EVE'S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 320, 22 July 1925, Page 2

EVE'S Vanity Case

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SOCIAL NOTES.

.Miss Shepherd, ol ( olyton, ics the guest of her sister in New Plymouth.

On Monday night the members of the Girls’ Club entertained Miss Hilda Davidson, who is shortly to be married, at a kitchen tea. Mists Clarice Buddy, on behali ol the Club, wished the guest of the evening every happiness. .Supper and dancing brought tin enjoyable evening to a close. MA ItG INS. Have you ever bought a frock, only to discover, to your annoyance, that insufficient turnings have been allowed at the seams, so that a sudden movement tears the joints, or bursts the seams Y Some lives are like that. No allowance has been made for emergencies. no margin lor the unexpected. And so they have resulted in a continuous relay of worries and disappointments.

The great art of evisUmec _is to live for something more than the immediate present-, to nave something ‘‘up vour sleeve’’ in ease the unioicseen should happen. Men allow more margin, as a rule, than women; they believe in a balance at the bank,and they leel that something is wiong if there is not one.

Put the average woman of to-day believes in living up to income. “Why live as if you bad only live bundled a year, when vour actual income is si* hundred:-' Why spend only ten pounds a wool? .when you make twelve.'' she asks. Because, dear lady, there are such things as doctors’ bills, and accidents. out-of-work spells, ami runs of ill-luck. “Money is made lo spend,” she will doubtless reply. I*or she finds it difficult to differentiate between meanness and margins.

Non-marginal women are the despair of tradesmen who have to allow long credit when ready money ought to '-c there. They are the great despair of their' relatives, who have to come Lo the rescue again and again in a financial ..crisis. ’they are the dcspaii of their, medical advisers, whoso potions are unavailing against the mental worries they bring upon thcmscl-

lf you want to give your daughter a motto in otic word, let the "old be “margins.” THE COST OF SOLITUDE. The price of loneliness is going up. 1 1, is not motor ears, new frocks, dances, or pleasures that make the average man’s budget impossible. It is the cost of getting away from hie. For one ot the most awkward tacts of our present-day existence is the fact that we can seldom be alone. The axiom laid down by a philosopher over two thousand years ago—that man is by nature n gregarious animal is so obviously true in 1820 that the spectacle of a human being in isolation is almost unique.

'While Urn novelist, the thinker, the artist, and the great ones of the earth, religiously defend their privacy with forbidding secretaries, locked doors, country cottages, and what not, the dweller in cities can do scarcely anything in the cause ol his omii peace. The cost of loneliness to him or to her is the cost of a flat, or the remotest chair in fhe largest club. And none ol these things is available aL bargain prices.

At the same time, need of escape, of shaking hands with solitude for a while, was never more pressing. There are a thousand opportunities lor social intercourse, Iroin a day at cricket lo the tour abroad. But to be alone that is a problem. The. banc of the older generation was .too much repose— boredom. The curse of the new, with its nu time for; anything policy,” is no repose at all. nut even if the most desperate occasion demands it.

Tito art of solitude nowadays is the difficult ui'i of being lonely in a crowd.

CAREERS FOR WOMEN

“Joan has broken off her engagement,” lamented her mother. “H we had not been,su mistaken as Lo let her train for a career, she would lnivo been happily married.

Married, yen, but perhaps not happily. The mistake lay in the bo.) and girl engagement, made while she was bit school. When she obtained a wider knowledge, because ol her widen life, ishe saw that mistake and had the courage to admit il bed ore it led to unhappiness. Put she will marry some day, her mother need not worry about that. Fur careers do not prevent marriage, hut are, on the contrary, the best poparatiou for marriage Inal a girl can have, writes Anne Hutchinson in an exchange.

Many girls have blessed their parents for giving them the opportunity of making their own way in the world. It is pleasant to think that they no longer stay at home waiting lor marriage, and no longer welcome it aw a means of escape from the rule ol their mothers.

“If I had not insisted oil a career 1 should never have met Hugh,” said one radiant, happy married woman “or I should have met him too late, for my parents wanted me to marry a husband of their: choice soon alter L left school. ’’

The taking up ol a career it an immense gain to the woman who will afterwards marry. .She has a definite place in the world and leels better lor it.

Put though she makes a success ot her work, the average woman knows all. the time that her true career is

To this new career ishe gives all she is capable of giving. ■ She takes to it all the kuowlLdge she has gained, and makes a business of her homo and ol the upbringing of her childrln. Having struggled for a lime alone in the world, she realises in lull that untold happiness of having a haven of refuge in Iter home and Llio perfect .joy of being able to depend on I lie .strength and losing protection ol her husband. LEMON CIJEESE-AND CHEESE CAKES. 1. Two lemons,,, 2uz butter, Buz while r-mgar, B eggs. Melt the margarine in a saucepan., add sugar, then the eggs, previously beaten; lastly the rinds and juice of the lemons. Stir (ill it thickens. 2. Take '.lb of butler, 1 pint uf water, Jib of custard powder, two lemons, -Jib sugar. Squeeze the 11muns, remove the pips and cut up peel with other ingredients. Put into a saucepan and beat until all beraiiies a thick cream and then Lake out lemon peel, put in jars, and it is then rcydy for use. This is very nice spread on bread and buffer lor children.

Curd Cheesecakes.--diall a pint ol milk, 2 eggs, loz castor sugar, 2oz currants, ioz candied peel, pinch of salt, loz butler, a little powdered cinnamon, lemon juice. Line some pattypans with a good short paste. Beat eges well ; put milk into pan with two or three drops lemon juice, and bring to the boil. Then add eggs and stand over gentle beat until it has curdled. .Strain off wiie.v and drain the curd on a sieve. l When thoroughly drained mix it well -vitli llie sugar, currants, salt, chopped peel, cinnamon and the butter, nmkje liquid Three parts fill the patty pans witli the "mixture, and bake in a moderate oven for lo minutes.

Welsh Cheesecakes. — Dry Jib ol line flour,( mix with 2oz silted loal sugar, and add to it by degrees 2oz butter beaten to a cream.. Then work in three well-beaten eggs)' and flavour with essence uf lemon. Line some patty pans with short crust, put in the above mixture, \ and bake in a quick oven. Ground Rice Cheesecakes. —Line some patty tins with a good short or flaky pastry and fill them with the following mixture: loz ol butter, melted, 2oz ground rice, Buz easlo'r sugar, l egg, well beaten, a lew -rops almond essence. Be ill the whole lightly together. .Rut in a tiny spoonful of jam at the boLlum ol each pastry ease. Then pul in a dessertspoonful of the mixture anil bake quickly.- Sprinkle' sifted . sugar on top before sending the little tarty to the tabic. They, should be nicely risen and well browned.

MAKING THE MUST OF RHUBARB

Rhubarb Charlotte.-—This is a good way of making the-most ol rhubarb: Soak one and a half ounces ol gelatine in half a pint of water lor ten minutes, dissolve gently and strain. Slew a small bundle ol rhubarb cut into ''short lengths with lour ounces of sugar, one pint of water, the- grated rind ami juice of a lemon. Add the gelatine and two well-beaten whites of eggs. I'our into a mould lined with sponge fingers. uvben firm turn out quickly and carol idly into a. glass dish. Sene with custard made' of Lite yolks of tire eggs,

two tablespoons of sugar, lialf a pint of milk, and a lew drops of vanilla esiieiice. Canadian Rhubarb Tart.- fane a shallow pie plate with short crust. Chop up finely two bunches ol rhubarb, and put in bottom. Pour over the yolk of an egg, beaten, wiLit halt a cupful sugar, and bake. When cold, stiffly whip the white of the egg with two teaspoonf'uls of castor sugar, and pile on top. This is-reai-ly delicious. Cara ms I ltluibarh Pudding.-- Peat no well together two ounces margarine and two ounces sugar, and line a pudding basin with the mixture. Make half a pound of flour into a still paste with three ounces of margarine, and use this as a second lining to the dish, pressing it nicely and closely into the basin. Kill the centre up with one pound of rhubarb-, wiped and cut in small sfpiares. Add three tablespoons of water, the juice of hall a lemon, and sullioieiit sugar. Cover with pastry and a greased paper, and bake in an oven not too hot tor nearly two hours., .Servo on a hot dish, i when, the caramel will cover the pudding like a (sauce. A FACTORY FOR COOKING. ,

lu order to free working mothers from what is called “the slavery of the kitchen,” a small provincial town in Soviet Russia has opened a municipal cooking factory where lo,0(X) dinners are prepa red every al ternoon, and served |.u the-people'at the price of 20 kopecks, aobut od. Lherc are two courses, and the food is rather better than can be bad in most Russian cities.

FLOW FI’S

The life of llowens which are worn us a hull on hole may he considerably prolonged if they are treated in this wav: In half a cuplul ol warm water dissolve an aspirin tablet. Soak a small piece of cotton wool in the solution and wrap round the ends ol the stalks. The moisture is kept in by enclosing, in a piece of tinloil.