Notes For Women

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 December 1926, Page 6

Notes For Women

Fashions, Hints and Recipes.

Household Hints. When making pastry, do not let the ■baking tins cover the oven shelf, as file heat cannot rise properly, and the bottom of the pastry will be burnt. To preserve books from damp and mildew, sprinkle a few drops of good perfume oil in the book case. This precaution is unnecessary for volumes bound in .Russian leather. Furniture and polished floors will never shine if polish is applied with a foiled cloth. Grease can be removed from the hair by washing it in warm water to which a teaspoonful of borax has been added. White paper should not be used for wrapping up articles that are to be put awav for some time. Yellow or blue is* best. Tar stains can be removed from rugs and carpets if a mixture of equal parts of methylated spirit and ammonia be applied to them. Yolks of eggs left over when the whites only are needed will keep for several days if they are covered with cold water. Before vou use a new tooth brush, soak it in hot salt water. This cleanses it and makes it last twice as' long. To stop hiccups, try a lump of sugar saturated with vinegar. Boiling hot salt and water is the best thing to use for flushing drains. When boiling an old fowl or tough meat, add a pinch of soda to the water, and let it simmer gently. A blunt sewing-machine needle can be sharpened by rubbing it against the e<fge of a broken saucer or plate. Before using flour for pastry or puddings. put it in the oven for a few minutes. This makes it lighter and more digestible. The juice of' a lemon mixed with the beaten white of an egg and a little sugar will restore loss of voice. To Remove Glass 'Stoppers.—When other methods have failed, glas's stoppers that are difficult to remove can generally be unfixed with glycerine. Put a few drops of it touihl the neck of the stopper, so that it will penetrate between the neck and the stopper. Grease on Stone Floors. —This can generally be removed in the following way: Cover the,stain with a thick paste of fuller ’s earth and water, and leave for a day. Remove the paste and scrub well with hot, strong soda water. A baked milk pudding will not boil over while cooking if a Small bowl of water is left standing at the bottom of

utes before filling the kettle in the morning? Water that has stood in lead pipes all night is unwholesome. That shallots give a more delicate flavour to ragouts than onions? Bsc them whenever possible. To add a pinch of dried mint to pea soup? It improves the flavour wonderfully. Always to add a good pinch of brown sugar to the water in which ham or bacon is boiled ? That gelatine must not be dissolved in boiling water, and that the mixture to which it is added should only be fairly hot? When adding pineapple to a jelly, as for making a jellied fruit salad, that you should make the jelly with a little less liquid than in the ordinary wav? A ever to stir jams or stewed fruits, when cooking, with a niftal spoon, for fear of discolouring them? That a wooden spoon is always 1 best to use in cooking, because it does not conduct away the heat as a metal one will. • * * * * Milk for Tired Skins. Even a youthful skin will look lined and faded if its owner is very tired, or has been out for hours in cold winds or hot sui}. Ten minutes well Spent then will remove any risk of the damage becoming permanent. Mix together half a teacupful each of cold milk and hot water. Dip a small sponge in this refreshing warm lotion and go all over the face and neck with it. Dry by light patting movements. A:>w smear cold cream over the skin. Allow it to stay on a couple of minutes, then wipe it off with a piece of soft linen. Take a pad of cotton wool and saturate it in eau de Cologne (the cheap toilet kind) mixed with an equal quantity of either orange flower water or rose water. Dab the pad quickly all over the face and neck, letting the lotion dry on. If this’ treatment is carried out occasionally when the skin seems “off colour,” it will be helped to regain its young elasticity and freshness. ' * *" * ir * At the Dress Shows. Some of the new hats are most decidedly on the larger side. "While still fitting closely to the head, they are much more fussy about the brim. Elaborate effects are not only permissible, but the height of La Mode. There are “totem” chapeaux, decorated with curious, weird signs, just like those on totem poles; while into plain sports hats’ are inlet bauds of petersham in club colours. Milliners, busy with dressier hats, are making extensive use of ruchings, quiltings and all manner of embroideries. A pretty new s'earf vogue attracted me at a recent show. It was a silver lace affair —to match the material of ( . the frock —and had three tiers of 'flounced ninon joined to it at each end, in three shades of rose —dark, medium and pace. Each tier was pieot-edged. Tiny roses, just lightly touched with silver, outlined the join between the lace of the scarf and the attached flounces.

the oven. Tight-fitting drawers will run smooth-

ly if the upper edges are rubbed with soap.

Enamelled pans can be thoroughly cleaned by scouring with crushed eggshells and soapy water. The best way to clean suede gloves is to put them -on the hands and rub them with a piece of flannel dipped in flour. Allow the flour to remain on for a few minutes, then brush off with a soft brush.

Do not throw away the remains of boiled starch, but add it to the water with with which linoleum is cleaned, as it makes it shine. "When Laundering Cretonne. —Cretonne covers and hangings that are not

Some of the last-word negligee toilettes' have a bunch of flowers worked on the inside of the material, which is transparent, so that the blossoms show through. And ou the outside i 9 pinned a realistic butterfly brooch that looks as if it were alighting on the flowers.

required very stiff may be passed through water in which bran has been boiled. The quantity of starch present in the bran water is suff dent to give the desired stiffness. To .Remove lodine Stains. —Soak the stained fabrics! in a solution of "hypo” or sodium .thiosulphate. This process may have to be repeated more than once. After the use of any chemical the fabric should be thoroughly well rinsed, and, if possible, boiled. Renovating a Waistcoat Pocket. — Line the pocket with a piece of soft leather such as pliable nappa or strong suede. Mend thc ( hole and make a pocket from two pieces of leather so cut that when inserted into the pocket they do not come nearer the mouth than the .ordinary lining. Top sew the leather lining firmly round the sides and bQttom. and then secure in position. THE Do yon Remember —

Crystal anklets’ are one of the newest dance-floor fashions, and are rapidly replacing the successive vogues of gold, jewelled and feather bands. The stockings worn beneath these new anklets de luxe should be of line gold mesh.

To put a piece of muslin over the top of the mould when jelly is setting or standing in the larder? Anything with gelatine in it is' especially susceptible to absorbing dust. Never put a steak or chops into a cold frying pan? Always to salt water before putting vegetables in to boil? Never tb' mix fresh mustard with old if you want a clean, fresh flavour? To let the water run for a few min-