THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2709, 13 January 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

HINTS FOR THE HOME. Alter a room has been closed it is sometimes hard to remember just how the pictures were hung. For this reason before taking them down it would be well to make a rough plan of the walls, indicating exactly, where each picture should go—unless, indeed, you prefer to give the room a different appearance by hanging the pictures in new places. Curtains, bedspread, and bureauscarf will make a bedroom very pretty. Use pale-blue and white checked gingham, and have the window curtains plain,'with a valance across the top. For the bedspread use white embroidery in. sertion where the breadths must be joined together at the centre, and also at the head of the ruffle. For a bureauscarf use three; squares of the gingham joined together by insertion, and finish the edge with a ruffle of embroidery. A blue-and-whito cotton rug oil the floor will add to the attractive appearance of such a room. Gingham is inexpensive and launders well. Much fruit is spoiled by using the wrong utensils, as, for example, those of tin and iron. These should not be employed for cooking fruit, since the acid of the fruit attacks these metals and a bad color and taste will result. Even the use of an enamel kettle, from a part of the surface of which the enamel lias rubbed off, should, in "good economy, be rejected. The cover of a jar may be imperfect; it seems extravagant to discard it, but better to discard it with the jar emntv than lull of carefully preserved fruit. When making jelly skim the fruit juice, as it boils, into a fine wire sieve, using a- silver snoon. The clear juice will go through the kettle, while the scum will remain. A bathing-cap may be kept in very good condition lor use another year if you sprinkle a lot of toilet powder ai! over it, inside and out, when putting it away. This will prevent it from sticking together and rotting before summer comes again. OUR WOMAN TEACHERS. • Every women who roads tho report of the debate which took place at tho Educational Institute will leel inclined to congratulate the woman teachers on carrying the point they had raised, and so securing a verv substantial victory (savs a writer in the “Dominion”). The women delegates came to the Institute with a very strong desire to secure an amendment in the Act which would considerably affect the status of women. . As the Act stands one of the first three assistants at a primary school attended by girls must he a woman. It is at tho discretion of the Education Board for any district to say whether she shall lie first assistant, or second, or third, and in the two districts, Auckland and Otago, it has been the custom to "ive. tile first two places to men and tho third to a woman!" The other Boards have been much more fair in their treatment, but the worsen teachers throughout the Dominion feel that tho matter should not be left in the hands of individual Boards, and that the position of women should be explicitly stated. They therefore ask that the Act should lie altered to read that of the first two assistant. teachers one- should he a woman. The position lias been most unfair, perhaps,' in country schools, where a. woman has been in sole charge until the school grew big enough to require a second teacher, when a man has been put over her head ; when it has grown still larger, perhans, a second assistant has been appointed, and the woman has had to cake third place. it is hoped that tho resolution carried will he effective, and that women teachers will he accorded the place due to them. The importance and value of the work our women teachers of the nrimarv schools do for the community merit due recognition at the hands of tiie Government. Been reading bv a poor light and got a headache? Never mind—Stearns’ Headache Cure drives away the pain in a few minutes—leaves your head clear. Twenty, million pecyple use it. Is a box.