THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10410, 7 April 1897, Page 3

THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

CHILDREN'S PUNISHMENTS.

There are many punishments that can be tried before whipping, which should not be resorted to until the others have failed, and should be reserved as the penalty for cruelty to others, or some equally serious misdemeanour.

Be sure that your commands are reasonable, such as a child may be expected to understand and be able to obey. Tell him if he disobeys you will punish him, and keep your word. Put him to bed or make him sib still for a certain length of time, or do not let him go out for a morning, nor play with a favourite toy, and he will soon learn that disobedience is nob profitable.

_Be consistent. Do not let him do at one time what you forbid at another, and govern your own temper so as not) bo lose it in dealing with him. Never give him a thing he cries for. and let him understand that is the reason he cannob have it. TO YOUNG WIVES. _ One very great mistake made by many girls when they marry is that they think it is no longer necessary to keep up any accomplishments or in any way trouble to amuse their husbands. They love them dearly, they look after them in a most exemplary way, but they quite ignore the fact that a man wants quite as much amusement and pleasure after be is married as before, and that just because he has a wife there is no reason why be should be content with a dull life. Too many young wives fall into the fatal error of thinking'that once married, there is no further need for them to keep up the accomplishments they once considered so important). Never was there a greater mistake made than to let talents go rusty for want of use. The young wife who neglects her music, and never troubles to practice her singing, and makes her excuse that she has so much to seo about in the house, need not think her husband will agree with her. Indeed, it is quite likely that many a man would far rather nob have everything so very spick and span, and in the evening after dinner enjoy tho songs and pretty airs which delighted him in the days of courtship. So be advised, my young married readers, and by use, prevent your accomplishments from becoming rusty. THAT UGLY VIEW. Few dwellers in large towns are without some window where there is an ugly view. Somebody else's backyard is always unattractive, or a dead wall within a few feet of oar glass is a trial to many. The following method is a cheap and easy ono to render pretty what has hitherto been an eyesore Get a nice quantity of sprays of maidenhair fern, place them between sheets of blotting-paper, and pass over them (the paper always intervening) a warm iron, not hot. Repeat this till the fern is quite dry but has not lost its colour, leave to press and dry thoroughly for several days, then paint your window pane all over with boiled oil, lay on it the ferns, arranging them in graceful groups, and with th,e point of a pen separato the leaves so that they do not overlap each other, or the effect will be lumpy and heavy. Now cut white tissue paper of the exact size of the pane, oil the paper on each side, and place it over the ferns; this requires great care, or the ferns will get disarranged, but if nicely managed the effect •is that of frosted glass with the sprays of fern delicately laid on. In a few days the work will be dry, and it really pretty, and very cheap. HINTS TO YOUNG GIRLS. Always move slowly across a receptionroom, as you cannot appear graceful if you seem in a hurry. Try to cultivate pleasant manners to all, and especially to married women. Young girls often forgeb that the matrimonial ostate demands respect. A married woman has it in her power to put many little pleasures in a young girl's way, and will certainly remember first tlioso girls who have shown her the little attentions which are so easy to pay, and so gratifying to receive. Always remember to speak distinctly, and that "a low voice is an excellent thing in woman." Do nob think that everyone in the room is thinking or talking about you, bub cry and forgeb self by taking a lively and intelligent interest in the conversation around you, for unconsciousness is one of a young girl's greatest charms.

Da nob imagine that every man who pays you a libtla compliment) has fallen a victim to your charms, undoubted though they may be. Don't allow any man to make you conspicuous by his attentions; a girl ought to make it impossible for her name to be mentioned lightly.

THE TABLE.. Savoury Babbit Dishes.—Stewed Rabbit with Sausage Meat: Cut a raw rabbit) into neat pieces, and fry them till brown with three-quarters of a pound of sausage meat, made up into balls and floured. Put all into a pie-dish, cover with good stock, made from the liver, bones, etc., and stew gently in the oven, covered with greased paper, till tender. Dish qhe meat and balls, thicken the gravy, and pour round. Orleans Babbit: Prepare and truss a rabbit for roasting, and when ib is cooked out off the fillets, sprinkle salt and pepper over, and warm in a sauce prepared as follows Take a tableapoonful of thick gravy, add to it two bablespoonfuls of vinegar. Heat all together, and then add one ounce and a-half of fresh butter, seasoning of sugar, cayenne popper, and chopped parsley. Let tho fillets only just simmer in the sauce, arrange in a pyramid, and pour the sauce over. Rabbit with Rice: Boil one or more rabbits in salted water, with celery, turnip, and parsnip, and when bonder take it up and divide into joints, return all superfluous bone and the head to the stock. S4t the pieces of rabbit) on a hot dish, and keep warm. Take half a pint of the liquor, thicken it with flour, add the yolks of two eggs, and stir till ib thickens. Add to the sauce a little chopped parsley, and coat) the rabbit with it. Make a border to the dish of nicely-boiled rices which has been re-heated in a saucepan with a little butter, and enough tomato sauce to colour pink. The remains of the rabbit) and bones will make some valuable stock.

Almond Cream.—Blanch and pound fine, with a little water', one and &-half pound of almonds; beat the whites of two eggsrto a froth; add and beat into the eggs five ounces of powdered sugar, and to both add one quart of mill(. Boil gently ever a slow fire until reduced one quarter, then add the almond pasto and boil five minutes longer. Flavour with orange or to taste, and when cold sprinkle thickly with granulated sugar and brown, garnishing with whole almonds.

Potato Scones.—Required: Half a pound cold potatoes, about two ounces of flour, about half a gill of sweet milk, a pinch of salt. Mash the potatoes, add the salt, knead as much flour into them at they will take up, taking care not to allow the flour to go into lumps, add as much milk is will form it in a stiff dough, roll oub very thin on a floured board, cub into small rounds with a tumbler or tin cutter, prick with a fork. Bake on a hob girdle for about five minutes, turning when half cooked. Serve hot. .

GENERAL NOTES.

/ Washing Blankets Without Trobblk. —Fourteen or more can be done in one day. -Dissolve one pound of soap by cutting it up in fine shreds and (louring one gallon of boiling water on it. Then take half the soap, and add four gallons of hot water and two tablespoonfuls of liquid ammonia. To Rkmove Glass-stoppers.—Everybody has experienced the difficulty of removing the stopper of a bottle when it has become fixed, apparently immovably. To do this, all that is needed is to pass a. piece of woollen cloth round the neck of the bottle, and pull it quickly by the ends backwards and forwards for a few moments, when the glass will expand and release the stopper. Danger of Blows.—Blows given with more or less severity and greater or leas frequency in the region of the spine will cause serious brain and spinal trouble. Teachers should never strike a child OD the back or any part of the head. •> i ,- Scalds.— as" an application for scalds is most useful, and should be applied immediately ' after the accident, stripe .of linen. lint well soaked in glycerine to be i gently laid over the affected skin. ' ,;v