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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 29

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By Maureen

Avoid, High-heel Shoes.

The results of the evil of wearing high-heel shoes are quite serious. The weight of the body is thrown on the toes and against the upper leather of the shoe, crowding the Foot and shutting oft>the blood circulation. The feet become badly nourished and the nerves diseased, and the body is thrown in such an unnatural position that the nervous system is injured. The effort of the body to balance on these heels often results in curvature of the spine and displacement ot other organs. Frequent and severe headaches and early failure of eyesight, due to the nerve strain, are among the resultant evils.

To Keep a Dish Hot.

When it'is required that a dish or plate of food be kept hot for half an hour or bo, waiting, perhaps, for a tardy diner, a better plan, than putting it in the oven is to set it with its contents on a saucepan of boiling water, and let the saucepan stand on the top of the oven or cowered part of the stove. The plate should be covered with another plate or close-fittinig metal cover, and! to present the food from becoming over-dry plenty of gravy should be added to it, also an extra bit ,pf butter if it? Is anything too dry. A little milk adtfed to a boiled pudding that is to be kept hot is sometimes an improvement. Women Who Worry. A' well known nerve specialist has given it as his opinion that more women go into nervous prostration as a result of idleness than of overwork. 'Itis a rest from petty worries,' he said, ' that most women need, and this they can give themselves. The woman who does the least has usually more worries than the woman who works.' The physician further says : ' A woman has wonderful powers of endurance when it comes to great things. She can work and support her family if need be ; she can bear griefs with heroism ; she can come out of hardest work and heaviest sorrow with health unimpaired, bait she cannot stand the little things, the molehills that grow to mountains when she has nothing! to do but think of them, without suffering a collapse.' Table Etiquette. Perhaps- in wo department of life does good breeding show itself as iqtuickly as in qiuestions of table etiquette, and in habits and manners during meal times. Well-dressed people, whose outward appearance seems to claim for them the title of lady or gentleman often show signs of want of good breeding the moment food is placed before them. The knife is used only to cut or spread with, and never to convey anything to the mouth. It is always held In "the right hand. A spoon is used also in the right hand, but a fork may be used in either. People who make mistakes in regard to their use usually Ho so through carelessness rather than Ignorance. Occasionally (people get into the way of playing and fidgeting "with their knives, forks, spoons, and dinner napkins during the intervals between the courses. This is a very bad habit, which is likely to annoy other people, and it should be checked. Crumbling the bread and playing with the food in any way are equally objectionable. A hJostess must (always remember that her actions at the table give the key to her ruests. If she uses a certain article for a particular dish they will follow her examtnle. If she folds up her dinner napkin, no giuest may feel at liberty to leave an unfolded napkin on the table, and no lady will rise from the table until the hostess gives the signal that the meal is finished.