Household Help Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 21, 15 October 1898, Page 6

Household Help Column.

All communications for the Household Help column should be addressed " Annette," c/o Advbetisbe, Waimate. Correspondents may use initials ornom de plume in signing queries or answers ; but all must enclose their jaaines and addresses as a guarantee of good faith, and

also observe the press rule of writing on one side of the paper only.

M. S. Sends recipe for Genoa cake, in answer to H. X.. : — For Genoa cake you require £lb. butter» •Pb. castor sugar, 6 eggs, lib. flour, lib. sultanas, lib. currants, 6oz. chopped candied lemon peel, 12 drops essence of lemon, 6oz. blanched almonds, and a little grated nutmeg. Warm the butter in a basin, add to the sugar, and beat to a cream with a wooden spoon. Next add the eggs one at a time, and then the nutmeg and lemon essence *, stir in the flour smoothly and gently ; then add the remainder of the ingredients, except the almonds ; mix thoroughly ; pour into a buttered baking tin, letting the mixture be about 1£ inch deep in tin ; smooth the top with a knife dipped in milk, strew the chopped almonds on the top, and bake for a couple of hours in a cool oven. Nellie sends S.P. recipe for Chili Beer :— 24 small chilies, 2£lbs sugar, boil in 2 quarts of water for 20 minutes. Then strain and add 12 quarts of water (cold), 2ozs Cream of Tartar, 3 tablespoonfuls of yeast, 3 teaspoonfuls of essence of lemons. Bottle at once. J.C.B. would very much like to have recipe for Cream Pufis.

'Frisco, passengers are examined as to the amount of money they have, and also aa regards their health and soundness. If not sound, they are not allowed to land. Af the entrance to the harbour is a^mag- ' iiificerit pile of buildings, called the Clift House, erected by a man who devoted the greater part of his wealth to making a pleasure resort. Theie, opposite the famous Seal Rocks, are splendid accommodation houses, and the finest baths in the world. There is a lovely sandy beach, which is a great resort of the people. ■ There is a dancing saloon with a fine orchestra playing all day, on Sunday, and this saloon is always crowded with, dancers on that day. Suteo, who built the baths " andthe •Clift House, and spent* a -fortune in converting the southern bluff of the harbour 'entrance into a' resort for those " tired of the city, life, also connected, this watering place by one of ffie "best electric tram systems in the world with the ' Frisco . city .trams. >Severali; hundred Americans 1 came back to Honolulu, and before land-ing-they had to show $50. ..A. cute Honoluluito remarked, " I calc'late these folk'll

show 50 dollars when they kirn here, but I guess- they won't when they leave." There seems no «hance of increased'trade, even since the annexation. The quarantine regulations in the South Sea Islands are very strict, and more especially as directed against measles. An outbreak of measles among the natives' is fur more fatal than smallpox among white people. The natives, as soon as tney* fell ill, run into the sea, and drive the disease' inwards. Measles accounted for 40,000 deaths in one' island alone. Perhaps the one thing that most, impresses -one in a ■journey to the South Seas -is the' utter isolation from the rest of the world. You' .Bring the news ami you get none from the , day you leave Auckland till you arrive atf 'Friscoi You cannot realise that r there is no cable communicationjbetween Aus'tra-* lia'and'the West of America/T he Government at thls'end are 1 at" present con--' Bidering the question of laying a Pacific .cable. This would certamly mean a great increase "in" thY amount 'of -newspaper telegraphic news for__us _daily.. _The. 1 American i Government is .putting* down

a cable to Honolulu, and it will > ~be a tremendous benefit to travellers. I •arrived home, on October 3rd, very pleased with my trip, but satisfied that there's no place like home." Many "interesting photographs of th» various places of interest were shown our reporter, many of them being taken by Dr Barclay himself."