SOCIAL NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 577, 1 June 1925, Page 2

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs Brewer is visiting her sister ill Te Kuiti. * * « * Mr and Mr. s Kingston, sen., of .Hamilton,' .are guests at llastic s Hotel. • . ® * Mrs tiny Harding, of Khamiallah, is visiting .Mrs A. .Shannon, at Mali oe, Wailuna. * • • • Mr and Mrs John Gobbe and Mrs Buchanan left for a week’s visit to Napier to-day, • • • • Airs Sami ford and her little son left on Saturday evening on the express on a three weeks’ visit to Auckland. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. WHEN LUGS ABE DEAR. A tablespoon of powdered gelatine equals three eggs. Dissolve the gelatine in ;), little cold water, then add enough boiling waiter to make a cup ful. Beat well with egg heater and add to the rest of ingredients.

HOME-MADE SOAP. Three pounds of lime, Olb washing soda, lib rosin, 71b lat, 3 tablespoons of borax, 12 quarts of water. Boil the water, lime and soda for one hour. Lot the mixture stand .ill night. Strain oil in the morning. Add the other ingredients and boil for three hours, stir constantly, l’our in a mould, and, when cold, cut in bars and store. [

GOOD JUMPER HINT. To remake a knitted garment try this: As you unpick it make the wool into skeins by winding ruuud the hacks of two chairs placed side by .side. Then, tie securely in three places. Wash in borax and soli soap mixtures. Rinse thoroughly and hang on the line to dry. You will Jiud the wool Hull’ up like new' and all signs ot previous use gome.

“COMPANY NTGDT.’’ A young housewife, who likes to systemal iso things ami likes also to do her share of entertainment, lias hit upon the seheme of having one night a week that she calls “company night." On that night she is always ready to receive dinner guests. She arranges, her work- so that she will always he free to prepare dinner with just a few more nourishes than usual. Likewise she has her house in shipshape. In fact, “company night" is the evening of general cleaning day. Moreover, .she has arranged so that a certain good woman worker comes in every “company night’’ to wash the dishes. If there is no company then the housewife’s tasks are lightened, and if there is, then, the faithful woman secs to all the disagreeable dish washing that usually makes entertaining guests for dinner a. trial to those who have no servants. And most always there Is someone. It i.s with considerable pleasure that this housewife’s husband feels that lie can always invito his friends to dinner on a certain night of the week without first consulting Ins wife. He knows she welcomes company - his company as well as her own—on this night.

DON’T BE A MAUTYI?. Don’t he a. martyr because if is swell an irritating habit, and joes not gain the sympathy you might think. You know the martyr. J know the martyr. OVo all Know the martyr. She flourishes in the homo, and every place of business boasts at least one who's always oil thy job. There’s the Cheerful Martyr, with her smug airs and .her patient, • resigned ismile, and tiro grim and gloomy one. Opinions are divided as to which is tho more-deadly. The martyr, According to her, is aiways overworked and always unappreciated. ]»esenr.ment oozes cut of her mingled with a fierce joy at the thought that she bears up so nobly under so much ingratitude. Stic loves making you feel iliat you a*e a mucrable k)b*r, as she decs ; l ent her work with set lips, .•."eeptug ;e‘de ail offers of Help with loiuo.npt. As kirn tells' you so often, she can’t trust anyone Vi do tilings properly, unless die sees fo-thom he;Miff. But don’t by thoughtful and eo.usid-

era to and try to wicsl the burdens from her back if jou want her to be happy. The greater the martyrdom, the greater the glory!

Everyone finds its exasperating to live or work with a professional martyr. He (or, more often, she) in one of the most irritating of human types. But the silly part ol it is that most of us. cheerful, normal, jolly as we may be, assume the martyred air by instinct, if we feel we re being rather ill used by people we love. .1 suppose the idea at the hack ot the mind on such occasions is that other j>eoplo will lie sorry when they see how miserable and ill-used you are feeling.

But it doesn't act like that a bit. Ton know it doesn’t from past occasions when you had lo watch someone else playing the marlyr to you Its just infuriating to see someone going about with a still upper lip and an unapproachable look in t-hcii eyes; fiercely insisting on doing unnecessary jobs, when you know’ they're feeling ill and answering your anxious questions- and remarks in polite, frozen tones which, drive you t.* desperation. -

No help or sympathy can possibly be given in this atmosphere; it makes everyone else feel unnatural, miserable, and angry. Haven’t you done it yourself ? Haven’t you thought, “Well, if Jack can't, see how wretched 1 am, nothing will induce me to tell him. Perhaps he will be sorry later on.” Poor Jack realises that .something is wrong quite well, and he would ho beautifully sorry now. ii you’d let him. But you soon pass from ordinary wretchedness or depression in a state of savage joy in being as miserable as possible and making everyone else unhappy too. It's really very dangerous to get into the habit of feeling a martyr. Many marriages are spoilt because wives at once put on martyred airs when they think their husbands are thoughtless and inconsiderate and “don’t understand” tin’s, that and the other. It would he far better if they took - the trouble to enlighten Hie blind one,' in plain words, instead of Haunting')) sfilenl. erievancc. As a ■•matter of 'fact, half ( lie time “being a martyr” is just a habit, and —oh. isn’t it an annoying one. Next lime you feel like taking up that attitude, count ton and don’t.

COOKING HINTS. JMtESEBYEI) GINGEB ('AKE. One cup sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 cups Hour, ;jllj preserved ginger, 13 eggs, J pint syrup, 2 small teaspoons baking powder. Mix' sugar and butter to a cream. Add eggs one by one, then silt, the Hour and baking powder in logo flier and beat for o minutes. Cut tli ■ ginger into small pieces and with the syrup add the rest of the. ingredients. Bake in a moderate o\cn for half an hour.

ORANGK BISCUITS. Take two cups Hour. live teaspoons ol linking powder, live tablespoons of blitter, one teaspoon salt, orange marmalade. Sift dry ingredients together and work in butter; add enough milk to make thy mixture the right consistency to roll. Roll thin and euL out rounds with biscuit cutter. Spread half flic rounds with orange marmalade, cover with rounds. Press together and brush over with milk, anil hake ten minutes in a hot oven. These are delicious served with afternoon tea.

RED CABBAGE. Cut in hall a cabbage of medium size. Remove the outer leaves and the .stalk and shred the cabbage as finely as possible. Put it in a saucepan. with sufficient water to cover the pan. Add a large sour apple, which has been cored anil sliced, but not peeled, two or three cloves, a small hay leaf, a very little salt and pepper ami a. large tahlospoonful of pure lard. Boil until tender, then add a level teaspoonful of sugar and enough \ illegal’ to impart a .pleasant piquant flavour. The cabbage must not be cither sweet or sour. Thicken with a little Hour, and if all tile water lias not been absorbed strain the cabbage through a colander.

DISH FOR FRIDAY. Take Hit of middle cut of trout, juice of half a lemon, Joz of butter, sail, and pepper. Grease a stewpan of a. suitable size for your fish, with the butter. Put in the trout steak. Sprinkle over the lemon juice/ free from pips. Butter a piece of white papier and cover the fish with it. Put on the lid and cook over a gentle heat for 20 minutes. Lift the steak out of the 'pali uiLu a hut dish. Pour the liquid round and garnish with cucumber and mayonnaise sauce with it.

TOMATO .RELISH:. Take 12 oikliruTry-sigOd tomatoes and cut. about the sizh of a walnut; place on a -large dish anil sprinkle with salt. Let stand 12 hours; take

eight- medium-sized onions, cut same size and place mi a separate dish; sprinkle with .salt and let stand 12 tiours. In the morning pour away the water from each, and put altogether in a. preserving pan with enough vinegar to hardy cover. Place on fire; boil for d minutes. While boiling mix two tablespoons curry powder, two tablespoons dry mustard with a little cold vinegar, and put in the pan with gib sugar, cheels or cayenne pepper t.o taste. Iloil and stir well ior one hour.

SKIT-CON PIDKNC’K. A faint heart never Avon fair dividends; and the man whu does not believe he can—seldom dues. Self-confidence is the general manager- the pusher the director of the master mind. It decides that iho thing can lie done—and spurs, drives, inspires the man to do it. It is the breeder of courage; the foundation of resolve; the stimulator of energy and genius. It revels in competition; '’poohpoohs" the uiisurmouiitahle; gives strength to oppose the strong; the one-man business the courage and determination to combat the giant corpora l ion. “ I nipos-ible y"—There is no such word ill the dictionary! That's sell-con lidenee and almost— Success.