The Ladies Chain

NZ Truth, Issue 979, 30 August 1924, Page 14

The Ladies Chain

V&cts <T &zc&ton /Sr Verrtirtiizzti/

The flapper craze originated, m i the I United States. Premature precocity m female life became so admired by Americans that it developed amazingly, with the result that millions of American children now take one leap across several years of what used to be girlish development. In fact, they cut these transitional years ■ out of their lives, and grow up overnight. Some time m the fourteenth or fifteenth year .the girl abruptly stops and the woman begins. Miss Joyce Baillie, ■Who has just-% returned to the staff of the Wellington Public Library after doing library work m .New Tork and Cleveland (Ohio), found difficulty m fixing the age of the American girl between fourteen and twenty-four. The librarian is expected to give literary advice .to young girls; but when a member of an American library staff suggested to a little bit of bobbed hair femininity that the book selected was "rather too advanced," the scathing answer came back: "I am the mother of two children." ■ '" .■' Some disgruntled men make invld-' ious comparisons between their typistes at the office and their wives at home. Of course; such a comparison is preposterous and the man. who would make it to the detriment of his wife is no credit to. his sex and is not worth arguing with on the matter. Still, ' one pertinent question may ap^ peal to a man of his type: Does he pay as much to his wife for probably four times as much work as he pays to his typiste? . • •

Sometimes glass tumblers have been placed one inside the other, and have stuck together. If care is not taken the tumblers will break m parting. Pour some cold water m the inner glass and hold the outer glass m warm water for a few seconds. They will then separate easily. ' "My favorite way of making' mutton, broth is as, follows," ..' writes "E.C." (Westport): Select three pounds V of mutton preferably from the flank, neck or breast, and , remove the outside papery skin and wash well with cold water. Cut meat into small pieces and remove .all unnecessary fat. Put the meat with bones into a kettle and cover with cold water. Allow to heat gradually to the boiling point and cook slowly until the meat is tender; then strain and remove the fat. Re-heat to the boiling point and add three tablespoons of barley, or rice and cook until 'cereal is tender. If, barley is used iti should be soaked over night m cold-water. Add salt to , suit taste and serve "very hot. '■;,!! j ."■•;■"■ .■•■ II ', '-^ If you discover a mouse hole and do not know how to stop it, try this easy method: Press a bar of ordinary yellow soap well into the hole. 1 It will keep out the mice, as they will not bore through it. . \. i:, 4 . .-■■ ' :.:■ ■!.-. .-. ■'».», ■ .- '.■■■- ' Housewives should begin that campaign of "swatting the fly" early m the spring. Even though comparatively few flies ; will be caught, their destruction prevents the development of myriads of flies by midsummer.

Show me a youth who is succeeding; and I'll show you the fruitage of a persistent mother. Every reader of this page can call to mind such cases just as easily as can "Lady Mary." There Js the latest case m that of the youngest New Zealander to be the honored guest of a Rotary Club. Wanganui business men made a guest of young Laurio Richardson, whose father is the longsome headmaster H.H.R. of the Victoria Avenue School m the River Town— so long, m fact, that when he went into the baths one day last summer to rescue a child from drowning he touched bottom all the time! And Laurie the Scholar is also groiving upwards. He is the lad who sailed m the Corinthic last week-end for London as New Zealand's own scientist student, a Master of Science whilst yet a youth, taking with him from Wellington the complexion of a New Zealand girl. Yet he has been delving m chemical things that are strong enough to smell the complexion off an apple. There are some who think that Lorimer, R. is an embryonic Rutherford. He certainly has had a more brilliant scholastic career than the famous Nelsonian, but whether ho will develop m original research remains to be seen when he gets going on the smellsomo things at the London 'Varsity. There is one thing — dogged does it with a Richardson. And that is just whero his mother comes m. c;he was a teacher before she became i the mother of Lorimer and some others. She even did relief work at times as a teacher whilst still rearing her family. Laurie has largely succeeded m his studies because his mother did for him and his swats exactly what mothers do when they are determined that their favorite daughter shall become an expert player on the piano. She kept him at It. So that he got the habit of sticking to studies — and look whero his doggedness, plus the gift of talent from both sides of his house, has got him to-day: A pliice In the sun of science m the hub of the Empire upon which the other sun never sets. : : : : : : Thoie is a suggestion that fur-covor-od cushions uro to bocomo fashionable. For decoratlvo purposes these m:iy be a success, but for utility they appear to mo to bo rather insanitary.

It is said that American women buy more hats than the women m any other country. The larg-est buyer of women's hats m the United States says that she has sold as many as twenty-five hats m one season to one customer. Think of it! Twenty-five m a year is a staggering number; but m. one season!. America is full of multi-millionaires, though, isn't it? ::/ :: :: Mrs. Arnold Glover, one of . the founders of the girls' clubs movements, put up a powerful plea the other day at a meeting m London for letting girls read the very lightest form of sensational literature. Admitting to have thoroughly enjoyed "an awful lot of .trash," she argued that girls ought to be thrilled. It is much better for them to be so absorbed m a book that they pass their station than to sit making eyes, gossiping and that sort of thing. The spirit of adventure m a girl must have an outlet, and she has to go through, the stage of being excited by N her reading and thrilled by the adventures of sensational heroines before she finds-her-self. It does her more good than harm. , ; ■ :: k .::•■-■;■■ c:i •. If you are a resourceful person you should never be dissatisfied. Have your enthusiasms and interests, and you will never find yourself with time qn .your hands and the feeling that you do not know what to do with it. Keep interested every minute, and the expression of your face will reflect the satisfaction you find m living.

Sackcloth is very effective, fpr curtains" You don't have to mingle ashes with', it| but get thick wool* -and darn a wide border oh it. V,

■■■■■■■■ it ■•':■ :: ..-,. , • j Youth is beauty! The oply ones : who do not realise this are our over-, adorned flappers, who. ape the" methods of maturer women m pursuit of their elusive youth. ■ Youth is '.never appreciated while it" is possessed; it is only when it is m its waning years that t

its full power is realised. Vide some of our dames who frantically endeavor to camouflage winter into a semblance of spring!

Do you know the difference between black pepper And red? The plant that, yields the 're^i pepper, so-called., isn't even a distant cousin of the plant that produces black pepper. In fact, red pepper isn't even derived from a pepper plant, but from capsicum. .The plant, that gives green peppers, both sweet and hot, is ;.. also a capsicum. They were originally found only :in South America. Black pepper is derived from the. dried berries of .the pepper plant. White "pepper is obtained from the berries from which the pulp has been taken, and is somewhat milder than bjack pepper. Red pepper is identical with Cayenne pepper, both, of course, being capsicum.