WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1920, Page 10

WOMAN'S WORLD

' USEFUL HINTS. Salt added to water in which glasses art- washed lielps to brighten them. Custards should never be allowed to boil. If they do they will curdle. To renovate brown boots and shoes, wash them well in warm water and soft soap, using a hard nail-brush. This will remove all the old and dirty polish. When preparing stale bread for puddings always soak it in cold *Vater, not hot. The former will make it light and crumbly—the latter heavy. A good cook wipes her stove down every day after use. This little expenditure of labor will pay in the long run, as the stove will always be free from grease. . ■ . Never wash -tiled,hearths. The water helps to split the enamel and glaze. Take a linen or .cotton cloth, dip in turpentine, and rub the tilfes till they are clean; then polish with a dry cloth. However damp your boots or shoes may be, a splendid polish can be given in a few seconds if a drop of paraffin oil be added to the blacking. This also prevents the leather from cracking. Fruit stains on linen should be smeared with glycerine and left for about an hour, then wash in warm soapy water; the process may need repeating. To clarify dripping put it into a bowl and pour on boiling water to cover. Stir well, and allow to cool. The puri- | fled dripping will then form a solid cake ' on the top, which, after it has been wiped dry, will be ready for use. Old newspapers are invaluable in the kitchen. Spread one on the table when about to do anything that will make a litter. When finished, wrap the paper lip tightly with the contents: and place in the fire or the rubbish box. The ceiling immediately above an incandescent mantle often becomes blackened. If whitewashed, the place can be cleaned by being rubbed over with a mixture of starch and water of the consistency of cream. A coft, flannel cloth should be used. When quite dry, spread a newspaper underneath and gently rub off the starch. The black a tain will have disappeared. Bright saucepans and kettles which have to go over a smoky fire can be kept beautifully bright if you smear a .little grease over the bright part before putting them on the fire. It prevents the smoke from blackening them. Leather, which has been used as a trimming for costumes and coats, recently made its appearance as an edging to veils. Small leather hats are both smart and sensible for bad weather wear. Rain cannot spoil them. If suet is melted in the oven and put into jars it will keep any length of time. This saves much time and labor of mincing, as tho suet is much easier to chop if treated this way. Puddings will keep much better if made with suet that has been melted. Orange-peel dried and grated makes a delicious flavoring for many dishes. A little dried orange-peel grated into vanilla extract will give a pudding a rich flavor. It often happens that when a lemon has been cut only half is used. It is a good plan to place the remaining half cut side downwards, on .1 plate, and cover with a tumbler. This excludes the air, and the lemon will keep fresh for some time. The Amplest method of removing grease stains is the following: Place the stained part of the material between two sheets of blotting-paper and press with a hot iron. Now move the paper so that a fresh piece covers the stain and press again. Repeat the process till the stains disappear. WOMAN'S COLOSSAL FORTUNETho story of Mrs. Yone Suzuki, a little Japanese woman, who was taught merely to minister to her husband and to look to her household, and who at middle age is a dominant figure in the world of commerce, is one of the strangest romances of trade ever told. Her ships J sail the seven seas, carrying goods of! all kinds from her many factories to the markets of the world. She is interested in practically every industry of tho East. She is by far the richest woman in the Orient—perhaps in the world. Mr. Takoliata, Mrs- Suzuki's business representative, at present In London, was perplexed when asked by a Daily Express representative ho'w many people she employed. "I do not know," he replied; "it is too difficult to say. She has so many interests in so many industries in so many parts of the world that it is impossible to judge, but there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands." Some of these many world-1 wide interests were revealed by Mr. Takoliata. Mrs Suzuki owns 98 per cent of the shares in the great firm of Suzuki and co., one of the largest business enterprises in existence. She has offices in London, Glasgow, New York, Hongkong, San Francisco, Seattle, Madras, Manila, Shanghai, Bombay, Calcutta, Vladivostock, Melbourne, and in practically every one of tho world's important seaports. She controls the steel industry of Japan, she has a world monopoly in crude camphor, and she dominates the sugar market. She is the holder of vast estates in Japan, Korea, and the West Indies. Her fleet of CO steamships, totalling more than half a million tons, is engaged solely in carrying the goods she manufactures to every part of the i universe. Nearly as many more are j now under construction in her own shipyards. In the near future she will have a mei chant fleet of 100 vessels, aggregating almost a million tons, and she is also associated with the International Steamship Company. Among Mrs- Suzuki's many enterprises are zinc, lead, and copper mines, smelteries and refineries, flour mills, cotton mills, alcohol distilleries, celluloid factories, salt works, leather and artificial silk factories, steel works, rubber factories, breweries, dockyards, life and marine insurance companies, and banks. Her company is also the agent in Japan for numerous large firms of America ?. nd ® urope - K has been estimated that Mrs. Suzuki made from £30,000,000 to £40,000,000 during the war, but Mr xakohata would not affirm the figures. Tho marvellous career of this great woman capitalist appears the more remarkable ,when one understands the eonditions m Japan, where women, perhaps, occupy as degraded an estate as anywhere. A girl is never allowed to go out alone. She is brought up merely to know how to please her husband, and her marriage is nearly always arranged without as much as consulting her. Mm. Suzuki was left a sugar refinery bv her husband, who died 20 years ago She sold it for £650,000, and used the money schemes mny great bU3in es3