EVE'S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1909, 21 May 1928, Page 2

EVE'S Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the “Woman’s Realm” items of social or personal news. Such ite should be fully authenticated, ana mgagement notices must bear sign atm ea. IIOW TO MAKE PANCAKES i If you are making pancakes for the first time don’t attempt: to loss them, it is a (liflieult business the tossing of pancakes, although actually making a pancake is quite a simple matter it' you know just how to do it. I remember with shame the horrid mess that: was really my first pancake, and Hie horror' and dismay with which 1 saw if. Since then a cook who makes perfect pancakes with the fewest -eggs of any cook 1 know inis given me les-

The batter is important. The right ingredients are jll) of flour to 1 pint of liquid. Two eggs to the pint is the average number—three may be used. Have the basin stone-cold, use ;j wooden spoon and beat it in a draught sis cold air makes for lightness. Mix the eggs well together first sun I suld to the milk. Sift the .Hour, adding a pinch of salt, then gradually said the Hour to half the milk-sind-egg mixture, beating for fully ten 'mimics until your batter is a delicious smooth cream. Stsiml in a cold place for two hours. Resit in the rest of the liquid until tiny bubbles appear. if you like si little sugar add it just before cooking. Very light batter may be made by separating the whites and yolks of the eggs and folding the stiffly beaten whites the moment before i’ryiife. The pan should be about the size desired for the pa ness ke, stud must be clean and dry. Melt suliieient butter in it to cover the bottom properly and a little bit of tlie side. The thinner the pancake the better, so pour in only just enough bailer !o run to I lie sides of the pan. Cook on one side for two or three minutes, without touching. Turn it carefully with a broad, pliable knife, slice, or. better, still, a spsitnisi. Cook the other side to si golden brown, too. Turn on to sugared while paper, squeeze oil a little lemon juice, and serveJmuiedialdly, piping hot, with quarters of lemon. Some people like them spread thinly with jam. They are then called French pancakes. You; may, if you like, use syrup in preference, or oven honey. This tastes delicious with the sprinkling of lemon. Any baiter that is left over will keep perfectly till the next day if stored in the cold. Then take some thin slices of white bread, cut them in rounds, trimming off the crusts. Soak them in vanilla, dip them in tin? baiter and fry a golden brown, A little dab of jam on top improves flieir appearance. These will be greatly, appreciated in the nursery.

CJLRLS WHO FOLLOW THE CROWD The lack of Individuality about the modern girt i.s most notieoable, even to (lie most casual observer. It i.s a sort of community sense that they are cultivating. They copy each other in their clothes, their manner and their speech, so that ail. personal expression i.s lost. An explanation i.s given by Miss L. M. Faithfull. the former principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College, when speaking at the Educational Associations’ Conference at the London University. "There is a solidity about a boy,” she said, "which is very protective. The girt is much more easily excited, and in work and play throws herself into community life. She lives in a state of breathless activity. She is perpetually in a crowd, and she likes it. She feels she wants something else, but she does not know what. There is a natunil inclination on the part "of most girls to imitate—to go with the crowd, it is deplorable that girls of to-day groom and dress so much alike that identilieation is almost impossible, hut they like it. Individualism is being discouraged, if not crushed out. by community -life. Mothers are becoming affected by community life, and have no time to cultivate' the friendship of their daughters. ‘The- aim of the girls’ high schools is that the girls are be-

iug educated for a celibate life,’ says a writer, i agree," ssiid Miss Faithfull. "The future of England docs out, resl with the non-marrying girls, but with those who do marry.” KEEP BO I»AX IN THE HOUSE Eorsix should always be kept in tlin bouse, an many are its uses. it, is excellent, for removing fur from kettle. Dissolve a dessert spoonful m «, kettle of hot water, let it boil, tor a quarter of an hour, when the lur will become loose A pinch, of borax added to the. waiter in which vegetables arc boiied makes them « beautiful colour. Kitchen read oil is. washed in water to winch a little borax bus been added, readily lose their stains and keep a good colour, A strong solution of borax and hot water poured -down drains and sinks has very cleansing A teaspoonful in a pint of warm water will thoroughly deans**, sponge. A pinch in tho washing-up water gives a- good polish to silver and glass One part of borax to tw<> ol honey or glycerine is a, splendid re medv for a sore throatA teaspoon ful of borax in a gallon i of hot water makes n elioap and olFectunl hair wash. A added to the washing water will soften it considerably. TOMATO TOAST Toast bread quite brown. . Slew a pint of ripe tomatoes, season with salf, pepper, a. little butter and si teaspoonful of ,sugar. Add one-hall, of si cup of cream. Scald the cream only. Pour Ihe tomatoes and cream over the toast.

MOST GIRLS AGREE— That; there Is something about a pipe .... Tluil. the female of.the species may lie more deadly than the male, bid that —they have to bet That; waiting for a delayed letter is one of love’s worst agonies That a little cavemanuishness a 1 times is very stimulating-—but it must only be just a little. Thai it is belter, to (be two minutes late than two minutes early—and--' Tlisit every minute seems an hour when you are the one to wait. That men usually choose the girl to admire that one cannot see anything in oneself. That most men think they are the only ones who can stir a lire into a blaze. That a poor girl can dress up for hours and remain lonely, yet bangs into the "one and only” always when she lists on old clothes, no powder, and her hair is out-.of curl! Men come back again siml again if you nntkc them think they arc not ready wanted. “RED SHOES EUR LUCK” M AY E A J It’S .NEWEST EAJ) Mayfair society lias reverted to ioJk lure as ’the basis for novelties. Rod shoes and slippers are tho thing just now. ' ' For birthdays, auniverAiry ol various kinds suid other occasions wlieie gifts are desired, old-time* 1 superstitions have been dug out of tin* past and given a colourful touch of modernism. ■‘Red shocj> for luck” is tho Mayfair slogan. in Hie days of old the present of a pair of shoes, of any colour, or. some trinket in the form of shoes was hold to imply the wish a happy and prosperous journey along life’s pathway. It was a common practice for a pair of “charm” shoes wrought it) wood, brass and somctim-*i even in gold, to be hung up near the fireplace to ensure happiness of the home. These trinkets have- reappeared in the novelty shops. WHAT MAKES . THE PERFECT WIFE V White nurkes iliet perfect wife ? Most men would agree in their hearts that the perfect; wife is one wh«* rules her husband by conceding bis superiority, who gives him deep affection while always keeping him as tin* suitor, who declares her belief in him when her soul is sick with doubts, wlio gives him peace though the cook lias burned the

sfoi.k, who gives him praise though (| u « world thinks him nobody, and who keeps herself' pretty even when his eve sees nothing but the distant, golf links. If, in addition to till this, she will think of him as the per feet husband, who will deny Unit, here is the perfect wife V SWEET COHN "PIE AN AMERICAN DISH The pio is made in a round dish about three inches deep, hirst put \u n ‘lnver of neatly divided, uneook*>a chicken, powdered with a little sugar and some fried onions; then add slice's ol lmrdboilecl eggs, lew pared olives, raisins and little kits of butter; a layer of sweet corn two niches thick forms the crust, Phis is made by rubbing the contents ol a tin of sweet corn through a sieve, adding two ounces of butter (some use beef suet very finely shredded) and kneading it into a paste, keep lug it rather on the dry side. Ihikc in a moderate oven’small ginger cakes (Take ill) butter, or butter and dripping mixed, dll), sugar, 11b flour, 2 teaspoon fuls ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda, 1 tenspoonful cream of tartar, 2 wellbeaten oggfl. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream .add the eggs, and beat until thoroughly hf. ended. Then add the flour, sifted, with ginger, soda, and cream of tartar. Bake m buttered patty tins, or put spoon fids on a greased oven died. A moderate oven is required. - mmmrmm' \ BERM ALINE BRBAD Twelve oimctv> wheat meal, fioz flour, 1 tablespoonful golden syrup, pinch salt, I. teaspoon lul soda. 2 tea poonfuls cream of tartar, milk to hind. Dredge the flour, toda cream of tartar and salt together, odd the when tinea! and golden i-vnip and Wind to soft dough with milk-* Beat woi); put into fi greased baking powder ‘tins. Put lids on; bake in a moderate oven. Time, about flh minutes. LEMONS FORDO CEL IN ESS Equal parts of lemon juice and glycerine will Stiffen and whiten chapped hands. Plain Ibmun juice prevents eliilblaiiv; on the bauds, cures warts, cleans the nails and removes Mains. The juice of half a lemon in the Hast rinsing water but oim, brightens ti'o hair alter a shampoo and checks dandruff. A lemon kept in a. bedroom jug will soften the water. A table-spooniu’l of lemon juice strained into a pint of ro <o water is a cheap sunburn lotion. Unsweetened lemon ’bice, drunk in hot water be loro brcaxlast,, often cures a bilious headache. CUCUMBER-PINEAPPLE S AI. AD Cut tbo cucumber in. halves,lengthwise. Hollow out the centres, and cut the pulp into small diee. Peel the pineapple and dice it also. Mix both together and add itnayonnai"e. Ilefifl tlio cucumber shells, and serve each one on a lettuce leaf. Decorate, with a spoonful ol mayonnaise tin top.