Woman’s World.

Patea Mail, 8 January 1940, Page 1

Woman’s World.

ITEMS OF INTEREST Miss Hdua Paterson, Wo 1 ling ton, is ‘the guest of Mrs. It, B. Crawford. • Mrs. C. i. Paterson, Wellington, is tlio guest of her sister, Miss Davidson, Whenuakura.

HITLER’S BRAIN AN EXPERT OPINION ‘ ‘ MENTAL DERANGEMENT ’ ’ Hitler’s sanity lias always ueen in doubt. Now new light is thrown on this question' by Sir James PurvcsStcwart, the famous physician and neurologist. In his biography, “Sands of Time,” Sir James deals with the megalomania v,'hereby Hitler “proclaims the glorification of ,his own race, with himself as its heaven-sent Messiah,” He writes: A chronic;. systematised delusion of this sort is a familiar symptom of one form of mental derangement, known familiarly to physicians as “Paranoia.” As additional proof of Hitler’s picntal instability, Sir James points to the hysterical character of the Dictator’s speeches. He points out that tl o Fuehrer has world-wiidc opportunities of damaging himself and his neighbours.' RECIPES BRANDY SNAPS Pour ounces Hour, 4ozs butler, 4ozs treacle, liozs sugar, X teaspoonful baking powder, 1 level teuspoonful ground ginger.

Put into saucepan butler, treacle and sugar, and warm slightly. / Put into basin t-pe flour, baking powder and ginger. Pour others in and mix. Grease tin or tray and drop teaspoonfids of the mixture at intervals leaving room to spread. Cook in moderate oven till set, Inking care not to burn, * m « « 'USET Uf LUNCHEON DISH This is good to use up remnants of cold poultry—or ordinary meat can be used. Allow a of toast to each person. Mince the meat, • flavour with salt, pepper, and mix with a spoonful or two of any cold vegetable and tomato sauce. Spread mince on the toast, leaving a hollow in the middle; break the egg into this hollow, season, and bake in a moderate oven until white is set. Served with a salad, this makes a useful luncheon dish. FUN . A bnsli farmer who had never been , to town, decided to spend a day there, so off he wont. The first thing he did on arriving was to find a small mirror. He had never seen one before, so he looked at it and said, “Well, that’s a funny tilling. I come to town and Iho I first thing I find is the photograph of 1 my grandfather.” He put 'the mirror in his pocket, and on arriving home I and going to bed he placed it under I his pillow. In the morning, on making II the bed, his wife discovered it. She, B too, had never seen a mirror before. I she looked at it. “So, ’’ she said, I “'this is the old hag you , were knockI ing about town with yesterday 1”

WE RECOMMEND ‘ ‘ THYEODONE’*—The tonic from the sea containing 14 oasontial dements of the human body. 'Tones up the glands, . improves general health. Be fit; Keep; Take THYRODONE CAPSULES, 4/6 per bottle from Fraser ? s Pharmacy, Ltd.

THE WIVES BEHIND THE SCENES SELDOM BEE THEIR HUSBANDS While their husbands arc hard at work on the job of running the war, the wives of Britain’s war leaders are also playing their part. Lady Ironside, ,wlife of General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, has seen her husband only seven times since last July. For “Big Bill” Ironside has been workingday, and night at the War Office on one of the greatest feats of organisation in history—the transport in secret of 200,000 men and equipment to France. He snatches brief intervals for sleep in a small camp bed at the War Office. Lady Ironside is nearly as busy as her husband. She is talcing charge of the billeting arrangements of 80 children

in the village near Norwich where she has a cottage. ■ ißir Cyril Nevvall, Britain’s air chief, is so busy at the Air Ministry and at the secret headquarters of the A.R.P. that I’c is rarely at his flat in ' St. James’. His beautiful young American wife works .12 Injurs a day on all sorts of national service. She says it keeps her cheerful.

•Sir Cyril vvoyks -in an office near bis chief,' Bir Kingsley Wood, who has thrown, himself so energetically into the vast work of establishing air bases in Franco that Lady Kingsley Wood hardly ever sees him. But down at their estate at Tunbridge Wells she is finding plenty of useful work, raking personal .charge of the coipfort of a large party of mothers and children evacuated from London. When war broke out, Mrs. Oinirfhill, wife of' Mr. Winstoiv Churchill, First Lon! of the Admiralty, offered to take a large parly of evacuees from London into'the Churchill home at Weslcrham, Kent. The party arrived, but like many other Londoners. they

could not get acclimatised to the new life, and they gradually drifted back. When they had gone, Mrs. Churchill moved ilnto the Admiralty so as to be near her husband. In spite of this, however, she rarely sees him. She is an invalid, following a recent motoring accident, and lias to stay in bed in’ th'e flat which has been sot up in a wing of the. Admiralty. Mr. Churchill is working as much as 20 hours a day.

THE PARTY TELEPHONE LINE

We hour and read much of the country party telephone line, tiud the eavesdropping—mostly innocent—ot ! which one is aware when listing such a party line. It jj-ns two.minutes to the clock hour as mother received a 'toll call from the south. From the first, she was aware of the ''emptiness” which accompanies a_ free /eceiver on another party’s, telephone. She referred to it in her conversation, but did not hoar a receiver being hung up, so went on talking business until the emptiness resounded' to a clock chiming the hour. Xow, onr own clock was ten minutes fast, and the person to 'whom mother was talking, docs not possess a striking clock’ —so what? / / *■ T'' — DOUGHBOYS The United States Army is in the middle of the greatest peace-time recruiting effort in its history., The drive to expand the enlisted enrolments began on July 1. The number of recruit,s being sought is 131,.183, of whom 6,183 are to take care of the proposed increase in the enlisted men of the army to a, 'total of 35],000 (exclusive of 0000 in (ho Phiilllpine Constabulary), and the oilier 7,1,000 recruits are replacements for the men whose • service expires during the fiscal ydftr.