THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3129, 27 January 1911, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Cleaning Pots and Saucepans. It is most important, as most of us know, to keep the inside of all pots and pans in use scrupulously clean, as otherwise tlie food cooked in them becomes contaminated. To clean a saucepan a stiff bristled brush answers well, but sometimes even more than this is required to free them from grease stains. A little powdered bath-brick is useful for this purpose, and a tin of it should' stand on the kitchen shelf. An excellent mixture for cleaning pots, pans, sinks tiles, boards, etc., can be made as follows :

Take equal parts of whiting, soft soap, powdered bathbrick, and soda. Put these ingredients into a nan, aikhng enough water to make a smooth paste. Boil until all is dissolved, and pour into old jam pars for use. Apply on a piece of coarse flannel, or use with a brush as convenient. All saucepans, pie dishes, etc., should he filled with water after use, until they can he washed l up properly. This saves a good deal of labor, as they will: then clean much more easily. China and earthenware' can be gently rubbed with a piece of bathbrick and a piece of pumice stone. Both these things are useful to ready for this purpose, and for cleaning the hands. Food should never, of course, be left hi , a saucepan to become cold, though tins is often overlooked in making soup. The Claes Bedroom.

The use of glass instead of clnna has become so popular foij bedrooms, and there really is something very bright in the aspect Of a room that lias a white or cream striped paper, gay chintz curtains of a flowery pattern, and on the washstand of which it is placed a piece of plate-glass, with mats of Irish lacc, and on which, in turn, you stand the basin, ewer, jugs, bottles, etc., also of glass. , & For powder pots, large and small, have glass ones with lids, and for a jewel receptacle, can one imagine anything daintier than a glass dish which has a lid and is supplied l with a rose-colored cushion on which to lay and brooches in use, chains, pendants, and the like. Glass candlesticks are nice .with rosecolored candles and shades, the latter covered with lace.

Quite the newest idea, is to paint a piece of glass for washstand or toilettable on the under side witii blue, pink, silver oxodised paint-—what you will. The color shows through, very prettily. A small coterie of women in society, following the example of a' fashionable painter, are having black glass doors to wardrobes and the. like; but the black glass is transparent, such as is used tor spectacles. The highest polish is always kept on the black glass. black looking-glasses are the vogue. The effect of black glass over the quicksilver is very curious, Certain it is that colored dresses, jewels, and ornaments in the room are reflected in a surprising way. Miss Taft’s Debut.

Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the American President, made her debut last month.' The event took ■; lace at tilb Whit.., House, when a reception, attended by members of the Cabuvt. the Diplomatic Corps, and officers (4 f the army and navy, was given. Miss li.it is the. thirteenth debutante at the \\ L to House, and in popularity ranks with “Princess Alice,” Mr Roosevelt’s ilalighter whose social career was also begun at Washington. Hitherto, White House debutantes have made their bow to society at a dance given for the younger Washington set, but Mrs Taft, who has ideas of her own in social matters, revived ■ the colonial custom, .which included a reception and personal presentation to society, young and old. The success of the function will warrant its continuance. Mrs Taft was plainly pleased by the success of the revival of the old style, and the President’s famous smile was in evidence all the time. The scene in the East Room, which' Europeans might describe as the “Throne Room” of the White House, was one of great charm and beauty, Conspicuous amongst the gifts of affection was a ship constructed of pink and white rosebuds, from the debutante's college friends. Miss Taft, a tall, fair girl, with brown eyes, and, •of the English type of beauty, although she is the thirteenth White House debutante, says laughingly that she believes in the luck of odd numbers.