HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16903, 30 November 1922, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. KITCHEN DDIOETALITT . The statue to be erected to Jean Close as the inventor of pate do foi© gras, is but a poor meed of fame compared with the immortalitv tradition has conferred on other—and lesser—pioneers of the kitchen, observes th>J .Morning Post. * He is to be comI memorated in stone, but the very j name of Sally Lanin, the little servingI maid who ran about Bath delivering | cakes her mistress made, has passed | our language. Dr Oliver, of the same city, is forgotten as a physician, j hut remembered for his biscuits. The once great fame of Abernethy still enj dures in another biscuit. Poets, statesj men and warriors have laboured and ! died, and are forgotten, but the nam© I of a gambling Jiarl persists in every | sandwich. While to generations yeti j unborn peche -Melba will recall a greab I 6inger. V j THE BEST WAITRESSES. If you are in a hurry for your make straight for a table where a fairhaired waitress is in charge. “ Blondes make the best waitresses,” says Mrs II A. Halvorson. in the American “ National Restaurant. News.” and she tells how fsn American restaurant proprietor ended all his trouble?* by substituting hloivhrs for brunnettes at. the counter. V Blondes do best in positions calling for speed and variation.” she continues ar, d brunettes aro best in posts calling for one repeated operation. Another test that I emplov. and which lias proved t,> !, e almost infallible, is tbe ■' thick-sjpin ’ test. A person with | finer skin texture and fine hair is tbs person who entertains higher thoughts, j lo Y es t^le _ finer nnd more aesthetic j things of life, and is in general morally better in everv respect. The round type i face, should Ik* avoided, as thev ara ; “U f to he lazy, but a long, narrow | ,u< *' should he sought out. as it denotes ! an active mind.” CLEAN LINFSS ANT) PURE FOOTt. There are not n few things which an Australian feels he would like to borrow from America for his own country, and one of them is the American’? j in: steme on hygiene (writes the \>w j York correspondent of the Melbourne Age ) In no fashion is this more j strikingly illustrated than in the ocmj plcte abolition of common drinking vessels at public taps. fountains or meters. At all of these are placed the little paper cups, already known iu Australia, which are destroyed immediately after using. Similarly, in washj rooms, the use of the roller towel is uuj known. For it is substituted, if not «t | small, clean towel, at- least a towel of j rice paper, to be used only once. The i same care for public health is -visible in the system of milk distribution. If one i orders a glass of milk, it is produced in : ouo °f the sealed bottles which are in i general use. At a. huge picnic organised in Los Angeles for the Rotarians’ ( onference. milk was the staple drink, and not n drop was distributed except in sealed liottles, directly from the ice. Loaf sugar is almost invariably wrapped in pa per capsules, if exposed, and the open sugar basin for loose sugar is a rare sight. Cereals are frequently brought to the breakfast table in sealed packets, to be opened by the consumer himself. Throughout America there is a. tremendous enthusiasm for all measures designed to preserve the purity ot food- and to prevent the spread of contagious disease THE XFAY SPIRIT OF DEMAND. “ There is everywhere a disposition to scrutinise, to question, to examine minutely into social and economic institutions. . . . We shall gain nothing by charging that this spirit proceeds from malevolence and testifies a disordered state of mind. We ought to recognise that it largely represents a sincere wish to improve conditions. History teaches that blind efforts tc obstruct such movements have often produced momentary disaster, but never prevented ultimate advance.” - President Harding (U.S.A.), in a letter to the American Bankers* Convention. AMER TCA ’ S MIST A KES. “ The Americans have made almost as many mistakes as any other nation would have made. They have been reckless with their natural resources: they have flooded their country with undesirable immigrants from the most troublesome races of Europe; tliov have mismanaged the negro problem, and they have allowed the relations oi Capital and Labour to become worse than in any other country in-the world. Their very immunity from foreign attack greatly increases the danger ot a class war. for European countries are too much afraid of each other to push their internal quarrels to extremes. But, in spite of this, the future of America, is more secure than that oi any European country. The twentieth century belongs to the United States.” j Doan Inge, in a review of “ The Oon- ! stitution of the United States by James Besk. LL.P., U.S.. SolicitorGeneral of tlie United States. AUSTRALIA’S NEEDS. “If prosperity is to be our portion, we shall require a strong stable, and sound Government. Nations are like individuals, and require a guiding and restraining hand even more in their hours of prosperity than of adversity. It. on the other hand, a solution cannot he found of the world’s problems T haW indicated, then our material circumstances will decline, our surplus production will he unsaleable, and we shall be fared with a period of the gravest doubt and difficulty. To meet such circumstances we shall assuredly need a strong, sane, and stable Minister to tide us over this period of stress apd danger, and to prevent the growth in this young land of those doctrines of Bolshevism, anarchy, and revolution with which the older countries oh the world will Ik permeated.—Mr Bruce. Commonwealth Treasurer.