WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 20

WOMAN’S WORLD

Reports of social functions will be welcomed for this column. Diana ' will also answer all reasonable questions relating to the home, cookery, domestic science, and any topic of interest to her sex. But each letter or report roust bear the writer’s name and address as a guarantee of genuineness, and questions that do not permit of & public reply cannot be answered. Questions should bo concisely put and the writer’s nom de plum® clearly written.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

“ Evergreen.”—Thank you for your appreciative letter. Try this way of cleaning your green blinds. First rub them over with bread or dough to remove the surface dirt. Then sponge them with warm vinegar and water, or bran water, and wipe them quickly with a dry cloth.

“ M.A.8.”—1 think one of these recipes must include the one you refer to as having been given in this column some time ago. Required 2 eggs, ilb flour, 1 good teaspoonful baking powder Jib sugar, 3 tablespoonfuls of boiling water, and rose or vanilla flavoring essence. Mix in the usual way, adding the water last. A better sponge is made with 1 cup each of sugar and flour, a little essence, 1J teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and 4 eggs. Both these are sandwich sponges.

“Amateur.”—Your gold lace dress can easily be brightened by a large geranium red chiffon or velvet flower. Let this rather droop at the side, and you will iind it quite effective.

“Flowers.”—Just now flowers tend to drop quickly once they are picked. Give them a dose of aspirin, by putting one tablet for a large vase. Be sure to change the water in an hour’s time, or the remedy will be worse than the original ill.

“ A.J.”—The engagement notice sent cannot be inserted till it is signed by at least one of the parties concerned.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Lady .Roberts returned to-day to Wellington.

Mrs Marshall Macdonald came back to-day from an extended holiday.

Airs Watt and Airs Gurlo have come home after a most enjoyable holiday at “The Oaks,” Palmerston.

Airs Priest is back from a holiday in Queenstown and Taieri Mouth. Mr and Airs D’Arcy Haggitt, who have been spending a holiday in Queenstown, left for home the other day.

Miss Nicholson, of the Women’s Chib, is spending a week or two in Queenstown.

Airs Finch gave a verv enjoyable bridge party for Airs Falla and Airs Clarry.

Airs B. Haggitt was another successful bridge hostess a day or two ago.

Other bridge hostesses with two tables this week were Airs Greenfield and Aliss Ensor.

Airs Batchelor is spending a few days at Waitati.

Airs M’lndoe, well known in art circles as Alabel Hill—has returned from Tahiti.

Mrs A. Quolch and family, Alosgiel, have returned after holidaying at Warrington.

Mrs Allan Young lias returned from Warrington.

Airs F. Drake has returned from Warrington.

Mr and Airs Jack O’Kane and their little daughter Alolly, of Alexandra, are in town for a few days.

Mrs and Airs 0. J. L. White and daughter are at present residing at Alacandrew’s Bay.

Recent Dunedinites who have stayed at the White Star Hotel, Queenstown, include Airs D. AI. Spedding, Aliss T. M. Spedding, Air and Mrs A. Sidoy, Mr and Airs C. F. Oliver, Air and Airs F. T. Carr, Aliss D. Hart.

The Parisian house of Susanne Talbot has struck a new and fascinating note by creating an evening wrap which has an Arab hood attached. These are worn by all the most fashionable women on the Continent this season.

Yesterday Airs Edmond gave a most successful bridge party for Airs Falla and Mrs Clarry. the other players being Mrs Stock, Airs Finch, Airs Cheeseman, Airs Cook, Airs Acton Adams, Airs AV. 0. APKellar, Misses Williams (2), and Denniston,

Two excellent magazines for women have just been received— 1 Home ’ and ‘ Everylady’s.’ The former is an English publication, with a goodly share of fiction and the major part devoted to matters of special interest to the homemaker. The latter is an Australian production, with four free patterns, two being frocks for ladies and a jumper, and the fourth is a child’s dress. Of course, there is also a large section for cooking, sewing, and suchlike topics.

If there is any body of men properly entitled to bo termed “ The Brains of Australia,” it is the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, which has just issued its annual report. Here are some of the year’s accomplishments. Cause of “ bunchytop ” in bananas discovered; cause of tomato wilt ascertained; £30,000 saved last season alone to the sultana growers; experiments made which will definitely establish the paper industry in Australia. But the most romantic and important part of the council’s work has been that associated with the fight against that wonderful pest known all over the world as prickly pear.

The two Dunedin ladies whose paintings have been selected for the Imperial Institute Gallery of Art exhibition, to bo held shortly in South Kensington, London, art Airs ADlndo© (Mabel Hill) and Aliss Kathleen Salmond. No doubt many readers of this column will remember the high praise given to Aliss Salmond for her work at our recent exhibition. Her pictures showed unusual versatility, for she was equally successful in pure landscape, flowers, and “genre,” her ‘ Preparing for the Visitor 1 being particularly popular. This year Alabel Hill concentrated, on scenes from the tropical islands, where she has spent a considerable time last year.

Princess Mary has put her stamp of approval on old-fashioned quilts and quilting bees promises to bo a popular social function in England this winter. Mrs Jano Heard and Mrs Mary Pearson, wives of miners from County Durham, delighted Princess Mary with the marvellous old-fashioned quilts they were making at the exhibition of home crafts at the exhibition of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes in the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. The princess especially admired some of the fruit patterns, and asked where they came from. The miners’ wives explained that they were 200 years old and had been handed down from generation to generation in County Durham.

WEDDINGS

A wedding of interest to Dunedin took place in the Alombassa Cathedral, Kenya Colony on November 29, between Peggy, older daughter of Air and Airs Percy Priest, of St. Clair, Dunediu, and Ronald limes, youngest son of the late Air C. H. Walker and Airs Walker, of Remuera, Auckland. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. E. Crawford. The bride looked charming in a lace frock over white satin, with silver and pearl trimmings, pearl coronet, and a beautiful Brussels lace veil, kindly lent by Airs Denny, of St. Clair. The bridegroom’s mother was gowned in a lovely frock of fawn crepe de chine, with heavy lace and large black hat, trimmed with a brilliant ornament and lacc bow. Aliss Irene Mitchell, of Alelbourne, was the only bridesmaid. She wore a shell-pink', frock, with biscuit-colored picture hat. The bride was given away by Colonel Sands. After leaving the church they all returned to the Palace Hotel, Alombassa, and shortly afterwards the young couple left for Nairobi, from there motoring on to their borne in Timboroa.

On December 21, at Knox Church, Dunedin, a very pretty wedding way solemnised, when Betty, only daughter of Air and Airs W. R. Clark, London street, Dunedin, was married, to William, second son of Air and Airs James Paterson, Te Puke. The Rev. Tulloch Yuilie conducted the ceremony, and Mr Gale played appropriate wedding music. The dainty bride, who was given away by her father,_ was charmingly attired in a frock of ivory’ satin, trimmed with georgette and silver lace. Her embroidered veil was arranged on a coronet of orange blossom, and she carried a shower bouquet of white roses and bridal lilies. The bridesmaids were Aliss Anna Alorwood, who wore a pink beaded georgette frock, and Aliss Iris Low (cousin of the bride), who wore a blue taffeta frock. Both carried early Victorian posies. Little Miss Peggy King, of Winton (cousin of the bride), who acted as flower girl, wore a blue crepe de chine frock, and carried a Victorian posy. Air Eric Paterson (cousin of the bridegroom) attended as best man, and Air W. R. Clark (brother of the bride) as groomsman. After the ceremony about sixty guests assembled at the Strand Salon to honor the bride and bridegroom. Airs Clark, wearing a grey moracain and silver lace frock, black hat, and carrying a posy of violas, received the guests. On leaving for the wedding tour the bride wore a smart costume of beige cloth, with hat to match, and a brown fox fur. The future home of the bride and bridegroom will be in Tauranga.

THE RIGHT RECIPE

Fish Creams.— 4 firm tomatoes, 1 gill thick anchovy sauce, 4oz flaked and honed cooked fish, cream, chopped walnuts, seasoning. Cut the ends o(F the tomatoes, scoop out the pulp with the handle of a teaspoon, and turn upside down to drain. H time permits, sieve the fish. Mix the fish and sauce, and add sufficient tomato pulp to make a thick cream. Season to taste. Fill the tomato cases with the mixture, pipe on stiffly whipped cream, and sprinkle'with chopped walnuts. Serve very cold. Stuffed Steak.—Take 11b of steak, cut rather thin, Jib of sausage meat, 2 onions, 1 carrot, IJoz df butter, a teaspoonful of flour, pepper and salt to taste, and ha'f a pint of water. Flatten out the steak, cut away some of the fat. Remove the skin from the sausage meat, and lay it down the centre of the meat lengthwise. Then roll up, skewer, and bind well with string. Heat the butter in a saucepan, fry the meat brown, add the vegetables and water. Stew gently for one hour and a-half. Thicken with gravy, and serve. Chocolate Junket.—l pint milk, *2oz sugar, J teaspoonful chocolate essence, essence of rennet, 1 orange, Jib grapes. Warm the milk and sugar to bloodheat, stir in the rennet and chocolate essence, using sufficient of the latter to flavor and color to taste. Stand a perfectly clean jam jar in the centre of a shallow dish, pour the junket round, and stand for an hour or so until firm. Remove the jar, and fill the space with quarters of orange and grapes. Serve with cream if liked.

SUMMER DRINKS

—Raspberry Vinegar.— Bruise 61b raspberries and cover with four pints of vinegar. Stand it in a jar for twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally. Strain carefully, and allow to each pint of juice lib sugar. Boil for five minutes, stirring and skimming carefully. When cool, bottle it. —Sherbert.— Alix together fifteen drops essence of lemon, Jib moist sugar, Jib each of tartaric acid and carbonate of soda. When thoroughly mixed, put it in a convenient and well-stoppered jar. —Tisane.— This is a favorite French summer drink, cooling and healthy. Cram a medium-sized saucepan with fresh and washed black currant leaves. Add enough water to nearly fill the pot, and boil it, with the lid on, for five minutes. Strain, and add the juice of a lemon, and sugar to taste. This may he drunk hot or cold. If preferred, the lemon may bo left out, and a little milk added instead. —Black Currant Vinegar.— To four large cups of black currants allow one bottle vinegar. Bruise the fruit, put it in a large jug, and pour the vinegar in. Cover and stand it for three days, then strain, and to each pint of juice add 11b sugar. Boil for three minutes, and allow to cool. When quite cold put it in bottles and seal. Use in proportion of one tablespoon per tumbler. —Nectar. — Chop up 11b raisins, and put them in an earthenware jar with the rind of two lemons and IJlb sugar. Then pour on this 2gal of boiling water. Let the liquid stand till it is cold, then add the strained juice of the two lemons. Leave all in a cool place for a week, stirring it every clay. Strain carefully through a jelly bag till the liquid is clear. Bottle, and use as wanted.

ODDS AND ENDS

In making cake, grease the tin with sweet lard rather than butter, and sift a little dry flour over it. Stoning raisins can be extremely simplified if you pour boiling water over the raisins and leave it for a minute or two. Pour it away, and you will then find that the raisin pips are more easily removed. . .. • When driving nails into a wall, tap carefully round about the place where you want your nail to go, to make sure there’s something solid behind the plaster. When the wall sounds hollow it’s no use driving in the nail, for it will quickly pu)l out when any weight is on

TO RECOVER AN EIDERDOWN

SEA BATHING

it. Go on tapping until tho hollow sound changes to a dull one. During holiday time the hair often becomes greasy and lifeless, especially it close-fitting hats are worn. Half a teaspoonful of oil of rosemary added to four tablespoonfuls of bay ruin makes a refreshing lotion. Sea water, provided that the hair has not been artificially brightened or tinted, strengthens it, and brings out all sorts of pretty bright natural tints, so that it is worth while enduring temporary stickiness, apart from tho fact that it is much better for the health to wet the head while bathing. Three pints of water should be taken each day by all adults, in order to flush the kidneys and help to eliminate poisons and waste material from the body. Children should be given water to drink between meals, and even a tiny baby should have about three or four ounces of boiled water during the twenty-four hours. Water is the safest and most permanent cure for constipation, and may be taken either hot or cold, as preferred. Hot water in place of the early cup of tea is a habit to be recommended, [t will become just as welcome as tea when you are used to it, and is so much better for both nerves and complexion.

Unless something of a very elaborate nature is desired, a new cover need not be a costly undertaking, and a pretty cretonne or a self-colored sateen will transform tho old eiderdown into (practically a new one). You must, of course, entirely remove the old cover, and have the quilt hung out on the line for an hour or two for several days, unless it is raining. A frosty day wiil not harm it, unless it is a foggy frost. Put it over the kitchen pulley every day after bringing it into the house. Join the new material to fit, letting it be rather on the loose side. If a plain material is used, a hold design may bo worked in the centre of the top portion. Make a huge bag of the material, stitching the two parts securely on the wrong side, and then fit the quilt in it, so as to bring the worked design in the proper place, pinning down the cover at frequent intervals, and then securing the material to the quilt, where the pins were, with a strong stitch going right through. This is to prevent the cover slipping. Sew the top edges together, and you will have a new and cheap eiderdown. Where it can ho afforded silk may take tho place of the more homely material. but for ordinary purposes the plan i have suggested will appeal to most of my readers. Another reason for using the cheaper material—a costly cover is intended to last for a long time, some years, in fact, and this has its unhygienic side; the less expensive cover may bo frequently washed or renewed at a trifling cost.

Sea bathing is one of the best tonics that exist for both body and nerves. The following rules are worthy of committal to memory:— .Don’t go into the water at all times and seasons; before breakfast or between 11 a.in. and 1 p.m. are ideal times for a dip. The afternoon hours aro very well for children, hut generally too warm for adults in the height of the season. Don’t go into the water when overheated or chilly. Don’t stand shivering on the brink if you are not a swimmer; testing the water with one too, plunge right in, head and all. Don’t stay in the water more than ten minutes the first day, gradually increase the length of time, but never stay in long enough to become chilly. If the day is a cold one, dress quickly after a brisk rub down with_ a _ dry, rough towel, eat a couple of biscuits or a stic kof plain chocolate, and do two or three physical exercises, or go for a short walk' along the beach.—‘ Everylady’s Journal.’