WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 15

WOMEN’S WORLD.

(By “GERMAINE.”)

Miss Alison Barnicoat, of Wellington is tho guest of Mrs Barber. Tiritea.

Mr and Mrs Gordon, of Hawke’s Bay, are spending Easter with Mr and Mrs R. B. Lucas, Park Road.

Mr and Mrs C. Louisson and their sons have gone to Wellington! for the wedding of Mr Jack Louisson, which takes place on Tuesday evening. Mrs Morrison is the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs R. H. Whalley, Linton Street.

Miss Joseph, of Sydney, who has been staying with Mr and Mrs R. Davis, has gone to Wellington. Mrs and Miss Fitzherbert have gone, to Wanganui for tho week-end. Miss Roma Durand was a successful candidate at the Trinity College pianoforte theory (intermediate) examination held some time ago. Miss Durand is a pupil of Miss Rawlins.

The Ceylon Times announces . the engagement of Cracroft Fosbery Ronalds, Mount Vernon, Kotogala, Ceylon, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Guy Fosbery Ronalds, Lyttelton New Zealand, and Dorothy, only daughter of the late Lieutenant P. W. Salmon, Melbourne, and Mrs L. E. Salmon, Roseville, Sydney, Australia.

Miss Alison Pees, for the past two years a member of the staff of Messrs Dempsy an<l Jjitchfieldj severed her connection with the firm on Thursday to take up a position on the local staff of the State Forests Department. Prior to her departure she was presented with farewell gifts by the film and staff.

Miss Gladys Pike, second daughter of Mr and Mrs W. H. Pike, 174 Botanical Road, Palmerston North, who has left for _ Gisborne shortly to bo married, received a lovely dinner set from the staff of Mr S. R. Waugh, tailor. Miss Pike, who has had nine years’ service with the firm, also received a present of appreciation for service from Mr Waugh, who was sorry to lose her.

News has been received in Invercargill that the New Zealand University has conferred the degree of Doctor of Literature on Mrs D. N. Mac Diarmid, M.A., who is now resident at Heiban, in the Ivordofan Province of the AngloEgyptian Sudan. Mrs Mac Diarmid is known to many friends in Southland as Miss Phoebe Harrington, now on the field staff of the Sudan United Mission, and her contribution of a thesis on the Nuba language has had this happy issue. Mrs MacDinrmid was a pupil and later a teacher in the Southland Girls’ High School. Alighting from a blue taxi, Hon. Lilian lerne Susan Massy and Mr Herbert Browne, who was formerly an officer of the P. and O. Company, arrived the other morning at All {Saints’ Church, Petersham, Sydney, for their marriage, which was celebrated by Rev. Peter Bazeley. The bride, who recently arrived in Australia, is the youngest sister of Baron Massy, of Ireland. Slio claims descent from Hamon, a companion-in-arms of William the Conqueror. The bridegroom is a. son of Mr and Mrs George Browne, of Penrith, Cumberland (England). The wedding was a quiet one, so quiet that the bride and bridegroom had to call in a parishioner, iVlrs J. G. Rankin, and tho verger of the church, Mr A. Robinson, to be witnesses. A touch of blue was introduced in the bride’s frock. It was of floral patterned sand crepe satin, the long drape being lined with saxe blue, and the same colour being chosen for a tight-fitting felt hat. She wore a brown fox fur, and the driver of the bluo taxi . kept watch over a furtrimmed brown cloth coat.

HAPPY MARRIAGES.

“The tlicnxo of happy marriage defeats our novelists; it is too large for them,” says Miss Margaret Kennedy, in the London Evening News. “An unhappy marriage is like a 'narrow cage. The cage is-simple to describe because it is small. ’I he prisoners, beating vainly against the bars, are easy to observe because their activities are limited to bar-beating. They attract tho story-teller because of. the compact smallness of their drama. A happy marriage is like a vast continent. No one has ever entirely explored it. To know it all would bo to know tho whole of human life as experienced by two people, both together and apart, from the cradle to the grave. Stevenson said that marriage is ‘not a bed of roses, but a field of battle.’ And this is true of all marriages, good and bad alike. For life is a field of battle to most of us, whether we face it singly or with an ally. And it is not in petty warfare between tho wrongly-mated, but in the larger strife which comrades wage together that tho epic story of marriage is to be found. That story cannot bo told in a paltry 100,000 words, so we must not blame the novelists for their silence. The best they can do, is to say, as wo said in the nursery: ‘So they were married and lived happily over afterwards.’ ”

BALLROOM DANCING.

“THE BALTIMORE.” Last week Miss Jean Muir described The'Walk, one of the movements of “The Baltimore,” a popular ballroom dance. She now deals with two other movements —The Collegiate and the Blues Rock. The Collegiate: (Man) Turns his partner to the L so that they both stand obliquejy facing the wall. Slide LF to side (quick) Drag RF to LF (quick) Slide LF to side (quick) Drag RF to LF (quick). The Blues Rock: Step to side with LF Pause (weight is on LF) while turning slowly to L. Step back on RF turning to L (slow) Step forward on LF turning to L (sloxv). Step back on RF turning to L (slow). Step forward on LF into Baltiwalk. Man should bo facing L.O.D, GirlSlide RF to side (quick). Drag LF to RF (quick); Slide RF to t'o side (quick). Drag LF to RF (quick). Pause (weight is on RF) while turning slowly to L. Step forward on LF turning to L ’ (slow). Step back on RF turning to L (sloxv). Step forxvard. on LF turning 'to L (sloxv). Step back on RF into Balti-xvalk, Girl is back to L.O.D. N.B.—Sloxv: txvo beats; quick 1 beat. RF; Right foot; LF, left foot, R: right; L left. LOD : Line of dance. Miss Muir xvill deal xvith “The Chassee Walk” next week.

Wedding gift seekers should pay a visit to “Arts and Crafts” shoxvroom, Coleman Place (upstairs, Lexvis Studio entrance). —Adv.t.

WEDDING.

COLE—ARCHER. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at All Saints’ Church on March 20th when Doris Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs C. J. Archex-, of Palmerston. Noi-th, was joined in lioly matrimony to Alfred Hei-bert, youngest son of Mr and Mrs F. Cole, of Palmerston North. The bride, who entered the church on the arm, of her father, was dressed in cream taffeta with silver lace trimmings; she also wore an orthodox veil, lent by her aunt for the occasion, and carried a bouquet of asters and maidenhair fern. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Grace Archer, who wore lavender taffeta. The bridegroom was attended by Mr Hugh Archer. Rev. Canon Fancourt officiated. As the bride was leaving the church, the second cousin of the bridegroom, presented her with a silver horseshoe. Over 40 guests sat down to the wedding breakfast. The bride’s mother when receiving her guests worn a black satin frock with hat to tone. Many handsome px'esents were received.

NAUGHTY GIRLS.

SPAIN’S RIOTOUS STUDENTS. “Police reports indicate that the conduct of girl students was very bad. They took advantage of their sex to insult tho authorities,” says the Prime Minister, General de Rivera, prefacing the Royal decree, taking over the direction of Madrid University, says the Madrid, correspondent of the London Times. Ho is, therefore, he says, obliged to ponder deeply if it is advisable to restrict the liberty, which he had proposed to give them, to enter the civil service and professions. Spanish diplomats abroad have been instructed to demand damages form newspapers publishing false news regarding the revolts.

TENNIS,

PALMERSTON NORTH CLUB. The ladies’ championship of the Palmerston North Tennis Club was xvon this year by Miss N. Astle who in the final on Wednesday beat Miss IT. Litchfield G —3, 6 —5. OUR BABIES,

By Hygeia.

Published under tho auspices of tho Royal New Zealand Society for tho Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society). “It is wiser to put a fence at the top of a precipico than to maintain an ambulance at tile bottom.”

FEEDING THE SMALL CHILD

W'. have selected the following useful hints for mothers from recent issues of the Australian magazine Life and Health:— “Preparing dinner for the adults and school children of the family and a

separate meal for the about two-year-old requires more time than the average mother can afford, and yet it is essential for a child of this age to have specially planned menus. After study of the problem . . . the decision reached i 9 that the best thing to do is to adapt the meals of the grown-ups so that they are suitable for the pre-school child. “Of course, it is possible that in doing this some of father’s food habits may need a bit of modification, but that will usually be to his advantage. “The great thing to do is to adapt the food so that the child will not feel that liis portion is very different from the rest of the family’s. AVOID GIVING JUST A TASTE OF UNSUITABLE FOOD. “It should be emphasised, however, that giving ‘just a taste’ of anything uot on the youngster’s menu should be strictly avoided. There is no need to rcquamt him with foods which are highly seasoned and which will make him discontented with his simple faro. ‘Just a taste’ of chocolate cake is not joing to make Jimmy anxious to finish his bread and butter. It is far more likely to cause the next family war, xnd is unfair both to the child and to Lhose who are attempting to establish correct eating habits.

WISE GUIDANCE NEEDED.

“Eating habits are learned from birth, and xvise guidance is essential from the beginning if desirable habits are to be formed. The .child learns just xvhat lie practises. Practice is not mere repetition of outward movement. It includes xvhat the child is thinking and feeling at the time he performs the outxvard movement, xvhicli means that to make a child really learn desirable behaviour ho must derive some inner satisfaction from the act. "

“Second helpings are, or should be, alxvays available, but it is unwise to discourage tile child by putting more on his plate than lie can eat. Certain foods, of course, appeal to tho child more than others, but before lie can have a second helping of his favourite he must eat the rest of his meal.

A FOOD HINT.

“The food of a small child should be simple in preparation—elaborate concoctions are out of place—and bland in taste, and it is usually easy to adapt the family menu to the needs of the child by simply using a little ingenuity.”

AVOID PLAY WITH YOUNG BABIES.

“It is not for the baby’s amusement that a groxvn-up plays xvith a baby; it is merely for the okler person’s oxvn pleasure. The less babies are played xvith at any age up to a year or more the better, unless the playing is xvell timed as to meals and bedtime. There should be no playing near meal times, either before or after, nor xvithin one or txvo hours of bedtime or napping time. Injudicious playing xvith infants tends to make them nervous and cross, disturbs their sleep, disturbs their digestion, and perhaps causes undesirable conditions in other respects. If one must play xvith baby, let it be after six months, and make the play gentle, not boisterous, of short duration, and not xvith a xvhole family or gallery of spectators looking on—perhaps joining in.” Memo, by “Hygeia”: We do not mean to imply that babies are not to be alloxvcd to play or to be judiciously played xvith. Play is the natural, joyous, overfloxving expression of rihild life and activity, and as such should be encauraged; bxxt the baby’s early play should be mainly with_ his first playmate—himself—his own tiny hands xvaving in the air—his oxvn ten toes.

TOOTH EXERCISE,

“All dental authorities tell us that, to be kept perfectly healthy, teeth not only need to be perfectly nourished (hence the necessity of a diet containing all the elements of nutrition) and to be kept clean, but they also need exercise, secured by the use of dry, hard foods that compel exercise of the teeth and jaws.

WHEATMEAL BISCUITS.

“Twice-baked bread, is good for this purpose, and so is oatcake. Another excellent thing is plain, hard wheatmeal biscuit. This is very easily made from whole meal, water, and a little salt. Form into dough, roll , out thin, cut into the desired shapes, and bake in a slow oven. Bran can be added to the whole meal, if necessary, say one,

cup of bran to four of wheatmeal. “These hard, dry biscuits are an excellent and most wholesome article of diet, and xvill furnish the teeth xvith the exercise needed. They can be eaten dry, or can, for a change, be eaten with butter. A taste is easily formed for them, and they should constitute a part of the daily diet, particularly that of children.”