TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 20 April 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

the Long Arni of Coincidence,

"When living at Akaroa, New Zealand, in 1875, I was called home to Kngland," says an English writer, ‘‘and I went from O’Kane’s Bay in the steam liuneh to Lyttelton to secure a berth on board the sailing ship Lady Jocelyn. On leaving again for O’Kane’s Bay in the launch I saw a tall bearded man on the wharf staring hard at me (I also was bearded), and I stared back at him until we were well ont. "Soon after I sailed for England in the Lady Jocelyn, going round the Horn and reaching Gravesend in one hundred and one days. A few days later I went to teown to get some new clothes, enutered a tailor’s shop, where I had neyer before been, and there was my bearded man being measured for a suit ‘«TTe had come to England across Seuth America. We recognised each other at once; we had been together scven years previously at a Crammer’s on Woolwich Common."

Tiny Tucks. Pin tucks, which have enjoyed 4 yogue for some time past, are more popular than ever. Some of the Paris dressmakers are using tiny tucks only as a media for decoration and line. A delightfully simple model for street wear is of green kasha with wee vertical tucks on the jumper hem, jacket sleeves, and tiny upstanding collar; the jacket fastened at the throat with a darker green ribbon, and swune loosely to show the belt fastened at the natural waist line with a dark green buckle, The skirt had three flat pleats at each side, and was ‘built on a yoke that had V points back and front.

Begorrat

Mr. Cosgrave, D'resident of the Kxecutive Council of the Irish Free State, has only one grievance against American interviewers-they persist in representing: him as using the word "Begorra."’ Nobody acquainted wit: educated Irishmen needs to be assured that Mr. Cosgrave does not bespatter his conversation with ‘begorras."? But it would be as much as a New York reporter’s job was worth for Jum to fail to introduce this epithet inte an Irish interview. Stage Hibernians have exclaimed ‘‘Begorra’ since time immemorial, and doubtless the reporters decided that Mr. Cosgrave had merely been guilty of an oversight, which was their duty, in ail friend}iness, to rectify. New Hankies. , The new whim of wearing a handkerchief on the wrist is rather a pretty one. It is only a scrap of fabric, but much fine handwork goes into the making. The colour chiffon hunkies of the past few seasons have been substituted by muslin and lace; some of them are mere wisps with an intricate drawn-thread hem, ano others have Valenciennes or Irish lace let in. Cauliflower Soup. 1 large cauliflower, 1 Spanish onion, 1 teaspoon parsley, loz, butter, 1 pint milk, 1 pint cold water or stock, ¢ teaspoon pepper, 2 stalks celery, loz. flour, $ teaspoonful salt. Method: Remoye the flower from the stalk of cauliflower and wash well in salt and cold water. Veel and = shee onion, wash celery, put vegetables in pan with cither stock or water, and bring to boil. Remove seuni and sim-

mer 13 hours. Rub through a wire sieve, melt butter in pan, ad: flour, and cook for a second or two. Add milk and stock, and stir till boiling. Season to taste and serve in a hot turtcn. Sprinkle the top with chopped parsley. If water has been used for soup, 2 yolks of eggs can be added at the end after boiling the soup, care being taken not to curdle it.--Miss Christian, 2¥.\. A Hint for Starchi-making. The "coons" of America, renowned as good washer-folk, make starch as follows:-To one quart of starch add one heaped teaspoonful of lard, which ylace in a bowl wtih starch before pouring on the boiling water. Stir uvntil melted. It will be found that-(}) ‘he iron passes along freely without coating. (2) Articles to be ironed are mutch more easily handled and pulled inte shape. (3) The life of washed articles is greatly increased. Cocoanut Macaroons. 1 tin Highlander sweetene? condensed milk, $b. cocoanut. Rub the cocoanut into a bowl, mix to a paste with condensed milk; grease a baking sheet and dredge with flour; meke the mixture into small heaps with a spoon on the sheet. Bake very slowly for 30 minutes.-Miss M Christian, 2YA. Date Muffins. db. stoned dates, 1 egg, 4oz. butter, little salt, 1 cupful milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, ?Ib. flour, 30z. sugar. Method: Chop dates, cream butter and sugar with salt, then add the egg, milk and flour to make a light mixture, beat well and add dates and baking powder, Put into greased sancere and bake in a very quick oven for 20 min utes.-Miss M, Christian, 2YA. To Save Darning. Mueh annoyance is often caused © by holes in the toes of sovks or stockings. This can be prevented by sewing on to them a piece of chamwis leather the shape of the upper half of the toes. Cut the leather in almost a half-eir-cle about two inches deep and four wide for a mau’s sock or stecking, and sew on neatly. Backs of eld washleather gloves may be nsed, Wash in usual way, rubbing in a little soap to keep leather soft. No inconvenience is caused by the patches, and much Garning is sayed. Flow to Soften Hard Water. Hardness is generally due to the presence of calcium (or Hime) salts im the water. ‘They are readily removec by the addition of a little washing suda, borax, or ammonia, Rain water, ‘the finest cosmetic," is practically free from dissolyed solids. It has heen ‘distilled by the sun from the seas and great lakes of the world, and has condensed in the upper atmosphere out of contact with appreciable amounts of solid matter, It is thus able to give an immediate lather with soap without the formation of any curd or precipiate. Amber Pudding. 2 cups sponge cake crumbs, 2 tublespoons white wine, 8 slices tinned pineapple, 4 yolks of eggs, 1 cup of pineapple juice. Sieve sponge cake crumbs, cut pineapple into smalk pieces, pour pineapple juice over crumbs, mix im pineapple, and beat in egg yolks slowly, one at a time, and stir well. Place m a buttered mould ond steam 1} hours. Serve with whipped cream. Revenged. The up-to-date young woman was approached by a sharp-featured old lady, who said, "Young woman, do you realise that a man had to kill an animal to get you that fur coat?’ "The animal is revenged," said the young thing, "I had to make my husband’s life not worth living to get it."