FEMININE FADS AND FANCIES

NZ Truth, Issue 1079, 29 July 1926, Page 17

FEMININE FADS AND FANCIES

One part of borax to two of honey or glycerine is a splendid remedy for a sore throat. • ■ • . ■ . • ■ . Fresh milk is an excellent thing for softening hard leather m boots and shoes. ■ • « • ■ ■ When making plum puddings, instead of greasing the basins with butter, line them well with golden syrup. This not only gives the puddings a splendid rich color but they will turn out without any trouble, '•iiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii'.iiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiniiuiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimir (1) Cloth coat m navy blue, with short chic cape lined with crepe de chine. Collar and sleeves are trimmed with bands of tan twill to match capo I lining. The upstanding outer collar is of beaver. , • . (2) The smart Parisienne no longer worries about rain-spattered stockings. She covers her ankles with "rainspats," which are made, m all the "right" shades, to match or contrast with the costume. Note the sock-like effect. (3) Apple-green .crepe de chine is used for this fascinating get-up. Silk braid decorates dress and coat, and- a sailor hat of green felt completes the ensemble.

A Valuable Prescription That, Saves Much Money. Mix 4 tablespoonfuls sugar, 3 of Treacle, 2 of vinegar, and a large breakfastcupful of water. 3tir till dissolved and put into clean pint bottle. Add one bottle of Heenzo (Hean's Essence) and shake well. Keeps perfectly, nice to take, and always does good. . : ■ This simple recipe takes hold of a cough quicker than anything else' you have ever tried. Just sip a spoonful slowly several times a. day. , Ordinary coughs are dispatched like magic, and old deep-seated coughs are relieved In a few days. It'is splendid, too, for croup, chest pains, bronchitis, asthma, and many throat and lung troubles: The good it does is truly wonderful. One bottle of Heenzo makes a pint of perfect cough and cold remedy, free from harmful drugs, and giving quick results. All chemists and grocers. 2/6.* '

NEW AND USEFUL RECIPES

HONEY ROLL: %lb, butter, % cup brown sugar, y z small cup of honey, 3 eggs, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, pinch salt, sifted m the flour, Vi teaspoonful cochineal. Beat butter and sugar together, add honey and beat well; then add eggs one at a time and lastly flour and baking powder. Beat all together and make a bright pink to ensure it turning out. a rich brown. Bake 15 to 20 minutes and when cooked roll up m a cloth till cold. Then fill with mock cream. _ SUNDAY BISCUITS: 3 cups of flour, 3 tablespoonfuls corn flour, ?. teaspoons cream of tartar, iy 2 teaspoons of soda, pinch of salt. 3 tablespoons desiccated coconut. Beat 1% cups sugar, 3 tablespoons butter to a cream, beat m 2 eggs, add 2 tablespoons milk. Mix w,ith flour, etc., to stiff paste. Roll out and bake.

"Mastic" (Glentunnel) : We are making enquiries with regard to the preparation you mention and will advise you as soon as we know where it is to be obtained. A large-sized scrubbing brush iurn£d upside down and nailed to the floor of the back porch, makes an excellent boot scraper. - * * .*'■. To remove red ink stains from, linen soak the stains m ammonia and water, then wash well m cold water. , • Equal parts of linseed oil, turpentine, methylated spirits and vinegar mixed well and put on a woollen cloth will polish furniture until it looks like new.

APPLE FILLINC3: Take 6 cooking apples, peel a slice, and put into saucepan with Vz cup /water. Boil .to a pulp then press through' a sieve and put back into the saucepan with 1% cups sugar, 2 . tablespoons butter; grated rind of 1 lemon, 3 well beaten eggs. Boil for 5 minutes slowly and when nearly cold put into jars and seal down. This is a" -nice filling for tarts and sponge sandwiches. . LANCASHIRE SPICE NUTS: l^lb | of flour, %lb treacle, %lb butter, 1 teaspoonful soda, loz. carraway seeds, 3ozs orange peel. Warm treacle, add butter (melted), sugar, spices, soda and orange peel (grated). Pour this mixture into the flour. Knead into a dough, roll out fairly thin and 'cut into rounds with a small cutter. Bake in. a slow oven for 10 minutes.

Hundreds of people are enduring the strain of modern life without doing anything to combat the damage it is doing to their nerves. They are expending more energy than they can afford. Sooner or later something will jshap! Take Time by the forelock, and feed your jaded nerves with Hean!s Tonic Nerve Nuts. A real tonic and body-builder m a convenient, tablet form, and a three-shilling box will put your nerves as right as ever you can expect them to be! Buy a box from your chemist to-day. Wholesale: Young's Chemical Company, Wellington.*