Boiling Eggs Without Fire.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XXVI, 27 June 1903, Page 1832

Boiling Eggs Without Fire.

If you want a hard-boiled egg and have not the means of boiling it, proceed as follows:—±ake a raw egg, open it slightly at each end and allow a little of the white to run out. Then take a little first-class alcohol of high percentage and pour it into the openings. Cover the openings with wax, or with your finger ami thumb, and shake the egg well, so that the alcohol penetrates to every part of it. After three or four minutes the egg will be apparently hardboiled, for the spirit will have made the white quite solid. The egg may be eaten, but, of course, it will taste strongly of alcohol, which many people might find objectionable. A New Danger. The latest semi-medical theory is that the fashion of wearing so many large diamonds is injurious to the eyesight. This theory is not likely to be agreeable

to those ladies who rejoice in large “fenders,” otherwise tiaras; but as the injury is done not to the eyes of thwearer, but of the people who surround her, it is possible that she may console herself with an adjusted-to-date version of the old saying: “Others must suffer in order that I may look beautiful.” However, the thing cuts two wsiys, for if others suffer from her diamonds, she is sure to suffer from theirs. The effect produced on the eyes is said to lie somewhat like that of the electric light—a sense of bedazzlerient and strain, which is hardly noticeable at first, but ‘-nds to become marked.