LADIES' COLUMN.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 324, 6 August 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. WIIES cnat collars are greasy, the best away to clean them is to rub them with a sponge dipped in ammonia. Brooms dipped for a few minutes in boiling- suds once a week will last much longer than they otherwise would do. In order to ventilate a room properly, you need to open the windows both top and bottom. Fresh air como in at the bottom ; foul air goes out at the top : thu3, a friend is admitted, and a foe is expelled. In mixing a mustard plaster, mix the mustard with white of egg instead of water. The planter will then be much less likely to cause tie skin to blister. Meat that is slightly tained should be examined carefully. Have every part that is discoloured cut away ; then wash in water in which a tea-spoonful of borax has been dissolved. When celery is scarce and dear, dear, celery seed may take its place in flavouring souds and stews. The vry best thiug to clean decanters is a mixture of salt and vinegar.' Put a dessert-Kpoonful of salt in the decanter, moisten with vinegar, shake well, and rinse. To remove ink spots : Wash the place with cold water, wittuut soap, and apply a solution of dilute muriatic acid ; any chemist will give the proper proportions. This will only do for white materials. Ink may aUo be removed from white cotton by dipping it in milk ; but this must be done immediately. How to stain floors: To prepare the stain, take h gal. of turpeutime, 1 gal. of boiled linseed oil ; mix and add burnt sienna and vandyke brown paint, until the desired shade is attained. If walnut stain is desired, use more of the vandyke brown and less sienns, if cherry stain, use more of sienna. The floor must be clean and dry beiore applying stain, and each coat of stain must dry before another is laid on. Two coats will answer. Three or four will give a richer effect. domestic Weights and measures. Sixty drops of liquid make one teaspoonful. Two teaspoonfuls of liquid make one dessertspoonful. Two dessertspoonfuls of liquid or four teaspoonfuls make one tablespoonful. Four tablespoonfuls of liquid make one wineglassful, or two ounces. Sixteen tablespoonfuls of liquid make one half-pint. Fight tablespoonfuls of liquid make one gill. ~ Two wine-glassfuls of liquid make one gill, or one tea-cupful. One coffee-cupful makes one half-pint. A heaped quart or four coifee-cupfuls of floor make one pound. A full tablespoonful of floor makes one half-ounce. WORK FOR DAINTY FINGERS. To Mount Sea Mosses.—Put chem in clear water to wash out the sand. If they are too thick, pick them apart; they will float on top of the water. Slip the card on which you mount them under the moss carefully, so that the water can run off without disarranging the moss ; then take blotting paper the same size as tbe card. Put as many as you are going to press on top, with paper between, then put a heavy weight on them. Press them a week or more, till the blotting paper absorbs all the water. Uso a knitting or darning ntedle to spread them on the card Silk Purse.-'-From time immemorial, a silken purse has been considered the acme of elegance. Every lady who values simplicity and beauty must prefer them to the bungling combinations of plush and leather with which the shops are flooded. A very pretty'and easily made long silk purse requires about half an ounce of medium knitiug silk. Cast on 59 stitches, and knit across plain. 2nd row, purl 2 together, throw thread over ; repeat, until ouly 1 stitch remains. Knic I. 3rd row. and every succeeding row, until the 65th is reached, the same as the 2nd. Then follow with 83 rows of garter stitch, after which knit 64 rows of tbe open work, as at first ; knit one row plain, and cast off. Sew up the sides of the web thus obtaiued, leaving an opening of 2| inches, and finish with Bteel trimmings. Great care should be taken to keep up the number of stitches. At the beginning of every row there should be 59 on the needle. I have never succeeded in picking up a stitch dropped, though I have coutrived to make one without spoiling the work, rather than ravel it out. • TRY A sun bath for rheumatism. A wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless. Swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Buttermilk for removal of freckles, and butternut stains. Taking your cod liver oil in tomato sauce if you want to make it palatable. A hot, dry flannel over the seat of nsuralgic paiu, and renew it frequently. A cloth wruug out from cold water put about the neck at night, for sore throat. Walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward. Planting sunflowers in your garden if compolled to live in a malarial neighbourhood. RECIPES. Scotch Oat Cake.—Take a quart of fine oatmeal, mince into it (with a knife) a tablespoonful of good butter and half a teaspoonful of tablesalt, pour over this enough luke-warm water to make dough, roll out thin, cut and bake till brown in a quick oven ; ten minutes wiil cook them enough. Lemon Pudding (Boiled).—Alb. of breadcrumbs, 6oz. of flour, 2oz of butter, A pint of milk, a lemon. Shred the peel tine, mix with the crumbs and juice, add the flour and butter rubbed together, and sugar. Mix with the milk to a soft paste. Boil two hours and a half. Lemon Pcddimg (Baked.)—Alb. very light white bread; cut in thiu slices, crumb, pour a pint of boiling milk over, cover and leave to got cold, and then well beat with a fork, and add 6oz. of lump sugar on which has been rubbed the peel of 2 good lemons, the juice of a lemon, and 2 eggs. Bake in a moderately quick oven one hour. Raisin Pudding (Baked).—lo oz. of flour. lOoz. of ground rice, a salt spoonful of bicarbonate of soda ; mix well, then rub in 3oz. butter, add lib. of raisins stoned and halved, 3oz. of sugar, and a little nutmeg ; mix with A pint milk, and bake in a shallow tiu an hour and kilf. Comfort is the daughter of and is descended in a direct line from wiidom ; she in closely allied to carefulness, thrift, honesty, and religion ; she has been educ itid by good sense, benevolence, obseivation, "and experience ; and she is the mother of cleanliness, economy, provident forethought, virtue, propriety, and domestic happiness. Muddle is descended from the ancient but dishonourable family of chaos ; she is the child of indifference and want of principle, educated alternately by dawdling, hurry, stupidity, obstinacy meanness and extravagance, secretly united at an early age to eelfconceit, and parent of procrastination, falsehood, dirt, waste, disorder, destruction, uud desolaliou,