MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1921, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. (The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in this column, items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated.) A correspondent forwarded the following recipe for an eggless sponge pudding. —Two tablespoons dripping, 2 tablespoons sugar, beat to a cream ; acid 2 tablespoons jam; th.n down with milk: add 6 tablespo >ns flour, 1 teaspoon soda, mixed with the tablespoon of water; steam 2 hours. Dates or fruit may be added. A pleasant evening was spent in the Ngahere Hall on 1 hursuay, June 23, to celebrate Miss Kathleen Bernhard’s birthday. A large number were present from Ngahere and surrounding districts, and everyone enjoyed themselves immensely During the evening songs were rendered by Miss Gillooly and Kath Bernhard and Nir T. Hogan, each being heartily applauded. Games were played, and the older folk enjoyed themselves equally with the younger. Dance music was supplied by Misses Bernhard, Gillooly. and L. Campbell (Blackball). Mr A. Kitchen assisted by Mr J. Craig had charge of the floor. At 11 o’clock dancing and games ceased and supper was handed round by the ladies. Great praise is due to Mrs Bernhard, who supervised the supper. Many were the words of praise and wonder when the guests entered the hall and viewed the transformation wrought by ferns and creeper. At 2.30 a.m. all joined hands and sang “Auld Lang Syne,” and three hearty cheers were given for Miss Bernhard.

Dulls measuring 2Aft iu height, and wearing Hie latest fashions, are now being imported from France to England tv sell at 15 guineas each.

The. Horne Economics Association of Christchurch is instituting cooking de monstrations on. a, large scale. Good, inexpensive recipes are demonstrated, the menu being compiled with a view of helping those with small means. The idea is excellent.

Lemon juice will whiten a plain wooden kitchen table that has become discolored. Wash and scrub the boards first with scouring sand, then rub we, 1 with cut lemon, leave for a few minutes, and afterwards well rinse.

“You can breed mutton and grow wool, but if you do not breed good men and women it is all useless,” said Mr L. M. Tsitt, M.P., when addressing a gathering of citizens at the Y.M.C.A. in Auckland on behalf of the boy scout movement. “But the childyen must be better in every sense than their parents,” he continued, “for forces are everywhere making' for' evil, and unless we set to work to counteract these the future before our children is not very bright.” He further expressed the opinion that, the measure of determination the parents and citizens applied to . the scout movement during thf/ next few years would decide the influence over the country’s youth in citizenship and Empire-building.

To make a shy lover propose, a London woman tried a carefully selected colour

scheme in her drawing-room. She consulted an artist friend, who devised a colour scheme consisting of apricot and golden walls, with black as a contrast, and softly shaded lamps. The woman, who is wealthy, had the scheme carred out, x and, in her most alluring gown, re the shy lover in her “proposal r.om.” His shyness was overcome, and. according to plan, he proposed. The wed ding takes place shortly. Mrs Lamoreux, wife of the colonel in charge of the Panama land zone during the war, when they lived at Fort de Lesseps. Colon, in writing a. private letter to a friend in Wellington, under date May Ist, writes: “I went to a luncheon the other day here (San Francisco), and the best speaker was a very pretty young woman from New Zealand. She told us so much that was interesting about your country and your Government that we all wanted to take the next steamer.”

No fewer than 100 women photogiaphers are now directing their own studios in Loudon and the provinces, said a woman speaker at a professional photographers’ conference at Westminster. ’I he speaker said that there had been famous women photographers for 1)0 years. ’lllO business of one, a girl of 19, in the early eighties, prospered to such an extent that in time she had 60 assistants. The photoof another, Mrs Cameron, were used to illustrate the first edition of Tennyson's poems; and she photographed, among eminent men, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, and Darwin. Lori Reading, sitting to Mme. Yevonde before leaving for India, told her that he “preferred being photographed by a .woman because she usually took less time than a man. ”

For the first time women voted in the Belgian communal elections, and Queen Elizabeth was among the number. At 10 a.m. a carriage halted at a polling booth. No one had noticed who the occupant was, and she took her place in the queue of about a dozen women waiting to enter. But soon one of them observed that the latest comer was their Queen, and there was a movement to let Her Majesty- pass in front of them. “Nob at all,” said the Queen, smiling; “you were here before me, mesdames, and you must enter before me.” It was in vain

that the women requested her to go first. Queen Elizabeth insisted on taking her proper turn, and gave her identification paper to the official, who announced her as “Elizabeth of Belgium.” The officials present then rose and saluted the Royal elector, who received her voting paper and quickly recorded her v< te. Having bade farewell to the officials, the Queen departed as unostentatiously as she had come, making her way through the crowd which had gathered on hearing that Her Majesty was voting. At her carriage a little girl greeted her so politely that the Queen took the child in her arms and kissed her. Another interesting incident at the election .was the appearance of certain nuns, who had renounced the world and had never before been seen in public. A veil can be a fascinating thing: it enhances a gohd complexion, gives deptTi to the eyes, and .accentuates the redness of the lips. But if injudiciously chosen or

carelessly put on, it destroys the charm of the face and can transform a woman into a figure of fun. This is the case if the veil masks or blurs or exaggerates the outlines of the eyes, mouth and nose. Therefore do not wear a veil with a thick design or a big pattern; at a distance the design seems tattooed on the skin; at close quarters it makes a rod or weatherbeaten complexion seem redder or more

spoilt by the weather than it really is. Do not wear a veil with so wide a mesh that the\fop of your nose passes through. If tho pattern is a leaf or a spider do not put on the veil so that the leaf emerges from inside your nose and the spider is running out of it. The right chenille spot at the right place—that is at the corner of mouth or eyes—has the charm of a beauty spot; but on the nostrils or on the lips it may be ludicrous. Do not if your mouth and teeth are not especiallygood wear m “mask” 7 veil which leaves the mouth uncovered. If you wear your

veil in the ordinary way do net let it bag on both sides of the cheeks, but diaw it tightly at the nape .of the neck and hold it secure I. y an invisible hairpin. Never let the cuds of your veil dangle looscly or untidily.