Ladies' Column.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 May 1914, Page 2

Ladies' Column.

| PREVENTING OILCLOTH FROM CRACKING. A good way to prevent oilcloth from cracking when used as covers sfor tables is as follows. A few thicknesses of paper are placed on the table and moistened thoroughly with machine oil. This will cause the oilcloth to last much longer, remain soft, and prevent cracking of the glazed surface. It should be stretched tightly over the oiled paper. A GOOD GARGLE FOR A SORE THROAT. Take four or five green sage leaves, a glass of port wine, and a glass of vinegar ; boil these together for a minute or so, and, when cold, gargle the throat with the fluid, repeating the operation until relief is obtained. A very oldfashioned remedy for sore throat is to slightly warm a thin slice of fat bacon and bind it on the neck when retiring for the night. In the nioiv.ing remove the bacon and protect the throat from cold with a strip of thin flannel or a email silk handkerchief. TO MAKE FURNITURE CREAM, The only way to make a successful cream is to use pure bees-wax only, the white Madras kind being the best. Paraffin wax and ceresine are often given in recipes, but I find them perfectly useless. The following is a good working formula : Best Primrose soap carbonate of potash Aoz., water i pint. Dissolve by aid of heat. Melt.. soz white wax on a water bath, and add 1 pint turpentine, stirring until the mixture is quite liquid. Pour the two mixtures simultaneously into a hot earthenware jar and stir for a few minutes. APRICOT WATER ICE. 1 quart water, 1 lemon, 1 tin apricots, £lb. sugar. Boil the sugar and water together for five minutes, press the apricots through a sieve, and add to the syrup ; aleo add ! juice of lemon. When cold, freeze the same as ice cream. This is enough for two quarts. LEMON SAGO. 3 tablespoons sago, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, scant pint water, 1 tablespoon treacle, juice 1 lemon. Wash sago, put it on in a saucepan, with pint of water, boil clear, stirring frequently ; add treacle, sugar, and lemon juice, stir over the fire till it boils. Pour into a wetted mould. When set serve with mustard. LACE AND THE RETICULE. Handbags made of lace are a pretty possession that will take the fancy of the lover of dainty dress accessories. They are swung from long cords, and are to be worn with the lingerie frock. Irish and Veuise, both real and imitation, compose them, as well as black and white Chantilly, and filet I combined with embroidery.