WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 303, 18 November 1930, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mrs Norton Tanner, of Hawke’s Bay, is visiting Palmerston North for a week.

Mrs H. Bracken, of Brazil, is on a short visit to her sister, Mrs Riddet, and Professor Riddet.

Mrs P. Nathan, who spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs R. Davis, returned to Wellington yesterday.

Miss Mildred Sim and Miss Lexie MacDonald are staying with Mr and Mrs C. A. Loughnan, Otane, Hawke’s Bay.

Mrs J.- Goring Johnston, of Hawke’s Bay, is paying a short visit to Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs W. Cates returned to Palmerston North from the south yesterday.

Miss Speedy, of Ward Street, Palmerston North, is spending a holiday on the East Coast.

MrsS. L. P. Free, of Masterton, is the guest of Mrs H. B. Free, of Church Street, Palmerston North.

Miss C. Spellman, of Massey Street, Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington.

lire Misses Adsett, Warwick Street, Feilding, have returned after a short stay in Auckland. Mrs F. W. Coombs, of Russell Street, Palmerston North, has been visiting Paekakariki. Mrs D. Moore, of Masterton, is the guest of Mrs Horneman, Feilding. The many friends of Miss L. A. Newman, of Palmerston North, will be pleased to leam that she is making satisfactory progress after her recent operation. Nurses Penny, Rose, Cheer, Ransom, Wilton, Tuck and Weheipehana, of the staff of the Palmerston North Public Hospital, were successful in their recent cooking examinations.

The oldest lady resident of Onchunga, Mrs Isabella Hutchison, died at her residence, Norman’s Hill, recently. She was the first white child born in Onehunga, the date being November 11, 1844.

Nurse Mackay, of the Palmerston North Hospital staff, recently underwent an operation, and the matron (Miss J. N. McGhie) reported to yesterday’s meeting of the board that her condition was satisfactory. Otherwise the health of the staff was good.

Eighteen babies were born in the Palmerston North Maternity Home during October, while 30 mothers availed themselves of the opportunity to attend the ante-natal clinic for advice prior to entering the institution. After long service with the New Zealand Health Department, including a remarkably fine war record, Miss Mac Lean, who has been matron of the Karitano Homo in Auckland for the past three years, is to leavo for Sydney, where she is to take charge of the large home controlled by the Australian Mothercraft Society, Plunket system. Miss Mac Lean, who was born in Wanganui, received her training at the Wanganui Hospital, being later attached to the G'ambridge Sanatorium and the St. Helen’s Hospitals in Wellington. At the outbreak of the Great War she was sent by tlio Health Department with the Samoan Expeditionary Force, attached to the New Zealand Medical Corps. Returning to New Zealand in 1915, she was shortly afterwards sent to. England with a contingent of 50 nurses. After a year’s service at the New Zealand general hospital at Abassieh, near Heliopolis, in Egypt, Miss Mac Lean returned to England in 1916, and was appointed charge sister at the No. 1 New Zealand general hospital at Brockenhurst, later being appointed matron of the New Zealand convalescent hospital at Hornchurch. After returning as matron to the Brockenhurst general hospital, Miss Mac Lean camo back to New Zealand in 1919 and was appointed matron of the general hospital at Trentham. She afterwards interested herself in Plunket nursing. Miss Mac Lean, who was mentioned twice in despatches, holds the Royal Red Cross Medal for her war services.

The matron of the Palmerston North Hospital acknowledges having received the following donations: —Flowers, Mrs Forrest: fruit and papers, Mrs Elliott; papers, Mrs Woodward ; books, anonymous. SCALLOPED SALMON.

Remove the skin and bones from a small tin of salmon. Mash it up, mix it with mashed or chopped potatoes, season, stir in a little white sauce flavoured with anchovy or any other favourite sauce. Sprinkle with white breadcrumbs and dabs of butter and bake. BAKED FISH PIE. I liavo given more than one recipe for a steamed fisli pudding. Here is one for a baked pie. Take the fish from a tin of finnan haddie, put it in a buttered pie-dish, cover with some slices of fresh tomato and season. Finish with white breadcrumbs and some dabs of butter and bake for twenty minutes. CURRIED FISH AND CUCUMBER. This is very nice. Peel and cut the cucumber into one-inch pieces. Throw into boiling, slightly-salted water, boil till tender and drain. Now frv some chopped onion in butter, add some curry powder and fry that. Then moisten with a little stock, add the cucumber and fish (crab is nice) and a little desiccated coconut. Let it simmer for ten minutes and serve with rice. This is a curry that is neither too drv nor too sloppy, and it need not be too “hot.” NOW FOR SWEETS. Of course there are fruit salads, but cold mousses and souffles are a change and quite easy to make. A cool mousse is turned out and should be more creamy than a souffle.

(By “GERMAINE.”)

BLACK CURRANT MOUSSE.

Strain off the syrup from a tin of black currants, put the fruit through a mincer and mix it again with the syrup. Measure it and add an equal quantity of custard powder, being careful to mix the fruit and custard thoroughly and carefully together. Sweeten to taste and add an ounce and a half of gelatine dissolved in half a gill of warm water, to every quart of fruit and custard. Whisk until it begins to set, or is quite thick. Put into a wet mould and, when cold, turn out and pour over some whipped, evaporated milk. Add finally some very stiffly whisked whites of egg.

A SECOND-HAND PARTY. i The latest in freak parties! First , you receive a formal invitation worded j thus: “Miss would be so pleased ] if Miss could come to tea on the c tenth, plus anv clothes she would care ( to swop!” Then you foregather and do a “deal.” It’s rather a good way • of acquiring a new outfit —or are you , shocked 1 j FRINGES. i The simplest way to lengthen a dance j frock: Add a “hem” of multi-coloured ] fringe, if the frock is black, or of a j deeper tone if it is of a pastel shade, ( The same idea, can bo applied to the , evening coat that is “too long to be | short and too short to be long.” . CHILD TRAINING. ADDRESS BY MR NIBLOCK. At the request of the League of Mothers, Mr Alexander Niblock gave an interesting address on “Child Training” to a large gathering of mothers in the Oroua Hall yesterday afternoon. In opening his remarks, Mr Niblock said that his hearers might wonder what liis credentials for dealing with such a subject were. He had been connected with children very early. At the Liverpool Mission, where he was first attached, the children had been entirely under Iris care and he had been interested in them first from a medical and later from a spiritual point of view. He also had seven children of his own, so he took a deep, intense interest in their training, ’ll l6 nation would become what the children made it. There were two laboraI tories —one in England and the other in America —entirely devoted to research in connection with children. In one monkeys were studied as a parallel. At first there were many similarities but these only lasted for a little while. It had been discovered that a baby, feared only two things—falling and sudden, unaccustomed noises. To be a parent was the greatest responsibility. Parenthood involved hard work and many sacrifices as well as many disappointments and sorrows. Lazy people and selfish people should avoid marriage, in the speaker’s opinion. Care was necessary lest detrimental traits were passed on to the children. The first seven years of a child’s, life were the most important. Between the ages ot four and seven inherited tendencies became apparent. It was a known fact that thoughts were the substance and material from which future children would be built. They affected every cell in the body, and the dominant thoughts of the parents became part of tlio children. It was therefore possible by right thinking, to convey a great and wonderful inheritance to the children. Boys and girls often suffered through what they inherited from their parents. The child inherited judgment, will and logic from 1 the father, and intuition and love ; from the mother. There was no mrn- ! istry so great as parenthood. Every ■ child was a member of the Kingdom

of Heaven from birth. It was the parents’ duty to make the child into an image of God. It should be taught and trained to be a human being, according to the ideals of the Creator. The child, continued Mr Niblqck, was an organism, not an organisation. One should never attempt to organise a child’s life. One should rather draw out the life of the child through the faculties. It was not a question of making the child. The child should be allowed to be itself and express itself in a normal, natural way. The three greatest influences were example, environment and education. Children were born actors and unconscious imitators and the best way to teach them was by example in the home. Environment played a great and important part. There was one sense in which many parents ignorantly destroyed the future life of their children. Especially in the first year children should be surrounded by beauty. The environment should be built round the children and the parents be part of it, for it shaped the character. Modern children had so many advantages over children born twenty, thirty or forty years ago that they were often really at’ a disadvantage, because it became difficult to distinguish and choose rightly. Mr Niblock then explained the work of the psycho-analyst with children, giving several interesting examples. “What vou cannot express in actual thought'von will in day dreams,” bo said, in dealing with the lying child. “They are formed by wishing to be or to do, what the dreamer feels he or she has not done in real life. The dream is a consolation for failure in real life. It is the result of a thwarted wish, and is the difference between what he knows himself tp be and what he wishes to be. A lie is true to the child, but untrue to the adult.” It was necessary that the child be brought down to reality. Naughtiness was energy going astray, in the speaker’s opinion. Each child became just what was put into it and mothers alone could rule and reign over the world through their children. He hoped that young New Zealand children would be a crown and glory to the future.

On the motion of Mrs G. G. Hancox, president, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Niblock.