THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10626, 15 December 1897, Page 3

THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOURS. White is 'the emblem of light, religious parity, innocence, faith, joy, and life. In the judge it indicates integrity; in the sick, humility; in the woman, chastity. Red, the ruby, signifies fire, divine love, and royalty. White and red roses express love and wisdom. Blue, or the sapphire, expresses heaven, the firmament, truth from a celestial origin, constancy, and fidelity, Yellow, or gold, is the symbol of the sun, of marriage and faithfulness. Green, the emerald, is the colour of spring, of hopeparticularly of the hope of immortality and of victory, as the colour of the laurel and palm. Violet, the amethyst, signifies love and truth, or passion and suffering. Purple and scarlet) signify things good and true from a celestial origin. Black corresponds to despair, darkness, earthliness, mourning, negation, wickedness, and death. BRIGHT EYES. Listen to this, and be wise in time. Ib is when the eyes are still young and strong and sparkling with health that incalculable harm may be wrought to the eyesight which may only make itself felt when we are well on in life. Abuse of the eyes is a crime in which we women are the worst offenders, a fact which was forcibly brought home to me the other day during a lecture by a famous oculist, who expressed himself in very frank and forcible language on this point. In looking through my notes of the lecture, I come across the following advice, which hope my readers will take to heart: " Avoid sudden transitions from light) to darkness. When coming from darkness to a bright light wait a few minutes before beginning to use the eyes for reading, writing, or sewing. The lighb ' for reading should fall from above, obliquely over the left shoulder. Never strain the eyes in a dim light. Never gaze into the fire or any other strong light. When obliged to do work that is trying to the eyes close them occasionally for a few moments at a time. When instinct prompts you to rub the eyes, you may know that it is time to stop using them," A NEGRESS A DOCTOR. Cllzo Ann Grier, a negress, was recently licensed to practise medicine at Atlanta, Georgia, by tho Board of State Medical Examiners. The board of physicians were astonished when the negress presented herself for examination. It was tho first application made to the board by a woman of her race, and she is the first coloured woman admibted to practise in the State. She presented a diploma from the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, and was found to be thoroughly informed in her profession. Dr. Grier said to the New York World correspondent" When I saw coloured women doing all tho work in cases of accouchement and the fee going to some white doctor who merely looke.i on, I asked myself why should I nob get the fee myself, For this purpose I have qualified. I went to Philadelphia, studied medicine hard, procured my degree, and have come back to Atlanta, where I have lived nil my life, to practise my profession. Some of the best white doctors iu the city have welcomed mo, and say that they will give me an even chance in the profession. That, is all I ask." Dr. Grfer (adds the World) will "hang out,her shingle" for general practice, and says she will make no discrimination on account of colour.

AN ATHLETIC COLLEOE FOR WOMEN. In the Windsor Magazine there is an account of a unique school, Madame Bergman Osterberg's College, at Dartford, for the physical training of women. Its raison d'etre, wo are told, is to produce, as nearly as may bo, women who shall be physically perfect. "The college course extends over two years, and during the whole of this period the students load perforce an almost ideally healthy life. The good old rule of ' early to bod and early to rise' i 9 rigidly enforced. A diet, in which the place of meat is largely usurped by green vegetables, fruit, cereals, milk, and eggs, is partaken of by all; and, so fur as possible, all studies and exercises are performed in the open air. j'Madame Osterberg holds strongly to the opinion that, in order to get the very best possible results from a scientific system of physical training, tho lessons ought to take place out of doors. To this end she has had fitted up, in a sort of natural leafy amphitheatre in one corner of the college grounds, a perfectly appointed open-air gymnasium. Here each day pupils and professors climb ropes, vault, leap, run, and, in fact, do everything their brothers have been wont to do under similar circumstances. Anatomy, physiology, hygiene, chemistry, and medical gymnastics are nob neglected, and the playing of all sorts of games forms part of the regular curriculum. These latter include, besides cricket, hockey, tenuis, ( cycling, dancing, etc., a new and exceedingly fascinating sport called 1 basket-ball.' Like the Blue-coat boys, the Dartford Heath College girls go bare-headed in all weathers, and wear a special costume, consisting of a loose-fitting blue cloth tunic above nickers and jersey of the same colour. Clad in this dress, their movements are absolutely free and untrammelled, and they are ablo to leap and run with a swiftness and agility that would have caused the typical bread-and-butter miss of a decade or two back to hold her breath in horrified amazement. It almost teems unnecessary to add that at Dartford the corset, or any substitute thereof, is strictly tabooed."

THE TABLE. Small Chocolate Cakes.— the weight of three eggs in sugar and flour; boil the sugar with a little water to a syrup, and in the meantime whisk the three eggs in a basin till they are quite thick; then add'the sugar, and go on whisking until it becomes as thick as cream; next lightly mix in the flour, and when quite smooth flavour with essence of vanilla, or anything else that is preferred, and bake for about balf-an-bour in a flat buttered tin. When cold, cut into small squares and ice with the following icing :— Mix Jib icing sugar with a gill of water, put it on the fire, and when it begin? to boil add 2oz grated chocolate; go on stirring till it becomes the consistency of cream.

Frdit Turnovers.—Roll some pie p asb out thin and cut in rounds; lay some fruit in the/centre, and bring the four edges together; moisten with wator, and press together. Brush them over with the white of an egg, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in a quick oven for 20 minutes. A Sauoe for Fish.—Melt one tablespoonful of butter; add one tablespoonful finely cut parsely, with pepper and salt to taste. Bub these together until smooth as cream. When the fish in ready to serve spread this sauce all over it, and set the whole in the oven just long enough to melt it. CdcombeuPiokles.—Cucumbers, and onethird their quantity of onions, oil, vinegar, pepper, salt. Slice the cucumber and onion, cover with salt, and let stand all night. Drain them in the morning and dress with the best vinegar, oil, and pepper. Bottle, and the pickles will be ready in a few days. Light Boss.—To make a dozen light buns take half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda, a teaspoonful cream of tartar, lib flour, 2oz butter,' 2oz loaf sugar or best white sugar, 4oz currants, a few carraway seeds, half-pint cold milk, and one egg. Rub the soda and flour together through a hair sieve; work the butter into the flour, i and add the sugar, currants, and carraway seeds. Mix these well together, make a hole in the middle of the flour, pour in the milk (mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten). Mix quickly and .set the dough, with a fork, on baking tins. Bake the buns for about twenty minutes. GENERAL NOTES. : To clean brass use pulverised rotten stone in a liquid state with turpentine. It should be applied with wash leather, left for a few minutos, and then wiped j off with a soft cloth. : When the brasses are very bad it is advisable to use oxalic acid in the proportion of an ounce of acid to a pint of water. This should ,be applied with a piece of flannel, the polishin? being done with another dry piece. >. If black underwear, stockings, or black yarn that is to be knitted is boiled a few minutes in milk; the dve will not stain the skin. . , i ' 1 To raise the nap on cloth soak it in cold water for half an hour, then put on a board arid rub the' threadbare parts with a prickly thistle or emery. : . ;