WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1924, Page 11

WOMAN’S WORLD.

LOCAL ITEMS. Mrs. Johns senr. is visiting Wanganui. Mrs. 11. Abraham has returned to Khandallah. Mrs. Roy Jackson (Auckland) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. H. Mace. * * * * Mrs. Frank Moore is on a visit to Mokoia. * * * * Mrs. N. Balharry was hostess at a tennis party on Thursday afternoon. * * * * Mrs. E. T. Rogers arrives from Hamilton to-night to stay with Mrs. E. C. Griffiths. Miss C. D. Grant left on Tuesday for Otane. Miss Beryl Barthorp left last night for a holiday in Auckland. * * * * Mrs. L. C. Sladden was hostess at a tennis party on Thursday. Mrs. Dufaur (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. F. J. Forris. Mrs. Fred Facer (Wellington) is a visitor here. » * * * Mrs. Dickens (London), who has been staying here for a day or two, has gone oa to Auckland by motor. Mrs. H. McCleland returned from Wellington last night. * * * » Miss Stanford (Wanganui) is the guest of Mrs. H. F. Russell. Mrs. Pearson (Liverpool) is staying at the Criterion. Mrs. Hugh Bailey and Airs, Deighton have returned from Wellington. ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced of Miss Alice Smalley, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Smalley, of Eltham, to Mr. Frank McWilliam, second son of Mr. and Airs. A. AfdWilliam, of “Holmwood,” Omoana. WHEN WASHING SPORTS COATS AND JUMPERS. If there are any tabs at the necks of sports coats and jumpers these should be removed before the garment is washed. Such tabs are often black or brown, and are bound to run. Should a sports coat have wooden buttons these are best washed on the

coat, as it is easier to free them from soi. on the material than loose; but they should be removed before the coat is put through a wringer, Or the sharp edges of t/he buttons wall cut the mate-/ rial. Sports coats and jumpers should not be placed on coat hangers to dry. Hangers make two ugly marks, hard to smooth out. A small hoop, as used by th e kiddies, is the thing to use, and if this is not to hand, take a couple of new.spapers, roll them up and tie a piece of siring round the centre, and place the shoulders of the garment washed over the roll and suspend it by the string. The paper will bend with the weight of the garment and there will be no ugly marks. Jumpers inclined to Stretch should not be hung up to dry, but placed in shape, on a big towel, slung over a partly folded clothes-horse. SAMPLERS. Genuine old samplers are much sought after in these days of decorative as well as collecting purposes. So great is the demand that modern replicas are being made, ami unless the history of one of these quaint-embroidered linen squares is known, it takes an exipent to vouch for its authenticity. Of course, the samplers made by the painstaking hands of one’s great-grandmother, and her mother, and so on, into that dim distant eighteenth century when sampler making began, really constitute an interesting, and often valuable, family record on the female side, since it was customary for the youthful worker to broider her name and age, as well as the date in full, in the tiny, neat crossstitch peculiar to sampler work. Often, so soon as one square of linen was completed, another was begun of more ambitious design, so that the young lady’s improvement in the use of her embroidery needle could be followed. The original frames enshrining old samplers are invariably extremely plainand simple, and it would be most unsuitable to mount such a piece of work in an elaborate one. A very narrow black or gold beading is best, ami does not detract from the embrodiery. No mount is visible, and the whole effect must be light. COOKING HINTS. RHUBARB AND ORANGE JAM. lib rhubarb, 3 large oranges, sugar. Wash the rhubarb and cut it in small pieces without peeling. Wash the oranges and grate off the rinds, taking the yellow part only. Then cut them in halves and scoop out the pulp. Put the seeds into a small basin and soak them in a little boiling water for half-hour. Weigh together the orange pulp, rhubarb, and grated rind, and allow an equal weight of sugar. Boil the fruit first until reduced to half quantity, add the sugar and strained liquid from the seeds, and continue to boil until the jam will set. LEMON CHEESE'. Half-pound castor sugar, 3 yolks and 2 whites, of eggs, 2 lemons, 2 tablespconfirls cake crumbs, 3 oz butter. 'Grate the rind off the lemons and blend it with th® sugar until of a uniform yellow colour. Put this lemon sugar into a lined saucepan with the butter, white cake crumbs, and the yolke and whites of eggs slightly beaten. Stir constantly over a gentle heat until the mixture becomes thick like hc-ney. Pour into jars, and, when cold, cover like jam. This mixture will keep for some time and can lie used for tarts aud bwtfets Jam.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To prevent a skin forming on hot starch, cover the basin with a bid of plate as coon as it is made. A mixture of equal parts of olive oil and black ink will restore suede shoes and slippers and remove rustiness. Rain spots on clothes can be removed •by placing a clean damp cloth on the material and pressing it with a moderately warm iron. A little bicarbonate of soda mixed to a paste with cold water is splendid for removing scorch marks, perspiration and other stains from white silk. When boiling an old fowl or tough meat add a pinch of soda to the water. Simmef gently and the meat will be tender. To clean a stained marble-topped washstand, ruib with a rag dipped in turpentine. This will remove medicine stains. When ivory knife handles become discoloured they can be restored to their former whiteness by rubbing them with turpentine. A pad of cotton wool or wadding dipped in methylated spirits will clean and revive shabby brown shoes or boots. A sharpening steel which has become greasy should be, soaked in tunpen tine, then in strong soda and water. The steel must be kept clean or it will not act as a sharpener. Polished metals may -be kept bright by rubbing them with a flannel that has 'been very lightly smeared with vaseline. Tortoiseshell combs if rubbed with a little powdered rotten-stone mixed with oil, and finally polished with a piece of chamois leather, will look like new. To revive French polish, mix I gill spirits of wine and A gill of vinegar with two teaspoonfuls of linseed oil. Rub on furniture with a piece of flannel, and polish with a clean, soft cloth.