NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 5 March 1927, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Beard, of Hokianga, is visiting Mas ter ton.

Mrs. Geo. Eaton, of Masterton, is at present on a visit to Palmerston North.

Flight Captain G. Hood and Mrs. Hood (Renall Street), are in Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Harison (Essex Street'' are spending a holiday at Bay of Islands.

Mrs. H. Miller (Cole Street) and her little son, are visiting Wellington.

Mr. and Miss Barter, Renall Street, have gone t® Wellington.

Mrs. Avery, senr., and Mrs. Norman Avery (Hawke’s Bay), broke their journey at Masterton yesterday on their return from the south, and are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Moser.

To play tenViis seriously, a fashion correspondent observes, you must wear something that really is practical; to watch, you need only look practical, which is far easier, and .gives you heaps of choice. The street costume, which has been so smart and popular this summer—a plain coat and a checked and pleated skirt, in navy blue, for. instance—is ideal for cool, dull days. It should be worn either over a jumper with a “plastron”— that is, the fashionable man’s shirt front effect—or a satin waistcoat made like a man’s evening dress waistcoat, and with a small plain hat. For the earnest tennis player, a • Sleeveless white frock is almost inevitable. It may be in one piece or two; in silk, bnen or coton. What it must never be is a compromise—that is to say, it must have been made for tennis alone, and have no ornament but the pleats designed to give freedom of movement. Never try fo play serious tennis in the ordinary “pretty summer fropk.” I'm sure it affects ruin of one’s

Taking part in a discussion at a recent conference of British educational associations, Miss Faithfull, a former headmistress of Cheltenham Girls’ College, said that the girl of today was much more philosophic and rational than the girl of twenty years

ago, but was far too well# satisfied with crude raw opinions of her own. “Girls of to-day.” Miss Faithfull added, “are brutally/frank, and we can be brutally frank with them. They understand it. There are things we can and must discuss—subjects which no cat discussed twenty-five years ago. They are part of the life of to-day, so intimate a part for many of the A’Ms_ that to leave them out at all is te leave ourselves out of sympathy H-ith thingstthawt w are burning questions and matters of intense moment tn iho.»y v ith whom we arc living. A girl so< p gets tired. She lives in a wire metion. For the neilth of her body am mind she must go softy. We (o not want her to bj so w-_iry that she cannot respond to the calls of romance and idealism.” Miss Faithful added that she could not undcstand why girls should be taught dancing year after year. “It seems to me perfectly absurd,” she said. “Even with the Charleston you cannot possibly need term after term of preparation.” (Laughter.)

’Miss Phyllis Lett, the noted contralto, who is to .give a concert in Masterton on Tuesday, was horn in Lincolnshire. Her life was vitally affected on the day when her father took her to Bradford to hear Clara Butt for the. first time. From that day she made up he mind that she would be a public singer. Despite opposition from her parents, she pursued her intention with the aid of a relative, and on the recommendation of Sir Hubert Parry she was sent to the Royal Colllege of Music, London, where she studied under Mr. Albert Visetti. Her progress there was so rapid that she quickly won an open scholarship out ef 470 competitors from every part of the Empire. Whilst she was still a student of the Royal X'olllege of Music Sir Frederick Bridge was so delighted with her voice that htf engaged her to sing the principal contralto parts in “Elijah” and “The Messiah,” at the Royal Choral Society’s concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London. It was an ordeal for a young student to sing to 10,000 people, but she came through with flying colours. Within three years of her debut Miss Lett was engaged as principal contralto for all the big musical festivals throughout Great Britain, and her career was notable for her swift rise to the front rank in the English musical world. BOTTLING FRUIT. Fruit for botling should be in its prime but never over-ripe. Thfe fruit should be graded—that is to say, the bottles must contain fuit of the same size. Otherwise, if small and large are mixed the former will become sterilised before the later. The fruit should be tightly packed. A- good test for correct packing is to turn the bottle upside down when full. If no fruit falls out it is packed correctly. The bottles should bo slightly damp, because pressing /he front against a dry surface frequently breaks the skin. A wooden skewer or the handle of a wooden spoon is useful for pressing fruit down the bottle. It is advisable to remove the stones from fruit because they give it a somewhat bitter flavour when bottled. If the fruit when bottled is served a table as a sweet it should be bottled in syrup, but if used in pies or tarts water alone can bo used. When required this water is strained from the fruit and made into a syrup with

sufficient sugar to sweeten the fruit. If it is necessary to iinpiovise a steriliser from a large fish kettle or a boiler, A false base made of layers of brown paper or a grid of strips of wood should be placed in the pan, because direct heat naturally will crack the bottles. These can be placed in a vertical lor horizontal position.