LADIES COLUMN.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 318, 23 July 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES COLUMN.

HELPS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. To Prevent Chapped Hands: Add a little borax to the water before washing. For a Blistered Heel: Scrape a little yellow soap and mix to a paste with a little water. For the Hair: " Tascho," the new hair rcstoror, is quite worth the trying if your hair requires a tonic. To Relieve Weariness : A bath in very warm water will relieve great weariness, (jive a quick dash of cold water after, and rub dry with a rough towel. To clean Enamelled Baths : Apply benzine on a small rag ; scour the bath with it first, then wash with hot water and soap. To remove-marks made by ho!: dishes on a varnished table, pour some paraffin over the spot and rub well with a sott cloth. To Soften the Hands: Quarter of a pound of mutton fat, lot camphor gum, \w. glycerine, Melt, mixing thoroughly, t'nd store in a covered pot. Rub Nie hands well with this mixture every night. To Clean Linoleum : Linoleum floorcoveriug will look as new if rubbed with equal parts of salad oil and turpentine. Rub thoroughly with a'flannel clock-, and do not use too much of the mixture, nor allow any of it to remain on the surface of the linoleum. Polish with a soft duster. To Take Wrinkles out of Clothes; All clothes, especially those made of linen, should be thoroughly shaken immediately after being passed through the wringer. Never allow them to remain in deep creases caused by heavy pressure, as it is difficult to remove wrinkles so made if they are allowed to dry in. NOTES AND GOSSIP. The following advertisement appeared in the Evening Post, Wellington, on June 28.—" Wanted,—A lady of good appearance and address, well educated and musical preferred, as companion to a gentleman residing in the country, whose wife's time is fully taken up with domestic duties. Horsps, vehicles, bicycle, tennis court, croquet lawn, and large house suitable for entertaining, at command. Applicant to stato age aud salary required. Address "Sinecure," Evening Post." Why n->t "Cynicus ?' Some Americans ore pointing out that Utah has sacrificed 'its right to be regarded as one of the States. When that distinction was conferred upon the territory and its people, an understanding was arrived at that every man should bo satisfied with one wife. It appears from a contemporary, however, that in one small town 23 husbands are living openly with 54 wives, and that town is not up to the average in polygamous cases. There is no need to be hard on the married men of Utah. It is understood chat the two and a fraetion wife to each man have no difficulty in regulating their spouses. This is the sort of vice that brings its own reward. A romantic story is told of tho marriage to an Irish girl of Dr Rizal, who was shot last years as a rebel by the Spanish authorities at Manila. Mrs Rizal was born in Hong Kong aud had gone with her father, a Mr Taufer, to Manila. Dr. Rizal attened Mr Taufer, and thus made his future wife's acquaintance. Dr. Rizal was then living in banishment, but was subsequently summoned to Spain, whence he was sent back to Manila for trial, and was there sentenced to death. The day after the trial Dr. Rizal was visited by his family, and also by his fiances'Miss Taufer, to whom ho proposed that their marriage should be celebrated before he was shot. She acquiesced iu the arrangement, and at 6 o'clock, on the morning of the execution she went to tho prison, and they were quietly married. The soldiers then approached with a rope to bind Dr. Rizal, and his weeping wife had to leave him. He was conducted to the place of exeoution on the Lunete, his wife following behind, but not being permitted to go near him. Dr. Rizal behaved with great fortitude. Ho took off his hat and bade everyone good bye three times, stating that he forgave all those who had done him evil. The firing party then shot him in the back, and he expired immediately. A week later Mrs Rizal set off on foot for tho rebel position at Imus, where sho first mot Ernilio Aquinaide, the rebel loader, and was received with great enthusiasm as the widow of a martyr of the cause. She subsequently assumed command of a company, and has won mora than one victory over the Spaniards. COOKING RECIPES. Plain Shortdread.—Tak3 ilb of butter, rub it with tho hands amongst lib of flour and 4oz of sugar ; make into a smooth bafl, lay it in a slightly buttered oake tin ; beat it into a .round or square shape according to the tin, prick it all over with a fork, aud round tho edges and bake in a moderate oven half an hour. Gateau de Poeumes.—Feel, core, and cut into pieces 21b of apples ; put them in strong salt and water as you do them. Let them Ho in it twelve hours, then wash them out, and soak them two hours in fresh water ; wipe them with a cloth very dry. Put Ills of sugar, with one breukfast cupful of cold water, the grated rind and juice of a lemon on aud boil. When it has become quite thick, put in the apples, and simmor till quito clear and stiff. Press into a mould and turn out when quite cold. Serve with whipped cream. London Tea Buns.—lngredients: lib flour, 4oz sugar, teaspoonful carbonate of soda, do. tartaric acid, and orange skin cut into small slices, 4oz butter, 3 eggs, essence lemon, butteraailk. Preparation. Put the flour into a basin, and all the dry ingredients, then the eggs well beaten and the flavouring. Makeinto'a dough as quickly as possible with buttermilk, if none to be had, use warm sweet milk, in which tho butter may be melted, cut in pieces twice the size of an egg ; roll them into balls, brush them over with the beaten yolk of an egg, strew roughly broken loaf sugar over the top and bake in a brisk oven. Pastry Making.—ln making pastry mix it quickly, avoid unnecessary handling, and bake immediately ; unless it gets iuto the oven at once it will be tough and heavy. Never use the hands to mix pastry, if you want it short aud flaky. Use, instead, a broad-bladed knife. It is better, when making pies, to use half and half, or one-third hrd and twothirds butter ; but puff-paste should be made of butter alone. Use good, sweet butter, and if possible use home rendered beef lard. Always sift the flour before using, add the salt, and thoroughly cliop the shortening iu the flour. Use enough ice-cold water to holdall together, handling a 3 little as possible. Pinch off enough dough for one crust; roll lightly and roll from you. Use only flour enough on the rolling pin and board to keep the dough from sticking. Never grease the pie tin, but dust slightly with Hour. Pics should be baked in a moderatc'y hot oven to a light brown. Have the greater heat on the bottom, that the under crust may bo well baked. A pie that is properly baked will slip from the tin with careful handling, and if placed on a wire frame where the air can piss under it, will cool without beoaming moist. If the pie is inclined to stick to the pie-tin, give the tin a few careful " flops " when you first take it from the oven, Iu making a juicy pie pin an inch-wide strip of white cloth'rouud the edge of the pie This will prevent the juice from cooking over the edge.