HAVE WOMEN POOR MEMORIES ?

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12201, 28 July 1925, Page 4

HAVE WOMEN POOR MEMORIES ?

TRAINED WITS NEEDED. Things which count in living a welldisciplined life, so as to get the most out of each day, according to Earl Russell, at the Soroptimist Club, are. Getting up smartly and punctually. Breakfasting at a regular hour. Catching the morning train without effort.. Not allowing the mind to wander. When at Winchester, continued Ehrl Russell,, he used to work with thirty or forty boys in one room, and thanks largely to that training he had acquired the habit of concentration so as to be able .to think out an essay in the' hurly-burly, of a London terminus without being distracted by his surroundings. Elementary schools did not seem to be as successful ns public schools, judging by the average domestic servant. , Meat of them were unable to carry the simplest, message accurately from one room to another; to lay a fire or to remember any order after an interval exceeding five minutes. The trouble was that they were taught a certain number of things parrot-like, but they were never trained to exercise their wits.

WASHING BABY BY MACHINERY LABOUR SAVING IN THE HOME REDUCED TO FINE ART. ' Whai mere man would have thought of a machine that washes clothe 6, dishes and babies, and. acts as a pastryhoard in its spare time? Yet a woman, has produced this miracle of the laundry, kitchen . and bathroom _ for the relief of her' sex. It consists of two tankß with rubber rollers between and a gas-ring beneath. You can boil vour water in the tanks or put it in hot, whichever you prefer, and wash your clothes and wring them, or wadi your dishes. For babies—the invention holds two comfortably—-the inventor does not recommend boiling water or the wringer, but the youngsters can enjoy quite satisfactory baths. The lid, when closed, acts as a pas-try-hoard, table, or ironing-board. QUICK COOKING PAN Then there are dish-washers which wash crockery for twelve people in a minute, and others which do their work while being wheeled over the floor —all due to the ingenuity of a woman. Eve, too, is responsible for the little ■gas-ring which toasts, grills, boils, heats an iron or the room frith one burner at a test of a halfpenny an hour. '• On one stand there are innumerable gadgets for labour, time and space saving, such as coatpege which fly back against the, wall, when not in use, and a rubber fly-swatter which can be used in -any awkward corner,. Tlie plaoe of the'ol J-fasbioned dresserhook is taken by a neat little steel hook which is fixed to the shelf by a long pip. . ' This will bear 4Qlb with ease, the secret • being that the weight ip borne by the shelf and not the hook. The headlight of a Ford van gave Mr Milton Parsons, when hp was on the Somme, the inspiration to invent a new sautepah. The result of his efforts is a pan that will boil or fry a four-course lunch in three minutes. Mr Parsons showed “The Daily Mirror’,’ the original eaucepan, with which he Cooked food for himself and his companions in the trenches during the war —a battered headlamp, minus the glass an 3 bulb, with a tin “jacket.” The outside jacket is made of layers' of steel and asbestos to preserve the heat, and this saucepan, the triumph-' ant reply of man to woman, fries eggs qnd bacon in'one minute!