Woman’s World

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 10 August 1932, Page 1

Woman’s World

ITEMS OF INTEREST. Sugar and sweets have lived down their old reputation of being harmful. They have for many years been classed among the health-giving foods, but it is now known that excessive consumption of sugar does induce changes in the blood and that these conditions may produce undesirable results. A medical officer of a large boarding school for girls says that catarrhal affection is largely due to the eating of sweets. A young Now Zealand flying officer in London recently took his grandmother for a ride in a Moth 'plane. When they came down again Grandma declared herself completely satisfied —because the air was ‘bumpy,’ and she would not have had a proper experience otherwise. She was 82. It '"s never too late for adventure. A pleasant surprise awaits the wife of Commander Harry Howden, who is now travelling to Australia with her after special service in China in tire gunboat Mantis. She will receive a letter telling her that she has inherited £IOO,OOO, the estate of her father, William Fiskc, a solicitor. Mrs. Howden married Commander Howden on May 21, 1031, at Hankow, after a previous engagement had been broken off. A young newly-married couple, who left Minehoad station, England, recently for Swindon on their honeymoon travelled by train for the first time in their lives. 'They were Mr. W. Prescott and Miss Rosie Moore, and they had just been married that morning at Brendon, a remote Exmoor village, quite close to the celebrated Doonc Valley, where they had lived all their lives. TOOTHACHE TONIC. Toothache and neuralgia are not always caused by decayed teeth, but quite often by tired nerves. The fol lowing simple remedy rarely fails to effect a cure in children or adults when nerves are causing the trouble: Boat a fresh egg well and pour it into a large tumbler; add a cup of very hot milk, stirring in with it a little sugar And flavouring, cit vanilla or grated nutmeg. In many eases a child if put to bed and given this nourishing drink will sleep away all signs of toothache. GOD’S WILL IS BEST. Whichever way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so; Then blow it cash, or blow it west, The wind that blows, that wind is best. My little craft sails not alone — A thousand fleets, from every zone, Arc out upon a thousand seas, And what for me were favouring breeze, Might dash another with the shock Of doom upon some hidden rock, I leave it to a higher Will To stay or speed me, trusting still That all is well, and sure that He Who launched my bark will sail with me Through storm and calm, and will not fail, Whatever breezes may prevail, To land me, every peril past, Within His haven at the last. Then blow it east, or blow it west, The wind that blows, that wind is best, —Caroline 11. Mason. QUEEN CAKES. , Ingredients: Cream together threequarters of a cup of sugar and a-quar-ter of a pound of butter, add two eggs, and beat all well together; add two tablespoons of milk, stir gradually into this one cupful of flour previously mixed in a dry state with one teaspoonful of baking powder. Put into patty tins and bake in a quick oven. QUICK CURRY SAUCE. One heaped dessertspoon cornflour, 4 dessertspoons sugar, 1 heaped dessertspoon curry powder (or less, according to taste), J teaspoon mustard. Mix these dry ingredients together and add I dessertspoon tomato sauce, 1 dessertspoon Worcestershire sauce, 4 dessertspoons vinegar, 2 cups stack or water. Fry 2 large onions a golden brown, drain off fat, add mixture, and stir till boiling. To this can be added chopped meat, salmon, hard-boiled eggs, halved or cooked vegetables. Leave on fire till thoroughly heated and serve with border of rice. It can be prepared and served in 15 minutes. FUN. Artist: “Shall I paint you in a frock coat?” Mr. Newrich: “Oh, don’t make any fuss —just wear jour o\cialh.”