For Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11731, 22 June 1916, Page 7

For Women Folk

Br "CHRYSSA."

Sister Noraj of Wellington, has been jppointed deaconess to tho Presbyterian Social Service Association in Dunedin. * t • * A Wairarapa engagement of interest is that of Miss Grace Roydhouse, youngest daughter of Sir and Mrs W F. lloydhouso, of Cartertftu, te Mr Howard E. Jackson, son of Mr W. H. Jackson, Master ton. »'• - * • Chi Friday morning, at St Mary's Church, Waipukurau, Ha who's Bay, a quiet wedding took place, when Private J. W. N. Mackio (solicitor, Wai- , pukurau), of tho Fifteenth Reinforcements, was married to INXiss Jean* Hooper, second daughter of tho lato Mrs S. F. Houston, of Arlington station. The ceremony was performed by the Rev H. Collier, of Takapau. • —l%. • * • A pretV wedding was celebrated at the Jewish Synagogue, Wellington, on Wednesday, when Mr Victor Levy. of Pahiatua, was married to the youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Cohen, of Tho Rev A an gtaveren officiated, assisted by tho Rev Mr Petteekovskie. _ - ' * • • • ♦ ' A wedding" that caused quit© a, flutter of interest in the town took place at All Saints' Church, Otaki, on \\ ednesday, wheln. Miss Matilda Agnes Swennson, of Wellington, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. R. Swennson, well-known residents of Otaki, was married to Mr James Inglis, of Lower Hutt, second son of Mr and Mrs Jnghs, of Dunedin. Miss Myrtle owennson. bridle's sister) was the bridesmaid, while Mr M. W. Welch, chairman of the fiutt County Council, was best man. The Rev G. F. Potrie, M.A., was the officiating clergyman. # « • * • Miss Mills, of Sydney j and her father, Mr David Mills, of the Union Steam Ship Company, passed through last week en route to England, via Canada. ; • • • • Members of the Anti-German League In Wellington met last night to say good-bye to Madame Boeufve and Miss Beatrice Day, who are leavjjig shortly for England. ■ # # ' m Girls hare lost a true and practical friend in Sir George Pragnell, manag!jng director of Messrs Cook's great wholesale drapery house, who died with startling suddenness. When tho war began, hundreds of typists and Ciorks were thrown out of employment, as tho : Stock Exchange was temporarily closed and all German and Austrian agents had to be interned. Sir George's firm had secured a contract to supply more than a million of the flannel belts worn bv the French soldiers, and the needlework was very easy after they wotg cut out. He paid 400 girls half a crown a day eacli to do this work, spending in all £SOOO over it. What was more, he ascer- . tained what were tha qualifications of each one, and in due course put every one back into her usual work, often in better situations than before. * * -, * * • The Young Women's Christian Association is putting forward an earnest appeal for £25,000 to proyido "colonres" and canteens for munition work- 1 prs, arid to offer much needed accommodation to the large army of girls jaowr employed in. so many oi' the Government departments, and in banks and groat business offices. From the Press generally tho appeal has had sincere support, for it is recognised that a less important, is needed for the girls than that which the Young Men's Christian Association is doing for the soldiers on all fronts, as well as in the training caiaps and near the chief railway stations." Lady Procter, the Hon Emily Kinnaird, Miss picton-Turberville arid Lord Sydenham ■ are promoting the appeal, to which the Queen has sent two donations of £SO each. • * • • « A quiet wedding took placo at St Barnabas' Church, . Roseneath, Wellington, yesterday morning, when Miss Dora Willberg, lately of the " Evening Post" staff (daughter of Mrs E. sN. Willberg, of Christchurch), was married "to Mr. Arthur C. Bretherto®, son of .Mr C. Bretherton, Hawke's Bay. The Rev Mr Franklin officiated, and Mr F. J. Earle gave the bride away. She wore a tailor-made gown of fawn gaberdine, and a pretty brown, velvet hat lined with pale pink. The bridesmaid was Miss Mildred Eyes,-whoso- costume was of navy serge, with a black velours hat trim- 1 tried with "pink. Mr W. Hardy, of Wellington, was the Best man. * # • * * , Cable advice has been received by Sir E. Bull, of (golden Brae, Wellington, announcing the safe arrival of "'Miss Ethel Bull in London. M;ss Bull ' was to leave immediately for Scotland, where her marriage to Mr Jack R. Hughes is to be solemnised on Julv o. # • *• * WASTE OF KEEPING CATS. A statement made by Professor Wallace that " there are extremely important hygienic reasons why tho canine population of this country should be materially and permanently reduced." applies (says Mr James Buckland in " The Times") with equal truth to the fclino population. I havff- not tho figures for last year, but in ■ 1914 no fewer than 201-1 stray cats, many of which were diseased, were received in one London cats' shelter alone. Tho existence in the towns of this country of these wandering hordes of carriers of disease germs is «'!. public menace. Small wonder that so many infantile complaints are epidemic. m Another correspondent remarks: — There must be something like fifteen million cats in tlio country. W hat is tl:e amount of milk per diem consumed by them? . Allowing a quarter of a pint for-each,, some threo and a Jialf

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million pints, and only recently it was announced in tho papers that milk would be scarce this summer, and the price again higher. Cats should certainly ho taxed on tlio samo principle as Professor Wallaco > suggests dog taxes. I once lived in n house next door to which my neighbour (a lady) kept twelve cats. • * • • * LEGGINGS FOR WOMEN. RECOMMENDED. A (new fashion for women, that of wearing; leggings, was advocated by Dr Edlin. in speaking at a meeting arranged by the Ancoats Healthy Homes Society. Ho said that one thing that had struck him about the Manchester women tramguards was their sensible costume, short skirts, good warm coat-, and leggings. Before long ho hoped to see that women generally would start wearing leggings. Women were often to bo seen walking, hbout ,with umbrellas to keep their hats and heads dry, whilo tho rain drovo against their petticoats, which got drenched and dangled about their legs. Ho added : —" Tho fashion amongst working women of wearing shawls and clogs—shawls _ which are wrapped over tho chest—is a most sensible one." * * « * « RECIPES (REQUESTED). Scotah Scones.—Rub lib of flour into 2oz of good butter till smooth, and then mix into it i'oz of castor sugar and halt" fin ounce of cream of tartar; dissolve a quarter of au ounce of baking powder in half a pint of milk, and mix into a liglit dough; cut into small rounds, then put on a floured tin, and bake in a moderate oven for a quarter ot an hour. Scotch Scones (Girdle).—Mix half a pound of sifted flour with half a ieaspoontul of carbonate of soda, cream of tartar, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoonful of sugar... Stir all together, and rub m an ounco of butter; make a sotc dough with buttermilk, roll out tho dough, cut into small rounds, heat the girdle, sprinkle with flour, and place the scones on it. Take euro and do not touch. When risen and dono on one sitjc, turn once, anH finish bakmS\ . I?ic ® Cake —Ono lb of flour, Jib of rjee flour, £lb sugar, ilb *of butter, 1 e Sgs< - teaspooufuls of baking pow•nr' • *- oa spoouful of essence of van--4i ' i , of £alt > and m ilk. Beat tho butter to a cream, adfj tho yolks e F.P an A t le su « ar > beat "very lightly ; then add the. flour (after being well dried), baking powder, salt and S +t : sufficieirfc milk to make a mce thick batter. Beat up the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and add them last Mix all very lightly, and bake for two hours in a moderate

A LAY SERMON". Brother, do yon love ybur brother? _ -brother, are you all you seem? Do you live for more_than living? Has your Lifo a law and scheme? Are you prompt to bear its As a bra,to ruan may beseem? Brother, shun tho mist exhaling * From the fen of pride and doubt, iNeither seek.the house of bondage Walling straitened souls about; Bats! who, from t'icir narrow spy-hole, Cannot see a world without. Anchor in no stagnant shallow Vy> Trust the wido and wondrous sea, "Where the tides are fresh for ever, And tho mighty currents free; There, perchance, Oh! young Columbus, lour Now World of truth may be. Favour will not make deserving— « (Can the sunshine brighten clay?) Slowly must it giw to blossom, Fed by labour and delay, And tho fairest bud of promise Boars the taint of quick decay. You must strive for better guerdons; Strive to bo tho thing you'd seem; Be tho thing that God bath made you, , Channel for no borrowed stream; He hath lent you mind and conscience; See you travel in thoir beam! See you scale life's misty highlands By this light of living truth I And with bosom braced for labour, Breast them in your manly youth; So when age and care have found you, ' Shall your downward path bo smooth. Fear not, on that rugged highway, Lifo may want its lawful zest; Sunny glens are in tho mountain, Where the weary feet may rest, Cooled in streams that gush for ever From a loving mother's breast. " Simple heart and simple pleasures," So they write life's golden rule; Honour won bj' supple baseness, Stato that crowns a. cankered fool, Gleam as gleam tho gold and purple' On a hot and rancid pool. Wear no show of wit or science, But tho gems you've won, and weighed; Thefts, like ivy on a ruin, Make the rifts they seem to shade; Are you not a. thief and beggar In the rarest spoils arrayed? Shadows deck a sunny landscape, Making brighter all tho bright; So my brother! care and danger On a loving nature light,

Bringing all its latent beauties Out upon the common sight,.. Love tho things that God created, Mnko your brother's need your caro; Scorn and hate renel God's blessings, But where love is, they are there; As the moonbeams light the waters, Leaving- rock and sandbank bareThus,- my brother, grow and flourish, Fearing none and loving all; For the true man needs no patron, -He shall climb and never crawl ; Two things fashion their own channel, The strong man and the waterfall. —Sir CJiarles Gavail .Duffy.