LADIES' COLUMN

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17320, 7 January 1928, Page 2

LADIES' COLUMN

DINNER SWEETS FOR HOT WEATHER.

TWO DELICIOUS RECIPES

One of the worries of every house-wife-during the warm season is the providing of something suitable in the way of sweets for dinner. Steam puddings and other heavy dishes, are, of course, not to be thought of on a hot day. The favourite stand-by for such occasions is fruit, preserved, or stewed, or fresh. But even so 'tempting a dish as this loses its charm it served too often in the same 1 manner. What is wanted is some light pudding or cream salad to go with it. Here are two recipes which are delightfully cool and just delicious- with stewed fruit.

Lemon Pudding.—-Boil one cur) of sugar with two cups of water. Wet three tablespoons of cornflour (or Maizena) with the juice of two lemons and finely grated rind of one lemon with a little water until smooth. Pour into boiling sugar and water and boil five minutes. Set the pot aside. Then take the whites of three eggs. Beat stiffly and then add to the contents of the pot. Beat it well until it is white and foamy. Put into a mould. Make a custard of the three yolks. Cream Salad. —Required: I 5 cups sour milk; three tablespoons flour; four tablespoons sugar; i teaspoon salt; two level teaspoons mustard, two teaspoons lemon juice.

Heat the cream,' add to it the dry ingredients, which have been blended together, cook in dotible boiler, stirring until tinck, add the lemon juice and remove from the tire. This is especially good for a fruit salad.

WHILE YOUR SHINGLE GROWS

Is the shingle iti-.,uai? Some say "Yen,'' others, e<uuu v >, ell informed, "iNo." Persona]h, 1 ..j.i inclined to think that it is. i--./r wherever one goes longer hair is uyuceaoie, especially among til© smarter iy_ e 01 woman. Naturally it must i>c several years before those who are now bobbed or shingled will own hair that can nave any claims to be called long, and it n* during the in-between stage tiiat the difficulty of arrangiing it will be greatest, btill, there are several attrai> five ways ot "fixing" the hair mice it has been allowed to grow a coupie of inches.

With a small and prettily shaped head there is no more becoming way Unan to curl the ends, and with a tew invisible pins iix the curls at the nape of the neck. Then at the hair gro.vs longer the curls can be replaced Dy a nape knot. when the head is not as well shaped as you might wish, comb the hair towards the crown of tire heau urn. arrange the curls there instead of at the nape of the neck. The girl to whom the "ear-phone" style is becoming can part the nun across the head and, drawing the enus towards each ear, arrange it in nut curls over the ears.

. I would advise the woman who nits decided to allow her uair to grow to' massage the scalp every night and to apply a really reliable hair tonic to the roots at least rour times a week.

Hair, normally, grows at the rate of from half to three-quarters 01 an inch every month, but stimulated uy massage and a good tonic this amount can often be exceeded, and once the growth has passed the 6in. stage it can be dressed in almost any style.

THE KNEE BRACELET

A PASSING FANCY

Knee bracelets have arrived! Mostly they are half an inch, wide, and intended to take the place of garters. You may, of course, wear a pair, but the single "bracelet" is considered smarter. Those fo r day wear are embellished with designs in Greek keypattern chased 011 the gold; those torevening wear are set with caboehon stones sometimes all of the same colour, sometimes in variegated tints. This is, however, 'a fashion which will probably enjoy but a short lease of hie, so it may be as Avell to invest in one that is merely rolled gold, set with imitation gems. The "snake" is a favourite form of knee bracelet, its flexibility being particularly suitable for the purpose. In any case the bracelet is made rn hinged sections, and the front is, of course, much wider tha the back, which is very slim and narrow. Women who have tired of the monogram bracelet for the wrist, are using then- diamond and platinum monograms on a piece of black moire ribbon tor the knee. This looks charming on a beige stocking. .Tiny watches are also worn, but I doubt whetirer the idea is good for the timepiece.

SHABBY PATCHES

THE DADO TO THE RESCUE

. Narrow staircases and doors that leave little space between themselves and the adjacent wall frequently cause shabby patches just where the rub comes on the wallpaper. , A dado treatment is excellent in a case like this, because if plain paper be used above it the dado may be renewed at intervals without undue expense. For nurseries, where small fingers are apt to leave marks on the lower portion of the wads, the dado likewise serves to reduce papering costs. The dado need not invariably be of paper. It can be of matting, a material which is excellent tor resisting the effects of constant rubbing. To. make the best effect it needs to be finished off at the top with a narrow wooden moulding, but brass-he: ded tacks will serve, and will be cheaper. Semi-circular mats, m rush and wool, are specially made, to counteract -the rub or "tread" on the carpet just in front of a dressing-table or a bureau. These can be reneweed at 'intervals, thus avoiding a genera! impression of shabbiness. The wear and tear on linoleum is to be met by using one of the tile-pat-

terned makes, which admit of the separate' squares Lj.i'.;.-, easily cut out and replaced by nnv "This means a grea<t reduction m , enewal, costs. The rub 011 upholstered furniture on the arms ahu thic-K is to be foiled by using separate tie-on covers just where the head and the i.nns meet the material. If the pattern be cleverly matched up, these extra pieces will be scarcely noticeable.

HINTS FOR THE COOK-LADY. Pastry intended to be eaten cold should alawys ue mixed with milk. It keeps short and .crisp much longer than if mixed with water. When making a suet pudding mix it with very hot water instead of cold. If you have never tried this tip, you will be delighted to see what a dinerenee it makes to the lightness and digestibility of the pudding. If you want to keep the yolk of white of an egg, of whicn the other part lias been used, put it in a cup or glass, cover with a. damp cloth, and fasten the cloth down with an elastic band.

SNOWY-WHITE TENNIS SHOES. Canvas tennis shoes can be giv.m u snowy .■ whiteness if blue voter be used to wet the cleaning preparation. When thus treated, even when dried indoors, the shoes look as white and new as if they had bee bleached dry 0 the lawn in a blazing sun. TO PREVENT SKIN ON BOILED MILK. Many people have a profound distaste for what the French call "bebette"; the skin that forms on the top of milk that has been boiled. To prevent this skin from forming as the milk cools, add two tablespoonsful of cold milk to every pint when at boil-ing-point, and stir for one minute. JThe| "bebette" will then be re-ab-sorbed, and the milk will not be impoverished.