WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 58, 6 February 1928, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mrs T. E. Taylor, Dominion president of tlie Women’s Christian Temperance Union, has been appointed to represent that body on the official delegatiin to ithe Women’s Pacific Conference at Honolulu in August. Mrs Taylor has been asked to prepare the subject of “Women in Social Service in New Zealand” for the conference (says the Press.

Miss Wavency Smytlr, who has severed her connection with the clerical staff of the “Standard,” was met by her fellow employees on Saturday afternoon and presented with a handsome fruit dish and dainty vase as a mark of the esteem in which she is held by those with whom she has been associated for several years. Miss Spinks, in asking Miss Smyth’s acceptance of the gifts, wished her every success in her new calling. A London cablegram states that the marriage took place at a registry office on Thursday last of Mr Dion Titheradge and Miss Madge Stuart. Mr Dion Titheradge is the Australian-born son of Mr George Titheradge, and a brother of Miss Madge Titheradge, now prominent on . the English stage. Mr Titheradge is the god-child of Mr Dion'Boucicault, with whom his father was closely associated on the "Australian stage for a number of years. HATS. “One good trimming makes a hat!” The little felts that are still to be worn are distinguished by their smart new trimmings. One of grey had inlet graduated scalloped bands of grey broad tail while another grey felt was decorated by navy stitching, a band of navy felt and an oxidised buckle. In a hat of beige a strip of dark brown felt was added in an unusual way, coming round the brim from the back and going up the front of the crown where it was drawn through a slit and just left. A simple black lelt skull cap gets its personality from a twist of fawn velvet running over the top to end in a bow over one ear. A simple brown felt was laced with leather in three rows up the high crown and a velvet toque had a knot of velvet at one side to gain its chic. The hats of the moment are more varied than they were last year. There is a tendency to make them more formal in design, larger and with trinnmings. Paris is showing draped hats with a “shaving brush” trimming at one side. POTATO SCONES. 1 egg, 1 oz. butter, lib, self-raising flour, loz. sugar, 3 or 4 small potatoes, i cup milk, pinch of salt. Beat the butter and sugar, add the egg and beat again. Then add the washed potatoes and milk. Then add flour, making a stiff dougli. Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake in a hot oven. BAKED STEAK. Take a good thick steak, trim and lay it in a pie dish, sprinlung it with salt and pepper. Over it put a layer of minced onions and a little tomato sauce. Dot with butter and bake for half an hour in a hot oven. If the steak appears tough, put a little water in the dish and cover with a plate. Cook more slowly and for a longer time. CURRANT LOAF. Two cups self-raising flour, 1 egg," 1 teacup sugar, loz. butter, 3 teacup milk, 1 cup currants. Mix and bake about 1 hour.

(BY “GERMAINE.”)

FIRST NIGHT FROCKS

NEUTRAL SHADES.

FLOWER COLOURS FOR YOUR ROOMS.

In an interesting article on colour schemes in Home Furnishing, Julia Cairns suggests taking the colouring from flowers. For a modern bedroom, picturesque but unsophisticated, she suggests the colour of the violet. The ceiling is washed a soft blue, almost sky, while the walls are distempered in a delicate pinkish mauve and tlie floor is a soft shade of leaf green with the wainscot painted to match. Curtains and bedspreads are of a deep mauve with a decorative border and appliquid design introducing shades of leaf green and a tiny touch of orange to remind one of the centres of the violet Either white or pinkish mauve painted furniture would be equally effective. For a kitchen, she suggests the scarlet popies, black centred with ripening grasses, as a foundation for its colour scheme. The walls arc a warm ivory and the floor fitted with a green jaspe line. The woodwork matches the walla and is, therefore, painted ivory with the beading picked out in a narrow line of black, and a wider one of scarlet. This colour relief is also introduced into the built-in filments. Curtains of unbleached linen are finished with a scarlet binding. If you take pansies for your nursery flower, you can have the ceiling washed with palest blue. The walls are a very pale yellow and the floor is fitted with cork "lino and varished a deep purple shade. All the woorwork is a very soft leaf green. Cretonne curtains with a plain cream background are printed with a natural pansy design. The furniture may either match the walls or be carried out in weathered oak. Nursery rugs of green with splashes of bright yellow and touches of purple are more than effective.

Charming frocks of soft georgette and silk in the neutral tints of beige and grey were chosen by Miss Irene Vanbrugh for her dramatic part in “The Letter,” the first play of her Sydney season. A sleeveless parchment lace coat, finished at the waist with three rows of brown velvet, and caught with a rose; is worn over a sleeveless frock of parchment chiffon. She carried a small pullon grey straw hat in the second act when she is wearing a two-tiered pleated grey georgette gown. Her third gown of beige chiffon is made with two straight tiers, which fall in soft draperies at one side. A coloured frock is worn by the English woman in the play, Miss Gwynne Whitby. Her choice is a jumper suit in two shades of apricot crepe-de-chine. The jumper is finished with a band which ties on one hip and she carries a dainty parasol and hat to match. LADIES’ GOLF. Results of the bogey competition at Hokowliitu on Saturday were as follow : A grade.—Mrs G. E. Trevor (9) 2 up; Miss Frame (17) 1 up; Mrs Ekstedt (20) all square; Mrs McMillan (19) all square; Mrs Gabriel (1G) 1 B grade.—Mrs J. L. Stout (25) 1 down; Mrs L. Cooper (25) 4 down. Junior competition, over 14 holes.— Miss Mawhiney 103—scr—103; Mrs Rolling, 101—owe 3—104.