WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 63, 10 February 1930, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mies E. MacLennan, of George Street, is at present spending a few days with Mrs G. Turnbull at Feilding.

Miss Mimi Slack, who has been staying with Mrs H. It. Cooper, has gono to Mount Cook.

Miss Muir, who has recently beer} accepted for mission service by the Soloman Islands Mission Council arrived from AY’ellington this morning. She is the guest of Miss Horne, of The only woman dentist in Shanghai, China, is Dr. Antonia Kazimiroff, a Russian. She was one of the refugees who fled from St. Petersburg when tho Czarist regime was overthrown.

Miss M. E. Hopwood, of Union Street, accompanied by her niece and nephew, Miss Una Hopwood and Mr R. Hopwood, of College Street, leaves to-morrow on an extended trip to England.

Woman has at last broken down the conservatism of the Hungarian law courts. Dr. Hona Rakosi, a woman advocate not only made history by her appearance in a lawsuit, but scored a brilliant success by winning the appeal against the sentence of death on a peasant woman for the murder of a neighbour’s son. A woman with an unusual bent is Miss Mary Field, M.A. (London), who edits the educational films for the British Instructional Film Company. She has supervised and directed a special history film of the Napoleonic wars and has arranged many films on insect and bird life with microscopic studies of each (states an exchange). Under her direction two expert scientists are employed to deal with films of plant life, and five camera-men are scouring the world for likely subjects. One of her most successful efforts was a Scriptural film in which were shown present-day pictures of the parts of Palestine referred to in the Bible. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is really the most progressive of the young royalties of Europe. She followed a course of study at the University of Leyden, specialising in history, a subject that is an excellent preparation for the duties she will probably have to fulfil in the future. Not only was she an attentive student, she was democratic in all her ways, making friends with her fellow students and living in the simple way they did themselves. No doubt the example of the princess tends to encourage women to play their part in the welfare of the country. They are among the most progressive of the day and periodically comes information of new developments of feminine activity. Women of the Dutch colonies, too. have good work to their credit. Tlie first native woman doctor in the Dutch Indies has passed her final examinations with distinction. CHOCOLATE CAKE. Eight ounces of margarine, eight ounces of flour, eight ounces of castor sugar, six ounces of chocolate powder, vanilla essence, four eggs and one teaspoonful of browning. Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in- eggs, mix the flour and powdered chocolate together. Fold this in with the egg mixture, add the flavouring and browning and bake in a moderate oven, for about an hour and a-half. BRETON BEEF. One pound of beef, four or five potatoes, a breakfast-cupful of stock, two onions, salt and pepper to season. Butter a casserole very wed and put a layer of finely-sliced onion at the bottom. Then add a layer of raw potato, also sliced. Cut the beef into small steaks, season, and arrange on top of the two layers of vegetable. Cover with more onion and potato, pour over the stock or, failing this, water, and put on the casserole lid. This will need cooking for about an hour and a half. Serve very hot. SOME GAS ECONOMIES. When cooking a large cake grease the outside of an earthenware jam jar and set it in the middle of your cake tin. Arrange your cake mixture around this, and the cake when done will be in a “ring” form, which can bo sliced without waste. This little wrinkle saves gas, as the cake is cooked much more quickly and there is no risk of its being “sad” in the middle, while the outside is overdone. A thin sheet of tin placed over the top of your gas stove (large enough to

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cover all the burners) will get so hot by lighting one gas ring only and keeping it turned down low that you can cook a dinner upon it, even when the contents of three or four saucepans have to be cooked at the same time. Anything to be fast-boiled can be placed in its turn over the lighted ring; and the other saucepans can be grouped around it. ORIGIN OF THE D’OILY. Long ago, in the early days of the Conquest, a Saxon maid, • Ealdgyth, was wooed and won by a powerful iNorman follower of the Conqueror. Her father, a kinsman and cupbearer of Eadward the Confessor, held great possessions, and at his death, the estates passed into tho hands of his Norman son-in-law, Robert D’Oily and Ealdgyth. The King possessed himself of great wealth from various sources, and bountiful offerings were made to him yearly by cities and rich men. The wealth of England at this period dazzled all eyes. The English women were renowned for the_ art that wrought gorgeous embroideries, and maidens of high decree were skiiled in such arts. Hence it is recorded that the yearly gift to the King from the family of D’Oily was a small ornamental cloth —perchance embroidered by Ealdgyth’s own hands. Thus is proven the great ancestry of tlie “D’Oily”—the name which has attached itself ever since to a small embroidered cloth for the table 1 LADIES’ GOLF. The following are drawn to play in a one club competition over 14 holes to-morrow: —Miss Scott plays Miss Kearins, Miss N. Wood plays Mrs A. Bendall Mrs Ekstedt plays Mrs Field, Mrs R. McMillan plays Mrs Reid, Miss Dudding plays Mrs Wright, Mrs Raven plays Mrs L. Cooper, Mrs Speecliley plavs Miss Thompson, Miss I. Rutledge plays Mrs Oliver, Mrs J. Young plays Miss D’iarth, Mrs Bulens plays Miss R. Rutledge, Mrs Williams a bye. Players not to start' later than 3.15 p.m. Anyone unable to play please telephone Mrs L. Cooper, ’phone 5122 before 11 a.m. WOMEN POLICE. FAVOURED BY MINISTER OF JUSTICE. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 8. The necessity for appointing women police with the status and powers of policemen in New Zealand was urged on Sir Thomas Sidey, Minister tor Justice, when lie was in Christchurch to-day by representatives of several organisations. The members of the deputation said that women police had been successful in other countries where they were doing very good work. An opinion was held that the women police with the same powers would be equally successful in New Zealand, where there was much need for them. The Minister said that personally he favoured the proposal. He was convinced that women police would do much good work and would produce satisfactory results. To appoint them, however, a change in the law was necessary. He would have to consult Cabinet before doing anything. He would be pleased to introduce a bill authorising the appointment of women police and make a change in the law if Cabinet approved.