NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 7 March 1912, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

(From Our Lady Correspondent) LONDON", January 26. WOMEN POLICE. There are now fourteen women policemen on duty in the State of Indiana. FRENCH WOMAN POLITICIAN. Mme. Marguerite Durand, the eminent French writer, has brought an action before the Council of State in order to determine whether the authorities of that body, who, a couple of years ago, refused to allow her to stand as a candidate of a constituency for the Chamber, were acting witMn their legal rights. The case is not yet completed, and is exciting not a little interest. A SCHOOL CLINIC. It may be remembered by any who read the writer's article recently on the methods employed by the London County Council doctors in their examination of school children, that I pointed out how greatly the good work was handicapped for want of special school consulting hospitals, or clinics, where the treatment recommended by the school medico could be followed out instead of, as is now llhe case, the patient merely becoming one more drag on the big, and already overcrowded, London out-patient wards at the hospitals. One clinic has been in operation for some time, that opened and controlled by Miss McMillan, but this represents only, of course, a drop in the bucket in the work waiting to be "done. It has now, however, been decided, by the West Ham Town Council to open at Canning Town, a very poor district, a clinic for the treatment of school children suffering from defects disclosed by medical inspection. An additional medical inspector is to be appointed who will devote the whc-le of his time to the duties ot school medical inspection and the clinic, and the appointment, it is good to note, is open to men or women. The salary begins at £250 per annum, and rises by annual increments to £4OO. A dental surgeon —salary £250, rising to £3O0 — and two trained nurses are also to be appointed in connection with the cUn*c

LADY IHrRDRESSERS. The committee of the Edinburgh School Board on continuation classes has just decided to form classes in ladies' hairdressing next winter session in one of their schools. A WOMAN JUROR. Mrs. Gideon Fraser, of Washington, is, it is believed, the first woman to serv» on a jury with her husband. Mr. Fraser was the first juror drawn on the case, and Mrs. Fraser the sixth. CATHOLIC WOMEN'S GUT. A magnificent Metropolitan processional cross, now being prepared by the architect of Westminster Cathedral, is to be presented to his Eminence Cardinal Bourne, in .recognition of the high ecclesiastical honour conferred recently on him by the Pope. It will bear on the back this inscription:—" To the glory of Clod and in homage to Francis Bourne, (Cardinal Archbishop-, this cross is desrigued and offered by the Catholic Women's League of the Province of Westminster, 1912."' JUSTICE TO MOTHERS. A bill has just been pasaed by the Legislature in New Hampshire which gives to mothers full legal parenthood over their minor children —an example that might well be copied in this obstinate country. WOMEN WORKERS. Recent statistics supplied by the German Government show that a fourth of the entire population of Englishwomen are engaged in employment outside their own homes. A QUEEN AMONG WOMl». The Women's Labour League, wbic!. was founded by the late Mrs. Ramsay Mac Donald, has just issued a remarkable tribute ("Margaret E. MacDonaW.'*) to the extraordinary influence wielded by the deceased lady, her power of commanding devotion, and her unselfish, enthusiastic and loving interest in all workins? women. It has been said of her: 44 She was the ksnd of woman who makes life easier for the rest of us by merely sharing it." A CAMTAL SWISS LAW. came into force with the birth of this year, and settles the duties of paternity in a maimer that surely should have been adopted years ago, one would think, in a conswentious and progressive little country like SwStserland. Thenev law insists upon the husband supporting his illegitimate child and its ■mother for a certain period, and also registering himself as the father of the -chad. HOUSEHOLD JLLHTS. A PEACfr RECIPE. Select one dozen fine ripe peaches, remove the peel, divide tie halves and take out the stones. Crack the stones and bruise the kernels in a mortar and boil them witih the fruit in a syrup made of -half a pound of loaf sugar and half a pint of water. When the fruit is tender lift it out carefully and arrange in a mould. Add the grated rind and strained jnke of four lemons to the syrup, boil again, then run the mixture through a jelly-bag and add boz. of dissolved gelatine. Pour over the. peaches and stand-on ice i till required. 6ervo with whipped cream ' sweetened and flavoured with maxashchino.

TWO- GRAPE RECIPES. An attractive idea while grapes are plentiful is to make grape mould, a very good sweet, which maybe served with the addition of whipped cream. [put two (heaping hablespoonfuls of gelatine, two cupfuls and a half of the jmV* of the grape, with the juice of a lemon and one cupful of lump in a mnepen. 'Let all dissolve, and then add a lemon rind and half a enpful of powdered sugar. When beginning to set add half a pound of seeded and skinned grapes. Pour at once into a wet mould. Turn out when firm.

Grape salad, to serve with roast bird, is first-rate if prepare* according to the ftolkrwiag recipe.-—G large 'white grapes. Make a dean slit in tba-aidte of each grape and remove all seeds. Ebgss a pecan nut or walnut meat irto the place, and pinch the edges together. Arrange in small cup-like lettuce leaves and pour over a French dressing composed of two tafalespoonfuls of pore, olive oil, with a small one of lemon juice, mixed with a fleck of made mustard, a. little sugar, sepper and salt to -taste.