WOMAN'S WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 14999, 5 October 1912, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

[By Viva.] " Viva" will in this column answer all reasonable questions relating to the home, rookery, domestic economy, and any topic of interest to her sex. Hut each letter must bear the, writer's bona fide, name and address. No notice whatever will be taken of anonymous correspondence. Questions should be conciscli/ put, and the, writer's nom de plume clearly written.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ''Wifcy'"—(a)H*ve given hint re vases this week, (b) Yes, the treatment was quite correct, but nest time use only half the quantity. ' "Eyelashes.''—Xnlliin; is better than valine. Rub a little in aentlv with the (in of tun finder, and when that has all been taken up add a little more. •'Eva."—(a) Cannot answer your inquirv. (b) It you rare to send addressed envelop"' I will give you the required addresses. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. —Some Unusual Sweets.—• Orange Roll.—Required: Half a pound of flour, four minces of suet, salt, water, two tablcq<oonfuls of orange marmalade' two oranges. breadcrumbs, Demerara sugar, lemon juice. Make a suet cruet with the Hour and chopped {.net, mixed to a stiff dough with water ; roll out to an oblong shape. Spread over a thin layer of marmalade; on this a layer of slices of oranges, tree from .•dan and pips. Sprinkle over with freth breadcrumbs and a litt'e Demerara sugar. Squeeze over some lemon juice, roll v.}\ tie in a. floured cloth, and boil for two and a-half hours. Serve with marmalade sauce. This makes enough for five or six people. Ambrosia.—Required : Two ounces of cornflour, two ounces of butter, two ounces of fiisrar, one pint of milk, one wine gla--s of sherry. Mix the cornflour with a little or the milk, put the remainder on to boil with the butter When boiling pour on to tbo cornflour and return it to'the saucepan, and cook thoroughly. Add the sherrv and sugar. Pour into a. wet n:ou ! d, and turn cut when set. Crystal Palace Pudding. Required : Eight. spongecakes, one and a-half pints of milk, half an ounce of gelatine, sugar to taste, two eggs, flavoring, glace, cherries, cream. Cut the spongecakes into dice. Dissolve the gelatine in the milk; strain on to the beaten eggs. Add sugar to taste and flavoring (essence of vanilia or almonds). Cook till it thickens. Put the spongecakes in a mould decorated with the glace cherries. Pour over the custard. When set turn out, and serve with cream. Rhenish Cream.—Required : Six yolks of eggs, h.iJf a pint of sherry, one pint of boiling water, one ounce of gelatine, rind and juice of two lemons, 6Ugar to taste. Dissolve the gelatine in the boiling water; allow it to cool. Add the beaten yolks ; cook in a double saucepan until it thiekcins. Add the grated lemon rind, juice, sherry, and sugar to taste. Pour into a wet mould.

Rico Cream Beignets.—Required : ounces of butter, three ounces of castor sugar, three eggs, four ounces of sifted flour, four ounces of rice powder, a pinch of cinnamon, three-quarters of a gill of milk, half a teaspoonful of baking powder, vanilla ereence. Cream the butter, add the sugar, rice powder, and cinnamon; work together for about ten minutes ; add by degreevi the eggs and Hour alternately. Flavor with vanilla essence, and, lastly, add the milk and baking powder. Put into a forcing bag with a plain pipe, and forco out portions about the euzc of a walnut, cutting it with a knife. Fry in hot fat from eight to ten minutes. Pile on a lace paper on a. hot dish, and sprinkle with castor sugar. Chocolate Cream. Required: Half a pint of milk, three yolks of eggs, two bars of chocolate, sugar to taste, half an ounce of leaf gelatine, half a pint of cream, pistachio nuts, lemon or wine jelly. Dissolve the gelatine in a little water ; make a custard with the milk (in which the chocolate has been dissolved) and eggs; stir till it thickens ; strain in the gelatine, add the sugar, and allow it to cool. Whip the cream, add it to the custard with the vanilla essence Pour into a mould masked with wine or lemon jelly, and decorate with pistachio nuts. Curd Cheese Cakes.—Required : One quart of milk, one tablespoonful of rennet, four ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, four yolks and one white of egg, the grated rind of one lemon, a little nutmeg, three ounces of ratafias, two tablespoonfuls of sherry, currants, puff pastry. Warm the milk, add the rennet, and leave until cold and set; turn on to a hair sieve to separate the curds from the whey, cream the butter and the sugar together, add the well-beaten eggs, lemon rind, nutmeg, crushed ratafias and sherry, and the curds. Line some patty-tins with puff pastry, half fill with the mixture, and bake in a quick oven from 15 to 20 minutes. A Dutch Apple Pudding.—Required : One pound of apples, two ounces of currants, two ounces of peel, three or four ounces of sugar, half a teaspoonful of mixed spice, the grated rind of half a lemon or orange, the juice of half a lemon, tlakv pastry (10 ounces). Peel, core, and chop or slice the apples, clean the currants and chop the peel, mix all the ingredients together, divide the pastry in half, roll out one portion to a square, put on a layer of the mixture, cover with other portion of pastry, fold over the edges, brush over with water, sprinkle with castor sugar, bake in a hot oven from half to three-quarters of an hour, cut into neat sections, and serve hot or cold. Cold Lemon Pudding.—Required-: Four sponge cakes, two ounces of sugar, juice of two lemons, juice of two oranges, half a pint of cold water, some blanched almonds, custard sauce or whipped cream. Add the juice of the oranges and lemons to the water with the sugar, put the sponge cakes in a glass dish, and soak, well with the liquid. When quite moist stick with blanched almonds cut in strips, and pour over a thick custard or whipped cream. Almond Pudding.—Required : Eight ounces of ground sweet almonds, eight' ounces of castor sugar, eight eggs, leaving out four whites. Beat the eggs well, and gradually add the sugar, and then the almonds; beat all together for a quarter of an hour. Line a tin or mould with oiled paper, pour in the mixture, and immediately bake for three-quarters of an hour in a slow oven. Great care must be taken not to open the oven for the first 20 minute.-. When taken out of the mould blanch some almonds, sufficient to make the pudding look like a porcupine. Serve cold : pour a little orange flower water, oweetened to taste, over the podding. Prick the pudding with a very fine skewer to allow the orange water to flavor it. Bakewell Pudding.—Line a flat pie-dish with light pastry, put a layer of strawberry or raspberry jam at' the bottom. Mix together three ounces of creamed butter, three ounces of sugar, three ounces of breadcrumbs, three ounces of chopped almonds or ground almonds, and the grated rind and juice of a lemon, a little grated nutmeg and three well-beaten eggs. Lay this over the jam and bake for about 20 minutes, slip the pudding out of the piedish when cold, and sprinkle castor sugar over and serve cold. Seven Cun Pudding.—Required : One small teaeupful of suet, one small teacupfui of flour, one small teanipful of breadcrumbs, one small teacupfui of sugar, one small teacupfui of sione!e,-s jam. -Mix well together with half a teaspoonful. of carbonate of soda. Dissolve in warm milk. V&e half a cupful of milk, and boil for three hours. Goolgoola.—Required : One pound of flour, .one pound of sugar, one pound of dripping or butter, one quart of milk, six small sticks of cinnamon, a. little yeast or baking powder. Mix the flour with a little yeast and milk, and add sufficient water to bring it to a thick consistency, then mix in gradually the. sugar and the remainder of the milk, place it on the fire, add the cinnamon, keep stirring it with a large wooden spoon until it is again reduced to a thick consistency; remove it from the tire, and when it has cooled make it up into balls and fry in butter. Indian Pancakes.—Roil a large red beetroot till it is very tender, then peel it, cut it into thin slices, and pound it to a pulp in a marble mortar, and strain through fine muslin. Add the yolks of five small

or- four large eggs, two tablespoonfnls of cream or milk, plenty of finely powdered white sugar, and half a grated nutmeg. Rub the whole into a batter, and fry. Serve very hot, garnished with green candied fruit's. Jam Puffs.—Required: Quarter of a pound of flour throe ounces of dripping, one teaspoonful of baking powder, quarter of a pound of mashed potatoes, jam. Mix the flojir and baking powder together, rub in the dripping, mix in the potatoes, and add cold water to mako a stiff paste. Roll out very thinly, cut in rounds, put a spoonful of jam on each, wet the edges, and fold them over. Put on a greased tin, and bake for 10 minutes in a quick oven. HINTS. Tea kettles should be turned upside down every time after use. It is generally the little drop of water that is allowed to stand in the bottom of the kettle that causes rust, and once rust makes its appearance, a hole soon follows. To Stop the Ravages of Moths (by request).—When they have made their appearance, wrap the articles in thin cloths, then cover with wet Turkish towels, and put them in the oven to steam. This .will always rout moths. .Iron Marks on Linen (by request).—The following method is most effeetivo in removing iron marks from table linen without injuring it. Moioten the spots with a little hot water, then, stretch the linen over a hot plate, and .apply salt and lemon juice rather thickly, rubbing it in with a white metal or bone spoon, or with your linger. This method may have to be repeated, but with plenty of rubbing all the traces of iron marks will disappear. When making hot starch add a level teaspoonful of dry washing powder to a quart, and the irons will not stick. Dry Clothes.—lf you want to iron clothes as soon as they are dry. try the following plan:—Sprinkle them with warm water, roli up tightly in a damn towel, and in 10 minutes they will be ready for ironing. Perspiration Stains.—Put garments tliat are stained with perspiration to soak for a few minutes in hike-warm, water to which a little carbonate of soda has been added I before putting them into the suds.. If put j (straight into the suds the soap will set the stain. Fresh Mustard.—lt milk is used instead of water when mixing mustard for the table, you will find that it will not dry up quickly, and will look fresh for several days. Flower vases (by request) with long necks can be cleaned by filling them with clean hot water and small pieces of newspaper. Shake vigorously, and you will find that the paper will remove all the dust and sediment from the inside. "THE MILLIONAIRE BRIDE." Glowing despatches from San Francisco describe the marriage of Miss Jennie Crocker, " the millionaire bride,'' to Mr Malcolm Whitman, of Brookline, Massachusetts. The only essential in which, they differ (says the *' Daily Telegraph's ' correspondent) concerns the Ir.dv's fortlne. some estimates giving it as £20,0C0,000, but all are agreed as to the minimum oi £10,000,000, which, as one chronicler telegraphs, should be quite, sufficient for two, " because in the United Hates incomes are not taxed." The wedding cost apparently between £12,000 and. £20,000, and is described, as the most brilliant and bewildering social event Calfornia has ever known. To judge from the reports published here, the little stone church of San Mateo, where the wedding was "staged," was so densely packed with flowcTs, plants, and trees that entry, even for the bridal pn.rty, was quite difficult. The nuptial breakfast was served in the bung-alow home of Miss Crocker, and attracted the entire country side. A hunting license was taken out at the same time as the marriage license, and. the honeymoon " will be spent in the woods.' Here are a few other features telegraphed from San Francisco, which appears to have gone topsy-turvy over the wedding of "the millionaire" bride," £4, CO was spent on the decoration of the wedding breakfast hall. To prevent the theft of jewels scores of plain clothes men, wearing top hats and Prince Albert coats, attended and mingled with the guests. Miss Crocker's gown cost £IO.COO. It is enriched with pearls. The little church of San Mateo was "solid" with choice cut flowers arranged by an army of decorators, at a cost of £5.000. There were ■wedding presents by the dray-load from .all parts of the country and from Europe. There aro unverified rumors- that Miss Crocker received threatening letters from unknown sources. A JUDGE AND HIS DAUGHTER, The preliminaries of a Supreme Court jury trial (says the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph'), are usually in the last degree prosaic and formal. The Judge's associate enters, and the court orderly demands in a rough, masculine, sing-song voice: "Answer to your names as they are called." The response is invariably an unfriendly " Here." The Judge arrives, and the same formula is repeated; and possibly persons who have failed to say " Here " are fined pretty stiffly. Then the male associate and the unpoetical orderly put the jurors through the rest of the pro"ess, which consists chiefly of a breathless oath to " joined-r'tween-t'-parties-'n-true-verdict-give-'cording-t'-cvidence-s'clp - y'- God - kiss - tb'Book." These proceedings were interestingly varied in the High Court of Sydney a few days ago, when Miss Nancy Isaacs, Mr Justice Isaars's younger daughter, who had been appointed his associate in the High Court, took the seat under the judicial bench, and conducted the preliminary transactions with the juty. Slightly nervous, and a bit pale, the little lady approached her work courageously, aird in a sweet voice pronounced the names of a dozen jurymen, who responded with surprising alacrity. Then, as she administered the oath to the four selected juiymen, the saeredness of their duty was impressed with such nioe modulations of voice and downcast eyes, that the orderly pia-mly exuded astonishment at the possibility of such an every-day formality being capable, of such reverent embellishment, although it is on the list of instructions to court orderlies that the charge on all occasions must- lie pronounced in the most devotional tones possible. This was Miss Isaaus's first appearance with her father, and the first occasion upon which a lady has appeared in an official capacity in the law courts of New South Wakii. She is in '"training" for the law. is a great student, and besides a considerable knowledge of law and its practice, is acquiring a wide grasp of languages. CONDEMNATION OF "MAD MILITANCY.'' Mrs Fawcett, as head of the nonmilitant branch of the suffrage movement, .is rightly severe in her condemnation of the Dublin outrages. She writes : " I have no hesitation in saying that the crimes encouraged by the W.S. and P.U., and carried out by their members, are fnstdoing for women's suffrage what the crimes in Ireland did for Home Rule 30 i years ago. The leaders of the W.S. and i P.U. seem to believe that they can justify themeelves by citing the insulting and provocative speeches of Mr Hob house, Mr j M'Kenna, and Mr Asquith. That thc-fe [ Cabinet Ministers have made speeches | which can only be regarded as direct incitements to violence is no excuse whatever for the criminal folly of acting upon their suggestions. . . . Mr Asquith's. speech on the second reading of the Franchise Bill was disingenuous : he must have known that the defeat of the Conciliation Bill by 14 "represented anything rather than the considered judgment of the House of Commons. But it is obvious that he could not have spoken as he did in the House of Commons on July 12 but for militancy. This gave him the atmoepliere and tone in the House and in the country which rendered possible the immense contrast between his utterances of November 17 and July 12. On November 17 there had been no militancy for a year, and only one- specimen of it for nearly two years. The advantage to the suffrage cause was incalculably great, and was shown by the whole tone of the Prime Minister's speech on that occasion. The militants came to his rescue,_ and by repeated acts of violence, as well as by petty personal insult, have hardened and deepened his opposition to women's suffrage. The militants are now the most powerful allies .the antiBuffragists have. ;

GENERAL., ' Miss Mary Bartelme, of Hull House, has just been appointed Assistant Judge of a Juvenile Court in Illinois, United States. She will preside over a'separate division devoted to the trial of girls and young women charged with minor offences and. delinquencies. An interesting analysis of the many sources of income enjoyed by hotel clerks", the most condescending and scornful class of New York officials, was furnished in the New York law courts by the wife of one of them, who is suing her husband for alimony (writes the New York correspondent of a London paper). The plaintiff stated that her husband was a clerk in one of the largest and most fashionable of New York hotels, and that ho received large sums for "boosting" (i.e., advertising) different enterprises. She stated that her husband received yearly from the hotel a-salary of £360; from a certain wine house for "boosting" he received £l2O ; from four European hotels—which she named —" f'orboesting," £480: and from German steamship lines, " for boosting." £240. The wife's analysis of her husband's income totalled £1,200, but did not include "tips" which he received from motor-car manufacturers, jewellers, tailors, and others, wheso profits largely depend upon the number of patrons sent them by the hotels! On the basis of these disclosures the New York newspapers have decided that in future hotel clerks must be classed with the enormously wealthy class of cloak-room boys, head waiters, and taxi-cab drivers. Publication of the balance-sheet of the Committeo of Management of the sale of flowers in the streets of London on Alexandra Day has come with a shock to the public, likely to make it the last, as it was the first, of this fashionable form of charity (writes a London correspondent). It is fair to sav that the managers were placed at a disadvantage by circulation of a. rash estimate that the takings of the armv of flower-ef-llers would exec-od £25.000. ' It hums out to he but a little over £17.000. Where the cold douche comes in is in the disclosure that the cost of the distribution of flowers amounted to £5.244, leaving £12.000 for the hospitals. Thie working expenditure, equal to something over 35 per cent, of the receipts, is unparalleled in analogous circumstances. Details are given to extent of setting forth that the cost of flowers, baskets, boxes, and cashes amounted to £3,062. Printing and stationery cost £769, whilst " general expenses, including secretarial and typists' salaries, postage' telegrams, and sundries" are put down at an aggregate of £1.413. The performance was a fashionable freak, -regarded by the public with indulgence or. arcownt of the benefit accruing to the hospitals.