OF INTEREST to WOMEN including Fashion Forecasts

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 4, 25 July 1930, Page 6

OF INTEREST to WOMEN including Fashion Forecasts

SOVIET AFFAIRS. Tiu> Soviet Government lias voted £OII,OOO as a fund to help emaucipato women and make them iiuh'pmu.eiit, especially in those regions ul tlio country where, due to prevailing religious iraditieiiis, women are siiU‘. enslaved to the will of their husbands, states an exchange. 'I he load will be managed, by the Alt-Soviet Committee to Improve conditions at Women. Tins' Committee, which is an affieial Cover nine lit institution, is now sending out iso-called women brigades to inspect all the distri'ets, in order to establish whether women get their equal chances in receiving; appointment to higher executive offices or ~ot. “It is the decision of the Central Committee el' the Communist p,, r ty that women, be pushed in the Government offices towards bigbei positions, and we are certainly gain,,. to see to it tint this decision be carried out properly.” one oi the leaders of the leaders of the All-Sov-iet Committee .stated. He complained that in the ‘Department of Finances only four women occupy responsible positions, working there as instructors. “This, of course, is too small ai proportion when compared with the number of capable women this department has on its staff doing just technical work,” he asserted, “and our inspection will lead *o ward a. number of promotions for those who. can bo utilised for higher and) more qualified work than tjp ing or stenciling.”

“SUN LODGE” An English writer to the Adelaide “Leader” tolls of; an amusing experience when visiting ‘Sun Lodge,’ the headquarters of the Sim Bathing Society. As she drove up a drive packed 1 with ears, a. girl in a hlaoKS bathing suit ran out to the car door and! showed her into an undressing room, from which she .then emerged, shivering, into a typical Engnsn April day. She was conducted: to the warden, where she beheld an amazhn, sight; about sixty men, women, ami girls, wearing sufficient clothing only for decency, were formed into several classes on a tennis lawn. One class was doinrf .strenuous physical drill another running exercises, wane a third » «*>** >" j„ E The men ivlm more I,look a.ifl kimld shorts,- the sirls coloured laassiorcs nml little coloured trunks. “Who ore all these people' sl| e ed tliro„ B l. chattering teeth. « .round tile garden .« times and t,ur

I'll toll you." was the icply. Hhcj sprinted round, and as no one look the slightest notice of !ier, she Io'VJ her m'rvonsness and enjoyed it. bhei joined a class of id'.nil. Id toon gh'.p, and ten men, i iistmc-lei.' by a youngi girl in a given costume, and s!: tried! to do evei v oxer, iso in the drill >e. aual. This society, it is claimed, boon to city girls, who find dm "aif, baths” of extraordinary value, as it is a wondertm e emnir against nerves. A BEAUTV EXPERT. Lady .lone Charlton., the daughter of th e -Karl of Carrick, who runs a< hoaurv expert business m. Mayfair, London, is contemplating a. holiday" visit to Australia this year. with, maybe, a trip to -New Zealand., says a correspondent. Lat.lv June has' idways been interested in beauty- culture, even as a child, having ambitions towards distilling sweet herbs from tin' gardens oi an ancient easy tie in London, where she was brought op. Gradually she ran her own factory, and collaboration with skilled chemists has built np her beauty culture businesV. Lady June abhors! freak make-up, particularly the unnatural yellow of the “Chinese makeup that enjoyed so much popularity in London a few months black —st grotesque effect being secured by the use of a lacquer-rod lipstick and slanted eyebrows. She does not approve of the blued: eyelids, and spots of rouge at the nostrils that I'renchAvomcn take so kindly to. being mo.e particularly concerned with reasonable cave of skin, and complexion, than with freakish obsessions.

CHOICE RECIPES. FRUIT MER INDUE TART. Fruit.—The whites of '( eggs, 1 tnhlcspoonful castor sugar, 5 teaspoo*ful vanilla essence. Pastry. Prepare :i fruit tart in the usual manner; do not caver with pastry, but the edges of the dish may he decorated with, little pastry leaves; these should ha brushed over with white of egg, and dredged with line .sugar to g*aze. When baked remove the tart from oven, and; cover with meringue, made made as folio ms—'Whip the whites of eggs very stiffly, add the sugar and vanilla, essence, and spread over die tart and smooth with a. welled knife. Return to the oven to set and colour a, dedicate (hrowm.a Decorate with angelica, out in thin strips m form of a, lattice. The pudding is equally good hot or cold.