WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 111, 18 August 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MURDEROUS MILLINERY.

WOMAN'S VANJTY,

The havoc that is ; being wrought among birds so as to satisfy woman's vanity, was pressed home by Mr. James Bu«kland in a striking speech at the annual meeting of the Melbourne Society, London. "The whole volume of the bird life of the world is being reduced at an alarming rate," he iaid, and then he gave the reason—that to obtain the feathers the birds had to be killed in the breeding season. At that tinfe birds' natural fear for man disappears under the stress of providing for and protecting their young, and it is under conditions such as these that the old birds' are shot and rilled 1 of their plumes, and the young left to die .' of starvation in the nest. ' I _ Thirty ye?- ;v ■■> '. -.j wr-re hr-nnrios in tlhe Unitt,.. ..*.,., -,f\. .j. , . miniated to contain about 3,000,000 white herons. At the same period these birds roamed widely over China in prodigious I multitudes. But even these vast hordes j could not withstand the slaughter during the breeding season, and now the white : heron is, practically exterminated both .in (North (America and in China.' Now ! the same havoc is being wrought in , South America—in every-country of the i world, indeed, where the .white heron is still found. I The feeding grounds of the American jabiru, the largest but one of living storks, are also the scenes of slaughter during the very period when the birds i should have respite. Thirty thousand quills of these birds are sold in 'London alone, and as the species was never very numerous it will soon be wiped out. I So wary is the bird that it keeps be- , yond the range of the fowling-piece, but, , said Mr. Buckland, the jabiru is shot to-day with a soft-nosed bullet from a Mauser rifle—a dreadful missile, which I often tears away,a great piece from the i bodp of the bird. Even in this .sickening I my. unless the mutilation be such prevent'the flight, the-majestic e will-take wing in one last effort pe. Of a sudden'it falls lifeless jarth—and woman's wish is grati,r this year Ibut three sales have lace in London, yet in those three lone there were catalogued the f over 25,000 humming birds, the law is set -at defiance by igs of men who make a livelihood slaughter of the birds. Not long ;ang was surprised on one of the which the United States had de J ;o be a "bird reservation," and lan had in their possession thee of 300,000 birds. i was no bird' in the world towhieh the eyes of zoologists were in more admiring wonder than ride of Australia, the lyre bird, le rarer the bird became, the grew the competition to secure its ithersjand not long ago a party ae-hunters surrounded a patch of n which the birds were known to sding, and setting fire to it, shot the birds as they struggled h fche- pitiless ring of fire to meet leath in another. Then the tail :a were cot off and the bodies left as decided to organise a crusade hout the country- by means of 1 lectures, and stir up public ent in favor of the Plumage Bill, ich the importation of feathers be prohibited by law; and an apas made for subscriptions.

NOTES.

ll' London correspondent, writes under' e July -Sfch.':—(Lady Islington left Lou-. I this afternoon for Plymouth, there [join the s.s. Turakina, which sails torrow' for New Zealand. She is accomi'e'l bv her daughter, the Hon. Joan •kson-Poynder, and her suite includes. 58 Pauliri'e Cotton (lady cb'mpaviion), a rem ess for the Hon. Joan, and Cann <i. C, Hamilton, A.P.C. Extensive erations and improvements have been i carried out nil board tie Turakina for ! the convenience of Lady Islington and | party. The furnishing of her ladyship's i apartments has been done by Maple's. j In the bedroom and dressing-room the ! floor is covered with a deep pile Saxony i carpet of pale grey tone. Trite furniture 'i in these rooms is a reproduction in waxed mahogany, of Georgian furniture of the ' best period. The curtains are a pretty tono of of blue jaspe silk. The sittingroom is similarly carpeted, and the tone ■of th-- hangings in'tihis apartment is a beautiful shade-of green. The furniture is of canej light and graceful'in appearance, and this, together with a comfortablelooking settee, is upholstered in one of : the latest shadow cretonnes, forming a very dainty scheme of decoration. In the Hon. Joan Dickson-Poynder's bedroom the tone of grey in the. carpet is the same j as that used in 'Lady Islington's suite. I Mrs. Asquith accompanied Lady Islington j to Plymouth to see her off. I Two actresses, one from a music-hall, ■ ■ the other from a theatre, were injured in Pari9 last ■winter, the former by a serpent's bite, the latter by a motor <■ 'bus. Both have just been awarded compensation by the courts (writes the Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph). The damage done by the motor 'bus has been estimated at nearly three timei that inflicted by the serpent. The music-hall actress played in the "Amorous Review," a part which consisted in dancing with a live snake curled round her. One evening the snake bit her, and she suffered an' injury which, according ! to evidence,, brought about 'what will be a permanent disablement within the ! meaning! of the 'Employers' Liability Act. | Witnesses were produced to show that (the manager insisted on plaintiff, appeari ing with a real live reptile. She began to act in the (Review" with one which died. She then offered to appear with an india-rubber snake, but tlie manager demurred. The spectators must see a real live snake on the stage. He even promised to pay half the price of a new live serpent if she eventually obtained a Madagascar snake from a purveyor to the Zoo. , This was the reptile that hit her. The court awarded her

1 £OB Bs, part representing medical attendance expenses, and the balance her salary at the rate of 6s a day since the date of the accident. The actress who was damaged by a motor 'bus got £l6O, but she had,*it is true, claimed £2400, She was driving to the theatre in a taxicab, which collided with a motor 'bus. As a consequence she was bruised on the body, and received a cut on her cheek, which has left a scar. Not only her person, which is comely, but also her dress, which was brand new, was damaged. Her bill was produced in court with the following items:—To one light blue satin cloak, lined mousseline de soie, silver embroidery, spoilt, £24; to one ermine Scole and «rniine muff, spoilt, £130; to one black velvet dress, spoilt, £32; to scar on cheek, £2214. The court ungallantly reduced the amount to £l6O, which is not even the estimated price of the furs.

Suit for divorce has been entered at Memphis, Henn., by ten-year-old Nellie Johnson-Lamar, declaring that her mar-

riage to Newton. Lamar, who is thirtytwo years ■ old, was brought about through duplicity on Lamar's part; that he enticed her away from her parents and married her when she was at an age too tender to know her own mind and inclinations. According to statements of persons concerned, Lamar, a ibarber by trade, secured a marriage license, and, driving to the Rev. E. 11. Overby's residence, took him to his bride-to-be. Attired in a long dress, to hide her youth from the. minister, the girl emerged from her father's house on the Horn Lake road. It was after dusk, and the license was read by match-light. Lamar had explained that the girl look-, ed young, but was older than she appeared. Suspecting little of the girl's real age, the minister performed the, ceremony. I

PRACTICAL RECIPES. COLD MEAT COOKERY. ' French Mince.—Mince with k chopper "(not a machine) any cold remains of meat, game, poultry, etc. Remove all gristle and skin; add.half the quantity of breadcrumbs and season with pepper and Salt. Chop very finely a 'shallot and a. little parsley. Fry the shallot brown in a little water, add the meat, etc., sprinkle over' a teaspoonful of flour, and stir for live minutes. Stir in slowly two or three tablespoonsful of gravy or stock. Cook very.slowly for half an hour. Serve with sippets of. fried bread or in a wail of mashed potatoes browned in the oven. Hash or cold met warmed in sauce.— Put 2oz, butter in a stewpan with two teaspoonMs of flour, stir quickly with a wooden spoon, and when well mixed, but not brown, pour in a little tomato sauce and gravy or stock to cover. When on the point of simmering put in slices of cold meat. Cover tightly and allow to simmer for one hour. Meat warmed up must simmer one hour or not at all.

Fricasse Beef with Vegetables.—Slice two small onions, one carrot, one turnip, a stick of celery and a small cauliflour into a stewpan; add stock or gravy, salt and cayenne pepper to cover a threepenny piece. Stew the vegetables until tender (about 20, minutes). Add Ihin slices of cold meat; heat thoroughly, but do> not let it 'boil. Put meat on a hot dish,, place vegetables around, and pour gravy over. Pork Collops,—One, pound cold pork, three or four apples, two or three onions, one wineglasaful, sherry. Mince 1 apples and onions and stew for one hour in the sherry and 2oz. of,sugar. Cut the pprk into cutlets and dip in melted butterfl Grill for eight minutes. Serve with the amove sauce poured over. The cutlets may also be served with plain apple or tomato' sauce.

Tomato- Hash.—Butter a piedigh and put in layers of cold meat, sliced tomatoes, bread- and iMttety sprinkling -salt and pepper between' each layer. Beat up one "or two eggs and add a little stock. Pour oyer the contents of the piedish and bake. '

PUDDINGS' WITHOUT EGGS. Brown Pudding.—Eight tablespoonfuls of flour, four tablespoonfuls jam, two tablespoonsfuls butter,, three tablespoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful mixed spice. Dissolve soda in a cup of milk. Cream soda, and lastly flour and spice. Steam sugar'and butter, add jam, then milk and for 2% hours. Troy Pudding. —Two and' a-half cupfuls of flour, half cupful suet, one small cup treacle, one cup chopped raisins, one cup, milk, one teaspoonful .soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, a pinch of salt, ia little lemon peel or essence. Mix well and boil for three hours.

Snowden Pudding.—'Line a greased basin with stoned raisins and fill with the following mixture:—Three oz. breadcrumbs, loz. flour, l»z. small sago, 2oz. moist sugar, 2oz. suet, one tablespoonl'ul jam, quarter of a pint of milk. Boil for two hours.

California Pudding.—Two cupfuls flour, one cupful raisins, one cupful currants, one cupful sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, a.little nutmeg and salt, one tea-' spoonful spice. Mix all together, then take one teaspoonful of soda and put in two cups of boiling water and mix with) other ingredients. .Tie in a cloth and boil i three hours. This pudding should be j mixed over night, but not allowed toi stand in tin. ,

SOME USEFUL HINTS. <Rust on a stove may be removed with: •kerosene. Wash well with a woollen cloth wet with kerosene. Let the stove stand for a day. Repeat the washing, rub dry with a, woollen cloth, and then polish with stove blacking. To clean a fishy frying-pan fill it with, cold water and set on the fire to boil. When boiling put a red-hot cinder in and I then wash in the usual way. j A teaspoonful of vinegar put into a] praffln lamp or stove that smells or, smokes will cause it to burn with a' clear light and prevent it smoking. Cheese that is in danger of becoming too dry may be kept soft by wrapping it in a cloth Avrung out of vinegar. It should be .kept in a cool place. Many people think this treatment improves the flavor of the' cheese. ' A little milk added to the water in which potatoes are boiled will make them whiter and taste better. Salt is an old-fasihioned disinfectant popular in our grandfathers' days. It

has the advantage of being non-odorous. It is capital for sprinkling about drains. Shabby dark leather will look like new ;if rubbed 'over with linseed oil or the ! well-beaten white of an egg mixed with a little black ink. Polish with soft cloths until quite dry and glossy. ' Collect all tue scraps of soap that are too small for use and see that they are all scraps of good soap and which will not j injure the skin. Take a cupful of boiling water to each half cupful of soap-scraps. Set it on the stove, and when the last scrap of soap has dissolved stir in oatmeal while it is still boiling, and thu3 form a thick paste. A few drops of scent many be added. Grease a dish, pour the mixture in, cut into squares, and when hardened you will have an excellent soap for the skin.