MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1924, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

■ NEWS AND NOTES.

Quite the latest in. Paris is to smoke a cigarette that is rolled in paper < I the same colour as one’s dress. Beautiful shades of blue, rose amber, and mauve are popular.

Vassif Bey, the Turkish Minister of Education, has. issued instructions forbidding boys under 17 years of age to play football unless they have passed a medical examination proving they are sufficiently developed. Tins order says the Constantinople correspondent of the “Times,’’ is hardly likely to no more popular than that issued recently forbidding Turkish women to participate in mixed bathing. The public gendarmerie has been instructed to enforce mixed bathing prohibition. Fortunately for the Turkish women the gendarmerie has. declared that no such cases ever come before its notice.

When the nurses at Cook Hospital at Gisborne, went to sign for their pay they found that their quarterly uniform allowance, amounting to £2, was not included. They therefore refused to sign the pay sheets, and take their money. It is understood that the trouble dates back to a time when the matron recommended the board to provide uniforms and discontinue the allowance. The board decided that the idea was good, and promptly put it info practice. It is not definitely known whether the members choose the material, but the results, when some of the nurses appeared in the drab-coloured uniforms, were distinctly ludicrous. With the idea of creating an entirely new fashion, the uni-

forms had been made quite differently from any previously seen at the institution. The waists were placed in varying positions, while the skirls were, finished off well below ankle level. It is said that when the results became apparent to the board they readily agreed that something would have to be done. Those to whom the uniforms were supplied were the new probationers. The first, second, and third-year nurses are still wearing their own uniforms, but their allowance has been cut off. Some of the nurses have recently purchased uniforms, thinking that their allowance would shortly be due, and they are now called upon to pay for these themselves. The nurses approached the matron with regard to the subject, but as the board had given effect to the resolution, she told them that she could do nothing in the matter. The nurses decided to petition the Hospital Board for redress, and it is understood that a petition will be considered at a special meeting of the board.

Sausages are one of the things that both young and old folk never tire of. They form a perfectly healthy addition to a meal, if not served too often, but so many cooks have oiilly one way of serving them—fried. Have you ever tasted them baked with apples ? I f not, try them. Scoop out the centre of six good sized tart apples, leaving a thick shell. Cut all the pulp possible from the, core. Chop this and mix with one cupful of minced cooked sausage meat. Refill the apples with this mixture heaping the filling, and „bake in a- medium oven until apples are tender. Served with mashed or fried potatoes they make a nice dish for lunch, or as a garnish to roast chicken, duck, or pork.