WOMAN'S WORLD

Wairarapa Age, 18 November 1919, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

Mrs. D. G. Johnston, of Carter ton, is spending a few days with her son at Nireaha. ' '

Mrs. Pope, who has been, staying with Mrs. Stuckey, of Cornwall Street, Masterton, has returned to Wellington.

Sister Kummer, who has been visitnig relatives at. the coast, is now staying with Mrs. Holmwood, "Bushcroft," Masterton.

Mrs. R. A. Douglas, of Hawera, is spending a few weeks in Carterton, and is staying with her sißter, Mrs. W. Howard Booth.

Miss Maude Fane has arrived back in Australia after a visit to England. Miss Fane joins the Royal Comic Opera Company, and will make her reappearance for the first time in "Theodore and -Co." at Melbourne Theatre Royal.

It is announced that Miss Elfin Lnngley will return to New Zealand with "The English Pierrots," and the company will open- a tour of the Dominion in the south early in the new year. The Misses JJilly Watson and Rima Young, of the "Pierrots," were married in West Australia recently.

An Invercargill telegram states that Miss Ella Marchant, M.A.. headmistress of St. .John's' Girls' College, died suddenly during Friday night from heart failure. The deceased was, for about sixteen years, headmisteress of the Otago Girls' High School, and relinquished that position to engage in religious work in She was regarded, as one of the greatest authorities on educational matters in the Dominion.

The many friends of Dr. Edith Huntley, of Miramar, will regret to hear of her death, which took place at Miramar on Saturday night, when she passed peacefully away in her sleep. Dr. Huntley graduated in England, practised for several years in India, and then came to Wellington, residing first in Kelburn Parade. Later on, her purchase of Kelburn Home enabled her to extend the scope of her work. Upon the Defence Department leasing the #oto« for convalescent soldiers, Dr t Huntley, 'whose health was failing, gradually retired from active practice. I

People in some of the villages of Southern Russia are wearing dresses made of leaves or grass,' sewn together with bamboo fibre, owing to the difficulty in obtaining cloth, says Major G. M. Towse, who is in charge of the Red .Cross activities along the shores of the Black Sea. "It is an ideal costume for the summer, when southern Russia has a temperature like that of the Garden of Eden," said Major Towse, "but I shiver when I think of what will happen to those little girls when the snow begins to fly." The Red Cross was expected to distribute a shipment of clothing in southern Russia before autumn. !

An Australian woman has written an earnest and energetic protest against the action of the Federal Government in taxing the patent t foods for infants and invalids, which were formerly, apparently, admitted free of duty. She explains that a I further grant for the aged and infirm, m the pleading for more marriages, with extra concessions here or there, are somewhat futile, if these foods, which a/e so often considered necessary by doctors and nurses, are to be made impossibly expensive. They are undoubtedly necessary in these days of weak digestions and many minor ailments, and they should be within reach of the poor folk, who constitute the big majority of the world's population. On inquiry it appears that such foods are admitted to New Zealand free, except for one per cent, poundage, which is a very small amount.

WHAT OTHER WOMEN HAVE FOUND OUT.

The perfect cup of tear-that is one which contains the maximun amount of caffeine and aroma witt a minimum amount of tannin—is brewed as follows: Bring freshly, drawn water to a boil; pour it on one even teaspoonful of tea for each cup, in an earthenware or china pot which has been previously scalded, and let it remain covered for not more than three minutes; then decant or strain into another receptacle. The spent leaves should not be used again, because practically all the stimulating and aromatic constituencies have been removed, and that which is left might be injurious to health. To save gas, turn it down after the water begins to boil. Food will cook just as quickly when simmering gently as when boiling fast. [ When using your bread board,'first put on it, with the aid of a thumb tack in each corner, a sheet of paraffin paper or the waxed paper that sometimes comes around bread. Place your dough for pie crust, biscuits, or rolls on this. When finished, simply roll up the paper and burn it, and save labour in washing the bread board. Press seams over a broomstick. Have a short, piece and a long piece, to save awkwardneup in handling. Strong soap hardens and shrinks! woollens, yellows white silks, removes colour in coloured materials. Rubbing wearns all fabrics, hardens woollens, gives silk a rough and wavy look, and injures colour. Sunlight bleaches and whitens white cotton and linen material, hardens and shrinks woollens, yellows white silks and woollens, and fades colours. Sudden changes of temperature harden and shrink woollens. Anything hotter lihan lukewarm injures silk and may change or remove colour, from any fabric.