MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1922, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. Women are not to be allowed to become barristers, magistrates, or judges in Germany. Green ginger is not nearly so much used in New Zealand as in Australia, and it is possible that some would I ke to try a green ginger cake recipe recommended in an Australian paper. It is as follows: Half lb of pounded sugar, gib of butter. 4 eggs, lib of fine flour, J,lb ginger taken out of the syrup chopped fine, half a teaspoon of powdered ginger, half a teaspoon of baking ]iowd(‘i'. a pinch of salt. Beat the sugar and butter together till very light; -add tin* eggs, one by one, boating each thoroughly well in as you add it. Alix all well together, the coarse flour, fine flour, salt, etc., and il-en add them to the mixed butter, sug-ir. and eggs. Alix in lightly, and Lake in a moderate oven. A good many women are taking up Lather work just now, and apparently there is no end to the many highly decorative and novel things that can be made at little cost. New ideas, according to an exchange, are mats of inlaid leather that look well on tables of unstained oak. They are very easily 'made, if the following directions are carefully carried out: — Obtain a sheet of soft suede and cut it into squares, circles, or such shapes as you desire, the edges being tri mined with a ‘'batth-nient’’ or other design ent with sharp scissors. Care should bo taken in the case of square mats to ensure the edges being straight and that they run at right angles one to the other. A design of fruit or flowers should then be lightly “tooled” on in the middle, the conventional apple or orange being simple and very effective. Pieces of different -coloured b ather can be next cut to the shapes of the fruit and leaves and carefully glued into place, and when thoroughly dry tile outline of the design should receive another impression from the stamping tools., and then a coat of carefully applied varnish. These table mats make an unusual and pleasing change from those of linen, and, inlaid with a fruit design in orange and green, have a cheering effect on a din-ing-room table. America, so thorough in everything, has its divorce ring now, a successor to the little plain band of gold. It is said that all these ‘.‘grass widows” will be wearing them soon. Illustrations show the ring to be rather a cumbersome affair of gold, with a broken Cupid’s bow of an inch or more in length. Space is left for jewels, and each jewel stands for each succeed mg divorce. As the bow slants diagonally across at least, two of the fingers, it suggests the impossibility of wearing a glove But it seems likely that these “grass widows,” who appear to bo proud to advertise ti c fact that they have been once, twice, or even thrice through the Divorce Court, will find it. a help to future “designs” to go gloveless in their search of pastures new. This year British housewives are offered a novelty in the form of special masks, warranted to keep out the dust of the season when spring cleaning. These masks were originally de-si-med for the use of industrial work-

ers, especially in the textile and cement factories; but medical men suggest they are equally desirable in the home when carpets arc being beaten or the room is being dusted. The home-mask has a specially-treated filter, which resembles a piece of blotting paper, and fixed into a zinc cap, which screws on the nozzle of the mask. ■ A packet of filters is kept, and when one filter becomes clogged it; is replaced by a now one. Medial experts are even urging the uso of a mask as a protection in foggy wea-

ther. But here they are in advance of their patients. Many women might bo tempted to don a rather unsightly mask for a special occasion such as spring-cleaning, but will hesitate to wear the same thing, say, on church parade, or during a constitutional in Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens.

Furs were as popular a thousand years ago as they are to-day. In the domestic history of the manners o! past ages, minever is the fur of the ermine mixed with that of a small weasel (menervir) called “gris, or grey.” The nobility had their caps of ermine and sable, the wealthy merchants of vair and grey (the dainty minever), the humbler classes of poo--7110 of the squirrel, lamb, or rabbit. So that we have really progressed remarkably in the world’s history of fur finding and tanning. A black sable coat exhibited in London a few weeks ago, and lined with ermine, was sold for £BO,OOO, and a wrap of Kolinsky with magnificent tails for .£6OOO.