SOCIAL NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 2

SOCIAL NOTES.

A Chinese girl learns early in iilo that if she is to he happy she must not only become an economical and efficient housewife, but above all she must bring to the tender relationship of marriage—wisdom— S somo of tlio old wisdom garnered from .Eve —for holding her husband. “How to preserve a husband is a phrase often used in jest. Hut is is rare for a girl to he taught anything about love. “In China (writes Hr. Sun Niing Au-Young in Tit-Bits) we place on this the highest importance. To this end a Chinese girl cultivates a perfection of coquetry-; and aims by its use to make married life attractive. She learns to he exquisite vet possessive. Adaptable, intuitive, elusive, subtle—those characteristics arc found in the great majority. Modesty is highly esteemed by her and used as a power- for she is not only conventionally dressed, but exhibits no great demonstrativeness,”

CURING CH'ILIJLAJNS. Many business girls develop cliiluhmfs in the winter, and it is all iionsen.su to say girls rarely have these distressing tilings aftor‘2o. Anyone with a bad circulation is liable to have chilled blood. Age has nothing to do with it. There are some simple remedies that will allay I lie terrible irritation it applied at once. Take a piece oi alum the size of,a big walnut and dissolve it. in sufficient boiling water to cover the hand or fool. When coo! enough place in it the member, find leave it, for a time, then dry with gentle, massaging. l A lit,tie alcohol nibbed into a chilblain will soothe the irritation for a time, and so will the juice of an onion. tSulferers from chilblains should always rinse the hands in cold water after washing them in hot, and never warm their hands and feet by the

AiW.TJSINC DISHES. Savoury Rice.— Moil in Die usual way 4 pint ol' rice and when the water has evaporated, stir in I ok. butter 2 tablespoout'iiJs tomato catsup, and a good seasoning of salt and pepper. Add 2oz. of finely grated cheeso find stir till quite hot. Turn on to a dish •sprinkle with loz. grated cheese and brown lightly under a grill. Sausages in Batter.—Fry sausages oil a fairly quick lire so that - bey are well browned on the outside before they are cooked inside? and ’lien iay them in a very hot baking dish containing about2 teaspoonfuls hot fat. Then pour round (not over) a baiter made as follows: ]\li\ 2 eggs with •’! tablespoon In Is flour, pepper find salt to season. Add by degrees one pint milk and heat up well, (took altogether in a 1 -airly quick oven for about 15 ininm.us. .Rhubarb and Raisin Pie.-—Line an enamel plate with thin paste about one eighth of an inch thick.' Wash, peel, and cut into A-mcli places, enough rhubarb for two cups, and put on the paste. Sprinkle with one cupful sugar and half cupful' halved and seeded raisins Cover with a top layer slightly thicker than the bottom one and bake in a moderate oven tor 45 minutes, ese cse cse fra esc wdo pun seeeo cs PRUNE MOULD. Prunes form a ’valuable addition to our diet, but merely stewed and served in their own .juice they are to many people unattractive. Required: I II) prunes, do/, leal gelatine, do/, while sugar, 1 lemon. Wash and soak the prunes, allowing 24 hours with just enough water to cover. Cook in this water, adding flic sugar and the grated rirnl and (fie strained juice of the lemon. Cook until (piite soft, then strain off, setting aside the syrup. Stone the. fruit, chopping coarsely, ami add a few kernels from the stones. Dissolve the gelatine in half a cup of hot wtiler. Mix with the fruit syrup and then stir into the fruit. Conti one to stir n| intervals till the mixture begins to set. Then pour into a wet mould and leave till quite cold. Turn out and decorate with whipped cream.

ST ARS AND STRIVES IN DECORATION. Stars and stripes arc making a boid hid for favour in the furnishing world just now. There is no more effective fitment for the electric light than the star lantern—a many-sided affair, filled in with, panes of cathedral glass in paic amber. It< comes from the famous glass factories of Venice, and makes a splendid decoration for the hall or lounge. The coiling paper that is spangled with gold stars of different sizes on an azure ground, makes an excellent point of interest m a room, and is equally effective by day or night- Similar paper may he employed to good advantage to decorate a niche or recess, in front of wljieh. a figurine or tall vase is to he' placed. The ■wall immedln.tely behind a divan may be marked olf in the samo way by different paper from that used •for the rest of the walls, and starspangled variety answers the purpose admirably. Striped effects which were rptlior overdone a little while ago, are returning to favour- .plain materials showing the same tone, being employed with them. Striped chair covers with hacks of the plain fabric and curtains of striped silk with broad plain borders, ail'' exemplify tfiostriped mode; even fable napor.v affects stripes rather than the floral weaves of the past.

WA LLP AH Eli PICTURES. The laicsl wallpapers are no longer merely backgrounds; they are all the decoration any house needs. > This does not mean that we are going hack to patterns in the old hail sense- of the word, lozenges in endless repetition or regular groups or marguerites in regular succession. The modern wallpaper artist would scorn anything so simple. He thinks i:i panels, not in patterns. I here are two wallpaper possibilities to-day—panels or “cut-outs.” buying ;i wallpaper is not the simple matter it used to be, for three, things have to be considered: I lie foundation paper, which will cover the greatest amount of space; the frieze and the panel or cut-out that will give distinction to the whole. Every solH-trespoci/ing book of paper patterns now has a border or a frieze attached to-every example of main paper.

There are half a hundred ways of attaining the panel effect. Some of them simply mean that spaces are enclosed at regular intervals, with a holder of some kind : others give the effect of a strip of Japanese silk or of tapestry set in an alcove or over the clijimney ; yet another idea is to keep the interior ol the panels clear and set a pattern rummig between them. For an alcove one of London's wallpaper experts, Air Eric (files, recently showed ;i paper in laequar red with a Chinese design carried out mi grey, which in a room done with the new canvas paper, which looks plain hut isn't, would give a wonderful splash of colon,Another suggestion is a bright Line* background with, a queer, irresponsible, sketchy design on it ol golden reeds and suggestions ol bills niiiid trees. One panel ol this- the paper is washable and uiifadeablo—-with a suitable border would only cost four or five shil-

lings. As it is fashionable to be “amusing” on your walls yon might prefer n new-old design copied from a Jacobean tapestry which is full of queer shepherds and shepherdesses under sueli trees as never grew in any land, with sheep ambling . about. This,

in blue on an ivory ground, would cost about thirteen and sixpence for a panel thirty-one inches wide. Even the bathroom is panelled nowadays, and amusing coloured Dutch panels can bo put anywhere on a plain washable paper tu cheer you when the temporaturo of the water is not quite to your liking.

Perhaps one of flic brightest ideas is chameleon paper-—one which is rather a pale cyclamen with a broken holder, and which looks mauve if you use a mauve carpet and hangings, and pink if your colour scheme bo rose.

As for the borders to give a panel eflcct on the new canvas-like papers, there is no end to their variety. You '■an buy one for a library which gives the effect of nail-studded leather—(his for use with a brown leather surfaced paper; you may get one which broken by lines of varying lengths merging from, black through mauve blue to bring a rather mixed colour scheme into harmony; you can get one with a Chinese effect; a wood effect, a stone effect! A CAY PHILOSOPHER, “Sugar and Spice’’ (The- Bodlcv Head), is the very appropriate title chosen by Lady Kitty Vincent for h«r collection of journalistis squibs. Lady Kitty possesses under a protective armour of cheery flippance, both a brain and a heart and her gay charm will be best illustrated by u few quotations from the book itself. “Alan has always wanted a listener since the beginning of things. In those far-away days he boasted about how he had killed a mammoth . . . and now lie wants to tel) yon how he beat Jones at tennis. Listen for all you are worth, it is you** job.” “It is such a tragedy that so many excellent women love in terms of caper sauce when tlicir husbands molds run to morning dew and vio »ct bloom.” “The Day of Judgment will break many a journalist’s heart because it will ho topical and they won't b* able to us it.” “I don’t believe agents want to let you Douses. There is more joy m their offices over one person who is prevented from taking a nouse than over ninety and nine poopm who succeed in extricating a residence from their clutches.” “It is hotter to he killed by a mold and lo have‘walked in the '•mu than to creep along in the shallow of the hedge and di<> in a quiet ditch.’' ‘Trav Heaven that a| the vety last we recapture the old pagan courage and to go out with the tide singing and ready to meet flic gods with laughter.” ‘ .Meanwhile there are roses m t Tig garden-, thank Cod. sunsets and dawns, the welcoming touch ol a dog’s coid nose at home-coming and the smell of wood. T smoke in toe evening. Cood luck and let courage he your oomanpion

iW.ULAK- TRAITS. Listening ami Talk in*,'. So much has hocii said about tlio value? ol being a good listener- and iniieli of it is true but do bear in mind that tiie average person with whom M’u would like to be I fiends does not like to do all Lbe talking. Tt is too tiring. You can be a sympathetic listener and take your share in the conversation as well. Friendliness. —Unless you are ready to be friends, people cannot respond. There is a magic in smiling lust —most folk smile back. But don’t lie gushing if you are too ready to be “bosom pais” with any one before you really know them, you may find that they are Hof suited to you after ail, and then you will have waded in too deeply to draw hack. Taking Trouble.—There are so many who promise things they i ever mean to do, or else mean to do and then I'orget. Others say- “Well, I do everything I can,” which means everything that does not take them out of their way at all.' But you must be ready to take trouble aid occasionally he inconvenienced if yon want real friends and those vortb having.

A ("OLD RUUSH. Here nt a beet relish that may be kept all winter aend yet entails no leaning over a hot stove to make. The ingredients for one gallon of the relish are: ‘2 quarts chopped boiled heets-r 2 qaurts chopped raw cabbage, 2 cups sugar, 1. cup grated fresh horseradish, 1 tablespoon pepper, 2 level tablespoons salt. Hover with cold vinegar and store in a stone jar, or pack in fruit jars and seal cold. Tn serving the relish the extra vinegar may be poured off