Of Interest to Women

Lake County Mail, Issue 47, 28 April 1948, Page 4

Of Interest to Women

By “MARIE”

Develop Your Personality

HOME HINTS CURE FOR BORER

Personality counts for much more than mere "Beauty; it brings you- a host of friends, makes you popular with both sexes, gives you confidence and a quiet ease. Any woman who really puts her mind to it can become interesting, poised, and self-assured. Many women never pass the shy schoolgirl stage, simply because they don’t try. They don’t bother to develop their minds, widen their interests, meet new people, read good books, keep well informed on overseas and local affairs. Calm, Self-possessed The shy, nervous woman envies the woman with self-assurance, who enters a roomful of people and becomes the centre of attention. Nothing flurries her; she is calm and selfpossessed under; the most difficult conditions.

You can be sure this type of woman has taken herself firmly in hand, concentrated upon developing her personality with the resultant savoir faire.

All correspondence connected with this column should be addressed to “Marie,” C/o Box 154, Queenstown.

Take one large bottle methylated spirits, crush ilb bluestone and two small cakes camphor. .Dissolve in the spirits. Apply witty a brush, but do not use on stained surfaces. WATER-PROOFING The following mixture given for water-proofing a coat of unbleached calico may be of service in the waterproofing of a tent: — For two yards of unbleached calico

two yards wide allow 3 pints of raw linseed oil, i pint turpentine, about a tablespoon of dryers (obtainable from any oil or paint dealer). Mix well together. Paint one side and let dry, then paint other, first adding a small piece of beeswax melted to the mixture that is left.

NOTHING NICER There is nothing nicer than to go to a tin and find a crunchy biscuit. , Quarter-pound butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup desiccated coconut, 1 cup walnuts, 1 cup flour, 3 teaspoon cocoa, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add egg (unbeaten), beat well, and add coconut and walnuts (crushed). Lastly, add flour, cocoa, and baking powder sifted together.

Place in a shallow tin and bake half an hour in a moderate oven.

When cold, cut into fingers as desired. Will keep well in an air-tight tin.