WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, 23 January 1928, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mr and Mrs N. Mackie are spending a holiday at Paraparaumu Beach. Mr and Mrs Maurice Millar arc at Paraparumu with their family. Mrs Larry Slierrilf is staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs It. S. Abialiam, Batt Street.

A bazaar and social organised by Miss N. Shore, and held at Utuwai recently, resulted in Dr. Barnardo s Home funds benefiting to the extent of £ls.

Miss McKenzie, while playing tennis for the Bulls Club on the Takaro com ts on Saturday, had the misfortune to rupture a cartilage of the knee, necessitating medical attention. Afterwards she was conveyed to her home. Staff-Captain and Mrs Holmes, of the Salvation Army, prion to fultiiung an appointment at Auckland alter relinquishing a position at the leniuka Boys’ Home, are on furlough in 1 almerston North and ’are staying with their daughter, Mrs B. Bell, oi Florence Avenue. Mr H. Holmes, ot Wellington, was also a visitor to 1 almerston North during the week-end. WAV. 6 6 PICNIC TIME. Holiday time is picnic time, and each of a thousand different ways ot picnicking is the right way. Some will travel in an expensive car to the chosen spot and will carry a wonderful picnic basket in which lurks a giant thermos which allows the meat to be hot and tlio ices to emerge well frozen. Knives and forks and plates are each in . their own compartment and though this is not “picnicking in the true sense of the word the spirit is there just the same. Others trot along in a spring cart which at other times is used for delivering vegetables and this is a truer picnic party. “Mum” is enthroned on a board seat nursing the baby and the rcet of the family are packed on the floor or the cart with the billy and boxes and bags containing good tilings to eat. Perhaps you have had a gilt ox a charming wicker-work hamper and a picnic is its debut. As it is built for picnic purposes, it takes the well-cut sandwiches and a big thermos tilled with ice-cream, not tea (it is not a picnic unless you boil the billy, is it?) Try not to need knives and forks, it means so much unnecessary weight if you have to carry your basket. Plates and cups of compressed paper are so easily obtained and mean no washing up. . Make your sandwiches into packets the length of the hamper and wrap them in greaseproof paper, and tie them with different coloured cotton to distinguish the fillings. Some people, when going by car tor a picnic, prefer to pack a loal or broad, a pound of butter, a joint, a salad ready washed and mixed in a jar, fruit salad made and in a screwtop jar, etc. It saves a lot of preparation and if weight is no object it simply means taking knives and forks and all help themselves. One must make one’s picnic a joy to suit oneself—some one way, some another —but each hncls it the best of all ways to enjoy a meal. PICNIC RECIPES. Chicken and Ham Puffs.—Take some puff or short pastry as preferred, 6 oz cold chicken, 4 oz cold ham, 1 oz of butter, 2 tablespoons flour, I gill of broth made from chicken bones, 1 egg, i gill of cream or milk, good seasoning, salt and pepper. Chop the meat into tiny cubes and melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the flour and cook gently, while stirring for five minutes, but do not brown. Add the broth, a good seasoning of salt and pepper, and stir until it has boiled for five minutes; then add the cream or milk, cool a little; add the beaten egg and stir over very gentle heat for a few minutes, taking care not to let it boil. Stir in the meat and leave until it is quite cold. Cut small rounds of pastry, place a tablespoonful of the mixture on each, cover xvitli another round of pastry. Make two small slits on the top piece, brush over xvitli a little egg and milk and bake in a hot oven. Jellied Fruit Salad.—This is the easiest xvay to carry a fruit siveet. Fill cardboard jars xvitli mixed fruit — sliced oranges, stone cherries, straxvberries, sliced peaches, plums or apricots and bananas. Pour ox r er liquid lemon jelly and leave to set. Lemonade.—For home-made lemonade take 4 lemons, lib of loaf sugar, 1 quart boiling water. Wipe the lemons and rub the sugar on the rinds to extract the juice. Remove the thick white skins and pips and slice the pulp. Put into a jug with the sugar and pour the boiling water over. Cox r er, and xvhen cold strain and use. If liked, a piece of ice may be placed in the jug after the lemonade has become cold. HOW TO WEAR RINGS. If your hands are neither xvliite nor shapely, bo very careful not to draxv attention to them by loading your fingers xvitli rings. Neither should bracelets be worn if the hands are not xvell shaped. ■ A long slender hand is considered prettier than a broad one, so for this reason it is better not to xvear any ring on the little finger as it always makes the hand look broader. If you have plump or square hands, clear cut rings as a marquise or solitaire look best. Fantastic designs increase the apparent size of the hands. You should be specially careful in the selection of bracelets and rings. Some xvomen’s hands would be very graceful if it xvero not for the shape of their knuckles which are perhaps too prominent. But one or two xvellchosen rings tend to equalise the girth of the finger and so partly conceal that the knuckles are swollen. Antique rings are the best for brown or freckled hands, especially if they have cornellian or other reddish stones in dull gold settings. They harmonise xvitli the broxvn of the hands. It was once considered chic to xvear a ring on the first finger, provided there xvere two rings on the third finger but the first finger always looks too bulky when decorated and out of prooortion xvitli the rest of the hand. Alxvays avoid turquoises or amethysts if your hands aro the least bit dark, but pearls will set them off well. Delicate, white clear skinned hands can xvear at most any stone.

PHYSIQUE OF WOMEN. SOME INTERESTING TESTS. COLLEGE WOMEN’S FINE PHYSIQUE. LONDON, Dec. 14. According to a report drawn up by the Industrial Fatigue Board, the average woman weighs 1101 b, is G2in. tall, has a pull of 1831 b, a grip or 581 b, and a crush of 501 b. These conclusions have been reached by a number of investigators, working under the board, whose report on “The Physique of Women in Industry,” is just published. The investigation, which has been con-

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ducted under the supervision of Professor E. P. Cathcart at the request of the Home Office, arose from the proposal in the Factories Bill of 1926 empoxvering the Homo Secretary to prescribe the maximum load to be carried or moved by women or young persons.

The anthropometric data of 4366 xx-omen xvero taken, these including weight, height, length of arm, distance of finger tips from ground (standing) and three physical tests. Forty girls employed in a Glasgow chemical factory did navvy xvork from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. xvitli txvo hours off for meals.

“All the women and girls xvorked xvitli ease and barefooted,” states the report. ‘The movement involved seemed to ho of a type xvliich ensured muscular development and poise, as without exception their carriage and physique xvere literally remarkable. We xvere told that the mothers and grandmothers of many of the xvonien employed had done the same work before them. No girls xvere taken on under 16, and, astonishing as it may seem, they xvere draxvn from the district immediately surrounding the factory, one of the xvorst in Glasgoxv. HEAVY LOADS. “As evidence of xvliat these xx'orkers xvere capable of xve saxv one xvoman xvlio shovelled 20-25 tons of crude borite per day, lifting it to a height of about 2ft. 6in. live girls who shovelled crystals from evaporating pans into trucks, xvliich, after tilling, they wheeled lor a considerable distance along very imperfect rails, had an average combined output per group of six tons per day.” Girls employed in a Midland brick works carried loads of bricks, 51b short of lexvt, for a distance of 70yds to 30yds. Borne xvomen xvlieeled barroxvs containing 4cwt to 4Acwt of bricks, ilie good carriage of the girls in the factory xvas also noticeable. The strength of the girls in the chemical and brick xvorks xvas very much lngner than in any of the other trades. A group of 460 provincial college women all training for the teaching profession, xvero selected as sedentary workers.

“The striking thing which the data disclose,” states the report, “is the really excellent physical condition of this group ot young women when compared xvitli their sisters engaged in industry. They are taller, heavier and stronger than the bulk of the other xvonien examined.

“Tip xvliat is this superiority to he ascribed ? In the first place, a very large number of these girls, about 55 per cent, xvere born and brought up in country districts —they came from all parts of Scotland —being drawn from good, sound stock, but not from affluent families.”

After discussing data regarding xvomen engaged in heavy trades the report adds: “The result of our comparison is to slioxv in actual figures that the average college woman is 3.75 cm. of about 1.5 taller than the average factory xvoman, xvho in turn is just over scm, or about 2i,n. taller than the average unemployed woman. “As regards weight, the college woman is about three kilos, or b.om heavier t han the factory xvoman, xvho is, hoxvever, almost equally in weight by her unemployed sister. “Finally, xvhen pull is compared in terms of actual xveiglit, there is a difference of 14.8 kilos, or 32.51 b in fa\'our of the college xvoman as compared with the average factory xvoman, xvho in turn is some eight kilos, or 17.51 b, better than the average of the unemployed xvomen.”

“There is no doubt then that, speaking generally, the physique of the town dweller is inferior to that of the country dweller,” comments the report. WHAT WOMEN SHOULD CARRY.

Dr Sybil G. Overton, medical inspector of factories, conducted numerous inquiries regarding the optimum load a xvoman xvorker should carry. “Dr Overton comes to the conclusion that in the case of loads for continuous carirage they should not exceed a xveiglit represented by 40 per cent, of the body xveiglit, and that for incidental or occasional lifts or carriage they should net exceed 50 per cent, of the body xveiglit of the xvorker.

“If these values be translated into terms of actual load based on the average body xveiglit, they should be about 451 b and 551 b respectively. The opinion is expressed, however, “that in the case of female young persons from 14 to 16 the load should not exceed 251 b to 301 b, and in the case of the 16 to 18 group (although our results slioxv that growth lias practically ceased by the age of 18, yet as the body between these years is still plastic, and should not accordingly be overstrained) a load of 401 b should not be exceeded.”