WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1922, Page 10

WOMAN’S WORLD.

ODDS AND ENDS OF FASHION. HATS, COATS, AND COLORS. Red, red. nothing but red, meets the eye at every turn. Whoever decided that red should be the popular color has had his way, for the shop windows make one positively blush until the cheeks are as red as the goods the other side of the glass (writes Isabel Ramsay. Paris correspondent of the »Sydney Sunday* Times). Red hats, red trimmings, flowers, and feathers. Red gloves, or black gloves with red stitchings. Red umbrellas and red parasols, red sticks and motor sunshades. Red bags, and red collars and coats for the dog. Red pocket handkerchiefs, and red clocks to silk stockings. Now there are even red patent leather shoes, or white buckskin shoes picked out with red leather, and dancing toecaps with high heels in red velvet or brocade. A warm sun and a clear sky make it tempting to discard winter clothes. Some days are quite cold even yet, so that furs are still worn a great deal. Jackets and coats that were bordered with furs have taken on a spring-like air. for the fur is removed and, instead, js put round a deep band of looped ribbon or braid. These loops are symmetrically arranged round the coat, starting from below the normal waist line. A narrower band on the cuffs is arranged, but the collar is left quite plain.

Smart litle silk coats are embroidered all over with raffi. straw in some light shade. Biscuit and black are the usual contrasting tones, and wheatcars a popular design. The hat, also in silk, is embroidered across the front of the folded crown, and the top of the brim as well. A handbag can easily be made to match with little trouble or expense. Black kid gloves stitched with a biscuit shade, and black patent shoes worn with biscuit silk stockings, make a charming afternoon toilette to wear with a neat little frock or black satin, embroidered across the bodice in shadow stitch with biscuit colored embroidery silk. Such combinations are seen a great deal at the dansants or afternoon parties. They arc easy to carry out. no matter what coloring is chosen, and are not too-extravagant to wear anywhere. Quilted silk (cloquella) is another attractive material for a hat and a coat worn over a plain afternoon frock. Tn black or ’in colors it is charming, soft, and flexible for folds and pleats, or equally soft pulled tight. Sometimes a Chinese pattern of a mountain and castle is woven into the silk, in silver, in blue, in red. or in white. It is not too loud or thick for a loose, hip-length coat, while a close-fitting hat of this material is quite coy. Wide Chinese sleeves, and a folding stand-up collar, are made for these comfortable coats, with a gay lining inside to tone with the design on top, and everything else en suite.

All sorts of queer mixtures are to be found forming hats. Chamois leather. cut in strips, is plaited with felt. Satin and straw go together, either in plaitings or wide pleatings of satin between two bands of straw. Ribbon is popular for smallish hats. Petersham ribbon is criss-crossed’ all over the crown, working down in fine graduations to the edge of a narrow brim. Barron looped ribbon forms crown and edge of a toque, or the upturned brim of a marquis hat. Silk braid, and a lace made of crinoline straw, are two of the spring novelties for making large hats. The two combined look very smart, a full crown and broad brim of the straw laco being trimmed with bands of the braid.

DOMESTIC JOTTINGS. REMOVING INK STAINS. Ink splashes on paint can usually be got away by applying some lemon juice and salt. Apply the moistened salt as a paste and then leave it on for ten minutes. Rinse and if the ink has not been softened make another application of the salt. Clean away all traces of the salt and lemon juice with plain water in the end, as the mixture if left on might stain some kinds of paint. A DECORATIVE NOTION. It is not generally realised that wood may be effectively * stained with dyes commonly employed for fabrics. Floors or articles of furniture made of plain wpod may be treated in this way. When the wood is not new it should be well scrubbed before applying the dye which should be put on the wood when it is very hot. (It is a good plan first to brush some of the dye on a piece of wood in order to ascertain if the right shade has been secured.) Allow the dye to dry and then go over the whole surface with a rag that has been dipped in boiled oil. The wood may then be polished with any good wax or polish, or, if preferred, it may be varnished. WHEN WASHING GLOVES. A super-fatted soap should be used when cleansing washable leather gloves. A few drops of salad oil put in the first washing water will help to loosen the dirt and make the gloves delightfully soft. After the gloves have been washed twice in soapy water —the second basin of soapy water must be at the same temperature as the first Vasin of water—and all the moisture has been removed by wringing the gloves in a dry towel blow vigorously into each glove so that the fingers and thumb arc filled with air. Very slow drying and repeated gentle rubbing tc keep the leather pliable will also contribute to success. If gloves are dried on the wooden or wire stretchers that can be obtained undoubtedly the shape will be improved and they may be easily put on after having been washed. TO CLEAN FEATHERS. Feathers can be cleaned in this way: Make a dough of flour and a little petrol. (Remember that the petrol must never bp used near an exposed light.) When the dough is dry, crumble it to powder and then rub ! it into the feathers, using a finger or a niece of soft cloth. If aqy of the

petrol dough remains it, can be stored in an airtight tin for future use. MOTHS. Some people are greatly troubled with moths and silverfish in clothing. The following is a packer’s remedy. Soak a cloth in turpentine, and occasionally wipe out all drawers and boxes, leaving the contents to air for a while. Cigarette and pipe ash make another excellent remedy. I have tried these, and have had very little trouble with the pest. You might for the curtains wipe the board or pole they are attached to. If they can be taken down and aired, it will help to get rid of the moths. THE HOME COOK CAULIFLOWER PIE. l This is an excellent way of using up the remains of a cauliflower. Put a layer of cold cauliflower in a pie dish, and grate some cheese over it, rather thickly, then put over the cheese another layer of cauliflower, grate cheese over it again; then a thick layer of bread-crumbs, put a nob of butter on top, and bake for half an hour. If the cauliflower has been served without white sauce, it will be necessary to make a little sauce, and alternate it with the cheese in ' making the pie covering. POTATOES A LA DANOISE. Pare six medium-size potatoes and cut in quarters. Cover with boiling water and cook until tender; drain. Mash and add 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons butter cJ/s-teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons butter. A-teaspoon white pepper. 1 teaspoon onion extract, 2-3 cup hot milk. 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley. Whip up well to blend and make the potato mixture light and fluffy, then fold in the stifly beaten whites of two eggs and turn in a baki ing dish and sprinkle the top with grated cheese. Bake in a hot oven ; just to brown the top lightly. LAYER PUDDING. Ingredients.—Short crust pastry, apricot jam. Method: Grease a mould or basin. Roll out the pastry thinly and line the basin with it. Place a spoonful of jam at. the bottom, and over this put a thin layer of pastry. Continue alternate layers of jam and pastry until the basin or mould is full. The iast layer must be pastry. Cover with greased paper and steam for to 3 hours. Turn out and serve hot. Note: Golden syrup thickened with breadcrumbs and flavored with grated lemon rind and the juice of a lemon may be used in place of jam, and, if preferred, the pudding may be baked instead of steamed, in which case it fakes less time to cook —about one hour in a moderate oven. SCALLOPED POTATOES. Peel and mince fine fl medium-size onions. 2 leeks, 1 faggot pf soup herbs. Pare and cut in this slices G mediumsize potatoes, cover the potatoes with boiling water and boil five minutes. Drain and place a layer of the potatoes in a buttered baking dish; then a layer of the prepared herbs. Repeat until the dish is full, having the top layer of potatoes. Now place cups of milk in a saucepan and add fl tablespoons flour. Dissolve the flour and bring the mixture to a boil. Cook for five minutes. Pour over the potatoes and sprinkle thickly with breadcrumbs and 4 tablespoons grated cheese, dotting with little dots of butter. Bake in a hot oven for 25 minutes. PRUNE MOULD. Stew two pounds of prunes with half a pound of sugar and three-quarters of a pint of water until quite soft. Take out the stones, crack them, And take out the kernels. Melt quarter of an ounce of gelatine in a little boliing water, and mix with the prunes and kernels. Put all into a greased mould, and press down well. When cold turn out and pour cream over.