WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 9

WOMAN’S WORLD

[Bx VIVA.]

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ Mother.”—No name and acldre-ss; ■therefore cannot answer query. “Plain Jane.” —It is not at all easy to remove long-standing stains.' I always use salts of lemon. “ Troubled.”—There are several effective remedies for the nuisance of which you write—(a) to sprinkle all the cracks and crevices with powdered borax; (b) place a few lumps of unslaked limo where they frequent; (c) set a dish or trap containing a little beer or syrup at the bottom, and place a few sticks slanting against the sides, so as to form a sort of gangway for them to climb up by, when they will go headlong into the snare set for them ; (d) mix equal weights of red lead, sugar, and flour, and place it nightly near their haunts. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Bridge hostesses during the week include Mesdames Dl'Kibbin, Hilton, and Rattray. The engagement is announced of Dr Mona Anderson, of the Southland Hospital, to Dr Peter Gow, of Win ton. Mrs Acton-Adams gave a. small fox-trot party on Wednesday evening. The dancers included Misses Edmond, Gallawny, Cheesoman, Mollio Burt, Peggy Emerson, Messrs Edmond, Stowe, Porritt, and Reid. On Thursday afternoon last Mrs Theomin entertained a large number of friends at' her residence, Royal terrace, the guest of honor bring her niece, Mrs Phillips (•Sydney). The drawing room, where the guests were received, was most beautifully arranged with pot plants, such as azaleas, cyclamens, freesias, and palms, also with beautiful bowls of spring flowers. Afternoon tea was partaken of in the dining room, bowls of many colored anemones being used as table decoration. Among those present were Mesdames E. Theomin, John Cook, Schcrek, George Ritchie, Hoisted (2), Fitchott, Bensou, Russell Ritchie, Haziett (Invercargill). Benson, Edmond, Do Beer, Cotterili, Phillips, Oheeseman, C. White. Misses M. Reynolds, Fisc, Graham, Neill, Williams (2), Jackson, Kelsey, Joachim, Gilkison, Ulrich. Lady Fenwick has returned to town after spending some little time with her son, Dr George Fenwick, in Auckland'. ; Miss Fenwick purnoses spending a month longer in the North. Miss Vallange, who has been spending a little time in Wellington, has left for the South, and intends visiting Christchurch and Timaru before returning home. The Presbyterian Sunday 'School Hall was beautifully decorated with spring flowers and arranged as a drawing room on Wednesday afternoon, when an “At home” was held, each guest bringing a gift for one or- other of the stalls at the approaching bazaar. Mrs Miller acted as hostess and received the guests, some fifty ladies being present. Musical items were rendered by Misses Gladys Benton (piano solos), Heather Smith (recitation), Dorothy Skinner (song), and Mrs H. G. V. Green played_ the accompaniments. Afternoon tea being partaken of. much interest was evinced in the opening of the many parcels. Among those present were noticed Mesdames Adams. DPNaughton, Howorih, Gross, Ibbotson. Crawford, Myles, Bmgh, Walker, Speight, Ferguson. Seehof. Wells. Ponsford, Wilson, Brown, Bagiev, Twhigg, Bain, Misses Black, Miller, and Murdoch. Aliss Phyllis Barron has revived the old Egyptian block printing of materials. She has a workshop at Hampstead, and should do very well, as brightly printed fabrics are all the rage. The engagement has been announced of Miss Janet. Mathieson (fourth daughter of Mr John. Mathiesqu, of Tomahawk] to Mr Leslie Faulkner, of the electric power and light department. The engagement is announced of Miss Eilene Robinson, daughter of Dir and Mrs S. Robinson, Austin street, Wellington,. to Mr E. J. Mandel, youngest son of the late Dir J. Mandel and Mrs Mandel, of Wellington. Mrs Stanley Batchelor entertained friends at bridge on Wednesday evening. Mr and Dlrs Richard Hudson, who spent last week-end l in Wellington, returned south on Wednesday. Dlrs Charles Statham and her daughter, Dliss Marjorie, have left Wellington for Dunedin, and intend remaining here for some time. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. Chocolate Caramels. Put into an enamelled saucepan a teacupful each of golden syrup, brown sugar, and milk, and one ounce butter. Boil up, stirring briskly, then add a. dessertspoonful of glycerine, and boil again for a few minutes. Take the pirn from the fire and stir in a teacapful of powdered chocolate. Boil again until a little dropped in cold water will form a hard ball. Pour into a. wellgreased flat tin, and when cold cut into squares. I Sweets for the Children.—To make burnt almonds, put a cupful of brown I sugar into a saucepan with a very little water. Stir until tho sugar is dissolved. * Let it boil for a. minute, then throw in half a cupful of almonds and stir over tho fire until tho sugar granulates and. is a little brown. When the nuts are well coated, ami before they get into one mass,, turn them out and separate any that have stuck together. Dlilk Biscuits.—Hero is a recipe for sorno simple, easily made biscuits that are useful for either dunch or ten, and are generally acceptable for the nursery, especially when spread with a. little jam. Take half a pound of flour, one teaspoonltd of baking powder, a pinch of suit, a gill of milk, and an ounce of margarine. Dry and sieve tho flour, rub (ho baking ■powder and salt through a sieve also. Put the margarine and milk into a pan, ■and make them just warm enough to mcit the former. Then pour into the flour, and mix well together. Knead the mixture; until it becomes smooth, then roll out and cut into rounds. Prick with a fork and put on to a greased tin into a moderately hot oven. Bake for about twenty minutes until pale brown and crisp. ( A Delicious Cheese .Sauce.—Here is a recipe for a delicious and nutritions cheese sauce, useful for fish, savoury dishes, and various others. Make a rotix with about \ an ounce or iother more of margarine nr butter, and when this has melted, stir in a heaped dessertspoonful of flour. Stir, till the mixture drops off the spoon, and j then add half a. pint of boiling iniik. | Continue to stir, and add a. heaped up ■ teaspoonful of grated cheese. The yolk! of an egg is an improvement, but nob a | necessity. The sauce should be thick, j creamy, and served hot. I : | HINTS. j Tliis has proved to bo wonderfully efli- ’ cacious in painful attacks of neuritis which i have resisted every other treatment. Thoroughly saturate the affected part in ’pure olive oil, then warm a piece of linen at. the fire, till it is so hot that it is almost scorched. Place the linen on the oiled surface, and allow it to remain until all the moisture has been absorbed. Ret peat three or four times, and wrap the limb, neck, hand, or foot, as the case! may be, in an ,«ld, soft piece of silk. The j relief is instantaneous. Care must bo I taken to cover completely the surface with oil, otherwise blisters will form and only real linen, no matter how old, must bo' used. This treatment may be repeated several times daily in severe cases, but an application at bedtime is generally all that is needed. The oil penetrates and feeds the exhausted nerves, while the heat drives out tho inflammation of the sheath of the nerve which is tho primary cause ' of neuritis.

Reports of social functions will be welcomed for this column, "Viva* Mill also answer all reasonable questions relating to the home, cookery, domestic economy, and any topic of interest to her sex. But each letter or report must bear the writer's name and address as a guarantee of genuineness, and questions that do not permit of a public rejply cannot be answered. Questions should he concisely put and the writer’s nom do plume cleerly written.

■:4 hi the raid. They arc 100 diffident to Join in the general conversation or con 1.. . le anything enlivening in the way 05 tainnuMi ; only a (netful hostess can sn"‘> them from sit ling ignored in the background, and starving in a land of jii, ... . 1 rciiuso they have not the moral c lar.igo In annex their share of the patties and jellies 11 10 rest of the party attack so freely. The “ go-as-you-please" hostess may score a. triumph in the case, of riotous young people, out unless she is sere of her '-'neats’ ability to hold their own she should bo always at hand to meir smvntion.

A little money box is very useful in the house. A perron I know with a large family told me that she made a habit of «E:'.»!>i.-in,!/ till toe tureepenny bits she received for change into a small money box, and was surprised to find some months later, when a sudden emergency arose, that she had managed to save 27s in this way. " And I shouldn’t have had a penny of it,” she assured me, "but for my homo savings ta‘ik-” Another good plan for the woman who wants to save a little is to drop a coin, however small in value, into a box every .day. A penny a day comes to £1 ICs fid a year, and many a mother would be glad of that sum at Christmas for extra expenses. If twopence a day could bo spared, the sum saved would naturally be double. The Savoy Hotel laundry, where a lady graduate has mst been appointed to an important position, is by no moans the first laundry to have an M.A. on the staff, comments the 1 Morning Post.’ For a number of years, for instance, the Uppingham Laundry has been owned and

OTAGO WOMEN’S CLUB. WELCOME HOME TO MRS UNDO FERGUSON. 'faxed to its utmost capacity was _ tho large reception hall of tho club on Friday levelling, 18th inst., when some 200 or more members assembled to welcome homo their president, after her five months’ tour of China, Japan, and America. Members of the committee met her on arrival at the entrance to the hall. A welcome back was expressed by tho acting president of the moment, Mrs Edmond,- m a few wellchosen words, whereupon all sang ‘ For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow.’ Mrs Ferguson returned thanks for all tiie nice things said, and then proceeded to take all present with her in picture (Mr Simpson at the machine) and story upon her recent trip. For nearly an hour and a-half one listened with the greatest interest to stories, serious and humorous, of places and peoples seen; to descriptions of magnificent temples of superb carvings, of lacquers; on Shinto and Buddhist gate waves; of -all manner of wonderful and unusual sights and happenings. Mrs Ferguson had also tho kindly forethought to bring down to the club all tho purchases she had made wherever she wont, for herself nr as commission for her friends, and spent- quite awhile explaining where this or that, was obtained, how purchasing prices compared with those ruling here, ana tho history of objects of art and other rare articles. Silks there were of beautiful texture for making slippers; kimonos of all kinds, from the magnificent gold-threaded, much hedra-goned crimson satin of a lady of high rank in ages past to the modern finely-woven wootlon-and-silk garment, with its exquisitely handpainted flowers, bronzes, lacquers; cloudy amber necklaces, beautiful vases, silk wall panels; so many rare and lovely things that it would take too much space to attempt to describe them. And m contrast two little articles that attracted much attention —tho little peaked glazed leather caps and a straw plaited feather-weight hat with red ribbon band and rosette, tho ordinary headgear of Chinese boy and girl. . . At tho conclusion of her interesting address Mrs Ferguson was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.

Then followed a short programme, contributed to by the various circles. Piano solo, Mrs Lambert ; song, Miss Lily'Foster; comedietta, ‘Hats at Harrod’s,’ cleverly played by Mrs M'Kibbm (wouldbe nurchaser) and Miss Doreen Hanlon (smart French saleswoman); song, Miss ' Hanham; scena, ‘ Mrs Poyser .Has Her day (Jut’ (‘Adam Beds’), in which Mrs Morrell played the name part, Mrs Denton Beech the Squire, and Mrs Spence : Clark Mrs Poyser; ‘The Three Blind Mice’ was repeated; and the minuet quartet and solo was again given from the nursery rhyme evom, i .. The accompaniments were played by Miss Ida While.

Mrs Ferguson wore a beautiful gown of j black satin and jet, with diamond orna- i meats, and carried a spray bouquet of ; violets and fern, the gift of the Garden- i mg Circle. Mrs HutchLt'ii. black gown, I with black and gold embroidering.?, black j furs; Mrs Gilkison, pastel Mao, with iri- ; descent sequins, shoulder wrap of white and silver: Mrs Edmond, black char- ■ incuse, with blue floral brocaded side ; panels, ermine shoulder cape ; Mrs h. j Halsled. black gown, diamond ornaments, | shawl wrap of henna-colored ertpo de j chine with" heavy fringe; Mrs Basil Cot- j tcrill, delphinium blue satin gown, fur i coat: Professor Strong, bine charmcuso, [ chiffon scarf: Mrs Marshall Macdonald, pale pink satin charmeuse; Mrs Carmalt ; Jones! white dress, trimmed silver, be--’ neath a cloak of grey heavily embossed : Mrs T. K. Sidey, silver grey, fur wrap of brown: Mrs Acton-Adams, henna crepe de chine, fur coat; Mrs Russell Ritchie, grey ninon, pined coral, coral ornaments: Mrs Charles Rattray, black jet and satin frock, i shoulder cape of floral brocade ; Mrs K. ! A. Ewing, grey georgette over pale blue; Mrs James Bcgg, black satin gown handsomely beaded, lace scarf. Others present were: Mesdames Edgar Hazlett, Arthur Fisher, M‘George, Wise, Richard Hudson. Bligh, Chaiters, Lee Smith, Cheeseman, Loudon, Sarc, Black, Barningbani, Brickell, Caltnn, John Cook, Urquhart (Shanghai), Hcwitson, Sawell, .Mieses Margaret Douglas (black obarmeuw). Marjorie Gibbs (white floral brocade, cherry ribbon side panels), E. Duncan (black satin), Every (grey ninon over satin), Jean Macdonald (Alary blue charmeuse, with coateo effect of floral brocade of the same ! .shade), Hilda Hazlett (blue brocade frock, with fur-edged coatee), Charters, Dalrymplc, May Barron, Callaway, Rule (2), Gow, Holtord, Howes, Else, Webster, Ross, ... Glendimng, Dr Siedeberg, and Dr, Marion Whvto,

GENERAL. It W. S. Gilbert was still alive ho would certainly include amongst the people who “never would bo missed ” those who read aloud the descriptions provided at the kinemns of what is about to take place or. the Him. It is a most annoying habit. Mr Manning Foster, who often writes about bridge in the ‘Daily Mail,’ finds there are drawbacks about becoming associated in people’s minds with ■the'game. ’’ As soon as they see yon they fee! it incumbent on them to talk bridge to you all the time. 1 hey cannot imagine you have any other interest in the world. i They appear to think your life is one per- i petual rubber, (hat you eat bridge, and ! -drink bridge, ami dream bridge." 1 Poauty specialists in Paris, whore the dancing craze is in- full swing, are busier than ever treating patients for what is ; called “the tired tango face.” Many girls: work in erne way or another all day, ami , then dance half (he night, with the result that the*' become sallow and- wrinkled long before (hey have any business to be. ; Up-to-date Kntertaining.—To-day I bo; tendency in entertaining is ail toward* j the. unconventional. It is all very well to iliug your guests together haphazard, ; and leave them to amuse themselves, but 1 in the average gathering there are always ; some, low souls who, through shyness or , seif cen-n-iourn-rss, will bo inevitably left 1

managed by one. On the motor van which collects and distributes the laundry is the proprietor’s name —P. K. Beisiegol, M.A An Uppingham boy wrote home during his first term as follows: —‘’This school is simply top hole all round. A Master of Arts does our washing.” ‘ Everylady’s Journal ’ for August contains much "of interest in story, picture, and in fashion notes of the moment, and has a. pattern sheet of some four dresses—two for young children, the other for the eldc’’ sist-e-r. A verv nrettv doylev in crochet is shown, with detail for making sumo, and a number of smart ideas on dress are supplied.