WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 3

WOMAN’S WORLD

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HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

A Marmalade Pudding. —Required ; Half 1 pound of mashed potato, four ounces )| flour, three ounces of chopped euet or dripping, two ounces of crumbs, two teafpoonfuls of baking powder, three tablespoonfuls of marmalade, a little milk. Mash the potatoes while' hot. They will he much lighter than if done when cold.. Mis the flour, crumbs, suet, and baking powder. Beat in the potato thoroughly but lightly. Warm the marmalade in two tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir this in and as much more milk as is needed to make the mixture of a heavy dropping consistency. Turn into a greased pie-dish. Remember that an enamelled one allows the heat to penetrate more quickly than one of ware. Bake in a moderately hot oven for about one and a-half hours. American Recipe.—Required i Two breakfastcupfuls o,' flour {half pint equals a breakfastcupful), halt a breakfastoupful of treacle, two tablespoor.fuls of sugar, two teaspooniuls of ground ginger, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, half a pint of sour milk or milk soured with two teaspoonfuls of vinegar. Mix all the dry ingredients, sieving or rubbing down the soda till no trace of a lump remains, or the cake will contain yellowish specks. Warm the treacle and sugar. Stir them in. Add the milk, beat well together, turn into a shallow bakingdish lined with greased paper, and bake carefully in a rather sharp oven for about three-quarters of an hour. Banana Scones.—Required: Half a pound of flour, half a pound of wholemeal, one banana, two ounces of dripping, half a teaspoonful of salt, three heaped teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a pint of milk. Well mix the flour, salt, and baking powder, shred and rub in the fat. Peel, chop rather finely the banana, iising a plated knife if possible, as steel is apt to discolor the fruit. Mix stiffly, but not so that it crumbles. Roll out about half an inch thick. Cut nearly but not quite through into 16 wedge-shaped pieces. Prick over the top with a fork. Wash over lightly with a little milk, if possible, in order to give it a gloss. Bake in a quick oven for about 20 minutes. Break, not cut apart or they will be “ sad.' 1 Eaten hot or cold, plain or buttered. Fish, Macaroni, and Tomato Pie. —Eetuired: One pound and a-half of cooked sh, half a pound of tomatoes, six ounces of macaroni, a tablespoonfu! of grated onion, half an ounce of dripping, one ounce of flour or substitute, one pint of milk and fish or vegetable stock, seasoning. Break the macaroni into short lengths and boil it till tender (about threequarters of an hour) in boiling, pleasantly salted water. Then drain it off, and save the water to use as vegetable stock. Melt the fat in a saucepan, stir in the flour, add the stock, and stir over the fire till boiling. Then season it. Remove skin and bones from the fish, chop it coarsely, and add enough sauce to well moisten it Turn the mixture into a pie-dish, spread the macaroni all over the top, then the onion, and on the top of that put slices of tomatoes. Put the dish in a quick oven and bake about 20 minutes. Serve with potatoes baked in their jackets, and a nice" salad. The baked potatoes can be cooking in the oven with the fruit. Oatmeal Bread (By Request).—Required : Half a pound of flour, half a pound of fine oatmeal (or medium), one large teaspoonful of salt, one slightly rounded teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one breakfastcupful of buttermilk or sour milk Soak the oatmeal in the milk for two hours, though one hour will do if you are in a hurry. Next well mix together the flour, salt, soda, and- cream of tartar Add these, and mix well with the oat meal and milk. Knead lightly and quickly together. Form into two round loaves, or put into greased tins, and bake in a quick oven for about 40 minutes. Supposing you have neither buttermilk nor sour milk, use sweet milk or skim milk, but then use two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar to one teaspoonful of soda.

_ Stuffed _ Marrow.—Required : One good sized, nicely-shaped marrow, one and a-half pounds of cooked -sausage meat, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a tablespoonful of mixed sweet herbs, seasoning When possible get the sausage meat by the pound, as this saves the bother of scraping the meat from the skin. Mix •together the meat, parsley, and herbs; and sometimes you can add three or four ounces of crumbs, but it all depends on the sausage meat. If there is already much bread in the composition you will hot need to add more. Season carefully. Cut the marrow neatly in two, lenghtwavs, peel it, and remove the seeds; fill the cavity with the mixture, put the pieces together again, keeping them in place with pieces of tape. Boil gently in slightly salted water till tender. Remove the tape, serve in a hot dish, pour over a little white or brown sauce, and hand the remainder in a hot tureen. A Fash Loaf.—Required: One to one to one and a-quarter pounds of fish without bone, a pound of mashed potatoes, a tablespooniul each of chopped parr-lev and anchovy essence, half a teacupful of fish sauce, or any other savory * sauce, salt, pepper, and one preserved egg. Remove all skin and bone from the fish and chop it. Mix all the other ingredients with it. See that it is nicelv seasoned, press it into a greased piedish or cake-tin’ smooth over the top, and brush it over with a little oil or melted dripping. Bake in a moderate oven until it is nicely browned, then slip a knife round the sides, turn it out carefully, and serve with hot fish sauce; or it may be served cold, cut in slices, and accompanied by a nice salad. Blenheim Eggs.—-Required: Six ounces of # boiled drained rice, four fresh or preserved eggs, half an ounce of margarine, one and a-half gills of gravy, two teasnoonfuls of grated onion, two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley, seasoning. Heat the gravy till boiling, stir in {lie rice, onion, and margarine. Beat the eggs well. Take the pan off the fire, cool its contents slightly. Pour in the eggs, mix well together, _ and season. Stir over a gentle heat till the eggs and rice are becoming a thick, creamy mass • but be sure not to let it reach boiling point, or the eggs will separate and form little hard lumps. Serve at once piled on a hot plate, garnishing with toast hr fried bread. HINTS. White Cloth.—Ground rice is excePent lor cleaning white ..cloth. It should' be applied with a piece of clean white flanon or three hours, and then well brushed and shaken out’ To Wash Blankets.—When washing blankets for the first time steep them overnight in cold water in which a handful of borax has been dissolved. They are much easier to wash when handled m !l\ 1S 'T a 7 than if put straight into suds. Artificial flowers, if crumpled, can be made to look quite fresh again by holding them over the steam of a kettle for a few minutes. Then pull them out into shape, and sha.ee, them until they are quite flowe rg ThlS 13 a great S;,CCftfs with velvet When ironing a starched garment and » part of it becomes dry, do not damp it with water, but iron first under a cloth wrung out of cold wafer, and then finish in the usual way. • , yOU aiS M vin Z B aint a coat of enamel X Oll want to dry quickiv, try heat- •? B JSf. e ? Mn « l on the stove before using ! lias has been proved again and again to have the desired effect, and the enamel

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When the ordinary cook uses dripping she is generally content to mb it into the flour, with the surprising results that both the cakes and pastry are not nearly so light as they might be. A. French cook puts the dripping in a bowl, beats it up with a clean kitchen knife till the consistency of cream. This process does not take long, and the cakes, pastry, and puddings are exquisitely light; and very easily digested.

Plastered W r alls.—To hang a picture on a plaster wall try dipping the nail into cold water before driving it into the wall It will bite into the plaster if this is done, and will therefore hold a considerable weight without loosening. ITALY DISSOLVES CHILDLESS MARRIAGES. Since M. Olemenceau pointed out to France the duty of citizens to pay taxes and bring up children, a tribunal at Milan has annulled a marriace on the grounds solely that it was childless. This decision is expected to cause numbers of annulments—for there is no divorce in Italy—on similar grounds. Socialists in Parliament are preparing a motion to have marriage compulsorily annulled if no children are born. It has to be borne in mind that there is no divorce in Italy, but annulment of marriage is its equivalent. “T" think the idea is monstrous.” said Mrs M. L. Seaton-Tiedman. of the Divorce Law Reform Union, ‘'because it would be so unjust. Imagine the law insisting on the separation of a loving husband and wife who regard being child less as a great misfortune? Could legal tyranny go further? I would ask the Italian Socialists how many childless marriages they would allow individuals to annul ? In our view, permanent separations without the power to re-many, should be abolished. It leads at present to a highly regrettable state of affairs, and certainly does not help to increase the birth rate.”

One of the founders of the Divorce Law Reform Union, Mr E. S. P. Haynes, said : —“I am dead against such an absurd proposal,_ and I think you will be hard put to it to find any genuine divorce reformer _in favor of it. Our aim, as a society, is to bind people together, not to tear them apart against their will.” PENALISED ON ACCOUNT OF SEX, SHABBY TREATMENT OF FAMOUS SCIENTIST. How a woman’s invention helped our troops to overcome German poison gas was told by the inventor herself at a demonstration before the Association of Science Teachers in the Phvsics Theatre of University College on January 5. Mrs Ayrton was demonstrator. She took her audience step by step through the various of her discovery, and with a “ service fanshowed how the gas actually was driven off. She showed how the fan was used in clearing a dug-out of gas, and remarked that many deaths took place because dug-outs were not cleared. She next narrated her difficulties in netting the Mar Office to act, it being over a year before the authorities accepted her invention. “I offered it to them in Mav, 1910. My assistant was out* in France in the following May showing how the men. could be trained to use the inns. They were not made in anvthing like the quantities they ought to have been. The fans saved some lives, but thousands more could have been saved. I had great difficulty in getting the Mar Office to believe th;it any training was necessary in the use of_ the fan. They never realised it was a scientific instrument, which would require knowledge before it could be used properly. They were constrained to supply the fans, because, there was such a demand for them, but they did not have men properly trained to use them, up to the very end. That the fan was accepted at all seems to have been due to the sympathetic insight of Dr Addison, at the Ministry of Munitions. Mrs Ayrton’s son-in-law telegraphed_ to Mr Lloyd George thus: “ Lady physicist has invented a fan to gas attacks; you must see it,” to which the Prime 'Minister replied offering to make an appointment with her. Mrs Ayrton answered that she had no wish to talk; her object was to demonstrate the usefulness of her invention, bo took it to London with her. but it “was just sniffed at by a gentleman at the Ministry of Munitions.” As she could not see the Prime Minister she carried her invention to Dr Addison, who was much impressed by it, and after witnessing a trial said “ I will get vou communication with the right person.” The outcome was that it was thoroughly tested by the School of Military Engineering, which reported favorably to the Mar Office, with a recommendation that 5,000 should be ordered. It will be remembered that Mrs Ayrton (now a widow) had a most distinguished scientific eaieer, and is the only lady member of the Institute of E.lectrical Engineers. In 1906 the Royal Society awarded her the Hughes medal for her investigations on the electric <irc und on the phenomena of sand ripples. Mr Israel Zangwill is her son-in-law. AN AERIAL WEDDING. A novel event, the first of its kind to take place in Australia, was performed at Inglewood (Victoria) on the afternoon Oi Marcn 17. Captains Snooks and Leggat, representing the Australasian Aerial Transport, Limited, consented to a request by a bridal couple from M’edderburn, that their nuirriage should take place during an actual flight. Driving a distance of 20 miles, the wedding party piivrived at the flying ground, and the "bride and groom, accompanied by the Rev. F. Aswel Apted, Methodist clergyman, entered the cabin. After [fortiori of the ceremony had been carried out, the engine was started, and away the machme went. the remainder of the service being completed at an altitude of about 2,000 ft. After a flight lasting 10 minutes, a safe landing was made, when the newly-married couple, Mr and Mrs Fred Hayes, alighted to receive the congratulations of the many people assembled, all of whom took keen interest in the unusual proceedings.

GLADSTONE’S WIFE. Mrs Drew’s entertaining memoir of her mother should dispose of the idea that Mrs was, like Mrs Disraeli, but a pale satellite of her famous husband. She made Mr Gladstone's comfort her first care, but she was in no wav absorbed in the contemplation of his career. She had a strong and vivacious personality, with many interests of her own. Mrs Drew assures us that her father was not spoiled by domestic hero worship:—“ With us it was a case of a prophet not without honesave in big own countiy. The fact of his being a Cabinet Minister, foremost among his colleagues, never impressed itself upon us as any special honor or glory. It never crossed my mind that olher people’s fathers were not just the same. All my friends, I thought, had the same sort of father. It was a cause of wonder to me when those who came to the house, especially our cousins, treated him with awo ana reverence, listening to every word that fell from his lips. Indeed, we treated him with scant respect ; argued across him while he was talking ; end even contradicted him. Both our parents were extraordinarily simple, and never seemed conscious of occupying an exceptional plane.” -Mrs Drew tells some whimsical anecdotes of her mother's quick wit in awkward moments. Once, when they were staying in Harley-street during the recess, in the absence of their servants, they were to lunch with a neighbor. Lord Granville suddenly appeared, asking for lunch. Mrs Gladstone, to her husband’s astonishment, gave him a cordial invitation, and. after disappearing for a few minutes, came back with her hostess, the servants, and the meal from next door. Such a wife must have been invaluable to a harassed states-

man, because she was never at a loss. He told her everything, and she was discretion itself as far as h;s political secrets were concerned. She brought up eight children, she looked after her husband, and “ never kepit him waiting ”; she went about a great deal in society, but she also contrived somehow to spend much time in attending to her charities. Her daughter says that Mr? Gladstone once took a poor Clergyman suffering from scarlet fever into her own home in Carlton House Terrace, so that he might receive proper care. Mrs Gladstone's sound common sense in politics :s well illustrated bv two letters nom her husband in 1875, in which she advised h,m not to resign the leadership of the Liberal party. Her instinct in that case was less at fault than his, as he himself must have acknowledged later, SHOULD HUSBANDS WORK? .... London Sheriff's Court recently Dr Gwendoline Mary Cogswell, who is one ni the medical officers of the Stoke-on-Ireiiu County Council, claimed damages from her sister-m-law. Mrs Edith O’Neill, a widow residing a-t West Kensington', under peculiar circumstances. It was explained by counsel that for year*' Ur Cogt*well had" supported herself and her child, na\ing had to leave her husband because he did not support her, and it appeared that Mrs O’Neill thought that her brother should also be supported. io the child defendant wrote : Mv Dear Little Niece,—What is vour mother going to do for your father, iw she leit- him ever since you were born? It is a wife’s duty to look after her husband. A our mother threatened to leave mm unless he worked. He was brought up as a gentleman, so cannot do it. He is ill, and wants a wife to look after him. She said she would drown herself if he did not marry her. Dell, she married him. What'more does she want? R.S.—I am writing to the Coimtv Council all about her. She could no't find a man, so got my brother to propose to her when he was drunk. Tell vonr mother your father in two week’s time will be in the workhouse.

Counsel said the lady appeal’d to think it was a gentleman's duty to be a parasite and added that when an -action -was threatened defendant replied to plaintiff's solicitors ;

If Mrs Percy wishes to wash her dirty linen in public, let her do so. She is Welsh, I any English with a little bit of genuine Irish mixed. He was too ill to work, the army would not have him, and she suggested he should work on the land. How the devil does she Srink a. gentleman could work on the land? The plaintiff was awarded £25 damages.

WOMAN’S COLOSSAL FORTUNE. ; The sftory of Mrs Tone Suzuki, a little Japanese woman, who jvas taught merely to minister to her husband and to look to her household, and who at middle age is a dominant figure in the world of commerce, is one of the strangest romances of trade ever fold. Her ships sail the seven seas, carrying goods of all kinds from her many factories to the markets ’T the world. She is interested in practically every industry of the East. She is by far the richest woman in the Orient perhaps in the world. Mr Takohata, Mrs Suzuki’s business representative. at present in London, was perplexed when asked by a ‘ Daily Express ’ representative _ how many people she eraployed. “I do not know,” he replied; "it is. too difficult to say. She has so many interests in so many industries in so many parts of the world that it is impossible to judge, but there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands.” Some of these many world-wide interests were revealed by Mr Takohata.

Mrs Suzuki owns 98 per cent, of the shares m the great firm of Suzuki and Co., one of the largest business enterprises in existence. She has offices in London. Glasgow, New York. Hongkong, San Francisco. Seattle. Madras, Manila, Shanghai, Bombay, Calcutta, Vladivostock, Melbourne, and in practically every one of the world’s important seaports. 'She controls the steel industry of Japan, she has world monopoly in crude camphor, and she dominates the sugar market. She is the holder of vast estates in Japan, Korea, and the West Indies. Her fleet of 60 steamships, totalling more than half a million tons, is engaged solely in carrying the "oods she manufactures to every part of the universe. Yearly as many more are now under construction in her own shipyards. In the near future she will have a merchant fleet of 100 vessels, aggregating almost a million tons, and she is also associated with the International Steamship Company. Among Mrs Suzuki'? many enterprises are zinc, lead, and copper mines, smelteries and refineries, flour mills, cotton mills, 'alcohol distilleries, celk£"«ii fMories, salt works, leather and artificial silk factories, steel works, rubber factories, breweries, dockyards, life and marine insurance companies, and bank?. Her company is also the agent in Japan for numerous large firms of America and Europe, It lias been estimated that Mrs Suzuki made from £30,000,000 to £40,00 0.000 during the war, but Mr Takohata would not affirm the figures. The marvellous career of this great woman capitalist appeals the more remarkable when one understands the coalitions in Japan, where women, perhaps, occunv as degraded an qstate as anywhere. A girl is never allowed to go out alone. She is brought up merely to know how to plea.se her husband, and her marriage is nearly always auanged without as much as consulting her. Airs Suzuki was left a sugar refinery by her ’ husband, who died 20 years ago. She sold it for £650.000, and used the money to build up her manygreat business schemes.