Eve’s Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3998, 12 April 1933, Page 2

Eve’s Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive ior publication in the Women’s Realm items of social or per sonal news. Such items should be duly authenticated and engagements must bear the signature* of the par tie* SOCIAL MOTES Air and Airs C. Dalgety of Alangaweka- are staying in Palmerston. Air and Airs R. Jones oi Hamilton ai'u- visiting relatives in bedding. Air and Airs A'. Smith of Taihape who were recent visitors to feliding have gone on to Plimmerto.ii. Alisses AJ. and .P. Xorrhcott have returned to Colyton from a visit to Nelson. ■ • # * • Airs H. L. Levin of “Wcstella,” who has been visiting Airs Neil Campbell at Hastings has returned home. Aliss AI. C. Walton who has been spending some week* in Fcilding lcit to-day j«»i Wanganui. HAPPIER SCHOOL DAYS Beautiful and appropriate build inys, well-equipped playgrounds, can ful health supervision, intcJestin* texts, freer methods of classrooi. management—all these things ai making the schools -of to-day con stantly happier places for childrei to live in. But unhappy children ‘'school misfits,” are still too com mou in every >chool system, ant childicn are slid playing truant from schoolrooms tliat aie to them into] eialde. Let us consider what parent, can do Lo help their children line happiness in school life and how they may know if the children mo tailing to find it. First impressions, a Peter Pan sagely remarked are von important ,aud parents should see tc it that the child's first impressions’ o. school are happy ones. To insure this involves preparation m several ways Pit-school learning is one ol the ways; the child who has a • ich luno of experiences 4-u early learning ol the sell jolrocm. Colours, numbers. i forms, eoneepts of time, and wide and accurate vocabulary these are types of rather abstract pre-school training that parents can give. Afore concretely, they can lie sure that the child has a good under. l standing of the everyday affairs <jf his daily life, that eating, sleeping, dressing and the like are now out of the wav as learning problems and relegated ti> the effortless level of habit. Afore important than any specific items the child ha.s learned are Ji is attitudes towards learning itself. Learning something new is an experience intrinsically pleasant ; curiosity the impulse towards mental and physical exploration and manipulation i.s part of our instinctive equipment. When children look upon learning as some tiling bovesome. alarming, or distasteful, it is because they have been allowed to acquire this attitude; it is not a .liatmaJ one 13 v helping a child to keep hi natural enthusiasms, by encouraging einriosrity find fappkuidung learning as something triumphant and delight, fill, pa-routs can help ■prepare' for happy school life. And then there is the direct emotional adjustment to school itself. Every child has the right t > joyful anticipation of. school; everv child has the right to look forward to his teachers as kind, wise and delightful friends. And yet how many children get through the lirst stage without encountering the disturbing .suggestion that, school is going to be a stern and repressive place, where one’s chief task will he to “keep still” and “he good,” and where “teacher” will function ns a sort- of cross between a gaoler and the lxJ gym a,n? “.Vow Johnny, lei me tell you, when you got to school you won't be .allowed to act, like that! Your teacher will make you behave 1” EGG DISH LS Hill LENT Ergs with Maize. Make a border of mashed potatoes round the edge of a fireproof dish. Beat up one or two eggs with the contents of a- tin of Indian corn. Place the mixture ... centre of the potatoes and

bake in the oven, seeing that there is more heat above me <iish than below it. r .ggs wi th Hi ce.—Ai ako a b orde r of well-boiled salted rice. In the centre place a couple of eggs which have keen scrambled, with a liberal allowance ol’ milk, and a usaucc-iful ol chopi>ed ham. . Eggs with Cheesd Sauce.—Boil some potatoes slice them and place them on a buttered dish. Slice two hard-boiled eggs, place them on the potatoes alternately with slices of tomato * cover with a white cheese sauce and heat thoroughly for 15 minutes in the oven. Venetian Eggs.—Make some potato croquette mixture into round cakp.s 11 in. thick, and 3in. in diameter, hoL low out the centre of each, brush over with egg or milk, dip in breadcrumbs and fry in deep fat until pale brown. Drain well, HU the centres with spinach puree and place ja poached egg on each. Put on afire proof dish, coat with cheese sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese, anil brown in the oven; servo hot. DECORATING CHAIRS When the family dislikes cushions and jt is felt the room requires the touches of colour given by tnem linen backs and arms may Lo pulled over tic easy chairs. J liese not only look hut preserve the coverings. To nake tli e back ‘‘pullover,’* examine -he back of the chair, and it will nen be observed, that its two sides .re shaped, whether or not covered •villi separate pi.-es cd velvet or tapstry. Cut. a paper pattern to this liapc. allowing it to -leach down to ..he arm. Cut two pieces of linen o th e pattern, and take a third ficee, an inch wider (to allow tunings) than the back of flio chair and is the combined top and sides of a u’de piece. Stitch this strip lo the • idv pieces to lot m a bag. It may l>e necessary U> ease the straight strip if linen a little while' machining otmd the side pieces and the tension must be loose. 'l'o make the arm coverings, cut a »ieco of linen to the shape of the front of the arms and long enough to fall below the chair seat ; machine round this (except at the lower edge) a. strip of linen three inches wider than the whole length of the arm. Put this over the arm. Unking the tlie superfluous liner!, on the inside, into the chair seat. Shape off the linen at tlio end distant lroni the front so that if. fits* snugly against •the- hack of the chair and flows out loosely', and undo a little of the join at- the inside front so. that the linen front piece will hang free from tin tuoked-iiu part, or cut it off level with the chair sent. Hem all round. Before hemming the top put both it and the arm pieces on the and then hem it to a depth proportionate t (> the height of the chair. WHEN BRASS IS TARNISHED Tarnished brass is caused by the lacquer becoming worn off and ill ouder to restore a polished surface ilie fittings need to he relacquereci. IB do this, first of all remove the fittings lrein the furniture and place them in a-hot-solution of strong soda water fur half an hour, after which give the lilting a good scrubbing with i si iff brush. A Lost of tlie itainisli will be removed, and any odd patches which remain can be smeared over with spirits of salts and again treated with soda water. Be very careful when using the spirits of salts, as i is very poisonous. Do not use it when there are children about. Dry the brass and hake it in ail ove,n for about half an hour. Then polish the surface w ith a piece of wash leather. Make a solution consisting of Joz an at to, loz turmeric, \oz saffron and 1 pint methylated spirit. Strain the solution through a linen rag, and then add about 2}oz seed lac, the whole being gently heated. The fittings are hv bringing them to a gentle boat m the oven a,nd Danefully brushing them aver with the above solution.