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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 5

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THE SUN Service Bureau assist you with your problems, whether they relate to dress, health, and beauty culture, cookery, homecraft, travel, sport, or any other of the many things on which we are all constantly needing information. Whatever your particular puzzler may be, we will be glad to give our advice whenever possible. All communications must be accompanied by the inquirer’s name and address (not for publication), and sent to THE SUN “Service Bureau,” Women’s Page, THE SUN, Auckland. Answers will appear weekly in thi# column. ORANGE CAKE Take £lb flour, X teaspoon cream of tartar, 4 teaspoon baking-soda, 6oz sugar, 6oz butter, 4 eggs, 1 orange, Jib soft icing-sugar. Sift flour, soda and cream of tartar together. Grate in orange-rind and squeeze the juice from the orange. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, then orangerind; lastly, flour, etc.; divide and put in greased sandwich-tins and bake in quick oven for 15 minutes. When cool spread with orange-icing, made with juice of grated orange, between and on top, and decorate with quarters of the fruit. This makes a very nice sandwich and keeps fresh for longer than the ordinary sandwich. * * * ARTICHOKE RELISH I’ecl and cook till tender lib artichokes, and mash with 1 dessertspoon of pork fat or tasty beef dripping. Fry several slices of bacon until a golden brown, then place alternate layers of artichoke and bacon to All a pie-dish, season with salt and sprinkle with half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. 1 tablespoon of grated cheese and a few chips of butter. Bake 20 minutes. Delicious served with spinach. * * * AN ALL MILK DAY Providing your medical man approves, a milk day once a week should help you shed several surplus pounds. The '‘fast” should commence at seven in the evening. No supper is allowed, but at 10 p.m. you may sip a glass of milk, hot or cold, as you wish. The following day you are allowed a glass of milk at intervals of three hours, also two cups of unsweetened black coffee—one in the middle of the morning, the other round about your usual tea-time. After 7 p.m.—when the fast virtually ends —take some easily digested solid refreshment —thin brown bread and butter and a lightly boiled or poached egg,- or a steamed lish cutlet. Next day go very slowly, avoiding all heavy foodstuffs. Need I say the patient on milk diet should spend her fast day in bed when possible? FRUIT COCKTAILS Squeeze the juice of a ripe orange, and of a lemon into the cocktail shaker, add some pineapple juice from a tin of pineapple (the remainder, with the fruit will make a pudding for the next day) and the white of one egg. Shake it all up together until it Is frothy, but not too frothy. Then pour out into glasses. This is delicious and healthgiving, and contains no alcohol. You can, if you wish, put a stick into a Maraschina cherry and serve it in the cocktail. LOBSTER COCKTAIL This is a different type of cocktail. The fruit cocktail is handed round before dinner, and may be served as a detached form of entertaining at the cocktail parties that have been the thing this winter; the fish or salad cocktail is part of the dinner and is served instead of hors d’oeuvre. It is nice also for luncheon parties, picnics, etc., and may be very simply made. Open a small tin of lobster, remove all the “bones,” cut up the meat, have some nice fresh tomatoes skinned and cut in pieces, season with salt and paprika. and sprinkle with lemon juice. Serve in cocktail glasses with brown bread and blitter. MUD-SPLASHED STOCKINGS There are two remedies against mud-

stained stockings which you can adopt, my dear. Firstly, providing they match your costume, why not indulge in the new mole-tint instead of nude colour? While, if y our taste still inclines in the latter direction, you can purchase very' cute gaiters of sunburnt-coloured rubber which are practically invisible, can be put on or off in a minute, and when not in use fold into a tiny case to be kept in your handbag. * * * DYEING FAWN SHOES It would be possible for you to make your light kid slippers black, but they will probably lose some of their present gloss. Brush off all dirt, put the shoes on trees and then rub in some ammonia with a flannel. Next put on some American ink with a brush, and leave it to dry. Afterwards you can polish it as usual. If you only wanted to darken the shoes rubbing with milk and ammonia would do it, after several applications. * * * A GODMOTHER’S DUTIES The first thing you should do is to read carefuly the baptismal service in the Prayer Book. This will tell you exactly what are the duites of a godparent. At the church where the infant is to be baptised your duty is to take the baby in your arms and hold it at the font, and, at the proper moment, you should hand the baby to the clergyman to be baptised. You will be asked to “name this child,” and will repeat the Christian name (or names) it is to receive, but not its surname. The baby is then returned to you, and you hold it for the rest of the service. A godparent usually gives the child a present according to what he, or she, can afford. You can give it after the Christening. A baby is generally baptised as soon as its mother can come to church. She generally gives thanks after the baptism. “Churching,” as this is called, is a simple and beautiful little service. * * * A FANCY DRESS I like your idea of sending y r our little boy of two years to the party as a pierrot. Why not have the coat blue on one side and pinky mauve the other, and each trouser-leg the opposite way round ? Don’t let him wear a stiff ruffle, they are rather uncomfortable. Just a soft little white frill, rather full round the neck, would do just as well. You could, of course, make his costume trousers and top part all in one, like a circus clown. It could have black stencilled ducks and pigs all over it. MEMS. FOR WOMEN MOTORISTS FIRE PRECAUTIONS Every woman driver has a private fear that her car may suddenly burst into flames through some mysterious cause or other. While the possibility' of such a disaster may be remote, it is nevertheless advisable for fnotorists to take every- precaution in their power to guard against fire. It may seem unnecessary to emphasise the fact that the petrol tank or even the carburetter should never on any account be approached with a naked light, but at the risk of stressing the obvious it is well worth while to mention the matter. A cigarette between the lips, too, may be as dangerous as a lighted match. When the cur is being greased and otherwise attended to, a special poifit should be made of inspecting till petrol joints to ensure that there is no leakage of fuel. It takes only a moment or two to have the floorboards up and to examine the whole length of petrol pipe from the tank to the autovac to see that there is no fault and that every joint is tight and dry. The carburetter should also be examined carefully' for persistent leakages. Even if a small quantity of motor spirit accumulates below the carburetter it may easily be set alight through a backfire. It is a common practice to “tickle” the curburetter float to help to start from cold, but if that is done care should be taken that it does not overflow too much and leave a pool of petrol in the vicinity. The engine should only be set in motion when the waste petrol has been wiped away or has become absorbed by the air. A pretty' notion for an evening dress is the new mode of fashioning shoulder straps in a different colour from that of the frock iteslf. Rose crystal straps, for instance, adorn a smart model in red. Orange flowers, massed tightly' together, form the rather wide straps of a filmy yellow chiffon frock. For very formal dinner dresses. shoulder-straps are made in the solid gold mesh with which modish bracelets .v-- iA mi! 1;. ris>-d us.