WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S NOTES.

BEAUTY. (By Miss Mary Tallis.) Dainty and attractive.—Of all the ways and means to charm the opposite sex there’s none so sure as being always the same dainty and attractive soul, indoors and out. Even the homeliest woman can be attractive it she is fastidious and fragrant; Begin at the toe and work to the top. Think of yourself less of a figure and more of a body. A tiny lavender sachet of your favourite perfume in the bed linen, a bath on awakening ; a good rub down with a fragrant toilet water, which lingers on through the day, and careful make-up and spotlessness in whatever you choose to wear for lounging or about the house, even if no one sees you but the cat. Don’t make an occasion of cleanliness, or “do up” for special people—-you’ll find it never works at the right moment. Be the same morning, noon and night; well groomed, well perfumed, and immaculately clean, with, or without onlookers. With an audience it -will give you charm, without them it will give you faith. I'm always wondering why. ns women grow older, so many of them let themselves go in this respect. The older one gets the more necessary all this care becomes. Even the loveliest baby isn’t pleasant to dandle on one’s knee if it isn’t clean and sweet, neither is old ago venerable and to be admired if one cannot approach it without distaste. So, all through life, say I, a womanjs l>est charm and everlasting romance is fastidiousness in all things, both great and small. COOKING.

New Style Pancakes. —You certainly like omelettes, but after a time they get slightly wearisome; then why not try these new style pancakes. They make a delicious change. Kidney pancake has an easily made filling, and this should be folded in a pancake as thin as paper and crisp and delicious. Take dioz self-raising flour, 1 cupful milk, 1 egg and a pinch of salt. Sieve the flour and the salt together, beat the egg and gradually add the milk, beating all the time. Shake in a little of the flour, then put aside for an hour. Beat for 3 minutes and leave for another hour. Into the frying pan put a nut of lard and when it has melted pour most of it into a basin, leaving very little at the bottom of the pan. Ponr in a little of the batter and turn the pan about quickly so that the bottom is completely but thinly covered with the mixture. It is the quickness of the hand that makes this process successful. Allow 2 kidneys for each pancake. Slice and cut them into dice. Chop finely 1 shallot and fry in loz butter for a few moments. Roll the diced kidney in seasoned flour and add to the shallot. Fry until golden brown and remove to a hot plate; make the sauce bv adding Joz flour to the hot butter, stirring well together until blended, then pouring in 1£ gills of stock or water. When the sauce has thickened put in the kidney and onion and cook gently for 15 minutes. At the last moment stir in 1 dessertspoonful of chopped parsley. The filling can be cooking while you are frying the hatter, and when this is ready the centre is spread with \he filling and the panenke folded over and very quickly served. Peach pancakes are a change. Take 4oz self-raising flour. 1 egg, Jpt milk and a pinch of salt. Put tho flour and salt into a. basin, and in the centre pour the egg; mix with the flour, adding the milk as you do so; bent well. Lard the frving pan. pour in tho batter and fry the pancake lightly both, sides. Fill the centre with sliced peaches and a..dusting of castor sugar. HEALTH.

Tho Decline Of Disease. —Diphtheria, which formerly carried off whole families of children, is now less common, and an antitoxin has caused the mortality to he very low. Quarantine and segregation, and more recently preventive inoculation, have reduced scarlet fever to small epidemics and a low mortality. Tuberculosis has been tackled by improved living conditions and improved education of patients against the spread of infection. It is now rapidly decreasing, and it is safe to look forward to a time when it will be almost extinct. The same supplies to all iufectious diseases, with the exception of the world-wide epidemics of influenza that occur about once a generation There is reason to hope that we will he able to modify and limit the next by means of inoculation. Cancer is shown in nil statistics ns increasing, hut this should be considered in the light of several facts. In the first place, cancer is, in the main, a disease of the fifties or later,'and there is a larger percentage of the population over that age than formerly. Also, the drop in deaths from other causes has made the cancer mortality loom large. Until recently, diabetes was incurable, and was very little modified by treatment. Those who were young died in a few years, and the older patients certainly lived for years, but only at the IVice of rigid dieting and much discomfort. Insulin has changed all that. The average diabetic can now live a parctically normal life on a liberal diet, and can expect to live for years. Pernicious anaemia was incurable until the discovery of the properties of liver extract. • „ THE HOME.

Thronged paper parchment lampshades.—Thronged parchment paper lampshades are rightly very popular hist now. You will require a wire frame (this need not he new, of course), some parchment paper and oddments of wool in three shades, left over from knitting or embroidery. The frame should be one which has four or six ‘ straightedged panels. Lay the frame on its side on a sheet of paper, \with one panel flat against the paper, and take an exact pattern of the panel by pencilling along the outsides of the wires forming it. Cut out the shape obtained, and use it as a pattern for the parchment paper panels, which must be cut without turnings. With an embroidery stiletto or pointed scissors, make thronging holes all round each panel jin inside the edge and Jin apart. Cut three needlesful of wool, one of each colour, and thread them all together into a bodkin. Place the first panel against the wire frame, on the outside, and overcast' (throng) its top to the top wire. Continue down a side wire, here not only thronging the first panel to the frame, but a second one to cover the next wire section. Place the mnes of the second panel exactly over those of tho first one, and throng them both at once to the frame. Secure all the panels in place down the side wires in the same way ; then throng them along the top and bottom of the frame. From the rest of the wool make small varicoloured tassels, and hang one at the bottom of each vertical wire.

For a tagol or other straw hat which has developed a point through being wet: While the hat is still damp, fill a pound jam-jar with hot water, and, pacing the hat downwards on the table, stand the jar in the crown. Leave for some hours, and, upon removal, the crown will be found to be as flat as when new.