WOMAN’S WORLD

Wairarapa Age, 23 January 1929, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Miss Vicaiy (Auckland) who has 1 been the guest of Mrs F. W. Parry, ] Mount Bruce, has proceeded to Wei- " ■ington. The Misses Constance and Ruth • Miller, Lansdowne, are visiting the ( Empire City. Mrs 11. C. L. Robinson, Tararua Street, is staying at the Eastbourne Hotel, Ron a Bay. Miss Betty Parry, Mount Bruce, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs Groves Senr., who is a patient in “Glenwood” Private Hospital, is visiting relatives at ‘ 1 Bushgrove ’’ for a few weeks. Miss Betty Ward, of Hikuiangi College, has returned from a holiday in Auckland. ‘The Misses Fielder (2), Gisborne, arc the guests of Mrs S. J. Hunn, Dixon Street. Miss Butement, Essex Street, has returned from a holiday spent in the north. Mrs Judd, Cole (Street, with her children, is spending a holiday at Castlepoint. The engagement is announced l of Miss Ivy Allsworth, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs E. G. Allsworth, Te Parae, Masterton, to Mr Frank Mooney, of Masterton. The engagement is announced of Annie, the youngest daughter of Mrs. R. J. Ewington, Oxford Street, Lansdowne, Masterton, to Cecil, only son of Mr W. H. Irlam, of Island Bay. TO WHITEN LINEN. After washing the article, squeeze water out and soap well, then wet the blue bag and rub on the article l , seeing that it is evenly distributed all over — rub it well between the hands, squeeze lightly and toss into a boiling copper. ■When , boiled rinse and blue in the ordinary way. .Discoloured articles, such as handkerchiefs, tea towel®, and sheets can be whitened with this process when other means have not been successful. PRESERVING MINT. The usual method of preserving mint is to diry it, but the sauce made in winter from the dried heirtbs lacks the flavour of that made from fresh mint. The best method' is to mince the leaves finely and to add sufficient fresh vinegar to make a stiff paste' and then bottle with airtight stoppers. This will, keep for many months. When required for use sugar and more vinegar are added to taste. PICNIC PACKING. A picnic meal that is going to be eaten after some hours of travelling, whether by train or car, must needs he fairly substantial and refreshing It can so easily fall short of being enjoyable if the food is .ill-chosen or badly packed. Whatever is taken it should be something that carries well, for there is nothing so unappetising as a messy picnic dish. A luncheon basket is really more of a necessity than a luxury. It need not be an expensive fitted basket, bought ready for use, though even they are comparatively inexpensive in these days. An ordinary brown wicker basket will serve the purpose very well and to make it clean and dustproof (the latter a necessity for motoring) it can be lined with white American cloth. Biscuit and other tins can be used as carriers if they are first lined with grease proof paper and honey and jam i jars with serew-on metal covers make excellent containers for liquid and semi-liquids. Bottles and jars which are closed with a cork should have a piece of tape placed on the underside of the: cork, with two loose ends left well above the bottle. Then the cork may be pressed wedd in and when the time< comes for opening the free ends of the tape are pulled and the cork comes out without breakage or difficulty. For salads of fish, meat or poultry it i is best to prepare the meat or fish i separately and pack it in cardboard cartons lined with greaseproof paper Then it can be mixed with the salads when served. Green salads after being washed -.hould be packed in damp cloths, cucumber in greaseproof paper and tomatoes in a. box.

Another way of carrying substantial dishes of poultry or fish that makes them particularly acceptable to the picnic party is to mould them in aspic, or a chicken should be cut into joints, the breast sliced, wrapped in greaseproof paper and then a clean cloth. Potato salads will carry in cartons lined with greaseproof paper and fruit salad in the scew-top bottles used for iruit bottling. Jellies and creams can be made and carried in the individual

moulds of cardboard sold for the purpose. Made mustard should also' be packed up in a small ex-cream carton, the larger size for butter.

Wrap sandwiches and roll in damp cloths, buterod scones in a dry cloth and small cakes in tins. Avoid iced cakes and cream cakes. Do not forget "straws,” ®o that bottles may bo drunk from without the necessity of carrying tumblers. “SPORTING MARRIAGES.” Lord' Strathspey, in the Manchester Evening News, writes on “True Sporting Marriage” as follows:— I think it is quite safe to say that the groat majority of imanriagesi to-day are arranged on the tennis count, or the golf course, or the. hockey field. The reason is not hard to seek. The last

few years have seen an amazing increase in sport. Playing fields have beIcome the. sceme of the' meetings between the youth of both sexes, and a better and healthier meeting place it would be difficult to find. Although I feel sure there is a tendency of the purely “sporting” marriage to go awry, I am still convinced that the playing field is the best maker cf happy marriages. In the days when woman was encouraged by man to consider herself aptly described as weak, clinging and unself-reliant, those who took part in sport had a strong- tendency to miss the spirit of it. They could not quite keep their sex out of it. They took when they won., but did not like giving when they lost. The playing fields have abolished all this, and l now, under the mud that plas tars them from head tex foot, man and maid are the same, both playing a hard but clean game, not for their own glory, but for ’•.hat greater glory of the team. Surely that is a spirit that will take any couple through life. Surely it is a sc-under foundation on: which to build. <a home than man, the master, and woman, the ornament and child hearer. To me such ventures seem to be the true sporting marriages. Neither cf the pair may be a star performer. But if they take their games .seriously enough to go. all out to do their best, and if, doing that, they can yet laugh at defeat and enjoy the game just for the game’s sake, then “hey will make tn unqualified success of their “sporting” marriage.