A Section For Women

By "Therese"

COTTONS for spring are crisp, fresh and gaily patterned and all have splendid washing qualities. Stripes are in—pink and white, green and white, navy and white, etc.; Windsor stripes they call them.

Linens of the uncrushable variety are to be had in knoppe and plain weave, in pastel and deeper shades. Jacket suits are still important items in the wardrobe —skirt and jacket may be of the same material and colour, or have the jacket in different material of contrasting colour.

Pastels are popular. There is a lovely new pink, rather fresher than last year’s shades, that looks adorable when worn with belt, bag, gloves and hat of dark blue.

Biege is staging a come-back, though its appeal was never really lost, for it can be worn with such gay accessories.

It is particularly smart with green.

Blue, cool and flattering, is the best shade there is against a tanned skin.

Interest centres on the crown in the new season’s hats—clusters of flowers are perched atop in all sorts of enchanting angles. There are some delightful little sailors, too, that are worn well tilted forward and have veils that tie in a bow behind, in a quaint 1830 sort of fashion.

Kitchen Lore

TRY these recipes and wrinkles your self sometime: —

Fish Rissoles

Raw or cooked fish may be used. Remove bones and mince, add a thick slice of bread soaked in water (or mashed potatoes instead of bread), salt, pepper, a little nutmeg, chopped parsley, and, if desired, a little chopped onion.

Mix with one or two eggs; make into rissoles and fry in hot oil or lard after first rolling in flour.

Mayonnaise For Fish

Take 1 tin of condensed milk and mix with strong white vinegar till of a sufficiently soft consistency for a sauce; add a teaspoon of prepared mustard and salt.

Fish Fillets With Peas

Dress and cut fish into fillets, sprinkle with salt and pepper and lemon juice. Fold each fillet round a slice of raw potato and arrange

in a greased baking dish. Bake about 10 minutes. Dress the fillets, one overlapping an other in a circle with cooked green peas in the centre. Sift a cooked egg yolk between the fillets. Thicken the stock with a thick sauce.

Remove the potato before serving.

Fish Macaroni Pie

Two oz. cooked macaroni, 1 egg, V 2 lb, cooked fish, V 2 pint milk, salt, pepper and a good squeeze of lemon juice.

Mix macaroni with fish, add 1 oz. butter, etc., pour over hot milk and beaten egg. C over pie with layer of bread crumbs and tiny bits of butter.

Hints On Fish

A spoonful of vinegar added to the water in which fish is boiled will soften the fish and keep it firm and white.

Salt fish is easily freshened by leaving it to soak in sour milk.

To remove the smell of fish or onion from a pot put a little vinegar into it.

Anything baked or cooked in oil or fat be comes light and airy by lifting it 3 or 4 times out of the fat during the baking process. This makes a great difference to baked foods.

Paw Paw Scones

Two cups self-raising flour (white or whole meal), l U cup castor sugar, V\ teaspoon salt. 1 ripe paw paw, 1 tablespoon butter.

Sift flour, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl.

Rub in butter with tips of fingers. Peel, seed and mash paw paw well; add a cup full of pulp to the dry ingredients and mix into a light dough. Turn out on to a floured board, roll out, cut into rounds and bake in a quick oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

Wholemeal Scones

Two cups self-raising wholemeal flour, V 2 tea spoon salt, 1 dessert spoon butter, 1 cup milk or milk and water.

Mix the wholemeal self-raising flour and the salt together in a basin. Melt the butter, stir into the milk and pour into the flour. This will make a nice soft dough. Turn out on to a floured board dusted with oatmeal; knead lightly, roll out and cut into desired shape.

Bake in a hot oven from 12 to 15 minutes.

Did You Know?

When celery has lost its crispness and become flabby, it can be revived by. placing it in salted water for a few hours. Rinse in fresh cold water before using.

Stains on white kid shoes or gloves can be effectively removed by rubbing with eucalyptus extract.

By placing a few leaves from a tomato plant in the meat safe, flies will be kept away.

Before re-staining a floor be sure to scrub thoroughly with hot soda water to remove old

stains and wax. Allow to dry thoroughly before applying the new stain.

Sardines mashed together, with cream or grated cheese and a spot of vinegar added, make a tasty savoury spread.

The most effective way to clean wicker furni ture is first to brush off all surface dust, then put in the garden and play the hose on it.

The following method will effectively clean a badly burned saucepan. Put a small sliced onion into the saucepan with a little cold water and bring slowly to the boil. After soaking for a few hours the black will flake off.

When steel knives have become stained, rub them with a cut potato which has been dipped in powdered bathbrick.

To prevent the curtains from blowing out of the window and becoming soiled, sew small dress weights on each bottom corner.

Over the tin in which you put a cake mix ture, invert another tin exactly the same size.

You can then leave the cake to bake without bothering to keep looking at it.

New linen is often spoiled by careless mark ing The best way to prevent this is to dip the part of the linen to be marked in cold starch and press with a warm iron. The ink will not run on this warm surface..

Often when ironing silk you are apt to scorch the garment. Mix the juice of a large onion, /2 cup soap jelly, y 2 cup vinegar and 2 table spoons Fuller’s Earth. Boil, cool and spread all over the scorched area. Let the garment dry m the sun, then wash.

A pan that has been burnt should be filled U P with water and a good handful of salt added. Stand it away from the fire and leave for at Least four hours. The burnt bits will then rub off quite easily.

When coiling the flex of an electric appliance after use, always start from the end connected to the appliance. All twists will then work out at the free end. This will prolong the life of the flex, preventing a great deal of wear and fraying.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miller arrived in Sydney from New Hebrides recently, on

furlough. They are Seventh Day Ad

ventist missionaries on Santo Island, in the north of the Group.

Pastor W. N. Lock, superintendent of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in Papua, is at present in Australia on fur lough. with Mrs. Lock. They are attend ing the Quadrenniel Session of the Aus tralasian Union Conference being held in NSW from September 10 to 21. Pastor and Mrs. Lock are stationed at Mirigeda,

Bootless Bay, Papua.