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Woman's Wider World.
Woman's Wider World. BY TERESA BII LINGTON GREIG. U.-WOMIN IN THE FUTURE. The barriers are falling. The advance ihot jromen are making towards complete liberty is no mirage-no dream. Every day the toad is widened a little and some woman I)Pases through to greater liberties. The days of the "Woman in Transition" are num- bered it may be ten years, or twenty years, or half a century, before she reaches the boundary, but she will reach it, and become Woman Free." She is facing the future now, with clear, far-seeing eyes, and freeing herself slowly from the trammels of the past. She is still in the midst of the dust of the fight. But she knows what she wants, although she may not know that she knows. SELF-POSSZSSION. She wants the recognition of her human status—of a status equal with that of her brother, which will make the law colour-blind to sex as it now is to race and creed. She wants the right of control over her own life and life-work—the right to possess herself. She wants to share those wider social and political liberties which mark off human existence from slavery and chaos. She wants her opportunity of training and education, and her choice of employment, to be as wide as her brother's, being determined solely by her own capacity. She wants the opportunity of attaining maturity with a sound mind in a sound body. She wants a just return for her labour in the working world-the prin- ciple that payment shall be made for work done, without regard to the sex of the doer, being the only one that can bring her security. THE INEVITABLE EMANCIPATION. All these things are to come, and all of them will come. A womanhood independent, free, well-born, and well-bred, will follow from them. And as the womanhood of to-day its, so is the manhood and womanhood of to- morrow. The world sees that the new woman is coming. It sees the slow, sure coming of the end, and frets and fumes, or rejoices ex- ceedingly. Like all changes of great moment, this emancipation of women is regarded by the men and women among whom it is taking place with widely different feelings. A great many people, happily decreasing in number, look upon it with complete indifference they move with the times and know not that they move. An increasing number of enthusiasts hail the progress of the movement with delight, and base upon it their prophecies of the golden age to come. But a fairly large proportion of the general public is still in opposition, and they regard every fresh ad- vance as an additional menace to the home and to the well-being of women themselves. EXCURSIONS AND ALARUMS. This danger of harm to the home, to women themselves, and to motherhood, seema to those oppressed by dread of it a very real and tangible thing. All who look upon these many changes in women's social, political, and industrial position know that they will bring with them changes in woman herself, and changes in the condition of wifehood and motherhood. They dread these changes and foretell grave disaster. But why should I change spell disaster? Beneficent changes are Bonstantlv being made in other departments of life. We recognise them as necessary; we I advocate them as desirable. Is this depart- ment of life which pertains to the position of Women the only one in which we have attained perfection? One would suppose so from the arguments of the opponents; and yet most of us can picture much more desir- able home conditions than those enjoyed by the average mother and child of to-day. A PBRTINBNT QUESTION AND EXAMPLE. But if we have really attained such per- fection in our family arrangements, when was it attained? Changes in domestic life, and in the relations of parents and children, have been taking place under our very eyes all through our lives, and took place just in the same way under the eyes of our mothers and grandmothers. The housewife of three generations ago was brewer and baker, spinner and weaver, butter and jam maker, and followed a multitude of other trades. To- day each of these separate trades has been taken out of the home into the world of organised Industry. Yet homes are still homes, though the men and women who saw those changes coming in the future might have predicted otherwise. Indeed, we know they did. An ancestress of my own refused her countenance to her son's marriage because the woman of his choice did her household needlework with a sewing- machine In such new-fangled ways of lazi- hess lay the destruction of home life to the old lady's mind. The dread of those who oppose the changes of to-day is just as un- reasonable, just as much due to ignorance, to want of imagination, and to habit and senti- IIWIIå HAKTT, ILL-ADVISSD MARRIAGES. But what changes are likely to occur; to what do the probabilities point? If women are able to earn comfortable livings by the Work of their hands they are less likely to marry merely for shelter. To-day one must admit many such marriages are made. To have this number decreased would be a dis- tinct advance from the point of view both bf morality aid of the happiness of the. mar- ried state. Then probably women would not marry so early, they would prefer to retain their state of bachelor independence until they were approaching thirty. But why not? It is surely more desirable for men and women to enter the marriage state at an age when they know their own l minds, than for them to contract hasty and Ill-advised unions which bring a harvest oi suffering from ignorance and poverty in their train. QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY. There would be fewer children born, cry the opponents. Well, that would be a great ad vantage if those fewer children born were born to live and not to die. The number of children who die in infancy is a blot upon our eivilisatku. If the development of women's intelligence, with the establishment of industrial security, .secure. fewer children better born and better bred, and prevents the present waatago of child life and woman's life, it must be hailed as the greatest possible of all human reforms. But, the opponents will say, it is the effect upon the woman herself which most concerns us. She will lose all her womanly charm, and become masculine and degraded and un- suited to her high mission. Here, again, we have one of those comfortable popular fal- lacies which are exploded as soon as exam- ined. MORS COMPANIONABLE. The women of to-day have liberties undreamed of by their grandmothers. They concern themselves with aiPkinds of educa- tional work, but they are not the leas loving and lovable. They are physically strong and self-reliant, where their grandmothers Nere timid to the point of ludicrous, and fainted with painstaking perseverance on avery possible occasion. Yet the man of to- day finds health and bright spirits and men- tal capacity dlluring in a woman. Common interests and sympathies draw them to- Sether. If the twentieth century man, who nds this girl a delight, wei e to be asked to marry the typical girl of his grandmother's day he would probably reply that he prefer- red to drown himself. He recognises that the girl of to-day is a distinct advance upon the girl of yesterday. The girl of to-morrow will be an advance upon both. The problems of home-life are still many and require careful thought and energy for their solution. The organisation of domestic industry, the solution of the servant problem, the securing of liberty and status for the worker, married or single, the development of a cleaner and stronger race, the establish- ment of conditions of cleser mutual service and understanding between men and women —these are the task that lie to her hand.
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" .. I \laQt fov 8Sfomen*
I \laQt fov 8Sfomen* A BEAUTIFUL EVENING GOWN. I think the majority of my rr-aders will agree that the evaning frock which forms the subject of our sketch this week is quite unusually grace- ful and becoming as well as most original and artistic in style. The material in which it is BEAUTIFUL EVENING GOWN or IVORY SATIN I ADOKNED WITH GOLD EMBROIDERY ANJ> 1 GOLD-SPANGLED NET. I realised is a soft Liberty satin of a beautiful ivory tone, which drapes and folds in most de- lightful fashion. From the very much cut-out decolletage of the bodice turn back wide Direc- toire revers of th& satin, which are adorned with a powdered design of single large rosea interspersed with spots. The roses are cut out of gold tissue a.nd applique to the satin, their markings and shadings being worked in a mixture of bright and tarnished gold thread with most beautiful effect, and the spots being formed of clusters of wee golden beads and tiny gold sequins. From the corners of the revers hang heavy golden tassels, this touch of gold being repeated in the big buckle- which holds in place the folds of the siish, and in the tassels which hang from the em- broidered ends of the ash Inside the revers i3 arranged a thi'k crossover swathing of the finest ivory net thickly spangled with gold beads and paillettes Above this again shows a minute chemisette cf the same net, the net appearing again in the draped, transparent elbow-sleeves. The bodice itself is merely a slightly full affair, draped lightly towards the left side, and is quite simple in shape. Equally simple is the graceful skirt, which is perfectly plain, cut very long, and slighfly trained at the back. A NEW IDEA. Sorn of the newest evening dresses display a new idea in the shape of ti.e complete suppres- sion of the waist belt. Of course, where Prin- cess models are concerned the belt is not .neces- sary, but even in the case of separate bodice or skirt the belt has been done away with in many of the smartest new gowns. Its place is taken by a narrow heading at the top of the skirt, the heading having below it several rows of gauging which supply the requisite fullness for both skirt and heading. Of course, this style is only suited to extremely slight figures, and even then should only be used for thin, supple materials, such as crepe de chine, ninon-de-soie, chiffon, or silk gauze. 1 must not forget to tell you that a skirt of this description is always brought well up over the bodice in Empire style, and fastened into place at the short waist line. THE VOGUE FOR VELVET. Velvet, and its admirable substitute, velveteen, have never been so popular as at the present mo- ment. Not only are they most extensively used for reception, dinner, and afternoon gowns, but they are pressed into servioe for the achievement of th-, smartest of walking oostumes. These walk- ing costume ,• are qui^e a rage in Paris just .now, all rhe best-dressed women owning at least one examle. Curiously enough, it is black velvet which is th favourite material for the purpose, and, In the more elaborate examples, beautiful embroid- eries and quantities of soutache are employed for their adornment. As regards shape, the costume with long three-quarter coat with fitting back and semi-fitting fronts, and very long gored skirt is the favourite model. THE NEW SILK. Thera is a new silk upon the market, which, in skilful hands, is capable of producing really beautiful and artistic effects. This silk has quite a dull "mat" surface, and more olosely resembles well-dressed suede than silk as we know it. All sorts of lovely colours are obtainable in this riew fabric, but the most successful, at any rate in my opinion are a delicate oyster-grey a.nd a very pale champagne. The former is particularly lovely, and I venture to prophesy that before A CHARMING AFTERNOON GOWN. I wonder if my readers have noticed the markedly clinging character of the majority of I the new skirts? Many of them are absolutely sheath-like, fitting with immaculate smoothness over the hips and even as far as half-way down the skirt, where they flare out suddenly into quite unexpected and surprising width at the hem. This type of skirt, however, should be anathema to any but women of the most perfect figure, for it displays and intensifies any little fault and magnifies in a painful way any over- abundance of flesh. For the average woman, a skirt such a3 the one worn by the lady of our sketch, is far more suitable in every way. This, too, follows tho dictates of Madame La Mode to a modified extent, for it fits beautifully over the hips,from whenoe it falls in graceful clinging folds to the feet. But I think I had better describe the entire gown, as it is, I venture to think, rather un- usually pretty and becoming, and boasts two or three rather original ideas. The material in which this charming frock is realised is a fine satin-faced cloth in a delightful shade of Austrian blue. The bodice, as you will observe, is cut somewhat after the pinafore style, and is finished with short little cap sleeves. A very wi<»i box- pleat forms the front of the corsage, and is con- tinued right over either shoulder. Below the level of the bust this pleat is released, but above it. is held in place, on either side, by four en- ormous wheels, made entirely of closely cotred black soutache, the topmost wheel being the largest, and each succeesive one slightly smaller. Himilaf wheels ornament the outside of tho nape Bleevcs. which are finished at the edge by a line cf machine-stitching. From either side of the squaro cut dec^letage. turns back a narrow band of Irish crochet, similar orochet forming the little inner vest. This vest, by the way, is finished at the bottom in rather novel style, being completed by two rounded points, from beneath which falls a cascade of lace. The slightly rucked inner sleeves are carried out in the same fine crochet, which, I assure you, looks almost as well in the imitation, as in the genuine article. The skirt, like the corsage, is made with a wide box-pleat in front, the edges of which are secured in precisely the same fashion by huge wheels of black soutache. A black satin belt and a narrow black satin cravate with tasselled ends, complete this very smart garment. long we shall see some exquisite evening creations carried out in the now silk of this ethereal shade. THE SMARfTNESS OF JET. Immense jet hat pins are quite a rage with the fashionable woman just now, not only for the escuring in place of black millinery, but also for toqutes and ohapeaux of vivid colouring. These hat-pins are particularly effective in the krfrtiQtr case, showing' up splendidly against the bright background, and adding a most effective I touch of Mack where needed- Some oif them are simply gigantic in size being almost as large as the hazed pears Avhron were in season a few weeks ago. Many of the pins, too, re^ semble a pear in shape, others consisting oj huge jot balls* whilst otbhers, again, are shaped in the form of immense convex discs, quite as large as a five-shilling piece. THE LACE BLOUSE. For some time past the laoe blouse has been making headway, and its triumph is now com- plete. The lace blouse is quite indispensable during the winter. The variety of ways in whicth tihese lace blouses are made is almost unlimited, and sometimes several makes of laoe are utilised in the manuXaoturo of one model- With a blouse of guipure lace we often find that the contrasting touch is given by the vest of finest Valenciennes, while a blouse ^of • fine Ajlemoon lace may boast a yoke- of heavy guipure. ODDS AND ENDS. The new hatpins for winter millinery are very pretty and artistic, and are designed to give an effective finish to a smart hat. Some have headJs of tiny twisted rolls of velvet in shades to match the hats they adorn, while others eibow large imitation cameos eet in rims of dull gold. Possessors of smaller specimens of those old cameo brooches which our grand- mothers loved will find themseaves the lucky ovmarp of quite the most fashionable and beau- tiful hat fastenings if they get them set' as long pins. The loveliest of fancy ribbons are used to make into the big Alsatian bows for the new wide-brimmed! hats, and their variety in design and artistic shadings is quite bewildering. A quaint odd fashion of bygone days is being revived by the new skirts which are simply modifications of the old looped-up tunic skirt, with frilled petticoat beneath. They are very pioturesquo and' becoming, and much prettier than the simulated double-skirts of a few sea- sons ago. A PRETTY FROCK FOR A LITTLE GIRL. I do nctt think I ever rememoor children's garments being so pretty, sensible, and entirely satisfactory as at the present moment- Though extremely simple in shape, there is a chic and style about the majority of the little frooks and coats which are often wanting in much more ambitious and elaborate garments. Our artist has pictured for this week a neat and becoming little frock, quite smart enough for Sunday or bettor wear, and yet so simpiie in siiape as to be quite within the attainments of the home dressmaker. This pretty model would look ex- tremely well carried out in trim serge, fine faoe-oloth, cashmere, friezo or velveteen-the colour being a matter of individual taste. The little bodice has a suspicion of the popu- lar kimono effect in the very wide arnibdle, which is bordered with a strapping of the material machined all round the edges and finished on the top with a pointed overlapping end, in which is placed an embroidered button. Similar, though wider, strappings edge the open fronts, these strappngs being arranged in a succession of overlapping points, the Lowest of which cross and button on to the belt. All the straps are machined at the edges and down the points, eaoh point being further adorned by a large embroidered' button. On each shoulder come two or three short tucks, which provide the necessary fulness for the loose blouse offect which is so essential to children's frocks. The sleeves are of isimple, bishop Bihape and are taken at the wrist into stitched and buttoned cuffs. In the open space in front is arranged CHILD'S PRETTY FROCK OF CASHMERE, SERGE, OR VELVETEEN. a dainty lingerie chemisette of lawn. net. or muslin, with a little pointed yoke of laoe and tucks. This oh-emisette is, of course, detach- able for washing purposes. The little skirt is full, being arranged with a box-pleat in front and a succession of gathers all rotund the waist, its only adornment being- triole lines of mach- ining at the hem. Four yards of 27-inch mater- iaJ will be required for this model.
Food and Health Notes.
Food and Health Notes. (From a Correspondent). PUDDINGS FOR CHRISTMAS. The custom of making something special in the way of a pudding for Christmas is one that ev&ry English housewife respects. Most of us in fact tremble even at the thought of what would happen if our pudding were not forthcoming on Christmas Day. Just now, therefore, we are pushing our usual household duties forward so that we may find time for all the extra work that this pudding and mincemeat making occa- sions. THE SUET QUESTION YEARS AGO. I remember the time when we dared not leave our pudding making till so close upon Christmas. The suet question worried us greatly in those days. If we wished to buy at a reasonable price the supply of suet we .needed for our puddings, we had to purchase it in small quantities well beforehand, and store it up agafnst the day we were ready to use it. If we failed to do this, we paid dearly indeed for suet during the three or four weeks immediately preceding Christmas. But nowadays the excellent shredded suet sup- plied by the grocers makes us in this respect at least independent of the butcher. And the best of these shredded suets, Hugon's Atora, is not only more economical and convenient in use than ordinary fat, suet, but its purity and freedom from any tendency to become rancid can abso- lutely be relied upon. This is an important point to consider in the making of our Christmaa dishes, where every ingredient must be the best of its kind if we are to turn out a dish that shall do credit to our cooking. OUR FAVOURITE FAMILY RECIPE. Everyone, of course, has her own favourite rø- cipe for the pudding a tried family recipe Landid down irom many generations. Needless to say, too, this recipe cannot be improved upon —it actually does (or we imagine it does) yield the bast of ah possible puddings. But whether the secret lies in the adding of one ingredient or the leaving out of another, or whether it re- sults from an inherited knack in tfie mixing, or a watehful attention in the cooking are matters we never settle even to our own satisfaction. SOME RECIPES CONSIDERED. The great mystery to me is that there should be as much uniformity in consistency and flavour in Christmas puddings as there is. In such a pudding we may have every possible proportion of fruit, sugar, fat, and sggs to flour (or bread- crumbs) that can be well imagined. Yet we may serve the dish as a Christmas pudding all the ^This week, out of curiosity, I have~1>een look- ing up some standard recipes from different books. In one book I find that, where money is no object, I can make a capital family pudding tor lU3 bd. and in another book, where I am presumed to be of an economical turn of mind, I can make the same size a.nd weight of pudding for 3s. Yet I could quote chapter and verse in an authoritative cookery book to prove that the cheap pudding has as just as valid a right to its Christmas title as the rich one. PROPORTIONS GENERALLY USED. If one were to strike an average between the very rich and the very cheap pudding, the pro- portion would probably run as follows to lib. of Soar (or breadcrumbs):—Add l £ lba. fruit, Jibs, sugar, jibs suet, And 4 eggs. Spice, candied peel, nuts, etc. may be added as desired, and the liquid for mixing may be either milk or braniv. A few pnoph still use home brewed ale for thi. purpose but mainly I auppose because iher-s is so very little good home brewed ale .bour. this praotioe is rapidly dying out. AID TO DIGESTION. The above proportions make the pudding that is faidy digestible, if only a little liq.iid be added in the mixing. A Christmas pudding, mixture must be & very stiff paste when it is turned into the mould, if it is at all thin or sloppy it will certainly eat heavy. A more digestible pudding is made by dis- pensing with flour altogether, and using instead equal quantities of grape-nuts and breadcrumbs. If one lessens at the same time the proportions of fruit, Gugar and f&t, an even more digestible pudding results; but one that is still rich enough in appearance and flavour to justify its right to a place on our table at Christmas. Here is a re- cipe for such:— A Digestible Pudding. Ingredients: ilb. pounded Grape-Nuts; gib. grated breadcrumbs; 1 gills of new milk; 3oz. moist sugar; 4oz. Hugon's Atora Suet; ilb. minced muscatel raisins; of nutmeg (grated); j thm rind of lemon (finely minced); 4 eggs, and a pinoh of salt. Method: Pour the milk over the Grape-Nuts nd breadcrumbs, and leave to soak till milk is quite absorbed. Stir in the dry ingredients add the eggs well beaten, and mix thoroughly. Turn to a mould, leave a little room for swelling cover with two layers of buttered and floured paper, tie up in a floured cloth, and boil five hours. This pudding may not be rich enough for every member of the family, but it is a capital and economical extra pudding to serve to those (and unfortunately they are many) who cannot digest the ordinary pudding. In many homes the two puddings are always made, and the more di- gestible one is generally found to be quite rich enough for the adult members of the family. COOKING AND SERVING. Wnether boiling or steaming is the better method of cooking depends mainly upon tho num- ber and sizo of the puddings to be cooked. In boiling, can should always be taken to keep the water always babbling, and the water added from time to time should also be quite boiling. If an ordinary sized family pudding has eight lours good boiling some days before Christmas, a couple <a hours steady boiling on the day it is wanted for table will suffice. On removal from the saucepan then it should be at once plunged into cold water. This will prevent it breaking in turning out Many will probably omit the brandy sauce in eerving, but the old fashioned English custom of sticking a piece of red berried holly into the centre is worth observing. Nothing pleases the children better, and nothing is more Christmassy.
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HJUMORS OF HISTORY." r GLASS WINDOWS. A.D. 1180. During the reign of Henry II., who died in 1189, com.meroe was much extended, and a regular system of exports and imports was in- stituted. Glass was first used for windows m private houses in A.D. 118Q.. This seriss of ASO pictures, entitled" Ilamors of History," appearing.wasw in this journal. Is reprainc94 ill caliur on plate papar olota bound, gilt, at if6 nett. £1,000 having, been spent in its production by tbs Morning Leader," London. Specimen Colored Plate en application. FFENESTRI GWYDW 'A.D. 1180. Yn ptod teyrnasiad Harri II., a fu farw yn 1189. eangodd masnach yn ddirfawr a eel ydlwycl oyfundrefA o atforion ao e.UforiOD. Defnyddiwyd gwydr am y wo cyntaf mewn ffenestri tai preifat yn 1180 A.D.
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Home Hnts. Scrubbing bruehes will last twice as long if kept with the bristles downward. TQ use bacon fat, clarify the fat by pour- ing boiling water on i. It will be found to be far better than lard or butter for pastry- making. To make a strong glue soak some ordinary glue in water till quite soft. Then, dissolve it over a slow fire in linseed oil till of the g] thickness of jelly. Remove panes of glass by laying soft soap over the putty, which fixes them. In a few hours the putty will be soft and the glass easily removed. To prevent white fabrics, such as tulle or eilk evening gowns, lace or crSpe shawls, be- coming yellow when paoked away, sprinkle bits of white wax freely among the folds. A good starch gloss is made by adding a little spermaceti and about a tcaspoonful of borax to each quart of water. These ingredi- ents will give the starched articles a particu- larly fine floss. When ol&Te oil is used at the table it should be put in dark-coloured bottles and removed to a cool, dark place immediately after the meal. It is injured by being kept in the light. Certain lamps, irrespective of the amount of care bestowed upon them in the way of cleaning, always seem to burn dimly. This may be remedied by dropping small pieces of camphor into the bowl with the oil. Powdered Horseradish—Slice the horse- radish rather thin. Set in the oven till tho- roughly dry, then pound it and store in a bottle for use. If the horseradish is pro- perly dried it will keep a long while. A copper kettle should be rubbed with ft cut lemon dipped in powdered Bath brick. When all the stains have disappeared it should be washed with warm eoapy water, and finally polished with a soft cloth and powdered Bath brick. It is very injurious to the eyes to expose them to sudden changes of light or long ex- posure to exceedingly bright light, as tha glare of snow or ocean or stretches of white sand. Glaring colours of any kind should not predominate in the everyday surround- ing. Green is most pleasing and restful to the eyes. When polishing brass piping use the finest emery paper moistened with oil, till the sur- face is even. Next rub with rottenstone and oil, laid on a piece of soft leather, and finish with dry whiting and a soft rag. Remember that every trace of oil must be removed be- fore the pipe can be lacquered. Use old newspapers for cleaning. They are good for window cleaning, and first-rat-6 for scouring tinware and polishing stoves. A pad of newspaper is kept handy by many people in case water or grease should be spilled on the kitchen stove, for it enables one to keep the stove clean with far less than the usual trouble. Dutch Pudding or Souster.-ilb. butter, 1 pint milk, lib. flour, 4 eggs, 2 spoonfuls yeast, ilb. sugar, ilb. currants. Melt the butter in the milk, stir into it the flour, eggs, yeast, and currants; beat thoroughly, and bake in a buttered dish in a quick oven. Nursery furniture should never be uphol- stered, as it creates and holds dust. A rug is aleo an unnecessary article and an endless source of falls. Have the comers of the table well rounded off, place the lamp in a high bracket, and have a high fender if you wish your children to escape many of the usual nursery accidents. A good idea, particularly in the winter time, when the washing of windows is always unpleasant work, is to frequently wipe off the inside of the glass with a dry cloth. It is surprising to and how much dust and dirt can be removed. In washing the windows, if a little washing soda and a tablespoonful of alcohol are added to each pail of water, the glass will be much brighter. Stewed Turnips.—Make three ounces of butter hot in a stewpan, with a little pepper and salt. Then take eight large turnips, pared and cut into small strips, add to th& butter, and toss them over the fire a few minutes. Then add half a pint of weak broth and simmer until the turnips are tender. In another saucepan brown a tablespoonful of flour with a little butter, add this to the turnips and serve. Teacups, even when carefully kept, some- times have dark stains at the bottom, caused by the action of the tannin in the tea. Salt, slightly moistened, will remove these, but in the case of a very fine china sometimes scratches it a little. Powdered whiting will be found quite harmless and equally good. Hashed Tripe.—Take about one pound of tripe and cut it in strips; place it in a sauce- pan with a breakfastcupful of milk and water, add to it one ounce of butter with a dessertspoonful of flour worked into it. Season with pepper and a little minced onion and salt, and simmer slowly for three-quar- ters of an hour. Serve garnished with chopped parsley. The supply of water that should be re- tained in an ordinary "pull-down" gasolier more or less quickly evaporates, which is dangerous, as being liable to permit an escape of gas. If, however, a little sweet oil is poured upon the top of the water in the pipe, the water will last for years. Here is a good idea for filling a hot-water bottle, a method adopted by a clever trained nurse. She partially fills the bottle with hot water, then rests it upon something, and presses the bottle down until the water in it rises to the neck, and then the top is screwed on while the bottle is held in this position. This method will force the air out of th& bottle, and will keep the water in it hot for a much longer time. Savoury Roll.—This is a nice way of using up cold meat. Take the remains of a cold joint, free from skin and fat and bone, and pass it through a mincing machine. Add a third of the quantity of breadcrumbs or potato. Flavour with minced onion, chopped sage, pepper and salt, and mix with a beaten egg, or two if a large roll be made. Flour the hands, and then form the meat into a neat roll, place it in a baking tin, with some pieces of dripping on if and bake for half an hour, basting well all the time. To serve, put the roll on a hot dish, and pour a little thick gravy round, garnish with heaps of chopped carrot. White enamelled kitchen utensils often be- come to all appearances hopelessly ruined when food has burned them. Plaoe a mixture of strong soap powder and boiling water in them, and let them stand for two or three days on the back of the stove without changing the water; then pour off the water and rub the inside with a soft cloth. All blackness and stain will have disappeared. Be careful not to scratch or scrape the utensil before soaking it in this manner, otherwise enamel will crack.
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"You said' the housfe was only five mitmt4W walk from the atabion," oomplauud the victim: "to say the least, 1'm disappointed in you." "And I'm disappointed ia yon," replied the ageni. "I thought you were a very rapid t1_ walker." AM aid lady, kwdin# up aosae soemry, Mid to a well-known painter: 'Tho whole trip along the uiver was like a series of your superb eCiQk- inigs." "Yaa," replied the artist, "nature eceeping up.-
Pictures from Poverty 1Land.
Pictures from Poverty Land. BY ALEXANDER GRAHAM-SIMPSON II. Not very far from the City, In what onof may have been an emiliently respectable, if not aristocratic, quarter, stands an old- fashioned house, gazing forlornly down a dirty stretch of river. The big veneis, PA they come around the bend of the opposite bank from far away ports, raise their great vcMOTB and call to it: the little steamers send out white feathers of vapour from besiqe their grimy funnels, and hail it good- naturedly, but without result. The old place continues to stare blankly down tJie great stream as if it had suddenly awakened from a long, long sleep and realised how far in the paat it had been left. Most people regarded it as uninhabited, and some had been rude enough to can it "iilie Tombstone." It certainly did look as if it only needed an inscription to make it complete. The garden surrounding it was negltooted and covered with dead leaves, the one remnant of better days being a small circle of Christmas roses that, in spite ofi adversity, still showed their bright faces out from amidst their sodden, brown surround- ings. The four walls springing from this un- inviting spot were covered to half their height with lung, overlapping planks, slowly rotting away. Directly in the centre of the front wall, oblong and uncompromising, was the door with a series of windows arranged with mathematical exactitude above and on either side. But it was quite a mistake to regard the place as deserted. If you knocked loudly the door would be opened to you with wonderfol celerity, and the sweetest old lady in tOe world would aek what yon desired. The light would gradually fade from the kindly grey eyes as she learned that your visit was simply a matter of courtesy, but with the grace and stateliness of a generation that is gone she would invite you into the little old- worid parlour on the left-hand side of tho hall. How cold and damp it felt! As she sat opposite to you in the long, stratght- backed, tapestry covered chair, She pattern from which had all faded, you had a bette* opportunity of studying her. The silver hair was parted faultlessly in the middle of her high, intellectual forestead, and seemed to form a centre line for the two rows of job buttons that adorned a very plain, black bodice, much mended, but wonderfully neat. The skirt was of the same colour and material, and served to show up ^painfnHjr the bony transparency of her thin, whiti hands. The small, primly-crossed, grey shawl was much too thin to ward off the clamminess of the room and, as she glanced at the fireless grate, she could not suppress a shiver. If you knew of any parents who wished to send young boys to a good school, she would be so glad if you would recommend them to her. She had done so well with her pupils kl former days, but, unfortunately, for quite a long while, she had not received a singH boarder. Dear me, how time flew! but now she recollected there had been no children-. voices in the place for two whole years. When she heard you at the door shfl imagined that at last she was going to get some more work and-yes, to tell the truth, she was a little disappointed to find that hot anticipation was once more to be unfulfilled. You did not like to look at her just then, so you examined the queer old engravings in the maple frames with tarnished gilt slips. But you knew that the big tears had risea unbidden to her eyes and felt how keen waa the struggle she was having for mastery over herself. For she was a spinster, and this, for years, had been her private school. Apart from the necessity of earning her live- lihood she loved teaching the yeu 11 gators j and their presence seemed to satisfy strange unoomprehended cravings in her woman** nature. In the prosperous days of the Chins tea trade, her father had comntafided one eC those splendid ships that used to race home with the first tea cargoes for the market. He had given her an excellent education. Once or twice she had sailed with him to tko Far East, and those who knew her best whim- pered sometimes of a sad love affair that bei- gan and ended on one of those trips. Be that as it may, with the little nosey her father left her she fitted up her seminary just as it remained to-day. Would you like to see over the school? If would be quite a pleasure to show the roomaol With a quaint touch of pride die led the wajf from the parlour across the hall and throogSi the door on the opposite side. Thai gave admission to an apartment whaM blue washed walls were showing imraefrfr takable signs of dampness. In the centre was a long, low deal table with litiia grooves cut for each pen, and round holes sunk for the reception of the tiny inkpetfi. Pens were all arrayed in readiness, slates, with sponges attached by a piece of string, were placed at regular intervals down tot table, and, opposite to each slate, a stool wad set. The holland blinds were pulled dowa. One or two of the wooden ends on the cords had rotted off, while the striped pattern haa slowly and sadly merged into a getterM, pathetic yellow. With the exception of that over half the centre window, all the shuttere were up, and in the dim light you might have missed the piano standing in the comer near the door had you notl in turning, stumbled- against it. In keeping with everything else in the room, it had grooved mahogany pillars facing the performers, and the spaces be- tween were covered with stiffly pleated green silk, slit in many places by age and, possibly, by the penknives of mischievous juveniles^ Chi floor and walls red and black ink blots were abundant. The sight of the apartment, however, seemed to afford her pleasure, and she spoke lovingly of its last occupants. Yee, every morning she came in and dusted, act the pens in their grooves, and laid out the. elates. Every evening ahe gathered them up so that she might redistribute them for the pupils who did not come. From the centre of the hall rose a flight of uncarpeted wooden steps leading to a sqGare landing. The steps were curiously realms^ cent of a ship's saloon and, with most of the woodwork about the house, had really been part of a vessel, used in building to save ex- pense. Four little bedrooms opened from the landing—the "dormitories" she called tfceat —and m these were six little beds, with sic little pillows showing, and six little coverlets daily turned down. Through the space be-* tween the window saeh and the blind yo« caught a glimpse of the garden below, and away beyond of a busy steam tug towing a train of laden barges against the tide. It was hooting vigorously, and the noise echoed gloomily through the empty house. "You see," the old lady was saying* "things have changed very much, and I sup- pose people want the new education for tbeif children. I had an inspector of some khs4 here a while back. He represented a Board, he said, and he examined the school. He re- ported it to be in an unfit condition for the purpose, but I'm sure he was mistaken. I have lived here many years, and you know I &m--quite--quite--strong." The last words came with a terrible effort. She put out bar hands helplessly, reeled, and, if you had now caught her, would have fallen. It was only afterwards that you learned the real state of the case—how she had led her pupils but kept on the old school in the hope of others coming; how her meagre sav- ings had slowly but surely dwindledi away; how she had hidden her poverty and starve^ but never lost faith. Now she has a small room at the seaside. The faded ferns and the shabby furniture from her little parlour are there; but a firs in the grate bums cheerily. Soniao" had to lie to her as to how the money came tlutt brings her comfort, and maybe on the Great Day that lie will be unrecorded. Moat of her time she spends in crocheting; but often hss hands are idle, and she sits gazing ab- stractedly at the venerable church over the road. Far beyond its ivy-covered walls, how- ever, her thoughts are straying. She hears again boys' voices in the old schoolroom, "tucks" the laddies away in the "dorai- tory bedfl at night, and, in spite of aB her suffering, lives where her heart is-in Poverty-land.
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The King has bestowed the Order of Merit I on Miss Fk»reno& Nightingale, of Crimean, fame and fomvdter of skilled nursing for the siok.
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