Of Interest to Women

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3668, 15 February 1940, Page 6

Of Interest to Women

19 (Bp Our Social Reporter}

PERSONAL Miss Jessie Watt was a week-end •visitor to Waihi Beach. * * Mrs J- Banks, of Horahora, has returned from a visit to Auckland. • • • Mrs J. A. Wallace, of MaungatauHari, is spending a few days in Tauranga. •• ■ • Mrs P- W. Suckling has returned to Pukekura, after a holiday at Waihi Beach. • • # Miss Susan Banks, of. Horahora, 3«s taken up nursing duties at the Tauranga Hospital. • • • Mrs D. Kelly has returned to Cambridge after a visit to the Exhibition at Wellington. ■* * * Mrs F. J. Watson, of Clare Street, returned recently from a motor lour of North Auckland. • • * Mrs A. J. S. Richardson, of King Street, has returned home after a short holiday in Rotorua. * # * Mrs Bernard Brewer, of Thornton Jtoad, who has been visiting Rotorua, has returned to Cambridge. # # • Mrs E. R. Black has returned to her home in Gisborne, after being the guest of Miss A. M. Cox in Hamilton Road. # # * Mrs A. R. Cox and Miss Margaret Cox, of Rcto-o-rangi, who have been holidaying at Waihi Beach, have returned home.

5) S'ocial I Doings, I Feminine News and Notes.

Miss M. McDevitt was a recent visitor to Wellington. # * #

Mrs A. M. Whiteford, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs W. Harbutt, at Fencourt, returned last evening to Wellington. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED ... The engagement is announced between Pilot-Officer Claude Randolf Frankish, only son of Mr and Mrs E. H. Frankish, and grandson of the late Dr Frankish, of Christchurch, and Marjorie Amy Townend, only daughter of Mr H. S. Townend, of Cambridge, and Mrs A. T. M. Blair, of Rotorua. COOKIES AND CANDIES ADDITION OF CEREALS Fortunately for all of us, cereals such as rolled oats, corn flakes, bran and other cereals, have become more than just breakfast foods. We are fast finding out what delicious additions they are to breads, biscuits, candies and the like. Take this recipe for chocolate rolled oats cookies as one example Cook one can of sweetened condensed milk with 2 squares (2oz) of unsweetened cooking chocolate until the chocolate is melted anc the mixture very thick. ? Then add i teaspoon baking powder, t cuP uncooked rolled oats, i cup chopped nutmeats, -h teaspoon salt and one teaspoon vanilla extract and mix well. Drop by level tablespoons on a greased baking sheet and bake in a moderately hot oven of 375 deg. F. for 10 minutes. Makes 20 cookies. BLONDE HAIR “WEATHER-MAN” TO THE ARMY A pretty lock of blonde hair, jealously guarded by R.A.F. officers (not for sentimental reasons) .is helping the British Army to win the war “somewhere behind the lines on the Western Front,” writes a special British United Press War correspondent. The golden strand was specially flown from London by plane. And, although not one soldier of the B.E.F. has set eyes upon it, here is the secret. The “lock” acts as weather-man to the Army and the R.A.F. A young R.A.F. officer who holds first-class university honours in physics and mathematics—the fundamentals of weather prediction—explained the functions of the golden strand, carefully protected under a glass case. When the air gets dry the hair gets taut; when there is moisture the strands slacken. As the hair slackens, a hook with which it is connected is moved, and this in turn moves a pen which records the humidity variations on a chart. Full Equipment The strands of hair, about 12in. long, break eventually, but fresh supplies are always available. They are always flown over by plane. Only human hair is suitable and blonde loclts give the best results. A mobile R.A.F. van carries the hair, plus instruments, hydrogen cylinders and test tubes. More instruments are laid out on the grass —a rain gauge, thermometers and a hydrograph (which contains the precious ltick). The Germans, too, specialise in long-period predictions of weather. Hitler is believed to have planned his Polish campaign on the advice of his weather experts. Still, it seems odd to think that an unknown blonde lady’s hair holds the entire works together. SOUR CREAM SAUCE If your cream turns sour, do not feel too bod. Choose buttered cauliflower, asparagus or grilled fish for dinner that night. Then beat up two egg yolks, add l-J cups thick sour cream, H teaspoons of lemon juice and salt, i teaspoon sugar and a speck of pepper—all in top of a double boiler. Cook this over hot water until it thickens, stirring constantly. Then serve with the vegetables or fish.

EVERYDAY HINTS V SOME WORTH NOTING To Keep Butter Firm In homes without refrigerators it is difficult to keep butter firm during hot weather, but a simple matter to make a cooler. The only utensils required are a large disn, a smaller plate and a clean earthenware flower pot. Fill the deep plate with water and invert the smaller one to make a stand for the butter, and cover with the flower pot. The latter acts as a refrigerator, because it absorbs the water and the evaporation caused by the hot atmosphere cools the immediately surrounding air almost as much as iC,.ice were used. * *■ * A Useful Salad Dressing Salad dressing for general use is made with salt, pepper, vinegar and oil, the proportion being onethird of vinegar for two-thirds of oil. The dressing can be varied by adding a little mustard or pounded yolk of a hard-boiled egg. The white can be chopped finely and sprinkled all over the green salad. * # * Removing Stains. A stain can often be removed from light material by laying the stained part on a flat surface, powdering thickly with magnesia or French chalk, covering with a clean cloth, and putting a heavy book on top. Leave for several days, then brush off the powder with a clean brush, and the stain will have gone. If it is too deep-seated, a liquid preparation must be tried, but in ordinary cases the dry-cleaning is effective. GIRL SHEARERS A WAIRARAPA EXAMPLE A Wairarapa resident has furnished yet another example of the competence of New Zealand -\yomen on the land (writes H.A.S. in The Dominion). This is of a girl who can shear both with blades and machines, and did so at home for some years. She had learnt as a hobby, but took to it seriously one year when the bidibidi came early, before the shearing gang was due. She shore 500 sheep that season. For the two following seasons she and her brother shore, with tallies as follows (the girl mentioned first): 500 to 622 and 616 to 595; her tally for two seasons was 1215 sheep. During the course of one day she shore 12 rams. She also took a full part in mustering and dagging and drafting (taking the gate). Additional to the shearing the brother and sister milked 22 cows by hand each day in an open paddock. The day’s work was certainly long. And this was not so many years ago. On evidence such as the above there is no doubt that New Zealand women could* were the need to arise, form a women’s land army as effective as that in Great Britain today. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN WAR SERVICE ORGANISED Living in Sydney prior to and at the declaration of war, during which time she observed the working of women’s organisations there, aii Auckland resident who has recently returned had some interesting coinmepts to make on the; conduct of societies - working for wsr purposes, states the Jfew Zealand Herald. “It had been advocated for some time previous to the outbreak of war that all women's associations should be federated by a membership to one headquarters,” she said. “War showed the great necessity of this move, which was then carried out and called the ‘Women's Voluntary Service’.” The first morning upon which recruits were called for, the Auckland resident went to enlist, and after a few days the. crowds of volunteers were too large for the room to accommodate. Recruiting officers were then established outside the Sydney Post Office and at various other vantage points. Women, old and young, signed up in their thousands, she said. “The schedule of qualifications was under many divisions, calculated to suit.all recruits, even to the ‘laying of a table,’ which one girl described as her most efficient ’service,” the Aucklander continued. “The Federal Government is now asking- for all women in (Australia to register on the Federal form. Their list of classification is divided as follows:—Nursing, professional, commissariat, clerical, technical and miscellaneous, and these again are divided into m-any subdiviThus, everyone’s capability is registered and can at once be utilised should the necessity arise.”