THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2760, 8 February 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

THE WOMAN WHO WANTS TO HE THIN.

Oranges will lend pleasant aid to t'no woman who wants to grow thinner. She must take the juice of at least two at every meal, and these must not be sweet ones. She must also give up oil with her salad and substitute lemon juice for vinegar. She cannot have cream or sugar in her coffee, and the coffee itself, save at breakfast, must give place to sugarless and milkless weak tea. She can have all the acid fruit she wants, but if it be stewed no sugar must be added. Dr. Weir Mitchell advocates copious draughts of skim milk for the safe redaction of flesh. He stated if it be taken plentifully at and between meals it will possibly cause a patient to lose half a pound of flesh a day. Baths must be taken in cold water and bard '{flesh brush must be plied vigorously.

THE WORLD’S NEWS. Half a dozen girls from the secondary schools of Paris have been sent to lingland at the expense cl the ’French nation for a two years’ course Of study. All fees and expenses are 'paid and each girl receives an allowance of five francs a month. The first year is to be passed in scholastic studies and the second in obtaining a busitraining in a commercial house.

The Animal Rescue League at Boston lias opened a new •field for the wage earning woman, namely the calling of dog walkers.' Young girls are reported to be much in demand among Boston women, who employ them to lead theinpet dogs out for daily airings. Mrs. J attington Wilson, president of the league, is reported to have pronounced the work both easy and healthful.

The German Housewives’ Society has just awarded prizes to thirty-five model servants, women who have been 'two or more years in the same place. The twenty-five who had been two years in the same place received golden bees as a symbol of their industry. Eight who had four-year records received rings, and two who had six years to their credit received each a ten dollar gold piece with their rings. The Society awards prizes every two years and among those rewarded last year several had ten and twelve year records.

Elizabeth Cromwell, widow of the Protector and ancestress of many _Tory peers, who died on October 8, 1G72, is strangely ignored by historians, and her only known portrait is an engraved frontispiece to a cookery book. Yet she was a model British housewile. When Protectress she had “labyrinths and trapstairs” made at Whitehall, by which she could keep her servants “vigilant and honest.” She supervised all cooking, kept cows in St. James’s Park, and refused to let Cromwell have an orange that cost fourpence.

Readers of that pathetic book, “Tn-.r-ieen Nights,” by Olive Mai very (Mrs Mackirdy) will not be surprised that it is being made useful. By the sale of Messrs'Hodder and Stoughton’s new sixpenny edition a substantial sum is being added to the fund which Mrs Mackirdy and Lady Brassey are raising to build a London shelter for women and girls. iSeveral Royal ladies, including the Duchess of Albany, have helped the scheme; and on the committee are such well-known men as Lord Stratheona, Lord Carzon, and Lord Ueav. The sum required is £lO,090.

For nearly twenty years Miss Emma Lees lias been -employed in a casual capacity to deliver telegrams in the 'Waterhead district of Oldham. Those who imagine that Miss Lees cannot do hc>- work as smartly and with' such celerity as the trim post office messengers in uniform are, "St Martin s-ie-Giand says, quite mistaken. She is daily t° bo seen about liie streets, and although now sixtv-eight years of age, she is sti.i verv robust. “Little Emma.” :s sue is locally termed, is very proud ol lie. position and duties, and the people of Waterhead have always a kina word and a nod for her as she hurries by on her errands.

There has iust died m Clarens, iSail/erlaiid, a heroine of the Franco-Ger-man war. Mademoiselle .Juliette Dodu, narrowly escaped being shot whilst she ( rave magnificent service on the Frenen side. When only eighteen years of age flic was in charge of the telegiaph office at" Pithiviers when the Prussians occupied the place. She secretly tapped the wires and worked them, sending extracts from the Prussian despatches to the French headquarters. At last, but. not until she ha<l rendered this service for seventeen days, she uas caught, tried hv court-martial, and uas sentenced to ho shot, but "'as saved hv the personal intervention of I mice •Frederick Charles. For this . act of bravery she was eventually given the military medal and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

RECIPES. Beef Roll.—Take one pound of raw mince or steak, three-quarters of a pound raw ham, half a pound of bioadcrumbs, two eggs, salt, black pe.ppoi, nutmeg if liked. Ii steak is used put it through a mincer, mince the ham, mix with the crumbs, add seasoning and enough beaten eggs to bind all together. Knead the mixture veiy well with the hand, form into a largo sausage shape, roll in a floured cloth, tie tlie ends securely, put into boiling water, and boil -for two hours. If to he served hot remove the doth, sprinkle with fine browned breadcrumbs, and serve with a nice brown or tomato sauce. This roll is usually served cold, although it is very good hot. It should lie leftTn the cloth until cold, t-lien willed with a cloth wrung out of hot water. Brush the roll, with glaze, and garnish it with sprigs of parsley, cress, radishes, beetroot, or anything liked. Glaze for Roll-: Quarter of an ounce of gelatine, quarter of a teaspoonful oi meat extract, quarter of a toacupiul of wpater. Put all the ingredients into a pan and boil -for a few minutes, stirring it almost constantly. Brush the rolfeveni-ng -with the glaze. The glaze for this may be colored pink with a few drops of carmine. Potted . Beef. —This is excellent for sandwiches. Take half a nouncl of cold beef, and pass it four times til rough a mincing machine. Tlie'n pound it in a mortar with three ounces of butter, a tenspoonful of all-spice, salt and cayenne to taste. If not sufficiently moist, with the butter, add a little good beef gravy to. make it softer. Press the meat into jar.s, and pour melted butter ever to exclude the air.