A Woman Candidate.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Woman Candidate.

Considerable excitement was created in Canberra recently when it became 1 known that a woman candidate intended contesting one of the three seats tor the Advisory Council, which has been established to assist in the government of the capital. The candidate, who came first in a list of was Mrs. Gertrude Henderson, wife of the Director of External Affairs. She herself ‘was director of the education department of the Y.W.C.A. in Paris. The Queen’s Treasures. Her Majesty loves to lend h'er beautiful things, says a London writer. She regards it as a compliment that she should be asked to do so, and durin <t her few leisure hours after the Courts she went through her needlework collection to select nieces for an exhibition at Norwich. All the pieces were English and actually associated with Norfolk. Most of them the Queen acquired in her shopping . expeditions while she has been in residence at Sandringham. Her Majesty has also lent some beautiful specimens to the loan exhibition of Tunbridge ware and old English boxes which the Hon. Sybil Legh organised for the two days’ Sale of the Working Ladies’ Guild. Lady Mount Stephen and Lady Ada Boyd' both lent boxes, and Mr. Cousins contributed a beautiful collection of Tunbridge ware —coloured mosaic carried out in minute squares of sycamore and beech wood. PSYCHOLOGIST AT DETROIT. Miss Irene Lydia Hansen has returned to Ohio, U.S.A. After visiting her family and friends and attending the Ohio State University for the summer session- to study the newest clinical "methods discovered while Miss Hansen was on her world tour, she has accepted a position as psychologist on the staff of the child guidance clinic at Detroit, Michigan; WOODEN BOWLS FOR THE TABLE. The wooden bag-mount; is only one example of the ways in which is usurping the place of metal. Wooden bag-tops are very practical, the little fastening which slips down over the two sides of the frame showing less inclination to get out of order than do the ordinary metal clips. On the modern dining-table also wood is having a good innings. Apples and pears heaped high in a deep wooden bowl certainly have an added appeal, and nuts appear in their right setting when wood, and not china, surrounds them. Sometimes these bowls have painted rims, blit they are most effective when a wood of fine grain has been chosen and left to show a plain but well-polished surface. The great, point about wooden appointments is that they should not bo over-ornate. Silversmiths are finding a ready sale for reproductions of old mazers. These cups are formed from the boles of trees, set in rims,and on wrought silver stands. 'They are used as sweet-bowls, or for salted almonds. The contrast between the dull pvood and the burnished silver is very effective on a polished diningtable. Porridge bowls of wood are safer for small people than those of china. Wooden spoons go with these, of course. Wooden flower vases likewise have their charm. They are unaffected by water and warranted not to leak. THE EVENING WRAP UP-TO-DATE. TRANSFORMATIONS AT HOME. (By M.L.) Many a woman does not find sufficient use for evening wraps to justify her in keeping abreast of the latest edicts of fashion. With a little ingenuity, however, she may avoid any big expense and still display the modish line. A straight up-and-down evening cape of velvet, for example, may be transformed into a modish wrap with the upper portion pouching elegantly over the lower. Mark a line all round, some eighteen inches up from the hem. Stitch along this line with silk to match. Turn the cape over and tack a broad tuck, about two and a half inches deep, in the lining, close above the machinestitched line. Try on the wrap before machining the tuck. You will find that not only have you the fashionable pouched effect, but that the wrap has been reduced to the shorter length decreed by fashion to show a bit of the evening skirt below it. If your wrap is of the coat order, you can do a great deal by cutting the fronts shorter and making them slope sharply downwards to the centre of the back. Tack the line carefully, and try on the coat before a mirror, to be sure you get the sweep that best suits your figure. Then cut away the superfluous material and finish off. Fringes are the latest form of trimming on evening wraps. They can be made from strands of knitting silk, cut to size and pulled through with a crochet hook before being knotted. Cut the wrap to the requisite length before applying the fringe.