NOTES FOR WOMEN

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16462, 14 June 1919, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

Gio (BY SIBTBR ANN) OVD

Mrs. Weir, who has been the guest of Mrs. L. N. Fairhall, Fitzroy, lias returned to Eltham. « m • . Miss Willis, Cambridge, is-the guest of Mrs. P. G. Harvie. Mrs. R. Paul' has returned from Auckland. Madame Johnston-Topliss has gone to Auckland. Mrs. A Blundell, who has been the guest of Mrs. Dodgshun, has returned to Wanganui, « * * Miss Muriel Roy has returned from Terauka. Mrs. Self returned to Te Kuiti on Tuesday. Mrs. G. S. Millar has returned from Wellington. Miss 11, Monteath is visiting Auckland. Mrs. R. H. George returned from Auckland on Friday. This week there have been several parties given for the young people. On Saturday and Tuesday Mis. Denny Brown was hostess, and Mrs. Rockel on Wednesday. To-night Mrs. E. Griffiths is entertaining a number of boys and girls at a dance at hop residence, Fitzroy. C * • Miss Lois Outfield has returned from Auckland; At * * Miss Aira Rollo is on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. L. Kirkhy left on Friday on a visit to Christchurch. Miss G. Stanford has returned from Wellington. • • * Miss Vida Chong, Vogeltown, is spending a few days with Mrs. J. W. H. Martin, at Pukcaruho. Nurse Chong, who came purposely from Auckland to nurse her mother during her recent illness, returns by tire Earawa next Tuesday. On Monday night a very jolly dance was given at the Kawaroa Park pavilion, for Mr. Gideon Pott, who has been appointed to the Thames branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Mrs. K. Bain is staying with Mrs. Fox, Okato. • « • Miss P. Brown (Inglewood) is spending a few days in New Plymouth.

Visitors at Chatsworth include Mrs. 'Baxter (Auckland), Mrs. Natusch (Wellington), Miss Hickey (Opunake), and Misses Edwards (2) (Te Roti). Miss Vera Brott has been appointed superintendent of tho Masterton Telephone Exchange. Lieut, and Mrs. Frank Turnbull are returning from England on tho Prinzessin. _ Miss Freda Jennings, the only girl student at tho Wifeless College _ ir, Christchurch, has gained her first-class wireless certificate in ail three branches —theory, practical, and telegraph. It is seldom that a student passes in all three branches at once, and Miss Jennings was complimented by the examiner. She is the second girl to pass in New Zealand. ♦ * ♦ The marriage took place at the Presbyterian Church, Inglewood, of Miss Irena E. Cosscy, daughter of Mr. J. Cossey, of Tariki, to Mr. William Hooker, of Carterton, late of tho 22nd Reinforcements. The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Hine, daughter of Major and Mrs. Hine, Toko, Taranaki, to Mr. Philip Clemow (a Main Body soldier), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Bate Clemow, of Stratford. « • • •Mrs. Collier has returned from Wellington. • Mrs. Redman, who has been tho guest of Mrs. J. Clarke, has returned to Trontham. » * * Miss Goldwater has returned from Auckland. * • * Mrs. Pope, who has been visiting Mrs. P. Jackson, has returned to Auckland. On Thursday evening Miss Jean Alexander gave a delightful party for Miss K. Tvlonteath, who is spending her holidays hero.

The, official report of the University examinations held'in November last contains the names of the following students at Victoria College:—II. A. degree, Alice Cocker (Economies and Botany); B.A. final section, passed in two subjects (leaving one subject still to be taken), Margaret A. Hurle (Latin and Economics), Monica Lennon (English and Education); B.Ss., first section, Eleanor A. Pope (French, Chemistry, Physics, Botany), and Joyce H. Wilson (Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Botany). Nurse Cramer, late of the Stratford Hospital, lias left to take up an appointment in the Auckland Hospital. The wedding was , celebrated very quietly in the Baptist Tabernacle in Auckland last week, of Lieutenant Douglas G. George, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. George, of Wellington, to Miss Pauline Wilkinson, daughter of Mrs. Wilkinson, at present of Auckland Rev. R. S. Gray performed the ceremony. The bride was given away by her mother, and atended by an old school friend, Miss Munro, as bridesmaid. Mr. Kenneth Hoby attended the bridegroom as best man. The bridegroom has been serving in the Royal Plying Corps, and only recently returned to New Zealand. After a motor tour of a few weeks Mr. and Mrs. Douglas George will make their home in Wellington. • • m The marriage took place in the Taueru Church on Wednesday of Miss Jessie Baird, youngest daughter of Mi's. J. D. Baird, of Otahuao (Masterton), to Mr. Drummond M‘Master, eldest son of Mrs. M'Master and the late Mr. M'Master, of Matawhero, South Peatherston. Evidence of the growth of the smoking habit among women is afforded by the expex-ience of the Townsend Club, Baker Street, London, W., which was opened a year ago under the auspices of the Girls’ Priendly Society for the benefit of professional women workers. “At first smoking was permitted only ia a small lounge, but the number of I

smoking members lias so much increased that a regular smoking-room has been opened,” said a member of the committee. In certain women’s clubs in London the sale of cigarettes is as groat us in men’s clubs with a corresponding membership. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. The crisp white parts of a tender cabbage may be used in making salads when celery cannot be obtained. To shell shrimps easily put them in a oollander antis pour boiling water over them.- Shell them as eoon as possible after they have drained. If a break or thin place appears in your sweater and you have no yarn to match, rip off a pocket, unravel it, and you will have sufficient yarn for mending it. B ash and dry thoroughly tho peeling from one halt a, lemon anti one half an orange. Keep tho halves intact, and after they have withered up put them in you tea canister. They will add a delicate flavour usually obtained only ia expensive teas. Milk will take out inkstains from boards, cotton, and other fabrics, if used before the stain has» dried in. Soak in a little milk and then wash in the ordinary way.

To wash black serge, and cashmere, put into hot suds made from boiling soap, to which a little powdered borax has been added. Rinse in hottish water, then .in cold water made very blue. Do not wring, but bang up to drip; then iron on the wrong side whilst damp. Old stockings may be made into dust cloths, both for hand use, and also, ■after fastening on a handle, for floor dusters. Take silk, cotton, or lisle stockings, cut off tho feet and nip up the seam (if there is one, and if not cut from foot to top at any place), sew two or more together; soak in coal oil or any good floor oil, hang in sun to dry, and then use for dustcloth. Prepare several others- in same way and fasten into mop stick for floor dusters. Those are excellent for hardwood or oiled and varnished floors or linoleum, and. can be washed and re-soaked in oil as often as necessary to Imep them in good condition. They memory soft and will not scratch the most highly polished surface. Cook rice in this- way. Throw into just enough fast-boiling water to well cover it. Then put the lid on the pan', move tho saucepan to a rather cool part of the stove, and let cook very •slowly till tho rice has absorbed the water. By that time it should bo cooked. If you once try this way you will never go back to the old wasteful method, in which muck of the nourishment goes into the water.

Dried orange, and* lemon pool in equal proportions will prove a useful flavourings for puddings, ' cakes, and custards.

To blacken a brick hearth, mix some black load with a little soft soap and water. Hoil the 'mixture thoroughly, and lay it on the bricks with a brush. Add a pinch of wilt to anything in the way of a pudding you may ho making. It will need less sugar than if made with no salt.

Put spmnach through a mincer instead of rubbing it through a sieve, as one is directed to do in nearly all recipes. The mincer docs just as well. Put just a pinch of bicarbonate of soda in the water in which you soak haricot or butter beans. It softens the water, and the beans cook in far less time than if put to soak in hard watep. To remove tho scale from your pans place them in a largo pan or a copper, add a piece of soap cut into small pieces, and a good handful of sodaKoil steadily, and then scrub and scrape off all the ‘‘scale.” If necessary,

Tho very short, tigfit skirt is the most ialked-of fashion just now, and it is much in evidence. In fact, it may be said with truth that tho modes of the day show no skirt, arvl the modes of tlio evening no bodice. . It is common to see a woman with high-heoled, low-cut shoes, with a strap round the ankle, transparent stockings, a short cloth skirt about a metro and a-half wide, reaching just below tho knees, a long coat with a high collar, and a hat crammed down on her head in such a way that no neck is visible. Tho costume has, of course, inspired a special walk which savours of the fox-trot, and gives way to the hips, as no corsets are worn. Fringe is more than a trimming. It is a mania. It adorns hats, dresses, coate, bags, gloves, and will soon, no doubt, appear on boots. Jet is popular, too, and for those who can afford it there is embroidery, beautiful, gorgeous, and used generously, or with that spare sense of what is just right that is tho Parisian dressmaker’s special gift. Saslies are rapidly becoming the rage, and on the new evening dresses gave a grawfvl, rather Oriental, line to the ligurs. So.mo of the dance frocks show a skirt to the ankles, a hip sash, and a sleeveless decollete bodice. Tulle dresses with embroidered silk sashes look very well. The skirt looped up under the hem is considered smart, and it is seen in various forms; the side panels looped and longer than back or front, the back looped and longer than sides and front, of tho front looped and longer than sides and back. Only when imitating the Turkisn dress it is looped, all tho way round, and then it generally ihis drooping tassels from the sides. Beaded ornaments for hat-trimming are again noticeable. Of all shapes—triangles, shields, ovals, oblongs, diamonds, strap-like bands, and other designs. Many are fringed, and, all being worked in tiny coloured gembeads . are most effective used as a flnish-oft' to a plain hat-band. A hatpin with a large wadded end and so decorated is also- most effective as a finish. INFLUENZA. - SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH SALICLN. LONDON, April 4. A rather remarkable article appears in the British Medical Journal written by Dr. E. B. Turner, F.H.C.S., a celebrated London surgeon, who gave an address to the New Lenlaud press ! delegates in Louden bn -tae. trestisaeni of social diseases. Dr. Turner describes an unbroken series of 2303 cases of influenza which ended in complete recovery until no complications and no deaths. £i the epidemic in London in October last;' •Dr. Turner treated 335 cases, all starting with temperatures from lOS.odeg. to 105 deg., and all of virulent typo. All recovered without pneumonia *or other complications. The treatment was 20-graia doses of salicin in cachets every hour for the first 12 hours after tho onset of tho attack, and the same, doses every two hours for the m«st 12 hours. , '

Dr. Turner says: “I have never ordered any alcohol whatever in influenza, either in thia epidemic or in any of the'earlier ones. They did not require it as far as 1 could see. I have allowed convalescents to have some champagne or whisky because they have liked it, not because they have needed it, and I have only done this when they have asked me.”

again. Have all kitchen tins, saucepans, roasters, etc., .treated in this manner at least twice a year. Baking dishes that become burned in the oven, and plates and platters that become blackened with the food scorched upon them, should not go through thfe tedious) process of scraping. Simply put a little water and ashes in the dish and let it become warm, and the burnt and spiled portions may be eas ilv cleaned put without injuring the dish.

Fresh Fruit Pudding.—Beat to a cream a small cup of sugar, butter the size of -an egg, and two eggs, add three-fourths cup sweet milk, two cups of flour with two teasponfuls' of baking powder stirred in, and flavouring to taste. -.Fill two moderately-sized dishes about three-quarters full of fresh fruit, pour the batter over, and. bake one hour . ■

Fairy Drops.—Cream well together 4oz butter and 4oz castor sugar. Beat four eggs; add them gradually to the butter and sugar. Nov.- work in gently 4oz of flour, and! add loz cleaned currants. Line a baking tin with a piece of buttered paper.'Drop in the mixture in little heaps (size a little larger than a, walnut), keeping a space between each. Bake in a quick oven till pretty brown. Lift gently off tire paper. Apple Charlotte.—Slices of bread and butter, six apples, one tablospoonful mixed lemon peel, two of juice, sugar to taste. Put layers of broad and butter, sugar, and apples, sliced, lemon peel and juice in a buttered pie-dish until full. Put plate over dish, hake three-quarters of an hour, turn out, and serve with sprinkled sugar. Plain Seed Cake.—This cake needs very thorough mixing, and baking in a good, hot oven. Required; Five ounces of flour, one and a-half tablespoonfuls of treacle, a little milk and beaten egg, IJoz of lard (or hal'd and butter mixed), loz of seeds, a pinch of salt, one good teaspoonful of baking powder. Rub the fat into the flour, and add all the dry goods. Stir well. All the her,ten egg (half one) and a little milk, and mix to a stiff paste. Boat well with a woden spoon. Bake in a wellgreasod tin for about three-quarters of an hour. PARIS FASHIONS. Restrictions are gradually disappearing, and with the return of cakes and chocolates afternoon junketings are beginning to bo fashionable. The Patisionno puts on her new frock, her spring hat, and her pearls., with renewed zest when she knows that she can show them in the world and meet friends wearing toilette just as attractive (says a writer from Paris). At a very smart little musicale this week the favourite hats were in black satin, trimmed with black fringe or uncurled feathers. The shapes were soft and indefinite in .line, worn well down on the head and showing hair all round. A very few coarse straws were to bo seen and hats which have satin crowns and straw brims arc gradually coming into favour. Broad ribbon toques, with a flat bow across the top from ear to oar are becoming, and the very big straw hat, with no trimming but one mild paradise plume set on the extreme edge of the hi’- 321 the the left side, is. tho expensive creation of a well-known milliner.