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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 65, 17 March 1911, Page 5

THINGS FOR TEA. What shall we have for tea ? ' It is the average* good! housewife's daily problem. A second meat, meal is not desired, ef-en when it can be afforded. One needs a light repeat, pleasant and attractive, skilfully relieved from the mere monotony of bread-and-buttar. And so it is that cakes, scones, and light pastry come into the field. Cakes, scones and pastry in moderation are all good and valuable as foods; but only so long as there is no impure ov dangerous drug in them. That is the fact that housewives will not bear in mind: inferior bakingpowders are highly dangerous, and should on no account be used in cookery. ( Sharland's Baking Powder, which is always used when once tried, contains no trace of any dangerous olement. It is absolutely pure, and wholesome, j and m every respect the best for all culinary purposes. Send post-card to Sharland and Co., Ltd., Wellington, for free Siample tin. Retail of all stores. Mr Alexander Philip, LL.B., is the author of an ingenious proposal for a ' simplified calendar, which, says a London paper, has had the cordial s«PP<}rt of the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce. Briefly it provides for a year of 364 days' New Tear's Day. and the extra day which-eomes in Leap Year being each regarded as a dies non. Under this scheme each month would contain 30 days; one day extra being: added1 to the third month of each quarter, lne advantage would be that the year would be divisible into equal halves and quarters; events—such as market days—at present fixed for a certain day in a certain week of a certain month—would regularly recur on the same date in each month • each day of the week would have its regular date every year; and a. perpetual calendar would' be established