The Home

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 29

The Home

By * Maureen '

Cornflour Cake. Ingredients : 4oz cornflour, 4oz flour, 6oz butter 6oz fh« nth 1 ?*"' 3 ce f gS - + Meth ? d Melt the'butter, S S the other ingredients ; beat for twenty minutes. Put hot°oven r cake-mould, and bake in a moderately Rich Plum Cake. until it is like sand, then add the sugar peel (cut in a>T«.W[ m s,v d T v srfksSLSF and mix all well together. Line a cake-tin with fbutSred paper, and pour in the mixture to half its depth bake hit S fir^t e n<? r n X UrS - The oven should&atiS hot at first, and allowed to get gradually cooler Ai jj--f ssjs? arc: ' jfe H'SS put, in a warm pilace to dry. 8> Food for Nervous Women. As a rule, salt meat is not adapted to the raaiuirements ot nervous people, as the nutritious juices S in£ for thT c V great CXtent - Fish of aII kinds if gSod are not so ?i a Jt e ff ' co " trar y to <*c common opinion, ed ?n h i? r lge J tlble aS JhoSeJ hOSe that have be <* well cookl cd. Good bread sweet butter, and lean meat are the s i, food ; 01 th * nerves - People troubled with f - nsomn a and nervous startings from sleep, and sensations adet Sfmfft 0 Cn b , C CUre , d by limitlll S themselves^o a diet of milk alone for a time. An adult should have ti?h I i" a mea1 ' aDd take fOUr means dail^ People *ith weakened nerves require frequently a larger «uanslrong WatCr thaa th ° Se Wh ° Se lierves and brauu? a?e Wet Feet. ™„*H o^r Of , ton ., do we see P e °Pl© tramping about in the mud with leather soaked through, and how often do such people, when they return home, sit down by the S?k ai l IPermdt1 Permdt feet to dt ? without changing either stockings or shoes ! Can we then wonder at the coughing and barking, and rheumatism and inflammat+l H i 6i 66 * J n } Ost com monly produce affections of the throat and lungs, and when such diseases have once taken place danger is not far off ; therefore let us entreat our readers, no matter how strong they may consider themselves to be, to guard against wet Gas Fires. 4u If u wh 5 n UshtedU s hted the fla me is of a yellow tinge, and the asbestos* is slow in giving out the requisitS red glow, you may be certain that the gas is wrongly lighted, and is, therefore, wasting. The tap should be turned off. If it was all right, there will be a slight report as it goes ouit ; if there is no report, the las was being wasted. B Making Children Walk Early. This is one of the mistakes by which the world is made- unhappy. As a rule the guilty party is not a mother, but is some inexperienced elder sister or hired nurse-girl. Of course, no properly-trained children's nurse would commit such a folly. Forcing or inducing a. child to walk, nevier does good ; and when there is any tendencjr to rickets it does very great harm by causing the delicate leg bones to bend, so that the v child comes to be bow-legged. A child should be placed on a. ruewhere he cannot fall against sharp corners, and abould be allowed to scramjbJe about at his pleasure. So socn as he is seen to mjake an attemDt at standing slome aid may be given him. But to hold him upright and encourage him to walk across the floor. is distinctly wiong.