LADIES’ COLUMN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144824, 30 October 1915, Page 5

LADIES’ COLUMN.

OF LOCAL INTEREST. BY SXSTEE AOTT. Mrs. Mounier (Auckland) is the guest of Miss Hempton. Miss Helena Rawson is staying with Mrs. C. Ogle, "Waiters. Mrs. F. G. Evans returned this week from Auckland. Mrs. Miles, Timaru, is the guest of Mrs, E. F. Blundell. Mrs. Parsons returned to Wanganui on Friday. Miss'W. Crooke is visiting friends in Christchurch.Mrs. Colvile returned to New Plymouth this week. 3lrs. Glasgow and Mrs. Ford, after spending a week here, motored back to Wanganui on Friday. Miss Gloun. Hawera. was a visitor to New Plymouth this week. Mrs. O'Caliaghau has returned to Hawera. Mrs. Knight and Miss Young returned to Dannevirko this week.

Mrs. Prooce (Palmerston N.) is stay ing at the While Hart.

Miss Wade gave a very enjoyable croquet party on Thursday afternoon.

Mrs. E. A. Walker is visiting Well ingtou, whore she is the guest of Mrs, C. H. Weston, Trcntham.

Airs. J. B. Roy loft on Monday for Oanmni to be present at the Waitaki High School sports.

Miss Muriel Blundell leaves next week for Christchurch and Timaru. Mrs. Fred Bnyly, after paying a short visit to Tututawa, has returned.

Mrs. and Miss Fox have returned from Wellington.

Miss Percv Smith has returned from Bulls.

Miss Gwen Casev (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. Paul.

The New Plymouth Croquet Club opened tho season at the chib courts on Thursday afternoon.

Miss Helen Robson, who recently underwent an operation in Wanganui, has now recovered and returned to Now Plymouth on Thursday.

A most enjoyable musical evening organised by Miss C. Leatham was given to the patients at tho New Plyrmouth Hospital on Monday. Vocal and instrumental items were given by Misses - Leatham, Edna Grcatbatch, Blundell, Wade, Brewster, L. Whitcombe, and M. Thomson. Quo of tho most enjoyable items was the Toy Symphony, this being conducted by Miss C. Leatham.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn has been appointed to the staff of the hospital ship Marama.

Miss Constance Smith, who camo out to New Zealand U*st year as a member of the English ladies' hockey team, and has since been games mistress at the "Wellington Girls’ College, left last •week for England, to offer her services to the war authorities as a masseuse, for which there see ms, to he a demand. Miss Smith is a cousin of Sir F. E. Smith, Solicitor-General, and now suggested as Attorney-General in the British Cabinet, and while in London she will stay with her’mother.

Next Thursday afternoon the members of Sr. Mary's Needlework Guild will hold their annual sale of work in Mrs. Crooke's house, Vivian Street. Afternoon tea wilj be served in the Continental fashion in the'dining-room., the needlework being shown in the drawing-room and library. The plain work stall will have a nice selection of lingerie, cooking aprons, children’s dresses, etc., and the fancy needlework will include numerous dainty and inexpensive articles suitable for Christmas gifts such as boudoir caps. Liberty pincushions. and original novelties in Harris art linen, floral voile and poplin. A cake stall has been promised a generous supplr of home-made bread and cakes. The sale will be open from 2.30 to 5.30 p.m.

The t number of approved applications from qualified nurses in hand will, it is represented, more than meet the request which has recently come for a hundred more at the front. Many recent applicants will, therefore, be disappointed. No shortage of nurses in the Dominion in the immediate future is anticipated. The half-yearly examinations will, shortly be held, and it is expected that at least a hundred will qualify.

Letters from Dr. Duncan Stout at the No. 1 Stationary Plospital express great satisfaction Vrith the boxes of comforts sent for the hospital. He states that gifts of butter and potatoes would fc# very acceptable, especially the former, and, he wondered if some farmers would combine and send regularly, as both are so difficult to obtain in Egypt.

Girls and woqien have taken by work on the farms in several places in Australia, ■in order to help to bring a: great an area as possible under crop. Some, says a South Australian paper, have accomplished a tremendour amount of work, but perhaps the most remarkable record is held by a child living in the sonth of the Pinnaroo district, in South Australia. This season she has cultivated 300 acres and drilled 200. She spent her tenth birthday while drilling, She* glories in her work, and is never happier than when among the horses.; She is vor- independent, and always yokes her own team, although she is not tall enough to manipulate tV winkers.

AN APPEAL FOR HANDKERCHIEFS. The Lady Liverpool Fund is making an appeal aor handkerchiefs for the soldiers. It has used up so many thousands in wrapping up its Christmas parcels so as to provide them with the gifts that the stock has run out. The handkerchiefs should he. in any of the khaki tones, or anything that will harmonise with the trench, rock, earth or foliage colouring, hut must not be either red or white. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Boiling hooks and eyes in strong soda water before sewing them on garments will prevent their iron-moulding j in the wash'. 1

To clean a greasv stove, dip a cloth in dry soot and rub over tho greasy j m-n apply ufacKicaci ami tne spots will disappear.

To stone raisms quickly and prevent tho usual unpleasant stickiness, rub a huie unitei’ ..ii land on the knife before beginning to stone. Before cutting new bread dip the knife in boiling water. By doing this, tho thinnest slice can be cut from a new loaf without-crumbling the bread. -Cpt off the rinds and soak rashers of bacon in cold milk for an hour. Take them out,, dredge well with flour, and fry in fat.* This is a delicious improvement on the ordinary method of frying bacon. To clean windows in damp weather, dip a piece of crumpled newspaper in paraffin oil, rub ovei; window, then polish with a clean duster. The polish will ,bo brilliant and will last a long time.

• Creamed Potatoes an C ratio.—Two tablcspoonfuls of dripping, one quart of peeled and diced potatoes, two cupfuls of milk, one tablespoonful of flour, two heaped tablcspoonfuls of cheese, one teaspoonful of salt, a quarter of a teaspoonful of white pepper, and a few breadcrumbs. BoU the potatoes carefully in salted, ■water. Drain and pour into a greased porcelain dish. Blend dripping and flour in a saucepan over the fire, add milk, stir till boiling, then add cheese and seasoning. 'Pour over potatoes, g.rate. a little top. sprinkle with breadcrumbs;, arid • bake for five minutes in a moderate oven. Baked Asparagus Omelet.—Butter a baking dish and put in. it a layer of cooked asparagus Tips. Beat the yolks of four eggs until lights season with salt and pepper, and* four tablespoons of hot water, fold in the stiffly beaten whites, pour the mixture over the asparagus and bake in a quick oven until the eggs arc set. Serve immediately from the dish in which it is cooked. Curry Pie.—Cut into .small pieces the remains of any cold meat: mix together a tcaspoonful each of curry powder, sugar, and ketchup, half a teaspoonful of salt, one small onion finely minced and a breakfast-cupful of stork. Put the meat into this mixture and lot it soak in it for two or three hours. Put nil, then- into a pie dish and cover with a thick layer of mashed potatoes, mixed with butter , and lightly seasoned. Bake in a quick oven until browned on the top.

Many housewives believe in boiling new eaythenwaro before using it. as this effectually toughens and hardens it. This is particularly efficacious in the case of ordinary brown kitchenware, the articles being placed in a large nan of water, which is then brought slowly to the boil. After being allowed to boil for ten minutes remove the pan and allow the water to cool before taking out the ware.

Hairflressmg and Tinting, Electrolysis for permanent'removal of superfluous, hair. Hairdressing and Toilet Requisites, Switches, Transformation, etc.; Ladies' Combings mado up to any design. —MRS. BEADLE, Griffiths’ Buildings, near ’Carnegie Library:*