Ladies' Column

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 143, 31 May 1892, Page 2

Ladies' Column

By Huia. I keep his house, I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat, make the beds, and do all myself. —Shakespeare. We have often heard of matrimonial agencies that profess to bring about happy unions, attended by the material comforts which are the fruits of wealth ', but we had never foreseen that a society would be founded to encourage— or rather enforce— uneven marriages between poor women and rich men, and yet w.e.have it as a fact, and on no less authority tban-a' well-known Austrian paper, that a society has been created, eufatled vthe^MAnajulf, Matrimonial Club, for the express ,pur-, ; , pose. It was started by three gentlemen and none can join it unless, wealthy. Each members binds himself to marry a poor girl who, has no prospect of inherit; v ing any property whatever. Should hei | however, fail to resist the charms of one ' who is gifted with wealth. He w r bound2to^ V pay a forfeit of four hundred pounds to the society. On this condition only iff he released from his bond, and his stn^are \ forgiven- on account of the happiness p which the money thus obtained will cpn'f r ; fer on others ; for the . society undertakes to discover some poor but worthy couple' and start them in life with the fine piid' ; by the faithful member.- ' -■?":;; Cookeby. ' : 4 y ■■'■ Bice Cake.— "Pour eggs, half * a pound ' •f of white sugar, half a pound of ground'' '■ nee, a teaspoonful of baking powder, arid a few drops of essence of lemon or almond; >H Beat the eggs ten minutes, add the sugar ,, ■ and beat tea minutes., more,., then .the flavouring and hce flour, first mixrag the ... baking powder wtfh the latter and heat' 1 1 five minutes more ; bake in a well-b'uti tered mould in a moderate byen. r '< '■x'fa : - '>■ r I Nice Tea Cakes.— Two pounds of fltfur,. '= add two ounces of butter and two of lard,* : ; a mix them well together, . then beat up four eggs to a light froth and add them. . to a pint of milk, with a teaspoonful of salt, p»ur this gradually on thb flour arid work it well for about eight- or ten 1 '" minutes; cut the dough with a sharp m knife, and roll it into cakes the siaerpf »k-v breakfast saucer; bake in a quick, oyen.j Currants may be added if preferredj, ]\ , A ° To carve neatly 13 an accomplishment worth acquiring. A good carver will make a joint serve more people than a bad one. * *\*. ~s £-~ >^tt r%£i^\