OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 523, 2 May 1925, Page 2

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

At Home and Abroad

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

file Lady Editor nril be pleaaied ti receive for publication in the “Woman’s Realm” items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notice® must bear signatures. Correspondence is invited on any matter affecting, or of interest to women. All letters should be addressed to ‘‘Lady Editor.”

SOCIAL NOTES.

The engagement is announced ot Miss Kathleen Kelly, eldest daughter of .Mr and .Mrs G. Kelly, Bluff Hill, Napier, to Mr T. It. Dalziell, second son of Mr and Mrs W • Dalziell, Kyefiekl, Master ton.

Miss Kathleen Smith, who has been acting as Home Science 1 nstructi css in Keilding during the last twelve months, left yesterday lor Datincvirke, where she takes up her new duties under the Hawke s Bay Education Board.

Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal, May Number (.Mr James Campbell, I'eiiding), is full of interest. Ibe advance styles, footligbt fashions seen on the London stage, footwear, bridal lasliioiis, and free patterns of a. smart three-piece suit and lady’s dress, with a special page lor the children make up an interesting publication. The children’s bazaar oi lashion.s is a delightful number for every home where there are children —as it contains simple yet stylish designs for all ages. The free patterns enclosed include a girl’s coat and dress, short sleeved frock, a little girl’s dress, and small hoy .s suit. A special page for children with story, riddles, puzzles, etc , is included.

Till*: EMOTIONAL CHILD. “.Emotion is one of the most powerful attributes of mind. But emotion that runs riot is one of the most devastating and damaging of all influences. You know perfectly well it is no use talking to a person who is in a passion. When emotion holds the field, judgment may he a fleet I'd and reasoning power may he altered, merely because one feels this or that. ‘■’Emotion is the determining factor of conduct in very many eases. The emotion has never been disciplined; in consequence it quickly runs riot. It takes time to learn how to defeat emotion. It is not a state that you can regulate once it is in the ascendant. Tt can only he prevented by an intellectual understanding of how the emotion arises.

“Tiio time to give advice to lead) about emotion is when the mind is undisturbed. So many people correct and find fault and ivy to direct when the emotion is in the ascendant. The time, I repeat, is when the mind is quiet. You want to find out the sort of things that disturb emotion. Once that lias been learn, you arc prepared so to defend yourself against* those conditions that they do not arise. “Any person can discipline an (‘motion if they take the trouble to understand how to do it. Emotion that runs riot is very disturbing, and may seriously interfere with education. Disturbed emotion leads to wrong reasoning and wrong conclusions, and even to delusions.

“If you see any emotion disturbing a. child, without letting the child appreciate what you arc doing you must teach it how to take a different view of life, it is the explaining to and the understanding by the child that prevents these things from taking place.”

EAT MOKE SAT,ADS. A salad a day rivals Lho apple in its effectiveness in keeping the doctor away. And to make the daily salad interesting and inexpensive tlie cook must have a variety of .recipes. Alake the most of everything in its own season is the best advice fo give the makes of salads. Raisin Cream Salad—This is an Amcric.Mii recipe, rich in vitumiues. Take a small ereain ehee.se, mash with a, fork, adding one tablespoonful of cream, and a. few raisins, either seeded large ones or sultanas. Form into halls the size of a walnut. Dress a whole large raisin on each side of a hall.- Serve three or four of these balls on crisp lettuce leaves, with French salad dressing. (Tarnish with tiny red radishes and walArcress and spring onions if liked. Fox* Lho French salad dressing, place a. pinch of salt ' and a dash of black pepper in a tablespoon, fill the spoon with salad oil twice;, add one lablospooufui of tarragon vinegar, mix well together, and sprinkle over the salad. To .serve With poultry this salad is excellent to eat with chicken, turkey, or game. Sliced oranges, pineapple,' and bananas, mixed with a little salad oil and lemon juice. A few shoots of celery tops may be added if liked. -

A Winter Salad—Slice finely some sweet apples, onions, and celery m equal quantities. Mix a pbffd l of salt, sugar, and cayenne with three tablespoon fills of good tarragon vinegat , and pour over the above. THE GIRL AT HOME. A MATTER. OF DRESS. One of the tilings which the girl at home needs to guard against is slackness in dress. A button or hook comes off. Well, there is no one hut the family to see if she uses a saletw pin! Of course, she always intends to replace the missing link, hut once the safety pin is in place the chances arc that it will remain there till the garment is worn out.

Little habits like that grow until a. general slovenliness supervenes, which has a very had (‘fleet on the mind and body of the victim, as well as being an offence to the eyes of those with whom she lives. It is a kind of creeping paralysis which gradually atrophies all th, ; higher sensibilities. It is true that there is little time left over for titivating after attending to the needs of even a. small family. But neatness in her own person is. a duty which the girl at home owes herself first and last., Her work will lie all the hotter done if she is fittingly clad. Slackness in tilings results sooner or later in slackness in everything—even in mind. And once that rot sets in the outlook is rather hopeless. Look around and notice what sort of condition the house is in which is run by a woman untidy in herself. Then talk to her and find out what stale her mind is inJ Carry your investigations further and you will understand flow this mental and physical slackness destroys, the whole spirit of tlie home for the others who live under the same roof. Now turn your attention Lo the dwelling of the housewife who is always neatly turned out—no matter at, what hour of the day you may e.atell, her and you will see a very different picture. . ‘Some women have a curious idea that it does not matter what they look like to those with whom they spend most of their time. Yet to meet friends or" oven strangers they will take great trouble with their personal appearance. This is a curiously tested process of .reasoning. They should consider most those whom they love most, who are in must cases though not always those with u horn they live. Ti the Girl at Home wishes to keep her own self-respect and the* esteem of her family she will be as careful of her dress in the house as she is of her appearance when out of it.

THE FASHIONABLE “DICKY.” With the new straight and bcltless walking lrocks of,soft woollen fabrics has arrived an almost indispensable and decorative accessory the detachable “dicky,” says a Paris fashion writer. This is a pleasing fashion which is being adopted by all the big houses. A “dicky,” which, lias a small turndown collar, usually buttons up to the base of the throat, and is worn inside the coat frock, which is left undone a>; the neck. The “dicky” of very fine pleated organdie is a general favourite. Organdie in some bright shade, such as tangerine, is also used. Much more striking, on a frock of, say, superfine cashmere or silk - and wool mixture, is the “dicky” of crudely coloured, rough-surfaced cretonne. Infinite variety lies in the hand of the dressmaker who supplies this new neckwear with her creations. One frock- may have as many as half a dozen different “dickies” to provide a change from time to time. 'They certainly brighten up a garment. One well-known dressmaking firm is making “an ensemble” which shows tlie “dicky” and coat lining to match.

SAY IT WITH A smile. Now, women are supposed—l sa y supposed, mark you --to be exceedingly wise and intuitive, especially where their affections are concerned. So, this being the ease, one would suppose that every woman knew her most dangerous rival, n’est-ee-pas ? No, it is not so. Wo will take the ease of Jane, Jane representing An Average Woman. Jane i 6 engaged to Arthur, an Average Young Man. Rosamund comes on the scene. Rosamund is as pretty as a girl has any right to be - pietliar, indeed. Does Jane encourage Arthur to talk to Rosamund, to dance and make up a “set” with liorr Relieve me, she does. hot. Arthur 1 is kept firmly out of the pretty Rosamund’s way. Now. ten chances to one there isn’t anything to attract a man behind that pretty lace, and Arthur could be, given a chance —and this if lie wanted it*!-—to find that out. Then perhaps Jane is a quiet little

soul who suffers agonies when it is lier turn to say something, so Janie envies intensely the girl who is surrounded by a mob of people who roar with laughter at her raillery and sparkling wit. No need - ' for envy ; men want a little girl of their own, not the centre of a crowd. ]’,ut does Jane ever think of the only woman who need be 1 leaned as a rival? Does any woman? No, again. ’.Because this rival ncod’nt possess beauty, she needn’t possess wit. What, then, is this wonderful charm of hers? Cheerfulness. It’s the happy woman, the cheery woman, tlie girl who “says it with a smile’’ who i>. the most attractive being on earth. She radiates sunshine; and none of ns avoid that! N<tf one is attracted by “gush” or the acid sweetness that some folk affect. But the deep-seated happiness that is the result of a plucky soul looking resolutely on the bright side of things has a magnetism that outrivals prettiness, smartness, wit—or anything you can think of. A smile will get you .yards where a discontented look won’t budge you an inch. In love it will make you and your man happy; it is the oil that makes the wheels of business run more easily; it will light your path in life and that of others. Sav it with a smile!