Household Hints

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 241, 12 March 1910, Page 3

Household Hints

Slippers for travelling.—A long journey by train or car is shorn of half its fatigue if the feet are kept comfortable and cool. An excellent resource for the traveller is a puir of soft, limp slippers in a leather case, which may be packed with the rugs and taken out for use when required. Choice of occupation for girls.— Most parents are careful about the occupations they choose for their boys. They realise that the present gain which is got at the cost of future usefulness, is too dearly bought. The boy must prepare himself for the life work of the man. In the case of girls the same care is not always observed. It is felt that the work is temporary "at the best. If it could be helped, the girl should not leave home at all. But since she must, the occupation at which she can earn the most while she is not obliged to work too hard is chosen. Fortunately, most girls are conscientious, and the world of labour demands efficient work. So the young girl who leaves home with a light heart to enter a situation finds, before long, that she must put forth all her strength in the performance of her duties. She grows with her sense of responsibility, and becomes a strong and self-reliant woman. But though no honest work is without its worth as training all employments are not equally valuable, and in the case of the girl, as well as the boy, the effect of the work on health and on character should be taken into account. It is more important that the woman should be strong physically, mentally, and spiritually than that a good income should be earned by the girl. An effective waistbelt. A few quaint and becoming models in belts and neckwear should be accorded a passing notice. A most effective, and also a most daring waistbelt noticed recently was one worn with a serge coat and skirt toilette of the new color cannelle or cinnamon, with a soft white lawn shirt. It was only two inches in width, and was made of orange-colored velvet, with a buckle at one side covered with velvet. Pure vaseline or olive oil are excellent remedies for burns. The great necessity is to exclude air and dirt from the burnt surface, and this oil will do. Do not forget in the case of a severe burn that it is most important to counteract shock by giving hot drinks, such as coffee or hot milk. When to take a bath. —The proper time to take baths is before a meal or about three hours later. In order to digest food the stomach needs an abundance of blood to form the necessary juices and ferments, and if the blood is directed from the stomach to the surface of the body, digestion will naturally suffer. A trunk rug for the guest room will protect a pretty carpet or matting from the disfiguring marks often made by a visitor's trunk. The rug may be of the same material as the floorcovering and cut the size of a goodsized trunk. Take care to see that any incoming trunk is set squarely on the rug. Fowl stewed with Asparagus.—Cut up a fowl into pieces, wash and dry the pieces well with a cloth, put into a pan with half a pound of butter and one small chopped onion, fry until the pieces are browned, then stew in one quart of stock for one hour, remove the fowl and keep hot; put in the pan one bundle of asparagus already whitened in boiling water for ten minutes, then well dry, cook till tender, add the pieces of fowl, and salt to taste. Stew over ..a slow fire for eighteen minutes, heap the asparagus in the centre of the dish, place the pieces of fowl round it, and pour over the whole the following sauce: Dissolve by degrees one heaped tablespoonful of flour in a pint of milk, add two ounces of grated Parmesan' cheese the grated rind of one lemon one ounce of butter, and a pinch of salt, and stir over a slow fire until thick.