NOTES FOR WOMEN

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16610, 6 December 1919, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

(BY OIOTEB ANN)

Mrs. J. Morton left on Wednesday , for Eltham, where she will spend a | few weeks before returning here for Christmas. Mrs. Collier, senr., has returned to Wanganui after spending a holiday hero. Miss Rend and Miss Janie Williams, motored through to Opunake on l'ri-j day and are spending the week-end there. 58 * • Mrs. G. H. Buckeridge spent several days here- .this ■\vcok and was tho guest of Mrs. T. G. Thomson. Mrs. P. T. Prichard (Dannevirkc), who' is spending the holidays hero, is in residence at Mrs. Paget’s cottage, Ngamotu. Mrs. Rowe (Opotiki) and Mrs.. Hutchins (Wellington) arc staying at Chatsworth. Mrs. F. Robertson returned from Auckland on Wednesday. Mrs. W. F. Kelly has returned to Awakino after a short visit to Now Plymouth. , Miss Outfield, who has been visiting AVanganui and Marten, returned this week. i Mrs. Meldrum (Huntcrville) is stayin”' with her mother, Mrs. Carthew. ° ♦ * » Airs. C. K. Holt (Elthara) is spending a holiday at Ngamotu Beach. Airs. P. S. -Whitconiho Alias Whitcombo have returned from Napier. Visitors at the Terminus this_ week include Mosdamcs Burdckin (AAellington), Gallagher (Sydney), King (Auckland), Picrard (AVellingtonh Glfdhill (Cliristchurch), Burnett (Wanganui), Hayward (Palmerston North), and Aliases Ensor (Wanganui) and Hayward (Palmerston North). Airs. Leslie Curtis and Atiss Alilly Curtis (Stratford) are in residence at their cottage, Ngamotu. Airs. Herbert Kelly has returned to Awakino. , « . Airs. F. Webster is staying with her daughter, Airs. A. H. Palmer. Mrs. Percy Jackson loft this week for AA'ellington and Nelson. Visitors at Raimi include _ Misses Groves (Feikling), Bayly (2) (Foilding), Aloredith, Slader anck, White (Hawofa). * ■ * * Airs. Chamberlain and Airs. Burnett have returned to Wanganui. * * * Miss Clatiwortliy leaves for Auckland on Tuesday. * * • The engagement is announced of Miss Elsie Caplcn, Hnwera, to Mr. George Hall, Stratford. ' Aliss D. Roy, who was doing war work in New Zealand, is on her wayback to New Zealand. Tho engagement is announced of Aliss Joan Kendall, elder daughter ol Dr. Alartindalo Kendall, AA'ellingfon, to Dr. R.. Campbell Rcgg, AI.C. (late. R.A.AI.C.), of AA'ellington. The engagement is announced of Afiss Clarice Smart, second daughter of Air. and Airs. J. "Smart, of Tikorangi, to Air. Ern. Procter, third son of Air. and Mrs. AV Procter, of AVaitara. Tho engagement is announced of Aliss Muriel Dargaville, youngest daughter of tlio late Air. and Airs. J. AI. Dargaville, Auckland, to Commander Bollard, of the Royal Navy. ; The wedding will take place' in London on December 17. i The engagement is announced of ] Captain AV. S. T. Colbock. oldest son ■ of Air. and Airs. W. B. Colbeck, Reiuncra. and Aliss Alay Alorrah, only daughter of the late Air. Edward Alorrah and Airs. Alorrah, Palmerston | North. * * * i Tho marriage took placo_ on November 15. at Carins Alemorial Church, East Melbourne, by the Rev. Caldwell, of Roy Alexander, eldest son of tho late Afr. L. A. and Airs. Fairburn, “Ardoch Tower,” Esscndon, to Daphne, eldest daughter of tho late Air. C. S. Nixon, formerly of Now Plymouth and Airs. Nixon, of Sydney. A quiet wedding was celebrated at St. Alary’s Church on Alonday Inst when Air. Charles Lepper, .second son of Air. and Airs. H. B. Lepper, _Lepporton, was married to Aliss Nellie James, second daughter of Airs. S. H. James, New Plymouth. The Ven. Arch- j deacon Evans was tho officiating min- j ister. Tho bride looked very charming i in a smart mole gabardine costume and leghorn hat lined with pale blue and she carried a bouquet of shell-pink sweet peas. Miss Lucy sister of tho bride, acted as bridesmaid, and wore a pretty frock of wedgewood blue Shantung and leghorn hat with touches of blue, and her bouquet was composed of pink sweet peas and tea roses. Air. Al. James carried out the duties of best man. After tho ceremony n reception was held at the residence of Airs. James, only immediate relations ,being present. A former resident of New Plymouth writing from Brockenhurst on September 6, to relations hero, says:—‘T went up to the hospital to see tho havoc worked there. It was all so strange, so ghostly quiet, skeletons of lints remaining, the only sound a metallic ceaseless hammering where huts were still being dismembered: cows and ponies wandered amongst the lints, the only sign of life about. Tho place was almost unrecognisable. 1 came hack down my favourite church : lane and went into the churchyard to see tho graves of our dear lads (over a hundred). It is so nice to see how •arefuliy they are being cared for by the Brockenhurst people. They are turfing them over by degrees, and. they uivo erected a rough cross, quite a high one, and one of tho women in the village keeps a wreath of flowers hung always on tho cross. There was a beautiful wreath of heather tho day I was there. It is such a beautiful spot, so quiet and sunny, on a slope of ground with the old church and a bolt of trees behind and an open field and beautiful trees in tho foreground.” * * 4 A wedding of much local interest took place at St. Paul’s pro-Cathedral, Wellington, on Thursday, the contracting parties being Colonel Thomas Duncan M'Gregor Stout, D. 5.0., son of the Chief Justice and Lady Stout, and Aliss ‘ Agnes Isabel Pearce, A1.8.E., daughter

of Air. and Airs. A. E. Pearce, of Vcllington. Both bridegroom and brine have a long record of services in tne war. Colonel Stout was on the stair ot tho No. 1 Now Zealand Stationary Hospital, and served in Egypt, Salonika, and Franco, and afterwards at the New Zealand Hospital at Brocxenhurst. The bride loft Wellington about four years ago to do war work in England, and served as a V.A.D. in tiio kitchen at - Walton-on-Thames Hospital. Later she went to Brockenhurst, where site was an ambulance driver. She remained with that hospital until its demobilisation, and was tho last of the original band of Now Zealand workers to leave. Tho Prince of Wales, by his ready smile and frank manners, captured the hearts of tho people of Halifax. At the laying of the cnrner-styiio ot_lbe women s residence at Daibousio university, . replying to an address from tho Board of Governors, the Prince, alluding to women’s work, also referred to a happy incident about which tho town was talking. Ho landed incognito on Sunday, and was strolling along the shore wbon he saw lout girls bathing at the club floats. He and his companions sat down and watched the scene. One of tho bathing girls said to her friends, “Perhaps ho is tho Prince of Wales. Let's ask him. ” They swam ashore, and ono said, “Aro you the Prince? “Yes,” ho replied, and they chatted together, much to tho dejight of the girls and tho evident pleasure of the Prince. Now that tho munition factories exist no longer and such vast numbers of girls engaged in the various women’s branches of tho army have been demobilised, it might fie thought that tho domestic servant problem would have righted itself (states Dio Daily Alail). As a matter of fact it is almost as acute as ever. Evidence in support of this fact is furnished by the recent appeal of tho Labour Ministry to women to employ disabled oxSorvice men as domestic servants wherever possible. In several cases this experiment has been tricd_ with great success during tho past few months. And it is unquestionably tho fact that there are a good many men who, probably as the result of thoir army experiences as cooks and officers’ servants, iiavo developed a genuine liking for this class of work. One day a woman advertised in a London morning paper for an cx-servicc man to do general house work, and before 11 o’clock she had interviewed no fewer than 10 ex-soldiers, each of whom was desirous of securing tuo place and confident of his ability To perform all its duties satisfactorily. A woman who was for many years a housekeeper in the family of the lato Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish founder of tho Nobel Prizes, was leaving to ho married. Air. Nobel wished to reward her services, and asked what sho would like for a wedding gift, saying that he would bo glad to give her whatever sho asked. After consulting with her fiancee, tho woman approached Air. Nobel, and said she had decided what she wanted, but doubted whether she would get it. “Go ahead,” said the rich dynamite maker, “I told, vou to ask for whatever you wished.”’ “Will you give mo your income for ono day, then, Air. No- , hoi?” It took 11 men to reckon it up, I but tho housekeeper for a j wedding present the sum ol £7OOO. A cable message to tho Australian papers, under date of Bth iust., states: —Peggy Fisher, a land-girl, was married 'to-day to a discharged soldier I whom sho rescued from a bull. Twelve i laud-girls drew her to tho church in a farm cart. Peggy Fisher won a | medal and a husband by tackling a I bull which was goring a discharged I soldier who worked on tho same farm. Aliss Fisher kicked the animal’s snout with her heavy hob-nailed boots_ until the animal ran away. For this she ! was awarded tho Distinguished Service . Bar called the Victoria Cross of the Land Army. ! HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. Always bruise caraway seeds before putting into cakes._ Cayenne pepper is excellent for ridding a cupboard of mice. Lace should bo ironed through muslin, and never touched with tho bare iron. . . Sour milk is excellent for mixing cakes or scones. Wash a potato, wipe dry, and put it in your bread pan. It will keep the bread fresh, for days. If eggs vou are about to boil are ! cracked, add a little vinegar to tho ( water, and they can bo boiled as satisafetorily as undamaged ones. I Don’t throw bones flint have boon boiled for soup-into the dust-bin. Put I them at the back of the fire and bank 1 up with well-damped small coal, and they will burn for hours. Remember beef loses only 3oz to the pound in baking, 4oz in boiling, and soz in roasting. Thus roasted meat should he avoided when butchers’ prices are high. If the boiler immediately after use, and while still warm, is rubbed all over with any good household soap, it will prevent rust, and will Help to .raako the suds when the boiler is filled for the next washing day. Alincing machines always leave two dark, ugly marks on tho table. _ A housekeeper who resorted to adhesive plaster covered tho clamps with small strips of tho plaster, and found that it not only prevents the marks but stands any araout of washing. A handy woman padded ono side of her ironing hoard with several thicknesses of Turkish towel. Now, when she wishes to iron a garment _ having bnt- ■ tons or embroidery she simply '-urns | tho hoard over and uses tho padded j side. | Stains on a cream cashmere dress I may be removed by rubbing with hot : flour. Place tho flour in _ the oven till hot through, but not discoloured, I and apply it with a flannel. As soon 1 as it becomes dirty brush off and uso clean flour. I 'Watering House Plants. —It is somo- ! times difficult to water house plants I that have many leaves without spillI ing some of the water, but if a funnel j is pushed down among the leaves, and I the water is poured through it, it thon becomes a very simple matter. “First Panties.”—l have solved tlio problem of “first panties” for my baby girl by using white c0 I t ,t ? l J crepe cut perfectly straight with slight hollows for legs. They button down . tho outside of the log. A yard makes i three pairs. Thew wash without trouble, dry in a few minutes, and are nob ironed. On some X crochet a narrow edge around the legs, °r run heading around with a tiny ribbon through, and tied in a fluffy bow on

the “buttonhole side.” They are very easy to make. Tin Cans for Fuel.—An Indian woman discovered not long ago that tin cans can be used for fuel. She telephoned tho nows to one of our county newspaper editors, who publisher ft, and now our whole country is burning tin cans. AVe burn them in connection with soft coal. As tho fire-box of our kitchen stove Is small we fill tho can with coal before putting it in tho tiro. It takes a can about two hours to liunT'up, and since it is rod hot most of tins time it creates an intense heat. Even if the cans wore of no value for throwing off heat it is well for us to know that we can burn them up instead of letting them pile up in our back yards to ho hauled away finally to add to tho unsilghtliness of dump heaps. Try a tin can lire. _ A Fireless Iroucr. —Aly little fireless iroucr, as I call it, has proved such a labour saver to mo that I am going to pass tho idea along. It consists of ten pieces of white blotting paper, each iO by 30 inches, but it could bo made up in any size qr number of pieces. Alany times I have bo mo little article which I wish ironed out and 1 have no iron ready. My method is to moisten the article and place it in between the blotters and then place a weight on top. In a very few minutes it is dry and well ironed. Again, when 1 have some article on which I do not care to use an iron, or do not care to get wet, I moisten a cloth and pass it over the blotter' lightly, then put tho article down and dry blotters on top. and the article will como out ns smooth as could bo desirdfl. I have my blotters fastened together with rings, much as a loose-leaf book Ts made, but this is not at all necessary. Let tho blotters dry after each using mid before putting them away. An idea for tho girl who boards.