WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16154, 7 March 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

flatter for publication, in this column should ne addressed to the Lady Editor, and should be fully authenticated.

Mr Justice Hcrdman has taken Mr J. B. Way's house on Cashmere HillsMr 'and Mrs Way will reside at Sumner in future.

The Misses PaUot (Napier) are visiting Christchurch.

Dr. and Mrs Chilton have returned from a stay in Dunedin.

Mrs and Miss Vallange (Dunedin) are staying at the Federal. )

Mrs E. Cutten and Mrs J. C. Miller ;King Country) have returned to Sumner after a visit to South Canterbury.

The Mayoress (Mrs H. Holland) and Mrs H. R. Smith will visit Sheffield to-day to see the work of the Lady Liverpool Fund there.

Mr and Mrs Kerr arrivod from Nelson last night. They are staying at the Hotel Federal.

Mr aud Mrs A. Henderson (Oxford) arc in town.

Major and Mrs Baigent- (Nelson) arrived in Christchurch yesterday.

The engagement is announced of Miss Gladys H. Hastio to Mr Thomas H. Brown, both of Hastings.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. By arrangement with Mrs Bo'Jeston, Hair Physician, Specialist in Electrolysis, and Fac® Treatments. Qualified London. Paris, and -America. Correspondence replied to privately a,nd confidentially by post, 01 through this oolumn on nil matters pertaining to the caro of the hair and complexion. Advice is also given gratis on the treatment of the following:— Falling Hair Premature Greyneee Faded or Lifeless Hair Baldness Dandruff and Seborrhrea Alopecia Areata (Bald Patches) Electrolysis (permanent removal of superfluous Hair) Complexion Treatment Blackheads (Acne) Freckles and Tan Premature Wrinkles Care of Hair Combings Value of Transformations, Toupees, ana Switches . Treatment of Children s Hair Writ ° MRS KOLLESTON, 1 Dominion Building, Cathedral i^Ufcre.

ItED CROSS MOTOR CARNIVAL. On Tuesday evening the Ladies' Committee of the Red Cross Motor Carnival hold its final meeting to receive a statement of accounts. Among those present were —Mesdamcs Crozicr (president), Mclvaj', Misses Knight, Banfield, Messrs Hawkes and Merrett. Miss Knight (secretary) submitted a statement of accounts sis follows: —Receipts £173 6s lid, expenditure £48 6s Hd, leaving a net baljuicp of jli 1.20 to bo liflndcd to the Cor* nival Fund. The Ladies' Committee assisted in replacing the refreshments, which, unfortunately, had to he sacrificed owing to the postponement of tlio Carnival to tho following Saturday. The amount taken in the tea room is excellent, and much in advance of previous years. The ladies deserve great praise for the way in which they worked in order to make their part successful.

THE TEA CADDY COMES BACK,

One of my treasures, culled from the jimk of the old world, is a silver tea caddy, dolightful in design, which for many years has recalled to mo other days and other ways. Ido not know where my caddy came from, or to whom it belonged, but I liko to think of a gracious lady, with corkscrew curls and dainty;'habit of flowered 6ilk, bending over it in the lato afternoon —perhaps in some stately Bloomsbury drawing-room. A gracious but not a reckless personality she was. I feel sure she was gracious, or she would not have chosen such a delightful box for her tea. I know she was careful, for the tea caddy reveals her scrupulous habit. Her tea was not left about for anyone to use, but locked up in ifs box ot silver until the hour came and tho hot water, and the old drawingroonf was alive with tho talk of gossips assembled round the tea table.

I like many old things from the property room of the past. I handle an ancient pistol with a flint lock, and call tc mind the turbulont days wncn highways were not policed and telegraph poles did not perpetually run on one side of them —the days when the rough and tumble of the road was a very real thing. I pick up a policeman's ornamented staff and think of the days of the first "Specials," when the bucks or the period had the ordinary "Watch at their mercy, and belaboured tho old "Charlies" with high-handed vigour. 1 pick up a bell swung by a town crier and think of a world that could not advertise anything save by word of mouth. Handling these old-world treasures, there always comes regret that the picturesque periods they recall are inevitably gone, and that tho fascinating folk of strange habit and action, who lent character to those distant days, will never return to live and play their parts in our midst.

In that spirit I used to handle my tea caddy. After all, no lady in silken skirts would again use it to lock up the precious Eastern leaves, or, having protected it from servants, would measure the tea out jealously for her friends. Tea was cheap enough in all conscience, and the protecting caddy a mere survival. Indeed, mine became a so certain was I that it would never again be used to harbour the choice leaves from far Assam.

And to-day we are back in the teacaddy age. Tea is selling at fabulous prices, when it can be obtained at all. The day is coming when there will be little drawing-room gatherings round the locked boxes of silver or rosewood, and the measuring of tea will go on near the drawing-room fire—a spoonful for each guest and one for the pot*. The tea caddy is slowly coming back to its own, and tripping in its wake are the gentle company of tea hoarders. In this matter the war has brought "the distant past back again and made it one of the realities of the present.

Yesterday the ted caddv with its associations lay in my studv full 0 f a favourite mixture. To-day I find the mixture has been pushed into a real tobacco jar, an old jar made from the lead of a battleship that nroudly sailed the sea when Nelson ruled' the waves I think perhaps the tobacco i s more appropriately harboured in the jar I bought at the sale of a verc old man's effects—-certainly. tobacco in a tobacco jar is in the place designed for it whereas in a tea caddy the weed is a usurper. I searched for my tea caddv and found it had secured a place of honour on the drawing-room mantelpiece. And when I asked mv wife if it were to become a receptacle for <!ried rose leaves, silken threads, or Jiairpms. I received mv answer According to the "woman 'of the house, a careful soul, my old tea caddy is to contain tea once more ~ <G S C ") Edgar ' Lonion "Daily

TO-DAY'S RECIPE. Rice and Cocoanut Pudding.—Required : Three ounces of rice, a tablespoonful of desiccated cocoanut, a aill of custard made from powder, a dessertspoonful of sugar, tie grated rind of half a lefnon, half an ounce of butter. Boil the rice, add salt, and drain -well; into the hot custard, which should be fairly thick, stir the rice, add the 6Ugar, cocoanut, butter, and lemon rind; mix all well together. Grease a mould or basin, turn the mixture in, and steam for one hour. Turn out and pour over a gill of hot syrup sauce.