WOMAN’S WORLD

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1929, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

PERSONAL ITEMS.

| Miss Wheeler, Wellington, who is a visitor to Ma*stentan> is staying at the Midland Hotel. Mr and Mrs Harold Beetham, Rathkeale, Opaki, are visiting Taupo and Riot onia. Mrs R. C. Drummond, .Lansdowne, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Miss Peggy Hubbard, Upper Plain, is visiting relatives in Blenheim. Mr and Mrs Sydney (Smith, Lansdowne, are on a holiday in the North. Mr and Mrs S- Gil'l, Cole Street, were visitors to Wellington for the weekend. Mr* Inglis, Kilbirnie, Wellington, ,is the guest of Mrs McGregor, Upper Plain. Mrs Clive Matthews 1 , Hamilton, who is staying with he mother, Mrs Stewart, will leave for Wellington/on Friday. •

Miss Gladys Hales, Lansdowne, is on a holiday visit to Pelotrous 'Sounds.

Upwards of thirty guests were enter- ( tained by Mrs C. M. Strouts in Hugo . and Shearer’s Rooms yesterday afternoon, the occasion being a farewell: tendered to Mrs Robert Maunsell, who, with her husband, is leaving shortly on a visit to the old country. A very pleasant afternoon was spent and 1 aid present United in wishing .Mr and Mrs Maunsell an enjoyable trip.. NAVY LEAGUE MASTEETON LADIES’ AUXILIARY A meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Maisterton branch pf rhe Navy League was held in the A. and P. Rooms yesterday. There were present: Mesdames O. A. Bunny (president), 8. R. Gawith, W. H. Robieson, H. G. Moser, E. W. Bunny, W. A. Michael, R-. C. Drummond, E. Holmwood, 8. J. Gill, A. H. Daniell, G. €. Williams, Misses B. . VaUanee, Gray, Daniell, Cameiron and Sellair (.secretary). Apologies were received from Mesdames H. H. Beetham, R. E. Maunsell and A. Caselberg. Leave of absence of six months was granted to Mrs B. E. Maunsell, who is leaving shortly on a trip to England.

It was decided to hold the annual meeting on Tuesday, April. 9. Financial and the organisation of a further supply of -rift clothing to be sent Home are to be discussed at the annual meeting. A personal letter was received from ° f a , lseamart England, „ratefully acknowledge a gift of clothes for her baby.

TO CLEAN WASHLEATHER GLOVES. Bub the grease spots out with magnesia or cream of tarter. Then wash with soap dissolved in water, aftorin war!U water an,d then the h £re° Bry 1U the SUII W befo,re TRENCH TOMATO PICKLE. ' Take 101 b. green tomatoes- ,cut into Sprinkle with 1 cupful of salt. Stand 12 hours; drain, and add dlb. sliced onions, 2oz, whole pepper, 2oz. all-spice, 2oz. cloves, 1 teS/ion' ful cayenne, lib. sugar, IJlb. seeded “ < l uaTt3 vinegar, 4-pint treacle. Hut the spices m a muslin bag, and! let the whole simmer for three hours. GREEN TOMATO MARMALADE Take 61b. of green tomatoes; stalk, wash, quarter, and place in a large basin; adid 4Jlb of sugar, the juice and glratod nntb of 2 lemons, and leave tor 24 hours Next day place all in a preserving pan, add IJoz. of root ginger, l/Boz. of chillies tied up in muslin. Boil until quite tender— -probably about_an hour and a-half. Take out the ginger, etc., and put in 2oz. of candied peel shredded veiv fine. 801 l up, pour off, and cover. WHITE SAUCE. How did the white sauce become disNo one knows exactly. May- . be .the flour was of poor quality, or the , pan not quite clean. Anyway, it looks an unappetisimgl mess as it is, so let’s see if we can , camouflage it a little. A beaten yolk i of egg will make it a lovely yellow; a few drops of carmine a rosy pink

SWEET CUCUMBER PICKLES. pike twelve large green cucumbers, cut in slices one-half inch thick and soak in weak .salt water for an hour. Make a thick syrup of one coffiee-eup-lul of granulated sugar, one teacupful oi vinegar; tie up two teaspoonfuls each of cinnamon and cloves in a piece of muslin; boil all to a thick syrup, then dram the cucumbers; rinse well i n clear water and add to the syrup; set them back on the range and simm“er gently ior three hours. TO SAVE GAS.

these little economies. To save gas choose your cooking utensils carefully. When possible use tin, enamel-lined and fireproof china vessels in preference to those of iron or copper Remember that a kettle of conical shape broad at the bottom and ‘.muller at the top, boils more quickly over gus than any other shapes. Keep the burners of a gas stove cle<an. If anything boils over on them, take them r.ght out and wash them with hot soda water.

moths in carpets. Camphor will not stop the ravages of moths in carpets, after they have commenced eating. A good way to kill nem is to take a coarse towel, wring it out in clean water, and spread it smooth y on the carpet . Then iron it ary with a hot iron, repeating the operation on all suspected places, and those least used. It docs not injure the pile or colour of the carpet in the least. It w not necessary to press ;^ rd ; as u hpat '"’ a 6team tio thc worft Gwetualiy on worms amd eggs. ' I

SIMPLE BINDING. If a, skirt or a frock meeds binding there is no necessity to cut crossway strips for sewing in, remarks an authority. Instead, cut the frock an inch longer than is necessary and turn l up this inch on to the right side. Machine’ along about one-eighth of an inch from' the fold, press, turn the raw edge to rhe wrong side over thisi fold, and finish as for an ordinary bias binding. The result is neater, and it is more quickly done than the old method.

THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS. What shall we do with the eoMioction of isigned photographs of dear friends, the groups and snapshots, which cumber our bureaux and mantelpieces, and hinder the daily dusting’? A woman of idea®, who* has many friends, but a modern flat in which thinovel decorative scheme bans photographs in any form, poissesses a portfolio of beautiful tooled leather, in which, suitably mounted on uniform sheets of artistic tinted card, she keeps all her personal photographs together, says a writer. When, they are to remain permanently on view, the right place for photon graph-si is in one’s bedroom or own private sanctum. I have stayed in houses where the spare bedroom walls and mantelpiece were decoratd with portraits of ■strangers to me. If one cares sufficiently for a person to frame a photographic likeness, its place is before one's eyes, not in <ai little-used room, a staircase, or passage.