USEFUL WORK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2212, 11 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

USEFUL WORK.

KNITTED SHAWL. Use three-fold Berlin wool and No. 10 needles'. Shetland wool can be used if .1 shawl rather finer is preferred. For the border of the shawl cast on any number of stitches that will divide by 6 and 1 over. Ist row. Knit plain. — 2nd row. Knit plain.— 3rd row. *Knit I, nuke 1. knit 1, knit 3 together, knit 1, wake 1. repeat from * at the end of the row, knit 1. — 4th row. Purl knitting ; repeat these 2 rows until your border is 5 im-he* deep. This border should be " mitred "at each end, that is, gradually decreased to form the corners of the square, therefore Htthe commencement aud end of every purled row, purl 2 stitches together, always taking 1 care in the pattern row to keep your pattern quite correct. If the border is required full the corners are not mitred, but you cast on one-third more stitches than you would winh for the width of your shawl. For a shawl 200 stitchf s wide cast on 260, when the border is the full depth, in the first plain row knit two stitches tovjotber twico in commencing and ending the row, and after that every 3rd and 4th stitch always kuit together. Then knit 8 plain rows. For the ground work of shawl : Every row knit tho hr.st and last stitches plain. The following is a simple pattern for the centre ; it has a right aud a wrong 1 side: — Ist row. Knot 2 together thr<niyrhout the row. — 2nd row. Tho wrong side of the knitting should be next you in this row: * knit 1, pick up the thread between this stitch aud the uext, and knit a stitch on it, repeat from *.— 3rd row. Kuit plain. — lth row. Purl ; repeat these i rows until you have a square, knit 6 rows and leave the -stitches on a thread ; knit the border over again exactly the same number of stitches us the fii>t border ; when you have finished it. knit 2 plain rows, and graft the la^t row on to the stitches left on the thread. Knit two more pieces of bordering for tho sidos of tho shawl, and 6 rows plain after the border. Graft thela^t row to the sido of tho shawl, and join the eornftrs to make the p iHern match accurately.

Op.\y«E .Thick for Colds.— Orange or jemon juice strained and boiled with an equal weight of loaf sugar, and then bottled and corked closely, will, when added to gruel and other warm drinks, prove both valuable and agreeable to invalids.

Linseed Tea for Colds and Couoiis. — Put an ounce of linseed into a jug, pour over it a pint of boiling water, cover closely, and let it stand for half an hour ; pour it into another jug, and serve either hot or cold. Half an ounce of Spanish liquorice has to be infused with the linseed.

Mandarin- Pudding.— Mix a quarter of a pound of fine bread crumbs, a quarter of a pound of well-chopped met, and a quarter of a pound of preserved ginger, with two eggs and two tablespoonfuls of the syrup of the ginger. Pour the mixture in a buttered mould or basin, and steam for four hours.

French Rolls.— Rub loz of butter into a quart of fine flour, beat two eggs and mix them in half a pint of lukewarm milk, add a tablespoonful of brewer's yeast and a little salt, knead well, give it all night to rise, then form into little rolls, and bake in a quick oven.

Croqhktter of Pish. — Mince the remains of any cold fish, after clearing away the skin and bones ; make it very savory ; mix with an ego, a teaspoonful of milk and the same of flour, to bind all together, and roll into round balls, which should be brushed over with egg and powdered with fine bread crumbs. Fry in butter or good dripping to a nice brown, and serve with gravy made by boiling down the bones, &c, with an onion.

A company of Icelanders, the first to embrace the Mormon faith, have arrived in New York en route to Utah. Avother. — During a revival in Texas some years ago, a negro was reputed to have had visions about heaven and hell. His boss called him up and interrogated him as to what he saw in both places, and first as to what the white men and darkies were doing in heaven. "Lord! boss, the white men was all a-tilting back in their chairs, with their heels on the banisters, a -smoking cigars, and the niggers was down on their knees a-shining up their golden slippers!" Then as to what was going on in the other place. 11 Ef you believe me, boss, every single white man had a nigger in his hands aholding him up between him and the flames !" It seems probable (says the Sydney Morning Herald) that though New South Wales has this year a very poor crop of whoat, and has to depend for more than half of its supply of breadstuffs on its neighbours, yet flour and wheat are quite as cheap as in the other colonies. The explanation of this fact is of course that our ports are free. Breadstuffs have been pouted into the colony from Victoria, New Zealand, and South Australia, and the competition lias given us wheat and flour at prices as low as those at which they are procurable in Melbourne, Adelaide, or Chnstchurch. The colony buys from them all, and though they h.wo to send their surplus ,">OO to L>oo miles, they do so, and have to be content with prices which they accept at home. If a duty of 2s per cent were imposed on breadstuffs, as charged in Victoria, we should have to pay |d per lb more for our bread.