THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3383, 25 November 1911, Page 4

THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE.

BY “ROSALIND."

SOCIAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr and Mrs Richard Sherratt returned this morning from their visit to London and the Continent.

Miss L. Busby ieturned to Tokomaru this week.

Mrs and Miss L. King Returned from their visit to the North of Auckland on Wednesday.

Mrs Harvey is visiting Mrs Carmichael, at Wairoa.

Promoted by a desire for novelty in wedding presents, Mr. Henry L. Aufire v-Fletcher, of the Grenadier Guards, and Miss Mary Chilton, who were married recently in London, gave each other revolvers.

The death lias taken place at the ago of eighty-two of Miss Crump, of (Parham Surrey), who had lived with her four un-married sisters in the same house for more than eighty years.

A touching story of the devotion or a mother and daughter is told by the Rev. Henry Pitt, vicar of St. Alary Southwark.' Six years ago a fifteen-year-old giid died leaving a few farthings. With these the mother purchased some cotton and commenced a Communion cloth in memory of her child. The mother labored for five years at the task, but died before it was completed An elder daughter, a member of St.’ Alary’s Church, took up the work, and after devoting a year’s leisure to it finished the cloth, whicii now, after a labor of love extending over six years, has been presented to St. Mary’s Church.

In his annual charge to the clergy of the diocese of London, delivered recently at St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Bishop of London offered warning against what lie termed the deliberate limitation of families.”

“It is to stem this gigantic evil,’’ said the bishop, “that I summon the forces of the Church to-day. It is all part of the miserable gospel of comfort which is the curse of the present day.”

FASHION NOTES. Lovers of velveteen wil be glad to hear that their favorite, material can now be obtained absolutely showerproof. At present the only color is black, hut doubtless the process will be extended to velveteens of all shades later on. A luffs are getting larger every day. One would have thought that the extremes of depth and width had been touched last year, when they required the entire length of one arm for their support. This year the woman who carries the latest thing in “Grannies” will have both arms inserted in fur up to the shoulders. Some of the new muffs are composed of fur, velvet, and lace laid on in stripes. The idea is new, hut it is hardly likely to have a long existence..

HOUSEHOLD HINTS, Glass stoppers can generally be removed by the application of heat, often the warmth from the hand is sufficient, blit should this fail try holding before a fire; in very obdurate cases it may be necessary to put a few drops of sweet oil round the stopper, afterwards rubbing well with an old silk handkerchief, the friction trill produce the required heat.

When peeling onions, begin at the root end and peel upwards, and the onion will scarcely affect vour eves at all.

Dishes browned by use may be cleaned by letting them remain in boiling soda water for half an hour to threequarters. To remove grease spots from carpets, mix equal quantities of powdered magnesia and fuller’s earth to a stiff paste with boiling water, and while it is still hot spread it over the grease spots and leave it until it is dry, when, if it is brushed away, the absorbed grease will disappear with it.

Old boot tops, cut into pieces the right size and lined, make good iron holders. The leather keeps all heat away from the hand.

THE LADIES WORLD. HAIR POWDER. The first English ladies who had the courage to wear powdered hair were as much pointed at for their singularity as the wearer of a crinoline would be to-day. It was in the beginning of the reign of George the First that the pioneers ventured to make themselves so conspicuous, and at the same time when the next King was crowned there was only two hnir-dresers in London ; but in the year 1795 it was calculated that there were in Great Britain no less than fifty thousand hair-dressers! A writer with a turn for statistics reckoned up the probable amount of flour these fifty thousand would use in a year, and arrived at the conclusion that it was equal to what would make 5,314,280 quartern loaves. Apart from the question of whether the flour might not have been better employed, it must be owned that there was more excuse for the artificial production of grey hair than there is for the dyeing of the hair when nature decides that it is time for it to bo grey. WHEN WOMEN SAT IN PARLIAMENT. It is quite certain that women of position sat in the Saxon Witas for Parliament). Bode quotes the Abbess Hilda as presiding at a synod. 'Til a great national council A.D. 69L five Abbesses signed the decrees with King, bishops and nobles. In the times of Henry 111. and Edward I. the Abbesses of Shaftesbury, Berking St. Mary of Winchester, and Wilton were summoned to Parliament. Towards the end of the reigns of Edward 111. the Countesses of Norfolk, March, Pembroke, and other ladies were summoned to Parliament by writ, to appear there by proxy, a privilege peculiar to the peerage.” LADY MAYOR’S ADVICE. The autumn meeting of the executive council of the National Chamber of Trade was held at Oldham on a recent date, and the mayor, Mrs Lees.

NOTES AND NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

RECIPES.

welcomed the delegates to the town. “It is the first time you have received ;i welcome from a. woman,” she said, “and 1 hope it will not be the last. After all, women are your best customers. It is we women who look in your shop windows and choose what we want. Perhaps the fathers and husbands have to pay; that is quite a secondary matter. One way of inducing us to buy is to have your shop window tastefully laid out; not too many things in the window or we may not find what wo want.” (Laughter.’)

VICAR AND WEDDING CUSTOMS.

The vicar of Earlslieaton, Yorkshire, the ltev. R. S. Davies, has addressed his parishioners through the parish magazine on conduct displayed in church at weddings. He had, lie said, requested that the confetti should not be thrown in the churchyard, but this request has been practically ignored. He now repeated the request, and warned offenders. The vicar concluded:—“lf some women we have seen at marriages wore invited to a friend’s house on a festive occasion, would they go with a shawl over their heads and looking quite untidy ? Is not God’s house as worthy of respect as the house of a friend ? Wo request, also, that this custom may be discontinued.”

PLAIN GINGERBREAD. Alix one pound of dry Hour wun Iwo unces of moist sugar, and not quite a quarter of an ounce of ground ginger (but that is for your taste), stir into it nearly a half pound of warm treat's, that has been mixed with a quarter of a pound of liquid butter, make into a stiff paste, form the dough into nuts or rocky calces, and bake in a moderately hot oven. Store in tin boxes. STEWED TONGUE. You have no idea how good this cash is. Stow it in a- good braize, but remember that everything that is called a braize must be seasoned with carrots, onions, parsley, thyme, hay leaf and a dove. When the tongue is nicely cooked, cut it lengthwise, spread it open and screen it- with a thick brown sauce. WHITE SAUCE.

Half a pint of milk, an ounce of butter, and a good tablespoonful of dry flour. Alix the flour with a little water, add a pinch of salt, pass this through a, fine sieve into the milk, then add the butter, set over a clear_fire, and stir the whole time until done. Pull the saucepan far back, let it simmer until the flour is Quite cooked. SUET PUDDINGS.

Chop six ounces of suet with a, dessertspoonful of flour, then put all into a basin with nearly eight ounces of flour. Mix this with enough water to moisten: the pudding will be mueli lighter by being moist than a dry dough. Put the whole into a clean cloth, that has just been wrung out of cloan water; tie the ends with string, and pin the- centre with a safe-ty-pin. _ Allow this to simmer two hours. If so arranged the pudding will nob stick to the cloth. ,Dish the meat, and pour out the fat from the tin into a jar, then put a. little water, salted, into the pan, set upon the stove until the liquor boils, pour into a boat or tureen. Dish all very nice and hot. A RICH GINGER CAKE.

Melt in a pound of treacle half a pound of butter, half pound of sugar, three-quarters of an ounce of grated ginger. Mix altogether throwing in two ounces of chopped candied peel, add about one pound of dry Hour (enougn to make the whole into' a light smooth paste), roll out at once and put it in smooth little heaps on to floured tins, set in a- quick oven, bake to a nice brown color.

LEEKS. This vegetable is now in perfection, and if nicely cooked, is nearly as good as asparagus. Leeks require a deal of washing to rid them of sand and grit; cut into lengths and all dead parts remove, leave in the water as least an bour, then let the tap run down the hearts. BOILED TUB NIPS AND WHITE SAUCE. i'hesc may be cut into any fancy ! ape. but it is better to choose small urnips. Peel and boil in salted wawhen done to a turn, drain, dish i cry hot. and screen with butter sauce.