THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2684, 14 December 1909, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

RECIPES. COFFEE MOULD. Boil one pint of milk, and pour it, boiling, over haif an ounce of sheet gelatine. When the gelatine is thoroughly dissolved, stir of fine sugar and sufficient coffee essence to, taste well. Stir occasionally until cool, then pour into a wotted mould. Turn out when quite ret. ' a NICE PLAIN CAKE.

Cream one cup of sugar with half cup of butter, or half each of butter and good dripping, add half a cup oi milk in which lialf-a-teaspoonful of carbonate of soda lias been stirred. Beat in two well-whipped eggs, and two cups of sifted, flour, tej,ether with one teaspoonful of cream oi tartar. Mix till smooth, and bake in a papered tin. A cupful of cleaned sultanas may be added when the cake is ready to be turned- into the tin. SMOKED FISII TOAST.

Pound in a mortar half-a-pound' of smoked fish, when sufficiently fine, stir in two tablespoonfuls of thick, white sauce, two yolks of egg, and two tablespoonfuls of cream. Season with salt, white pepper, and a pinch of nutmeg. Mix thoroughly, and spread the preparation on small, neat rounds of buttered toast. Sprinkle over some finely-chvp-ped white of hard-boiled egg; place we rounds of toast on a buttered bakingsheet, and bake in a moderate oven for a few minutes. Serve very hot. APPLE JELLY.

Green apples make delightful jelly. Wipe or wash the apples, cut them up without peeling, and put into preserving pan. Barely cover them with water (cold), and boil until soft; pour through a scalded jelly bag. Measure the juice, and allow to cadi pint one pound of sugar. Put all into a pan, stir occasionally, and boil for about twenty minutes. It may be boiled for a longer time if wanted "darker in color. Apple jelly may be< flavored with ginger. If this is wanted bruise a piece of whole ginger and- tie it in a cloth, boil along with apples. HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. A small brush is required to clean cut glass. Burned spots on dishes may be removed with sand soap. Steel utensils should be washed and then scoured with wet sand soap and washed again. Ivory-handled knives should not be placed in water or the ivory will discolor and the handles loosen. Boots hardened with the rain should be lightly rubbed with vaseline to make them pliable again. To prevent slippers from moving up and down at the heels, sew a piece ol elastic, about an inch and a-half long, just round the back.

When making fruit pies, damp the edge of the pastry with milk instead of water; it holds better, and the juice is not so liable to boil over.

When packing blouses it is a good plan to place them one above another on a padded coat-hanger, and fold them over just at the waistline. Brass which has been allowed to get very dirty should be cleaned with a mixture of paraffin and whiting before the ordinary brass cleaning polishes are used.

If, when frying fish of any kind, a little salt is sprinkled on the bottom of the pan when it is hot and the fat boiling, the fish cam easily be turned without breaking in the least. When cleaning lamp chimneys, they should be held over a kettle of boiling water, and then polished with a clean duster. NOTES.

Miss Gertrude Parker, with the Scarlet Troubadours, lias had a very varied stage experience. As a child she left England, taking her parents first to Australia and then to South Africa. It was in the latter country that she first showed her undoubted talents. It was while playing a child’s part in the Leonard Payne Company, in Kimberley, that she had hurried notice with the other members to make a quick exit—just a few hours before the commencement of the famous siege. In South Africa she understudied that clever actress. Miss Kate Vaughan, sister to Miss Susie Vaughan. For weeks the company travelled in armoured trains, visiting many battlefields, of which she has numerous interesting trophies. Since then Miss Parker has played most successfully the principal soubrette parts in about twenty of George Edwardes’ musical comedies. Before last leaving England to join the Scarlet Troubadours she took) the part of So Hei in the provincial company of “See-See.” In Paris (writes a correspondent) the craze for hats has become so acute that many society women are learning to make their own . hats, as they do not wish to pay the absurd prices demanded by the Parisian inodists. Moreover, as the shapes and styles change every three weeks,- it is as well to have some knowledge of the hat-maker’s art: At the Paris races all the latest models were on view, and one of the most curious specimens was a real Welshwoman’s tall tat—such as one sees in old pictures of the First Empire! Next to this was a pretty chapeau of white fancy feathers on the left side. The black, mole-grey, puce, and brown bats trimmed with toad-green or Nattierblue velvet ribbon and pink roses were legion, and the Gainsborough boldly upturned at the side trimmed with a band and upstanding crown of feathers must have- cost a fortune. The most useful and sensible hat of the season is a back crinoline of silk straw trimmed with jet of black velvet ribbon. “What- good are algebra or gcometrv' compared with practical work which most- people ought to make use of as soon as they leave school?” asks a woman in a letter to “Good Housekeeping.” She refers particularly to the bookkeeping which every family should conduct. “Have a regular system of household accounts taught in the schools,” she urges. Well (comments the editor), why not? Household bookkeeping is taught in connection with home economics m the schools and -departments which are devoted to this branch of education. But it should be taught in the higher grammar grades, as a part of the course in mathematics. It need not displace anything of value; it.is not a fad nor a“frill.” Home bookkeeping would accord perfectly with the larger phases of that new movement which aims to train for their life-work the* _ great majority—yes. the ninety-nine per cent —of public-school clii Id-pen, _wlio pass no further than the grammar grades. Is there possible objection tip the- | carrying out of this 'suggestion ? If so, we should like to hear it.