SOCIAL NOTES

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 288, 18 July 1924, Page 2

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Fancourt, Wellington, is visiting Mrs Marshall, at Tuta Totara. Marton.

Miss A. Andrews has left Fcildiug for Wellington to take over the management of a business there.

Mrs Eliot Warburton, of Palmorstou North, is at piesent on a brief visit to Wellington.

Lord and Lady Strathspey. the Hon. Joan Grant and the Master of Giant, will sail from Auckland for England by the Pent Hunter, due to leave on August 6.

The reason, why opals are so often lost from their settings is that they expand with heat more than other precious stones, and consequently force open the gold which holds them in place.

Lady Keith Smith, replying to an interviewer, who asked whether she flew to Paris, where she and Sir" Keith spent their honeymoon, .said: "No aeroplanes for me. I'm frightened of them. We travelled in the goodold fashioned way, like Christians." • * * *

After ;i campaign extending over live weeks, preventive measures have prevailed against the minor cpideiriic of diphtheria which lias been prevalent in the schools in New Plymouth, and Dr Elizabeth Gmm (medical officer of schools) and 'Nurse Wise (school nurse), who have been engaged in the campaign against, the disea.se> have left Now Plymouth to proceed with the usual medical inspection in other parts of the 'district. Over 7o carriers were found amongst children in New Plymouth, and these -were instructed in a separate classroom. A great amount of Work was involved in swabbing •children's throats., hut the results have hpeu beneficial, as Dr Guun considers there are not more than five of the original carriers still affected.

MAN HAS SPOKEN.

A gay, somersaulting casuist who occasionally hazards guesses at' the truth about the fair sex has told us in a burst of frankness the truth about his own.

He confesses that men detest Iranknets in women: He weeps -salt tears because Woman has become so frank in her relationships with Man that she makes up her face in his pi'CttOncc. • v '

To this now universal procedure he makes no ethical objections; or aesthetic, But he objects profoundly that we should kavc ceased to makca deceit of our deceit. He cannot endure that we apply the pencil and the lipstick in his presence. Heboid Mini' has spoken. In the privacy of our boudoir we may prepare the maskthat is to thrall him. lie knows it is a mask; but he has been spared the "mechanics." of the make up. They have been performed in secret. It is symbolical. In like fashion, in the privacy of our inner consciousness, we may "make up" with artifice and sham our minds and hearts. Man will accept joyfully any mental or emotional mask with which we essay to intrigue him. Spare him any frank avowal please. Deceive him, wrap him in countless subterfuge. Use the lipstick of lies, the rouge of rusc,f the powder of pretence—in secret —and he will love you through it all.

Let us be marionettes. So long as wo conceal the wires, man will applaud the performance—and pay for

SYDNEY DAY BY DAY

(From the Melbourne Argus). If it be true that women dress tn please the men (as well as to annoy other women) then it is in order for men to express opinions of the dressmaker. There has been ample choice/ offered during the past few days, Pandwick has seen bare arms and bare-) chests, likewise-, the close f-uffling in fur. Even on' the coldest day, which was yesterday, there was a strange mixture.;. There appeared to be a reluctance to abandon the summer style of dressing, which permits of scantiness. The majority, however,"bowed; to- the call- of the season;' as 'from -■ Ivosciusco, and 1 brought put heavy coats and furs that" so' but' casual, airing.

It is here alleged in fearless disregard of opposite opinions that there i 3 nothing more beautiful on a. cold day that is not wet," than a lovely woman fur-coated and fur-toqued. There were some at Pandwick. They may have been our own or lrom .Melbourne, or even farther afield, but they were the picked of the lawn, at least those who wcic dependent upon their natural colour were—the cold seemed to expose the artificiality of purchased tinting.

EXERCISE, FRESH AIL, AND GOOD FOOD.

Skipping, standing on tip-toe, and other simple exercises should be carried out night and morning. The strength of the muscles depends on the freshness of the blood brought to them, so see that the child is well nourished. The good food she eats is digested and absorbed and carried round in the blood stream to tn« calves and feet and shins. If the child is growing very rapidly she. needs a lot of sleep. Put her to bed early in .spite of her protests The ankles are the first joints to give away; unless some strong nffovts. arc put forward to counteract the tendency some other joints will begin to go wrong. Often the joints of the spine t grow sideways and curvature of the spine results. Fresh air, good food, sleep, sjiinshioe and exercise will cure the curved bones and distorted joints.

JIFCOMMEN DICD RECIPES

DISHES FOR TWO

Fish an Gratin. Ingredients: 2oz white cooked fish, 1 tablcspoonful rice, whi to sauce, \ tcaspoonful grated lemon, rind, I deste/tspoonful chopped garlic, pepper and salt, 'A tablespoonfuls grated cheese, creamed potatoes. Method: Break the fish into small flakes, and sprinkle them with the lemon peel, parsley, and salt and pepper'. Line two small ati gratin dishes with freshly-cooked potatoes that have been beaten to a cream with loz butter. Only line them thinly, and sprinkle with some of the cheese; then put half the flsa in each dish ;Hucp, on top put a-|-bor-der of potato. This is pretty put into a forcing bag and piped round. Then on top of the fish put a good spoonful of sauce or cream, and put remainder of cheese on top, and bake in good oven until nicely browned, about 20 minutes to half an hour.

Cutlets with Tomato.—lngredients'. 4 chops of cooked mutton, 2 mediumsized tomatoes, 1 dessertspoonful curry powder, 1 egg,''' breadcrumbs, green peas or beans, gravy. Method. Trim the chops as for cutlets, dust them well with curry powder and brush over with butter that has beer* incited, and leave for a while, about one hour. Then brush with beaten egg, dip into breadcrumbs and fry in boiling fat until browned slightly. Cut the tomatoes in half; put'on to baking tin, put a few'slices of driping on top, season with salt and popper and bake in hot oven or undei grill until sufficiently cooked, about 10 minutes. Put half on each cutlet, which arrange on dish with a ring of cooked green peas around each cutlet. (Serve a good brown gravy and new potatoes with them.

: Casserole. of Beef—lngredients : lib skirt of beef, 3 onions, 1 'carrot, 1 turnip, stick celery, 2 tomatoes, salt, popper* Worcester sauce, halfpint stock", 1 bayleaf, sprig thyme, parsley, 8 peppercorns. Method: Skin the beef, and cut into pieces; cut up the vegetables thinly, rub tomatoes through sieve, melt a little dripping in pan and just fry meat to colour it. Put vegetables ,'at bottom of casserole ,a!so the sieved tomato and the beef; tie herbs in muslin, and add, cover with stock, and pufc in oven for 1\ to 2 hours. Then strain off the gravy, remove bag of herbs, mix one dessertspoonful of flour with a. little stock; add to the gravy. Season well with pepper, and salt. Worcester sauce to taste; bring to boil and pour again into casserole and serve very hot.

WINTER WOMEN. How many women inspire love in men. more easily in winter time than during the rest of the year? Poetry is full of the turning of men's thoughts lovewards in the spring; of the spring girl and the summer girl; but it,must be a fact that as many men come under the spell of a woman in winter,.when her enchantment is even more A a warm, glowing thing. The winter woman who is often almost charmless in the flimsy whites and creams, of summer dress, gains everything fiforii the donning of winter garb?|and from the healthy activity and quicker movement which the season demands. • Many rnen, old and young, find the charm of a woman irresistible when she is dressed in a- trim tailor-made costume, .a; cosy hat, • soft leather

gloves, and furs. Furs above all give her ;> glamour and something of that quccnlincss which invariably dntAvs men. And about the winter woman there is a mystery. Ihafc is her secret, and one which the summer girl forgets. Where men are concerned there is nothing more desirable than mystery in a woman.

Added to her mystery is the opportunity of the season. Spring love affairs arc restless and often fleeting, hut men feel that the love of autumn and winter hold more that leads to permanency.

At restaurants, theatres, and dances the winter woman shines and comes into hen own. Men are proud 'of her there— comfortably more proud than when she sprinted like a saucy, barely-clad boy across the beach to the summer sea. J£ve in winter, in the shut-in warmth, soft a« the rose-shaded lights before her, all the glamour of life about her; or Eve on a stool by a- logwood fire talking business, talking book-!;, dreams, likes and dislikes, and all the. things that to her must matter. Then she is somehow at rest, a permanent gift away from the summer's uncertain ruth. Soft furs against a glowing lace, fur near long, white hands, a close hat and the shine of escaping hair beneath it, a clinging perfume suggesting incense rather than a cutglass bottle, the trim lines of a wellcut coat . \

And then in the dusk or the twinkling shop lights iu the street; or in the burnished sunlight, the shadows, and the nightfall in the fields, the winter woman is a, dream, a. fancy, and yet a warm reality (hat men know must make their lives complete.