WOMAN’S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1924, Page 10

WOMAN’S WORLD

LOCAL ITEMS. Mrs. 'Barthorp and Miss Beryl Barthorp are visiting Wanganui. * * * » Mrs. F. Blundell is spending a short holiday in Auckland. Mrs. K. Archer has returned from Wanganui. Mrs. Glover is visiting Dunedin. Mrs. S. W. Shaw and Miss O. Shaw reAuckland. Miss Dinah Brown has returned to Inglewood. Mrs. James Wilson returned oh Tuesday from a holiday in Auckland, Hamilton and Cambridge. Mrs. Walter Bayley has returned from turn from Palmerston to-morrow. Mrs. Leslie Gorton (.Feilding) and Miss Edwin (Wellington) are staying at the Criterion. Mrs. J. R. Penn, of Inglewood, spent a few days here this week. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Mischel Cherniavsky intend motoring through to New Plymouth from Palmerston to-morrow and will stay at the Criterion. FASHION TIPS FROM ABROAD, ARROWS EVERYWHERE. Soon we shall bp more marked with arrowy than a convict. On our hats and dresses they are a familiar sight, and now Paris has introduced black moire bag® ornamented by a slender diamond arrow. NEW USE FOR POCKETS. The small embroidered or monogram’ med - pocket on the left side of dress and coloured handkerchief. Now it is conjumper has hitherto been kept for a sidered smart to have a long strip of leather or ribbon, exactly like a bookmark, hanging out. with the monogram worked at' one end. The colour note should be repeated elsewhere on the drees. COVERED HEADS. Even for dinner and dance must our closely-cropped heads be covered. Skull caps of gold braid or net, small evening hats of gilded horsehair, and turbans of small crushed flowers are all to be seen. SHOES AND lIAT-S. Fashion’s stern decree is that two things worn at the same time shall match, but not more than two. Thus the. touch of vivid colour to a black drees may be given by bag and umbrella, belt and gloves, or the newest two to match are bait and shoes, which may both be of gold embroidered snakeskin. MEMORY AIDS.

To help the recollection of numerous engagements, many of the new bags contain, in addition to their usual fittings, tiny pocket-book® bound to match the bag. and finished with a miniature initial. OUR HANDERCHIEFS. More fanciful than ever are the pictures painted in one corner of our handkerchiefs. The doll design reigns supreme there and in the guise of a very much rouged young person, with straight eyelashes about half an inch long. ORIGINAL EFFECTS Quite new’ for afternoon wear is the frock made with a long bodice, almost a tunic, of contrasting material to the short flounced skirt With this is worn a three-quarter length coat of the same material as the skirt, so that the effect of a three-tiered coat-frock is achieved in the house. KNITTED PYJAMAS. The craze for wollies has got into our nightwear, and the newsot pyjama suits are composed of Shetland woll jumper and, trousers, the former finished with muslin collar and cuffs. FASHIONS FOR MEN. A VARIETY OF COLOURS. London, Sept. 8. New autumn fashions for men introduce a variety of colours that have never before been seen, especially in golf, sporting and country suits. Rich golden-browns, flame colour, blue-greys, biscuits, and also a combination of any two contrasting colours forming a small check pattern, and diagonals in twocolour effects, are the latest for lounge suits. The smartest colours are beetroot. yellow, blue, mauve and grey. Evening suits will carry an indistinct diamond pattern or a fine stripe. This innovation is designed to distinguish the well-dressed man from a waiterOLD GIRLS’ MART. Mesdames Home and Scanlan have undertaken to judge the High School Girls’ sewing competition in connection with the Old Girls’ Mart next Saturday. and Mis® Curtis and Mrs. Ellerm will judge the cooking competition. A sub-eomimittee of the Old Girls’ Association consisting of Misses Wood (convener), B. Hawkins. M. Smart, R. Moody, F. Worn, L. Bell, O. Orbell, A. Hasel 1 and M. Cook is in charge of the sweets stall at the old girls’ mart in the Coronation Hall next Saturday. They have met with a ready response in their canvass for sweets, donations including several tins of lollies, boxes of chocolates, and a gross of bags. as well as novel boxes in the form of Chinese lanterns, made by Mrs. Jenkins, of Eitzroy. Mrs. White, of Young Street, whose ability in this direction is very well known, is making a box of specially dainty sweets, and many other friends of the school are contributing generously. The committee, has planned a very effective scheme of decoration for the stall and the members anticipate a particularly strenuous and profitable afternoon.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. USE A LITTLE PARAFFIN. Your tiled hearth will become clean and bright again much more quickly if a little paraffin is used to clean it. If a drip or two of paraffin is placed upon the polisher for the windows and mirrors, they will last much longer and be less likely to show traces of flies. A little paraffin on the duster used for poKshed furniture will revive the gleam of polished wood and remove traces of fingermarks. FOR CLEANING- CUTLERY. One breakfast cup )f yellow soap, one do. washing soda, one do. whiting. Dissolve the ingredients in a saucepan over slow fire. In time it forms a paste. Then pour into a tin. Place cutlery in a washup dish with a dessertspoonful of the mixture, pour on hot water. Wash up in the usual way and wipe cutlery while hot. You will find the cutlery has a brilliant polish, and never requires cleaning. This is also splendid for household silver. Just wash everything and wipe with a •dry toweil. Plate powders or liquids are never required if this is done regularly about every two weeks. DONT’S FOR THE HOME. LAUNDRESS. Never hang up woollen jumpers, dresses, skirts or coat® to dry. Place them fiat on a towel or dust sheet in the air, if possible, and shake often. Never put woollens in the sun or too near the fire to dry, as too great heat causes them to shrink and become hard. Never wash woollens in too hot water, and always rinse in water of the same temperature as the washing water. Never soak coloured garments of any material, but wash them out and finish off at once. A spoonful of vinegar in the last rinsing water brightens the colours of silk nlatemls ami adds a lustre. Never use starch with silk materials, if they require stiffening dip them in gum water. This is made by pouring %pint of boiling water over one ounce of the best gum arable. Leave in a warm place, and stir occasionally until dissohed. Strain and, bottle. Add a teaspoonful or more to the rinsing water. To keep milk from turning sour, drop a small piece of horseradish into it when it is new. Parsnips and carrots will keep fresh for months if placed in a hole in the garden, and covered with earth. Tape saves fabric gloves. —When you get frabic gloves, turn the thumb and first and second finger inside out. Then very neatly ®ew a small piece of tape across the top. This prevents the most used fingers from going into holes. COOKING HINTS. FISH OURRY. Tlrig will (appeal to those who like something piquant. To %lb. cooked fteh allow loz butter, ] small onion or shallot, 1 apple. 1 tablespoonfill cocoanut. 1 dessertspoonful curry pnirtfpr, 1 teaspoonful rice flour, a little chutttoy. * pint fish stock, & squeeze of lernof juioe, pepper salt. First prepare the curry sauce; melt the butter in a saucepan, put in the onion, chopped or thinly sliced, and fry until a golden brown. 'Phen add the apple, peeled and chopped, the rice flour, curry powder, cocoanut and chutney and mix until thoroughly blended. A fresh tomato, peeled and cut up, may also be added. Pour in the fish stock, stir until boiling, and simmer slowly until the ingredient® are thoroughly cooked. Then add pepper and salt to tafrte, a squeeze of lemonjuice, and the fish, broken in flakes but not chopped- Allow the fish to heat very gently without boiling. Then serve with bniled rice o-n a separate dish, and if preferred, arrange it in a border round the curry and garnish with lemon and parsley, or hard-cooked egg cut in pieces. A FISH SAVOURY. Use smoked fish, or a mixture of smoked and fresh fish. Flake it very finely and selason with pepper, salt, and cayenne. Flavour with a little lemon-juice, a small amount of chopped pickle or a small anchovy or shrimp paste. Heat in a saucepan with a small amount of butter, and enough fish sauce to moisten. Spread the mixture on neat pieces of toast, and a sprinkling of pepper. LEMON WHIP PIE.

Three eggs, grated lemon-rind, |lb. sugar. % gill f lemon-juice pastry. Line a tart-tin or flat di-sh with short crust and bake it until brown and crisp. Put the yokes of the eggs into basin and beat them until very light. Add half the sugar slowly, beating all the time. Then stand the basin over a saucepan o | f hot water and cook until very thick or "jellied.” Remove from the heat, and. when slightly cooled, add the lemon juice strained, and the grated rind of one lemon. Allow the mixture to cool. Meanwhile, boat, the white® of the eggs until very stiff, and add slowly the remainder of the sugar. Now fold in the yellow mixture, blending thoroughly. Heap lightly in the baked pastry shell, which has been allowed to cool, and place in the oven to brown the top very lightly. This recipe makes a thick, creamy pie, with a delicious, unusual flavour.