WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1918, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

USEFUL HINTS.

SOCIETY MEWS. Mrs. Buckley, Inglewood, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Miss 0. Mackav is the gue6t of Mrs R. Self, Te Kuiti. * » • • Mrs. J. C. Nicholson, who has been the guest of her mother, returns to New Plymouth on Monday. **» T » Mrs P. Arden is on a, visit to Bulls. * * ♦ » Mrs K. B. Lusk, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. W. D Webster, returned to Auckland by Friday's boat. * * «' » Miss Banwell, Mistress of the Preparitory Boys' High School, is spending her term holidays in Auckland. * • • « Miss M. Evans, of the Hamilton Hospital nursing staff, is the guest of her father, Ven. Archdeacon Evans. Mrs Simpson with her daughter, Mrs. Daniells, leave on Monday for Wellington, where they intend meeting the latter's husband, Rifleman J. S. Daniells, who is returning from the front. » » * ♦ Mrs B. H. Bartley, who has been on a visit to Auckland, has returned. • * » * Mrs 'Percy Webster is on a visit to Wellington. # * * * Misses E. and C. Penn are on a visit to Napier. * » * » Miss Rollo, who has been «n a visit to Wellington, has returned. * » ♦ * Miss Powles, Wellington, is the guest of Miss Percy Smith. # * * * Miss Good, who has been the guest of Mrs F. G. Evans, has returned to Hawera. *•# • • Mrs H. Fookes is the guest of Mrs Greenwood, Urenui. * * » » Mrs Birch-Johnston, who has been visiting her relatives at Maketawa, has returned to Wellington. * * » • Mrs E. F. Blundell, who has been visiting Feilding and Wanganui, returns to New iPlymouth on Monday * • » » '■ Miss Read returned from Opunake on Tuesday. * * * # Mesdames Thomson and Sturrock, Hawera, and Mrs Pearson, Hamilton are staying at Chatsworth House. Miss Cla t ko and Miss Fairbrother, assistant teachers at the New Plymouth Girls High School, are spending the term holidays with their people at Dunedin and Palmerston North respectively

ENGLISH GIRLS.

Referring to the remarks of the Mayor of Christchurch when speaking recently at Amberley on the question of Home girls, the Lyttelton Times says: Whatever may have been the exact words used by Mr Holland, his intentions was to sound a note of warning against our young soldiers contracting hasty marriages in England. The Mayor's anxiety is for the welfare of both the men and women of this country. Beyond a doubt there is a certain menace to the social and the economic fu ure of .New Zealand if any appreciable number of the dominion's soldiers select their life-partners from among the ordinary class of workers in English factories. The general standard of living, of comfort, of education and social status are a great deal higher here than they are m England, and if there are many marriages of the kind Mr Holland clearly had in his mind when he made the observations that have been criticised the effect must be to lower the moral fibre of the New Zealand commust be remembered that in the United Kingdom the normal condition is that the female outnumber males by about a million and a-half. There is, as a natural consequence always a large army of girls or women looking for husbands, and we can imagine that the colonial soldier affords matenal for the searchers. There is no patriotism in ignoring these facts and no disloyalty in mentioning them Briefly, our conviction is that, generallv speaking, it .is not desirable that New Zealand soldiers should, on necessarily Bhort acquaintance, marry girls of the English factory type and bring them here to help in making the future community. And, as a rule—a rule for the proof of which there are, of course ex-ceptions-girls who are ready to become wives; on short notice do make themselves cheap. How marriages of this description may be prevented or even discouraged, for practical purposes, we may be unable to suggest, but clearthinking people will agree with the purport of the remarks made tin this subject by Mr Holland.

Mildew on leather may be removed bv nibbing the affected part with vaseline. To keep milk sweet for several davs add a teaspoonful of fine salt to cacli quart of milk. To make shaßby brown boots and shoes take the blacking well, first rub} with a raw potato. You can rid a place of ants by laying down a large sponge well soaked,with treacle which haß been diluted with water. If moths are in a carpet you can kill them, and also the eggs, by spreading a damp cloth ovfcr the part and ironing Inkstaina may be removed from glass by immersing the article in cold water and rubbing with common household salt. All water may be made soft by adding a . tc&spoonful of boraji to an ordinarysized kettle of water, in whioh it should coil A deep jam jar placed inside a saucepan will do just as well as a double sauce-pan for the purpose of cooking porridge. Paint can b<j remr|;ed ,»om by rubbing it with liot strong vinegarThe odour of onions on the fingers can be entirely removed by washing the hands in salt water. Stale bread and vinegar applied to a. corn as a. poultice nightly will cure the corn in three nights. _ When paraffin oil is well rubbed into linoleum it will retain its color and wea 1 * twice as long as is usual. Try throwing a slimy sponge into a ba«in of salt and water. Squeeze and rinse it well in this, and all trace of sliminess will disappear. It il-ft gtod plan to ruV k smoky

lamp-chimney with a cloth moistened with methylated spirit. This will take off marks that refuse to budge for soap and water. A considerable amount can be saved on the gas-bill by placing a piece of eheet-iron on the stove-top. One burner will ieat this sufficiently to keep two oxthree pans cooking. Choose a reversible material when buying a new gown. Things bought nowadays are rather apt to fade, and it is so nice to know that if this happens the whole thing cau be turned and will then look as fresh as ever. When cooking a beefsteak pudding a piece the sizj of half-a-crown should bo cut out of the paste at the bottom of the basin before putting the meat in. The pudding will then cook in one hour instead of two. ' Brush a shabby navy blue serge with a brush dipped in vinegar. Do not use the brush too wet, and when done iron the serge carefully on the wrong side. Vinegar is woderful for taking spots and stains out of serge. Drink half • a .glass of hot milk to which a little nutmeg has been added before going to bed if you are troubled witli persistent sleeplessness. Hot milk with a little nutmeg is a fine thing to make one sleep. To slice bacon properly always place it rind down, and do not attempt to cut through the rind. When you have the desired number uf slices, slip the knife under them and cut them free of the rind, keeping as close to it as possible. To clean a very dirty galvanised bucket, add a little spirits of salt to some cold water, and with this and an old brush well scrub th e bucket; but be very careful not to let the stuff touch your lingers, jis it burns. Afterwards well rinse the bucket with several lots of water. If you have to clean brown varnished paint, try rubbing it first with a rag moistened with paraffin to remore all dirt, and then polish with just a little of the brown paste that is used for cleaning boots. Only tho tiniest bit is needed for a patch, but it makes the pain* loos nice. A solution of oxalic acid rubbed over tarnished brass removes the tarnish, rendering the metal bright. The acid'mast be washed off with water, and the brass be rubbed with whiting and a soft leather. A mixture of muriatic acid and alum dissolved in water, imparts a golden color to brass articles if they are steeped in it for a few seconds. As both acids are poisons great care should be exercised by those who use them. Sour milk is one of the best skin foods as well as skin whiteners in the world. Many women who use it declare that they require no other cosmetic. But to some people the smell of sour milk is most unpleasant, and for them the following simple treatment is recommended:—Apply lemon juice to the face and let it dry on. Then rub in sweet milk or eream very gently. If this is done at night and the face thoroughly rinsed in the morning the results will be markedly good. This is a splendid way to get rid of freckles.