THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2503, 17 May 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Cora Salve.—Take about a teaspoonful of common yellow soap. Put the soap on a strip of cloth about two inches wide and two inches from the end. The strip should go round the foot twice, but do not tie it, just put the stocking on with the soap a little in front of the toes, because when the shoe is put on it will push it back. NV To Wash Irons.—Make a good soap,,|p mds in a dish large enough for a flat- - ’Sivon. As each iron is taken from the stove dip it in the suds lightly. There is no danger of burning the hands, as the hot iron being placed in the water throws the steam to the side instead of straight up, as when the water N is boiling. This cleans the irons and makes them smoother than any wax, and there is no danger of grease getting on the clothes. Chop Pumpkin. —Every housewife knows what a long job it- is to stew pumpkins for pies. I experimented and found that by paring it, then putting it through my food-chopper it would cook in a short time. The little pie pumpkins will cook in half an hour. Then put it through a strainer or fruit press. Far superior to the canned or dried fruit produce. Holiday Plum Cakes. —Two cupfuls brown sugar, one cup of butter, three eggs, one-half cup of milk, one halfcup molasses, one half-pound of seeded raisins, half cup melted jolly, two teaspoonfuls mixed spices, two squares melted (chocolates, one-half teaspoon each soda and cream of tartar, four cups flour. Bake in small tins. Sift eonfectionei-s’ sugar over top before putting in oven. These are delicious. Five-Minute Cake.—To make a fine loaf cake in five minute, get a large wooden spoon and a rough-glazed earthen pot, or, if possible, one so-called French pot, in which to cream your butter and sugar. This Ii consider the secret of cake-making and can be done in two to five minutes with the above utensils. I challenge any plain cake recipe with the following : —One and one-lialf cups granulated sugar, quarter pound butter, three or four eggs, two cups flour, two teasponful.s backing powder, one teaspoonful vanilla extract. OFF TO LONDON. (By A. P., in the “Sydney Morning 4 Herald.”) It is the passenger season, and every ship going homewards has a full list just now. As one reads the long columns of names in the daily papers it seems ass though almost everybody was off to London, and that Sydney ■would be left altogether forsaken. In these days of cheap fares it is infinitely simple to have one’s name in that list. In hundreds of homes there are busy preparations going forward to send one member of the family on a trip to the other side of the world. If the fortunate one happens to be a daughter there is thd little dressmaker in the back room making dainty garments and renovating old ones for the voyage. Friends are flocking in to hear all about it from, morning till night. Farewell parties are given right and left, and letters of congratulation pour in from far and near; not a few v requests are made to bring back some particular article from abroad. Hats, gloves, shoes, blouses are all known to be less expensive in London, and consequently no one hesitates to beg a special purchase to bo made. The air is full of delightful excitement ; off to London for the first time is a delicious, wonderful experience that will only come once in a lifetime. Maybe for years the girl has watched the big mail ships come in and go out, keenly comprehending the fact that they would touch at all the magic ports that have been the theme of her dreams since childhood. Now all is bustle and excitement, one big effort to get ready and start off for the land of her dreams. Such careful sorting of clothes, and packing trunks for the cabin for “Wanted on the Voyage,” and for the hold. Every little detail must be attended to, nothing -must be forgotten. A carryall is left 4 open for odds and ends that are sure to 'at be overlooked till the last moment; thick gossamer, cold cream, hairpins, tooth powder—put them all in, they will be vastly useful on her way. The last night for many months in the old home,, long thoughts in the dark as to what changes may occur ere the bed is again slept'in ; big resolutions not to stay away too long; a broken sleep,. mingled with dreams of 1 fairy cities, full of wonderful sights and sounds, and peopled by the loved ones who are to be left behind. _ It is morning. The sailing day! die traveller stands on deck, laden with flowers and small souvenirs, and waves to the friends on the wharf. Her eyes are blurred with tears as she feels the slow movement of the ship ; and the distance between her*and those on shore grows gradually witter. AiVitli a rusli comes the realisation that it is a long way there and back. For an instance eho buries her face in her flowors; someone makes a merry remark, and she lifts her head, and, snatching a rose Horn the bunch, flings it hack to the little crowd who are so tenderly watching her. She must leave the memory of a smiling face behind her; the last -dimpse must be a happy one. Courage now. Life with all its thrilling possibilities is before her; London is .waitin''. She thrusts back the sob and laughs out loud as the last rose she at- ; tempted to throw falls into the sea.

The practice of holding inquests at hotels was severely commented on by Mr 0. 0. Kettle, S.M.. at the Auckland Police Court. Two men were before him charged with a breach ol a prohibition order and of conniving at the breach. In evidence it was stated that one of the men had been drinking at an hotel while an inquest TO proceeding on the body of bis child, lb defence of the other accused, which broke down, was that he followed tho first man into an hotel merely to claim his expenses as a witness at .the inquest. Mr. Haekett bis solicitor said (•*' - that even in this, there was probably a ' ,% *V technical breach of the order, .and he cited the case of a publican wlu>reiused to allow the corpse of a prohibited nerson on liis premises lor tear or breaking the law. Mr. Kettle, expressed the view that there should he some room" where inquests could be hold in decency, instead of in hotels where abuses which had been disclosed in the evidence we.ro possible.

A copy of the “Western Daily Mercury,” Plymouth, England has recently reached the office off tho Tlmon Company, Wellington. It is dated about the time of the wreck of the lengum, apd contains a harrowing account o the disaster, mentioning that ■ lives were lost,” and that all the bo< ts were, rotten 1” The,, American press could jrinVy ecb’r'e thu*,