WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 10

WOMAN’S WORLD

=-==—=[By DIANA.]—

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

of a Royal honeymoon. Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, ono of King George’s younger cousins, had married the King of Spain’s cousin, and tiie young couple had committed a grave breach of Spanish etiquette, for they had married without waiting foe King Alphonso’s formal assent. They came to England, where Mrs Van Raalto ,pnt “Brownsea” at their disposal. Although the place is little more than a stone’s throw from the mainland, it was the most.secluded spot in England for them. A few cottagers and the Castle staff are the sole inhabitants of “ Brownsea.” Airs Van Baalte would never permit any creature to be killed on the island, and the new owner is going a step further, for she will allow no birds in cages.

Mrs Elder left- on Wednesday for a camping holiday at Hawea. Mrs Landreth and Miss Faulks have just returned from a delightful overseas lour, which included England, parts of Africa, and America. Mrs James, of Auckland, has arrived and is staying with her mother, Lady Fenwick. The author of ‘Jew Suss’ has just published another novel, this _ time about Duchess Margaret of Carinthia and Tyrol. She was born in RibS. aim is reported to have been the ugliest woman in history. Her portrait, by Quentin Matsys, was the original for Tenniel’s drawing of the duchess in ‘ Alice in Wonderland.’ Miss Simpson, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs Taverner, has returned to Wellington. Mr Taverner and his daughter have gone to the AVaitati Hut for a week or two. Mrs Sutherland Ross, Miss Hare, and about eight Girl Citizens have gone to Paratea, near' Auckland, to attend the Y.W.C.A, conference. They expect to bo absent about a week. Mr and Mrs AA’. J. Hunter, of Christchurch, arc spending a holiday in Dunedin. The Rev. 11. S. Watson, M.C., of the Kbandallah Presbyterian Church, and Mrs Watson are here for a short visit. Mrs Vallango and Mrs Boyd Dunlop motored to-day to Palmerston, where they expect to remain for two or three weeks. The death took place at Auckland on December 27 of Catherine Morrison Riley, aged forty-five, third daughter of Mr W. G. Morrison, of Dunedin, and wife of Mr Robert Riley, associate editor of the Auckland ‘Sun.’ Horn in Scotland, the late Mrs Riley carne to New' Zealand at an early age with her parents. She spent many _ years in Otago, and was for some time a. vice-president of the St. Clair Toadies’ Club. Occasionally she appeared_ on the concert platform. Mrs Riley lived in the four centres of New' Zealand and in Melbourne and Sydney. Of recent years she had been in poor health, and her death followed an illness which lasted over four years. The deceased lady leaves one daughter, Miss Fiona Rilev. I " A clever artist who is much interested in the future of art in Tasmania is Miss Ethel Nicholls, a sister of the Chief Justice of Tasmania (Sir Herbert Nicholls). She has just retired from the position of honorary secretary to the Art Society of Tasmania, to which she has given a number of years of devoted work. Miss Nicholls is one of those who are anxious that a new art gallery in Hobart will one day be an accomplished fact.

The engagement is announced of Constance, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Young, Ravensbourne, to George AY. Thomson, of the Rank of New Zealand staff, Dunedin, the second son of Mr and Mrs A. G. Thomson, Ravensbourne. Also of Leslie Gilpin Thomson, Gore, third son of the latter, to Thelma, second daughter of Mr ami Mrs J. Maude, Gore.

Miss Jacynth Parsons, who is only sixteen years of age, is holding an exhibition of her drawings, done from three years old onwards, at the Medici Galleries. Her latest work is the illustration of ‘ Songs of Innocence,’ by William Rlake, and one of her enthusiastic admirers is AA T . lb Yen +<. 1 Irish poet.

Miss Dorothy Garrml, quite young giiij has been awarded the Prix Hollandais (worth over £600) by the International Institute of Anthropology. .She is the daughter of Sir Archibald Garrml, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and has studied in Franco

Recent Dunedin visitors to the AVhito Star Hotel, Queenstown, are Mr and Mrs J. AVaters, Mr and Mrs AA'm. Taylor, Mr and Mrs Cuddie, Mr and Mrs Harrison Jones, Mr and Airs G. A. Findlay, Mr and Airs Edic, Aliss Ashton, Aliss D. Alnckie, Aliss Hamill, AD - and Afrs Lowden, Air and Airs Brinsley, Airs Thompson, Air and Airs Stewart, Air and Mrs W.. A. Ross, Air and Airs Black. Air and Mrs G. Hughes.

Florence Mills, who recently died under an operation in New_ York, was one of the most remarkable little artists who ever came Irom the United Stale’s to London. She was a negress—or rather a quadroon—and gloried in it. In spite of her color, London society, led by the Prince of AValcs, went mad over her and her performance in ‘ Blackbirds ’ last year, and there were few fashionable parties of tho Bohemian typo at which she would not have been a prized guest. These parties were just the ones, as a rule, that rich Americans with well-known English friends liked to attend, and tho horror of some of the transatlantic guests at having to associate with a dancer from tiio negro quarter of New York was extreme. In the intervals of her stage career Miss Aiills did much to airfSf.ovements to raise tiie negro in the eyes of the world.

A wealthy London lady has just bought “ RrownseaV tho largest of the little islands in Poole Harbor, Dorsetshire, and intends to make of it an animal sanctuary. The island is about five miles in circumference. In 1573 it was valued at 9s; it has just been sold for £125,000. Mrs Christie, the purchaser, has already on her estate in Somerset a big collection of animals, including worn-out donkeys purchased from London costermongers. All these are to be transferred to Brownsea. Many years ago “Brownsea” belonged to an American lady, Airs Van Raalto, and just then it possessed an especial interest, for it was the “ mise-en-scene ”

Reports of social functions will be welcomed for this column. “ Diana" will also answer all reasonable questions relating to the home, cookery, domestic science, ‘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 public reply cannot bo answered. Questions should be concisely put and the . writer’s nom de plume \ v clearly written.

THE RIGHT RECIPE

—Fruit Alould.— Required; Half-pint stewed rhubard or other fruit, sugar to taste, half-pint milk, one egg, one teaspoonful cornflour, Joz gelatine, half-gill water, coloring. Slew the fruit and sugar in a little water, sieve, and measure. Blend the cornflour with a little of the milk, boil the rest, pour on to the cornflour, return to the pan, and boil for live minutes. Cool a little, add the beaten egg, and cook until the mixture thickens, but do not boil. Dissolve the gelatine in tho water, mix tho fruit pulp and custard whilst still warm, add the gelatine and coloring, stirring until cool and beginning to set. Pour into a wetted mould —-'Meat Roil.Required: IJlb lean beef, Jib sausage meat, Jib streaky bacon, one or two hard-boiled eggs, one raw egg, salt and pepper, Boz while breadcrumbs, two teaspoonfuls mustard, one small onion, brown crumbs. Minco the beef, bacon, and onion, add tho sausage meat, seasonings, and white breadcrumbs. Beat tho egg, add it and mix very thoroughly with the hand until all tha ingredients arc combined and the mixture is smooth. Put the hard-boiled eggs in the centre, and form into a meat it 11. Roll in a greased cloth, tic firn'dy, and steam for three to three and a-h.df hours. ' Remove the cloth and roll in brown crumbs. —Lemon and Banana Sponge.— Required; One pint water, two lemons, 3oz castor sugar, throe bananas, one gill cream, Joz gelatine, half-gill water. Wipe the lemons, peel thinly, and boil tho peelings with tho sugar and pint of water to a thin syrup. Add tho sliced bananas and lemon juice, heat gently, sieve, cool, and add the gelatine dissolved in the half-gill of water. When nearly cold fold in tho whipped cream and pour into a wetted mould. Where it is not desired to use cream, three-quarters of a gill of custard oi condensed milk can take its place. —Ham Kroineskis.— Required; .(lb streaky bacon, (Joz cooked minced ham, qnarter-tea-spoonfnl mustard, 2oz cooked minced tongue, two small chopped pickled onions, two tablespoon fills tomat o sauce, two tablespoonfuls of thick white sauce. Batter: Joz flour, 2oz melted butter, one and a-half gills tepid water, salt, one egg. To make the batter sieve the flour and salt into a basin, add the egg yolk, melted butter, and then stir in the water gradually. Stand at least one hour, and just before using fold nr oho stiffly beaten white of egg. Heat the minced and chopped ingredients in the sauces, season, and spread on a plate to cool. Flour a board and shape the mixture into eight rolls, then wrap each in a piece of thin bacon. Dip each roll in the batter, using a skewer, and fry until a golden brown in fat from which a faint blue smoke is rising. Serve at once with a good tomato table sauce.

iPIHG ATTRACTIVE

A a lure lias endowed woman with flu ambition of appearing light-hearted, young, beautiful, and attractive. Alan by his admiration—-or the reverse—lias fostered her desire, so that nowadays we find an enormous number of beauty parlors and an increasing output of books dealing, with the problem of keeping old ago" at bay. The burry and carelessness of modern living accounts largely not only for nervous breakdowns. but also'for unnecessarily premature wrinkles, poor complexions, and certain physical ailments Dr Josif Ginsburg, M.D., lormerly of the Government Hospital < f Plastic Surgery at Prague, and now plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, has just written a book, published by _ Angus and Robertson, Sydney, that will doubtless find a large and appreciative public here. Tho doctor has avoided technical terms, so that anyone can iollow his arguments and suggestions, and yet he gives enough definite medical hints to show that he knows his subject, ‘The Hygiene of Youth and Beauty,’ very well indeed. The illustrations in this book arc excellent, combining dearness and simplicity. How many know that centuries ago tho rank and, file could not use make-up as they liked! Every man was allowed to use red dyes for his beard and moustaches, but the beautiful black dye could bo used only by men prominent in military service, lii 1779 tho English Parliament passed a law forbidding ladies to use any facial make-up! Side by side with many interesting titbits of general knowledge of this type are found eminently practical chapters, such as ‘The Care of Normal Hair,’ ‘ Food and Complexion.’ ‘ Facial Massage,’ ‘ Caro of the Body,’ ‘ Correct and Incorrect Posture,’ and so on. Thus Dr Ginsburg’s book will be found a valuable addition to any home library.

VEGETABLES

Vegetables are among the least expensive and most health-giving of our foods; it is most essential that they should be used plentifully and cooked in such a way that their full food value and flavor are preserved. Every vegetable should be used when it is in full season, for it is then not only plentiful and cheap, but also of excellent flavor. Households fortunate enough to be supplied diiect from the garden can gather their vegetables when they Teach perfection. We rely mainly upon vegetables to supply the body with mineral salts, and it is common knowledge that deficiency of these salts may produce most serious disease. Mineral salts are present in solution, a proportion of which passes into the water in which vegetables are cleaned or in which they are cooked. Vegetables therefore should be prepared immediately before cooking, and cooked in such a way as to conserve the maximum amount of these salts. The losses incurred as a result of steaming are less than by boiling, and from this point of view the former method is to be preferred. In the case of root vegetables the time required for cooking can be materially shortened by slicing. The small percentage of fat found in most vegetables makes the addition of fat in some form desirable. Butter, dripping,, fat bacon, fat pork, and cheese are suitable.

ODDS AND ENDS

Always scald dried fruits before yoi eat them raw. This tip is also usefit if you are going to cook them, as it helps to make them plump. All dried fruits, such as prunes, figs, or mixed, fruit salads, should be soaked if tbe,\ are to be served atone. Stew them in as little water as possible. A jar is an excellent thing for cooking prunes oi figs in. Place in the oven or in a pan of boiling water. Greasy m,arks can ,usually be removed from lizard and other light-colored leather shoes by gently rubbing with a cloth dipped in carbon tetrachloride. Although excellent for occasional use. however, this solvent should not be applied too freauently, as it tends to remove not only , any polish used, but also tho natural grease present in the leather. The attractiveness of certain fabrics, particularly crepo de chino and woven materials, ia enhanced if it is irpned on the wrong side. Inexperienced workers are advised, however, not to attempt ironing overblouses and dresses on the wrong side until they have acquired some degree of skill in ironing. Tho Destruction of the Housefly.— For dustbins use a little formalin on blotting paper. When the dustbin is emptied a piece of paper, partly soaked in formalin, should be burned in it. This is more effective than having a fire in tho receptacle, which melts off the zinc, causing very rapid rusting. A very weak solution of, formalin will also keep flies down in tho home, but if the solution is too strong the vapors irritate the eyes. A little postassinm di-chromatc. dissolved in 2oz of water, together with a tablcspoonful of sugar, lias also been suggested as a remedy.

THE FIRST-AID DRAWER

If more convenient, the top shelf of a press may be substituted for storing a, few simple remedies. Where one lives at some considerable distance from a chemist, or when illness, or an accident, occurs late at night, this medicine shelf, or drawer, is of infinite value; a few minutes in an emergency often turns the balance between quick recovery and a long illness. in the first place, everything must be dearly labelled; and there should be an electric torch always kept in one particular part of the shelf—perhaps the right-hand corner, so that a light is at once provided and no time is lost in putting your hand on the article required. A good-sized roll of soil, cotton—any old under garment or thin pillowcase, should be turn into convenient sizes and lengths—washed and well dried; odd pieces of flannel; a supply of bandages, and plenty of tape and stout needle and thread. Acetic acid or vinegar is useful in cases of bad headache. A cloth moistened with the fluid is placed on the forehead. Boracic acid and horacic ointment are both valuable. The former diluted in water is a well-known lotion for the eyes, and for any raw, inflamed surface. Carbonate of soda, diluted, is an antidote for scalds and burns; a very small quantity, just enough to cover a sixpence, in a tablospoonful of water, relievos acidity of the stomach. Essence of peppermint; useful' for chills, cramps, etc., taken in hot water. Carron oil, for burns and scalds. Is a mixture of equal parts lime water and linseed or olive oil. Sal volatile, remedy for fainting turns; half teaspoonful in half a glass of water. Castor oil, linseed meal, and mustard, zinc ointment, vaseline, etc., should always lie at hand among first-aid requisites.—‘ Weekly Scotsman.’