THE TOILET.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 91, 27 June 1902, Page 4

THE TOILET.

For Home .Dressmakers. —Put skirts into the hands, and see that they are the same length all round before finishing off the bottom hem. A skirt that sags at the back is not beautiful to look upon.

The Best Way to sew on a Button. —Place the button on the material, laying a pin crosswise over the - holes. Sew over the pin from side ,to side with strong thread, then remove the pin, and the button will give slightly. Wind the thread a few times round under the button,'and finish off. This minimises the strain, and there is less risk of tearing the material.

To Renovate Black Kid Gloves.Mix a little good black ink and olive oil ; rub a little on with a flannel, let dry ; and polish with a soft cloth.

Keep Your Gloves. —When gloves are taken off the hand they must never be roiled into a ball, but carefully pressed out flat, and laid in a glove box longer than they are; All holes must be mended as soon as seen, and the buttons replaced. As all gloves get to smell queerly if worn any length of time, have a small sachet of violet powder to lay inside each one, and on a fine day hang them out in the air and sun. When dirty,, have them cleaned several times before buying new ones.

For a Greasy Skin.--A slice of lemon used during the day*, instead of soap, when washiug the face often improves a greasy shin wonderfully. Rub well with the lemon, then thoroughly rinse in soft water, dry thoroughly, and give, a final rub with a soft chamois leather.

Pimples on the Face.-- Pimples are a sure sign that the general health is out of order; Take meals at regular hours, and banish from your menu all rich indigestible foods. Don’t eat between whiles. Cake, pastry, and highly seasoned dishes are bad. Eat pie nty of fresh and stewed fruit and vegetables. Don’t eat hot food and then immediately drink cold water, as this is very had, not only for the complexion but for the digestion. Take regular exercise and a daily bath. A sulphur lozenge taken occasionally will help to purify the blood

Wash to Remove Freckles and to Whiten the Skin. —Scrape a root of hoi so-:radish into half a pint of milk, and lot it stand 2 or 3 hours in a cool

. ven ; use this milk after washing the f; cq when it will be found one of the best, as well as the safest, of cosmetics. To Cure Warts. Scrape a piece of carrot to a pulp, mix with a little salt; apply us a poultice six or seven nights in succession, and they will shrivel up. Another cure is to take a small piece < f raw beef, sleep it all night in vinegar. cut.as much from it as will cover the wart, and tie it on, or fasten it on with strips of sticking plaster. It may bo removed in the day, and put on every night. In a fortnight the wait will dry and peel off. It will also cure corns.

Certainly the best medicine known is Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test it’s eminently powerful effects in coughs colds, influenza—the relief is instantaneous in serious cases and accidents, be they wounds, burns, scalds, bruises, sprains, is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swelling, etc., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys, and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by his Majesty the King of Italy, and crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibitions. Insist on getting Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract, or else you will be supplied with worthless oils. A farmer in Mangatoki, on 100 acre- 2 , who is milking 40 cows, received .£339 6s Bd, or £9 14s 6<Tper cow for the years’ takings.

A Maori is credited with having conceived the following judgment - “Maori doctor very good ; he make it the cure ; English Doctpr he say : How te pulse; how to powels. Ten arid hikepense.” A certain little damsel being aggravated beyond all endurance by her big brother, fell down upon her knees and cried, “Ob, Bord, bless my brother Tom. He lies, he steals, he swears.

All hoys do ; us girls don’t Amen.” Ex-President Kruger’s views on alcohol would not win for him the sympathetic opinion of prohibitionists. He regards strong drink as one of the blessings of life, and when President of the Tianavaal promoted its sale in his Republic. He once opened a still in the Transvaal with “prayer and praise.” A well-known peer asked Mr Rhodes to stand godfather to his son, and he replied that he would on one condition, which was that he might invest at once ,£IOO in the boy’s name, and give £IOO on each succeeding birthday, providod that it should all go on at compound interest until the boy was old enough to begin to spend the interest ; and that then he might yearly decide on what to spend it, so long as it was not on himself. “This,” said Mr Rhodes, ‘ will do two things ; first,, it will teach • your boy how to spend money, and secondly, it will make him unselfish and kind to those in need.” “Court Journal.”

Mr Justice Grantham is telling a good story tit hif own expense. He was travelling in a non-smoking carriage when theie entered a stalwartlooking man who promptly lit a rather big cigar. TThis is not a smoking carriage,” said Mr Justice Grantham. “All right, old chap.” answered the man, “I 11 just finish this cigar.” His Bord ship handed the man his card, ami said he would report him at the next station. The smoker put the card in bis pocket and went on with his weed. At the next, station he changed into another carriage. Mr Justice Grantham shouted for the guard, and demanded that the man’s name and ad-dre.-s should be taken. The guard went to the carriage, and after a moment’s conversation returned to bis Bordship. “Do you know,” he said in a confidential whisper, “if I wove you 1 should not prosecute that gent ; he has just given me his card—be**© it is --lie is Mr Justice Grantham.”

A p-- vty of Japanese officers of the Japanese warships now lying in Auckland harbour, have been visiting Rotorua, and all expressed themselves highly delighted with their trip. Though most of them had seen hot springs in their own country the mud pools of Tikitero and the geysers of Whakarewarowa were a revelation to them. They were delighted with the hospitality shown them the Mm oris and Europeans at Rotorua, and most of them returned with Maori curios to take with them to Japan as mementoes of the trip.

To Prevent Croup, begin in time. The first symptom is hoarseness ; this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which -is-easily recognized and will never be forgotten by one who has heard it. The time to act is when the child first becomes hoarse. If Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is freely given, all tendency to croup will soon disappear. Even after the croupy cough has developed, it will prevent the attack. - There is no danger in giving this remedy as it contains nothing injurious. It always cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells it.

It Will Not Do to fool with a bad cold. No one can tell what the end will be. Pneumonia, catarrh, chronic bronchitis and consumption invariably result from a neglected cold. As a medicine for the cure of colds, coughs and influenza, npthing can compare with Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It always cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells it. LA Subscription to MOTUEKA STAR: — Three Shillings and § Sixpence a Quarter , which may begin any time

KING UOBOMON’S MINES.

The mind is staggered at the relation of the enormous quantities of gold possessed by the ancient Semitic peor- ,■ pies. Hiram brought to Solomon for the Temple in one voyage of his fleet gold worth .£4,000,000 sterling. The Queen of Sheba, rich beyond dreams, gave as a present to the great King of Israel gold to the value of .£1,500,000. “And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gcfM ; anu all the vessels of the house of of Lebanon were of pure gold ; none were of silver. it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon ; and David gave 300(1 talents of gold of Ophir, “to overlay the walls of the house withal.” Even the Phoenician colonists-in Iberia are said to have used tEe precious metal for their household vessels. ■ Whence came this enormous store of gold ? The Bible helps us but little »vhen it tells us that the ships of Tharshish brought it from the land of Ophir. Where were Tharshish and Ophir ? India, Peru, Spain, Hayti, and Africa have all had their advocates; and even now the question is not beyond dispute. But gradually there has been piled up a mass of evidence, archaeological, ethnological, metallurgical, and inductive, that goes far already to settle the fascinating problem, for once, and for all. The mediaeval Arab writers, and 9 the Portuguese explorers of the sixteenth century, handed down from earlier peoples, confirmed by their own knowledge, that the teeming land of gold, with vast ruins of populous cities and remains of dead civilisations, lay inland from the East African coast, between the Zambesi and the Limpopo, in the present Rhodesia. Chance travellers and hunters, long before the Chattered Company thought of came with a vague stories of abounding ruins scattered throughout the country ; and in the sixties the artist traveller Bains described in detail a few of the wondrous remains of which his old master Livingstone had given previously some slight idea. But events have marched with giant strides in South Africa. Buluwayo is now reached in a Pullman car, and within a few score miles of Lo Ben’s old capital hundreds of ruined mining settlements are "to be found ; especially the vast remains of the great. Zimbabwe, which has given its name, more or less, to all the ruins. To the late Mr Theodore Bent, in his “Ruined Cities of Mashonaland,” must be given the credit of first examining* and reporting in a scientific spirit the Zimbabwe and some twenty odd similar ruins ; and almost simultaneously Sir John Willoughby added much a to the information previously possessed. The general result of much subsequent exploration .lias fully confirmed Mr Bent’s theory that gold mining in very ancient times was carried on in the country to a prodigious extent by successive Semitic peoples. The country of Sheba or Yemen, in South Arabia, was peopled by Semites from Chaldea, who in the times of Solomon and ages before monopolised the trade and traffic of the world, and were the great gold purveyors. They were nature worshippers, and the phallus and the sun were the forms which they gradually revolved as objects for adoration, when they emerged from the ‘primitive worship of rough stone and natural objects. Their temples, their architecture, their ornaments and their religious symbols abound still in South Arabia, and the same peculiarities in every may be seen in the objects unearthed from the earliest of the ruins in Rhodesia. The Pheonicians, who followed their Sheban kinsmen as the gold tiaffickers of the world when the latter decayed, have left behind them abundant traces of their more complicated

Religious system -and higher civilisation; and thy somewhat later ruins, like the Great Zimbabwe described by Bent, are eiinply full of evidence that Pheriecians built, worked, and lived in them. B.C. until after the Christian era these Semitic peoples or rather their slaves, worked the auriferous deposits of ithodesia to an extent beyond imagination ; and a moderate computation Jgives the probable amount of gold extracted by them at ,£750,000000 sterling. Messrs Neal and Johnson some years since obtained from the Chartered Company the exclusive concession for exploring and excavating the r uins within the territory, and the result has been the systematic examination of about 130 separate ruins out of the 500 which are known to exist. The descriptions given of these exam-inations-in the book now before us is truly astounding. For hundreds of miles the gold seems to have been worked, the quartz crushed at the nearest river by hand* stones, and the gold dusts carried to a chief district centre for smelting or packing, Long lines of forts protected the road to Sofala on the coast, whence the gold was shipped to Arabia or the Red Sea. In the earliest floors or layers of the settlements abundant evidence shows, not only prodigious quantity of gold obtained, but its wasteful reduction. Spatterings of gold are everywhere ; gold ornaments, beads or bangles, and gold plates to cover household ware or werpons, are scattered about in careless confusion, which proves how small was the relative value of the metal. The few ancient burials that have been exhumed —for the main cemeteries have none of them yet been found — have furnished an average of l7oz of gold on each skeleton, and the extent of the auriferous mining operations to ' be seen over this vast district prove that the wealth of Solomon and of Sheba must have been but a moderate contribution from this true land of Ophir. Messrs Hall and Neal, with unnecessary humility disclaim any attempt to decide the question finally as to the identity of the South Zambesi district with the Ophi™ or Tharshish of the Bible ; but the evidence is too strong and abnndant in favor of that solution for any other conclusion to be t eached---Daily Chronicle.