WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 15

WOMEN’S NOTES.

LAUNDRY. (By Miss Mary Tallis.) Remember these facts. —To remove iron-mould, hold the material taut in steam rising from boiling water and then gently rub with a freshly-cut lemon. Do this several times and the mark will disappear. t , Tho unpleasant odour which clings so persistently to garments cleaned with petrol can be entirely avoided by dissolving a piece of camphor in the petrol about three hours before using. Take the usual precautions regarding naked lights, and never rub silk while it is being cleaned as the friction may ignite the petrol. When dyeing curtains run a few threads through the material before putting into the dye. They can be drawn out and saved for darning the curtains, land you will have the exact shade of thread. To remove all traces of tar from either 'skin or clothing, rub with pure dripping before washing with soap and water. This will soften the tar and it will come a.way in the wash. To clean coloured blinds, rub the faded parts over lightly with linseed oil. ; / ■ A little methylated spirit has a mild bleaching effect on white net curtains, or similar articles. Add a little of the spirit to the rinsing water each time the curtains are washed, and not onlv will they become whiter, but they will have a fresh crispness as well. COOKING. For tea-time. —Cream horns: Ingredients : 6oz flour, 6 oz butter, salt, loz crystallised ginger, raspberry jam, ljj gills double cream, white of egg. These ingredients will make 8 to 10 horns, according to the thickness of the pastry after the final rolling.. This should be thin, but not too. thin to handle. The cornucopia mould’s can be bought for a few pence each. Put the butter into the corner of a lightlyfloured cloth and squeeze tightly so that all the moisture is extracted. Roll the butter out on a floured board into an oblong shape. Sieve the flour, add a pinch of salt, and mix with cbld water to a soft dough, which should be of the same consistency as the nutter. Turn on to a floured board and kneed well; roll into a strip the width of the butter and twice its length. Place the butter oil one side and fold over the other half of the pastry; press the sides together to prevent the. butter from being squeezed out during the rolling. Turn the pastry so that the fold is at the side, roll out lightly, fold into three and leave in a cool place for 25 minutes. When you are rolling puff pastry, make sure the folds in the pastry are at the sides. Repeat the rolling, folding the pastry into three, and leaving for 25 minutes, six times, then roll it out very thinly to about Jin, cut into strips fin to lin wide. Wind one round each mould, overlapping each layer just a trifle, trim to shape at the top and moisten the pastry at the end so that it adheres. It is unnecessary to grease the moulds because the pastry is so rich in fat. By lifting the cones with the first and second finger of the left hand inside, you can hold it in position while you lightly brush it over with lightly beaten egg-white. Shake a dusting of castor sugar over them and place on he baking-tin. Put them in a hot oven and they will be baked in about 10 minutes. As soon as the pastrv is cooked and just beginning to brown, remove the cornucopia moulds and return to the oven to finish browning: this will ensure the horns being cooked inside as well as outside. Leave them to get cold before you put in the filling, then three-parts fill with raspberry jam, shake over a little finely-chopped glace ginger, and finish off with stifflv-whinned cream. HEALTH.

Diseases of the teeth.—Disease of the enamel of the tooth begins in a small crack or injury, and is encouraged by the presence of fermenting food, especially at night. Hence the importance of cleaning the teeth thoroughly before bedtime. When the cavity caused by the caries becomes large enough to reach the nerve in the pulp of the tooth, toothache results. This is a severe neuralgic form of toothache and is increased by hot, cold or salty foods. At this stage the tooth may be saved by any good filling. The pain of toothache may be eased by touching the cavity with pure carbolic acid or oil of cloves. When a cavity of this kind has been neglected infection of the tooth occurs, and the inflammation spreads up into the root of the tooth and the surrounding jawbone. This is known as apical sepsis. Once a tooth has reached this stage it cannot be saved without danger to the general health of the patient.. The effect of crowning some teeth is to cause absorption into the blood stream of highly poisonous substances which are the oause of arthritis, general illhealth. and even diseases of the heart. Iritis is a serious inflammation of the interior of the eye, and in many instances is caused by defective teeth.

WAR HEROINE. NOW HEAD OF ESTATE AGENCY. Miss Mabel Lethbridge, 0.8. E.. has triumphed over so many handicaps that she has been called the “Woman gave elocutionary items. A comdy Who Won’t Be Beaten,” in London. At the age of 17 she took a job as a munition worker, signing on to work in the danger zone. Some of the shell-filling machines had been condemned as unsafe. Girls refused to w’ork them until they were replaced. l r et shells were urgently needed at the front. Miss Lethbridge jumped on a box, shouted “Come on. mates,” and got the work going again. She was filling her last shell when there was a terrific explosion. Miss Lethbridge lost a leg and was injured in many places. Since then she has had 43 operations, and spends a part of each year in hospital. In her time she has been a nurse, a mission worker, a lady’s maid, a cleaner of doorsteps, street organ grinder and a match seller. Yet now, despite her physical handicaps, she is at the head of a thriving estate agency in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W. Her office overlooks Albert Bridge. The small room where she opened up business as nßntain’s first woman estate agent,” is still her favourite office. A rickety table was originally her managerial desk, the floor w r as her bed. Now she has to employ a number of assistants to carry on her agency.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. After removing a stain from a carpet, dab the wet part with vinegar, and you will bring back the original colours of the carpet. _ When ingrained, some ink sta.ins are stubborn; when fresh, they oan be easily removed, especially if you use milk, fresh or sour. For an old "ink-stain, dissolve some oxalic acid in boiling water and immerse the stained part in the solution. Iron mould will yield to the same treatment. Do not use oxalic acid for coloured things, as it is too strong, and will fade the colour. A novel and useful wool-winder can •be made with two very large reels, such as shoemakers’ thread is wound -on. Put the reels on long nails, and drive the latter into a heavy board about twenty-four inches apart. ' Put Hie skein on the reels, which will re-, solve as you wind.