PINS AND NEEDLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1508, 24 January 1901, Page 27

PINS AND NEEDLES

Dentistry is one of the latest additions to the long list of women’s callings. Narrow black velvet is at present a very favourite trimming for tucked blouses. In China those bearing the same surname may not mary each other, although not related. The Queen, as is well known, retains many of the fashions of her youth, and she invariably favours “side-spring” boots While stains in decanters may be removed by leaving them for two days filled with water into which a raw potato has been scraped. When adopting for wear a plaid design, it is always well to consider whether it will not look better made up “on the cross.” Through the inuuence of the Duchess of Abercorn many thousands of pairs of socks, which are made by poor Irishwomen, are ordered annually by are army authorities. When keping game or poultry, cut an onion and place it near the bird. This not only prevnts the food from becoming tainted, but it also sreves to keep flies away. Experts in physical exercises are often consulted for the cure of round shoulders. They declare that in many caseis these can be cured simply by an effort of the will, the patient making a determination to stand upright. Satin should always be sponged with, and not across the! grain. Satin of delicate colours or white satin may be successfully cleaned by the simple cation of a weak solution of borax. Dry breda-crlumbs, it may be mentioned, are sometimes sufficient to brighten stain that has begun to show the signs of wear. Out of every twenty persons who are afflicted with stammering it is found that the proportion will be about five women to fiften men There are now several institutions devoted to the curing of

stammering, and at one of these patients cured recently held a “speech day.” In additionto a dearth of general servants, there is at present a decided want of competent ladies’ maids. Never before has the value of a good maid been so apparent, ladies of position declaring that a girl of talent can, in various ways, save her mistress pounds a year. A well set out shop window has, of course, a marked effect in increhsing sales, but some shopkeepers are themselves unable to arrange a really eyetaking display: In the necktie and scarf trade at least one wholesale firm sends out window-dressers,, who, if de>sired, will arange the windows of custom res’ shops.for them. On one American street railway a picture ticket is used to prevent the tickets being transferred. Originally, besides four figures of males, the tickets had four pictures of women—a girl, a young woman, a middle-aged woman, and an old woman —and the conductor punched the ticket at the figure that he considered best resembled the passenger. But so much unpleasantness arose over the middle-aged figure that that one was •done away with, and feminine fares are now all girls or young or old women.