THE LOVELIEST WOMEN?

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 96, 21 January 1928, Page 17

THE LOVELIEST WOMEN?

Claims have been made on behalf of several coiinnuuiiies of isolated Britons working at the ends of the earth that they are the lonli-st womnzcßZD?isbgic ; thev are the loneliest women. Tlie loneliest women, however, must almost certainly t> three Booth African farmers’ wives, who will- be bysily setting their houses in order just now alter voyaging to Kerguelen, tar down into the empty grey seas that roll to the south of t lie Indian Clceau, and not far north of the Antarctic pack ice, says au overseas journal. Until they went ashore recently, no woman had ever sot foot on this remote ypeck of land, which is much further iroin civilisation than Tristan da Cunha. “isle- of Desolation,” it was christened by the Breton navigator, Lieutenant Yves Joseph de Korgueleii-Treiuerac, who found it in 1772. It is rich in bird and animal life, and, as in tlio Galapagos Isles, the wild creatures have never been harried by man, becoming, in consequence, astonishingly tame. selves among quaint little penguins, The loneliest, women will find then>huge sea e'ephants, albatrosses, wild duck, and pigeons that show no more alarm nt their approach than the pigs, chickens, and cows'of the farmyards they have left for the winter. After having been a No Man’s Land for more than a century, the French formally annexed Kerguelen, and the • island is to-day the base of a FrancoBritish sealing and whaling company, with headquarters in Cape Town. The loneliest women will be having plenty to do, for they took out ’with them to their remote destination, on the whaler Lazare, 30 sheep, 30 pigs, four oxen, tb./ee cows, three goats, and 50 fowls. It is from this specially im-. sorted farm that they will provide with fresh mean and daily produce the comnany’s men who are spending the winter sealing and barreling seal oil. Magnificent scenery, where jagged mountain ranges drop steeply into scores of deep, sheltered fjords, await their rambles when they can find, time tor a long walk or a climb. But there will bo many a day in winter- when they will not be temnted to leave the farmyard, for prodigious winds sweep the island. Sometimes a gale will last a month, with hardly a lull.

Chocolate cream rice appeals very much to children who are generally inclined to look on plain rice pudding as a dull dish. Cook-the rice in rapidly boiling water from ten to fifteen minutes, and drain well. In the milk you are going to use for the pudding dissolve a square of chocolate; add some sugar, a pinch of salt, and a small knob of butter. Cook slowly, stirring all the time, until thick and creamy.

The millinery shops m London are full of bright ideas at the moment, livery day the clever milliner discovers some new way to make the otherwise monotonous little felt helmet or cloche interesting, and one of the most piquant is the jig-saw puzzle hat. It is of the cloche order, with a piquant little brim shading the face, and is entirely covered with odd-shaped pieces of cut-out felt, not inlaid or encrusted, after the mode of recent fashion seasons, but literally scattered over haphazard. A neutral tone basis such as sand, beaver, or grey, is used for the hat, and. the amtisI mg" jig-saw effect is heightened by the J cut-out pieces being in various colours.