USEFUL HINTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 3

USEFUL HINTS.

Cover, your kitchen table with' zinc; then • the hottest pots' aud pans can be put on it without •'.spoiling 1 it. V•' Soap . .and water will easily' clean it; and a- rubbing once in a while with kerosene keeps it bright. If you hare/scorched: your : milk, quickly ■ remdve thei vessel -from the fire' arid- stand it in a bowl of cold .water. Put. in 'a pinch of salt. It will,_ be found that the burnt taste has almost if riot; entirely disappeared.'; '•Keeping'ostrich-plumes, from: one season to • another is quite a' serious question"; for when laid away flat in a box or relied in tissue paper; "which is the alternative of tho careful woman;- ; it means that-the spring will find, a sad-looking plume; with : the vanes: stringy, or' .twisted/ entirely out: of , shape so that re-curling-by a'professional; feather worker is necessary.- •To ' keep feathers in their original shape arid, in 'the best condition, -they 'should- be' ripped: from the hat - and' pinned securely by the wired end to one side of a small box, which can Jje to keep it from boing overbalanced by the plume. Several feathers can. bo . pinnefl upright around the one. box and this can be,placed in a hatVbox tall'enough riot. to;,bend '.the feather tops "down, a lump of camphor also put m, arid-the box-tied up and stowed 'away. '. .Masculine suffragettes are said to be getting almost as -numerous as their female •prototypes, and ■< very ;■ nearly, as much of a nuisance. At every luncheon and dinner an observer, one cari'see elegant young 1 riieri. explaining to bored and. bowildsrcfl why they- ought to have , and why they ought to want a vote. Tho frilly .brigade 1 endure this affliction at masculine . hands whbn' thoy' would make short work of ta. feminine persecutor, and the masculino ' suffragettes' arc said i to, be a . great help; to .' the ."cause."-—"New -York-Tribune';", •>" .' . The-' skin-tight ! skirt' Is, after all, says "The Quecn, J ' .but a freak of fashion. 'Only the very • slightest; women are privileged to assume it with success. This fact does not prevent those endowed with' embonpoint from following their example, with tho most- regrettable results..' -Tho sfcylc ; has tho merit of -novelty, rather than of, adaptability.: . Its introduction, created a- sensation and at; tractod r a certain/ following,; which has sijice -then, 'howevor, not. sensibly increased in I numbers. /;For -,-walking' it is, . of; course, totally unsiiited. At present, it is worn for /filing and in the/ evenings: On the Riviera

'. 'V may. have a . certain popularity at tho At! beat the patronage which it " '1 receive will bo restricted and short-