A Section For Women

By "Therese"

SMART simplicity is the keynote of all our summer frocks, whether they be for sports, day, or evening wear. If we hanker after a strong display of femininity, this can be achieved by accessories.

Daytime clothes have short skirts made full with pleats, or flares in front, yet still man aging to keep the slender line. In many of them, pockets appear with good effect. For active sports wear, stick to simple clothes— blouses and skirts, tailored shorts with accom panying skirts, and slacks and trouser skirts.

For parties, choose cotton and you’ll be a success. Evening dresses of cotton are cool and attractive and much-to-be-desired possessions.

A shirtmaker design of sheer cotton in pastel blue has a long flowing skirt topped with a wide belt of self material and a blouse with pointed collar and short sleeves.

Gingham and seersucker also come into their own as party frocks in blouse and skirt fashion.

Choose a bright plaid or gay floral for the full flared skirt and toning cotton for the short sleeved blouse and you will be happily clad for informal evenings.

Sun clothes are well cut and have a defin itely feminine air. A tailored sun-suit in pin striped cotton is a “must-have” in your ward robe, particularly when it is made on tailored lines, with two patch pockets in the shirt, pleats in the shorts and a well-cut skirt to don for more formal occasions.

TRY these new recipes to lend variety to the usual daily diet: —

Oyster Cocktail

Juice of 1 lemon, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, 1 teaspoon anchovy sauce, 2 tablespoons tomato sauce, a little cream.

Put oysters in glasses, pour the mixture over

them, add a teaspoon of cream to each glass and serve with thin slices of brown bread and butter.

Prune Savouries

Remove the stones from large soft prunes.

Insert a pickled onion (or devilled almond i, stuffed olive, small piece of cheese (or gherkini.

Roll the prune up in a small piece of thin bacon. Skewer it to keep in position. Cook between two enamel plates in a hot oven or fry in a pan without additional fat.

Maryland Salad

Three teaspoons powdered gelatine, 1 cup canned sweet corn, 3 bananas, V 2 cup hot water, salt and pepper.

Dissolve gelatine in hot water, add to sweet corn. Mash bananas to a pulp and blend thoroughly with the mixture. Add seasonings to taste. Pour into a shallow mould and chill.

Using a sharp knife dipped in hot water and dried, cut into squares and serve on lettuce.

If setting in ice chest or refrigerator, use only 2(4 teaspoons gelatine.

Cheese Eggs

Four eggs, IV2 oz. butter, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 4 dessertspoons grated cheese, salt, pepper and buttered toast.

Make 4 to 6 pieces of buttered toast and keep warm. Beat the eggs; grate cheese finely and add to the eggs; add chopped parsley. Melt butter in saucepan, add eggs, etc. and stir over a very slow fire till cheese melts and eggs thicken and set. Pile on hot toast and serve at once.

Chocolate Velvet

This is a delicious sweet. Melt >4 ib. un sweetened chocolate in 3 or 4 tablespoons of milk, stirring until quite smooth. Put pint of milk in a saucepan, sweeten to taste, bring to the boil and add the melted chocolate. Simmer

for 10 minutes, then beat up the yolks of 3 eggs in a basin, with a little cold milk; add to the chocolate mixture, gradually, stirring all the time. Simmer till the cream thickens, then remove from the fire. Stir again for a few minutes and let stand until quite cold. Serve as cold as possible, with fresh, stewed or baked fruits.

Household Hints

'T'O keep your home cool take a tray of ice A cubes from your refrigerator, place it in front of an electric fan. Close the windows thus shutting out the heat, draw the curtains and allow the fan to rotate and blow the ice cold air through the room. As the ice cubes melt return tray to the refrigerator and take out the next tray.

When the clothes-line gets dirty, take it down, wind it round the washing-board and scrub thoroughly. This is by far the easiest way of cleaning it.

Soak net curtains in cold water over-night to prevent them shrinking, when being washed the next day. Iron while still damp, length ways of the material.

Over a tin in which you have put a cake mixture, invert another tin exactly the same size. You can then leave the cake to bake without bothering to look at it. The cake will be even on top—a great asset if you intend to • ice it.

To remove scorch from silk mix the juice of a large onion, Vz cup soap jelly, V 2 cup vine gar and 2 tablespoons of Fuller’s earth. Boil, cool, and spread all over the scorched area.

Dry the garment in the sun, then wash in the usual way.

If hot milk is poured into a jug standing in cold water, no skin will form on the milk.