LADIES' COLUMN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 5

LADIES' COLUMN.

USEFUL HINTS Sweet oil will remove finger marks from varnished furniture. To preserve oilcloth and linoleum rub occasionally with a mixture of beeswax and turpentine. If a sash window or drawer stick, rug the sides of the jambs with soap or a little paraffin. Oil of cinnamon dropped three times daily on warts will usually remove them without soreness. Brighten rugs by wiping them with a clean cloth wrung one of salt water; this keeps away moth, too. A pinch of salt on the tongue, followed in ten minutes by a drink of cold water, is said to alleviate a sick headache. In nasal catarrh a pinch of salt dissolved in water and snuffed up the nostrils is reported to always give relief. All locks and hinges and the castors on chairs and sofas should be oiled once a year to prevent rusting and to make them work easily. After cleaning brasses in the usual way, buy a little clear varnish, which can be obtained for a few pence. Take a camel hairbrush and go lightly over them. Treated in this manner they will keep clean for months. To remove bottle labels, moisten the label with water, then hold it for a moment over any convenient flame. The steam generated penetrates the label at once and softens the paste, making the paper quite easy to be slipped off. To clean a cream skirt place on a flat surface, and with a clean nail-brush rub Fuller’s earth or warm flour into the material. Then fold up for a couple of days. Shake out all the powder, and brush with clean brush. If any grease spots, clean with benzine or petrol. A tiny joint of pork, enough for two, is generally wasteful cooked in the ordinary way; but if a small piece of loin minus the crackling, is chosen, and cooked as follows, there will be no shrinkage Make a plain paste of flour and water, rather stiff, and roll up your little joint in it. pressing the ends together firmly, and allow about ten minutes extra to each pound when roasting. I‘ork, which should always be well done, should have half an hour to the pound, roasted in the usual manner. Before serving remove the crust. Much time and labour can be saved in the kitchen if a bowl of crushed salt is kept handy, as it removes all kinds of stains from crockery, also egg marks from silver or metal spoons; and a piece of Union clipped in salt will clean copper when most things fail. On washing day. too, salt is most useful, for before washing new curtains, or anything containing lime, a good soaking in cold salt and water makes the process much easier. Household linen with coloured birders, or coloured blouses, should receive the same treatment to prevent “running,” and perhaps spoiling them entirely. And if a handful of salt is added to the rinsing water in frosty weather the articles will not freeze on the line whilst drying. Moreover, if fat is spilt on the floor, it is wise to sprinkle some salt upon it until it can be properly cleaned up, to prevent accidents by slipping. RECIPES RABBIT CROQUETTES. Five pounds of cooked raobit, Rb ham or bacon, one cr two eggs, chopped parsley, grated lemon rind, =ait and uopp-r, egg and biead crumbs—enough for six croquettes. Mince the iaoi.it aud the ham and bacon, add the chopped parsley and grated lemon nud, .-.ml season well with salt and pc pier, mix with b ;u.:-n egg, form into cork heaps, using a little Hour, coat with egg aud bread crumbs, try in act tat, Gish on fancy piper, garnish with fried parsley. TjAD i.\ THE HOLE. Half a pound of sau-ag-.s, lib of flour, half a pir.t of mil.;, cue egg, quarter itasp-con-ful of baking pnweer, salt aud pepper. S’;:n the sausages, place in a greased pi. di.-h. mix the flour smoothly with the •;.'g and imik. Beat well, add the bakJig pov.-fl. r. season, pour over the tox.-Ggc.--. Bake in a quick oven for a.. .i;t an hour. UU RRIED POTATOES. One and hr. if pounds of toiled potatoes, one arge omen. lo>. of dripping, two teaspoon fids of curry powder, two tea-.=pv'-nfuls c.f tear, two t-.aspoonfuls of chopped chutney, hall a pint of vegetabl-- -ic k. i in- t-.rspi onr.u of vinegar, suit. Thickly ?;i- e and cut the potatoes into large a- a Chop the onion .put the skin into natap. V,-p a. pate ycuov.a Add the cv;rv powder aid flour, and try all a need Mown. Tt:e,i add the ?to.k. chutney, and vinegar. and stir till baling, Season, and then simmer for fifteen minutes. Add the potatoes, and k-t them h-:at through, but do uot let them boil or they will break up. Let them simmer for ten minutes at least. Turn neativ bn to a hot dish, and, instead of rice, serve them with a well-cooked, chopped, and nicely-seasoned cabbage. CURRIED EGGS. Three or four hard-boiled eggs, one small onion, ono small apple, half an ounce of curry powder, half an ounce of flour, half a p>nt of milk, lemon itic..-, salt croutons of fried bread. Fry the finelychopped apple and onion in the butter, add the curry powder and flour, cook for ten minutes: add the milk, and simmer for another ten minutes, season with lemon juice and salt and a pinch cf castor sugar. Cut the eggs in halves, put each half on a crouton, round side up, coat carefully with the. curry sauce, garnish with white of egg cut into fancy shapes. A PLUCKY SCHOOLGIRL. Georgina Friedman, a ten-year-old school girl of Deephavea, a summer resort at Lake Minnetonka, recently saved her life by flagging a speeding trolley car with her red sweater aftei her foot caught in the “frog” of a switch. The girl was on her way to school when tha heel of her shoe jammed in the “frog” as she crossed the tracks. In face of the speeding car, which was coming towards her at a rate of 50 miles an hour, she tore oft her red sweater and waved it as a danger signals 1 ’h-Tib■eto'-man stopped the car a few Inches from the girl. When all was /ver and her foot free from the rail ibe collapsed. “LITTLE MISS CATT. Vi A search is again being made for Berlin's most successful girl swindler, “Little Miss Catt,” a young woman of attractive appearance, who takes situai bus as parlourmaid with well-to-do jamilies, serves a few days, and then absconds with all the available cash. Jr. her last two enterprises she stole marks (normally .£6000).

IN THE CAUSE OF MODESTY. In Atlantic City, New Jersey, several arrests were made in June by new lady policemen expressly commissioned to safeguard the morals of America's Brighton. Hie offenders in each case wore very abbreviated pongee silk one;uece bathing suits, of which the skirts paused four inches above the knees. One beautiful prisoner, not content with bare logs, had diamond-shaped ‘‘beauty windows” in her bodice, albeit she wore the regulation lace-up boots and halfhose suitable for promenades along the silver shore. The lady policemen, of advanced middle age, patrolled the New Jersey coasts with an exactitude which set bathers a-shiver with fear. Some pretty but shameless girls were publicly rebuked, and others were ordered to dress. Mixed bathing is the rule at American bathing resorts, and last year these places were more notorious for spooning couples on the beach aud shore than for swimming in the sea. Many of the bathing costumes are far too elaborate and costly to permit of them being spoilt by salt water; Blushing reporters and cinema men accompanied the lady “coppers” on their beats, and many fair ones found themselves in moving pictures at night. Two wellshaped bathers made a stand for personal liberty by defying the law. 'They removed their laced shoes and stockings in the presence of the officers and challenged New Jersey law to do its worst. MAYOR AS BEAUTY JUDGE. The sedate New England city of Providence, Rhode Island, seems destined to become the centre of a perpetual storm, of which the unlucky mayor will be the centre. Under the will of the late Count Paul Bajnotti, of Turin, Italy, the income from a trust fund of £2OOO is to be paid to the young woman of Providence who is 20, marriageable, and best deserving “by her conduct and family virtues” of the prize. It is the duty of the mayor to select the young women to whom the prize shall be awarded, and the money must be paid on July 17 each year. “How,” Mr Gainer, the mayor, asks, “shall I make the award without having the relatives—brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles—of the unsuccessful candidates upon my head? How, with ‘Women’s Suffrage, may I ever achieve political success with such a duty to perform?” FOUR WIVES ONLY. MAKING TURKISH MARRIAGE LESS CASUAL. Although no attempt has yet been made to abolish polygamy in Turkey, the status of married women is now considerably improved. The number of legal wives' which a man may still have is' four; adultery as a sufficient cause for divorce still applies to the wife, bui. not to the husband ; and, though Moslem men arc permitted to marry non-Moslem women, no Moslem woman may marry a non-Moslem man. Yet there is a distinct effort in the • ■ -i Turkish code to- make marl.'rs casual by stirrounding it with rckgious ceremony and civil machinery—such as banns, license, and registration. MOTHER-IN-LAW BANNED. Also a statute has been made of an old custom by which a woman may make it a condition of the marriage contract that her husband shall not take a second wife—not, at least, without divorcing the first. Nor under the new code may the mother-in-law become a member of the home without the wife’s consent. How great a gain this is to the Turkish wife may bo understood from the list of four questions by which she makes her social approach to another woman: “How old arc you?” “Arc you married?” “How many children hav,e you?” and “Have you a mother-in-law ?” A TOC-MODERN WOMAN. A message from Scrvia recounts how p. Turkish lady of good family decided that she would join the modernist movement by discarding her veil. In spite of the persistent opposition of the male members of her family, the lady appeared in the public streets with no veil. One of her male relatives therre ti)>ou followed her with a revolver, first firing shots to frighten her. When these had no effect he fired in earnest, wounding her seriously, and left her for dead in the streets.