For Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11764, 31 July 1916, Page 7

For Women Folk

By "CHRYSSA."

Miss Barr, of G-isborne, has been appointed principal of the New Plymouth Girls' High School.

i Miss Laura Tabart. of Christchurch. is visiting Auckland, and is staying at Cargen. The Misses Rose and May Tabart will arrive in Auckland at tho end of tho month. * * • * » Pearl Lndd, tho gifted vocalist, who is appearing at the Opera House, made her stage debut in a performance of "The Geisha" '"given by tho first English operatic company that ever visited Spain. ,#•■'•* Lilian Do Venny, tho principal "boy" in "Mother Gooso" pantoI mime at. the. Theatre Royal, was born lin the north of Ireland. Her father is Irish and her mother French. Someono asked her recently why. she selected such a theatrical name but she replied that it happened to be her i-oal namo • • • * Miss r Wachsniann, of Gisborue, is visiting friouds in Christchurch. 4 • * •' Great interest is. being taken in the "Tulip Garden" fete which is to bo opened in Dunedin -to-morrow. Mr? Ourtis, of Ashburton, is visting Christchurch as the guest of Mrs li. A. Home, Worcester Street. The monthly meeting of tho General Committee of the Red Cross Society will meet on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the depot, Manchester Street, corner ot j Worcester Street. - '! * * * . | A very pretty wedding took place at Kaikour'a on Wednesday, July 19, at the Sacred Heart Church, the bride being Miss Dolly Kirby, a daughter ol Mrs o. Kirby, and the bridegroom Mr Charles J. Morgan. The bride was given 1 away by her brother, Mr James Peoples. Mis 3 Mackie played the "Wedding March." as the party left the church. Tho ceremony was performed by tho Rev Father Peoples, brother of tho bride, and was assisted by the Rev Fattier Kelly: #

Miss Bell M'Lcan, of Dunedin, passed through Christchurch the other day, en route, for a holiday trip 'to "Wellington and Wanganui. -•■•#-. «" • •

A diamond wedding is rather rare, even in long-lived New Zealand, übtone was celebrated lately in Dunedin with three days' festivities, and the Tetmion of a large family party. The wedding was that of Mr and Mrs Alfred Wilkinson, who arrived at Port Chalmers in 1£62, in the ship Jphn Duncan. Mr Wilkinson was a loom foreman in a ■Manchester cotton mill up to the time when tho American Civil War paralysed the cotton industry and great distress among the operatives in England. Mr Wilkinson spent a short time\in Holland, and then decided to try his fortune in Now Zealand. Ho belonged to early survey parties, and afterwards established a wood-turning business in Dunedin, which is continued by his sons. There were eight sons and two daughters in tho family, and there are now between sixty and seventy grand and greatgrandchildren, four of the sons being grandfathers. , One of the younger sons is Corporal F. Wilkinson, of B Company, Seventeenth Reinforceigenis. Mr and Mrs A. Wilkinson are v both ■well, and received a great number of telegrams and letters of congratulation from friends in the Dominion. ••«» . • ■

A northern engagement of interest is that of Miss Winifred EarJe, daughter of Mr P. R. Earlo, Hunterville, to Mr Colin Campbell. Mr Campbell leaves for the front with tho Sixteenth Reinforcements. • » • • •

An American correspondent writes: Thomas A. Edison is on anothor sleepless "jag," and it is likely he will not recover for another day. When the electrical wizard punched tho time clock to-day the clang of the bell represented his 104 th hour this week, and up to six o'clock to-night it made 116 hours' work and 16 hours' sleep in six days. Edison is trying to ferret out one of his countless problems. Nobodv in. the laboratory knows what it is, but tho, fact that during the last eighteen days the inventor has broken all provious records for sleeplessness indicates that it must bo something big. r »*• # - •

In order to obtain the proper realism for one of the important scenes in "The Secret of the Submarine," a new photo-novel, a lighthouse standing 60ft in height and built for the most part of stone and concrete, was erected in the Pacific, a few miles below Los Angeles. Two days after its completion, 100 pounds of dynamite were placed inside and touched off. When the smoke cleared nothing of the lighthouse was to be seen. £6OO had gone up in smoke solely to furnish a thrill for tho picture frequenters. » * # «t *

On Saturday afternoon Mrs B. A. Just and the Misses Just, in conjunction with Mrs J. A. Newel', W!d a. most successful "At Home" at the latter's residence, Oxford Street, Lytteltcn. The function was one of a series organised on behalf of thci Women's National Service Leag'ae, with tho object of raising funds for the purchase of "ditty bag?" for the men on board his Majesty's ships attached to tho New Zealand station. Tho rewas a larsro n I tendance of friends, ineluding visitors from Christchurch, and during tho afternoon an excellent musical programme was contributed and a series of competitions got off.

""AT HOME 1 ' TN AID OF "DITTY BAGS" FOR OUR SAILORS.

The '* At .Home " given by Mrs M. L. Reading si.* her residence, Cashel Street, on "Saturday afternoon, in aid of t-h s> "Ditty Bags" to bo sent-to our naval men for Christmas, was a very successful and happy affair. Tho entertainment provided for the guests was. exceptionally bright and clover. Thos:* who contributed to this very enjoyable part of the afternoon wore .Miss Nixon, Mrs R. A. Borne, Mr and Mrs Irvin-T (London), Miss Wanchop, Miss Phyllis Bates, Mr Wauchop and Miss Jennings, and it was. quite a performance ot "all star" quality. Anothor .attraction was the presenco of 'A clever s-3or, who was kept very bury telling fortunes.

The artistic rooms were prettily decorated with spring flow-era, and a dnintv tea was served.

Mrs Reading received her guests wearing a dainty gown of tele do negro brown.-, -'finished . with swathed belt of oriental colouring. She was as-.sir-ted in her duties as hostess by her dr.ughtvr:v~-- Misses ■ Kitty' and Tessa Reading.

Amejig'if; the large number present wore —-The Mayoress' ('Mrs Holland), Mrs Carey Hill."Mrs C'haff«.y. Mrs W'Jliarn Wood, Mrs Bristed, Mrs Cyril Ward, Mrs Bernard Wood', Mrs W. S. Baaii.'Mr* Herbert, Mr ar.d Mrs R. A. ]form\ Mrs Curtis (A'hhuMon). Mrs M. VT.-■•-"-. Mi-". Tf,v-t-.\ Mr* H-.. 1 '• '. Viv.;

•' Chryooa** will bo glad to hear from all interested in Women's Work and Life, and to roceivo Itorna of interest And value to Women for publication or reference in this column.

R. Hastie, Miss Thclma Raphael, Mrs G. W. Clarkson. Mrs Alec. Burns, Mr and Mrs J. Farrell, Mrs Macßean Stewart. Mr 'and Mrs Irving (London), Miss Nixon, Miss Phyllis Bates. Misses Bo,an ,2), Miss Bain, Miss Wauchop, Mrs Hamber,' Misses Hamber (2), Missr MacAd.im and Mrs Wall-work. • » e « '• ' BACHELOR WOMEN. In his Olympian outlook upon the world and the future, Mr IT. G. Wells has embraced the lot of the bachelor women. ' He says: —" I do not belicvo that tho present invasion of women of a hundred employments hitherto closed to them is a temporary arrangement that will be reversed after the. war. It is a thing that was going on, very slowly,- it'is true, and against much p'rejudico and opposition, before the war; but it was going on; it is in tho nature of things. Those women no doubt enter these employments as substitutes, but not usually as inferior substitutes. . In quite" a number of cases they are as good as men, and.in many they are not underselling; thov are drawing men's pay. What reason is thero to suppose that thev will relapse into a state of superfluous energy after the war? The war has merely brought about, with the rapidity of a landslide, a state of affairs for which the world was ripe. The world after the war will have to adjust itself to this extension of women's employment, .and to. this increase in tho proportion of self-respect-ing, self-supporting women.',' Mr Wells also points out (1) that there wiLl be a shortage of marriageable men; (2) women will bo able to get along economically without _ marriage; and (3) that rising prices will make it difficult to maintain a family- These three points will bo• factors "in tho fixation of tho class of bachelor women." ' ' THE LIMIT.

He was a very small boy. Paddy was his dog, and Paddy was nearer to his heart than anything, on earth. When Paddy met swift and hideous death on the road, his mother trembled to break the news, But it. had to be, and when he came home from school she told him simply: " Paddy has been run over and killed." . , , , ; Ho,took it.very quietly,; finished his dinner with appetite and! spirits unimpaired. All day it was the same. But five minutes after ho had gone up to bed there echoed through the house a shrill and sudden lamentation. His

mother ruslied •upstairs with solicitude and sympathy. "Nurse says," ho. sobbed, ."that Paddy has boon run over and killed. ' "But. dear, I -told you that at dinner, and you didn't seem to trouble at all.*' «No; but—but I didn't know you said Paddv.— I—l thought you said daddv." »j« • • * GERMANS' MEAT TICKETS NUMBERED /Tho Commune of Griedcnau. near Berlin, has decided to number all meat tickets as a measure to check noting outside butcher shops, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Excbange Telegraph Company, which quotes the Berlin " Tageblatt." Holders of tickets must take their turn at the butcher shop according to number and those unable to go on the specified date will get no meat for that week. USEFUL RECIPES.

Delmonia Pudding—Take ono quart of milk li tablespoon sugar, five eggs thiee tablespoons cornflour, essence and jam. Put tho milk on 'the fire, and when it comes-to tho boifstir in the cornflour mixed with a little cold milk. Boil for a few minutes, then take oft the fire, and stir in the sugar, the beaten voldks of tho eggs, aiitf a few drops of any essence preferred, lut into a buttered' pie dish and bake for an hour. Spread the jam, apricot or any other acid jam being suitable. Have tho whites of the eggs beaten to .a stiff froth, then sweeten and flavour with tho same essence as used m tho pudding, pile this meringue on top and serve. '*

' Pancakes (without eggs).—-Mix one tablespoouful of baking power with half a pound of flour, add a saltspoonful of salt, make a well in the centre, and add gradually one pint of milk, stirring carefully to prevent lumps from forming in the batter. Mix to the usual consistency for pancakes and fry. immediately in hot lard or dripping. Dust with sugar, to which a few drops of lemon juice have been added, and servo.

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