WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 19026, 22 August 1925, Page 20

WOMAN’S WORLD

[By DIANA,]

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Antonio."—(a) To remove the candle grease from your black suede. shoes place a piece of folded blotting paper over the spots, and over it hold a not iron. The grease will bo soaked up by the blotting paper. When that is done rub the slimy patch carefully with finest glass paper to give the suede surface, (b) The floor polisher you ask for is quite simply made. Shred finely the beeswax into a tin, and cover it with turpentine. Nest day you will find.it all dissolved and ready for use. " C.E..S." —I will make inquiries for the special polish you desire. Look for the answer next Saturday. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss E. M. Robinson has been recommended for the position of matron of the Port Chalmers Hospital. Mr and Mrs Edmond, Mr and Mrs Wallis, Mrs R. Dawson, Mr Mandeno, and Mr Stock were all passengers on the Aorangi. Miss Mackenzie, who has been staying for some months at Victoria House, Geraldine, returned to Dunedin to-day.

treatments; they think that the hair may become brittle or that the color will be affected. But this method is absolutely safe, and the hair actually is improved by shampooing. When waved it has not tfie “frizzy” look that one so often sees in touched-up hair. Even the most keen-eyed critic would fail to detect any artificiality. Many women suffer from greasy hair, which refuses to look anything but heavy. Fortunately for thorn, they can, if they like, face the world with hair as beautiful in condition and appearance if their friends’. M. Eugene is now touring New Zealand, having already established highly successful salons in Paris, London, and New York. He is acknowledged by the fashionable world to be one of the greatest artists in hair treatment in all its branches, and ladies who are not sure of what to do should not fail to mt in touch with him. He has a method by which long hair can be curled and dressed so that it will present a bobbed or shingled appearance. Ar*l, of course, it is now a commonplace that every girl should consult an expert as to the best “cut” she can have to suit the shape of her head and neck. Now is her opportunity.

Mrs Marshall Macdonald, who had a good deal to do with the American army during the war, has entertained many of the officers informally during their stay here.

Last Monday Miss Freda Dencker, of Ballymena, was hostess at a jolly little dance given for some of the. sailors. Other guests included Mr and Mrs Crawford, Misses Bett (2), Grieve (2), Galbraith (2), Tressidor, Morn (2), and M'Lelland.

The secretary of the League of New Zealand Pen Women wired greetings to Viscountess Burnham and other women writers who are attending the Press Conference in Auckland, and has received an answer: “Many thanks for greeting. Very sorry unable to visit Otago. —Olive Burnham.” Certainly it is a pity that we are so far from Auckland.

The Play-reading Circle of the Women’s Club held its usual meeting last Tuesday, when Eden Philpott’s amusiug play: ‘ Devonshire Cream,’ was read by the following;—Mesdames Eastgate, Wakefield Holmes, H. Chapman, W. 0. M‘Kellar, Morrell, Doorly, Gilkison, and Miss Holland.

A few days ago Dr and Mrs Thomas, of Palmerston, gave a charming little impromptu dance at their home. Present were Mr and Mrs Bowkor, Rev. I. L. and Mrs Richards, Mesdames Mathieson, Mayer, Dr Francis Macalister, Misses Pilbrow and Grieve, Messrs Robson, M'Laughlin, Andrew's, Mayer, and Thomas, and all spent a thoroughly jovial evening.

.Mi ss Harriot Morison, who has just died at Auckland, was a notable figure in the history of the women’s industrial movement. .She. spent the earlier part of her life in this town, and was appointed vice-president of the first 'lailoresscs’ Union formed in New Zealand. Miss Morison then went to Auckland (in 1893), and, finding there that women wore paid starvation wages, she at once enlisted the active help of Sir George Grey and other influential people, till at last the minimum wage wms raised to 7s 6d per wedk. In 1906 she was appointed inspector of factories—the first woman in New Zealand to have this post. From 1908 to 1921 Miss Morison was head of the Women’s Employment Bureau, and again did excellent work. Thus the women of New Zealand have to mourn a sincere and single-hearted champion of tJjcir cause. The monthly meeting of the Palmerston South Musical Club was held on Thursday last, Mrs Le Fevre having kindly offered her drawing room for tho occasion. Nurse Rogers, of Oarnaru, was welcomed by the president (Miss Grieve) as tho guest of the club. A pianoforte duet by Misses Reta Morrison and Isabel Lang was followed by a reading of the Literary Circle upon Wagner’s operas, the circle including Mesdames Le Fevre, Dobson, and Mathieson. ' Handel was jdie composer chosen for tho meeting, and a most interesting essay upon his life and works was read by Miss Pardy, illustrated by Misses Lang and Morrison. Pianoforte solos were also given by Mrs Richards and Miss Elizabeth Sheat; songs by Mesdames Thomas and Mayer. Other members present included Mrs Arklc, Misses Jean Garth, Marjorie Mlntosh, and Celia Newman.

Of course, the great event of the week was Wednesday’s reception on board the Melville. There must have been nearly 1,000 present, and yet so well arranged was the whole thing that no discomfort or overcrowding was experienced. Admiral Maxwell and other officers received the guests, who later adjourned for tea in one of the sheds on the wharf, where dancing, social chat, and listening to the excellent ship’s band made the time pass all too rapidly. At about 6 p.m. was played i Home, Sweet Home,’ to which a waltz was danced; then came ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ ‘The Star-spangled Banner,’ and ‘ God Save the King ’—and then the last words of farewell. Among those I noticed were Bishop and Miss 'Richards. Lndv Williams, Lady Sim Mr Tapley and Mrs Lav Tapley, Mr and Mrs J. J. Clark, Mr 1). N. F. Rogers (secretary of the Navy League) and Mrs Rogers, Dr and Mrs Marshall Macdonald, Dr and Mrs O’Neill, Professor and Mrs Hewitson, Dr and Mrs Jack, Dr and Mrs Falconer, Mr and Mrs Jas. Begg, Mrs Reynolds, sen., Mr and Miss Reeves, Mr and Mrs R. Hudson, Mr and Mrs Reynolds, Mr and Mrs James, Mr and Mrs Galbraith, Mr and Mrs Hutchison, Mr and Mrs E. Hazlott, Mr and Mrs Spedclmg, Mr and Mrs Loudon, the Rev. H. B. White and Mrs White, Mr and Mrs Lee Smith, Mr and Mrs and Miss Le Cren, Mr and Mrs Barling, Mr and Mrs Oldham, Mr and Mrs J. Fletcher, Mr and Mrs J. R. Blues, Mr and Mrs. Matheson, Mr and Mrs R. Glendining, Mr and Mrs Sleigh, Mr and Mrs and Miss Theomin, Mr and Mrs Roni Clapperton, Mr and Mrs Halsted, Mr and Mrs Vivian, Sir and Mrs Turnbull. Mesdames Leech, Walsh, J. C. Stephens, W. A. Moore, Clnppcrton, Fyfc, 11. Ewing, Walls, Mannsoll, M‘Queen. Bowler, Eastgate, Stock, Cheeseman, Macdonald, Bullough, Primmer, Reid, Allen Orbell, W. Holmes, Greenfield, J. M. Ritchie, E, Macassey, K, Ross, Drennan, Misses Ross, Williams (2), O’Neill (2), Ramsay, Stock, Roberts, Hazlett, Park, Blomfield, Milne (2), Fvfe, Martin (2), Anscombe, Allan (2), Bell (Shag Valley), Clnppcrton, Storey, Callender (2). Do you fret sometimes about your hair because it simply refuses to curl, in spite of pins and tongs? Of if it does lose its straightness, the next damp day takes out all the waves. If vou do, try the Eugene process of permanent waving, and your troubles will cease. White hair, fine hair, coarse hair, straight hair—in fact, every kind and condition can be so. improved by the Eugene method that it will at once become what it should he—“ a woman’s glory.’’ Many women are nervous of

Ladv Mary Campbell, the Earl of Breadalbane's sister, whose engagement is announced to Lieutenant-commander R. V. Barton, R.N., is a. typical Scottish lady, intelligent and high-spirited, and could wear on her bridal dress the ribbon of tho Military Medal (writes our London correspondent). Lady Mary served in France with the Red Cross, and was a. nurse at Etaples when the German airmen bombed out the hospital lints and the huge military camp round them. This was probably the worst air raid of the war, lasting nearly two hours, with a bombing plane coming over every four minutes to drop five big bombs. Terrific damage was' dona. The casualty list included nurses, cooks, wounded men, and troops, and only one raider was brought down. For her gallant conduct _in charge of wounded on this occasion Lady Mary received the, M.M. TEA TABLE TALK. GOOD-BYE. Bv the lime this is in print we shall all 'be mourning the departure of our visitors and taking up our daily duties, which have been, 'I am afraid, sadly neglected for the last two weeks. Good fortune has been mine; inasmuch as the most recent publication (August 6) of the ' Farquhar Firecracker' is now before me, with the ship's ideas on Dunediu, as well as other matter—all, of course, contributed by those on board this little destroyer. Let me ((note a few passages representing the real feelings of tho crews, who are eertainlv not aware that some of their work will be used thus publicly in the ' Woman's World.' " Our first impression of New Zealand, as seen from the Tasman Sea, was that wo were approaching a bit of Old England. Foveaux Strait, and the general contour of South Island awl' Stewart Island seemed an exact replica of the .Pentland Firth, except the current encountered was not nearly as swift. Wonderful to look at, but very cold. Likewise Punedtn Harbor, with its winding channel and the snow-cov-ered hills in the background, was a picture of rare beauty. . _ . . Whilo New Zealand is essentially English, Dunediu is Scotch from the word ' go.' . . The future has nothing but prosperity for New Zealand. As surely as the centre of the world's commercial and naval activities is gradually shifting to the Pacific Ocean, so surely will Australia and New Zealand become the great powers of the South Pacific. "During the week all of us have gone on various trips to surrounding cities and towns. It was our intention to discuss each one separately, but the editor soon found too many champions for the places ho had not seen. . . . Everyone has given us the most wholehearted greeting; even the residents along the" way were out to wave greetings as we passed. Wc have been made to feel at home, not as visitors, not as kindred, but as those who ' belong.' Nothing finer than this is possible, and we appreciate tho honor that has been done us more than words have tho power to express." Among the jokes, some will appeal to women specially. "It takes a mother twenty years to make a man of her son, but only twenty minutes for some other woman to make a fool of Mm." " Liberty is always pictured as a woman, because men love her best w*io know her least." "Men argue that women cannot be trusted too far. Women argue that men cannot be trusted too near." "Is it true, doctor," asked I the gushing young lady, "that you are a lady-killer?" "Madam," replied the doctor, " I make no distinction between the sexes." And, finally, a little piece of ■ useful philosophy:—• Life is real, lifo is earnest, And this world of folks is full. If you fail, someone has pushed you; If you win, you've got a pull. 1 OUR SICK FOLK. Tho doctor can say what ought to be taken, but on the cook who prepares the food lies quite as great a responsibility. Here are a few nourishing dishes that can be made quite easily, only be careful that due attention is given to making the dish appetising and to serving it really hot if it is meant to be hot. Nothing is more distasteful than lukewarm food. Invalid custard is made as follows: —Beat up one new-laid egg, add one tcaspoonful sugar and i-pint milk. Pour into greased cup, and steam twenty minutes. Arrowroot, too, is quite simple. Mix a teaspoouful of arrowroot to a smooth paste with a little cold milk, pour on boiling milk until cup full, stirring all the time to prevent it becoming lumpy; add 3 pinch of salt and sugar to taste. If wine is to be added, use water instead of milk.

Fish nicely cooked and served with mashed potatoes will often tempt a sick appetite. Try this method: —Put ;j-pint milk on the _fi.ro to get hot; when quite hot put in any white fish, and allow it to cook about ten minutes. When done, put on a hot dish. Mix one teaspoonful cornflour to a smooth paste with a httle milk, then add the milk in which the fish was cooked. Stir over the fire until it boils. Pour sauce over fish, and garnish with eut lemon and parsley. Then, what can bo better than the following jellies to _ end up a dainty little meal?;—lnvalid jolly! Take \o r A gelatine, 6oz lump sugar, two eggs, i-pint cold water, and J-pint lemon or orange juice. Hub the sugar on to the orange or lemon rind, then put it into a saucepan with the water, sugar, and gelatine; when quite dissolved add the strained lemon or orange juice, just let it come to the boil, then remove it from the fire. Have the eggs well beaten in a basin; pour the jelly gradually on, stirring all the time. Allow it to cool a little, then pour into a wet mould, and turn out when quite cold. White-wine whey: Bring a pint of fresh milk to the boil, then pour in a large wineglassful of sherry. Heat again to the boiling point, but do not stir the mixture. Lot it stand until the curd

Reports of soda! functioma will be welcomed for this column. “Diana'* win ahso answer ah ronaonabSo questions relating to the bona, cookery, domestic science, and sny topic of interest to her sex. But each latter or report nrawboar the writer’s name and address as a guarantee of genuineness, and questions that do not permit of a xrgly cannot bo answered. Questions should be concisely pat and the writer's nom do plume clearly written.

settles, then pour off the clear whey. In cases of stomach sickness this is often found to "stay down"- when notfring else will. SHOULD DIVORCE CASES BE REPORTED? Mr J. Hall Richardson deals with this question in the ' Fortnightly Review,' and those who wish the newspapers to be free of unsavory details of divorce and other trials will be glad to know what is proposed (states ' Public Opinion '). After discussing tho Bill presented to Parliament and stating the condition of the lav/, he quotes the following suggestion made by Sir Edward Clarke:— " ' That no report of a matrimonial case should be permitted until a decree has been granted or refused. The great public mischief which is now done is due to the continued ex- ifement of the daily reports of unsavory cases, and immediately the_ result is announced the unwholesome interest is at an end. Publicity is essential to the pure and honest administration of law. It must be tempered by the firmness of judges, the discretion rf counsel, the honesty of solicitors, the self-re-spect of the conductors of newspapers, the severe and persistent punishment of perjury. I wish that safeguards were always and everywhere to be found.'

“ Sir Edward Clarke is not the only one who has from time to time apEealed to the Press to put its own ouse iu order,” Mr Halt Richardson goes on to say, “ and this year it is believed to have made a serious effort to do so by agreeing upon recommendations to be presented to the. Home Secretary. But I have reason to believe that in the discussions too much stress has been laid upon the in camera.

“ By in camera I understand a court with doors strictly closed, to the public as well as to the Press. It is inconceivable that newspaper men should be excluded during the hearing of evidence, whilst the public galleries—and it may he even the Bench itself (as I have seen) — are thrown open, not merely to the prurient-minded nf all classes of society, hut to a class which may easily spring up; that of the professional blackmailer, who, having heard a certain part of the case, can go outside the court and threaten the parties to the suit with disclosuro_ of details which have never been given in evidence and may suggest unmentionable crimes, all with the object of blackmail.

“There is on record a strong pronouncement of the late Lord St. Holier against this sitting - with closed doors, and history supplies, until tho case of Scott v. Scott,’ numerous instances of the practice to hear cases in camera; but it is very important that it should he thoroughly understood that there is no agreement, so far as I understand it, that the Press should accept this principle of hearing divorce suits in camera, or that it should bo put upon the Statute Book.

“There is a great difference between in camera and the restriction of the reporting of proceedings on the lines of the first and second suggestions of the Gorell Commission, and it is most important that a common understanding should he arrived at.” Mr Hal! Richardson earlier in his article mentions the two suggestions alluded to above as follows; “Lord Gorell’s Commission, among a variety of others, made these suggestions First, that power should he expressly conferred by statute on a judge to close the court for the whole or part of a case if tho. interests of decency, morality, humanity, or justice so require. “The second suggestion _ was that: statutory power should be given to the judge to order in court during the conduct of a case or proceeding, or at its conclusion, that the portions of the evidence of the character referred to must not be reported or published. This second suggestion,_ it was stated, was iu accordance with the great weight of evidence. “The third suggestion was that there should be no publication of the report of a case or proceeding until after it was finished, on the ground that an unhealthy and unnecessary interest was created iu cases which are prolouged by tho continued publication day by day of the account of the proceedings, assisted by posters drawing attention to them; persons who had no real interest in the case being thereby attracted to the court; and a case reported in this way attracted far more attention than was reasonable.”

HEIGHT OF LUXURY. NELL GWYN'S BEDROOM. A SILVER BEDSTEAD, The extravagance displayed at the Court and among the wealthy families of England after the Restoration of the Monarchy in IC6O is difficult to realise in modern times, writes Oliver Brackett. in the 'Daily Telegraph.' The "idle rich" who are so severely chastised at the presont day could spend their idleness or riches with impunity at the time of Charless 11. The King and his expensive mistresses led the way, and the rest of fashionable society followed to the best of their ability. _ Contemporary diaries and such furnished houses as remain to-day record tho_ colossal scale of entertainment of the time, and the magnificent equipment of the great houses which were I built at this date.

Many now fashions in furniture came into common use, but the height of luxury was reached by silver tables, mirrors, and candelabra, of which examples still exist 'at Windsor Castle and elsewhere. _ As a rule in England furniture of this type had a wooden carcass richly carved with floral ornament and armorial devices, over which were laid thin plates of beaten silver. The extravagance of Charles H.’s mistresses was notorious. It is not to be wondered at that Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, who claimed to be descended from half tho best families in France, should have shown enterprise, judgment, and taste in the furnishing of her apartments in Whitehall Palace. But it is a matter of some surprise that her English competitor, Nell Gwyn, who rose, as it were, from the pavement to a seat on the left hand of the Throne, should have exhibited tastes in this direction. Evidence exists, however, to show that the ex-orange girl of Drury lane was ambitious to keep pace with her patrician rival as a connoisseur in the arts. The staircase of Nell Gwyn’s house at Windsor was painted by the famous artist Berrio; and among her papers which have been preserved are various bills for furnishing of considerable interest. The most remarkable items in these accounts refer to a silver bedstead which must have been an object of unusually fantastic originality. Tho document is headed:

Work done for ye righte Honhle, Madame Guinne, John Corqus, silversmyth, his hill. And consists of some forty items, of which the total cost was £1,135 3s Id. From the various entries it is possible to form some conception of this remarkable bedstead. It had a wooden framework, with a “ greatte bord for ye head of tho bedstead and for ye other bord that come under it.” The whole seems to have been covered with plates of silver and adorned with numbers of ornamental devices. Among the latter were silver models of the King’s head, figures of slaves, eagles, and cupids, _ and—strangest of all—a representation of Jacob Hall, dancing on a tight rope of wire. Jacob Hall, famous at the time as an acrobat, was numbered among the Countess of Castlemaine’s miscellaneous collections of lovers. There is little doubt that Nell Gywn was stimulated in her decorative ambitions bv her rivalry with Louise de Kerouaile. Whatever the Frenchwoman did Nell Gwyn was prepared to go one better—or worse. An authenticated portrait of Louise de Kerouaile comparatively undressed was followed by one of her rival described as “ Madam Gwyn’s picture, naked, with a cupm, by Lelv, the painting being concealed by a shutter, and described in the catalogue of James ll.’s pictures. Pennant, wfio wrote a history of London at the end of the' eighteenth century, states that in Nell Gwyn’s house in Pall Mall there was, within the memory of hm contemporaries, a. room of which all

the walls and ceiling were covered with mirrors. The taste for " cabinets de f laces " was much favored in Venice, 'aris, and elsewhere at this period, and during the eighteenth century. Louise do Keroualle is reputed to have put up one of these rooms in her apartments, and no doubt helped to introduce the fashion into England, although the expense must have _ been very great on account of the rarity of glass. If Nell Gwyn placed the silver bedstead in her chamber of mirrors the effect must have been dazzling, and we must give her full marks for audacity. TO THE "NICE NATURAL GIRL." [By Cynic, in the Johannesburg 'Sunday Times.'] "I wonder why she doesn't get off! Such a nice girl!" How often we hear this colloquial remark, and there is no doubt about the fact that what the world terms a "nice girl" does not I appeal to the opposite sex. | Girls, when you hear yourselves described as such a " nice natural girl," b 3 sure you are doomed, at any rate, from a matrimonial point of view. Everybody likes you; nobody loves you. You are 'termed " such a good sort," '■.' such a sport," il so jolly," etc.— fatal words, all of them. No, if we girls wish to make any headway we must above everything avoid being natural. This attitude of pleasant good nature or bluff candor does not pay. It will surely land you with a parrot and a poodle when you are fifty. It is absolutely necessary to cultivate a pose. Of course, the helpless, clinging ivy is the most popular typo, and if you happen to be petite, thank your lucky stars and cultivate this pose. Switch on your most wistful expression into your big, wandering brown eyes, and, if you are in an office, be as inefficient as you possibly can over your work. Talk utter drivel and you will get on (and, incidentally, "got off "). Of course, vour girl friends will be irritated and bored to distraction, but what of that? The men will think that you are just the cutest little dewdrop "that ever dropped from the skies. If you are inclined to be portly, this] pose will be quite useless. A mysterious dignity will be most becoming to my fat friends. You must restrain your inclination to giggle on every occasion, to slap your friends heartily and good-naturedly on the back, and to

toll your inmost secrets to everyone. You may be very popular, but is any man interested in yonp Of course not. They may be ever so glowing in their praises, but it will not occur to them to take you out. “Invito Mary to a dance? Why should I ? Awfully good sort, don’t you know, and we are the best of friends, but, hang it all, I might as well go out with my own sister. No; I must say Eve is more my stylo as a dancing partner. There is something mysterious and fascinating about Eve. Last time I took Mary out she actually told me how much, her Marcello waves had cost.

There are many poses which yon may cultivate, and, of course, you must choose one to suit your individuality, but there is one golden rule which never fails—always appear as stupid as you possibly can. Even if a man talks absolutely drivel about your pet subject (perhaps you have made a special study of it for your degree), open your eyes very wide and say, “But how wonderful I Where did you learn all that?”

Remember to keep tbo childlike, amazed expression in your eyes, and your sweet lips slightly parted in wonderment and admiration. Can’t you just hear_ him afterwards: “ Jove, she’s an intelligent little thing; so interested in everything a fellow says. I think I’ll invito her to tbo theatre next week. Such a change from, Dora. That wretched old hog is always airing her views. Thinks, because she has a paltry degree sho can always bo putting one right. Actually told me the other day that I didn’t know what I was talking about. Well, it’s the last time I invite her out. Give ,md an appreciative audience every time.” You see, girls, you must bow to the inevitable, much as it goes against the grain. I know how much you jolly, intelligent girls despise the typo known as " the sweet young _ thing,” but the sooner you leave off being jolly and intelligent, and take a few leaves from the sweet young thing’s book, the sooner you will arrive at your goal—that is, if your goal is matrimony.