THE LADIES' WORLD

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2396, 11 January 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES' WORLD

USEFUL' HINTS

Copper is best cleaned, with lemon dipped in salt. Rinse, then polish with a soft cloth. Clean the keys of the paino with ia cloth moistened with alcohol. Use a, mixture of whiting and ammonia instead of soapsuds, for cleaning windows. Smear them well with a cloth; then polish with chamois. The stock-pot, in houses where soup is made, is the means of saving many ends of mofat. But the little scraps of meat need never be wasted. Every-

body wants gravy, if they do not e&'v ?sbup, and a few scraps of meat, stewed very gently for a couple of hours, and flavored with a pinch of herbs, an onion, and perhaps some soup vegetables, will make a good quantity of gravy. Eat, of course, need never be wasted. It should be clarified with hot water and put into clean jars. If enough fat is used for frying, it can be used three or four times before it is finally disposed of. It is advisable always to keep the fat in which fish has been fried, that used for meat, and that used for sweets, in three separate jars. A carpeted floor may be' improved by brushing it with dampened newspapers. The paper shoidd first be torn into small pieces and soaked in a little water, the moisture being squeezed out as much as possible. The damp ends of the paper may then be scattered over the floor —as is usually done with stale tea-leaves — and a stiff carpet brush used in tho 'ordinary manner. If your kitchen range or stove has got spotted with greuse whilst cooking, and you cannot get it to polish, a good way to remove it is as follows : —Take a little hand brush, preferably one used for brushing the pans before putting them away, smear it well with the soot from the flue, and rub it well over the greasy parts. Afterwards blacklead as usual, and you will find the grease has disappeared, and a brilliant polish will be the result. All cretonnes will not stand the of washing well, the cheaper kinds being much spoilt in the process.. It is advisable, therefore, to try a small piece of the material first, land this is the best plan for washing it and the curtains: —.Boil one quart of bran in one quart of water for half an hour, allowing plenty of room: in the pan, as it boils up considerably. Strain this mixture through coarse muslin, and cool it with water until warm. Shake out ■as much dust as possible from the curtains, and, wash one in the bran solution, and again in a second supply, reserving the first tub for the next piece ; then rinse it in cold water with a good handful of salt in it; put it through the wringer, and then into starch that is almost cold, made in the proportion of one cupful of boiling water starch to six cupfuls of cold water. Put it now through the wringer twice, and hang it at once in the open air to dry, ironing them on the wrong side when nearly dry with a cool ‘iron. One of the great things is not to keep them wet a moment longer than <?.xn be bellied. Some cretonnes can be washed as you vasli ordinary colored prints, but the bran , method is safer.

REVIVAL OF JET

Jot ill all forms is coming “in ’ -ajMsfin (savs a writer on fashions 111 an Australian paper). An authority says that one of the most popular trimVniims of the moment:, which might be said to constitute a revival, is .cut iet As a matter of fact, it is just now the fetish of tho couturiere, and handsome ornaments of colossal size have every whit as great (a vogue a* they had in the days of our grandmothers, when recipes for the cuttin 0 and polishing of huge ]et -brooches, ear-rings, and chains were collected assiduously, and pasted into one 01 the other of leather manuscript books owned by every careful hausfrau. Some of the new black gowns are literal y a-glitter with jet decorations, while an important point is that this season iet is applied as frequently to colored gowns as to black, and with pale pmx or pale saffron, satin tunics: composed of bias of jet over a transparent basis of black tulle are frequently worn, the turn being slashed up at the sides, and connected with a lattice-work 3 heads, while ia heavy jet , 0 "r lines it all round. A very good elfeefc is likewise gained jet roses and buds, vhioh are in the front of the corsage and piovido a very effective relief to coloiqu trail, of jot which are brought from shoulder and down over the ]up « the right side, represent anothei item of modern wear.