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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 13

Boys' Institute Ladies' Auxiliary.

HERE AND THERE

The Boys' Institute Ladies' Auxiliary held its first meeting of the year "on Monday afternoon, Mrs. J. Hislop (president) occupying the chair. The work of the boarding establishment, which offers accommodation to working boys at a small charge, according to the wages earned- by the boy, was discussed, and the reports from the ladies who had visited the borne during the month proved very satisfactory. A donation of boys' magazines by Mrs. L. T. Watkins was acknowledged by the matron. Winter Flowers. A correspondent asks for directions for preparing flowers in order to make them last through the winter. Miss Winifred Guy. Miss M. Winifred Guy 3 who toured New Zealand about two years ago in connection with "poster" art, writes to a friend in Wellington that she recently had big exhibitions in Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, and had good New Zealand sections of posters and coloured photographs in each. Sho lectured on them at each exhibition, and has also lectured to various women's organisations on tho women and their mode of life in the Dominions sho visited. Miss Guy hopes to visit Africa as soon as possible, but at prosent is touring the British Isles, where sho .ays she has been shown over the industries and the beauty spots by members, of Rotary clubs.. .."' Farewell and_ Reunion. The Ist Wellington St. Mark's Ranger Company, together with many past rangers, entertained the Rev. H. E. K. and Mrs. Fry to a social evening in St. Mark's Schoolroom, prior to their taking over the parish of St. James, Lower Hutt. The clubroom was prettily decorated with greenery, red and blue streamers, and balloons, and. later in the evening a dainty supper was served. The presentation of a beautiful hand-made wool rug, with ranger trefoil and company name, was made, taking the form of a" novel parcel game. Mr. Fry thanked all for their gift, and the rest of the evening was spent in playing games. Morning Tea Party. Miss Patricia Clayton was entertained at morning tea yesterday by the committee of the Sacre Coeur Old Girls' Association, of which she is a member. The party was held at the home of Miss Eileen Goodson (president), The Glen, Kelbum, the rooms being decorated with bowls of hydrangeas and gladioli. A presentation was made to Miss Clayton, after which tea was served. Among those present were Misses Kathleen Goodson, Eileen McCarthy, Ngaire Cooper, Moya Bourke, Mary MeEvedy, Maureen Bourke, Pat and Joan Ryan, Kathleen Kennedy, and Molly Rutter. Cocks' Feather Cape. "Although occasionally Paris can beat London for sheer bad weather, I have come to the conclusion that some of the smartest French fashions fail over here owing to climatic conditions, however successful they may be over tho Channel," states a fashion expert in the "Daily Mail." "At any rate, the new fashion I saw in a restaurant recently would have been most effective if tho air had been bright instead of

dark and misty. It was a shoulder cape of cocks' feathers with a deep greenish gleam in them, and a thick border of fur. The wearer, a dark and very chic Frenchwoman, wore a cap of feathers to mateh — a fact which intrigued some of the women in her vicinity intensely. But they all agreed that somehow the effect looked wrong in London, whereas it would have looked perfect in Paris. I am glad, too, to thiuk that our barndoor fowls have other uses than being merely 'Poulet roti au cresson.' " Remarks on Hot Weather Meals. Paul Reboux, in the most modern of French cookery books, an amusing satirical set of dialogues, interspersed with delicious recipes, has the following words to say on the importance of tempting jaded appetites in the height of summer, states an exchange:—"How hot it is! Sweltering pedestrians walk languidly under a burning sky. The asphalt squelches beneath the tread. Steam rises from, the spraying watercarts as it docs in a Turkish bath. On a stifling evening you cannot possibly treat your family as though it were winter. Their appetites are feeble. Drink is the only thing worth thinking about. You should provide for them as though you were living in a country accustomed to dog days. This can be done. Everything in the menu should be easily digested. It should contain nothing unreasonably heavy. By the time this cool meal is over the weariness of the day will be forgotten, the stars will be out and warm will only persist in the gratitude of your family.»' Women as Farm Labourers.' In Cornwall, England, three unmarried sisters—Bertha, Alwyn, and Christiana Pettygraph—aged respectively 30, 35, and 50, are employed as manual labourers (states an English writer). Bertha and Alwyn are engaged as farm labourers and work twelve hours a day at ploughing, fencing, etc., for 1.5s a week. Christiana, who is employed as a road-mender by the local borough council, receives A 1 per week. These women, who obtained this kind of work during the war when men were scarce, have kept it ever since. Out of their earnings they support a widowed mother and their two grandmothers, one of whom, by the way, is 103 years.