HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11026, 14 March 1914, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To remove finger-marks from doors and painted walls nib with a flannel (lipped in EaraJSn, then with another wrung out in very ot water. Glass tumblers and bottles will have ft brilliant polish if washed in warm, slightly blued water, rinsed in clear, cold water, and then dried. Coffee Creams.—Two and a half oupfuls of powdered sugar, one-half cupful of strong coffee. Boil together four minutes, then cool, beating all the time. 801 l paste into balls and harden. Soap Jelly.—Cut up some soap, put. into a jelly jar, and pour some boiling water on to it. Add a little powdered borax, and give the oontents of the jar a stir. Then leave to get oold, when it will be a jelly. Fruit Salad.—Ttako twelve bananas, eight oranges, one lemon, ono. cupful sugar, yolk of ono egg; beat egg and sugar to a cream, add juice of lemon, then pour over sliced bananas and oranges; add one cupful of chopped walnuts.

Before washing ebony brushes stneai • i'V little vaseline over the backs. This pre- ; rents the ammonia or sodn water in V'hich they are washed from injuring the ebony. The vaseline should afterwards'be carefully rubbed off,'and the backs polished with dry cloths.

Paint Splashes.—Great .difficulty is often found in finding anything that will remove the paint splashes left tehind ly woriruvn' >7 The best way is to take a copper ooin, a 1 - penny or half-penny,'and simply scrape the window wherever the paint has been left, it will come off like magic. Children's Tapioca Soup.—Allow rather ; more than half a pint of water and a te»spoonful of tapioca for each person. 801 l gently until the tapioca is done; when quit* off the boil etir in three eggs thoroughly beaten, and add a seasoning of salt and pepper. A little milk may bo added, if liked, to the beaten eggs. Apple Ginger.—Thie is easily prepared and may be kept ready for use for weeks at a I , time. Chop five pounds of peeled and cored, sour apples. Put them in a stewpan with thrco pounds of brown sugar, the mice and' rind of three lemons, an ounce of ginger root and water to cover the fruit. Cover and cook • . slowly for several hours, adding water as ' needed. Apple Souffle.—Three or four apples, hall,' a lemon, whites of thrco egg-8, vanilla v ing. Bake ttie apples with skin on; skiE.' j tako out tlio noft jmrt and rut through i k 1 sieve. Flavour with the grated lini and-& : juice of half a lemon, add sugar, and lastly: T»'r '■ the whites well beaten. Bake in a pie-dish>£ lllHl W Slickly, iprliltlA with 'j '( Tomato Salad.—Chooso small ripe red'walocß nad till. Ikto id llnti ellfita, Ink 6Ui ; ' the* coto and pips, and put them in a 'salads; '*d-'?* bow! previously rubbed with a head of garlic.]] v ' ; : : Slice a few cold potatoes and add. Mix a'" < Baltspoonful of salt and one of pepper in a tablespoonful of oil and the same quantity-J.i ■: of vinegar, and pour over the salad. all with finely chopped parsley,'- ../-s Gum Water.—This is used for muslins, ; laces, and fine cambric, etc., and one tablespoonful of it is added to one cupful ofS 1 water. To make it put one ounce gum*,!'' >' T arsbio, broken email, into a jug, and pour'\ over it one cupful of boiling water. Stand' I in a warm place, and stir frequently untilv;' <!', melted. When quite dissolved strain through fine muslin, and bottle for rise. Cocoamifc Cake.—Cream together half a, <• ! ' pound each of butter and sifted castor sugar. l .. < Beat in, one at a. time, four well-whisked, i,, ,? eggs, half a pound of dessicatod cocoanut, j and six ounces of dry flour. Pour into * small tins or one large one, and bake ia " •;< a moderate oven. Brush over lightly with > beaten white of egg, sprinkle with cocoanuV v and replace tie cake again in tie: oven lot ■ a few minutes. . Casserole of Cold Beef.—Rub one pound of , M cold boiled potatoes through a sieve, season, -f with salt and pepper, and add a well-bcatct', '• ogg. • Grease a casserole and line it with th(•')' J 1 potato. Bake for twenty minutes. Boil two , . ounces of macaroni in salted water till tender, 1 then place in a saucepan with one pound of' cold beef finely minced and half- a pint -of; , - gravy. When quite hot, pour into the casserole and serve immediately. , 1 J-am Sandwich.—Weigh three eggs and take .their weight in flour, butter, and sugar, l Cream the sugar and butter together, then r >' add one egg and one-third of the flour, beatf 'p ji i again, and odd another egg and another third of the flour. Then the third egg an(l the remainder of the flour, with - a little flavouring, Mx lightly for a few minutes, then turn into '»j; two ehallow, paper-lined tins. Bake for fifteen minutes. Turn on a paper sprinkled ~ ' with caster sugar and leave, to cool. Then*';, ,* V spread one with jam and lay the other over* / f' it. Press together lightly. ' THE VEGETARIAN'S CORNER. , Tomato Curry.—Parboil .as 1 many. Spahisl' iifcfii onions as required, then cut them into slicel " r ,'P and fry a nice brown. Fry in a separate pan '<" *ll some sliced tomatoes. When both, are > ciently cooked, mis. a little curry-powder, and stir it into some well-boiled rice. ,o^'jWihi ■up a-few boiled potatoes, add to the tomatoe4 ! Spf|i and onions, plaoe in the centre of a dish,' V 1 and arrange the rice a» a border. Serve.t.hofc|i!«& Scalloped Mushrooms.—Cover the bottomiojJ||S| a buttered baking dish with a layer.. of -drMwIS bread crumbs, sprinkle over with pepperUndMfff salt and stick bits Of butter all over, crumbs, then moisten 'with cream. Plaoe," »**&]." layer of ; mushrooms alternately with'>.- theg|ffi.'( bread until the dish is full. Cover with bito^V of butter, pour over a pint of cream, cover i to keep the flavour and bake one hotirjj remove top and let, brown. 1 Cauliflower Snow.—Boil in thS usual way s'fVi'i one or two white-headed cauliflowers, strain,'; and set them near the fire until'quite dry (! ► then remove'all green parts and press thOjt nf; flower: through a. ooarse potato deve."'UpoßC''«f«.»4| hot 'dish, on which they aro to bo served.'. In no way orush the mass as it fails from the masher, taking care to keep it in l a' , • mound in tie shape as it falls from -the chine. " Surround'the dish with poached* egpS » • each laid upon a Bquare piece of toasted* ;,f bread well spread with- butter. . l)ust ■ each'iiiiWJit egg with, a little coralline 1 pepper. > 7 <1 .. —: JOTTINGS. At the last annual dinner of the Institute of Journalists, a 1 lady, Mrs Agnea Xi. Car- Y ruthers, presided, which Colonel l>awßon, M.P., in his Bpeech, declared a proof that " the last sex-barrier of ridiculous tradition ~ had , been ; broken down in newspaper - of-. ; . . ices." , ■, , Ti'. Amorican p.wrnM»«t is ia; nM-d of t an ■ expert- need'ewomar to repair. jiicelesS flags carried by American soldiers in the r revolution, the Mexican ■ and Civil Wars.. There will be an open competitive examina- Mi-;; tion to fill the vacancy at tihe West Point ' Academy, wages being fixed at twelve shillings a day. ! Mrs Kate Penner and Gertrude Pcndel,; English nurses connected with the linople Hospital, have been given the Eed^;' Cross medals by the German Emperor for; gallant service during the Balkan war. ' ' "W;

Lady Meyer, chairman of this St Pancras .> School for Mothers, at a recent performances • in aid of that institution, referred in xncat . ; complimentary terms to Dr Truby Kvag'S speeches at Home on the preservation c( infant life. She said that St Pancras - at work on the same lines as tho New Zea*,,: ; i iand Society. V'*

An extremely interesting book has just , been brought out, written by Sir Joseph • M'Cabe. The theme is the Empresses■ of < Constantinople. The book covers many cen-~ turies, and the most changos_ and adventures are comprehended in the history ~ ; of those women, many of whom rose froa tho lowest rank. ■ v.

Miss Alice Werner is on# of the notable ' band of women travellers, and recently gave ; a lecture in the Royal Society of Aits j'. her sojourn among the G-allas of East Africa. The GaJlas are an interesting but litt!e< known race,, supposed to have been the first of the Caucasian races to penetrate into tie Dark Continent, in very early timec.

Lady Brassey has taken special interest in tho noblo work done by iiie "Waifs and Strays Society in London. recently lent' the exquisite Indian Boom in her Park Lane house for a meeting of tho Society. Lord Leigh presided, and a clear account ' was'rendered of the work dono by the So> ciety in rescuing unhappy and destitute chilv ! iron and bringing them up to be useful and ' prosperous citizens.

A foroa of women polios wis establishedlast year in Vancouver, and the Canadian* ara very proud, of their band of;, polics women. Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, and, other places have now their corps of women police. In Toronto a women's court had been established, where all women's cases are tried, and no men ore admitted, even the male members of tho Press being excluded. The Canadian policemen . aro enthusiastic in the praise of the help given it them by tho police of tho fairer box.

By a majority of two votes the Synod ot the Protestant Church of tho Canton of Neu- . chatel has decided to admit women to tha faculty of theology. This dcoision _ means that in future women who obtain their thee-, logical degreo at a University will be on- , titled, like men, to the status of clergymen in this canton, with similar rights and duties. Two years ago the Synod of the Can- . ton of Grisons took a similar step, and al- • ready possesses a clergywoman, the only one in SvntaerloncL At Neuchatel there are r.i*, ready women doctors, dentists and lawyer*.

Tha bitter hostility of tho corrupt element! in Chicago to Mrs Ella Flagg Young's educational policy succeeded in driving her frcm office for a second time last December. Once ®oro tho determination of Chicago women tfaow armed with the vote) has compelled nor restoration. We loam from tho ordinary Press that "nobody has seriously questioned her exceptional efficiency," but " it is whispered that eho has a womanish inability to adapt educationa.l methods to corrupt polltics. It is added that the women's organisations, political and civio, are solidly bohind her.