WOMAN’S WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 22

WOMAN’S WORLD

b y “DIANA ”

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

M. R.—The following is the recipe you ask to bo repeated. Rhubarb Wine. —.Rhubarb is used in this recipe, but other fruit can be substituted. The amounts given are sufficient to make six gallons of wine, but the ingredients can be altered) to suit individual requirements. A tub or unglazed earthenware vessel is most suitable to make it in. Thirty pounds of rhubarb should be wiped, cut into pieces about an inch long, and bruised with a stick. Cover with six gallons of cold water, and allow to stand for 10 days, stirring daily, then strain off the liquid and return to the vessel, discarding the pulp. To each gallon of fluid' add 41b of L)emarara sugar, the juice and rind of a lemon, a quarter of a pound large raisins, and one ounce whole ginger (crushed before adding). Reave this to stand another 10 days, stirring each day until the eighth day, when it should be" left to settle. At the end of the 10 days skin the liquid) and strain through miisliu. Put the wine in a cask, one ounce of isinglass being stirred up with a pint of the wine and added on top. Any extra wine should be kept hand}' to fill up the cask as it works over. Place the bung loosely over the hole until the hissing caused by the fermentation subsides, then make it firm. Leave the wine undisturbed' for at least six months, after which it may he used or bottled off, the bottles being laid, on their sides in a cool place. P. W.—l have referred your request to the secretary of the League of Nations Union, who has charge of this department. • Georgette.—-To remove the tar stain wash the part affected in a solution of Je.ves fluid—about one teaspoonful to half a cup of water. Then rinse thoroughly.

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 women.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Will correspondents please note that items intended for Wednesday’s ' Star ’ must bo in the office by Tuesday after noon, and those intended for insertion on Saturday by Thursday afternoon, or at the latest Friday morning. In the latter case they must be brief. Miss Peggy Ibbotson lias returned from a holiday spent in Napier and Wellington. Mr and Mrs H. P. Kidson and family are spending a holiday at Purakanui. Miss Mona Butcher, Poolburn, is the guest of Mrs Ahuroy Stephens, Hawthorne Avenue. Mrs Leslie Harris, England, who is at present visiting Dunedin, is staying at Wain’s Hotel. Mr and Mrs James Kay and Miss Joyce Kay are spending their holidays at Queenstown and Pembroke. Miss W. Fairbairn has returned from a trip to Great Britain, and has taken up residence in Brook street. Mrs Hyde and her daughter, Miss Denise Champtalonp, left during the week to spend a holiday in Queenstown. Miss Muriel May left to-day for Wellington, where she will act for a year as an inspector of secondary schools. Recent Dunedin visitors to the Chateau Tongariro, included Professor T. D. Adams, Miss E. Gregory, and Mr H. Brasch. Mrs Peter P. Dick, accompanied by her son, Mr Ellis Dick, has returned from a motoring tour in the Nelson district, Mrs Redmond, of Adelaide, who is the guest of her sister, Mrs Todd, Scarba street, has been a visitor to the Punga croquet lawns during the week. Mrs James Bcgg and the Misses Katharine and Elizabeth Begg returned on Thursday from a holiday spent at Bendigo Station, Otago Central. Miss Lynn, who lias held office as general secretary' of the Y.W.C.A. here for some years, is relinquishing her duties to proceed to a similar position in Rangoon, Mrs Leonard Arthur, Heriot, who came to Dunedin for the week-end to farewell her mother, Mrs J. R. Kirk, who is leaving for England, is the guest of Mrs G. Templeton, St. Clair. Miss A. L. Loudon. M.A. (head mistress, Epsom Girls’ Grammar School), who has been visiting England, left for New Zealand on January 16, and is due to arrive in Auckland on March 3. The engagement is announced of Adelaide Doreen, eldest daughter of Mrs Cameron, St. Kilda, to William John, only son of Mr and Mrs Foreman, Roslyn, Dunedin. Mrs Newland-Fletcher, London, returned to Dunedin on Thursday from a visit to the Egliuton Valley and the Southern Lakes, and will spend the week-end here, leaving on Monday for Christchurch. Mrs C. J. Randall, who has been the guest of Mrs Ernest Griffin, left on Wednesday on her return to Auckland. Mrs Griffin accompanied Mrs Randall north for a holiday visit to Auckland. A pleasant evening was spent at the residence of Mr and Mrs F. Conroy, of Abbotsford, last Saturday, to celebrate the coming of age of their son, Scoble, who is the onlv -grandson of the late Mr W. H. Scoble. Mrs Aubrey Stephens motored to Oainani to-day to attend the wedding of Miss Dorothy Wright to Mr Allan Boot. Miss Patsy Stephens, who has been for several weeks in the North Island, will return home to-morrow with her mother. Mrs George Sise was hostess at a jolly 5 o’clock party yesterday at her home in St. Kilda given in honour of Mr and Mrs Butcher, of Poolburn, who are in town for the races at Forbury Park, The engagement is announced of Tan Weymouth, only son of the Rev. and Sirs A. C. W. Standage, of Maori Hill, to Nyra Helen, only daughter of the late Mr C. A. 'Thompson and Mrs Thompson, of Constitution street. Dunedin. The members of the Kaituna Ladies’ Bowling Club met on Tuesday afternoon to farewell Mrs S. P. Mirams, who leaves next week for England by the Tainui. During the tea adjournment, Mrs Mirams was presented with a sharkskin handbag from the members of the club. The table was charmingly decorated with flowers in mauve tonings and was much admired. The Rev. and Mrs A. C. W. Standage and Mr I. W. Standage, accompanied by Mrs C. A. Thompson and Miss Nyra Thompson, have returned from an extended caravan tour of Nelson. Marlborough, and the Sounds district. ' Miss H. K. Lovell-Smith, general secretary of the Timani Y.W.C.A., is at present visiting Dunedin. Miss Lovell-Smith has been appointed general secretary of the Dunedin Association, and will take up her duties in a few weeks’ time. She has been for four years in the Timani Association, and has been prominent botli there and in Christchurch formerly in work connected with the National Council of Women, women’s unemployment, and other such bodies. The following were the recent guests registered at ijic Hermitage, Mount Cook:—London; Miss B. Kirby,. Miss L. Sampson, Mrs and Miss Knight, Colonel and Mrs E. Cox, Mr S. Attenborough, Mr R. A. Bulloch, Miss G. T. Savoury. Liverpool: Mr J. M'Cully. Scotland: Miss J. S. Scott. Melbourne: Mr and Mrs F. Carr, Mrs E. de Garis, Mr J. L. Ferguson, Air and Airs 11. P, Al'Lachlan, Senator and Airs A. J. Al'Lachlan. Auckland: Air and Mrs de Lncn, Mr E. 11. Alackie. Johnsonville: Air C. W. Lynch. Napier: Airs A. Neill. Chrisichurch; Air A. Holland, Airs and Aliss Waller, Mr S. B. Thompson, Mr G. Clarke, Air J. Cox. Dunedin: Air R. B. Townsend. Gore: Rev. and Airs W. Powell. Kurow: Airs T. A. Mnnro, Airs D. E. Neave, Miss Middleton.

Airs Green, of Perth (W.A.), who is accompanying her artist husband on a tour through New Zealand, spent a few days in Dunedin this week. She is a keen croquet player, and enjoyed some games on the Punga Club’s lawns. Mr and Airs Green left yesterday for Queenstown, Airs J. R. Kirk, of St. Clair, will leave to-morrow by car with her son, Air Horace Kirk, for Christchurch, en route to Auckland, where she will embark for an extended tour of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. . Aliss Lorna Orr-Campbell, of Leith street, who has been for a year at International House, Chicago, in continuation of her home science studies, returned to New Zealand by the Aorangi on Monday, and arrived in Dunedin on Tuesday evening. She has specialised in restaurant management, and during her vacation has toured in Canada and the United States, visiting and observing the equipment, food preparation, and service in restaurants, cafeterias, and hotels, for which America is undoubtedly famous. She will now continue her work as an assistant in the home science department of the Otago University. Her sister, Aliss E. O. Campbell, an M.A. of the Otago University, has returned from Honolulu, where she met her sister on her return from America, and spent an interesting and profitable time among the botanists of the Hawaiian Islands. Popular Swimmer Farewelled. A very enjoyable function was held in Wilson Hall on Tuesday evening, when Aliss Alaimie Boulton," whose marriage to Mr A. Raper (a well-known Auckland champion swimmer) takes place at Dunedin on Wednesday next, was honoured by many members of the coaching class she has carried out in the Kiwi Amateur Swimming Club, of which she has been ladies’ captain for several years. Also present were a number of friends of the club. The playing of games, and items by Mr W. Dyson, added to the enjoyment of those present, Aliss Winnie Dunn being at the piano. After supper. Miss Winnie Dunn presented Miss Boulton with a silver Kiwi mounted on a greenstone slab, hearing the inscription: “To Alaimie, in appreciation from the crowd.” Appreciative reference was made to the fine influence Aliss Boulton had had in the club and to' the remarkable success attending her efforts as a coach. Those present Were Afesdames Dunn,' Thomas, Goldthorpe, Raper (Auckland), and Boulton, Misses W. Dunn, T. Pnrdie, A. Brown. C. Knowles, D. Goldthorpe, E. Goldthorpe, D. Pope, E. Ahernethy, ami P. Aitken, Alessrs C. Lawrence, W. Dyson, W. M. Carr. R. S. Campbell, A. Thomas. M. Collins, and K. Leckie. The _ committee and members of fhe Kiwi Amateur Swimming Club are tendering Aliss Boulton a social evening on Alondny, at which representatives will also be present from other chibs.

DUNEDIN FIELD CLUB

The Dunedin Field Club of naturalists sent a party 16 strong to Paradise to study tlie wonders of Nature there, and a most enjoyable week was spent. Members enjoyed excursions up the Dart, to the top of Alount Alfred, and up the Rees Valley. One day the party divided into two wings, which climbed different spurs of Earnslaw and enjoyed magnificent views of the glacier and the surrounding country. Needless to say, many most interesting botanical, geological, and other specimens were found, and will be described elsewhere. In the evenings the leaders of ' the natural history divisions gave accounts of what they had found and exhibited their specimens. One evening Professor Strong, who was at Paradise, gave the members a most interesting talk about India, which was much appreciated. On leaving Paradise 11 members proceeded to Routeburn. The rain had caused the streams to rise, and there was plenty of incident in making the crossings. However, eventually, mounted on the pack horses, all members got over the flooded Routeburn and reached the hut. Although one day’s rain was experienced there, one very fine day enabled all the party to ascend the Harris Saddle. Plenty of snow was lying about, hut this greatly improved tluf scenery, and a magnificent panorama of mountains was viewed. On the return on Monday the president showed great dexterity in felling a tree and connecting it with another tree growing on the hanks of the river, and with the addition of a loose wire ns a handrail this enabled members to cross without the aid of n horse. The Routeburn trip was strenuous, hut full of interest and incident, and all members came home having thoroughly enjoyed every minute of their holiday.

TROTTING MEETING AT FOR3URY PARK

CUP RUN IN PERFECT WEATHER Thursday proved one of this summer’s few perfect days, and racing patrons at Forbury Park were able to enjoy a lovely day in the open. The lawns and stands were crowded, and the racing itself was excellent. Some pretty summer ensembles were noticed, and a few of the lighter frocks were worn with shady hats, but trim suits and smart hats were more general wear. Among those noticed were the president’s daughter, Miss lona Irwin, wearing a suit of dusky pink, with a wide-brimmed black hat; Mesdaraes Richard Hudson, navy suit, with hat in navy straw; Maurice James, royal rust frock, with hat to tone; Arthur Barnett, navy suit, hat to match; Gerald Fitzgerald, yellow chartreuse suit, with fox fur and brown hat; Richard Hill, white frock patterned in blue, blue coat and hat; Squarise. navy coat and hat; J. Hamer, royal blue cape suit, pillarbox-red hat; Jolly, brown suit and furs, with brown hat; S. N. Brown, navy patterned frock with cape, with navy hat: L. G. Lilly, tree-bark blue crepe suit and navy hat; Stanley Greenslade, navy and white spotted suit and navy hat; J. Richardson, black velvet suit with chic black hat; L. Mitchell, brown diagonal striped frock, brown model hat; H. Ninnis, navy suit and hat to match; A. Johnston, navy suit'and hat, fox furs; H. Dolomore, brown suit and hat; M. Scherek, grey suit, with hat to tone; S. Robinson, Paisley frock under blue coat, and blue hat; D. Smeaton. black and white striped suit, black hat, and fox furs; R. Greenslade. black ensemble, with-black hat; Fordham, navy ensemble; Gerald Black, nattier blue suit, hat in darker toning; W. Brady (Auckland), navy frock, smart navy hat, banded in lighter toning, and fur cape; R, H. .Stevenson, fawn silk suit striped in brown, with brown accessories; Howes, black suit and hat. with furs; H. Halliday, navy suit, smart bat to match; Aubrey Stephens, willow-green linen suit, with red hat; Russell Clark, black and white frock, with white jacket r ;1 hat; F. Johnston, brown ensemble : W. ■!. Goughian, blue ensemble, blue hat; H. Gamble, petrol-blue suit, hat to tone; A. Dawson, navy frock, with navy velour hat; D. L. E. Davies, petrol-blue tweed suit, with navy hat; C. M. Greenslade, brown striped suit, with brown hat; F. L. Buttle, French green linen suit, with white accessories; 8. Sparrow, navy suit and hat; C. N. Draper, black ensemble, with touches of white; C. Colnmh, black ensemble, black hat; R. Aspinall, brown and white suit, smart brown hat; W. A. Saunders, blue and white spotted suit, with wide-brimmed hat; 11. M. Passmore, green linen suit ; E. M‘Kenzie, Chinese blue suit, hat to tone ; M'Tigue (Methven), brown figured taffeta suit, with wide-brimmed white hat; T. Fogg, black ensemble, with touches of red; H. Barron, blue with white spots, hat to tone; L. A. Rhodes, navy tree-bark suit, smart navy hat; E. G. Williams, beige suit and brown hat; R. Butcher, navy georgette frock, navy hat, and white accessories ; Misses Lilias Samson, primrose suit, with hat to match; G. Powley. light suit, wide-brimmed blue hat; Rita Kindley, striped tunic suit, black Napoleon hat; Columb, navy floral ensemble; Margaret Dunlop, dusky pink suit, with navy accessories; Mona Butcher (Poolburn). black taffeta suit, wide-brimmed black hat; H. Sparrow, grey suit, model felt hat; M. Lane, tussore coat, white halo hat; M. M'Donald, blue floral frock, wide hat, banded in navy; K. Greenslade. beige frock, wide-brimmed hat, banded in brown: Syd. Wren, black frock, black sailor bat.

WEDDINGS

M'INTYRE—MILLER. A very pretty wedding was solemnised on December 19 at Trinity Methodist Church, when Florence Mabel, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs D. Miller, was married to Alan Leslie, son of Mrs D. Cameron, bothof Dunedin. The Rev. L. B. Neale performed the ceremony. The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her brother, Mr R. Miller, wore a powder blue floral georgette anklefengtb frock, with a smart straw hat to tone. She carried a bouquet of pink roses, gladioli, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaid, Miss Edna Nelson, wore an ankle-length frock of lemon floral georgette, with a lemon picture hat to tone, and carried a bouquet of lemon roses and maidenhair fern. Mr D. Barron attended the bridegroom as best man, and Messrs W. M'lntyre and A. Miller acted as ushers. During the signing jf the register a duet was rendered iy Misses Jessie Leishman and Clara T' .ora. The reception was held at the St. Hilda Coronation Hall, where the guests numbering 80 were received by Miss W. Miller, sister of the bride, assisted by Mrs D. Cameron, mother of the bridegroom. Miss Miller wore a frock of lemon floral marocain, with a large picture hat to tone, and carried a bouquet of lemon roses and maidenhair fern. The bridegroom’s mother was attired in a black silk marocain frock and black swagger coat, with a smart shiny straw hat, and carried a bouquet of red roses and maidenhair fern. After the breakfast, dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. The future home of the happy couple will be at Richmond.

MONTI—BLACK. St. Joseph’s Cathedral was the scene of a very pretty wedding on the evening of January 9, when Eleanor Mabel, fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs G. Black, of Gonville, Wanganui, and Denis Vito, third son of Mr and Mrs D. V. Monti, Carey’s Bay, Port Chalmers, were married by Monsignor Morkane. Wedding music was supplied by Mr T. Vernon Griffiths. The bride, who was escorted by her uncle, Mr W. Richmond, was attired in a graceful gown of ivory, satin cut on empress lines ; the square neckline being finished with a stitched Medici collar The train was heavily-appliqued in lace. Her silk embroidered tulle veil fell from a coronet of lace edged with orange blossom, and she carried ■ a bouquet of Madonna lilies, cream roses, and maiden-hair fern. She was attended by her cousin, Miss Nellie Richmond, who looked charming in a frock of lemon georgette made with butterfly. sleeves and a high neckline, and beautifully appliqued with Marina green flowers. She wore a coronet and tulle cap to tone, and carried a bouquet of yellow z;oses, carnations, and maidenhair 'fern.

The bridegroom was attended by Mr Ralph Rowe as best man. Mr M. Monti and Mr W. , Richmond, jnn., acted as ushers. The reception, followed by a dance, was held at Wilson Hall, Monsignor Morkane presiding. The guests were received by the bride’s aunt (Mrs Richmond), who wore a frock of brown floral georgette with a fur stole and picture hat to tone. She carried a bouquet of autumn-tinted flowers Mrs D. V. Monti, the bridegroom’s mother, assisted her. She wore a navy floral frock, navy coat and hat, and carried a bouquet of red carnations and roses. The happy couple left later for the north, the bride wearing a navy ensemble relieved with white, with accessories to tone.

HOW THE QUEEN DRESSES

The new Queen’s taste is bound to have a great influence on fashions in clothes. Dress designers will soon be giving us very feminine styles, hairdressers simple and appealing ones. The Queen has developed and kept to—as Queen Mary did—her own individual style of dress, one which emphasises the charm of her dainty personality and petite type. It combines dignity with artistry and simplicity. One never sees her in severely tailored suits of classic cut. She prefers woollens and tweeds to be of soft basket weaves and seldom wears the heavier, closely woven types. Most of her coats are built on semislack lines, and they are either ihreequarter or full length to add to her height. For town wear she likes them collared with soft fox fur, or with a deep band of fox fur at the hem. Soft Blues. Soft blues, pale greys, pinky-beige, and all the pastel tints are her favourite colours for daytime. Blues bring out the beautiful blue-grey of her eyes. The hats she wears make just the right type of frame for her facq. Little close-fitting semi-bonnet ones with turnback brims are her favourites. For garden parties and other formal summer-time functions she chooses Leghorns and other fine straw hats with shady brims, but the width of the brim is never exaggerated. Freak styles in hats have no more appeal to her than freak styles in dress. Her small feet—she takes 3J shoes—are always shod with elegance. Court shoes are her favourites. She keeps to her own simple but becoming style of hairdressing, with loose waves on each side of a centre parting and a suspicion of a fringe on her forehead. An artist once said that any of the clothes she wears, whether for daytime or evening, town or country, would always look well in a picture. And that, in itself, is a tribute to her exquisite taste.

THE RIGHT RECIPE

DAINTIES FOB AFTERNOON TEA Orange Marmalade Puffs. Take i-cup self-raising flour, i-cup ground rice, scant i-cup sugar, Jib butter, 1 egg, a few drops vanilla essence. Sift flour and ground rice together, add sugar, rub in butter, add well-beaten egg and essence. Drop mixture in tablespoons into well-buttered patty pans; make a hole in the centre with a spoon, and put 1 teaspoon marmalade in each. Bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven. These are delicious and out of the ordinary. Date Dainties. Take 1J cups flour, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, i-teaspoon carbonate of soda, pinch salt, ilb butter, i-cup sugar, ilb dates cut small, 2 eggs, 12 walnuts finely chopped. Sift flour and powders, add sugar, rub in butter, beat eggs, and add to mixture; then add dates and nuts and mix well. Place in teaspoons on greased slide and bake in fairly hot oven for about 10 minutes. Delicious Carraway Seed Cake. Take 1 cup butter, li cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar (sifted with flour), 1 cup milk with 1 teaspoon soda stirred in, 4 eggs. Cream butter ami sugar, add well-beaten eggs, then milk and soda, then the flour with a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons seeds. Bake in flat dish in moderate oven for one hour. This mixture can be divided into two with vanilla essence in one half and seeds in the other. Put a piece of stiff cardboard in baking dish to divide the two cakes. Prize Plain Cake. Take ilb butter, li cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 4 eggs, 3 cups self-raising flour, nutmeg, essence of lemon. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, beating them in. Beat flour and milk in carefully; then add essence and nutmeg. Bake If hours in moderate oven. This cake also makes beautiful lamingto'ns. Marmalade Cake. This cake is a change from either an ordinary fruit cake or its usual alternative, a sponge sandwich. It has a pleasantly sharp flavour, and the marmalade peel gives it an added interest. One of the sandwich tins, measuring 6in or 7in across, is suitable for the following quantities;—Cream four ounces of butter with four ounces of sugar. Beat in one large egg or two small eggs with a little of the weighed and sifted six ounces of self-raising flour. Stir in two tablespoonfuls of marmalade and the rest of the flour. If two eggs are used avoid using top much of the thinner part of the marmalade. In any case, the marmalade chosen should bo of fairly thick consistency, with

coarsely-cut peel. The home-made kind is usually too light and fine. Bake in a fairly slow oven. Drying Mint and Parsley. An easy and quick way of drying mint and parsley for the winter is to gather bunches and leave them on the top of the oven on paper. When they are dry rub them through a colander or wire sieve on to paper and _ bottle the resulting raspings. Bottle in airtight containers. When immersed in boiling water before cooking the mint or parsley will become green.

EVE CHANGES HER COLOURS

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE FOR CORONATION Women are to wear lighter *and brighter shades in Coronation year. Chief in vogue will be the national colours of red, white, and blue, but in a discreet and not flamboyant way. This trend is shown by the new range of fashion’s colours issued by the Association of Dyers and Finishers in Bradford, in conjunction with the British Colour Council. Blues predominate, and they will be used a great deal with a bright gold as a Coronation theme. TWO BLUES. Highland blue, a clear mid-tone, will be worked into light spring clothes, while Burmese blue and light and dark navy will be used for heavier fabrics. A new type of greyed turquoise blue is named “ moon blue ” and “ viking blue,” and these tints are expected to be special favourites in early spring. Light rose tints are provided in “ London pride ” and autumn rose.” In the rods the leading colours will be “ Coronation red,” rich and mellowtoned, and “ Bacchus red,” a deep wine shade. The new varieties of green include “ cress green ” and “ Cossack green,” which have a faint olive cast and are expected to make a special appeal.