MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Waikato Independent, Volume XLV, Issue 6233, 2 May 1949, Page 6

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MEETING AT KARAPIRO The April meeting of the Karapiro Women's Institute was held in the local hall recently with a fair attendance of members. The president, Mrs Sugden welcomed all present with a special welcome to Mrs Jack Fletcher. One new member, Mrs Truelove, was also welcomed. Mrs Sugden read a letter from the link in England thanking members for a parcel of biscuits received. The roll call, "A School-boy Howler" brought forth some good laughs. The president asked Mrs Fletcher to come forward and accept a "Good Service" badge for her untiring work in past years. She was accorded musical honours and given a sheaf of flowers. The wandering shilling went to Mrs MacPherson. A competition arranged by Mrs Dyson was won by Mrs Inskeep. Songs were rendered by Mrs Wildhurst and the Institute Choir. The meeting concluded with the singing of the institute song. A tasty lunch was served by Mesdames Dyson and Fletcher. Results of competitions: Single bloom, Mrs Grinter 1, Miss Rose 2, Mrs Fletcher 3; stem, Mrs Fletcher 1, Mrs Grinter 1, Miss Rose .3; sewing, Mrs Dyson 1, Mrs Grinter 2, Mrs Inskeep 3;. sponge, Mrs Grinter 1, Mrs Wildhurst 2; floral pincushion, Mrs Grinter 1, Mrs Wildhurst 2. TOURING ABROAD MANY PARTIES LEAVING . Many women will pack bags and set off abroad within the next few months, according to a report from Wellington. In June and July there will be at least four touring parties leaving Wellington for six months' travel in Britain and the Continent. One party will leave Wellington oii June 3. This will be the first post-war British and Continental tour planned by the travel organisation. Another tour is the first planned by the Youth Travel Association further afield than Australia. The 25 members of the party will also leave Wellington on June 3. The three tours planned by the travel organisation, will comprise 44 people. Two parties have 12 in each, and one party comprises 20. In the party of 20, there are 12 women and eiglit men. In one party of 12 there are four married couples, three men and one woman. 9 The tours are planned more than-12 months ahead. It was stated that with the tours, return passages are 'guaranteed. So eager are some people to make sure of going that a married couple has already booked for a tour of Britain and the Continent in April, 1951.* One of the present tours was advertised on Friday and filled on a Monda)'. Because of the restrictions of sterling fo r Continental travel, three parties this time will travel only as far as Paris. Members of the Youth Travel Association party will pay a brief visit to Switzerland and Belgium as well. Tours in Britan will be by motor. A hostess will meet the travel organisation's parties in London.

HOW TO MAKE TEA FIVE GOLDEN RULES (By Cuppa) "Thomas" said my wife severely, "you are almost a barbarian —an uncouth barbarian." "I can stand being called a barbarian," I replied, with dignity, "but do not, please, call me an uncouth one." "You'are", said my wife. She was sitting up in bed by this time, wearing that new pink thing that makes her feel so refined. "You have failed to warm the teapot." "That is not so." I thoroughly warmed the pot before use."' "Nevertheless," said my wife, warmingup, too, "the tea is insipid this morning. Did you use the short pour?" IN EVERY MAN'S LIFE "Now, stop at that," said I, whirling round in my carpet slippers. "There comes a time in every man's life when a woman can make him a barbarian. I didn't use the short pour or the long pour; and the fact is I'm a natural southpaw, and, by golly, look out!" That's the way to stop them talking about short pours. After all, I had made the tea, and it was six o'clock in the morning. . . . "Well, it' you don't like the tea," I said after a while, "you needn't have it, so there." "Darling don't go on like this. I just wondered if you used the short pour. "You see, it is one of the golden rules." "Silence," I shouted, "that's golden. I can pour out a cupotea as short as anybody else. I can pour one out in two shakes, and any tick of the clock at that." We were both getting a bit carried away. The tea had got cold. "Have another one," I said excitedly "Have this on me, and I'll pour it out like lightning." "No, don't do that," said my wife. "Come with me and I'll show you what I mean." ©EMONSTRATION "This is the way," she said when Ave were in the kitchen. "You take the teapot in the left hand and the kettle in he other, and you hold the spout of the kettle so close to the pot that the water will not go oft' the boil while it is pouring. That is the short pour, dear." "Never mind, it wasn't your fault. I should have told you I had been to the Tea Bureau. That's where they advise people how to make tea properly. They're so nice. There was an English colonel there, too, and so tall and distinguish-ed-looking." "Oh indeed!" "He's gone now, dear. He lias left an adviser, though, and they have five golden rules. That's where the 'golden' comes in. Now I'll just throw out this tea that you made, and I'll make a new cup according to the rules." '.'l hope you enjoy it," I said standing up haughtily in my slippers. "Person ally, I have to shave." "Then I will bring it to you, dear, and I will tell you what the "rules are too." THE FIVE RULES A man does not want to be huffy all the time, so between lathering and scraping and sips of the home rules tea, .with a little soap, this is shortly what I heard. And it all somes back to where the trouble started: Warm the pot. Use good tea. Use freshly-drawn, freshly-boiled water. Use the short pour. Tea should be brewed (4 to 6 minutes); not stewed. "Darling, if you had only told me about that short pour in the first place."