THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2494, 6 May 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

NEATNESS

Neatness is a good tiling in a girl, and if She does not learn it when she is young she never will. It takes a , great deal'more to make a girl look well than it does to make a boy look passable. Not because, a boy, to start with, is better looking than a girl, but his clothes are cf a different sort, not ■so many colors in them; and people don’t expect a boy to look so pretty as a girl. A girl that is not neatly dressed is called sloven, and no one likes to look at her. Her face may be pretty, and her eyes bright, but if there .is one spot of dirt on her cheek, and her finger ends are black with ink, and her shoes hot laced or buttoned up, and her apron is dirty and her collar is not buttoned, and her skirt ijs torn, she cannot be liked. Learn to be neat, and when you have learned it, it will • almost take care of itself.

ETIQUETTE IN LOVE-MAKING

A certain etiquette is always called .for in the case of the engaged'couple, (.food form demands that decorum bo observed under all circumstances, and ■the man who deliberately makes his fiancee a cynosure for all eyes by too much devotion in public only displays .his lack of good taste, while there is no word to describe what is felt by look-ers-on for the girl who manifests her too. intent interest in her escort by .calling him all sorts of pefl names. Love-making is mot a public pastime,. ■ and though a man may not care to hide the fact, indeed, might rather: prefer that everybody notes his being in love, .it is hardly right to subject the lady hr question to unpleasant notice.

THE ROUND-SHOULDERED CURE

Learn to sleep without a pillow. A pillow pushes tire shoulders forward, and should, therefore, be done away with entirely. In order to acquire a ■good carriage, walk as though you Were balancing., a book in your band, and to broaden the chest practise this •exercise 50 times in the morning, and -50 times at night, before retiring. Stand in the doorway and spread 'both arms until the hands touch tlio •door edge on either side of the level of the shoulders. Grasp the le.dge firmly, and,tben step forward as far as you .can without removing the hands from their position. Now step backwards as Tar as possible. Walk backwards and lor wards in this manner the given number of times. - Each time the muscles of the chest will be brought into motion and the exercise will flatten the shoulders.

PICKLES AND PRESERVES

'Chow-chow. —Break the sprigs of four •pounds of cauliflour; add a few pickliner onions, peolotl \ a. handful, or ironch. beans, some small green cucumbeis. Put these into a jar, sprinkling calt 'between each, layer. Let- them- stand twenty-four hours; then strain oft cne liquor. Mix one quart of vinegar with half a pound of mustard, lour tablespoonsful ground cinnamon, cloves, -and •white mustard-seed, six chili es, and half a pint of treacle. Mix all together and boil for ten minutes. The following is another recipe:—One largo caul mower, two pints French beans, two pints cucumbers, two pints silver onions. Break the cauliflower into sprigs. Mix with other vegetables, and add one pint of salt. Let them stand overnight. In the morning rinse well with cold water Then add one ounce celery seed, tinee tahlespoonfuls mustard, one cup sugar, a Ijttle salt, and two tablespoonfuls curvy. Cover well'with vinegar. Boil for twenty minutes. , . Green Tomato Pickle.—-lake one ga - lon of green- tomatoes; slice them ana sprinkle well w ith. salt. Let them stand twelve hour 3, and strain the liquor ol . Take two quarts vinegar, one pint -treacle, three chilies, four large onions, two tablespoonfuls each allspice, cloves, and mustard. Put these.unto a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then add the tomatoes. Boil Quickly for two minutes. Put away for two weeks before U6in o . The longer kept the better. Sweet" Plum Chutney Four pounds plums, one pound rasins, one pound SSte, three pounds brown sugar, half a pound of salt, four ounces gunner, three ounces clear garlic, .. one ounce red pepper, two bott ei3 ™egar. Stone the plums and boil till tondci one bottle of vinegar. Put toth «°^ r bottle of vinegar three pounds ot su •ir and- boil-it up. Mix together, and when cold add rasins and .currents, minced fine, and the remaining- in nredients all previously well pounded. Chutney .—Take two of peeled or cored apples, two pounds rasins, two pound of tomatoes, half a poiincl of SSfik WO O—rl good gmger, pfnht ounces salt, and one and a ha pounds brown; sugar, three pints ginger, one pint limejuice, one. dessertspoonful cayenne pepper. Put the upoies rasins, tomatoes, and ; eschalots through the' mincing machine, and boil them with the other ingredients until the mixture is of the consistency of Sauce. —Take forty pounds tomatoes, half a gallon of good dark Itee?SnuXof four ounces o( £& ounces SunS SleUack two ounces put back into the preservmg-pan, add bruised before adding. _