THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2456, 22 March 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

‘ : A LENTEN'DISH. “Boil three eggs for 12 minutes. Crack the shells, and put them into cold-water. Butter a small piedish, and spread a layer of breadcrumbs in the bottom. Remove the shells from the ' -eggs, and cut each egg into four slices. Place four slices of egg on the crumbs •“V- in the piedish, season with pepper and salt and:a little cayenne pepper, and put in a few small pieces of butter. Then add another layer of bread chimbs, with a second layer of slices of egg and seasoning, and so on with; the third layer. The last layer must be bread crumbs. Pour over all three tablespoonfuls of milk or cream, and place small pieces of butter on top. Bake in a quick oven for lo minutes.” The dish seems to be a rather dry one. But it might be very good if each layer of bread crumbs as it is added, were moistened with a little raw savoury custard, and the. wliole then baked as described. TO CLEAN BLACK SILK.

Put one black kid glove into a saucepan with plenty, of water. Let it boil clown for some time, then pour off the water. "When it is cold, rub the silk with a soft cloth dipped in the water.” Another process which; can be used when a silk garment .is picked to pieces for renovating ie as follows: —Take fib honey, fib soft soap, £ pint whisky. Boil them all together. Sponge the right side of the ,silk with the mixture. Rinse welk in cold water. Iron while, damp on the wrong side. - Good silk, renovated by. this process, will make up like a new dress.” TO CLEAN BLACK DRESSES. Ivy leaves, or ivy and fig leaves, boiled in water, mako an excellent liquid for cleaning black dresses. Thirty ivy leaves, or lo ivy and 15 fig leaves, should be put into one pint of boiling water, and simmered for half a,?i hour., The liquid should be used hot, and applied with a nail brush.. It restores the color wonderfully. ' - - - PACKING CLOTHES. For washing frocks nothing is so satisfactory as a large cardboard dressbox, put inside a trunk, or even carried with straps. Skirts should never be folded clOwn the middle of. the front’ width; the front should be laid, perfectly flat, and the side widths folded back. The skirt may then be doubled, if necessary, hem to waistband, and some soft , paper put between, at the fold to prevent a crease. Blouses may be laid flat on tlieir backs, or folded shoulder to shoulder, according to their make, and the sleeves stuffed until soft paper. Pack the skirts first, keeping a level surface with no uneven pressure, heavier materials at the bottom, of course ; then put in the blouses, or if necessary, put the blouses in another box. Dresses so packed will be ready to wear and quite fresh after a consi■dexable time.”* A HINT ABOUT CORKS.

If corks are soaked in boiling water they become very pliable, and are easily put into bottles. There is also a little wooden machine to be" got from ironmongers, which makes the corking of bottles a verv easy matter. RELIEF FOR HEADACHES. A cup of hot strong coffee, without milk, and.with the juice of half a lemon squeezed into it,, gives great relief when suffering from headache. The coffee may be taken with or without sugar. - • . TO BAKE CAKES LEVEL. When the-cake is put into the tin, the mixture is made to come higher at ' tlie sides than in the middle, the cake usually hakes fairly level. Take a spoon, and make 'the siirface of the raw cake concave, low in the centre and higher the sides.' Then Lake the cake very slowly. A HINT FOR COOKS. A correspondent says that she always whitewashes the inside of her oven. It looks nice and clean, and acts as a reflector, so that it is easier to see how the cooking gees on. - WOMEN ARE MENDERS NOT ' MAKERS.""’ / Women are not makers, they are only menders (writes one of their sex in the “Sunday at Home”). , Let us not accept this estimate until we have Adividually considered it with attention, and have laid before ourselves all possible arguments" for eacb sKie.- It is quite .true that women’s training and ■opportunities all tend to quench originality, and the many interruptions which fall to the mender’s lot inevitably prove a handicap to all seriousachievement. Nothing so.hampers high endeavor as the suspicion that we aie incapable, that our , attempts are bound to fail, and because women’s adversaries, both male 'and. female ror tnereare women so strangely, constituted that they think to distinguish themselves individually by the- vilification' of the entire sex to which they - belong—have said monstrous things about her since the earliest days of literature, her friends Gay, “Let us admit nothing detrimental.” But is it detrimental to bo only a mender? Every domestic appliance of importance for saving labor, for lightening women’s work, was conceived m the male mind. With these facts before us, let us own up! Intellectually we are beaten. If we were racially clever our brains would have saved our backs many a burden; we lack inventiveness. GOOD MANNERS FOR GIRLS. The girl whose manners are pleasing knows the value of little things. She is not satisfied with omitting glaring rudeness; she is. polite in.< trifles. She answers an invitataion the day it'is received, and does not change her mind later when someting more attractive turns up. ~ ; _ She never, forgets to write hei preciation of a visit, and always calls with' her mother soon after being en- * tertained at a ball ,or dinner. She does not take attention as a mat. . ter of course, but expresses her gratitude of the smallest kindness by an annreciativo word. She does not think the telephone or waiting until she meets her hostess is a polite substitute for a_ letter or thanks. 1 She does not consider it good manners to be pleasant with the .. special friend and indifferent to the other members of the family. * -She is thoughtful' of the feelings of old people ,and ( .inferiors, and full sweet ..little attentions to the sick and; Don’t droo your friends because you ..have married “the dearest boy m. world” No two people are .‘ sufficient for themselves,” and it is : very narro^ ing and dwarfing to cut oneself off Rom ■ : intercourse with the outside world. ;?? Remember - that lore is rather » ... -pair-of- hoots. vThe latter last pW ■ -fimpfi as''loiff' if worn alternately,;with :: ■-U tthom. ~Amf" there/' that ffiay .last; mdc^n.^./■ ■* * J ’ •