LADIES' COLUMN.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 363, 5 November 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

USEFUL HINTS.

To Wash White Knitted Garments. —Cut up and melt to a jelly about lib of soap. When it has become cold beat with the hand, adding a little of Scrubbs Clonay Household Ammonia, and enough boiling water to make it warm. Wash the articles in this liquid, rinse well in tepid water, wring out, and roll in a large towel for a few minutes, then dry before the fire. Do not stretch the garments while they are drying, but give them an occasional shake, and take care not to plane them too close to the fire. To PreserveTobtoiseshell Combs and Hairpins.—Tortoiseshell combs, now so fshionably worn, frequently show signs of scaling or splitiug. To remedy this, lay them in olive oil for one night, or longer if in a very bad state. In any case, it is always a good plan to rub tortoiseshell with olive oil from time to time and rub with the palm of the hand, and not with leather or any other medium. Lime in the Eye.—lf a particle of hme enters the eye, mix a little vinegar with water. About one-fourth of tho former to three fourths of the latter. Bathe the eye with this, allowing the fluid to make its way beneath the eyelid.

The Cooking ok Sauces.— Any sauces containing egg or cream should never be allowed to boil, otherwise they will curdle.

Tarnished Silver. —Tarnished silver is cleaned more quickly, and with a better result, if the whiting is moistened with methylated spirit or liquid ammonia, instead of with water.

To Keep Cheese. —Where any difficulty is experienced in keeping cheese from becoming hard and dry, simply wring a cloth of light beer or table ale or water, and wrap round the cheese when sent from table. A New Way to Clean Patty Pans Case Tins Etc.—Place the above in boiling water with Hudson's Extract of Soup, boil.for one hour, and the tins will be found as clean and bright as new. For Removing Grease form Zinc Baths Pails Etc.—Saturate a flannel well with paraffin oil, and rub briskly, afterwards washing with soda-water.— It will remove dirt and grease quickly, making the article like new. For the Cook.—lf the fat begins to foam when you are cooking fish or croquettes, the temperature is too low. Finish cooking what is already in the pan, and heat till a blue smoke rises before putting in more. Cleaning Carpets on the Floor.— Sweep thoroughly first, then put 2 tablespoonfuls of ammonia iu a pan of water, and with a brush not too stiff, scrub the catpet carefully, being careful not to make it very wet. Wipe with a cloth change the water frequently. Open all the winders and doors until the carpet dries. Add a little paraffin to the water used for boiling clothes, it will greatly improve their colour. Toilet Hints.—For skinny arms: Bathe them in cold water every day. Rub thoroughly with a good cold cream, and use dumb bells twice a day for 10 minutes. Hot milk for the complexion : Bathing the face every night and morning with hot milk is good for the skin. If this is done no cold cream is needed. For Damp Moist Hands —.Mix together 4oz of Eau-de-Cologne and of tincture of belladonna. Rub a little of this on the hands two or three times a day. For Tired Feet.—Women who have to stand much should try rubbing their feet briskly after the daily bath with a rough towel, and then damping the soles with alcohol. USEFUL RECIPES. Kidney FRrmßS.—Required 4 eggs, i pint milk, pepper, salt, mace pounded, finely chopped onion, parsley, the remains of kidney, a little fat or suet. Method: Make a batter with the eggs and milk, add the seasoning and the finely chopped kidney and fat. Beat all together for three minutes. Melt loz of butter in a frying pan, pour in the mixture, and stir till it sets. When browned on one side turn into a hot dish, put it in a red hot oven for a minute and serve. Mutton Fried in Butter.—Take some slices of cold leg of mutton, beat up an egg and mix with it a teaspoonful of Worcester sauce, dip meat into this, roll in breadcrumbs, and fry in hot fat serve with a border of mashed potatoes. Sponge Pudding.—l lb flour, a teaspoon ground ginger, a teaspoonful of carbonate.of soda, a dessert-spoonful cream of tartar, I teaspoon of ground cloves and uutmeg,"4oz of dripping, 2oz sugar (brown,) gill and a half of milk. Mix ingredients together first rubbing suet into the flour, and adding the soda last mixed with a little cold water. Put the pudding in a greased basin, leave plenty of room for it to swell, and steam for 2 hours and a half. Asparagus Soup.—so asparagus heads lqt. of stock, pepper, salt, grem colouring, teaspoonful castor sugar. Method : —Boil the asparagus heads in the stock, reserve the tops to put into the soup, remove the tough part and sieve the rest. Put back in the saucepan add salt, pepper, sugar, the asparagus tops and a little green colouring. Dessert Cakes.—Beat jib of butter to a cream and add to it gradually an equal weight of finely sifted sugar and the same of ground rice, and as much baking powder as would cover a sixpence : mix thoroughly then stir in 3 well-beaten eggs, pour into well oiled tins, and bake in a good oven for about 10 m'nutes. SOCIAL CHATS. Now that the summer fashions are well upon us, we realise that the greateat change of the year lies in the skirts. Materials differ but slightly from those of last year, blouses beatstrong resemblance to past models, whilo sleeves have but carried out the shadowings of the former summer in their diminished size. We wete informeJ some time since that epaulettes, and frills acting as such—and in fact, all upper-arms decorations—would depart and leavers to the mercies of the trying simplicity of the plain fitting sleeve." Such prophecy has not been fulfilled, for on all the new models we note a fussy arrangement of one kind or auother to lelieve the severe outline at the shoulder. Even tailor-built costumes, whose sleeves are for the most part constructed on lines o' unadonred beauty, boast a becoming fulness at the top of the armhole. Small wonder that this is 60, for to the average woman a plain shoulder setting is extremely unbecoming, requiring the shirt-sleeve shape to carry it off in bearable fashion. There is no need for a Rational Dress League in Russia. The police are all that, and more, as the following extract from a recent ukase will show : Women who wish to ride a cycle in the streets of the city must be clothed in an English jacket, and either wear ' rational dress,' as far as the lower part of the body is concerned, or don a reform costume,' which said costume is then defined at length. The road ot the lady cycling in Russia is not strewn with roses.

In a portion of the Alpine country when a pair join in wedlock, it is the fashion for their intimate friends to buy a. " register cheese " for the young couple. This cheese is presented to the newly-wedded people on the evenieg of the wedding-day, and is ever after retained by them and used as a family register. On these heirloon cheeses the whole history of the family is carved, such aa births, marriages, deaths, and other incidents which it may be desired to make matters of record. Some of these old Swiss family cheese teeords are said to date back to the middle of tho seventeenth century..