For Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12088, 17 August 1917, Page 7

For Women Folk

Mrs Webster (Wellington") is the; ;uest of Mrs Qua-ne. Mr and Mrs Radford (Wellington') are Staying at Warwick House. ♦ * * * * Miss Duncan (Wellington"* is the guest of Mrs C. W Reid, Knowles Btroot. V » # * * Mr aud Mrs Nelscn are returning to tha uorth this evening. * # » * 6 Mrs Louis Wbitcombe arrived in Christchuroh from Wellington this morning. ***** Mrs James Christie (Dunedin). who has been in Christ-church for some time, went back to her home this morning. » 4 v * » Mrs Hewins, Wa-ikuku, arrived from tho north this morning to see hen: son, who is at Christ's College. The engagement is announced of Miss Maude C- Howell, daughter of Mr C. S. Howell, St Martins, to Mr George Uavis, Melbourne. *. * * * * Princess Maud, second daughter of (be Princess Royal of England, and sister of Prince Arthur of Connaught, is said to be'tho choice of the Royal Familv for consort of the Prince of Wales'. * * * * • The dance to ba held at tho Alexandra Hall on September 6 :s to bo in aid of the Bed Cross Funds. The committco consists of MUs W Reed, Mrs J. G. Wilson, Messrs F. Dyer, D. Roberts and R- Eames. GRAND NATIONAL RACE MEETING. The frocking yesterday on the Ric;arton Racecourse was, not what it has je-eu at former Grand National meetings, most of the women being sensiblv chd in warm and serviceable costumes, and although the day was sunny and bright there was just that amount of sharpness in the atmosphere to coax folk into donning fur coats or heavy p-raps. The styles were not very varied, a few of the new loose-fitting coat frocks were seen, mostly braided in self-colour. Close-fitting straw hats and tooues- were favoured, though some of the new epring millinery made its appearance in delicate pale shades and all shapes and sizes. Tho lawns were in excellent condition and the flowers in the cultivated plots were beautiful, particularly the borders of riolsts ne3.r tho entrance, and the white violets near the stream. Amongst the many present were : Lady Clifford, college grey costume. black hat, fur coat Mrs C. Dalgety, smart navy blue r-loth costume, close-fitting straw hat with wreath of dark red roses. Miss Dalgety. navy coat and skirt, smart hat with black wings and pink roses. Mrs Or. L. Rutherford, light fawn costume, fawn hat with navy silk bands. Mrs Chaffey, black and white striped costume, white sailor straw hat with tiny Sowers. Miss Chaffey. navy costume, small cream hat, dark grey furs. Mrs Marmaduke Bethell, dark moss green coat frock, largo black eilk hat. Mra George Clarksoa, navy silk coat and skirt. Miss Hope Wood, cream gabardine loose-fitting coat and skirt, black silk hat, white fos furs. Miss Dorothy Snow, black and white check costume, rose velour hat. Mrs Cecil Loulsson, black gabardine costume, seal furs. Mrs H. H. Knight, dark blue cob-t-ume. Miss June Clifford, cream coat and skirt, cerise hat. lined with black Miss Janet Ogle, grey costume, block sailor hat. Miss Dorothy Cowlishaw, grey costume, rose pink straw hat. Mrs Bernard Wood, navy costume, nigger brown hat, fur coat. I Mrs Cyril Ward, navy costume, blackhat and black furs. Mrs Carney, navy blue gabardine, ' bands of black military braid, fawn felt hatMrs T. Newton, navy costume, black batMiss Edna Henderson, khaki gabardine coat and skirt, brown velour bat Mrs Alpers, dark green coat frock, fur cuffs and collar. Mrs Oakleigh Greenwood, black and white cheek costume, black hat lined with rose pink, musquash coat. Mrs Stedman, black chiffon taffeta. Mat and skirt, black hat, white ostrich feathers. Miss Gwen Gerr.e ('Auckland, 1 , black ■ gabardine coat, black furs, bLark cat. Miss Buckland (Auckland',', navy serge costume, black sailor hat. black furs Mrs Hugo Fnedlander. dark green tweed, black hat. Mrs 0. Cooper, fawn costume, hat to match. Mrs Algar Williams, crushed strawberrv roueh serge, dark blue straw hatMrs Quane, navy blue coat frock, braided with silver, mole hat-

By "STELLA."

"Stella" win be glad to hear from al! Interested in Women's Work anei Life, and to receive Items of Interest and value to Women for publication of reference in this column.

AFTER. MA.RPJA.GEAre you tho tame you that you were, before you mamrd 0 Do you think the s-ame triongbts, dream the same dreams, have the, gams ideals, the same hobbies. the i3K3 hates cud didikes Are you the same old j'uu'- 1 If you are the same old you, you can count your marriage a big success. writes Fay Scavensoix, but. if you -i.ro another you thee, you can count it 3. great big failure If marriage has made yeu like the woman who was out dining with her husband, and, asked whether sbe would take tiea or coffee, said, ' : I? my husband takes tea I'll take tea, and if my husband takes coffee I'll take coffee." you ha-v© uo personality. Marriage Is not. a c?re of both thinking and acting alike. A man m3.rries you because you ure youj a woman lores you because you are you ; Tell and good; continue to ba that you to hold ber lore. Don't eha nge ; be"yourself! Because a -.vomau changes her name she does not) hare to change her soul. And not- because a mau has a wife he does not bare to become another man with different thoughts and different tastes. If people do change they nave conimittijd personal suicide; the l ' hare hampered their lives aud become other people. The you that makes your character is the you of your ancestors. It has been forming for years, aud you going to lose that precious you of generations because of your marriage?^ How many girls giro up their love of music because thev are married? Where is the musical you that existed in them? How many men give up their reading because their wive. s do not read much 1 Where is the literary you J that existed in them ° I If the girl can go right on with her music and play better in ten years than she did before her marriage she is thd same girl with the same taste that she had before her marriage. And if the man has. will enoush to keep right on m his course of reading that hj« had before his marriage he is the same man that he was before his marriage, Marriage cannot harm such a couple; they are the same people and they hare tho same tastes. The you in them of generations lias lived. Thev still maintain their r>recious individualities. * -* » * * TO CLEAN VALUABLE LACE. A Frenchwoman, gives the follow mg method of cleaning valuable lace:— Baste the lace to a- piece of white muslin, holding each point in place. Then soak the lace thirty minutes in a lather of fine white Castile soap. Then dip the lace up and down in the lather and press untif clean, without rubbing. Use a. second clean euds of the eoap. Now rmse in clean warm water, next in pale blue!nc water, and lastly in thin starch. Stretch the muslin evenly on a, board, tacking it. When almost dry take of! from the hoard and iron through the muslin. Be sure never to put the iron on the lace. "''Then quite dry the lace is good as new, * * » * * COYER TEE COOK BOOK. Keeping the cook book clean is sometimes a. bit. of a problem, 'when one finds it necessary to beat up eggs, or whip cream,- or stir vigorously any liquid ingredients of cookery, in its immediate proximity. One careful housekeeper has evolved a. clever, easy scheme for taking car 6 of her book- She had a piece of plain window glass out .past the right size to cover both pages of an ordinary-sised cook book, when rt pen. This glass she bound all around with passe par tout paper. As hers a. blue and white kitchen, she used blue paper. This glaso could be washed, and so, 01 course, was kept clean Mathout difficulty. Also it served the double purpose not only of keeping the cook b-ook neat but of holding it open flat when in iise * <■ * ♦ <J AS BY FIRE. O wa have lived in days So high, $0 bitter-sweet, That the earch under our feet, With travail and strong amaze Has flowered in Wonder and Prarsf*. Out of the blovi-stained earth Defaced, denied and rent, Lore the Magnificent Has risen to heal our dearth. Aud Beauty is com?, to birth, Beauty has come to us. And Strength the meed of scars, Aud we are gone to the wars, Who of old werA tremulous. And went softly thu: and thus. O we have taken the sword. Who balanced the lute of old. And were sheltered from the cold. Aud feasted late at the board. i-.Ci anv m. ; ;n owned as a lord. With neither blot nor stain. : i'uk-ivio''ll from bleed and tears, I Beauty- hj?; crowned the years, ' Ihe years that v.cie barren of pain • - . ! And we are mad:' men a^iri, -B. "R M Hetheringtcn. 1