MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 7

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

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backblock conditions WOMEN’S DIVISION WORK \ plea lor united action on the part of’members of the Women's Division of the- Farmers’ Union in an eudeaxour to assist in every way possible those in need of sympathy and lio.p, was made by Mrs. ('. C. Jackson, a, <> gathering of members oi the A uirarapa branches oi Hie division held u<' Masterton last week. Mrs .lacksen , who recently completed a term cf four years as Dominion president, of the division gave an interesting discourse on various phases of tae work in which the organisation is engaged. . . Interesting reference was made by Mrs Jackson to the present-day conditions in some of the back-block areas of the Dominion. She observed that there were conditions in some parts of New Zealand that should never have been allowed to develop. In some districts, children had to milk night and morning, and travel long distances to and from school. These conditions and others she had seen should not be allowed io continue. She was of the opinion that they existed because of economic conditions, and she was trying to make women realise that there should not be economic conditions which made a man rely on his wife and family to curry on his farm. The Farmers’ Union was doing its best to alter these conditions, and men desired the women to second their efforts to that end. There was much that could and should be done to make the lives of country women and children easier.

Speaking of the hardships which some country people have to encounter, Mrs. Jackson asked, what would be thought of people getting out of a train at 10.30 p.m., and having to walk through the bush for hours to get to their homes at 3 o’clock in the morning? Three women she had met doing this informed her that it was the second time, they bud been to town from their farms m two years; A young couple she had’ met when they were on holiday in Gisborne, had to ride for two and a half days from their farm before they reached a. road. All stores for the winter had to be carried in on mules. For four or five months of the year there was snow on the ground, and there were no telephones or communication of any kind 'with, the outside world during the winter. What must be the outlook of young married people living and working under these conditions? It was only by agitating that we could get. anything for ctiiTclves, and she felt that all .should band together to help those who wore in need of sympathy and help. She wanted women to realise that, by combining they could bring about a great improvement in conditions that needed changing for the better. When visiting one Taranaki district, Mrs Jackson had to make the •<ist stage of her journey over an extremely bad unmctalled road, in a lorry fitted with chains. At intervals Mrs. Jackson stated, her driver stopped and invited her to look “down there.” She added that "down there” was where a car bud gone. In the settlement to which she travelled by ibis road there were women who had gone, in as brides and were- now grandmothers, with the road still unmetalled.

Mrs. Jackson described her vigor-, (.ms part in an agitation which led to the road at. last being metalled, partly at the cost of the Unemployment Hoard.

HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. Dutch Biscuits:—Mb Thistle Oats. 2ozs flour (“Snowball”). 1 egg, A teaspoon baking soda, ?, teaspoon salt, 2ozs butter, 1 teaspoon sugar, sufficient watei. Sieve together the flour, soda, and salt, add Thistle Oats, am] the sugar, and mix thoroughly. Beat, up the egg. melt Hie butter in half cupful boiling water; when cool, add to it the well-beaten egg. Pour into dry ingredients, and make into a dough. Turn on to a floured board sprinkled with Thistle Oats. Roll out, cut. into shapes, and bake in a moderate oven for about 12 minutes. Milk Oaties Straws.—l. cup milk oaties. 1 cup Snowball Hour, cup milk, tablespoons butter, A cup sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powdci, 1 tcaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful essence of vanilla. Sift, flour, baking powder, sail, ent in Hie butter will) two knives, add sugar and Milk Oaties. add sufliciem milk to make a stiff dough. Roll on a slightly Homed board io ahum half an inch thickness, cm mm sin lengths, A inch wide. Place on a buttered baking sheet., and bake in a quick oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle with granulated sugar or ground unis before baking if desired. Brown Scones:—-2 breakfast c.’]w Snowball Wheatmeal, J Ineakfast cup Snowball Flour, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder, salt, to taste, 3ozs butter (or ]ard). 2 heaped dessertspoons sugar, 1 egg, 1. large cup milk. Mix the. wheatmeal. flour. sugar, and baking powder, thru rub in butler (or lard), beat (he egg mid milk together, and make iiuo a stiff lough Roll, mid cut into shape. pUcc on ho,, floured oven shelf, and hake in (pi’<-k oven.

Nut. Creamoata Bread.-—2 <-ii])s th ir (“Snowball”), i cup golden syrup. - teaspoons cream of turiiii'. cup iiiiis (chopped), 1 cup ci'Cumoatu. 2 teaspoons soda, 5 teaspoon sub. milk io make a, soft dough. Alix all ingredients and hake in a greased tin about one lurnr. (IO L FER'S Al 1X E D I-I’<' I< A woman golfer had the extraordinary experience of luduig in one but losing the hole in a, match al I’re.-Km (England) recently. Penwortham women were playbm Ashton and Lea, and the incid'-rii oeciured at. the. short twcll'ih hole (122 yards), where Hie green is at tin-, b-.-i--lorn of a hill, and only ’he Hag is vi - ible from the Ice. Mrs C. Walsh, of Hie vi ditty I mm, played her tec shot raider v. id." of l im pm. and after a vain search lor tlu: i Lgiilatioii five minutes, gav ( . the irdl up as lost and conceded Hie Ind.- i,j her opponeni, whose hall was on 'he me' n. Then it was I'oiind Gmt AGs \\';il h'. ball was in tie indo. Inparuntl,'/ it hud rcbound'-d li'ji'. l a Emk and run into the hole.

MARY PICKFORD HOLLYWOOD ROMANCE ENDED HOLLYWOOD, July 3. > A letter from Douglas Fairbanks !in Europe felling Mary Pickford that if she wanted to maintain the household at I’ickfuir, their Hollywood home, she would have to do so at. hoi own expense, was the lust, straw < rushing the romance between the two leaders of Hollywood social life. Mary Pickford has confirmed the report that, their divorce will almost certainly bo only a matter oi months now, and that the grounds for it will be incompatibility. Despite this tragic end to her thirteen years’ romance, Mary Pickford is determined to appear to-morrow as arranged, at the Independence Day air pageant, at which she is booked to be the official hostess, thus, again shewing her devotion to the social life of the film colony, of which she has so long been Queen. It was her love for Hollywood which has been the chief cause of disagreement with Douglas Fairbanks, who has said that now he has made so much money he wants to get away and travel and bus no further des’re for life in California. News of the impending divorce has come to the American public with dismay. The, people always regarded them as an ideal couple, and one NewYork paper to-night goes as far as to say that, their married life- was the only sheet anchor of respectability Hollywood ever had. The sale of Pickfair, long known as (he ‘‘House of Happiness,” will mean Hollywood’s most famous landmark changing hands. It was stated at the house to-day that Mary Pickford had wired to her husband yesterday, but had received a telegram in reply saying he was "away for the week-end with a Prince.”

It is three years since she last accompanied Fairbanks on one of his many foreign trips, when they went to flic Orient. Some weeks ago it was slated that she would be joining him on a forthcoming trip to China, but Fail banks returned here in May and then suddenly left again without her for England, after only a fortnight in America.

ROTOMANU W.l. ' The monthly, meeting' of the Rotomaun Women's Institute was hold in the Rotomanii Hall. Mrs Palmer presided, and there was a good attendance. Mrs Haste, delegate to Hie recent conference, held in Christchurch, gave an interesting report-on conference business. Mrs Al. Larkin gave a demonstration on Chocolate Paper Pictures. The hostesses were Mrs C. Cowan and Mrs M. Larkin, who provided a dainty afternoon lea. PAINTED TINS. People are always on the luok-out for ways of increasing the selling value of bazaar wares without adding an appreciable amount, to the original cost. A good effect, can be produced by paiming (in.:-, in gay colours and tilling them wi,h biscuits, short bread, ii a, ami so on. Small tins of art enamel in a good range of shades may be bought for a few pence. A. selection of the.-.e, a, thick brush and a. fine one, a. supply of turpentine for cleaning brushes and fingers, and an assortment of (ins (begged from friends ami tradespeople! in appropriate shapes and sizes are all that are rwiuirod. A thin coat, of enamel should first be evenly applied and allowed to dry. A second coat is then added, and vh.“ii this is dry decoration can be considered. On a bright coloured, .ground—orange ,or red or green—nothing looks better than black. The beginner should not. attempt an ambitious design. A few futuristic curves and splashes, or a narrow zigzag border, wil' give a good effect. Sometimes Hie need to cover up some deficiency in (he ground work' supplies the basis of wliai turns out to be a dashing scheme of decoration. The tins look

guy and pretty on the stull and should ha.V',. a ready sale.