Woman’s World.

Patea Mail, 4 March 1936, Page 1

Woman’s World.

ITEMS OP INTEREST. Miss Rachel Mawhinney, Pa tea, has ] used the rudiments theory examinatiou of the Trinity College of Music, London. Miss Joan Carey, Patou, pupil of Mrs. A. A. Carey, A.T.C.L., L.T.C.L., has passed the art of teaching examination of the Trinity, O.olleyjo of Music, and now completed her A.T.C.L. diploma. Master Fred Parsons, Who mid kural, another pupil of Mrs. Carey, passed the .preparatory theory examination of the college with S 7 marks (honours). At the animal meeting of the Patca Women’s Institute to-morrow (Thursdaj r ) afternoon, the election of officers will be held, and the report and ba’anc'-sheet read. Novelty competition's are to bo hold and visitors will be welcomed. HAPPINESS. * ' She attended so many dinners her digestion was ruined. She was constantly worried about this trivial detail and that. Her nerves were worn to a frazzle from fitting on clothes, ordering clothes, exchanging clothes, and arranging clothes. She coiuld not sleep nights from worry lest something might go wrong at the last moment. She drove her family to distraction with her irritability and indecision. Her father complained that he could never get near the telephone and that ho would be ruined financially. Her mother sometimes broke into .unaccountable fits of sobbing in her presence. Her brother said it was hell. She herself lost nine pounds in two, weeks. ■Yet it was the happiest period of her life for— She was about to be married I

MARGUERITE SPECIALS. A RECOMMENDED RECIPE. To make Marguerite specials use the following ingredients for tiro foundation.; : 14oz flour, 802 butter, 402 soft sugar, and tbo yolk of an egg if desired. Cream the butter well, add sugar, and beat again, then knead in the flour, roll out very thinly (about &in), and cut into small, neat, oblong shapes with a mustard tin. Then bake in moderate oven. To the white of an: egg well whisked add sufficient icing sugar, which has previously been well rolled, to make a fairly stiff icing*. Finely chop some almonds and mix with icing. Spread moderately on the nearly cold foundation! biscuit and put back in the oven. In about five minutes the icing will have puffed up light, high, and fluffy, snd ‘will be a delicate golden brown. Take out and, (store in lairtight tins. Nothing could be better for any special occasions, and they arc really quite inexpensive because the recipe makes so many. PUN. A big game hunter was narrating his experiences to a group of friends. “I remember the first time I Jiiet a lion, ’ > ho said. “Face to face it iwas, and I think wc were both scared.” "And what happened?” asked one of the group. “What happened?” Was the reply. “Well, I dropped my gun and ran off with all my might, and the lion ran off with all his mane.”

GIRLS RENOUNCE THE WORLD. ORDER OF POOR CLARE. Six girls, clad like brides in silks and satins, have renounced the world before the altar of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour of Bulwell, near Nottingham. On their heads they wore bridal crowns of silver, gold, and pearl entwined with orange blossom. On their feet were white slippers, in their hands were lighted white candles decorated with flowiers. The girls were brides —brides of the church —but their gorgeous clothes were their last taste of earthly jojm. From now until the end of their lives —unless they get special, .permission from the Pope, the young women will be "enclosed” in a convent. Never 1 again will they .walk and talk with people. Liftv, as .millions understand it, is over for them. From now until their death the young women will spend their days in prayer and contemplation. By their own choice they have become {Sisters of the Order of Poor Glare, one of the strictest orders of -the Roman Catholic Church. The convent which they have now entered has only recently been created. It is the first of its kind in England since the Reformation. The nuns who live there may never leave it-} walls. tffiioir K>nly means of communicating with the world is by a small grill in the convent

gate. The "bridal” service at which they took their vows of poverty and chastity is rarely scon in England. First Mass was said. Then the Roman Catlil olic Bishop of Nottingham, Dr. J. McNulty, asked each girl a series of questions. He addressed each as "Spouse of Christ. ’ ’ Among his questions were: :Aro ybu a faithful Catholic? Do you enter religion of your own accord? Were you constrained or induced to do so against your will? Do you enjoy good health? Ato you disposed to obey in everything and to renounce yourself to the love of God? Have you attained the requisite age? Each of the girls* was then given now names, including that of Mary, while the Bishop said, "The effect of tho vows you have taken is not to’ hold you in bondage. They are binding in one sense, but their real purpose is to free you from those 'chains with which the world tends to fetter its slaves.” The girls, two of whom are sisters, were then led by the Bishop and other clergy ,to tho doors of the convent. They passed inside—the door shut—and the world for them had ended.

Their parents and friends, many of whom had conic from Ireland, went, back to their homos—while the girls laid aside their rich bridal garments and donned dark bro.wn habits of sackcloth and. heavy iwoodon shoes. Their life of prayer, humiliation of the flesh, and contemplation had begun. TIME’S HOURS. Time's hours march on, and what is life but this—■ A throbbing Rhythm with an even beat? And Death a bridging bar most surely is; Whore 'with a resolution's aid,, two phrases meet. When thy last Chord is struck (Time saying Amen), Although iir l-’ulse and Tide the world go on, Only the baton's bent is left mo then, The.music of the universe is gone. —R. Wyntcr Blathwayt.