THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3190, 8 April 1911, Page 4

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Hints from Paris. An Australian who has just paid a flying visit to Baris, writes from London, and gives her impressions. They are almost entirely 'concerned witU clothes. She saw no harem skirts outside the shops. Skirts are' all straight up and down in line, she says, but are not nearly so plain. Even coat and skirt costumes have tunic; skirts, and the effect is not always good, the tunic ending sometimes just below the coat, and whilst the coat finishes with a straight line all round, the tunic may be up on one side and down on the other, or waved, or up at the back and down in front. “They may be smart,” she says, “but I did not like them.” Afternoon skirts often have the hip gores made with a plain top, and a deep straight falling flounce from just below the hip. There isn’t a suspicion of a “hobble” to be seen, and all the indications are that there is to be much more fullness, but hanging straight, and not contrived by goring the skirts. The newest coats were a great surprise, she goes on. They are as plain as possible—sometimes only t>yo or three buttoned straps to serve both as trimming and fastening. They fasten up almost close to the neck, just about where the “rever” usually begins. So that they have no revers, only a small collar. In shape they are box coats, but some of them are cut very cunningly, with a slightly curved seam across the waist at the back. For afternoon costumes the cross-over effect in the front of the bodice is extraordinarily popular. In evening dress, styles have not changed ‘ very materially, according to this observant person. The only point she noticed worth mentioning is the prevalence of hoods on evening coats. On velvet coats they are made of velvet ,lined with s-'tin, big enough to look like collars. But the loveliest were the lace hoods, worn on both light and heavy coats. One. on a grey velvet coat was a vision of beautv.

Mr. Carnegie’s advice to Working Girls Mr. Andrew Carnegie, while inspecting the publishing plant of a wellknown magazine in New York, was prevailed upon to give a short address to the girl employees, in the course of which he said that most millionaires wives were unhappy. They had too many luxuries and had no mental resources to fall back upon. Some of the partners, he continued, had been unjustly criticised for what was solely the fault of the wives. “But,” concluded the great ironmaster, “do not refuse a man simply because he is a millionaire.”

Fashionable War. The time is ripe. The hour has arrived. War is in future to be fashionable. War has always been fashionable in a way, but it has been in the past a thing in which men only attended the scene of conflict. That, however, is to be- changed. When war breaks out and the Japs invade Australia, Mrs Potts Point will invite her friends to a battle tea on. the sit-e of the hostilities and Mrs Rose .Bay will give a battle dinner in the vicinity. With the eyes of beauty and fashion upon it, war wil] boom as a fashionable pastime, arid probably to suit the convenience of the fair sex, chivalrous Governments will arrange where battles are to be held and erect grandstands overlooking the spot . In that case any regiment which, on a flanking expedition, goes outside the set boundaries, will, of course, be out of bounds. The thing lias started already. In Mexico a woman has given a battle tea on her housetop to view one of those extraordinary Mexican, bat- - tles in which, according to f the. report | of, a recent conflict, nobody gets hurt, by bullets ; : but one gallant ■ captain breaks his arms by falling, off his '-librse-1 and twenty-four other combatants hurt, themselves by tripping over stones. ■ On using a Cas Stove; -/. ; rtf ' So many people use gas stoves in these days for cooking that a few little hints about them,, some of which, may tend to reduce! the gas bill, will perhaps be welcome. Gas may be saved by remembering that matches are cheap. It costs less to light up again

than to have ever the smallest lights going. If you turn the gas off, too, a little before cooking is done, you will find the heat already generated will usually be enough to what you need. When anything you have been cooking lias reached boiling point, turn the gas just low enough to. keep up that heat. This will be less than that required to bring it to this i>oint ; the rest will be wasted if you keep it at the first heat. If you buy an iron sheeting large enough to cover, say, two burners of your gas stove, you will find by lighting only one of these there will be enough heat presently to make the part of the sheet otfer the other burner hot enough to warm plates, or to keep anything you have cooked warm for serving. After using a gas stove, leave the oven open a little while to allow the gas to escape. This prevents “sweating’’ and rusting. Where Salt is Good.

Brooms gain double life if the hairs are soaked in boiling, salted water, ihen hung up to dry. Wet salt with vinegar for brass or copper utensils, but wash immediately and dry well, or the metal will be injured. Hub teacups that are stained with a little dry salt; it takes out the discoloration at once.

Silver that is egg-stained may be made bright by rubbing with salt water.

Rinse cut glass in salted water and drain; it will be perfectly clean and shine like new. For •Cleaning Steel or Marble.—Cover with sweet oil well rubbed on it. In forty-eight hours use unslalced lime, powdered very‘fine. Rub it until the rust disappears. To take iron stains out of marble.An equal quantity of fresh spirit of vitriol and lemon juice mixed in a bottle. Shake it well. Dampen the spots, and in a few moments have them rubbed with soft linen until they disappear. Stained Cruet Bottles. —Soak the bottles for some tome in warm soda and water. Then cut a potato into small, dice-shaped pieces, put a good handful into each bottle, fill up with warm water, and shake vigorously. Rinse in plenty of cold water and turn upside down, to dram.