Eve's Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 2

Eve's Vanity Case

TOMATO SOL'FFLI

One breakfast cup tomato pulp, 1 tablespoon cheese (grated), tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 1) tablespoons cream, 2 Work butter and cream into flour, add tomato pulp and cheese, then yolks of egsg, beaten. Beat whites of eggs stiffly and stir lightly in. Steam in a basin 30 minutes.

HANDY TO KNOW

Medicine stains can be removed from linen by means of strong ammonia. When washing georgette trimmings, the best way is to pin the frilling out flat on a clean pillow to dry. Then press with a very,' very cool iron. Grease stains in washing fabrics can be more easily removed if they are moistened with cold water and rubbed with, a little soda before being washed in the ordinary way. Dirty marks on linen blinds should be rubbed with a nail brush dipped in bath brick. 'When knitting remember that good wool is not an extravagance. It adds to the pleasure of knitting, it wears well, and it washes satisfactorily.

S VYOri!Y FRENCH BEANS

One pint of cooked French beans, one ounce of butter, one gill of milk, one egg, one teaspoon of lemon juice, half an ounce of flour, pepper and salt.

Melt the butter in a pan and l add the coked beans. Sprinkle in the flour and stir over a, low jet for three minutes; add the milk and simmer for six monutes and then add the beaten egg and lemon juice. Season with pepper and salt and serve in a hot dish.

THE BRIDE’S GOWN

Dace is used a good deal by designers of smart wedding outfits, not only for the brides’ gowns, but also fo r those of the attendants. An economical idea, this, because lace needs no trimming ,and the bride and her maids can appear straightaway at a dance, if they like, wearing their wedding finery. Alterations, however skillfully carried out, are usually obvious, hut lace gowns can be just what their owners want them to be, wedding frocks or dance dresses, without another stitcli being put in them.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the Women’s Realm items of social or personal news. Such item s should be duly authenticated and engagements must bear the signatures of the parties.

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss P. Goolbehcre, Kimbolton road is visiting Havelock North. * • • • • Miss H. Bannister is the guest of Mr and Mrs P. Fawcett, North road, Feilding. • • • • • Airs AY. Grubb aul her small daughter are guests of Air and Airs John Gould, Camden street. * • • • • Airs A. E. Sly has returned to AVliakaronga from a visit to her sister Airs H. G. Frecklington, K-ini-bolton road, Feilding. • a. • « * The engagement is announced of Dorothy iris Alunro, only daughter of Air and Airs J. F. Reed, of Itemuera, to Desmond Crichton, third son of Mr and Airs Gerald O’Halloran, of Romuera.

BE SYSTEMATICAL

Some of us are born practical and some are not, but even the most impractical person can improve herself if she takes herself firmly in hand. To have an artistic temperament is something many women boast about. It may be very charming, but artistic temperaments alone do not contribute to the comfort and well-being of the home. There must be someone in the background with a. sense of the practical to see "that meals are served jiunctuallv, that clothes are washed and mended, bills paid, and that all tb e other necessary but somewhat humdrum jobs are done to time ; otherwise discomfort reigns. A household that is run with system—not too rigid a system, of course —is ever so much more comfortable for the members of the family and tlieir friends than one that is managed in a haphazard way. If you have not- worked to a system before, begin now. Start by drawing up a time table of the weeks work : Alonday morning, washing; Tuesday, cleaning; AA’ednesclav, cooking; Thursday, cleaning; Friday, cooking, and so on. Leave time for tasks that can be done in the afternoons, such for instance as ironing, cleaning silver, mending and gardening. Book all your personal engagements ; a visit to a hairdiesser or dentist, a call on a friend, a visit to the cinema, etc. In this way you will not let your work and personal engagements clash, and you can more easily see what time you have free for yourself. Tt is a good plan to review tbe, coming week in this way on onei special day, say Thursday or Friday, of the proceeding one, and to jot down suggestions for meals for the week at the same time.

HOT.I.YAYOOD

BKAVTIFFTi WOMEN ! Hollywood is delightful, full of enchantment, hut it is the land of beautified, not beautiful, women. Even then their nllure is mostly iu the pen of the publicity man, the art of tlie camera, and in the genius of the director, writes Dorothy Duncklc.v in tlie Sydney Women's Weekly. However. Hollywood’s reputation for glorious women have brought into existence every conceivable aid to beauty. Plastic surgeons are working overtime. removing every trace of curve from wealthy Jewish ’noses—tlidre arc bandaged faces everywhereEyelashes ami eyebrows are being dyed, a not so harmless process, as several victims to blindness testify. Every store, druggist, frock shop, milliner, even shoe store, has dozens of attractively advertised creams, lotions, powders, etc., all very moderately priced.. Chemists—druggists—sell peroxide and ammonia till their arms ache. an,i they are responsible for the soi ry spectacle of hundreds of amateur platinum blondes one sees in the streets.

These pathetic creatures are usually young, usually pretty, but their masses of dead straw hair in every stage of discouragement kill every charm. AYitli the new, very sensitive film now used, ordinary fair or golden liair registers so indefinitely that a strong bleach has to be endured by talking actresses, but iu the studios the locks of the bottle blonde are kept in perfect order and made to shine by frequent spraying with brilliantine.

TO PREVENT CHAPPING

Face, lips and hands are all apt to get chapped once the first cold weather comes along. It is an uncomfortable condition, and may even be painful, but it can always be avoided or cured.

To prevent lips chapping, rub camphor ice into them twice weekly, and never lick them. If the lips are already chapped, bathe in warm water, dry lightly and immediately apply cold cream. Repeat this process again ns soon as the lips begin to feel dry.

A chapped face should be steamed over a basin of hot water. AVhcn the face is dripping, dry quickly with a warmed towel and at once apply skin food. Take eare to cover all tlie skin quickly before it has time to get properly dry. Alassage in as much of tlie skin food as your face will absorb, wiping off the surplus. To prevent chapped hands, always dry them very carefully, Try to keep them at an even temperature by wearing gloves. Rub skin food into them whenever you do so to your face.

Feet often become chapped between each toe. This is due to careless drying after a bath.

RHUBARB MERINGUE

Take one pound of rhubarb cut into one-inch lengths, sugar to sweeten, three eggs, half a pint of breadcrumbs loz fresh butter, grated lemon rind, and short pastry. Stew rhubarb to a pulp with enough water* to prevent burning. llub through a coarse* sieve, sweeten, and add lemon rind 1 , beaten egg yolks, breadcrumbs, and butter. Grease ail enamelled pie dish, line with short crust, and pour in the mixture. Hake in a moderate oyen for 20 minutes, or until pastry is cooked, lleniove from oven, whisk egg whites until firm with dessertspoonful of castor sugar, spread over top of jmdding and. return to oven to set.

STRAWBERRY PARFAIT

One chip strawberries, six bananas, half a lemon, one gill boiled custard, white of one egg, two tablespoons whipped cream, one tablespoon icing sugar. Wash and hull strawberries, and peel and slice bananas. Quarterfill custard glasses with strawberries, add a layer of sliced bananas and sprinkle with, lemon juice and castor sugar. Then add another layer of strawberries and a squeeze of lemon juice. Cover with a gill of boiled custard. Whip the» white of one egg until stiff, add two tablespoons of whipped cream. Gently fold in one tablespoon of icing sugar. Pipe or rough this on each parfait. Garnish with a whole strawberry sprinkled with castor sugar. Serve cold. Suffieient for six custard glasses.

TRYING OCT TENNIS MODES

Fashions that will be seen on the tennis courts at smart London and country clubs this summer are to be ‘‘tried out” on the Riviera and in Jamaica by the tennis stars. When Miss Healey, Miss Dorothy Round, Miss James, and Miss Kathleen Stammers leave Condon for Kingston, Jamaica, they will take with them dresses and shorts of uncriisliable linen and the new fine-haii pique. The length of the tennis frock is certainly not to increase this season, and bare legs and socks will be worn bvthe women’s Jamaica team, as well as by Miss Joan Ridley, Miss Yorke, and others going down to play in Reviera tournaments. Shorts will probably be only worn for the. deck games, hut they are inspired by' the pleated ones Mrs Whittingstall designed last summer-