HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16412, 28 April 1921, Page 9

HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.

(Contributed.) Another packed arid appreciative audience eagerly watched the second glovemaking demonstration given bv Misses Burns and Shaw- Judging bv the hundreds of ladies who are working at this industry, we should think the supply of finely-dressed skins must soon begin to run short! Tho section for gloves at the forthcoming Thrift Exhibition should be a very interesting one. The syllabus of prizes, etc., in connection with our exhibition will soon be pub hashed, aud wo hope that every member of the H.E.A. will make lierself respon sible for as many interesting and instructive exhibits as she can possibly secure. Wo are sorry that wo have received no reply to M.E.’s query about dyeing felt hats. Our readers have been, so kind in forwarding recipes that we fear their silence on this subject means that homo dyeing of felt hats is not easily accomplished. The following correspondents are thanked for their communications:— “ Cidouio.”— Quinces arc so good and cheap this yea.r that T think you may like to have t he following recipe for an excellent and uncommon method of making quince jam. Allow one orange to every two pounds of quinces. Squeeze the juice from the oranges and put it aside- Pare, core, and slice quinces. To the peel and cores of quinces, add the orange peel, cover well with water, and boil until quite soft; strain through a jelly bag, add orange juice to the strained quince juice. Weigh the sliced quinces, put them with the juice and hoi! together for two hours. Then add one pound of sugar to every pint of juice and pound of fruit and boil one hour longer. This preserve is rather troublesome to make, but it is so delicious that one is well repaid for the work. “ Tueo.” The following cough remedy lias been in use in our family for a good many years, and has always proved most efficacious. Take one ounce each of horeliound and liquorice, and pour over them a quart and a half oi boiling water. Simmer for three hours, adding water as it boils away. Strain, add a pound and a half of honey and boil to a syrup. A small tablespoonful may be taken several times a day. Dainty Breakfast Dish.-—A tiny puff omelette made from one egg is an inviting breakfast dish. Beat the white and the yolk separately, the former till it is stiff. Add to the beaten yolk one spoonful of very eolcj water. Have ready one of the tiny frying-pans to be bought at any tin shop, and bo sure that the inside is absolutely clean and perfectly smooth. Have ready,, also, a hot plate, and. if possible, one of the metal or glass covers made for individual dishes of this kind: if not, any closed cover or a turned down bowl will do, but all dishes connected with an omelette must he hot, and it must be made the verv last thing before taking it to the breakfast table. Put half n. teaspoonful of butter in the pan ; turn in first the yolk, then the white*, and cook until tlie white is puffed up to twice its former size and cooked throughbeing careful not to brown the volk. When it is done the yolk will appear as a thin golden shell from which the white is breaking forth like a cotton ball. If the oven is fairly hot. sot the omelette, pan and all, in it for an instant, and the white will “ »et” like a meringue. Slide it carefully on +o the plate, cover it. and have a little dish or small glass of currant or apple jelly to bo eaten with it. Dolores.—These lines, copied from an old extract book, have helped me very much :

Ah. that was long ago. .Then I 'Thanked God that all ray*days went by In careless ease and mirth. A Pharisee, X thanked Him then That T knew not like other men The bitterness of earth

Ah, that was long ago- To-day ” IKank God for this ray grief,” I say. Hoeing, by this alone X sometimes, watching in the night, Catch far, faint visions of that height No lesser light had shown.

Ah, long ago, T did not guess, So arrogant my happiness How poor my praise and vain. Dear God, to-day what thanks arc meet, Seeing I clamber to Thy feet Up those steep stairs of pain. Theodosia Garrison. Look Upward.—t am so fond of tho two following quotations that f want to pass them on to other members of tho H E.A- I am sorry that I do not know tho author of either: “ Two men looked out from prison burs. One saw mud, the other, stars.’’ £! Any dullard can bo waited on u.nu served, but to serve requires judgment, skill, tact, patience, and industry.” “Chrysanthemum.”—Please find a little corner in our column for the following quotations from Amos It. Wells:—“How can you tell whether you arc growing? Ask yourself these questions: Are you getting taller? Are you able to overlook some things you were, unable to overlook last year To overlook the sneering glance, the* harsh word, the selfish, unkind, or malicious deed? Serenely to overlook failure when you have done your host? Bravely to overlook misfortune when it was unavoidable? Cheerily to overlook dark days and darker frowns? Are you getting tall enough for this?” Little Things. -The following beautiful poem by Ella AY heeler Wilcox seems very little known. Could, you print it in our H.E.A. column? If you arc sighing for a lofty work, If great ambitions dominate your mind, Just watch yourself and see you do not shirk Tho common little ways of being kind. if you are dreaming of a future goal, When, crowned with glory, men shall own your power, Bo careful that you let no struggling soul Go by unaided in the present hour. If you arc moved to pity for the earth, And long to aid it, do not look so high, You pass some woo dumb creature faint with thirst-; All life, is equal »n the eternal eye. If you would help to make the wrong tilings right Begin at home; there lies a lifetime toil. Meed your own garden fair for all men’s sight Before you plan to till another’s soil. (Sent by President of H.E.A.. per A. Saunders, 69, Have Road. Papanui.) 27-4-1921.