NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 15 August 1928, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Guy Williams, of “Te Parae,” Masterton, is visitinig Napier. Mr. aind Mrs John Bird, of Master- ' ton, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. 18. S. Pilmer, “Waiteko.” Mrs Drummond, of Masterton, is I visiting Pahiatua, and is the guest of ■ Mrs. Chaturn. p Mrs McLean, of Napier, is visiting ' her daughter, Mrs H. L. Griffiths, Re- ' genit Street, Martinborough. e I Mr and Mrs Speedy, of Tuturumuri, have returned; from a holiday visit to j Wellington. | Miss L. Ross has returned to Martinborough after spending a three weeks , • holiday in Levin. <She will proceed to Australia this month to take up her residence there. Mrs F. Porter, organising secretary for the Wellington area of the British and Foreign Bible Soicety, who ic visiting Masterton in connection with the annual effort, is the guest of Mrs H. H. Beetham, Cole Street. The engagement is announced! of Miss Phyllis Dixon, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs H. Dixon, Masterton, to Mr. Frederick Candy, youngest son of Mr and Mrs W. Candy, Masterton. The friends of Mrs J. Hudson, “Waimimi,” will regret to learn that she is a patient at the Glenwood Private Hospital, Cole Street, where she underwent a serious operation.

Mrs H. H. Beetham*, Cole Street, who has been visiting Wanganui, has returned home.

Miss Jean Keddell, Pahiatua, is visiting friends in Masterton.

Mrs Maitland, Renall Street, is in Napier for the golf tournament.

A second of a series of concerts being given by the young people, uf the Presbyterian Church, Martinborough, will be held on August 16. The proceeds of these concerts* are being devoted to a fund for the purchase of a piano for the church hall. The programme is being given by the young folk themselves, and an excellent entertainment is assured.

Mrs R. C. Drummond, Lansdowne, is on a short holiday in Wellington.

Miss Ch.ureh.ouse, a member of the Wairarapa Power Board’s staff, was yesterday granted six weeks’ leave of absence on account of ill-health.

The engagement is announced of Miss Phyllis Margaret Crichton, third daughter of Mr and Mrs J. S. Crichton, of Pine Street, Masterton, to Mr. Lawrence Kibblewhite, sen of Mr and Mrs Kibblewhite, of Cambridge Terrace, Masterton.

The many friends of Mrs Alfred Caselberg will learn with deep regret that she has suffered a bereavement through the death of her father, Mr John Hart, of Maida Vale, London, cabled advice having just been received to that effect. He h£d reached the age of 92 years.

The monthly meeting of the Pahiatua Plunket 'Society was held last week. Nurse McDonald reported having paid 55 visits to homes, whi T e 135 adults, 122 babies and 10 older children h?d visited 1 the office. Seven new cases were reported. A vote of thanks to the T. G. Macarthy Trust for a grant of £6O, and to the residents of Makini and Cbomoor for the gift of a pram was passed.

Mrs Henry Blundell, of Wellington, whose death occurred at her residence Boulcott Terrace, Wellington, on Sunday, was a faithful attendant of -St. Peter’s Church, being greatly interested in church work. Both Mr. and Mrs Blundell were among the pioneer residents of Wellington. The former, Mr. Henry Thomas Blundell, who died thirty four years ago, was a son of Mr Henry Blundell, the founder of the “Evening Post,” and Mrs. Blundell, who was a Miss Martin, was bora in Wellington in 1850. The family numbered twelve, of whom seven survive their parents. These are Mrs Agme.n Smith (Papakura, Auckland), Mrs

Charles Tringham (Wellington), Mrs H. Digges-Smith (at present in England), Mrs A. >C. Lavintgtom (Te Kuiti), Messrs E. A. Blundell and Louis Blundell (Wellington), and W. H. Blundell (Te Kuiti.)

Among the New Zealanders who were to be seen in the Royal enclosure at Ascot or in the paddock, -writes a London correspondent, wore: Mrs and Misses Herbert, Mr S. H. Gilmer, Dr. C. Morice and Miss Morice, Mrs Macarthy Reid, Miss Mary Rutter, Mrs. Phyllis Ridd-iford, Mr and Mrs J. A. Cook, Mrs A. Fitzherbert and the Misses Fitzhcrbert, Lieutenant-Colonel N. Fitzherbert and ’Mrs Fitzherbert, Mr and Mrs J. B. Reid, Mrs D. H. 8. Riddiford, Mr and Mrs J. Campbell Peacock, Mr and Mrs George Shirtcliffc, Miss Sophie Wateom, Mr and Mrs Moss Davis, Miss Blanche' Davis', Major and Mrs Mackenzie Wood, 'Miss R. M. Joseph, Miss Peggy Nathan, Mr G. D. Greenwood, Mr F. D. Helmore and Mr Heathcote Helmorc.

| In the Knox Sunday School room j last week, an interesting address was > given by Miss Kerr on the subject of ; the value of fruit and vegetables in j diet. The lecturer said that insufficient

; attention was paid to diet. Food had I become so refined that mainy nutritive ' properties were lost, and these losses must be made good in order to ensure better health. Fruit and vegetables . kvere rich and abundant in vitamines and should be partaken of regularly. In many households, potatoes and ono

other vegetable! were considered sufficient for the daily menu, and often these, through faulty cooking, lost practically all food value before reaching the table. .No soda should be added to vegetables and potatoes should be cooked in their skins.

Miss Kerr displayed a tempting variety of dishes and urged a more liberal use of fruit and vegetables, both raw and cooked, at all meals. The following dishes wore recommended: — Vegetable custard: Cook vegetables, carrots and potatoes, and cut into half inch cubes. Make a custard with one egg and one cup of milk, add salt and popper and then vegetables. Bake the whole in a slow oven until set.

Spinach custard: To 2 cups of cooked spinach add three beaten 'eggs, cups of milk and a little onion juice. Put this into a baking dish, stand in a pan of water and bake for one hour in a slow oven. Serve hot or cold.

Perfection salad: Ingredients, 2 tablespoons of .gelatine, 4 cup of cold water, 4 cup if mild vinegar, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 cups of boiling water, | cup of sugar, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 cup of finely shredded cabbage and one cup of celery cut in small pieces. Method: 'Soak gelatine in cold water, then add vinegar, lemon juice, boiling water, sugar and salt. Strain this mixture and when it begins to thicken add the cabbage and celery. Turn into wetted mould and serve when set, on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise dressing.

The crochet work basket hat is a smart novelty for the garden party season. It is made of coarse straw in natural colouring, but suggests a crochet stitch. A close-fitting cap of green taffeta is worn underneath, and protects the head from the sun’s rays. DECOBATING OHILDBEN’S CLOTHING A quick and easy way to decorate a little girl’s dress or other garment is to stamp it with a pattern suitable for plain outlining and do the outlining with the sowing machine. There is a simp’e way in which this machine stitching may be done ornamentally. Stamp the pattern on the wrong instead of the right side of the material. Adjust the machine for an unusually long stitch. Put heavy silk thread, perhaps buttonhole silk, of some d’esirable colour, on the bobbin, and a contrasting colour of finer thread, which may be only cotton, om the spool. Then sew with the right side of the material down, instead of in the usual way. Tine allows the heavy thread on tho bobbin to lie flat on the material, while the finer thread crosses it at close intervals, displaying the two colours most attractively. On clothing requiring a daintier effect, the bobbin thread should be of mercerised cotton, instead of heavy silk. . Tho colcur_ o f jhrnad used in this kind of detonation depends on tho co our of the material and upon individual taste, but it has been found that on white goods black thread on the spool and red, or blue, or orange, or whatever colour is liked, on the bobbin is attractive, as is also the reversal of hese colours; that is, heavy black on the bobbin and the spool cotton in some colour. The thread on the spool should bo a vivid colour if used with black, otherwise it will not show up enough to look attractive.

If a stamped design is not desired, one may use this ornamental stiteherv only on the collar, cuffs and for Stitching the bottom hem. Use two or three lines of it about one-eighth of an inch apart.

This work is as quick to do as is plsim machine stitching, and it gives a touch of ornamentation even to the plainest of small garments. When making a very small child’s httlo undergarments, instead of faeiny or hemming the neck and armholes, roll the edges and overcast. To make it both, strong and decorative do it in with TN tho eago alld OTCre ast with coloured thread toward the woTk h lt^ oUt breakin 8 the thread,’ sHot b again ' This mafc s the “s e ro and i ooks very a Christian Science Monitor. ’ ’