NEW KINDERCARTEN WORK. [From the "Queen."]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2137, 20 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW KINDERCARTEN WORK. [From the "Queen."]

A pretty and useful new occupation for 'ladies and girls deft with scissors and needle is to make Kindergarten crawling ruga, invented by Miss Emma S. Windsor, and exhibited at the Soho bazaar. Crawling, as we all know, as it develops their limbs and imparts a heajthy action to the different parts of their bodied. But baby is more likely to attempt the feat of crawling when It has ft brightlooking object to crawl after. This ia achieved by making " floor pictures " of animals, such as all children lore, which should be sewn on 'io flannel, and *o placed that the child can find out each animal, and thus be induced to crawl from one part of the rug to the other. Besides exercising its arms and hand*, these pictures bring the observing qualities of tho little mite into play by noticing the difference between one animal and another, whilst the faculty of speech is improved by the infant talking to the animals in baby language, and trying to imitate their different voices, with the assistance of mother or nurse. The best foundation for these rugs is flannel, as it is w4rm, and can be easily washed. The animals can. be cut out of a differently coloured flannel or swansdown cloth. Skins of real animals cut out in the required shapes look extremely well aqd natural, but are more expensive than the other materials named. Animals ready cut out, after excellent models, in any of the above materials, are on sale at the ' Soho Bazaar, also made-up rugs -of different frizes ; they ought to be fixed to the rug with buttonhole stitch. The partial modification by statute of the laws respecting the rights of married women leads to some strange inconsistencies. A New York Court has just decided that a married woman doing business on her own account can employ her husband at a stated salary, but the husband cannot enforce the payment of his salary by an action against his wife. But what cannot be done directly can be accomplished indirectly, for the husband may assign his claim and the assignee may sue tho wife. Moreover, a creditor of the husband may maintain legal proceedings against the wife to get possession of paid salary due to the husband. A companion volume to "Men of the Time "is to be issued soon. It is devoted to women of mark, and comprises over 400 names well-known in art, literature, science', music, and the drama. I A lady, who shall be nameless, but one who has rendered great service to the temperance reform by her pen, writes to the Blue Ribbon Gazette :— •» Dear S , — rA friend' of mine who is at present visiting us has just returned from the Highlands. While there she resided a month witli a large whisky distiller, who pay* £25,000 per annum duty. The first evening at dinner she remarked with much astonishment that the host and hostess and their family partook only of water, and asked in much surprise the reason, sayiug, ' Surely you are not teetotalers?' to which the gentleman replied, ' Indeed we are ; I make it, but tools drink it. 1 " — Temperance Herald. Swiss Pastry. — Weigh three or more eggs in the shall, and take their weihgt in powdered sugar, in dried flour, and in fresh butter. Put the butter in a basin, "and set it over anothor containing hot water to remain until melted ; then stir in the sugai by degrees, using a wooden spoon: When well mixed gradually add the flour, and also a pinch of salt, stirring all the time. When the flour is all in, break in one of the eggs without beating it, merely removing the speck, and then adding the egg, both yolk and white; whisk the batter well ; and then another

egg in tho i-ame way, again whisk, and so on tjUjill the exg3are in. Continue the whistcing until Hio batter looks light. I lava reidy,a shallow tin with a rim to i f , uhicH mtufc beamed with paper plentifully ybtfttered ; pour in the -mixture airei-tly-it ia-feady, and put it at once into the oven t-»/iake until firm and -lightly brown. Tlie pastry should /not be more than an an inch' thick. A very olean Yorkshire pudding tin m?vy be used to bake it in, or a good rized cutlet p in in as good_an auything. When cold, cut it into any Inncy shapes^ splitting Iho rake and putting strawberry or apricot jim between ; cut into fingers, which may be ioed over tho top, some pink and sornf white — they make- a very pretty dish Fur making into a s-^t hli ipr>, hollow oval <-utter« are the best, in graduated ni^es, Put the largest pieeo at the bottom of either a gluts or silver dish, spread a liyer of strawberry or rasberry jam on it, then the next bize, and so on, till the smallest piece at the top is al«o covered with jam. Mako a border round of apricot jam, aud fill up the hollow with whipped cream.