LADIES' COLUMN.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 339, 10 September 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

DON'T DO IT, GIRLS. It is stated that when Boadicea led her army to battle she wore a man's armour but was always careful to leave her golden hear floating over the steel links, that all men might know that she was not only a warrior, but a woman. Queen Elizabeth, the most »hrowd and prudent sovereign of her day, when she held important councils with from other countries, not only, we ara told, brought al! her learning and sagacity to bear agaiust them, but ''tucked herself in htr most splendid upparol and rareat jewels, using all little female arts to win them to her service," "Victoria has laid deep the foundation of her empire over her subjects in their auctions. It is not the hereditary queen that they reverence, so much as the modesr, young girl, the faithful wife, the good, kindly woman on the throne. It is a singular fact that no woman has ever long influenced the world as ruler, writer, or even reformer, who threw aside her feminine weapons. The charm of a womanly woman is a real power. Her gentleness, hor delicacy her modesty, are real forces. Tho girl who dresses like a man, who swaggers, who talks loudly, discusses risque books and smokes cigarettes is like a soldier who has thrown away his weapons before he goes into battle. Her bicycle, for example, may he a good, useful thing, but she will hot induce the public to approve of bicycles for woman by appearing on it as an offensive caricature of a man. She will not win the world to her cause, however just, by disgusting it with herself. Why should any of our girls throw away the weapons which God had given them ? THE VALUE OF OUR MISTAKES. It is always a pleasant thing to be right, but it is generally a much more useful thing to be wrong. If you are right, all that you do, as a rulo, is to confirm your previous opinion, your previous habits of reasoning, and your previous self-esteem. But if you are wrong you generally gain in knowledge, and gain (perception of the way in which your method of diagnosis needs improvement, and the influence on sslf-esteein is not likely to do you harm—at least, that iB my own experience, and I think I have, it confirmed in others. But the result is dependent upon deliberate effort. There is a strong temptation to smooch down error, and it is very easy not to gain from it its precious lesson. It is more easy to fancy that there is some accidental cause for the mistake than frankly to perceive that it is a fault. But if jou make a deliberate effort to realise and to face, in your own mind, the mistake you have made, to discern its cause, and to employ this perception, as far as you can, to remove the cause and pre« vent a like mistake in the future—if you can do this, almost every error beaomes one of the precious experiences of jour practical life. CORK FOR LOYE. Take a grain of sense, half a grain of patience, one dram of understanding, one ounce of disdain, one pound of resolution, and one handful of dislike. Mix them together, fold them up in tho alembic of your brains for twenty-four hours, then set them on a slow fire of hatrrd. Strain it clean from the dregs of melanoholy ; stop it.down with a cork of sound judgment, and let it stand nine days in the water of cold affection. This rightly made and fully applied is the most effectual cure in the world. You can get it at the House of Understanding, Content Street, going up the Hill of SelfDenial, in the City of Forgetfnlness, in the County of Love No More. NATURAL AIDS TO GOOD LOOKS. The surest way of preserving the skin in a fresh and bright condition is to carefully carry out a few simple rules laid down by Nature her self for tho guidance of all those who want to possess a good complexion. First all, then, use plenty of good soap and soft water, have any amount of fresh air and exercise; sleep with open windows; accustom yourself to a daily morning bath; and not ruin your digestion by eating much pastry, many sweets, or very hot and highly seasoned dishes. The necessity of keeping the skin absolutely clean in order to ensure it being of a good appearance is of the first importance; and again, care should always be taken not to sleep under too heavy bed-clothing. What is used should always be very light and very well-ventilated, otherwise the carbonic aoid which has passed away from the body will not be able to escape, and will be re-absorbed, instead of the fresh air, or oxygen, by which it should ba replaced. There are more complexions spoilt by sleeping under many and unventilated bedclothes than people are at all aware of for if the bad air be absorbed again and again, it is quite out of the question to have a fresh appearance. WHAT TO DO IN CASES OF POISONINGAct promply and use the means at hand. Send a message to the nearest doctor, and let him know, if possible, the kind of poison swallowed, so that he may bring the appropriate remedy with him. If the poison be a narcotic, as opium, belladonna, etc., the patient will be sleepy and stupid, soon becoming insensible and breathing heavily. The pupils of the eyes may be contracted to a pin's point, or widely dilated ; there may do convulsions. If the poison be an irritating one, as Brsenic, corrosive sublimate, etc., there will be nausea and vomiting, severe pain in the abdomen, faintness, purging and the extremities may be cold and tho pulse weak. In all cases, the first thing to be done is to get the poison out of the stomach. This is most easily managed by an emetio. Lukewarm water may do this ; if it is greasy so much the better. Give a glassful, then put tho finger down the throat as far as pofsible, and tikle it. Thiß alone will sometimes cause vomiting, if no water is to be had. A simple emetic is one teaspoonful of ground mustard, stirred in a cupful of tepid water; or two tablespoonfuls of common salt, prepared in the iame way. One tablespoonful of ipecac, for a grown person—and one or two teaspoonfuls for a child—is a good emetic. Twenty grains of sulphate of zinc can be used, but haste is tho important matter use the finger while waiting, and try the other emetics if that be not effectual. After vomiting has ceased, or the stomach has been well washed out, try to remedy what has been done. In opium poisoning, give strong, hot coffeo, If the patient cannot swallow, give half a pint as an enema. Iu the latter case it should be only warm that it may be retained ; if not, it bo rejected. It can be repeated in an hour. Keop the sufferer roused if possible. Iu any case when the pulse i 3 feoblo and extremities cold, apply hot water bags or bottles, or hot bricks wrapped in flannel to tho legs and feet, and put a mustard paste over the Ueart. Give a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in warm water. If the breathing become very slow—six or eight times in a. minute—try artificial respiration. Raise the arms until the hands meet at the top of the head, bring them clown on the cheat with a firm pressure. Repeat this s'xteen times in a minute. RECIFIES. TRBtCLE SroJfiiK.— Hilf pound of flour, " v lb breid crumbs, jib suet, \ teaBpoonfil of bicarbonato ofaoda,-ijoz of grounl singer, I gilt of treacle, h pint J of milk, one egg, Mode : Chop the suit as

finely as possiblo, and put it inta a basin with the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and ginger. Beat up tho egir, mix tho treacle and milk with it. and add the mixture in the basin ; mix well, and turn it into a well greased basin or mould, and steam for two hours. Sorve with sweet sauce. Baked Sdet Podding.—lib of flour. 4oz of sultanas, loz of fiucly chopped candiod peel, half a pound of finely chopped suet, 4oz of sugar, 1 egg, % pint of milk or water. 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Mode: Mix all the dry materials first, then moisten with the well beaten egg and milk. Put the mixture into a well greased pio dish and bake for an hour and a half in a moderate oven. Serve with sweet sauce if liked. Boiled Pudding.— \\ pints of milk, J piut bread crumbs, sugar to taste, 4 eggs, loz butter, 3 oz currants, j teaspojnful grated nutmeg. Mode : Make the milk boiling, and pour it on tho bread crumbs, let these remain till cold ; then add the other ingredients, taking care that the eggs aro well beaten, and the currants well washed and dried. Beat tho pudding well, and put into a buttered basin ; tie it down tightly with a cloth, plungo it into boiling water, and boil for !f hour ; turn out of basin and serve with sifted suizar. Any odd scraps answer for this pudding ; and, when used, should have the water wpII squeezed from them - Seed Buns.—Four eggs, 4 teacups of sutrar, 2 ditto of butter, one of milk, a tablespoonful of carraway seeds, a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, flour. Mode : Beat the ingredients well together adding flour by degrees till a pasto thick enough to roll out is formed. Make into small buns and bake in a quick oven. Sponge Cake in Syrup.— : Method. Take equal quantities of sugar and water —half a pound of sugar to half a pint of water, boil to a syrup, flavour with wine, liquer, or fruit jelly, and nour over a stale sponge cake or small ones. When well soaked serve with whipped cream. Chocolate Marbled Cake.—Take 1 cup of butter, 1\ cups of sugar, cream well together, then add the whites of 8 egtrs, beaten to a froth, 1 cup of Rweet milk, 3 cups of flour in which have been well sifted 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Whip well together. Then takeout one pint of the mixture or a little more, in a bowl, and add \ teacup grated chocolate. This is nice baked in layers or marbled with tho white part.