WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 21

WOMAN’S WORLD

["By DIANA.]

GOLDEN WEDDING In honour of the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding, Mr and Mrs Donald Mnthoson, of 46 Cargill street, met a largo number of friends in Kroon’s Hall on Friday night, June 8, anticipating by three days the actual anniversary. Mr Mathcsou hails from Plockton, Lochalsh, Rosshire, Scotland, and his partner (nee Mary Ann Fleming), from Brechin, Forfarshire (seat of the Earls of Dalhousio)._ They were married by Dr Stuart in Knox Church on Juno 11, 1878, and the bridesmaid of that occasion has been spared to grace the golden wedding celebration. She is Mrs Christina M'Donald, of Kirkcaldy street, South Dunedin, and with her —as with the bridal couple—time has dealt kindly as far as the preservation of their physical health and vigour is concerned.' Of their family of seven, one son and two daughters have passed away, but three sons and a daughter survive, and there are five grandchildren. At the celebration on Friday the Rev. ,T. Pringlo voiced the felicitations of their largo circle of friends, anion" whom Mr and Mrs Matheson are held in highest esteem. The company joined in singing ‘ 0 God of Bethel,’ after which a verv pleasant evening was spent, concluding with supper. PUBLICATION RECEIVED We are indebted to Messrs Whitcombo and Tombs for another of their popular little readers. This one, ‘ Rip Winkle,’ written for children of eight or nine years, retells the old American story in pleasing stylo. Divided into twelve chapters, each section carries on the tale without tiring the youngsters. The print and illustrations arc good, so that altogether this booklet should (ind a road.v market. Two mazagines have arrived from Melbourne, ‘ Everylady’s ’ and this firm’s latest venture, ‘ The New Idea.’ The first-named contains no loss than four free patterns, as well as much other help for the home dressmaker. Of articles of general interest wo may mention ‘Careers for Girls,’ and there is a goodly store of household lore, too. ‘The Now Idea’ is more after the style of ‘ Homo Chat,’ is of handy size, and contains much that will interest and entertain the average woman. ' ‘ The Town Crier,’ a London monthly journal devotes itself chiefly to “the house, home, and handcrafts.” The last number that has arrived gives an interesting insight into the life and work of women in Jerusalem, Canada, Holland, and Rumania. It will thus bo seen that its scope is wide. Of special value to those out here, who themselves do art work, are articles on painted ornament and new wall treatments. There is a good balance of general reading matter, which, in addition to the general excellence of production, makes this an asset to any home. ODDS AND ENDS To renovate a black coat which has become shiny, spongo it with equal parts of ink and strong tea. A piece of fine sandpaper is handy in the kitchen. If broad, cakes, or muffins brown too much, it will remove it better than anything else. Powdered camphor sprinkled over the mattress and under the covering dust sheet will help to keep moths away. Weak tea will bo found excellent for cleaning varnished paper. Apply with a clean flannel, and rub dry with a soft duster.

Raisins will stone more easily if slightly warmed, and candied peel should always Ire placed in the oven before being cut up. Pieces of bread dipped for a minute in sweetened milk, then into hatter and fried, are excellent eaten with jam sauce.

Muslin curtains should be rinsed in alum water, which docs not spoil their colour, and renders them non-inflam-mable. Allow two ounces of alum to a gallon of water.

Gut flowers closed at the ends of their stems with sealing wax will last much longer than flowers kept in water. Let the incredulous ones try the experiment. Two or three pieces of camphor placed in mouse holes is a very effective way of getting rid of these domestic posts, Fresh milk is an excellent thing ior softening hard leather boots or shoes. THE RIGHT RECIPE Treacle Sponge Pudding.—One breakfast cup and a-ha!f of flour and of breadcrumbs, quarter of a pound finelychopped suet, one teaspoon baking powder, half teaspoon egg powdor, two dessertspoons ground ginger, and three tablespoons golden syrup. Mix together all the dry ingredients, then add the syrup, and just as much milk as will make the mixture into a batter. Put into greased mould and steam three hours.

Apples.—Peel large cooking apples and scoop out the cores. Put them in a casserole. For three apples put one tablespoonful of sugar in a stewpan witli a teacupful of water, and boil quickly for five minutes; add Ihe juico of half a lemon, pour this over the apples, cover and bake, in a moderate oven until quite tender. Then in tho centre of each apple place a lew blanched almonds, finely chopped, and fill with apricot jam. A Light Suet Pudding.—This suet pudding is very light and also nourishing. Surround it, with any kind of stewed fruit. Ingredients: Four ounces of flour, four ounces of breadcrumbs, threo ounces of suet, a pinch of salt, two ounces of sugar. Uso self-raising flour. Mix all the ingredients together and add enough cold water to form a light dough. Steam for one hour in a well-greased basin. Rice Macaroon Pudding.— Required: Rico, two ounces; milk, one pint; sugar, to taste; jam, two tablespoonfuls; macaroons, two or three; butter, half an ounce. Thickly grease the baking dish with the butter. Four tho milk, tho washed rice, and the sugar into a milk boiler (a double pan). Cook like porridge, until in a thick creamy mass. He sure and stir Ilia mixture now and then, and keep the lid on tho pan. Spread the jam in the dish, pour on to it tiie cooked rice, and place small pieces of macaroons over Iho surface. Then heat in the oven for a few ' minutes unci servo. Note; Ratafias can be substituted, or “hundreds and thousands" shaken over, just at the very last, moment, or anything else suitable to alter the face of the pudding, Charlotte IT Ur. Take a sponge sandwich, about half a dozen sponge finger biscuits, one small tin of good pineapple, two bananas, one sweet orange, one gill of cream, and apricot jam. Spread the sandwich with apricot jam, and place it on a dish. Brush over the sides with a little of the jam made warm, and fix halves of the sponge biscuits all round. Mix together two slices of Hi© pineapple,

finely shredded, tho bananas cut in small pieces with peel, pith and pips removed. Put these on the sandwich, moisten with a little of the pineapple syrup, cover with the cream (whipped), and surround with the remainder ol the pineapple. USES OF AMMONIA For Washing or Boiling White Clothes.—Ammonia softens tho water and gets the dirt out like magic. For Greasy Hands. —A little ammonia in the washing water will remove the grease at once. For your brushes it is excellent; better than soap, for it leaves no traco of stickiness on tlu hn-.tles and gets them much cleaner. A Caution.—-Ihm i use ammonia to wash your hair. it takes out tho natural oil, leaving the hair dry and brittle, and help- it to lose its colour. For Insect Bites.—A touch with a lump of rock ammonia which has been just moistened with water is more efficacious than anything else in allaying tho irritation. If You Are Tired.—A hot hath, with two or three tablcspoonfnls of ammonia in tho water, is a wonderful pick-me-up. Don’t wash your face with water so treated, because the ammonia is too drying for tho complexion For Spots on Clothes.—Ammonia is as good as petrol, and less dangerous, though it must not bo used except in cases where the dye is really fast. Apply on a small piece of flannel, and wipe off with plain warm water. For Cloudy or Fly-spotted Pictures or Mirrors.—A rag dipped in warm ammoniated water will got the dirt off at once. The rag need only lie damped, and tho glass will polish so quickly that there is no need to take the pictures down for the treatment. For Cleaning Your Jewellery.—A bath of ammonia and warm water is far Iho best thing. Brush lightly with a soft brush, to get into the cracks and crevices, and the trinkets will shine t as if they had just come from the jeweller’s. For Washing Glass or Silver.—A tablespoonful in the water will keep glass and silver like new. If washed in this way the silver will not need cleaning with powder more than once in two nr three months, except where it has been stained with vinegar, eggs, etc., when a little powder or whitening must be used.

For Washing Up.—Better than soap powders or soda. The greasiest pots and pans shod their nastiness with practically no trouble at all. Any saucepan or other pan which has developed a strong odour from cooking can ho freed by boiling it up ith a. few drops of ammonia in the water. Wash clean with fresh water and leave in the air for a few minutes after drying. FOR THE FAIR GIRL The words "blonde” and "brunette ” are apt to ho rather misleading when used to describe respectively a fair or a dark woman. For (here are many types of blonde as there are many types of brunette. Too often beauty and dross rules are laid down for blondes as a whole class, without any consideration of individual types. Such a mistake!

Yon may bo a blonde v.ith cumcolourcd hail- and pink and white cheeks, for instance, and blue eyes. If yon are tin's type yon arc undoubtedly favoured by fortune. You can wear most colours successfully, and you new! not use rouge either in' paste or powder form. As for the ordinary faco powder, the “ naturclle ” is the tint for you.

Blondes with a pink and white complexion should never dress too severely, nor should they wear their hair cut in an Eton crop unless they have very strongly marked feature* Tin's year’s fashions seem to have been especially designed for the pink and white blonclo. They are so dainty and frilly and feminine. Tho pink and white blonde looks her host hi tho picture type of frock. Tho one drawback to this particular typo of good looks, however, is that it is a type which wears badly. Unless great care is taken the pink and white blonde finds she loses her pretty colouring sometimes as early as in tho middle twenties, and that her hair loses its glossiness very soon. Tho red-hairod blonde may bo of two types. With vivid red hair you will find that white skin which is so beautiful when it isn’t freckled. This typo should bo almost Victorian in tho care of her skin, for once she has allowed it to got badly freckled or sun scorched it will seldom regain its former beauty. She would be wise to rub lemon juice well into the skin of her face, neck, hands, and .arms every night after having applied just enough skin food that can be comfortably absorbed by the pores of her skin. PLAIN HEROINES Charlotte Bronte onco told her sisters that they were wrong, and oven morally wrong, in making all their heroines beautiful as a matter of course (said a writer in ‘ T.iVs and Cassell’s Weekly’). They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, “I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall bo as interesting as any of yours.” Hcnco ‘ Jane Eyre,’ whom nobody but Mr Rochester thought so very handsome, for she was a little small thing almost like a child. Lucy Snowo, the heroine of ‘ Villutte,’ is a pale diminutive woman of tho same type. Lucy is forced to eke out her limited means by teaching at tho Fensiomiat in Villctlo. Jo Marche, the most striking figure in Louisa Alcotl’s ‘Little Women,’ is undeniably plain. “Jo was tall, thin, and brown, reminding one of a colt. She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, big hands and feet, round shoulders, and a fly-away look to her clothes.” Jo and her friend Laurie are tho instigators of all Iho family pranks. When Jo grows up she lakes a post as governess in order to escape Laurie’s repeated proposals. At this place she meets “her professor,” who later becomes her husband. The nnromantir courtship and successful marriage of Maggie, the plain little heroine of Sir James Barrio’s play, ■ What Every Woman Knows,' reveals the triumph of a plain woman over countless obstacles.

A WORKING HOLIDAY ( Written by Mbs Cuvsoh, for tba 'livening Star.’] The woman who Jiad just returned homo from her working holiday sat by her own fireside and wondered why more women do not go and have one also! She designs to have one every year for the next ten years (a design which employers, of course, may frustrate!). Women do not return from it with their pockets full of gold (Mrs Crusoe lias not), but a holiday of which one has no need to say, either before or alter it: “But think of the awful expense of it!” I trow that many women would be glad of such a holiday! ... Mrs Crusoo is not a pioneer in the matter. She once met two nurses who were moving round the world on a “working holiday”: she also met a man once who told her of the one he had in England, working at his old trade once more. But many women in Now Zealand settle down to no change and no holiday,” till a doctor’s verdict sends them forth to have one. “ But who will give them work?” That is, of course, the crux of tlio matter, and it ought to ho known more than it is that, scattered up and down Now Zealand aro firms dealing with fruit and other products, which give three to live months of the year “ seasonal occupation.” and work such as requires no skilled labour —only willing hands and minds. To Iho benefit of snob work Mrs Crusoe can testify, for sho has returned homo from it a stono heavier than she was. If a woman well over sixty does this much more will surh a holiday _ benefit younger women. The iact is, hard work is very beneficial to almost all women, its effect on the nervous system being both active and passive and for good. Where Mrs Crusoo went for Iter holiday she dare not say. If she mentioned tho name of the firm that engaged her no newspaper dare print this small screed. Even newspapers are governed by “laws of tho Medea and Persians” (which change not). Sho went to a land and a tt-wn of trees—trees everywhere, whose beauty fairly took her breath away, and reminded her of a delightful little poem on trees, which ends: Poems arc made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree!

“A working holiday!” How good it was, what good company she bad, what sound and wholesome work, what tiredness at tbo end of tho day, what sound sleep most nights! Thank God for such a holiday. ' She is back in her own homo once more, tho spot on earth dearest to her, and a thousand things are waiting to bo done. Outside her door is the most important bit of luggage she brought home with hor. an extremely black puppy of about six weeks old, who thinks her three acres will do quite w-ell for him, and who already wags his tail in glee at Mrs Crusoe, saying (in his mind): “ Oil, X think I can manage her!” Tho garden is calling Mrs Crusoe, but first of all she will write and order four.“K. of K.” rose trees from a nurseryman. “K. of K., M in _ tho florist’s catalogue, stands for Kitchener of Khartoum, she believes. She has already planted all tiro cuttings of tho trees she brought homo from tho city of trees; she went up its lovely river bank the day before she left for home, and (regardless of city by-laws, I fear) cut, them from many trees ‘■fur remembrance.” Had the City Fathers-seen her doing it it is likely they would have remembered bow useful” and kindly it is to turn a blind eye on breakers of by-laws. The river’s name, also, must not be given to the Press; suffice it to say of it: “My first is in money, but not in ink.” Tho puppy’s name is “Nelson.”