THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 26 August 1909, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

AFFABILITY.

Many girls think they are demeaning themselves if they are approachable. They cultivate an icy manner as a hall-mark of respectability. Don’t be afraid of being pleasant. It cannot hurt you, and will be as good as a tonic for all you meet. What though you do think yourself superior to most of your acquaintances; is it good taste to placard your belief by a freezing countenance? .There is nothing likb affability to conceal one’s family skeletons. A haughty manner is a direct bid for the rest of the world to rake up ancestral secrets that you thought buried under a mound of gold. The secret ef many a homely girl’s success is an affable manner that makes everyone she meets feel welcome. Be affable. If you are not pleasant because it becomes natural, be pleasant because it is the only manner that is well bred. The shyest person can cultivate affability. She will be surprised to find that the effort not only helps her own shyness, but is a regular magnetos a friend-winner. If you want to be affable, take an interest in everyone you -meet.

TO CLEAN SUNSHADES. The dry cleaner’s process is apt to rot parasols of taffetas other silk, especially if they have been put away for the winter, and if only slightly soiled, .it is quite easy to clean them at home. Either gasolene or Fuller’s earth may be employed, while in the case of a sunshade of plain white silk a lather of soapsuds can often be used with perfect success. The Fuller’s earth treatment is especially suited to chiffon and delicate fabrics, to which it should be- applied with a soft flesh brush, while if employed on plain silk, a. clean velvet pad, or one made of Turkish towelling, is more satisfactory. WEAK NERVES IN YOUNG GIRLS. Nervous prostration has become one of the prevailing diseases of the day. Especially are young girls, who ought not to know that they have any nerves, the helpless victims of it. is this? It used not to be so. Before the piano supplanted tho spinning- . wheel young ladies did not need to be sent away from home to recuperate their nervous energies. Have they less physical stamina than their grandmothers? Or is there something in the busy, hurrying life of to-day which wears disastrously upon the nerves, exhausting them long before their time? When we think what is expected of schoolgirls now it docs not seem so strange that many droop by the way. Read, the list of studies pursued in our best schools, which it is expected will be mastered, or rather “gone through with” in a specified time. History, literature, art, science, languages, music, painting, dancing, etc.—the sum is appalling. A recitation: is required in nearly every division of the school hours, making necessary either practice or study* nearly every hour at home. No wonder the poor girl’s nerves are prostrated before she leaves the schoolroom. She cannot think,'she has no- time for it; she cannot sleep, the whirl of the tired brain will not stop long enough. Tt is not necessary that girls should attempt to master all the ologies. A •thorough knowledge of a few things D better than a mere smattering of ail the sciences. A vast amount of moiey and of nerve power is wasted in trymg to gain a knowledge pUjnusie, when Nature has not bestowed an ear fm- n. and the fashionable craze for paiuvn g, embroidery, crochet work, and hammered brass, which has filled our houses with so-called ornaments unlike anything in heaven above or earth beneath, is responsible for many exhausted nerve centres, and faces furrowed, but not by age. A few such cases, or cases occurring only among mature women who are worn by incessant cares, need not excite alarm. But such premature old ago among the young may well give us pause. ,

GOOD RECIPES. Potato Rissoles. —Add a little finely minced ham or veal to hot mashed potatoes, then shape into small halls; dip each ball into beaten egg yolk, then roll in breadcrumbs and fry a golden brown in deep hot. fat. Serve on a bed of curled parsley. Panned Potatoes. —Cut raw potatoes into thin slices and arrange in layers in a dripping-pan, sprinkling each layer .lightly with salt and pepper. Pour over enough milk to cover the potatoes well, and bailie two hours in a slow oven, stirring occasionally, but without breaking the slices. Add more milk, if reduced more than one-half. This is a delicious dish and especially useful for using up inferior potatoes. Brown Hashed-Potatoes. —AVash and pare a- sufficient number of potatoes, then chop fine and crisp in ice water. Put some bacon dripping in an iron skillet,and when very hot turn the potatoes (previously dried by' pressing in a clean towel) into it, add salt and popper, cover closely and cook until soft. Then draw to a hotter part of tlie stove and brown. Serve in a hot dish. . ’ Delicate Cabbage.—-Select firm white cabbage, slice as for slaw, and crisp in ice water. Then drain and drop into sufficient salted boiling water to cover well. Cook tender, then drain in a colander, pressing out all water, and serve either' with drawn butter sauce or cream dressing. Cabbage with Rice. —Fill a buttered baking dish with alternate layers of cooked rice, raw white cabbage, chopped very fine, and cream sauce. Dot with bits of butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake an hour in a steady oven, keeping covered for three-fourths the time. Diced Turnips.—TWash and pare the turnips, then cut into square-inch dice. •op into boiling-water and cook tender, adding for each quart of turnips one tablespoonful of sugar. Drain off all water, then, return to the fire, adding salt and peppor, to season, and three tablespoonfuls of cream beaten up with an egg. Shake over the fire until the mixture boils up once, then serve. j.

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