Woman's World.

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 31 July 1933, Page 1

Woman's World.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. Miss I. Luxtou lias returned to Patca from a visit to New Plymouth. Miss R. Harris, Patea, was a visitor to Stratford for the Golf Club Mil. Mr. R. W. Hamerton and Mis/Marian Hamerton return to-day fron a week-end visit to Wellington, Parents looking for names for their Daby girls should certainly study the list,s of debutantes at the Royal Courts this year.' Phoebe, Sanchia, Daphne, Clemency, Hermionc, Johanna, Pamela, Grizel, Primrose, Romayne, and WiniCride arc some of the delightful oldworld names among them. “Don’t marry an airman unless you positively can’t help it,’’ is the advice given to women by Mrs. Wiley Post, wife of the airman. “Only utter, hopeless love justifies any woman marrying an aviator,” she laughingly declared, referring to her husband’s amazing trip. “My .advice to any woman, if she wants mental peace, is to marry a man whose feet arc on the ground. ’ ’ A 2f)-ycar-old, Scottish girl has won a £4OOO prize for a novel —her first — which she wrote in secret. Not even her parents knew she thought of writing it, and first knew of it when they read their newspaper. The .writer is Miss Janet Boith, daughter of Mi'. Donald Boith, managing director of the Manchester County Bank. 1 She has entitled her novel ‘No Second Spring.’ Tlhc prize, awarded by Messrs. Hoddor and Stoughton, Ltd., of London, and the Frederick iA. Stokes Company, of New York, is the biggest ever offered for a novel. - Miss Bcith saw an advertisement of the competition oh the jacket of a novel. She. sent off the manuscript secretly. The book will be published simultaneously in Britainand the United States. Miss Boith was educated near London-and graduated B.A. with honours in English literature at Cambridge. She is an allround sportswoman. She took part in the Northern. Tennis Tournament at Manchester, and plays lacrosse and goif. ; ■ ■ \ DANGER FROM COLDS. \ “* : Most of the so-called children’s diseases—whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever—as well as that big group of treacherous diseases —colds, grippes, influenza—arc spread by direct contact with persons already suffering from them. The most, contagious is at the beginning. To save children from (these A idiseases, avoid all children and adults who show the slightest signs of ill-health. Even the mildest of these means a drain on the child’s reserve strength, % set-back in his normal growth and school life. Their greatest danger lies in the complications—sometimes most eerious —resulting from them, “Only a little cold” can so easily, and does so often, lead to mastoid operations, deafness, ycars-long sinus suffering, and pneumonia. 1 A child can be protected against frequency of colds in two ways—first, and most-important by avoiding contact with those infected with colds; and second, by building the bodily resistance. This resistance can be built by supplying plenty of sleep to prevent fatigue, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and cod liver oil, and plenty of sunshine. If a cold should develop, prompt treatment of rest in bod, separated from the other’members of the family, light diet, plenty of fluids to drink, will do much to shorten its course and prevent most of its serious after-ef-fects. TENNIS FASHIONS. SHORTS FOR PLAYERS. Shorts —dainty white pleated ones —arc the latest dictum of fashion for women tennis players. Tennis fashions have changed so completely to-day that women players who wear stockings look frumpish. Mon arc discarding the long trousers in favour of shorts, led by ‘Bunny’ Austin. . Spectators at a tennis party -given recently by Lady Crosficld were amazed when Mrs. Fcarnley-Whittingsall, a leading English competitor at Wimbledon recently, discarded «. long scarlet coat, revealing shorts, as brief as those of a chorus girl. The ‘Daily Mail’ says that Mrs. Whittingstall is pretty and capable enough to get away with this sort of thing. It wins noticed, however, that she resumed her coat hurriedly when she was presented to Princess Alice of Athlone, a cousin of King George. It is rumoured that Mrs. Helen Wills Moody also has a pair of tennis shorts with which she may yet electrify Wimbledon. ■ :

AN EXCELLENT CEMENT. An excellent and almost invisible cement for mending china can bo made in a few moments by dissolving •, of gam 'arable in half a- cupful of boiling water, and adding sufficient plaster of paris to make a fairly stiff paste. Apply this to the broken edges with a small paint brush, and press the pieces together firmly. Be careful to wipe ' off any smears of cement on the surrounding area before it dries. ANSWERS TO TREE COMPETITION The following arc the answers to the tree competition appearing in our last issue:— (1) Beech. (2) Larch. . (3) Aspen. , L (•I) Pine. (5) Ash. (6) Fir. (7) Elder. ' (8) Poplar. (9) Bay. (10) Willow. - (11) Rata. (12) Totara.(13) Matai. ' (14) Cabbage tree. (15) Laurel. (16) Chestnut. (17) Plane. (IS) Peach. ' , (19) Pear. (20) Nectarine. ' - (21) Bluogunls. PRAYER OP AN UNEMPLOYED MAN. Hero in the quiet of my room, 0 God, £ .come, to Thee for friendship; to feel That Home One is with me, though unseen. All day I have scon a multitude of people, But I am still lonely and hungry for human cheer. No life has touched mine in understanding; No hand has clasped mine in friendship; My heart is empty and my hands arc idle; Help me.to feel Thy presence, So that the disappointment of this day Shall not overwhelm me. Keep me from" becoming cynical and bitter; Keep mo • warm and human, and sot a new faith / Before my eyes —a new hope to live by. And a new spirit with which to overcome discouragements. Guide me to that very necessary thing Of life—WOßK I Abide with me and be my friend. _ In the name of Him Who went about Doing good. Amen. —W. C. Ackerly, in the ‘ 1 Churchman,!“ of New York. 1 MELTING MOMENTS. Eight ounces cornflour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 6oz butter, 3oz castor sugar, 2 eggs, lemon or vanilla flavouring. Butter-- some small patty tins.' Cream the butter and sugar. Beat up the eggs and add them alternately with the cornflour until both are used yp. Last of all add the baking powder and flavouring. Put a tcaspoonful of the mixture into each patty tin. Bake for 10 minutes. These make delicious afternoon tea cakes. FUN. Sam: “Hallo, Bill, I ’car you and some of the lads struck for shorter hours. Did you get ’em7” Bill: “We did —we ain’t working at all now!’-