LETS GO GOSSIPING

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3938, 11 August 1937, Page 4

LETS GO GOSSIPING

WOMEN’S INTERESTS: THE HOME.

(By

MISS MARY TALLIS.-

—Special Service to Te Awamutu Courier.)

FASHION NOTES. DRESS. The lily bride is a dream come true. A necklace of arum lilies trims the frock and the idea is repeated in the similar shaped sleeves. A demure bouquet of lilies of the valley contrasts prettily with the severity of the gown. Her veil is tulle, gathered into a little cap. A daisy chain round the throat and round the hem of last season’s afternoon frock will completely transform it. A circle of daisies on a flat velvet pochetto completes the picture. Coral on black is lively. A chiffon jacket of pastel hue worn over a plain black evening gown is enchanting—especially when tied at the neck and waist by velvet ribbons bound round with rosebuds. A good renovation this. A charming posy embroidered just above the waist line of a dark woollen pullover gives the appearance of a bunch of flowers tucked through your belt. Have lovely vivid flowers worked in thick wools. Sport a really patriotic waistcoat this Coronation year. The lion rampant and the royal crown are both popular designs. ■ Wear gloves and cravat of a plain contrasting colour —you will love the effect with a trimly tailored flannel suit—later wear it with summer frocks. One plus 2 equals 5! How? It’s easy. Take one plain dress, on reversible bolero —plain material one side and printed on the other—and a triangled bandana. How: (1) Wear the dress with the plain bolero and wear the bandana in a cowl round the throat; (2) turn the bolero, print outwards, and wear the bandana as a sash round the waist; (3) Use the bandana slotted through the collar and pinned, end tie the ends round the waist to form a gilet; (4) with bandana as a gilet wear the bolero over it with the print material outside; (5) bandana as a gilet slip on the bolero with the plain side outwards. BEAUTY. BRILLIANT EYES. Remember it is the expression and light in your eyes that counts, for eye make-up is only the setting and the accent. Except in rare instances never use mascara on your lower lashes. It is important to bathe the eyes with a good eye wash before making them up, and carefully to remove mascara and eye shadow before your sleep.

How can I make my eyelashes grow is something almost every girl would like to know. Rub the lashes at night with a special eyelash cream, then pull them gently. This must be done regularly and over a period of time to get real and noticeable results. If you wear spectacles and your eyebrows are very light, darken them r. little —enough to show above the glasses. Tweeze them across the nose. Use very little mascara and eye shadow, as glasses magnify and will call attention to it. If you And that your glasses smudge your mascara, have your lashes dyed. Eye make-up don’ts for the older woman: Don’t apply powder around the eyes. Don’t use mascara or eye shadow. Instead, spread a little eye cream over the lids. Brush your trows. Good grooming is what counts in this case. THE HOME. WHAT YOU WILL REQUIRE IN YOUR NEW KITCHEN. Sternly practical stuff is here, but still very gay, for you can get your dnsters in vivid shades, your tea towels gaily bordered, and even your dish cloths in crisp checks. If you are buying, put down on your list: Six small dusters, 6 large dusters, 6 large tea towels, 6 glass cloths, 6 kitchen towels, 2 oven cloths, 3 dish cloths, 2 floor cloths. Once start refurbishing the kitchen

it is difficult to get away, there are so many things needed. A full list of kitchen utensils would make a good sized article in a magazine. One word of advice. Let your kitchen be the gayest room in the house for you are going to spend hours of your housekeeping life in it. Cheerful paint and curtains, self-coloured linoleum that doesn’t show the splashes, and all your accessories to tone will help, and ask your girl friends to give you a set of those candy striped kitchen jars on your next birthday. HEALTH. GERMS AND THE WEATHER. Germs are very susceptible to weather conditions. They like certain conditions of heat, moisture and barometric pressure before they can get up on their toes and do their damnedest. The ’flu germ, for instance, likes it cold and wet, too, but he particularly likes the sun not to shine. Rheumatism seems to like the barometer to jog up and down. On the ether hand there are some germs that only thrive in a hot, moist climate, like the malaria germ, for instance. There are so many germs, each with their own favourite weather, that the Antarctic is about the only place where they are so paralysed that you can escape them.

Which brings us to the spring. The sun is shining and the birds are cheery enough, but you feel like a piece of chewed string; but you’ve got pimples, and a nasty taste in your mouth, and the last cold won’t quite go. Why should you be inferior to the birds and the flowers? Well, the birds migrated to a warm climate for the winter, and the flowers have been hibernating; but you’ve been going to the office and coming home with your feet wet; you’ve probably had 'flu, and anyhow, you’re fed up. You are up against the fact that jou’ve gone through months of weather which germs love; this has lowered your vitality and in this rundown state you are meeting the special perils of the spring. These perils are not quite so easy to label as the winter ones, but they are there. For children, they are obvious enough—measles, and mumps with various friends, run riot at this time of the year. For adults, the germs which frisk are obscure ones buried deep in tonsils, or lurking in the intestines, making you throaty and bilious; or they may be in the skin, giving you boils and pimples. They are a low lot and delight in kicking you when you are down.

What shall we do about it. To start with the ideal—is there a chance of a holiday, or even a few days off? Whatever people may say about summer holidays there is no doubt that the holiday is the spring one. You can’t bathe, unless you are exceptionally hardy, but you can do all sorts of other things, from sailing an open boat to climbing mountains. Even a few days at this time of the year, bringing a change of food, change of climate, change of outlook, have a marvellous revivifying effect and are a real form of health insurance, probably paying at the end in real cash.

COOKING. THREE CHEESE CAKES. Ground rice cheese cakes: Ingredients: Short pastry. 8 ozs ground rice, 1 oz sifted flour, 3 ozs butter, 4 ozs castor sugar, almond or vanilla flavouring, 1 egg, little milk, raspberry jam. Roll out pastry thinly, cut out and line round or boat shaped tarlet tins. Beat sugar and butter together, add the egg, beating it in well, and about a tablespoon of milk. Sift ground rice and flour together, add a pinch of salt and stir it gradually into the mixture. Add a few drops of flavouring essence at the end. Spread a little jam in the bottom of each pastry lined tin, and cover this with the ground rice mixture, leaving the tins two-thirds full. Cut out

some very narrow strips of pastry and decorate the tops in lines, circles, crosses or spirals with these strips. Bake in a quick oven until mixture is well risen and brown. They should take about 15 minutes.

Almond cheese cakes: Quarter lb ground almonds, J oz rice flour, 3 whites of eggs, J teaspoon vanilla essence, J lb castor sugar, a few chop ped almonds. Short pastry. Roll out pastry thinly and line small patty tins with it. Leave the egg whites in a cold place as long as possible. Cream the ground almonds, castor sugar and whites of eggs together for ten minutes. Add the rice flour and essence and mix thoroughly until blended. Nearly fill the pastry lined patty cases with the mixture, sprinkle with chopped almonds, and bake in a fairly hot oven 15 to 20 minutes.

Potato cheese cakes: One lb floury mashed potatoes, 1 egg, teaspoon salt, little milk, tablespoon washed and dried currants, short pastry. The potatoes must be very dry and floury .and freshly cooked. Add salt, and beat them all until Creamy, with a little milk. Then add the beaten egg and beat again. Then stir in the cleaned currants and stir well. The mixture should be the consistency of sponge cake mixture.

Roll out the pastry thinly and line round patty tins with it. Three parts fill them with the cheese cake mixture and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes.

These may be eaten hot or cold. The currants may be omitted and the top of the mixture sprinkled with grated cheese after putting it into the patty pans. These are delicious hot for supper. HOUSEKEEPING. NOTES. If you have a creaking door, a bit of soap rubbed on the hinge will stop it. When knobs of doors have to be polished, use a large piece of cardboard with a hole in the centre just enough to encircle the knob, and a slit in the cardboard to let it in easily. This will prevent the paint from being soiled. Bran may be used to clean wallpapers. Dust walls thoroughly and apply the bran with a dry sponge, rubbing gently. Do not use the same bran twice.

’io mend an enamle bowl, mix some ordinary building cement with cold water to the consistency of thick cream. Spread evenly over the hole and leave to dry for a day or two. Slightly damp the brushes of the carpet sweeper with salt water every time before use. Bits, especially of cotton, are picked up more easily and the carpet made cleaner and brighter. When opening cardboard flower packets, cut them along the side instead of at the top. They make handy lunch boxes, or can be used to carry cakes or sandwishes to picnics. If a room is inclined to be dark, Place a panel mirror on the darkest wall of the room, and give it curtains to resemble a window, and the room will appear very much lighter.