WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 113, 10 June 1909, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

HINTS. An invalid's room requires constantly cleaning, and yet many find the noise and dust of sweeping more than they can tear. Try tiiis wt'liod: Into a gallon of hot water put a dessertspoonful of ammonia and a tablespoonful of turpentine; wring out a cloth in this, and wipe the ciirpet and boards all over. Rimse Itlie cloth constantly, and change the water as it becomes dirty. Do this two or three times a week/for it makes the rooms sweet and cleans tilt carpet without raising the dust. To keep taps bright after cleaning them with metal polish, rub them over with Vaseline, and they will keep bright and without a stain for weeks.

Much time and labor can be saved if, before chopping parsley 'for sauces, etc., you dip it into boiling water. Enamel and aluminium pans must never be washed with soda.' A little salt or fine ash is better than sand to scour these with, as the grains of the latter are so sharp that they scratch the surface.

An inexpensive mouth wash.—An excellent mouth wash may be made by mixing an ounce of caribonate of soda With one pint of water. Bottle for use. After cleaning the teeth as usual, rinse with a little of this liquid. It has. a fine preservative efTect on the teeth, and cleanses the tongue and gume. Use a small baking-powder tin for chopping vegetables or fruits. A hole should first be punched in the bottom of the can..

When a cake is put in a hot oven, the sudden formation of a crust prevents? it from rising evenly, so the crust breaks and the oatter rises, in. tie centTe and runs ovier the cake. To prevent this, and to have the cake rise evenly, place a shee£ of -clean irhite paper on top, when the cake is first placed in the oven.

A simple yet excellent polish for steel work is ordinary brown knife polish, made into a thick paste- with hot water If this is rubbed well in a bright polish will last for several days. However careful the housewife may be of enamel saucepans, they will often burn and become much discolored. Take a piece of emery paper (rather fine), damp it, and rub the saucepan well It does not need Hard rubbing, as the marks will soon come off. Rinse well in CO d water, and the pan will be beautifully white.

To thicken gravy.—lnstead of mixin<* a paste of flour and water, shWke the flour from the flour dredge rato the liquid you Irish thickened. stirriim all the time. This obviates all dan<»lr of "lumpiness." A MAX'S THOfOHTS ABOUT GIRLS. Hon- sad it is that a girl after your own heart i g usually after some other fellow's. Tn clioosing 1 si wife: it fc well .to tpiaerator that a thing of beauty may bo a jaw for ever. She who learns how tu Jiroil a steak and fry potatoes will Tiever have io waste her amotions 011 «ats or parrots. If you want to worry your husband, ten him .he talks in his' sleep, and then reiiKc to divulge what he says. After a girl has put a rose in a man's I buttonhole «he tilts her pretty eliin and look!- mi sideways, standing ever so dose. Many a chump's too slow to take ihe hint. FAS'HIO.Y FRILLS. Colored laces are found oil some of t!)l> newest modeb. There is a metal touch in nearly every winter eostimie. Collars made entirely of soft .sitin riblxin to nuitch a frodc or ilVat look smart. Big bows, wide draperies, large rosettes are seen 011 silk .hats. One of the prettiest novelties in blounes is an almost inlinites'imal \VI ■! eneiennes insertion. j The long imwsquwtaire anil leg ' mutton sleeves are the uuyif important; eharacferistie of the newest upiiivjij in j blmises. ' / fjong top eoats are quite a feature of j the day, and aire worn over blouse cos-' turners of another color even more frequently -than over .sWrfi) of their own material. THE CHARM OP PIiETTY STOCKfXGS. ... j

Tliere i< no doubt tliat a mat shos, vhfrli ptrmi'ts of a glimpse of a wellarelipil instrp and a ,pretty ankle garl>'•d in an nttraotro? stocking, gives a piquant chaTm tft the girl or woman \Vlio is stiiving to do )im' host—and ".V.lwt piece of femininity i* i;Jjere who <loes not?— Woman's