WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S NOTES.

HOUSEKEEPING. (By Miss Mary Tallis.) Housekeeping notions.—A piano will have a much better tone and more volume, if placed away from the wall, either entirely or at one end. To remove white marks from furniture caused by water, take an equal amount of linseed oil and turpentine and rub well. If the marks are obstinate, leave a little of the solution on the' marks for a time and then rub off vigorously, If flypaper falls on furniture or leather do not try to wash it oft' but rub butter along the surface ana no harm will result. When large clocks become temperamental in cold weather, exposing the works to the sun will usually loosen up the clogged oil. You’ll have no more cut d’oyleys if you follow this tip. Before putting the cake on its dish, slip a plate-glass mat on top ot the d’oylcy. This hardly shows and not only saves the d’oyle.v but gives a firm surface to cut on. Melt a little isinglass in methylated spirit, add to it a little warm water and when melted this will form a transparent glue which will stick glass so. firmly that the joint will not he noticed. Melt by placing the container in hot water.

FASHION. What is your type? When you reach the age of twenty you should dechl your type. Remember, it’s possible to be charming in a number of ways. There are fascinating girls who sit at their desks in smart frocks, with their hair waves just so, and talk to you in a cool, well-bred, competent manner. There are delightful girls you meet on the links or tennis courts, with brown hands, steady eyes and dependable muscles under their casual sports clothes. There are charming girls who wear shadowy hats and suit furs, whose ankles are very slender and whose laugh is like the tinkle ot a brook. There are girls as crisp as organdie or as vivid as a blue jay; girls whose hair should be parted in the middle; girls whose hair should be a riot of curls. Anv numlter of girls, and all nice. The point, is, what sort of a girl do you want to he ? And what are your qualifications. Take, for instance, a girl oft. tall, 20 years old. brown eyes, brown hair, a round face and a turned-up nose. What type is she? I don’t know. The description is incomplete. Does her smile go up or down ? Does she like to cook, or to curl up on a sofa and read? Do woollen jerseys look as if they grew on her or were just lyirrowed from her sister. How does she look in a flutetrv, white, chiffon dress sprinkled with sequins? You see, any girl can bo good-looking hut not all girls can be good-looking in the same way. The clever girl is the girl who, quite early in life, sits down, checks up her points, good and bad, sorts out her features, her moods, her clothes, and her hats and sees which ones fit the person she intends to lie. A perfectly good dress may have to he given away just because last year you thought you’d l>e fluffy, and now you find that the tailored frock is really your stvle. So ticket this in your mind, that next year, when von buy another, yon will say firmly; “No "more fluff: it’s not my line!” Beware .too, of. attempting to make yourself into a type for which you have no phvsical qualifications. You may wish that you’d been designed flat-hipped and uncurvy. but it’s perfectly possible to be good-look-ing and plump, and success awaits the girl who is clever enough to develop her own type...

GENERAL. To make peanut butter.—Roast peanuts (lib) bv putting on to a bakingtin in an oven with a low light. They arc ronstod when you can easily rub off the brown inner skin with your fingers, after removing the shell. This takes about half an hour. Do not over-roast, the nuts should be slightly brownish cream; if roasted too long they will bo useless for the butter. Put the nuts through the mincer, just as you would mincemeat. They will then be dry and crumbly. Now mince them again, this time putting some hotter through with the nuts. Repeat the process, each time adding a little butter, about five times, or until the whole is almost the consistency of butter and the oil has been extracted from the nuts. It should then be a rich, light-brown colour. Sprinkle a heaped tablespoonful of salt over the butter, turn into a howl and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Fill up two or three little glass potted meat dishes and tie down with greaseproof paper until required. It will in tliis Wciy for about 10 da vs, but not longer. Spread a little on brown bread, with salt; or make into sandwiches ; you will find it delicious and very nutritious.

Spring-Clean Your Husband.—Why not'- I imagine that he needs it far more than your home does. After all, that receives a dusting down every day of the year. No accumulation of dozens of different kinds of grime has been allowed to collect, unchecked, unattacked, for years. Examine your husband closely when he conies home to-niglit from business. Even if he looks spruce and successful in his business clothes, what about his mind ? What is the first thing that he does, after he has hung up his hat in the hall ? Does he look for you—or his carpet slippers? Habits are the backbone of marriage, but they can also be its bane. It is no use getting into a groove, if you fail to prevent your husband from using his domestic security like a feather bed. You mustrouse him before he sinks too soon into middle-aged slumber, or else your own fight for lasting youth will have been waged in vain. If he won’t go on a reasonable diet, you must make him do it. by choosing your menus so carefully that he doesn't realise that he is on a diet! If he won’t do his daily down every morning, you must take to doing yours openly, performing to a graniaphone under liis very nose. Even if the result is a tearing, screaming row, it is better in the long run than a sleepy, indifferent silence. Noiv is your moment, when the sunshine is pouring into your room. It is like wine exciting you to adventure. But true adventure, like charity, begins at home, and marriage will continue to be the greatest adventure of all so long as you Slave the vision to spring clean your attitude to it every year. Your Accessories. —Real amber should be washed in milk and polished with a chamois. To clean any diamond-set article of jewellery, pour a little whiskey or gin into an egg-cup and with a child’s paint-brush gently brush the stones, back and front, also the setting. Remove and shake. The spirit will quickly evaporate aud your ornament will sparkle beautifully. Eye-glasses sponged and polished with a solution of 2 parts glycerine to o parts methylated spirit remain unaffected by atmospheric changes. To clean a photograph wit-h- ---- injuring the surface use cotton woo! dipped ill methylated spirit. Moustache wax (still sold by chemists) makes a good eyelash and eyebrow make-up. Applied with a small brush it also assists in the growth while keeping the lashes dark and lustrous. The wearing of the new and popular heavy brooch will make holes in favourite frocks. To overcome this, punch eyelets each side of the collar and buttonhole round. Always put the pin of the brooch in these holes. When next you buy shampoo powders, lay in a stock of

|at least half a dozen." Store the packets ! among your undies, which will then be always delicately perfumed. Of course you will buy your favourite perfume when buying the powders, so there will bo no need to buy scent sachets as well.