EVE’S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 672, 2 January 1926, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

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Tlic Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in tbo “Woman’s Realm” items of social or personal news. ..Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must beai" signatures.

SOCIAL NOTES.

Air and Airs Jim Erater and daughter, of 'Auckland, are the guests of Air and Mrs C. A. J. Lovett, of “Wichnor.” .’* # * * The tfte. ol brushes have increased gieatly in popularity since 1913, according to official British statistics. ■ a * Airs Bollard, wife of the Hon. R. E. Bollard, Minister for Internal Allah's, who, with Aliss Madge Bollard, has been spending a holiday in Australia, has just returned.

Aliss Nellie Ivalaugher, ALA., has been appointed assistant mistress at the High School, Ashburton. She was previously on the stall of llio Seddou Memorial Technical College, Auckland,

Some of the daintiest evening shoes ire made in the East End of London. • • » •

Aliss Eva Webb-Joncs, who had been studying at the Sydney Conservatorium, arrived home in Wanganui, She fuHilled, many engagements during flic year, and just prior to leaving Sydney was the only vocal soloist ac Aliss (Hasson's piano recital at Paling's Hall.

The engagement is announced of Kathleen, daughter of Air and the iale Airs J. Alurpiiy, of “Corofm,” Colyton, to William, soil of Air and Mrs P. AY. Corby, of Wellington.

Mrs Harvey Dodd, daughter of the late Mr Hubert Harr, the famous author of “Tluj Temptuous Pciti--coat” 'and other novels.! is staying with her daughter at Hotel Moli l)c----sir, Takupima. Mr Harvey Dodd, who is an eminent mining engineer, is at present inspecting mines in Australia, and will join them at a luture date. RECIPES. Raspberry Syrup lake 21b suit sugar, luz citric acid, 3 quarts water, Is worth 1 essence raspberry, coloured with 3d worth of cochineal. .Roil water and sugar fur an hour, then add acid. When cold add essence and colouring and bottle. Lse sullieient in a glass of water to make a tastv drink. /

Lemon fleer- Ingredients :Two lemons, 21b sugar, 2 tablespoons cream of- tartar, 2 gallons boiling water, 2 tablespoons of compressed yeast, white of an egg. Method: Wash the lemons, then cut them up. Add the sugar apt! cream of tartar, then, pointin' boiling water over. Stand till cold; strain; add the white of the egg and the yeast. When finished working, bottle, cork, and tie down securely.

Chilli Wine -Ingredients: Id large chillies, chopped line, 13 tablespoons 1 burnt sugar. 1 teaspoon citric or tartaric acid, 1 J teaspoons essence ol lemon, 12 cups boiling water, lib. of sugar Method: Pour boiling water over chillies, sugar, and acid, cover and stand by for an hour or more. Then strain, add burnt sugar essence and bottle. U is thought advisable to add more than 12 cups of water otherwise the wine is rathei strong; but if more water is added it is necessary to add more sugar and acid accordingly, d lie wine may also bo used with lemonade or soda water.

11 asp berry Vinegar—'Put lib of raspberries into a basin and bruise well and add 1 quart of good white wine vinegar. Next day strain tbo liquor on to lib iresh raspberries. Next, day repeat again but du not bruise the fruit or it will lenneiit. Wet a. canvas bag with, vinegar and strain tin; raspberry liquor through into stone jar and add 111) sugar. Stir well, and when settled stand the jar in a saucepan of water over the (ire. Simmer slowly and test occasionally until a little in a saucer sets. When cold the mixture should, he of the consistency of honey.

Lemon Squash—W ipe carol wily 0 large lemons and thinly pare or grate oil the rinds. Squeeze all the juice, out and put it with, the rind and lib of the best loaf sugar into a jug. Pour over one pint of ireshly boiling water and stir until the sugar is dissolved. When cold, strain, add one tablespoon brandy, and bottle. If tightly corked this will keep good for months. It is best, therefore, to

store in small quantities. Cue tablespoon of the mixture is sufficient for a tumblerful of lemondate. Either water or soda water can be added. Home-made Emit Salts—Required: Two ounces etch of Epsom sails, cream of tartar, tartaric acid, bicarbonate of soda, four ounces of finely powdered loaf sugar. Alix tbo roughly and keep in closely corked bottles. Dose: For adults, one dessertspoon in a tumbler of water. A HOME-MADE FILTER. A simple and cheap apparatus loi filtering water is prepared as follows : (Jet a common can lien ware (lower pot, cover the hole in the bottom with a. piece of zinc or wire gauze, then put in about three inches of well-worked gravel, above that the same depth of white sand, washed very clean, and then four inches of charcoal. Cover'with a thin stratum of gravel, or a piece of slate, 'to keep all in place. The water should be poured in on the top, and be received from the hole at the bottom into a large glass bottle. The charcoal will from time to time become clogged, and must then be cleaned by heating over the (ire in a shovel. The sand or ravel‘ should also be renewed pc riodically. A PARISIAN NOTE. Paris reports that, in spite of all forecasts to the contrary, beaded gowns and jewelled ornaments are more fashionable than ever. Stones are now artistically used in all milady’s accessories from jewelled headdress to gem-studded heels.

The return of the lava lie re is seen among the piaiiv reproductions of antique jewellery. Many of the shorter pearl necklaces are interloped with festoons of .smaller pearls, which form a dainty collarette. A long pearl necklace is also worn knotted- to do away with the very simple eltect, no longer jlesicable. The knot, naturally fho fwork of Lite jeweller, but apparently just done carelessly without thought by the wearer, is thick and square in appearance. A PARISIAN PAD. Dame Fashion’s latest vagary has been to set till the women wearing spectacles. The pretty eyes of the 1925 Parisiemic arc no weaker than those of 1924, but file celluloid frames of the eyeglasses, made in many varieties of colours, are novel and chic when they match her dress. A Paris optician in the Rue Rivoli, who advertises himself as an “American optician,” displays in bis. windows a large tray tilled with celluloid frames in mauve, green, beige blue, rose and, in fact, almost any conceivable hue that might be required to harmonise with mademoiselle’s suit or Leek.

“I sell about ICO pairs of spectacles with plain glasses, through which anyone can see, every day," said the optician. '‘The correct tiling is to have the frames made in colours to match the dress.” USES FOR. ALUM. Alum is an cexelleul tiling to keep in the house, as its uses are many. Hemorrhage of the nose can lie stopped if a little alum is crushed to powder and snuffed up the nostril. Alum will stop the bleeding of cuts if dabbed on to flip a (fee ted part dry. ' .

It is excellent for nasal eajarrh. .11 a little is snutfed up each nostril

oncp a day the catarrh will gradually disappear. For this purpose it is better to use it in liquid form, care being taken not to have it too strong as it is rather severe. THE BLACK LIST. If wo banished from our tables all the commodities which, line salt, have been condemned in print, our diet would be decidedly monotonous. “Food faddists are most aggressive persons,” Henry Labouchere once complained. “In my time I have known tlieui preach that we should give up meat, tobacco, alcohol, soup, starch (including bread and potatoes), salt, tomatoes, bananas, strawberries, and hath buns. 1 have also, witnessed movements for giving up boots, waistcoats, hats, overcoats, carpets, leather, beds, ,spring matresses, cold baths, lincik clothes, woollen clothes, sleeping than six; hours, sleeping less thari" nine hours, and lighting tires at the foottom SCORCHED- NECKS. 3:ly lunch yesterday', says an English writer, was completely ruined by a peeled and darning nose that came and sat opposite me, and only a little further on at another table were five scorched nocks arising out of low-cut gowns that seemed to take a delight in exposing them.

Why do women do those things or permit them to be done? Shady hats and sunshades are cheap-and becoming Cream and powder are procur-

able, one would imagine, even on a deser island, while once the damage is done v‘i tell hazel jelly, lemon juice, or a solution, of peroxide, wouldn’t put too much strain upon even a post-holiday pocket. But perhaps scorched ones are proud of their np-, pearanee. Perhaps they think they look properly open-airish and hearty, and that they are; intriguing us allin that ease let them go on thinking.