THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2623, 4 October 1909, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

ETIQUETTE OF GLOVES

, The effect rf a pretty dress has often been .spoilt, all because the wearer lias not paid enough, attention to her gloves. If only a few simple rules are learned the rest comes easily. In the first place colored gloves should be avoided, the term colored meaning gloves of pink, blue, green, and reddish tints. Red-brown jis allowable, especially in winter; brown and black and grey are always good; white is seldom out of place, and this year yellowish and pinkish yellow gloves are, to be extensively worn. There is no occasion and no time when it is strictly good taste to wear gloves of any color save those mentioned.

If the dress is in a dark shade —green, navy blue, crimson—wear black, darkgrey, or brown gloves on all ordinary occasions; if the dress is in white, or in some light color, wear white or yellowish gloves. Brown gloves are good for all tailor made suits, but they are not considered dressy unless the whole, costume be of the same shade.

White gloves are always proper and absolutely necessary with full dress, except on rare occasions, when the costume is all black. Black gfloves are good style, but rather sombre for evening dress. It is not good taste to wear black gloves with white or very light drosses, particularly in summer. Yellowish and pinkish yellow gloves should not be worn with colored dresses, and not in the evening. Of course white dresses demand white, gloves. Grey gloves at the moment are not much in favor, but when t‘hc*y are worn they usually fieeompan- black tailormade suits or grey costumes. Not only must the color be correct •and appropriate, hut the material must also be taken into consideration. Silk or cotton gloves are at no time dressy. If they are worn it should ho in the morning with a linen dress. They are allowable when shopping ; for calling nothing less that chamois is proper. Silk and cotton gloves should he chosen only in white, black, or tan. Chamois gloves are rather informal, though they are cool for .summer Besides , that, they may be washed at homo. They come only in two shades the natural and the white, and the former is more popular this year. Chamois gloves are worn with strictly tailor-made suits and morning frocks.

A ROYAL MARRIAGE

The marriage has been announced of Prince Miguel of Braganza, son of the Pretender to the unquiet throne of Portugal, and Miss Anita Stewart. The bride, almost as a matter of course, is an American, and her stepfather was a millionaire, Mr. James Henry Smith, who gained fame through his ability to keep silent. In the world to-day the nickname by which he is known is not often earned by men of his. nationality and possessions. Mr. Smith’s quiet marriage in Scotland two or three years ago was soon followed by Ins death, and it is .understood that his stepdaughter was among those handsomely remembered in his will. Miss Anita Stewart, if without the definite beauty of her cousin, Miss Margherita Drexel. is a very pretty girl, and as clever and vivacious as are most Americans. Hei mother has the Duke of So morsel s house in Grosvenor-square, London, this season, and it was after a concert there that the engagement was made known.

FALSE PRIDE. Commend me to the following words of wisdom uttered by a Home contemporary : . . The housewife who taxes a morlud pride in “keeping herself to herself, because she cannot give cutlet lor cutlet who bars the front door lost the neighbors should see that the oil-cloth in the hall is shabby, and who won t be “bc-hoklen” to possible friends by accepting that which she cannot return in the same coin, is, in very truth, a most unwise person. There is nothing to lie ashamed of in a lack ol means, and most callers come to see the people who live in the house rather than to look for threadbare patches on the floor-covering. . . ~ “I would liked to have invited Mrs. Parsons to have some lunch to-day, says Mrs. Semi-Detached to her husband one day. “She had cycled into town and looked so tired. But 1 couldn’t ask her to share eggs and bacon with me, and I had only that. Silly Mrs. Semi-Detached! It you bad only known it, Mrs. Parsons would have rejoiced to share that simple meal with vou before facing a six-mile bicycle ride home. To offer the best one lias is true hospitality, no matter if it be eggs and bacon or anything else. Eggs and bacon in the present—-if one is hungry—are infinitely to be preferred to the most epicurean banquet in the distan future. , Quite possibly Mrs. Parsons, as ? he bade adieu, noticing the appetising odor issuing from the kitchen, fancied that it was lack of hospitality or mere throughlessness which allowed her to depart unfreshed. But, alas! many of us are like that. We are afraid to offer the “dinner of herbs” lest our friends should despise it, and so, not having the stalled ox ” we offer nothing at all, and sometimes only after manv years realise what a mistake we ‘made.

HINTS FOR THE HOME

Flour browned in the oven is a very good thickening for brown gravies. Tender Feet.— People who are subject to tender feet will do well to rub the soles every night with methylated spirit to harden the skin. Saturday Pudding.—Butter a small pie-dish and sprinkle into it a toacuptul of fine cake crumbs. Cover with a thin layer of raspberry jam. Beat up half a pint of milk with one egg, add a few chopped almonds, and pour into the dish. Bake in a moderate oven till Fire irons need constant attention m the summer, unless they are put away. It is well after cleaning to rub them •with a cloth moistened with vaseline. A Lunch Cake. —Rub four ounces of butter and lard into half a pound of flour Add to it a quarter of a pound of sultanas, three ounces of sugai, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix with an egg and a little milk. Bake a greased tin for an hour.