WOMEN'S WORLD

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 13 (Supplement)

WOMEN'S WORLD

(By "Gip*y")

Miss Drake is spending her vacation at Mount Cook.

. »' . .-* » >■• Airs A. Bond is spending Christmas in Auckland.

*, ■ * * • Mr and Mrs Griffiths are spending Christmas' at Okete.

• » » • Mrs Cyril Tows'ey, of Auckland, is spending her holidays at Raglan.

Mrs A. H. Wilde is going to Rotorua for the Christmas holidays.

Mr and Mrs H. C. Ross and family are spending the holidays at Raglan.

Mrs H.J. Ferguson is, : spending Christmas at Milford.

'*..■■ * * •■■ Mr and Mrs Pountney and family are at Raglan.

Mrs Wynn Gray is holiday-making at Milford."

• '.Mr and Mrs Mears and family ,a*e at their seaside home at Raglan.

■ .a » • » Mr and Mrs E. A. Cox are going to Raglan for the vacation.

-Miss E. Symes has gone to Masterton en route to the South. , i.

Mrs and Miss Whitehorn are going to Rotorua. * * » •

Mrs Hubert Hammond is spending 0 her holidays, at Milford. /

Miss Johnson has gone for her vacation to Christchuroh.

Miss Brash has gone to Wellington for a portion of her holidays.

Miss Watson is going on to Rotorua and Taupo. , .

, Miss Gordon has gone' home to for the school holidays.

Miss Annette Aubin, of Auckland, is spending the holidays at, Pirongia. * . • ». •'

Mr and Mrs Owen Monckton and family left on Tuesday for Tauranga.

Mr and Mrs E. P. Cowles are going on a motor tour through the Manawatu.

Mesdames A. J. Storey, R. McLean, McWllllam and S. Bennett are at the Thames coast.

Mrs J. G. Gray Is spending the Christmas time in Auckland prior to leaving for England.

Mr and Mrs'C. Holloway are motoring through the Taupo district during the holidays..

Misses Wyatt' and Mahoney have gone to Devonport and are'at the Esplanade. ,•''•■■;■' ...

, Mrs R. Kemp is spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs Renwick, at Kopu. ■•■;'.,!

Mrs A. Ramsay, is spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs Aubin at Pirongia. '■■ -'■

Mrs Sullivan, Postmistress/ of Hamilton East is spending Christmas in Auckland.

■ Mrs E. Souter, of Cambridge, and family, left on Tuesday by motor for their seaside home at Castor Oil Bay.

-Miss Rowlandson, formerly of the iHJfh School staff, has been in Hamilton for .a*\few days. She is not returning to Suva.

;/'.Mr !and Mrs S. Robson and daughter, who-have been on an enjoyable trip to Engird, returned by the Ruahine last week. • .* ■

The Misses Bouillon have returned home from the Diocesan School, and are with their parents at the Bank of New Zealand. • ,

Mrs and Miss Turnbull, of Wellington, are staying with Mrs A. Cooper, and will go into camp at Okete with them for the holidays.

Mrs and Miss Todd, of Christchurch, have come North to join Bev. W. T. Todd during the holiday season. They are staying in Mr J. Reid's residence, Boundary Road, Claudelands.

The engagement is announced of Nancy, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Manning, of Hamilton, to Mr Colin Taylor, younger son of Mr and Mrs James Taylor, " Bajdowie," Cambridge.

Miss D. Allen, who has severed her connection with the High School, left on Thursday for Dunedin. She was the recipient of a handsome suit case, a set of books, and a fountain pen from the pupils and staff of the school.

HIGH SCHOOL BREAKING UP. The breaking up of the Hamilton High School on Friday was, if possible, a more sociable event than ever. There was a large attendance of parents and friends who enjoyed the speeches and prize-giving ceremony very much. The tea under the supervision of . Miss Wyatt and Brash seemed a , fitting conclusion to the happy funcm tion. ,'

Mr and Mrs Eben Wilson and stafi did their utmost to entertain their guests while the girls themselves who provided the tea saw to the creature comforts in the same careful manner as usual. The exhiibtion of Swedish drill'for which Miss Gordon is responsible, was delightful to all , beholders. Miss Gordon has introduced some new movements whtch are of a high order and certainly most charming from a spectacular point of view. Amongst those at the function were Mesdames Eben Wilson, W. I. Taylor, W. Fraser, M. C. Gudex, Senior, Mason, Mac Diarmid, F. Snell, Wood, Martyn Williams J A. H. Tompkins, Conradi, BarrettJ Howe, Madill, Meredith, H. J. Fergnson, Lightbourne, W. S. Ross A. Janef A. M. Bisley, Anderson ( Cambridge t Byrch, Reeves, Cliff, Wernham, F. T. Wilson, S. Wilson, W. J. Stevens, Patterson, Clevely, Smith, McLauchlan, WhMock, Whitehorn, Cowie, S. B. Sims, vMiller, Dunn, R. English, J. S. Miller,\Collier, Sinclair, Porrit, Gane, Jornstone V. Chitty, Hayes, Oreene, Mills, West, McPherscn,, Ml? Yule, W. McNicol, Barugh, Paull, Bert Hume, Playle, Mackay, A. E. Manning, W..A. Graham, Cleary, Sergei, Word, Cray; Lewis (Cambridge), Evans, H. Clark, C. Holloway, R. C. Fowlor, A. H. Ellicott, Peterson, Melville and Misses A. Brown Allen, Wyatt, Johnson, Mchoney, Gordon, Watson, M. Whitehorn, Storry, I. Watt, D. Yule, 1, Gwynne, W. Manning, I. Taylor, ■%5 Walts, K. Wilson, M. Sawle, E.

Gane, Rowlandson, Cliff, Barrett, Douglas (3), N. Brown, Ryburn, M. Gardiner and Coombridge.

A LAUNDERING TIP. The laundering of men's white linen collars sometimes presents rather a problem to housewives, but these few hints will, perhaps, lessen any difficulty you may have over them, . The most important step of all is the first—always be sure to remove every trace of old starch from the collar before you do anything else. Steep it well in plenty of water, giving it a good soaking, and then wash and boil it just like any other cotton article. Then rub it well in a paste made from one good tablespoonful of starch, eight drops of turpentine, and half a pint of cold water. This mixture should be stirred all the time as you rub the collar, which should finally be wrung out and rolled in a clean cloth for almost an hour.

Always choose a very hot iron for the collar, ironing it on either side until it is quite dry. That professional "shine" can be had if you put the collar on a hard board and "polish" it with the heel of the iron through a damped piece of muslin. \ This needs practice to do well, but it is really quite easy, if you take time. A LADY HANDICAPPER. Five years ago Miss Magdalen Gordon was still doing the advanced three R's. To-day, she is the only lady handicapper in Australia,, holding that official position to the Mount Barker, Murat Bay, Eudunda and Gumerseha Bacing Clubs -in South Australia. To these she was first appointed in 1922. The daughter of Mr William Gor • don, who is handicapper to several country racing clubs, Miss Gordon has been used to hearing about weigbts-for-age and welters all uer life. Her brother, Mr Bernard Gordon, is the official handicapper to the Gawler Jockey Club and many others, so that this family are responsible for the allotting of weights at nearly all the country races. It is certainly a unique occupation for a woman, and more especially since Miss Gordon is in her early twenties. Gifted with a ■vfrcsn. contralto voice, Miss Gordon was a former pupil of Madame Delmar Hall, at the Conservatorium, but horses needed more attention than vocal exercises so the studies were discontinued. ' The same with her pianoforte studies, after working hard at Czerny's 110 exercises, Miss Magdalen found , that she required her fingers more 'for adding and substraethg 31bs on or 51bs off. Driving about in her car there is nothing about this little lady which suggests her calling. A high-spirited hack, ■, Instead of a high-powered motor car would bring her the limelight, which she tries to evade. CHILCHEN AND BATHING. A small, child is usually very keen and brave about bathing until she actually reaches the sea, because she has not been able to realise the coldness, the vaste .expanse, and continual movement of .the water.

A '*well-meaning but unimaginative parent tometimes will'carry a terrorstricken child to the water and forcibly keep her there, unconscious that she is being cruel and probably running the risk of shocking the child's nervous system. i It is absolutely, necessary that the child should be given time to become accustomed to the water. Force will only increase her terror of the unknown.

A little boy—a friend, of the writer —had been looking forward to paddling for the first time, but was terrified as soon as'his feet touched the water. His family forebore from urging him to go in and told him that they would leave him "to look after their belongings on the sand while they bathed.

Very soon the child, believing that he was unnoticed, "and eager to enjoy himself as the others were doing, let the sea play over his feet.

His fears began to subside as soon as he was ' alone and knew that he could run out of the water if he wanted to do so.

In two or three days that same small person liked the water so much that he began to cry whenever his mother took him away from the beach. A nervous child will learn to forget fear by degrees in watching the enjoyment of the other children in the water. f

A FLY-FISHING HOLIDAY. The woman who Is longing for a holiday which is somewhat out of the "general rut" might 'well consider the joys of fly-fishing—a sport which is not so mqch* indulged in by the fair sex as it deserves.

Unlike the majority of sports, in which a distinct advantage is gained by the possession of what, for want of a better description, one may call brute force, fly-fishing is a pastime of pure skill in which strength can have no bearing on the result.

The most fragile and delicate person who is able to take pari in outdoor exercise at all can handle a light 9ft. soz. trout rod, and cover sufficient water to enable her to hold her own.

Among non-anglers there seems to be an impression that fly-fishing is a very difficult pastime, requiring years of practice before one can expect to catch anything. This is very far from being the case. Half an hour's tuition in the garden should be quite sufficient for the beginner to master the rudiments of the art of throwing a fly. Once the knack of casting has been aquired the novice can try her skill on the river, and success should not be long in coming. There are a few golden rules to remember, and the first undoubtedly is to keep well out of sight of the fish Unless the water is rough or not clear it is useless to expect to secure a "catch" when standing upright on the open bank. ' Equally important is to let neither one's shadow or that of the rod fall on the water. This is sometimes difficult with a low sun behind, but can generally be managed by stooping some yards from the water, and by casting sideways instead of over the shoulder.

Another point to remember is that clothes should be of a neutral tint and large expanses of white or light colours are to be avoided. By taking advantage of the background which harmonises with one's dress, and moving cautiously, it is often possible to approach to within a few yards of fish without alarming them.

Seven" hundred thousand pieces of crockery have been broken at Wembley. But, judging from the number of pieces found in recent Roman excavations, there is evidently nothing new about this phenomenon.