Ladies’ Column.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2047, 25 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Ladies’ Column.

What a ilirl €;m Do. A young girl was lamenting that she could bo of no use to the poor because she Lad no money. A philanthropic woman who was presant said, — “ You are a fine reader ; why do you not read aloud to the poor of whom you happen to know t” “ ()h, 1 know they do not want any one to read to them.” “ 'Try it and see,” was the answer. “I have several families in mind who would bo delighted to hear reading while they attend to their darning and patching. There arc mothers, also, who would be very thankful to have someone to take up the baby when they are hard at work. Indeed, there are many ways of helping the poor other than with money.” The young girl full of zeal of service, at once set out for the abode of a poor woman who had a young baby. Iloturning after two hours, she was radiant, and told the friend who had suggested the plan of action that she could never be sullieicntly grateful to her for her advice. “Uhl” she said, “you should have heard the wearied voice that bade me come in. When 1 entered the room there was the pour baby 7 crying as if its heart would break ; the two other children, not in Licit more than babies, were fretting ;the poor mother was washing and everything seemed desolate. Isaid: ‘Mrs, llnuly I have come to help you with the baby.’ 'The poor woman replied: ‘ And sure Miss, what would you do with him I for he’s that troublesome that lie won’t be still.’ I took oil' hat and cloak, put on my large apron and took up the baby; after patting his back and walking him about a little while he became quiet and went to sleep. Then 1 played with the other children, and they wore just as good ns could be. After Mrs. Brady bad finished her work and I hid her good-bye, her hearty ‘tiod bless yon. Miss; you have helped me a great bit,’ made me feel quite happy, and I mean to keep tip my visits without money.”

Household l*omarks. If yon wish to keep a sharp knife don’t put it in hot grease ; stir your potatoes while frying or turn meat with a fork or an old ease knife, kept for (he purpose. Salt extracts the juices of meat in cookin;;. Steaks ought not, therefore, to be salted until they have been broiled. In order to slop bleeding at the nose one should bathe one's feet in very hot water, drinking at the same time a pint of cayenne popper tea, or hold both arms above the head.

A good remedy for sore throat is to take three pennyworth chlorate of potassa, dissolve and take a toaspoonful every hour, and also gargle with it.

All sediment cocks in kitchen boilers should bo left open at least once a week for the space of lifteon minutes, so as to clean and wash out all foul sediment. Oftentimes when complaint is made that the water smells, or that it don’t heat properly, the real cause will be found to arise from this neglect alone. In washing forks, spoons or cups which have been employed in eating eggs, it is best to make an application of cold water with a mop before plunging them into the boiling suds. Hot water cooks the egg and thus renders it more difficult to remove. Common tabic salt is said to be excellent for removing egg tarnish from silver.

A very good cement to fasten on lamp tops, is molted alum. Iso as soon as melted, and the lamp is ready for nso as soon as the cement is cold.

Old Baby. Poor “old baby;” he hung about the halls and on the stairway, and everybody snubbed him and said: “Oh, your nose is out of joint,” and he was told to be quiet or it would disturb “new baby,” and he was sent of!' to bed alone, and nobody cuddled him or kissed him to sleep. His papa told him he had a little angel brother, but he wanted to be angel brother himself, and he just hated new baby. But one day when the nurse was making gruel in another part of the room he was told that he might look at the bundle that lay in his own crib. All he could see was a cross red face and fisticuffs. Ha! a thought struck old baby. A cruel, wicked thought; revenge!! Ho leans over the bundle, he watches the pink lingers unclinch, he puts his rosebud mouth down stealthily, he bites 1 There is a great cry from new baby, the nurse drops the gruel, all the family fly to the rescue, and the bad old baby is summarily bounced. And he wanders about heart-broken, and at last goes and gets lost in a cave of gloom. And ho is of some consequence after all, when they cannot find him until someone looks under the hall table, where he is asleep with a very dirty face—“A smile on his lip and a tear in his eye.” Poor “old baby !”

Tri-colored Cake-— Two and one-half cups of dour and sugar, two and one-half teaspoons of baking powder, three-fourths of a cup of butter, four eggs, one cup of sweet milk. Divide into three parts; into one part put two teaspoons of treacle, one-balf teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice ; into another part put half cupful of red sugar. Bake in a deep pan putting in first one color and then another.

Custard Cake— One-half cup of butter, one and uuc-half cups of sugar, three eggs, one-half cup of milk, two feaspoonfuls of baking powder, two cups of Hour. Bake in layers and spread with a custard made of onehalf pint of milk, one egg and one teaspoon of corn starch in a little cold water before adding to the milk which must be boiling.

Moonshine Cake.— Whites of five eggs one ami onc-balf cup white sugar, half cup of sweet milk, half cup of water, half cup of butter, two and one-half cups of Hour, two tcaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in three layers and when cool spread each layer with jelly and whipped cream sweetened.

Spice Cake— Two cups of brown suoar, one cup of putter, one-half cup of milk, one cup of stoned raisins, three cups of Hour, two eggs, one-half teaspoontul each of nutmeg and ground cloves, two tcaspoonfuls of baking powder.

. Pork Cake-— One cup each of salt pork chopped fine, brown sugar ami treacle, one cup of boiling water, one tablespoon of mixed spices, one teaspoon of soila, flour enough to make a dough as stifl as a common cake.

Plain Cake.— One cup of sugar, onequarter cup of butter, two eggs, two cops of Hour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cup of sweet milk, tiake in layers and spread with jelly.

Silver Cake. -One Clip of white sugar, oiie-IV.urth of a cup of butter, whites of two eggs well beaten, one-half cup of water, nn». half teaspOGßful of baking powder, one and one-h*lt cups of (lour,