Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 17, 25 April 1907, Page 33

Domestic

By ' Maureen'

Parsley for Winter Use. To dry parsley for winter use, pick the parsley on - a dry day and. tie it in bunches. Plunge into boiling salted water and cook for, three or four minutes.„ "Drain and dry before the fire. Put into dry pickle bottles. When required for use, soak in tepid water for five minutes and serve as usual. Cleaning Knives. The German fashion of cleaning-knives,.is simpler than ours and saves much manual labior. Take r ~ a' stout cork irom a. bottle, and dip it into the knifepowder, which - must be preAously moistened. Place ■ the kniife fiat and rub it with the cork. In a--few . seconds the knife will be quite clean and polished, and" only requires wiping with a duster. Scrubbing Boards. . In scrubbing a pastry-board, \tci get it a nice white, plenty of sand must • be used in this way, First wash the board, then sprinkle it with sand, and scrub it M>ith a brush tne same way as the grain of the wood, so that the dirt is taken off without making the board rough. Rinse the sand off in plenty" of cold water, wipe it with a clean cloth, and set it in the air until dry. In scrubbing tioors and tables do not use soda, for it makes boards a bad color, and does not cleanse 'better than soap with plenty of warmwater. In teaching young girls to scrub boards, it is very difficult to make them understand that the brush must always be worked the way of the grain in the wood, and never across it. Points in Buying Gloves.

Don't buy a glove that is too small, says a smart assistant in one of the big London shops. It mot ojily cramps the hand, but it prevents grace of motion and gives poor service. Not one "half the women who com© , in here know what points t«o watch out for in buying gloves. I try to instruct my customers, but a woman must be ripe for the knowledge through personal experience or the advice will not" be appreciated. Black gloives are generally less elastic than light colors. Dressed kid globes usually retain their freshness longer and are more durable than suede. Short-fingered gloves give the hand a malformed look, and they soon break out at the t»iys or between the fingers. Putting on a glove for the first time has more to do with the fit and wear, than almost anything else. Take time to fit them and, if possible, wear them a good half-hour before closing the fingers. Button the last buttons first, for the greatest strain naturally comes 'on the first. Worry i n Relation to Health. One of the first conditions of health is a healthy view of things. According to medioal authorities?" worry and anxiety about health are the surest way to disease. Morbid views re-aol on the mind, and relief is sought thiough" the mediums of worrying, grumbling, 'or nagging. In some households meal time is regarded as the time par excellence for the outpouring— the wife and mother retails the misdeeds of the children and the shortcomings of the servants, the husband makes 'odorous comparisons' between the cooking - ofhis wife and that of his mother, and the children, catching up the inharmonious strain, chdme in with thrilling accounts of the cruelty of their teachers aad 1 playmates, all ' Like sweet bells jingling out of tune.' If ' good -digestion' wait on appetite,', it is most important to be in a pleasing frame of mind at meal time so as to provoke appetite-.- Laughter is said' to be one of ' the most powerful aids to digestion, and the custom prevalent among the ancients of exciting at meal time' was founded on true medical principle • Don't worry ' seems to -be the foundation on which ali • health systems a~e built up, for the age in which we live is such a strenuous one, the propoumders of these systems" wisely recognise that if -they can only induce us "to so take things calmly and quietly, t'be success of their schemes will be established. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d....