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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 11 (March 1, 1928)

Of Feminine Interest

page 33

Of Feminine Interest.

Fashions.

For cool days a frock made of satin or crepe is both smart and useful and the diagonal arrangement of the tiers is very attractive. For the decorative touch, Paris still clings to garnitures that home dressmakers find easy to copy.

Annual Leave

Several Head Office typistes were on annual leave recently. Misses Burbidge and Corrie Smith were visitors to Rotorua and are most enthusiastic about the thermal wonderland, while Miss Mabel Smith has quite a lot to say about the beauties of New Plymouth and Mt. Egmont. Misses Hart and Lummis went as far south as Dunedin and several others spent an enjoyable holiday at the Marlborough Sounds.

The House We Live In.

We all love a beautiful house, and we are happier when the house we live in is well cared for and sweetly ordered. And just as we ought to look after our dwellings of brick or stone, so we ought to care for the body, which is the house in which the glad life-spirit dwells.

Just as the good housekeeper tells us that the first thing needed is to keep the house clean, so students of nature tell us that the most important thing in regard to the care of the body is to keep it clean; and that, if we would treat it rightly, we must seek knowledge (which is Virtue), and avoid Ignorance (which is Vice).

The Food We Eat.

The more the nature and values of food are studied, the more clearly we understand that it is of very great importance to study our diet, and to take the right proportions of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, mineral salts and vitamins in our food, with enough roughage (i.e., indigestible material), to ensure the proper nourishment of the body, and to aid the proper evacuation of waste products.

(From “Health and Exercises for Girls,” by Anne M. Robertson, B.A., with Illustrated Supplement of Practical Exercises designed by F. A. Hornibrook.)

Recipes. Rhubarb Wine.

Two bunches rhubarb cut up. Put in a large basin so that rhubarb fills it only 1-3rd. Fill basin with cold water and let stand five days. Strain liquid with another dish and throw rhubarb away. To every 4 quarts of juice add 3½ lbs. sugar. Cover and let stand for four days until sugar is dissolved. Stir twice each day. Put in a cask and add 2 sliced lemons, two or three pieces of ginger and a few red chilies. Cork down and examine once a week. If necessary fill up with water when all working is over. Remove lemons, etc., colour with burnt sugar till it resembles sherry. Put into dry bottles, cork and seal tightly. Leave for six months or longer if possible.

Household Hints.

Iron rust may be removed from white dresses by rubbing the spot with a ripe tomato, covering it with salt, then letting it dry in the sunlight, and finally washing the garment with warm water.

When cutting out cloth the use of a warm iron will do away with the necessity of pins and weights on tissue paper. Lay the pattern on the material and press it lightly with a warm iron. The pattern will cling to the cloth.

To keep a bathing cap in good condition, sprinkle talcum powder or cornflour over it, inside and out, before putting it away. This will prevent it from sticking and cracking where it is folded.