WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 3, 3 December 1931, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mrs Cyril King, with her small son. is staying at Reomoanu, Paraparaumu.

Miss 13. Free, of Marshlands, Christchurch, has been spending a few days as the guest of Mr and Mrs Free, of Tokomaru. Miss A. Crawford, who has been furthering the Women’s Institute movement in Taranaki, returned to Palmerston North yesterday. Mrs R. D. Knight, of Longburn, is to visit Morem

At the Levin Horticultural Society’s Show this week, Mrs W. J. Faulding, of Halcombe, was the most successful competitor, winning the points prize for cut flowers (Mr J. Linklater’s trophy) and the largest number of awards in the decorative section.

A London cable message says that before proceeding with the Indian Round Table Conference on Tuesday, Mr Ramsay MacDonald was relieved to hear that an operation on. the foot of his daughter, Mias Sheila MacDonald, had been performed successfully. Mrs E. Rump, Christchurch, aged 89, made her first aeroplane flight during November at Wigram aerodrome, and expressed herself as delighted with the experience. She hopes to celebrate her 90th birthday with another and possibly more extensive flight. Mrs Rump is the mother qf Mrs H. Jones, of Cuba Street, Palmerston North.

AMERICAN VIEW OF PRINCESS ELIZABETH. That Princess Elizaebth ig safer from the danger of spoiling than the average rich American son or daughter, who is brought up to believe “nothing is too good for you, and there is nothing you may not do except work,” is the opinion of the New York Evening Journal. “The child spends her life in the limelight,” says the paper. “That cannot be avoided. A great crowd cheers whenever she appears. When she goes out with her nurse, Guards and other soldiers stand at attention. She lifts up her little hand, which means that they may relax. But the British are wise, and British Royalty, which has seen all kinds of happenings, including the unpleasant prelude to Cromwell’s power, is particularly wise. King George and Queen Mary, this little Princess’s grandparents, are as free from arrogance as the humblest of their subjects, and

the little Princess’s uncle, the Prince of Wales, whom we have seen here, is a modest young man, attending strictly to his business, which is, just now, trying to find business for the manufacturers and merchants of Great Britain.”

CREAM PUFFS. Put one half-pint of water and 2oz. of butter on to boil. When boiling add quickly 4oz. self-raising flour. Stir until" a smooth paste is formed. Remove from the fire, and when just warm add three eggs, one at a time; beat well as each one is added. Bake about ihalf-an-hour in a fairly hot oven. This makes about 18. Fill with whipped and flavoured cream. COOL, APPETISING SALADS. Russian Salad.—Two cupfuls cold cooked vegetables cut into pretty shapes, few pieces asparagus, one egg boiled hard, few capers, celery, two cupfuls aspic jelly, one lettuce, one cupful salad dressing, salt and cayenne. Use beans, peas, sprigs of cauliflower, carrots, etc. Have the jelly liquid, ,and put a thin layer in a border mould. When set arrange the vegetables in prettily until the mould is full; also use the capers and white of egg; pour over the remaining jelly, and leave until quite firm. Turn the salad out on to a dish, and fill the centre with shredded lettuce. Garnish with curled celery and the yolk of egg. Serve the dressing separately. Salad a la Montana.—Half cooked carrot, two boiled potatoes sliced, two bananas sliced, one cupful small, pieces of pineapple, one tomato sliced, one tablespoonful whipped cream, three tablespoonfuls salad dressing, one dessertspoonful vinegar, one lettuce washed and dried, few pieces celery. Mix the vegetables lightly together; mix the cream, dressing and vinegar together. Pile tlie vegetables on a bed of shredded lettuce; pour over the dressing. Garnish it with celery and a few very small lettuce leaves. Serve at once. Tomato Salads. —Take some ripe even tomatoes, cut off the tops and scoop out the centres. Sprinkle interior with pepper and salt. Fill with a lettuce salad. Put a little salad dressing in just before serving. Put on top and decorate with green peas and yolk of hard-boiled egg. Japanese Salad.—Cold boiled rice (about two full' cups), one tin sardines, salad dressing lettuce. Mix the oil from the sardines with .the rice'; season with pepper; pile rice high in salad bowl; pour over a little salad dressing; press sardines into rice to suit taste, and, if desired, decorate with tomatoes or cooked green peas. Serve with shredded ■lettuce and salad dressing. xf

FASHION NOTES. INFORMAL EVENING GOWN. Informal evening fashions arc much featured' this- season (writes a London correspondent). There is even a “tliree-pieoe” that has made its appearanco for evening wear, and promises to become very popular. It consists of a black satin skirt, worn with a frilled shirt blouse carried out in ninon or lace or chiffon, and worn under a short little velvet coat. The blouse and skirt fashion for the evening is certainly growing in favour. For one thing it is such an economical idea, for, with one skirt and several blouses, you can ring different changes at small expense. Lamo blouses arc sometimes worn with velvet skirts for the evening, and if you are a very good needlewoman you will be able to copy some of the expensive chiffon blouses that are distinguished by exquisitely fine embroidery. ; An English designer is making a feature of long-sleeved evening frocks, for informal wear. One of her dresses, carried out in black chiffon, was embroidered with pearls, and the sleeves were rather interesting, for they were very tight to the elbow, and then flard into fullness that was gathered in at the wrist, the “change over” from tightness to fullness being emphasised by a band of pearl embroidery at the elbow. Laee dinner dresses in two contrasting shades nre fashionable. They are cut on,the prevailing slim linos, are no more than ankle i length, and have long sleeves. Some-! times the shoulders are finished with j little epaulettes or the decolletage is j trimmed with a frilled edging of .its ' own material. j

The high collar has made its appearance on one or two of the newest dinner frocks. So far it has no bones to support it, but is made from rows of narrow lace. It fastens with a bow, sometimes at the side, sometimes at the back, and certainly gives a rather unusual finish to a frock. Some of the new frocks have shoulder draperies instead of sleeves. The cape sleeve is a pleasant compromise between the

full cape and the ordinary sleeve, and is being chosen for a number of the new dinner gowns.

SHOES, STOCKINGS AND GLOVES

The well-dressed woman is always very methodical over - choosing her shoes, her stockings and her gloves; they are so very important in the effect that they have on a whole ensemble. The newest evening glovo is a long one of silvered kid, while, for completing the ever fashionable black and white scheme, there are white kid gloves trimmed with black lace motifs. Daytime gloves are rather more elaborate, since they nearly all indulge in such big gauntlets. Tasmanian opossum is being chosen to form gauntlets for soft degrain gloves ; while many women are adopting white suede and doeskin gloves made with circular, double gauntlets, that fasten with doeskin buttons. A stocking that has been specially treated so that mud splashes and rain slide off it attracts interested attention. The darker stocking colours that are in vogue, such as madeira and taupe and beaver, look very smart with our brown, black, and green street outfits, and there are lighter stockings of fine weave, sometimes with lace insets, for evening wear. Shoes get lighter 1 and lighter, and one manufacturer has lately triumphantly produced fairylike shoes that weigh only two ounces each, and even suede and kid shoes weigh no more than four ounces each—when they are made by craftsmen. Glace kid and lizard have been chosen as the two mostf ashionable shoe fabrics for the winter, and for heavier shoes there is a choice between box calf, crocodile, and seal. Black and white shoes are seen a great deal, the latest version being shoes of black suede, their lizard skin heels painted with little white spots; whilo brown,' blue, and black glace shoes are narrowly bordered round the vamp with white baby seal to go with brown and white, blue and white, and black and white outfits.

Evening shoes are fairly elaborate again. The sandal shoe is having a great vogue,, and indulges in all kinds of striking colour schemes. One pair I saw lately were made of silver kid, with ankle straps of scarlet and square heels of scarlet kid; while another equally effective pair were made from an alliance of royal blue satin and gold brocade.