Ladiss' Column

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 91, 30 January 1892, Page 2

Ladiss' Column

♦ — By Huia. I keep his house, I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat, make the beds, and do all myself. —Shakespeare. the homes and women of england. A visit was recently paid to England by the Nawab Mehdi Hassan, the Chief Justice of Hyderabad. His impressions of tins country were communicated to his friends, and amongst them we find the following, remarks regarding both that home-life, of which we are so proud, and the women of England, who make our homes all they should be: — "It is," he says, "A beautiful thing ; we have nothing like it in our country — this pure home-fife, with all its tenderness and sympathies. In our language there is no such word as ' home ' ; in England every heart is stirred by it. All natural, passions and questions are, no doubt, common to us and to Englishmen, but in them they are more systematic, civilised, and genuine. We love each other, but do not express it in the same warm and impressive way. It. is this home-life that is one of the chief sources of England's sapreroacy. i Their children grow up in the so- | ciety of educated mothers, and become intelligent and thoughtful while they are yet children. In bur country, where the women for most part have no education, this is impossible, and j they grow up into men and women quite ignorant of the simplest things — things that are known in England by the children of the very poorest people. It is impossible to express to you my sense of the great influence of the English women upon English. life. They refine and elevate it beyond all measure ; you never know where^ their influence will not reach;- I am a firm believer in the complete freedom of women, although 1 recognise that complete equality , with men ia?npt possible,* but Indian people,. know nothing of this great influence. o£ women upon English thought and action — the greater because it is a silent influence working by suasion, not by force." USEFUL HINTS. To clean rusty fire-irons cover them with oil for twenty-four hours, then rub them with emery paper, or make a paste of soft soap and emery powder and rut it on, rub off when dry with a dry leather. A good way of dressing cold fish. — This recipe is suitable for any, kind of fish. Remove the skin and bone from the fish, and break it into .flakes. Have ready two., or three hard boiled eggs, some white sauce made rather thick with milk, butter, and flour, a little salt and cayenne, also sbme^well mashed potatoes. Take a hot flat dish, and place a bank of mashed potatoes round the edge, lay the fish evenly over the middle, of the, dish, cut the eggs in quarters, and place them' on the top of the fish, then pour in the sauce, which must be quite hot, fill to nearly the top of the potatoe bank, and put into a brisk oven to set and brown. . (*'."