WOMEN'S REALM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 4

WOMEN'S REALM.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Cook acid fruits in earthenware pans, •ml iliey will have a lovely colour and •iipcrior tlavour. Bacon finds, alter being scalded and craped, should be saved for flavouring .tocKs anil stew*. Stale cake, with the addition of thin ustard, makes an excellent boiled pud Jing. tierve sweet sauce with it. In boiling eggs liard, put them in boil j ng water. It will prevent the yolk rom colotiriug black. An excellent flavouring for soups, dews, potted meat, etc., can be made for ,'ractk-ally nothing in the following manner: —Collect together some nice fresh carrot and turnip peeling*, onion, leek and tomato skins, and celery trimmings, rhey should weigh about a pound altogether. Add to these a sprig each of parsley, thyme, and marjoram, one bay leaf, one clove of garlic, a small piece jif leaion jieel, two cloves, eight pepper•orns. one teaspoonful of salt, and one pint of cold water. Place upon the range <nd simmer gently until it has boiled dawn to al>out half a pint. Next strain carefully and liottle for use. This flavouring is very i-trong, a small quantity —about one teaspoonful—iieing required to flavour one pint of stock. If care fully corked it will keep good for a considerable time.

Soak a piece of paper or rag in some spirits of tur|>entiiie, and place it for a day ii your bureau, trunks, closets, and everywhere you are afraid moths will make an attack.. Two or tnree times a vear will be sufficient.

PHILOSOPUY FOlt WOMEN. Remember that cheerfluness is a virtue.—Bishop Crcighton. Quarrel not rashly with adversities not yet understood, and overlook not the mercies often bound up in them.—Sir Thomas Browne. Where there is no hope there tan be no endeavour.—Dr. Johnson. There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures, provided we will but take a joke as we find it.— Washington Irving. Pain and grief arc transitory tilings no' less than joy.—Sir Henry Taylor. Power dwell with Cheerfulness; Hope puts us in a working mood.—Emerson.

A SPINSTER ON MATRIMONY. " You may say what you like about the time, the place, and the girl, but after all the time and place have much more to do with the making of matches than the girl," said the spinster with a londne* lor statistics. "I've been getting some data on the subject, and 1 find that in nine cases out of ten the circumstances—the mood a man is in, ths clothes a girl happens to be wearing when lliey meet—have more to do with matrimony than the little blind g>>d himself. And as to marriages being made in heaven "—the spinster shrugged away that suggestion with contempt. •" Kvery wedding leaves some woman wondering ' what he saw in her.' 1 myself have made the remark apropos of half a dozen married women I know, and in teveral cases where 1 knew the people pretty well I've iuquired of the j kusuantt where and under what circumI stances he fell in love."

"And what have you learned?" she was a*ked. " I learned tiiat two of the lliinjjo that moat appeal to men are hcljileatsness and a certain dainty femininity o) attire that some alfeet.—-which puts the taiior-iii&de girl quite out of the running. Uue man told me lie was lil'sl siun«u by loveo dart while eroding a street behind a lady who, on luting uer skuls iroui the dual, displayed lingerie 01 the dainty, lluify order that stamps a girl, to Ine masculine mind, a* a ' sweet, feminine creature.* She was all white and baby blue from her high-heeled slipper to ber embroidered hat. " lie followed up the girl and the opportunity. The result nan matrimony, lliea he awoke to the fact that femininity was a mere matter of laundry bill; that the lady was, in reality, one of the sort who insisted on having her own way and his too; she was, in fact, a bully of the worst type. Another man met his late on a railway train. She was in the act of struggling with a refractory carriage window, "iler liit.e hands,' he said, ' looked so pretty and helpless'; and, too, when he took the stubborn sash in hand and forced it open, his own brawn and muscle showed up so well by contrast! Then when she looked up at liirn and murmured ad - luiringlr: 'Uh, it'-> lovely to he so strong" his doom was sealed. What thougn she were freckled, snub-nose.', and red-haired? She was a clinging vine, he a sturdy oak. "" Well, he married her, of course, and he greatly fancied his role for a year or two; but in course of time her clinging has become monotonous. He has grown tired of it, and. between you and me, I think he lias been sometimes tempted to bring damages against that railway company for not having its windows in working order. "And what conclusion liave I reached en the subject, you ask? This: That alter a few years the result in most case-* is the same—disillusionment, disappointment, and dissatisfaction on the man*s part." " And the woman ?" "A* to the woman, she, too, has her disenchantment, but then (this is strictly between ourselves) anything is better than being an old maid!"