layer of this mixture on each nscuit. Lay them on a baking-tin in the iven until they are very hot and slightly colored on top. Sprinkle a little cheese on the top of each, also a little paprika pepper. Arrange them on a lace paper, And serve. Lemon Curd. —Required : Four ounces of fresh butter, halt a pound of castor gngar, the rinds and juice of three lemons, one stale penny sponge cake, four eggs, and two extra yolks Melt the butter :n a dean, bright saucepan, add the sugar, the grated rinds and strained juice si ike lemons; and the sponge cake made into crumbs. Beat the egg and extra yolks lightly together. Strain them into' the pan, and stir the mixture over a slow fire until it if as thick as honey hut on so account let it boil. Pour it into pots, md when cold cover down like jam. Cabbage a la Creme (by request..— Reluired: A firm cabbage, one onion, one dove, half an ounce of butter, threepennysorth of cream, salt and pepper. Wash ihe cabbage very thoroughly. Put it into a with fast-boiling suited water, add thepeeled onion with the clove stuck into it, and let it boil quickly until it is tender. Then take out the onion and dove, and drain the cabbage well. Then either rub it through a wire sieve or chop it finely. Melt the batter : n a saucepan, add the cabbage, and mix them well together, the cream gradually, and salt and

pepper to taste. See that the mixture is thoroughly hot, heap it up in a hot dish, and garnish with some nicely-fried sippets of bread. HINTS. A Substitute for Cream.—Boil tfcreefourth* of a pint of new milk j put a teaspoonful of flour into a cup with the volk of an egg. Mix well together, adding a little sugar. When the milk boils draw it back from the fire, and as soon as it has cooled a very little pour it on the flour and egg, stirring briskly so that it may not bo lumpy. Pom- back into the saucepan, and heat over the fire, stirring one wav till the egg thickens. It must not boil, or it will "be spoilt. When cold it is read for use. A Folding Hint.—Tablecloths arc not diflicult to fold when an assistant is handy ; when alone it seems an impossibility. Try this ; Fold one end perfectly straight, and place it in a dresser drawer and close. It will then bo found quite easy to pull mid fold correctly. A Useful Hint.—Brass [ran 6 that have stood unused for some time should be rubbed with vinegar and salt to remove any verdigris. Clean with dry bathbrick and water, then rinse out well with hotsoapy water, mid polish with a soft cloth, treated like this brass pans are safe for anv kind of cookery.

To Restore Waterproof (by request).— i Diffolve a handful of the best grey lime I in half a pail of water, and with this solui tion wipe over the coat at tho hardened ; parts. This should be done twice at inter- : vals of about four hours : it will make the waterproof equal to new-. A I’ouUuo Hint.- —Should a poultice at any tin-,a be required when no linseed ' moat is available, an excellent poultice can : bo inode by boiling a few potatoes in their 1 e-kins. When cooked, place them in a j flannel bag the size required, fasten tho : end, ami roil th-un over with the rolling i pin. They are then ready for nee. ; Colored embroidery can be denied by 1 ruli'iiiiLt tho surface with tx piece of bread ; n dav or two old. Use a- mrill piece with i the crust i ii. and throw it away as soon as i it is toiled. | EMOTES FOR WOMEN. | [From Opr I.adv ConiiKsroN-DKXT.] | LONDON. Juno 16. | Public Offices Held by Women.—A ; woman has been appointed inspector of i boarded out cbikhen—a position that, it ; was urged at tl:-' Women’* Congress last ; Jlilv at tho White City, ought aivvavs to be hdd hv women—by (lie Willesden Board of O Hard bins recently. This body has art so appended a woman as superintendent- of the Four Law Homes For Children in succession to a man. The Ealing Borough Conned have appointed n woman (Mrs Copeland) ns fourth sanitary inspector. This rxvrii'tent was made on the special recommendation of its resident officer. I’iouLrh'.vomen.- - A number of women were among Ihe competitors at a ploughing contest hdd in England last Friday. A Baby for Newnham.—-Mr Charles P. Trevelyan, M.P., parliamentary secretary for the Education Department, created a good deal of amusement in a speech at the annual summer festival of the College for Working Women. Fitzroy street, when he said he had always been an enthusiast for women's education, and his wife and he had shown it by putting their eldest girl down tor Newnham College in order that she might enjoy the excellent education given there. That was probably when she was fix months old. the earliest entry on record for any women's ollegc. Sanpbo Championed. —Mr W. L. Courtney, literary editor of the ‘Daily Telegraph,’ and editor of the ‘ Fortnightly Review,’ came forward on Saturday at the Royal Institution as a champion of Sappho, the famous Grecian poetess, who ia commonly supposed to have borne none too spotless a reputation. The position of a woman like Sappho (Born 620 b.c.), Mr Courtney insisted, with her friends and associates, was only possible under conditions of social life in which men and women met as equals. It was necessary to imagine a society in which it was not considered improper or indelicate to write frankly and openly about emotions, feelings, arid passion. We looked at Sappho through the distorted spectacles of Attic comic dramatists Stories were recklessly invented about her. She was supposed to have had many lovers, but one of those suppled lovers was 100 years old when she was born, and another had not been bora at the time of her death. A Women’s Holiday Fund.—ln a letter this week to ‘The Times,’ signed, among others, by the Bishop of London, pleading fer support for the working women's holiday from visitors to London, occurs the foltrenchant sentence whose authorship is notdifficult to guess “We feel it somewhat of a disgrace that a work which has done so much good for sixteen years should have, com]sirativ“ly speaking, received so little support. A very slight effort of imagination is rdl that is needed to make everyone realise how absolutely necessary it must be for the hard-working women of London to have some respite from tho grey monotony and grinding fatigue of their daily life, if their homes and their children are to be happy. . . . The price of

one hat or one box of cigars sacrificed by some of those thousands and given to this society would amount to a sum that would enable large numbers of poor women to spend a week or two out of town, who will otherwise have their applications refused for want of funds."

Ellen Terry Lectures.—Under the auspices of the Pioneer Players Miss Ellen Terry cave this week the second of her remarkable lectures on Shakespeare’s heroines. Many of her points concerning those heroines she designated “triumphant” may interest lovers vf Shakes peine in New Zealand. The three heroines that she classed particularly together were Beatrice, Rosalind, and Portia. All, she said, were radiant, chivalrous, intelligent, independent. and all healthy and of fine physique. If they had met with. say. a disappointment in love, they would not. as did Viola, have “sat, like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief.” They would have turned their abilities into some other channelone probably where they could best benefit their less masterful sisters. Once again Miss Terry found in the splendor of their womanhood a championship of the present suffrage movement. It was not merely imagination on Shakespeare’s part, she said. Those women really existed in Shakespeare's time. Some modern folk seemed to think that the earlv Victorian woman —the “domestic ornament of the ’thirties and ’forties ” represented a permanent English ideal which could not be improved upon without a revolution. This was not so. There was always the “appeal to Shakespeare.” In his day, as now, there was a great movemerft' for the advance of women. Did not Lady Jane Grey read Plato in the original at 13. and Mary Queen of Scots make an oration in Latin, and Queen Elizabeth translate from the classics, while even the average well-bred English girl of those times was familiar with Xenophon and Seneca. Hcr.ro, to some extent at any rate, the fine intelligence, the fearless'spirit, of those Shakepearian heroines. Woman Medical Officer. —A resident woman medical officer has been appointed by the Norwich Board of Guardians for the workhouse there. What a Child Should Know.—An interesting list of what the London County Council consider a child of 11 to 14 should know was drawn up recently by the Central Consultative Committee. Included in the list are the following;— At 11. —To read intelligently such books as ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ and Kingley's ‘ Water Babies,’ and simple selections from poetry; to -give «v----count of some incident actually observed : to draw simple plans of the school ground and district; to make ■weather observations and records; to draw simple fvom Nature. At 14.—T0 show a knowledge of the laws of he” Ith; to read some of the plays of Shakespeare; to write oricinal (including imaginative) compositions : to show a fair knowledge of government, local and Imperial; to show a general knowledge of types of people; to draw from memory.

Women’s Education in Germany.—lt is a somewhat strange coincidence that, soon after writing about the Home Science scheme started in connection with the London University, 1 should hear of a similar idea set afoot in Leipzig. There is this great difference, however, that the London plan is receiving wholesale support, and the German one—in 9 country

1 noted for its solid domesticity—is finding little favor. The scheme is fathered by the Leipzig Association for Family and Popular Education, who have issued an appeal for help and funds to establish a women’s university in the autumn of the present year. The object of the promoters of the idea is not to train women for the various open professions, but to provide an opportunity for future mothers to acquire scientific knowledge which will enable them to fulfil more adequately their ethical and social duties within the' circle of the family and in public life. The appeal is signed by five professors of the University of Leipzig. ■ Honor to Women Writers.—lt will be interesting to women interested in the recognition of woman’s work to hoar that the Earl-Marshal has allotted a seat in Westminster .Abbey to the Society of Women Journalists for the ceremony of the Coronation on the 22nd inst. The society will be represented by its president, Mrs Bedford Fenwick, once the matron of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and now editor of the ‘ British Journal of Nursing.’ Suffragists and the King.--An' illuminated address, the work of the Artists’ Suffrage League, is being sent to their ■ Majesties from the federations and societies of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. The words, intermingled with the design of the rose, the thistle, and the shamrock, express the patriotism of suffragists throughout the United Kingdom and their efforts towards the attainment of fuller recognition as citizens. NEW YORK WOM EX’S NOVEL DEPARTURE.

Working on (he hypothesis that time is money, and that New York people general] v are hard jmgs-rl for (his cadi equivalent, two young women have opened a unique brokerage office for the purpose of saving other persons’ time in an expertway. Fiist of all. be it- understood that theirs is a studio, in effect, not an office. The main room for receiving o’dc-s and meeting clients who are short of lime is the largo front part of an old-t'a-hinncd brown stone house not many iffo, !:s from the shouting district. Its tiecninliour. arc of a kind that appeal at once to the caller. Decorating being one of the many J-part-merits handled hv the lime Sever', the example of work set farth in their own surroundings lias been designed specially to interest clients. —Tho Morning's Mail,— But the moining's mail is, after ail, of first imper ance, because it shows what .-o I of success the Time Savers are having. It also shows what sort of persons want to save time, and what- they consider the details of life which can lust be handed over to the experts. Here is a letter picked at random : Dear Misr, , I am sending my daughter, aged 16. to New York on her first visit. Unfortunately. I find at the last moment that neither I nor my husband will he able to accompany her, and as she doe* not know the city, and has never travelled without us, she must, of course, be chaperoned. Will you kindly look after her while she is there. Let her see the interesting features of tho city, do a little shopping, and send her back to us at the end of the week.— Yours sincrely, . “This is from a woman whom I never saw, but she has heard of us through friends, and wants us to look after her daughter,” explained the Time Saver. “ But what will you do with her?” queried the visitor. “ You arc not going to run a boarding-house or an hotel?” —Planning the Week.— “We will meet her at the train and take entire charge of her during the week. As we have never seen the girl, we shall have to arrange a set of signs or signals whereby we shall be able to recognise her when she steps off tho train. That will be easy, A flower or a veil of a certain color or some little mark to catcli the eye of the professional chaperon. Then we will escort her to her stopping-place in the city—not a boarding-house, but the home of some family we know who will provide her with creature comforts at a reasonable rate. Each day we will plan out exactly what she is to do When she is to shop the will be accompanied by a professional shopper, who knows where to buy the best for the least money, and can do it all in tho shortest possible time. Then, for the concerts and the opera, if she is intension! in the musical offerings, we shall have sofftcone who will accompany her and explain the entire Wagner theme to her, point out the best things in the score, have something to say about the singers in the cast, and tell her the story of the opera if the girl is unfamiliar with it. —L T nive.isal Providers.— “A girl who wants to buy her trousseau here, and has a limited time to do it, may come to us, and we will display everything our shopper considers suitable lor the amount of money, to be spent on it right here in our studio. We will buy anything or procure anything from a town house to a country -bungalow, from tho favoie .and refreshments for a children’s party to a first-class cook. Our staff will tell a woman what to wear and where to purchase it, or execute the older for her. They will accompany her to the dressmaker, and see that her fitrings arc properly done. They will choose her hats for her, and go with her to the milliner's to have them tried on. Certain women, professional or society women, ate even too rushed at this season of the year to attend to making their own appointments with their physician or dentist, their photographer or legal adviser. We will assume all the bother of attending to those matters for her, will make the appointments, attend her, if she likes, and see that everything is done with the least jxissible loss of time.” In other words, anything that requires time in the accomplishing may bo tinned over to these experts if one has other and more important ways of employing the hours allotted to the busy man and woman of to-day. —House Decoration, Too.—

The Time Saver weeded out of the batch of letters a dozen or more pertaining to the home, its decoration and 'roinruLhiiig. “But can you do all this?’’ asked tne interested visitor; “Of course wc can,” replied the Time Saver. “ This is one of our strongest points. We can furnish a color scheme for decorations, restore old furniture and hangings, redecorate your walls—in fact, attend to any of the professional duties of the artistic decorator, and wo arc sure of pleasing our clients, whether they want a simple little mountain bungalow outfitted or an ocean palace adorned.” The other letters in the morning’s mail seemed to deal with requcs.B tortvke manuscripts and find publishers, to investigate genealogies, to furnish lists of schools of art, music, and the drama, of colleges, universities, and seminaries. “Don’t forget, to look at our dietetic kitchen before you go,” admonished the Time Saver, and she led the way to the room adjoining and displayed, not without pride, the most complete little kitchen imaginable. “This is where we have prepared all kinds of nutritious and wholesale foods for invalids and convalescents,” sho explained, “ and it is all' done under the supervision of an excellent dietetic cook and under the orders of a physician.” And all this business is beitm managed by two women, whose brains axe to supply the ways of saving, not hours, but days and weeks for other people who are too rushed to attend to the doing of it themselves. FEMININE FRILLS. Masses of foliage of the s.uno color as the hat are often piled over big hat crowns. Wide-pleated satin ribbons are fashioned into millinery butterflies and fans. Some of the smartest trimmings are of bands of the dress material. Layers'of vari-colortd mis or chiffons make' the fancy linings for some hat brims. Handsome brim bands are of braid sparkling with jewels or jet. ... Delightful over-dresses arc fashioned of heavy twisted silk thread, netted together in diamond designs with tiny beads. Though yellow and pink are the colors most favored at the moment in Paris, the charm of pale blue saves it from entire neglect. Satin has had most of the honors at English race meetings this year, and e\ery color in this was not even oxceptingwhito. *