THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2674, 2 December 1909, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

OPERA UNDER DIFFICULTIES

" An ’exciting • chapter of accidents marked the concluding performance at the. Opera House at Milan. Miss Elisa 13 kind, a prima donna, was hurrying to the theatre when she fell down and severely sprained her ankle. Throughout the evening, the “Chronicle”, cay®, she had to bo wheeled about the stage on a litter in "such fashion that only the upper half of her figure was visible to the public as she sang her part. Meanwhile, attandants crouched below the screen were busy bathing and massaging the foot to ease the atrocious pain. Signor Barrera, the tenor, hobabout groaning with gout, and the first bass, Signor Girino, while taking air in the afternoon, had the misfortune to slip into a ditch and strain the muscles of his knee. He seized every opportunity of retiring to the wing to gLve vent to his feelings. A fire threatened to distroy the scenery, whilst a thunder storm raging outside . extinguished the' electric light. MAN TO THE RESCUE. One scarcely expected a gleam of advice about girls’ dress at the Church Congress, says an English . journal. Nevertheless - , some extremely .sensible remarks were made by Canon Beeching in the course of the proceedings on a subject which must have arrested the attention of parents. Nowadays girls are not so restricted as to amusements and dress and leisure as they were a generation or two ago. Still, there are some people—and fathers in particular ,—who do interfere in the most absurd fashion in the style in which their daughters dress and the way they occupy their time; and the point of Canon Beeching’s address was that it often happens that girls who are thus restricted and tyrannised over eventually preve the most extravagant and the most insatiable where excitement is concerned when they are set free from parental control. Obviously the right course to pursue with girls, as Canon Beeching wisely suggested, is to teach them to Jove what is beautiful, to have regard for their personal appearance, which is impossible if no heed whatever is paid to fashion, and to make the best ,of the days of their youth, which are short and irrevocable, for what applies to dress applies equally to socalled frivolity. Old Time is still uflying, and it is as cruel as it is unwise to “bott’e up” the natural craving of youth for reasonable gaiety, young society, and excitement. "When the stopper is removed the danger is great. This way lie restlessness, extravagance, and even worse folly.

RECIPES

An Invalid’s Dish. —Melt one ounce of butter, then stir in one ounce of sifted flour and a pinch of dry salt. Blend well till quite smooth, then gradually pour in half-pint of milk, bring to the boil, stirring constantly. Now add three ounces of milk arrowroot biscuits, very finely crushed. Add the yolks of four eggs, lightly beaten, and the whites beaten very stiff. Stir lightly together, place in a buttered dish, dust nutmeg on the top, and bake in a hot oven for thirty-five minutes. Serve immediately. '

“Puffles.”—Take two-thirds of a quart of milk, and one-third of water, two eggs, a little salt, and flour enough to make a. stiff batter. Mix together, heat some little pans, pour die mixture in, and hake until a light brown. Serve with sauce.

Doughnuts.—Rub a piece of batter the size of an egg into a pound of flour. Add a little powdered allspice and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix a tablespoonful of yeast with four eggs, and a little lukewarm milk. Work all together, and put the mixture in a warm place to rise. Then roll, out about half an inch thick, cut into pretty shapes, and fry in boiling oil, or Jard, until the nuts are a golden brown. Drain on a moistened sieve, strew sifted sugar over the nuts, and keep tlipm in a dry place. Suet Crust.—Take twelve ounces of beef suet, two pounds of flour, a teaspoonful of salt, a heaped teaspoon of baking powder, and one pint of milk or water. Mince the suet as finely as possible, then add flour, salt and powder, mix well together, then add milk or water, gradually working all into a smooth paste. This is good enough for any kind' of meat pie that is baked, or pudding boiled, and it will be found excellent for fruit pies, for which puff paste is not absolutely required. A Tasty -Pudding.—Boil a pint of milk with- eight or ten lumps of loaf sugar, or about same quantity of best white sugar. Mix separately one penny custard powder with three tablespoonfuls of milk, beating well in an egg. Now pour over it the boiling milk, boil the.mixture for five minutes. Wellbutter a mound, place strips of candied pee! at the sides and bottom, and pour the mixture in. Bake in a good oven for half an hour. Let it cool, turn out. and serve up with a dish of custard, made with a packet of custard powder, according to directions. The whole forms a delicious dish, much liked by youngsters.

HOME HINTS

On Sprinkling.—lll sprinkling table linen use a large salt-shaker, and in the water put a little cold starch—about a tablespoonful to a quart of water. The linen will iron with about the same stiffness as when new.

The Sewing Machine. —To keep a sewing machine in good condition, have in one of the drawers of tlio table a fine steel orocihet-needle, a small stiff, mucilage brush, such as comes with a bottle of'mucilage, and a, small soft lintless cloth. Have the oil-can filled with good machine oil. The crochethook will reach the little rolls of dust that accumulate in hidden crevices, and the stiff brush will aid in dislodging them. With proper care a machine will do good work for a long time. ' Pasteboard covers. —Circles' of pasteboard of various sizes are convenient to put over glasses, cups, bowls, pi* even pitchers, in which food or liquids are placed to cool or to stand until needed. A supply may be cut in leisure time and kept in a drawer. When soiled burn them. Your New Veil.—A new veil may he kept from stretching if you thread tQjo: sowing machine with silk of the same color as the veil itself and stitch carefully along each edge of the veil. The stitching will not show, and the veil may' ovear afterwards. be satisfactorily adjusted. v The Silence Cloth. —Do not'.hem a; heavy silence cloth for the dining-room table, as it is liable to make a ridge under the tablecloth. Buttonhole the cut edges instead with white darning cotton. If one wishes to have the cloth just the size 'of the usual dining-table, extra pieces may be cut and button-holed-stitohed the size of the extra table loaves, to be used when required.