THE LADIES’ PAGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 47

THE LADIES’ PAGE.

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“Wherever a true woman comes. Lome is always around her.”—Rankin. Eleanor will be pleased tD receive letters from I correspondents on any matter cf interest to them, and to reply through the medium of this page, ihe com de plumo only of the correspondents to be published. Letters to be addressed “Eleanor," j care cf the Editor.

possible to imitate them, why not? example, here is a eosy-looking g: * 1 . no o nrl it r>t i ’ For comparative song. 1 love the winter scan, and 1 expert that you do—the scarf that provides the finishing touch to the right kind of suit or dress and that always looks so cosy as well as being so. The throw-over is ever a popular kind—a scarf that turns once round the neck to allow one end to fall over the coat in front and the other to fall over it at back. Then scarves are both* plain and ornamental, some of the choicest being the former. They are often knotted, and ° are sometimes both knotted and fringed, when the effect is of a tassel. The scarf rises before my eyes at this moment in association with a knitted hat, if hat I can call what is neither that, cap, nor anything* else. \\ ould that I could say “tarn.”” but for some reason or other “tarns” are out of it, or at least T have failed to espy any worth mentioning. And yet what is more claintv, more jaunty, more becoming? I may, too, say something of cuffs, which, like the collar, have become a feature of the top coat and wrap. With the coat, whose sleeve seems to grow out of it, in that it is like an abnormal extension of the side, (rie cuff may be easily the hall-mark-ing item. And where it is large, loose, and well shaped it will be—a cuff that is sometimes flared, sometimes so and quite open

“the other way,” and a cuff that is som«h times—though not. often—touched with il little embroidery, especially if lepeating Ui« collar.

Returning the furs, I can conceive of no Setter use for fur than as a trimming. It may be made to do duty, and very often is, on the collar, where it does not form all of it, on the cuff (same remark) and on the pocket. But what of employing it as shown, with an extension on the hip, which at first glance suggests a coat? Fur here servos a -dressmaking purpose, in that it helps to emphasise the contour. And it is rued with braid too, and this, again, is finished with buttons. LAUitv gossip. Miss Agnes Gooding Reader, of Ashford, Kent, celebrated her 103rd birthday in March. She is in good health, eats her meals with relish, can read without glasses, and signs her own cheques. Most of her time is spent in a room overlooking her garden, and containing her piano, which she plays with much skill. One of the first women to be admitted a Bar student in the law examinations, Miss Helen Xoi-manton, has just broken all records for her sex by passing at one time examinations in Constitutional Law, Roman Law, and Criminal Law. She is now preparing to sit for examination in Hindu and Mohammedan Laws. A TENDER EPITAPH. Surely one of the sweetest epitaphs ever written by a husband upon his wife’s tombstone is the following : Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow' softly here, Green sod above, Lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night. The fines were written (says The Sunday at Home) bv the humorist, Mark Twain, and are cut in a block of marble above the resting-place of his wife in a New York cemetery. ATTRACTIVE BRiTISH CHILDREN. Do the British People realise what attractive children they are blessed with? asks “An Englishwoman Abroad - ’ in the Daily Mail. I have no doubt the modern child, like everything else modern, is up for criticism, but critics can take it from one who has lived long on the Continent that English children are a hundred per cent superior to any other children in the world. Which in the more attractive, I wonder, the little Englishman of six or seven years, who can take himself to school by train and has pals among the ticket collectors, or the foreign boy of twelve, in socks, holding his mother’s hand ! WANTED A QUEEN’S DOUBLE. It is reported that a film company is hunting round for someone to represent Mary Queen of Scots, and is hunting for actual descent, blue blood, and a marked family likeness. Actual descent will be hard to find, for the Queen had only one child, King James VI. and 1., and all hie descendants are royalties, unless illegi-

timate descent through King Charles 11. will suffice. Relationship easy enough to provide, but facial resemblance will mean a long and difficult hunt. Mary Queen of Scots was a very beautiful woman, but the great charm of her face lay in her eyes, and they were set obliquely, as were these of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth. That at the present day is a peculiarity very seldom met with. COLOUR BLINDNESS. A curious fact concerning colour blindness was mentioned by Dr W. Bateman, lecturing at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Where a man was colour blind, he said, if his wife were normal, his children would be normal; but whereas the son’s children would also be normal, the daughter’s sons would be liable to suffer from colour blindness. The case of a colour-blind girl, which was very rare, was the result of a marriage between a colour-blind man and a colourblind woman. HINTS An wCGESTIONS. A mustard plaster mixed with the white of an egg will not leave a blister. A raw egg taken immediately will carry down a fish bone that cannot be got up from the throat. Tile white of an e&g beaten with loaf sugar and the juice of a lemon, will relieve hoarseness. Many housewives seem to be in doubt as to how to measure a gill, a quantity of liquid eo often used in cookery. A gill is half of a half a pint, and, as nearly as possible, a gill will half fill an ordinary breakfast cup. Silver not in every day use should be wrapped in tissue paper and closely packed in a tin box with a tight-fitting lid. In th s way it will keep bright for a long time To clean white furs take 2oz. of camphorated chalk, and rub it well into the fur, rubbing the wrong way of the fur. Make some cold water starch to a thick paste, brush down the fur with this, and then hang up to dry. When thoroughly dry, rub off with the hand, and finally beat slightly with a carpet cane to get rid of the starch. Plaster of Paris mixed to a thin paste with water, and used instead of whiting, is excellent for keeping the steps white in wet weather. The plaster hardens very quickly, so that you should not use more than is necessarv for the time being. Always drain your boiled rice into a clean bowl, and use the water for thickening soups, or with a little flavouring it makes a good drink for children, especially if their stomachs are a little out of order. Rice water also makes a very good stiffening for laces and other light laundry articles. If you get a stain on a polished table caused bv a hot dish or a wet flower-vase, try this method of removing it. Rub the stained part well with a clean rag dipped in linseed-oil. Then hold a hot iron over the stain, two or three inches from the table, and the stain will instantly disappear.