MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1922, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

gl * ' NEWS AND NOTES. (The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication la this column items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated J A new glove for women contains an opening tniough which a wrist waten can be seen without turning up the wrist of the glove. Interesting comments on the .standard of school work in Canada, are contained in a recent letter from one ol the New Zealand teachers who have been sent across to Canada for a period. “The standard of work in English and arithmetic,” she says, “is much lower than ours, but in other respects it is higher. Music is a thing to marvel at. I would never have believed such results possible.” The writer adds that the Canadian children are nice, but are “being ruined for want of corporal punishment!” The following is an Australian re-, cipe for tomato relish : —l2lb. ripe tomatoes, 6 large onions, 21b. treacle, 3 pints vinegar ; £oz. cloves, hall teaspoonful cayenne pepper (more if liked), 4oz. whole ginger, bruised. Skin the tomatoes in the usual way, then slice them into a bowl. Slice the onions also into the bowl and sprinkle each layer of onions with salt. Let these stand all night, then drain off all the liquid. This is not used. Boil ail the ingredients together for three-quarters of an hour, putting the cloves and ginger into a muslin bag, and removing this when the relish is cooked. The “Balancello” is io lie the new | dance of the season in Paris, says the Continental Daily Mail. Dancing masters have reviewed all sorts of m dances, from the “shimmy shake” to Argentine tangoes, and finally decided on tlie “Balancello.” This is describled as a sort of exotic pavane or a tropical minuet. It is much more sober than the “shimmy” and is expected to receive the approbation of even tlie I severest critics. | The long-waisted tunic dress still | reigns in supreme favour, says an English exchange. Veiy often it has a high collar and pagoda sleeves, which fall widely open at the wrists. Nearly all the best tunic dresses pouch slightly over their girdles- (‘specially at the back and sides. An admirable model > was made of very fine navy serge, and A it had many rows of black silk braid i i tinning from neck to hem. "These J braids were arranged in three lines. f | and each band was worked over at ir- : | regular intervals - with miniature jet i beads. There was .a high straight col- : lar edged with a band of white satin, ■ and the under-cuffs, which wore re- ■ vealed when the big pagoda sleeves ; were Hung back, were also of white j satin. I welve years ago, says the “New IYork Times,” Aliss Shotwell, now a New A ork film actress, while walking in New A ork, got into conversation with a rather poorly-dressed woman, whom she subsequently invited, to luncheon. 1 he meeting was the beginning of a close friendship. Miss Shotwell always. insisted on paying the cost of their excursions. A week ago Alary Pierson fell ill. Miss Shotwell then visited her for the first time and found her living in n shabby lodging-house. Ihe sick woman refused financial , heln, but .Miss Shotwell insisted on paying the nurse, and did everything possible for her. Two days ago Miss Pierson died, and in her last, words i told Miss Shotwell that she had left her everything. ' “Everything” turned out to be cash securities to the value of nearly £30,000. In her will Miss Pierson said she had left her fortune “to the only woman who had ever done her a ; disinteiested kindness.” brom ancient times down to the present various writers have recommended honey as a bea.ul liier eilher when, used as a. iood or as a. cosmetic. < eilain manul'aetiirer.-t of cosmetics a;e < now using the word hone\ in their ad- t verti.-ements and on their labels k» conjure with. Now com-.-s Grace Margaret Gould in her “Beauty Talks" in ' the November issue of the Woman’s Home Companion, recommending honey as a cosmetic in glowing terms I as follows :

Honey, to bring the llowcr-freshiu-rs back to your face. Mustn’t forget that, honey is the product of flowers, and if properly used will give the. pink and white freshness of youth to lhe skin that is old and tired-looking. r leil my Good Looks friends about, tlie honey mask. Following js the recipe: Mix a tablespoonful of strained hone;,' with a ttiblespoonful of fine while flmr. Add a few drops of rose water, just, enough to make the honey paste smooth and as liquid as you need it. Spread carefully over the face. if stay on half an hour a.nd then wash off with cold water- Try the ma.-k twice a week for a month. Result—youtli back in your face. lhe British Medical Journal devotes an article to the discussion of the teport issued by the New Zealand Government last October on the incidence of maternal mortality, says a. writer in an exchange. It agrees very heartily with the report’s emphasis :>n the importance of ante-natal clinics. It agrees; on the whole, with the con elusions which the report records and considers them as fitting conditions in the Old Country as well. The Journal particularly puts itself in line with the report in regarding private l ouses as being unsuited for confinements. It considers that it is not enough to insist on proper training of nurses and medical students. . . There is no gainsaying that every confinement partakes of the essential character of a surgical operation. ■ . Yet practitioners are expected to confine women in conditions in which they would hesitate to operate, and the illusory immunity with which they appear to do so tends inevitably to produce a contempt of the risks.” It welcomes the discussion of private hospitals and nursing homes, but considers the powers of inspection which it recommends to. be put in the hands of local authorities good, but in form somewhat bureaucratic. It would prefer moral awakening of the public conscience to legal enforcement of notification of puerperal sepsis and the Ministiy of Health’s inspection of every case of maternal death.