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WOMAN'S PAGE
"FOR THE HOUSEWIFE'S
NOTEBOOK.
Apple and culory minced finely with some chopped nuts make a delicious salad to oat with cold mosta.
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When boiling artichokes, a fow drops of vinegar in the water. will keep them white.
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When meat juice or milk 'boils over, sprinkle a little salt over the spilled liquid, and there will not be any smell..
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When boiling cabbages, drop one or, two small pieces of black orust bread into the water. This helps to koop down the unpleasant odour. A little vinegar in a saucer placed on toją of the stove will help. greatly to lessen many of the cook- ing odours of the kitchen.
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Wash and dry colory leaves, placa: them in a warm oven, turning them now and again; keep in air-tight jars; these are useful for seasoning when celery can no longer be ol tained.
'TO-DAY'S RECIPES.
Apples in Batter,
Feel and core four apples, place them in a grenaod pin dish and Al} the centres with sugar. Make a batter by beating one egg and half a pint of milk and water, add sufficient flour to make a batter; mixing it carefully so that it will be quite smooth. Add a pinch of salt and two teaspoonfuls of sugar, boat wall and pour over the apples! Sprinkle with grated nutmeg and bake for about one hour.
Savoury Vegetables,
One carrot, ono paranip, one onion, stick of salery, ono turnip, any mixed herbs or chopped pars ley. Put all through amincer, and with a mail piece of butter, and a little water cook for an hour.
WOMEN'S JOURNALS cook, if played discreetly in the FALLEN FEATHERS. Thickon with a dessert-symoonful of
-100 YEARS AGO.
"suitable
garden, is mentioned as recreation for all misses properly apprehensive of unseemly display or lack of propriety and decorum." Most of these old-time magazines
(By Marigold, Watney, }
A little crowd had collected in front of the glass cano. It was an
LIFE IN VICTORIAN DAYS.
A hundred years ago, As now, women had their own magazines complishments. The Ladies Maya-unanual crowd to find in a muscum
gave hints on the cultivation of ac
which catered specially for feminine:
zine always presented their readers tastes. As far back as the reign with a song, with an accompani Queen Anne we hear of a Journal ment of ons note for each hand, so for Ladies, and when the last echas not tax the energies too severely tury opened London had quite a Lengthy instructions are given for little group of women's periodients. painting and drawing for no "A low' are still extant today. lady can consider her education We come norous them occasionally completed until she has produced at in old libraries and second-hand least one picture worthy to be shops, and they are worth a few framed and glazed." minutes study, if only to show how absolutely our ideas and trates have thanged during the last century.
Masculine Monsters at the Haberdashers,
In an article dated 1835 the writer is sorely troubled by the number of men sorving in shops. Who," sho zaka "can pass by a haber
The Terrible Blue Stocking." Reading was not encouraged in those old days, for whereas novela were regarded as pernicious any- thing more soliq tended to "frum- plishness" and blue stocking"
Needlework was the chief occupa- tion for women, and pages and
where people are generally ensun) This and occasionally curious, crowd was neither one nor the other; it was sorrowful: Now and then someone would speak; how well I remember that!" or, "do
remember you
how enchanting. Then a child's shrill
question.
The mother explained; "theso are a few things that belonged to Anna Pavlova, she was grent dancer and loved England."
Clothea can be pathetic some- times, and them were more than which hung in the glass came were usually appealing. The frocks
which had delighted thousands of eloquent of a vivid personality
people. Now the feathers and
dasher's or millinor's shop, and not Dagos were devoted to designs and Anory which had adorned, their smile with the utmost contempt at patterns for fancy work mos. of owner on all the solemnity of the the masculine monsters we seo be which WELA manufactured hind the counter serving out a yard table centres, anti-macassars, matej
into London Museum. and a half of ribbon, or a piece of
Surely most familiar, of all must flannel, and retailing needles and mantel borders and other Victorian be the costume worn for the dance bobbins?"
horrors. Knitting, batting, and
of the Dying Swan, the slender fer-
She goes on to protest violently crochet work were described in dether bodice and the tulle bespangled against the indecency, to Ray
nothing worse, of allowing men to tail, and also the making and shap engage in the trade of staymaking," ing of wrioua quaint and amazing and adds that she has often blush- undergarments.
ed to see women "shamelessly re- signing their feet to mon shoe- makers, who, after handling them as their pleasure, find out a pair to At them."
Ingenious Hobbles.
But even needlework palls some- times, and then young ladies wore Omnibus Rides Fraught with Peril. quaint and ingenious, if rather
advised to occupy themselves with!)
uscless, little hobbies.
A little later mention is made articles describo in detail how to
skirt The head dress lies beside it, rather tumbled swans down and. rather tarnished, paste; with`a glittering star stitched firmly into place with thick white cotton.
The Russian Dress.
The Russian dress is emblazoned
Longthy with emeralds, rubice and sap- of Shillibeer's omnibuses, whichskbietaniga leaves, make shell phires, jewela meant, to sparkle be had just appeared, and young boxes, rustic picture frames, crazy "hind the footlights, and not to bear Indies are expressly warned against china vas, or ribbon hair tidies, the uncompromising light of day. the dangers of entering these public and how to "gild and decorate
convoyances and thus laying them plans pots, bood table nat Most-charming-of-all-wus a-1 Ome selves open to rudeness and insults and make necklaces out of dried pink silk mantle, with a Victorian from male passengers.
berries,"
muff and poke-bonnet to match.
ne-
In those "days women always. walked abroad with a footman in No wonder thesa Victorian Many of us can remember the dance attendance unless they were
maidens, who wasted their lives when these wore worn, and how it Isompanied by one or more of the over such futile occupations, were stronger sex, and the injunction often reduced to poverty in after portrayed gay, fight-hearted youth On the shelf below is an array
"When walking between two gen- life, This fact is shown by the in every, stop.
Silk lampshades may be washed tlemen it is not necessary to take number of articles on such subjects in soap and water if the process the arm of both "recalls the time How Two Sisters Live in of gold medals, elaborate présenta
when ovory gentleman, as a matter London on Pound
A Discreet Garden Game.
7 Wook", tions and addresses, the rewards is undertaken with care. Make a of course, offered his arm, to assist!
How We Maango on Bixty of genius and of what is often for- lather with good soup flakes and our shrinking grandmothers across Founds a Year," and Passing gotten-indomitable hard work."
Rich on Forty Pounds a Year,"
Next to these tributes the modest. dip the lampshade, up and down the streets.
They would wearesly appeal to makeup box strikes an intimate Bend trimmings will take no harm"
our modern girls, who devote their note. Amongst the powder puffe ...from this treatment. Rinse in luke-
energies not in skilful, contrivances and sticks of paint lie a handful of to make one panny do the work black hairpins and a worn gilt warm water and hang out of doors
thimble. Did this woman that to dry. Any bends should be wiped
soomed to us more fairly-like than with a warm, dry cloth before hang
human, resily And fimo for the ing.out...
domestic occupation of sewing!
No young lady worthy of the name would be soon running in of two but in supplementing inade publio is a dictum which would quata incomes by their own exer rather astonish our games-loving tions. girls, and battledore, and shuttles
ALL.S.
flour.
Serve hot on toast gr with mashed potatoes walled round. Salt and pepper to taste before adding thickening.
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