TO ALL WOMEN.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 April 1920, Page 41

TO ALL WOMEN.

This appeal has reached us from Vienna (says the Fort nightly lie-view, U.S.A.): — To the women of the world; mothers, sisters, daughters, wives to all who hold one life most dear to all who have love and sympathy in their hearts; to all these we would address a cry for help. How can you endure it longer, even one day longer, that in far away Siberia, in the Caucasus, in Turkestan, and in Vladivostock, men still sit in captivity, while anxiety and longing are driving their relatives at'home to madness and despair? You ( women of the world, listen to what you cannot know (for otherwise you could not live in peace, go about your daily tasks, care for your children, sleep, eat, ami be glad when the sun shines). Hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war are still exiled, working in slavery, living in infected camps, and dying by thousands of typhoid and under-feeding. They go about in rags and in order to get enough to cat they must beg, borrow, and steal. It is now a year since weapons of warfare were laid aside, but the wretched men may not return to their homes and families. Only an appeal for help comes through from them from time to time. Words cannot express what they suffer; but all the pathetic postcards which they are occasionally allowed to send reiterate the same woeful cry: "We are forsaken and forgotten, defenceless, helpless, and hopeless.

Rub the flour smoothly into the milk, pour over the vegetables, dot with tiny pieces of butter. Bake in a moderate oven, for about an hour. ,It is better to set the casserole in a shallow pan of hot water while baking. „ . - - The Open Air for Children. ; There is jV growing body, of . testimony as to the, great value of fresh air in the treatment of children. The doctors who confine their practice exclusively to children are almost to a man advocates of the fresh-air life for their little patients. They order it to keep up vigorous health in well children, and to reinforce their treatment of sick ones. They declare that , all children sleep better, eat better, are-better tempered, and of a fresher - color, if their parents keep them in the open air both day and, night. “Outdoor children” are also much less susceptible to colds and other infections than the children who are kept coddled r in warm rooms and depend upon a daily walk for their airing. • A . v a ”' Rules in Combining Colors. '■ ' i'l • A few artists’ rules for combining colors will save many a luckless experiment in. dress, house furnishing, and needlework. Cold green contrasts with crimson, purple, white, pink, gold, and orange; harmonises with olive, citron, brown, black, and grey. '•Warm green contrasts' with crimson, maroon, red, pink, white, black, ; and lavender; harmonises with; yellow, orange, sky blue, grey, 'white, brown, and buff. Orange contrasts with purple, blues, black, olive, crimson, and grey; harmonises with yellow, red, warm green, brown, white, and buff. Russet contrasts with green, black, olive, and grey contrasts with red, yellow, orange, and brown. Household Hints. Brick dust and kerosene are good for cleaning copper with. Remove the stains with lemon and then polish with a dry cotton rag. Do not throw away the ends of candle, but save them for fire lighters. One placed in the middle of the coal and sticks when the fire is laid will cause it to burn up immediately. Bottles containing ketchup, fruit juice, etc., will keep much better if laid on their side or inverted when put away. While the liquid covers the cork, it will be kept expanded and no air can enter. Dissolve alum or common salt in boiling water and pour it into cracks. It becomes hard like cement. It destroys vermin and preserves the wood.