Ladies Column.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 108, 19 November 1908, Page 4

Ladies Column.

To Brighten Oi;i Furniture. -Scrape four ounces oi' beeswax into a basin, ami add enough oil of turpentine that will moisten it through, then powder I oz. ef resin finely, and add as much Indian red as will bring it to a deep mahogany colour. Stir well until the composition is properly mixed. This is an excellent paste for reviving mahogany or oak furniture. Cement For Attaching- Metal To Glass.—Take two ounces of a thick clear solution of glue, and mix it with on 3 ounce of linseed oil varnish, or three-quarters of an ounce of Venice turpentine. Boil together, stirring well together until the mixture becomes thoroughly blended; the pieces cemented should be fastened together for the space of fprty-eight or sixty hours 1 before touching. To Clean Cushion Covers. —This is for fancy cr-; tonnes or pillow covers, wnere soap and water cannot be used. Make a thick paste of starch and water and cover the soiled, and stained surfaces, let it.remain till perfectly dry, when it can be brushed off. Repeat the operation if the stains have not entirely disappeared. Compote of Apples.- Take one pint of water, lib of sugar, half a lemon, six or eight a.pples, cochineal, ginger. Put the water, lemon juice, and sugar into a saucepan to boil; add as much ginger as will lay on the point of a knife. L'et it boil five minutes; remove all the scum, and when it looks quite clear peel the apples and scoop out the core, put them into the syrup, and cook till soft, but not broken. Put into a dish, colour the syrup, boil it up and pour over them. . Ginger Scones. -Two eggs, one cup of sugar, golden syrup, and sour milk. Add one teaspoonful of sugar, one of soda and one of cinnamon, sifted into enough flour to make dough. Roll out, cut into squares, and ; bake in a hot oven. To Ciean White Fur. —The following is an admirable way of cleaning white fur, or children's white woollen tam-c-shanters- T in fact anything that cannot be washed. Get a pound of white powdered starch, put it into a deep vessel, then rub the article to be cleancdin the powder. Shake the starch off the article, and it will be found to be as clean as when it was first bought. To Cure Squeaking Boots. -Insert an awl carefully between the layers of leather in the sole, and with the machine oilcan oil the sole through the little openings thus produced. To Iron a Blouse. —Whichever portions are embroidered must be ironed on the wrong side. First iron cuffs then sleeves. Take these by the armhole and wrist, and iron from wrist to the cop, ironing with the point of the iron towards the armhole. Next iron the collar or band. If there is a yoke, iron next by doubling "the back from shoulder and not leaving a crease. Iron left side of front from waist to neck, straight with the point of the iron. Next do right front, then lay the back flat upon the board, and iron from under seams to collar or yoke. Afterwards hold up the sleeves and iron blouse under seam. . This completes the ironing of an embroidered blouse. A Bright Room. No one wants a gloomy room (remarks a writer in Transvaal Weekly), but what to do with one facing south is often a difficult problem. Some people do without curtains to allW all the light possible to come into the room; but it is not so much light that one needs as sunshine, and when this cannot be had, one must make it, or rather, get the effect of it. Try having it papered with soft yellow paper. A good plan is to have a light yellow on the walls as far as the picture moulding, and a lighter shade, almost a cream, above this and on the ceiling. Then yellow silk sash curtains, pulled back, tend to make a room appear sunny. Brass can make a wonderful difference to a dreary room. A large jadiniere, with a plant in it, placed in a dark corner, will lighten up the corner marvellously. Brass fireirons, too, will help, givea cheery reflection, even candlesticks help, and little trays and bowls, be they ever so small. The importance of brass in a sunless room cannot be too strongly emphasised.

Mirrors brighten up, and so do some pictures, with well polished glasses and gilded frames. Some Ideas of Women. The best woman is the woman who is the least talked about. -Old Proverb. Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman. —Oliver -W. Holmes. Women see without looking; their husbands often look without seeing. —Des Noyers. Women forgive injuries, but they never forget slights.--Haleburton. Wherever women are honoured, the gods are satisfied. —Hindu Proverb. A suffragette lecturer recently brought down the house with the following ai'gument: —"I have no vote, but my groom has. I have a great respect for that man in the stables, but I am sure that if I were to go to him and say, 'John, will you exercise the franchise?' he would reply, 'Please mum, which horse be that?' " Thoughts; He is rich whose income is more than his expenses. The greatest advantage a man can procure for his children is to have them well educated. Ti-ue friends visit us in prosperity, but in adversity they come without invitation. Labour is the best fund to invest in, for it yields a percentage only limited by our own industry. The things that make life happy are a quiet mind, a healthy constitution, freedom from e;,re. sleep such as makes the darkness short, and contentment with our lot. However mi. an your life is, meet it and live it ; do not shun it and call it. hard names. It is not so had as you are. It. looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.- Thoreau.