LADIES' COLUMN.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 527, 16 December 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To prev nt new potatoes discolouring the hands, allow them them to s and in cold wattr and salt for about an hour. Instead of par ng wax candles to make 'them fit a smaller candlestick, just dip the ends into boiling water until they become the right size. It is well to note that silk handkerchiefs or silk in tho piece, if kept for some time folded up, are liable to go into holes in the creases. To removo burnt marks off a cake tin or pudding dish dip a damp cloth into the ashes aud rub the burnt spots, then wash in hot water. This will remove all stains. For a burn or scald, pour the white of an egg over a burn or a scald, for nothing more is soothing. It makes the softest varnish, and, being always at haud, can be applied immediately. Anything which excludes air from a burn and prevents inflammation is tho best thing to apply at onoe. Tea and wine stains can be removed from linen by steeping in a solution of chloride of litno, cno ounce to one pint of water. Do not allow the linen to remain in the solution once the stain is removed, and it must be at once rinsed with cold water, then washed and dried. To be successful with a Yorkshire puddinjr, always have tho fat boiling before the batter is put in the tin. Hair combs should be wushed in tepid, not hot, water, with a little yellow soap, and the process must be a quick one, as long lying will cause horn or tortoiseshell combs to split. Thoymustbe rubbed Iry with a soft cloth at onoo. If they are very close together, a silk thread passed between them will cleanse them effectually. CONVERSATION. Do not manifest impatience. Do net interrupt another when speaking. Do not talk of your private, personal, and family matters. Do not appear to notice inaccuraoies of speech in others. Do not allude to unfortunate peculiarities of any present. Do not talk very loud. A firm, clear, distinct, yet mild, gentle, and musical voice has great power. Do not carry on conversation with one another iu company about matters which the general company know nothing of. THE FIVE COMMANDMENTS OF HEALTH. The requirements of health can be counted on the fingers of one hand, a: id a London leading physiciar. ' They are —good air, good food, suitable clothing, cleanliness, and exercise and reßt. The first two requirements affect the bload, and as the bkod circulates all over the body, every part of the bedy, including the brain, is affected. Fresh air affects the purity of the blood. The freshest air is out of doors, and it is the duty of everyone who wishes to Vie healthy to spend a certain amount of time in tha open air. Good food is not necetsatily expeusi'-e fed. Exercise and rest should alternate and balance each other. It is quite possible to take too much exercise, and thiazide of the question must be guarded agahst as carefully as the other. Women, as a rule, do not rest sufficiently. Every woman should tiy during the day to get a few minutes rest, even if it interferes with her regular work. It is impoisiWe for her 11 attend'to her health and welfare of her family if her own "health suffers from overwork and lack of rest. -She should follow her husband's example. Although he is busy all day long, he generally makes it a hard-and-fast rule to rest during the evening in the very best way, namely—change of employment. RECIPES. Currant Cakk. —Beat up to a cream butter and a large cup of. sugar; bsat six eggs, one at a time; add ljlb currants and £lb peel, cut up fine ; mix in two teaßpoonfuls of baking powder co three cups of flour, aud mix with the other ingredients. Bake in a buttered tin in a moderate oven for two or two and a-half hours. Banana Custard.—Mix smoothly together into a paste two well-beaten yolks of eggs, half a cupful of Bugar, one tcaspoonful of cornflour, and pour into a pint of boiling milk, Sl'ce a few bananas in a dish, and pour over them the custard. Whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, adding sugar afterwards, and spread on the custard. Place in the oven until a light brown colour. Fish Scallops.—One pound of cold fish, one egg, one gill of milk, one tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoonful essence of anchovy, pepper, salt, breadcrumbs. Pick the fish from the bones and moisten with the milk and eggs and the other ingredients, and put in scallop shells, cover with breadcrumbs, put butter on the top, and brown in the oven for five minutes; serve. To Prepare Steak and Onions.—The steak should be broiled, not fried. The onions cut iu thin slices, fried brown iu hot fat, the fat poured off, a layer of onions left in the bottom of the pan, the cooked steak put in, then a layer of onions on top ; the whole put in a hot oven for five minutes, when it is ready to serve. Sylvia's Pudding.—Halt a pound of suet, grated breadcrumbs, two tablespoonfuls of flour, three eggs, a little milk if required, lemon-juice, golden syrup. Chop the suet finely, mix with the breadcrumbs. Beat the eggs, whites and yolks separately ; beat in the yolks, then the whites lightly. Butter a mould, put a layer of the mixture, then a tablespoonful of golden syrup mixed with a teaspoonful of lemon juice, and so on till the mould is full. Boil for two noun ; serve with sweet sauce.