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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12022, 27 December 1924, Page 12

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60CIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs Buttle, of Auckland, guest of hoi* sister, Mrs Giesem, at Belmont, for the holidays. Miss G. Ford, of Muritai, is spending tile holidays with her relatives in Hawke’s Bay. Miss S 7 Lewis, of Auckland, is staying with the Misses Isaacs at Bona Bay. Miss J. Withy and Miss Vickers, of Chilton House, have joined a party at Ruapehu for the holidays. Dr. and Mrs Shand are spending the holidays motoring to Rotorua. Dr. W. E. and Mrs Collins have returned from a visit to Hammer. Miss Hayward, of Muntai, is visiting her sister, Mrs Gilkison, in Queenstown. Miss Joske, of Melbourne, is visiting her aunt, Mrs Coleman Phillips. Mr and Mrs H. Ooull, with the Misses Coull, have gone to Christchurch for the holidays. In spite of an unpromising start Boxing Day kept fine for the many picnickers who started cffi bright and early to make a day of it, and every tram, train and boat was crowded, especially the boats for, besides the attraction of a tennis tournament at Eastbourne, thena were literally hundreds who went over just to have a family picnic on the beach or in the bush. There was a large attendance at Lyall Bay where the Life Saving Association were running a galti on the beach. Hot water was available all day so that many went out in the morning taking their lunch, others arrived in the afternoon when there were sideshows of all kinds and fun for the children, while an added attraction was a baby show at which there were a large number of entries. The funi was kept up until the evening, when dancing was indulged in on the beach and promenade. Mr Justice Stringer and Mrs Stringer are spending the holidays with their son, Dr. Stringer, at Eltham. Miss Allen, M.A., formerly of the Hamilton High Slohool staff, has severed her connect ion with the school to take up the position of head mistress to the New' Plymouth School in the coming year. Miss Allen was the recipiettrt of a handsome presentation on Thursday, made by the Hamilton pupils and the teaching staff. foiled linen Winds should be taken down, stretched on a table or over the side of -Che bath, and scrubbed very gently with a nail brush and a lather of soap and warm water. It is important to avoid making them too wet. The sudß should bo wiped off with a damp doth, the blinds rolled up tightly and fixed in the windows again. After this they should be pulled down and left to dry. A taiWespoonful of vinegar added to the oil in a lamp will make it burn much longer. As the vinegar does not burn away it should be poured off occasionally and renewed. If the lamp is inclined to smoke, the wick dhonld be soaked in strong Vinegar and well dried -before being used. Tomatoes now are in their prime, And so it is the very time -To make this entree: Take a bit Of butter, J an ounce of it; Plaoe in a fry pan, then put in Two ripe tomatoes, sliced quite thin. Bring to the boil; break in at last Two eggs, and stir the-mixture fast Till it is ctone. Then serve it hot — A dainty entree, is it not? The president of a-' Philadelphia women’s club traces the characteristics of modem men back bo Adam. “The father of the race,” she declares, “only wanted the apple became it was forbidden. Bad the serpent been forbidden he would have eaten it instead. The days of the man of to-day are divided between chasing the elusive dollar and chasing the equally elusive golf hall o’er pastures green. Only when darkness falls does he return to his home, - which in these days is only a rest room and filling station.” An anomaly in the laws of New Zealand as they affect the Tights pf women was referred to in humorous fashion by the Mayor (Mr F. E. Wilson) at the breaking-up ceremony of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School (states the “Daily News”). “Women,” said Mr Wilson, “can become barristers and solicitors of our Supreme Court and there seem 3 to be nothing to prevent them becoming judges of the court, but out very wise Legislature has decreed that they cannot becomes Justices of the Peace.” It was laid down that to become a Justice of the Peace one must be of good repute, but laughter drowned the rest of Mr Wilson’s remarks os those present grasrped the obvious inference. Mr Wilson also mentioned that in civic life a woman could be something a man could never be. She could 'bo Mayor and Mayoress at one and the same time.

With the passing of Mrs Sarah Emily Jackson at Picton, a life came to a close that is especially representative of the early associations of New Zealand (soys the Marlborougji “Express.”) She was a daughter of the lata Mr Robert H. Bennett, al Maori War veteran, and was the relict of Mr James Jackson, who was intimately identified with the whaling industry in the Marlborough Sounds. Born at Auckland 73 years ago, she shared with her parents the hostilities that kept the young community on the alert in the. ’sixties. She married Mr Jackson, at Picton, and spent most ot her life at Jackson’s Bay, Tory Channel, where her husband carried on sheep-farming and whaling; Mr Jackson died on December 16th, 1919. The first whaleboat that he used is in tho Christchurch Museum, tho authorities of which are also indebted to him for the presentation of a Captain Cook medal, which was found by his parents at Ship’s Cove, the groat circumnavigator's historic landing-place. One of heir daughters elded at an early ago, and her youngest eon made the supreme sacrifice in tho Great War, succumbing to wounds received at Gallipoli. Her surviving children are; Mns W. Mayo (Dunedin) ■ Mrs Charles Hill (Blenheim); Mrs W. Cherry (Wellington); Miss Jackson (Picton); Miss M. Jackson . (Picton); Mrs P. Brookes* (Picton); Mrs J, Godwin (Picton); Mr Jameo Jackson (Tory Channel): and four sons who are residents of Picton. There are 20 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.

GALWAY CASTLE LASCELLES’S ESTATE. The “Connacht Tribune” announces that Princess Mary has expressed a strong desire to have an Irish home, and that Viscount Lascelles has determined to gratify her wish by rebuilding the ancient castle of the Clnnricardes at Portumna, which was almost destroyed by fire, and living there for at least some months each year. Viscount Lascelles has always wished to have a home at Portumna as an earnest of Eis desire to maintain the connection with the ancient family seat. He contemplates establishing a racing stud in the' famous stables almost immediately. Soon after Viscount Lascelles inherited the Clanricarde property it became evident that the relat|ons between himself and the people would become of the most cordial character, and that the traditions of absenteeism and aloofness laid by the marquis would be uprooted. The viscount came amongst the people and showed a genuine desire to help them, nad but tor tho fact that the new castle had been burned- down la an accidental fire, he would undoubtedly have spent some of his time In Portumna. His last visit there was in 1919, ... The famous CJanrioarde estates, the largest in Ireland, have altogether pass- , ed to the ownership of former tenantry, | who are now prosperous. All that re’. i mains to Viscount Lascelles is a very j beautiful wooded demesne on the shores of Lough Derg and a deer park, which Viscount-Lasoelles has offered to sell to the tenantry, but whioh they have not so far expressed any desire to buy. During the recent troubles Lord Las. oelles’s property was not in any way interfered with. The reconstruction of the castle would give considerable employment in the west, and the presence of Princess Mary and her husband would revive the Bocial life of the countryside. Their presence m the west would also be likely to have considerable influence in bringing the people of the Six Counties more closely into touch with their fellowcountrymen, and do something to end tfle boundary dispute. SYNTHETIC SUN TO MAKE WEAK BABIES STRONG. Artificial sunlight, powerful in ultraviolet o health-giving rays rather than m light or heat intensity, obtained by use of a fused quartz mercury vapour arc lamp, has been used with startling results on young chickens at the University of Maine, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The tests prove that rickets m children is caused largely by the absence of direct sunlight, and the rays are expected to do much in combating this disease. The findings are also to show results -in an educational way by teaching tho value of outdoor hfe, particularly in rearing children. They may also reveal factors influencing the growth of children. Experiments conducted by Dr. C. C. Little, president of the university, arid Dr W. T. Bovie, professor of biophysics at the Harvard Medical School, on a 'brood of pedigreed chicks, reveal that not only larger and stronger chioks can be raised under the artificial sunlight, hut that chioks raised under natural sunlight, filtered through, ordinary window glass, develop weak legs and rickets, weighed but one-fifth as much ae the others, and died unless a change in living conditions was made. Ordinary window glass is opaque to ultraviolet rays, and it was the absence of the actinic or healthgiving rays that resulted in the marked under-development of the chicks. Babies of poor families brought up in dark alleys and crowded tenements and rich children brought up in homes where windows are closed and all sunlight is filtered through glass develop rickets, and, according to Dr Bovie, this is one of the chief causes of bow legs, which most mothers believe result from allowing the child to stand on its feet or walk too early in life.

“Autopsies on babies in Dresden showed that of those that were horn in the fall and died in the spring, 96 per cent, had rickets,” Dr Bovie said. “However,' of those bom in the spring and who died in the fall only a small percentage had rickets. The babies born in the spring were outdoors in the sunlight during the summer, snd therefore were not deprived' of the ultraviolet rays in the sun. Hie importance of these recent experiments with chickens would be very great if they were applicable to raising of chickens. They are quite as applicable to the production of eggs, and more important still they are applicable to the rearing of children, -for rickets is a disease of calcium metabolism and can -bo cured by proper exposure to tho ultraviolet light. Disease records of every city show that from 97 to 100 per cent, of all the babieß reared in the northern countries, where it is necessary to keep the children indoors and to use window glass to shut out the cold, have rickets when examined in the spring. Undoubtedly many other physiological processes are involved. Wo may expect to find the same faotors influencing the growth rate of ohildren as have been found in these experiments with chickens.” The artificial sunlight lamp is similar to the bluish mercury lamp used by photographers, except that instead of being a glass tube it is made of clear fused quartz.

The marriage of Mrs Fenwick, of Gisborne, to Mr R. A. Brown, of Adelaide, was quietly celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne. The Rev. Canon Packe officiated. Hie bride was gracefully attired in navy blue and white taffeta, and with this was worn a white cloche hat with a large white rosette. Mts W. A. Bowie attended as matron, of honour, and; was prettily frockedi in flame and blue silk jersey cloth and black hat with ribbon rosette. Miss Audrey Barker, os bridesmaid, wore a dainty white georgette frock inlet with pink roses, and a white cloohe hat with georgette streamer completed the picture. Also present at the oeremony were Mi's G. Maclean, Mr and Mrs F. Barker, and' Dr Bowie. The party afterwards adjourned to t)ie residence of Mr and 1 Mtb F. Barker for lundheon. Later in the afternoon Mr and Mrs R. A. Brown left by car on a visit to Auckland, andi took with them the best wishes of those assembled.

SUNBURN Very fine skins invariably burn red, which is the most painful form of sunburn. When the faoe or neck has become burnt in this way, do not nse water for cleansing it. Apply a 'little cream at. night, and in the morning cleanse with a little oatmeal mixed to a paste with warm milk or milk and water. Never use a bleach to remove this type of sunburn. It will fad© away naturally. Apply a good cream every night, rubbing it very gently into tho skin, and do not use soap till all traces have disappeared. To remove tan, dissolve half an ounce of powdered borax in one pint of rosewater, then add one ounce of 6trained lemon juice. Shake thoroughly, then bottle, and keep tightly corked. THAT XMAiTpARTY This is a game for players with good memories, and i a called “The Key of the Kang’s Gardens.” The first one starts off by saying the line, “I give vou the key of the King’s garden” The second one has to put something in front of it. He may say, for instance, “I give you the ring that held tho key of the King’s garden.” The third one says:, “I give you the chain that held the ring that held the key of the King’s garden,” and so on until a very long eentenoe is produced, and some player fails to remember what he has to say. Then he is “out,” and the game starts again.