THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2064, 31 March 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

' HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To Boil Cracked Eggs.—Put a teaspoonful of vinegar in the water, and however badly cracked the egg will not boil out.

Never put soda in the water in which "china that lias any gilding on is washed. Soda injuresihe gilding. Instead, use soap, which answers just as well ' and. has no ill-effects. Cheese Snaps.—Pull a new loaf, when quite hot, in two, take out pieces of bread about the size of a %valnut with a fork, and set in a rather quick oven to brown lightly. Serve with cheese and butter.

When heating irons by gas never place them on the ring, but get a '/piece of sheet iron, place it on the ; gas ring, and then put the iron oh it. This- keeps the iron from sweating and then getting rusty and spoiling the clothes.

Steamed Chocolate Pudding.—Boil 2oz of chocolate and 1£ gills:of milk together with lloz of castor sugar; pour it over 2oz stale brown bread-crumbs ; add the yolks of two eggs and |oz| of almond flour; beat the whites to a firm froth and stir them lightly in; put into a buttered basin and steam it. , To Clean Bronze.—This is a. metal “which should never be cleaned with the ordinary metal polish. Dusting with a soft cloth slightly moistened with; sweet oil ’and a good rub with a chamois leather is all that is required to ’keep it in perfect condition. A Polish for Steel.—Take equal parts of sweet oil and turpentine, and mix them together, adding enough emery powder to bring the mixture to the ■consistency of cream. Apply with a soft cloth; rub well, and then polish off with a dry cloth or leather sprinkled with emery powder.. j Egg shells are useful for sowing large seeds in. Use the shells exactly as you would a flower pot, and, by and by, when the time comes for planting out the seedling break it. Then without ■any disturbing of the roots—always detrimental—*tho little plant is put into its new' quarters. To clean white enamelled furniture rub all the dirty marks with a flannel slightly moistened with methylated spirits, and wipe dry. Next wash the article in warm water and soap and wipe dry. Then rub with a flannel dipped in a little slightly dampened whitening, .and polish with a leather. Some Tilings About Lamps.—When buying a lamp do not choose one with at large reservoir; one about 3in in :donth is quite sufficient. Do not have too long a wick; about half a yard will be long enough. Wicks should be renewed about every three months or -so. To prevent a lamp smoking soak a new wick for two or three hours in'" vinegar, and dry it well before using. It is said that a small piece of camphor put in the reservoir of .the, lamp will greatly improve the light.

BEAUTY UNADORNED. “To the average man or woman it is apparent that .. Nature has very bad , taste at times (says a writer in _tlie “Queen”)- Nature-wants to grow flowers of two colors, crudest, rawest yellow and magenta, pure and simple. This is only by yray of illustration. Take Nature in the human appearance. She is convinced that she prefers hair the color of the potato. She is not to be argued out of it. Point ..to her the beauties of auburn, golden, ebon-black ‘hair. "“Pooli!” she says, “those are only for the sake of variety. You call mo Dame Nature, Mother Nature —I’m a female, and I like a change now and -again. But give me .a good wearing -color like potato-brown!” So she gives it us. And straight hair! Fashion or no •fashion—and I am fully aware that

waves iare not in ' the first flight of Fashion's affections- just now —wavy -hair is more becoming to a woman’s than quite straight in ninety-nine leases out of a hundred, ; Yet I suppose rnot one woman in a thousand has real, -naturally wavy hair. And Nature lj'kes -•a shiny nose! * Not Venus herself would look better with a shiny nose than a—what shall I say?—a mat-surfaced .one! I suppose it is natural to.stoop? I f'believe our ancestors labelled “proba- ■ bly arboreal !” stobped dreadfully. But -stooping is so unbecoming. And if you run about without shoes you spoil the shape of your feet -nearly as badly as if you had worn ill-fitting boots. . ' Nothing can be more beautiful, you -say, than an absolutely lovely, natural -woman —a woman with a perfect skin i-iand hair, feature.? and figure, a woman for whom—Nature has doneevery- - thing, at her best. .'-By all means. I do not disagree; indeed'," I agree most enthusiastically. . But how: often do you find her? Once in a million times, perhaps! 'We. .are average,' you see. as a ; Tiile. We want cur {hair, even it abundant, to be well-kept.;,we want the -right shoes, the right' clothes; we want • our possibly natural teeth carefully ■ preserved and . kept clean ; the same with our skin ;- we want to be taugnt to walk and dance and bold ourselves •orooerly, to wear the right boots, the right clothes; we want our co.or instinct and our general taste trained;; we want to be taught in youth not to talk through our noses or put or oujr boots, nor to laugh too loud or in an unfortunately acquired manner; we want to be taught to take care of our • nails—the nail left to Nature does Nature but scant justice! In short, ■wo require civilisation where our- appearances are concerned- if we are to ■be fit to look at. - - ;, ■ No. Beauty unadorned is very seldom beauty at all, and that is the truth. If the scrupulously “natural” woman—ti,e woman who looks on powder as a plague and rouge as a'red rag who scorns the slightest ripple in her hair who objects to a polished nail or ahign instep, who is proud of a 30m waist (I have met her), who glories m a shiny nose, were only the woman who spends • hours in brushing her hair-, who really -cleanses hen skm—not sluices it wit hard, cold water, and scarifies it with a rough towel —who wears beautifully out boots, not .horrors Whose - only re- - commendation is that, they are ■nr oof who goes in for the Silhouette ox her We rather than -her measurement of an individual circumference .- on i v she were!—but she is not. Oh, llil neglected hair and nails, the clumsy t - ht Hie slouching carriage, the greasv it ’ t o abominable cheap stays, >« «! < ~,—iSrwenr—how they uevdl.anous p tmderwenr t n bo(Jy speak a negl - p beauty? There is no and where uvthe tinen te b ff uty ._ rl or?ii' to wood looks. I wm all softs of hips Ff ... ,1 v but how a short tune ago. answer* which