WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16156, 9 March 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

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Miss Bishop (Greymouth) is in town. I>n Alice Gow is visiting Christchurch.

Mrs J Duncan and Miss Duncan (Wangnnui), and Miss Blackxnore (Palmer si on North), are visiting Warner s. Lady Hector and Miss Hector v n ellington) arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning. Amy Kane (Wellington) leaves for the North by to-night's boat. Mrs A. C. Begg, Miss Begg, and Miss "Clarke (Dunedin) are visiting Christchurch. Mrs Scott and Miss Beta Scott (Lower Riccarton) have returned from a holiday from Hanmer. Mrs Sim has left to spend a week or two with her son in North Canterbury. Mi-s Hope Wood is away in the country on a short visit to Mrs Chaffey. Mr and Mrs Dean (Melbourne) returned to Christchurch from Mount Cook last night. Mr and Mrs Fisher (Duuedin) aro staying at Warner's. On Wednesday evening a number of voun<r people paid a surprise visit to "Mr and Mrs S. Robertson, Rotherham street, Lowor Riccarton. A very eniovable evening was spent m games, inusic, and dancing, after which a dainty supper was served, ( and t the evening ended by singing "Ait Id Syne." The engagement is announced of Miss Enid Reed, younger daughter 01 Mr .j R. Reeu. K.C., Auckland, to Captain George Niccol, M.C., Roval x'ield \rtiilerv, son of Mr George Niccol, or Auckland. Captain Niccol was in JMigland fit the time war broke out, an« immediately offered his services to the Emnire. The wedding will take place before Captain Niccol returns to the front next month. The Selv,yn Nursing Division met on Tuesday (-veiling, Miss Adams, first officer, being in charge. There was a good attendance of members to hear an address by Mr MeKinney. A-A.C., on the uses of "'The Kit," "The I'racture Box," and various other Tnrst Aid appliances for hemorrhage, ctc '; - 10 ' which the lecturer was accorded hearty vote of thanks. Under the auspices of the Women's National Reserve, her Excellency the 1 Countess of Liverpool will, at _.i>u on Wednesday week, at the Choral flail, present badges .to mothers and wives of soldiers. .Applications ■ for tlieso badges made accompanied by necessary particulars, to the office of the Reserve, 257 Manchester between the hours of 2.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. Another pleasant garden fete on a liberal scale is promised the public today at the Rhodes Convalescent Home, Dyer's Pass road, Cashmere Hills. It is to be opened by his Excellency the GoVernor-General, at 2.30 p.m. The Tramway Jiand will be in attendance, and among the numerous attractions will be a baby show from 3to 4 o'clock. A large amount of produce will be on sale, and afternoon tea, fruit, salad, sweets, and cakes will be available. Among the entertainments will be an Auto-Pierrot concert from 8 to 9 o'clock.

A very vhin motor veil should be folded as smoothly as possible until it is about the size of a lolded silk handkerchief, and then looselyVstitcbed with silk to keep it in pi ape. Prepare a warm soapy lather, and squeeze the veil in it until it is quite clean. Let the soapy lather go well through it, as it will take longer to get clean when it is folded up. If it were washed iu single pieces it would spoil the veiling. When clean rinse in two lots of ivann rinsing water, ami lastly in cold water containing one toaspooniul of methylated spirit to a quart of cold water. Squeeze in a towel till almost dry. but be very careful to have it flat, and not to get it twisted. Have a soft pad for ironing over ; take out theStitfchos carefully, shake the veil, and pull it into shape Aerv gently, and then iron, with a 1 bin muslin cloth over it, until dry. Your veil will look almost as good a 6 new. Castile soap is one of the veiy. best to wash any delicatc fabric or . colour with. TO CORRESPONDENTS. By arrangement with Mrs Rolleston, Hair Physician, Specialist in Electrolysis, and Face Treatments. Qualified London, Paris, an<j. America. Correspondence replied to privately and confidentially by po3t. through this column on all matters pertaining to the car© of the hair and complexion. Advice is also given gratis on the treatment of the following: — Falling Ilair Premature Greyncas 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 Combing* Value of Transformations, Toupees, and Switches Treatment of Children's Hair Wnt ° MRS ROLLESTON. X Dominion Building, CathedraJ nuare. GIRLS WHO CANNOT COOK, MOTHERS-TO BLAME. (Bv Hilda M. Love, in London "Daily ' ' Mail.") Hard again! Six beautiful brown eggs, of the precious real new-laid variety, stood in their bine cups on the breakfast table. Outside the early morning sun shone , hopefully, the yellow jasmine danced at the windows, but within the cottage of the Land Girls was tragedy. The eggs were hard as bullets again. And I could see in fancy their mothers, my mother, all the other mothers, shaking their heads as they looked at that breakfast table and the thick coffee, and saying ironically, "Fine i wives you'll make! ' Yet'we have a case against the mothers. When the cottage was taken tho cn--1 thusiasm was immense. The girls were to do their own cook"How lovely!" cried the fire. "Hownice to have just the tilings we want!'' "I can make grand toffee," gushed Mick, and added vaguely that she had i once cooked a leg of mutton; but as 1 the girls Lad not any sugar for toffee, and never lad a leg of mutton, Mick's accomplishments were useless. "I do like things -well cooked,"' was Biddy's remark when she took possession of the stove. But everyone does not care for potatoes so sloppy that they cannot be dished up, and for meat so shrivelled that it is like chaff, or for eggs that have to be eaten with a knife and fork. _ _ * After the culinary enthusiasm had simmered down, the sad fact was revoaled that only one of the ftve ccfcild to pose as anything of a cook, and she had decided limitations. Right up to their very door grew such valuable fare as leeks, parsnips, sprouts, and carrots. But these were disregarded because the girls knew not a -palatable way in which to serve them.

One night a council was held after zreasv gravy, bread and meat, and the fam tart of a kind neighbour. <-\Vhv can t you girls cook? asked Bim. I'k® a man who can t swim 3r, %v mother would never let roe, that's" why," flashed out Mick, smartjne under silent reproaches "Same here," chimed in Biddy. If ever I want to do anything in the kitchen, mother says she d sooner do it herself than see me 'messing about with right." added Nan. "It's just the same in my home. My mother would never dream of leaving me m charge of the cinner, and yet 1 m twenty-five." Those girls iaTe a case a 2 a ' nst Fine wives they 11 make, to be su^ 0 ' Thev cannot peel a potato properly, let alone cook it decently. Their only idea fr.rictv in the egg line is to fry Vinstead of boiling it, when it aPP? ars like i Tcasv piece of young leathei. These girls, when they think about it at all have a hazy idea of battling their way through xhe marriage maze with a frying pan. . , In this cottage, of modern, brigat, intelligent girls, potential wives, gathered haphazard from various homes in different parts of tlio country, all voice the same plaint: "Mother won t let me."' , . , . And there is truth in their excuse. Mother so often will not let her gin 6' learn to cook in her own kitchen, the spot where real everyday cookery is learnt. She does not want them to spoil good food; sometimes she has not the patience to teach them or the time: sometimes, 1 think, she fears a little that the reins of authority rtiay s-lip out of her hands. What<A-er the cause, the result is a great and increasing army of girls whom circumstances may compel to cook in homes of their own some day, but who at present are hopelessly ignorant of the first rules. And this, of course, means bad-tem-pered husbands in the future, poorly nourished children, and women bitterly exclaiming, "Why didn't my mother teach me to cook?'' SHOULD THERE BE A WOMEN'S PARTY? AMERICAN WOMEN DECIDE AGAINST THE PROPOSAL. The women of New York who have recently received the vote havo resolved that they will not form a separate party —a women's party. They will work politically with men, learning from them and following thenmethods. .uiss i. A. K. Wylie, the novelist, let-is mat u women s party may sei vl a purpose, tuougu u.u euoicv or tile name is not a lortunate one. "1 Ue lujb or rue matter' is," she .says, ••thui. nuxiieneaUy women arc ion in uio political ivorid, ioo wean ■j. f.oliucai e.vptineiico, as yet too easily numouggeu by political uickery, to L>o able to mergu iiiemseiies in won's oj giiJiioiinons uniiout. co.iipi-tj losj oi jjiMi'er. •in the light for the vole we had one example utter another oi women's suhrage societies being lured into union with men's organisations, the net result lor the vote being exactly ml. When Uio fignt caine uie men naturally tlncw the women's question overboard in favour ot ; tiieir own interests, anci it was not until a women s party, absolutely independent of masculine uihuence, came into being that the question of the vote became one of practical politics. ''Now that women are striving to use the tool which the>* have won (let us hope) by their own sacrifice arid in the face of the bitterest opposition, it'is all the more necessary that they should unite on some definite and ex-

elusive programme. There arc certain issues which are vital to the State and dearest to the heart of women— the questions of children, education, motherhood, housing, the divorce laws, to mention only a few points. "There are the industrial questions —the question of women's wages, which has not, and will not,' have fair consideration until women make their power felt as a separate and deter- j mined party. The woman who is, j prepared to join men's organisations which arc avowedly and quite naturally out to look after men's interests is simply leaving her sex in the lurch. She is betraying the women who have given their lives in order that she should have power to better the condititins of women in the future._ "A sex wnr? God forbid. No one thinks of such a thing. We have another war on, and it has tauglit men aud women to understand and respect each other as they have never done before. It has begun to open their eyes to the fact that 'my good is your good,' and that fiyic men must have fine women at the'.r s:dc if. victory is to be won." TO-DAY'S RECIPE. Pickled Beetroot.—lt is essential to use only fresh, very red beetroot, iirst of all they have to bo boiled until they art) perfectly tender, and then removed from the fire. Afterwards the skin must bo peeled off them, and the beetroots cut into a wheel or any other fancy shape. Then place the slices in a jar. Afterwards boil sufficient vinegar to well cover the shaped beetroot, and add thereto a few slices of horse radish, a little sliced ginger, and mace. When this mixture has boiled sufficiently, take it off the stove, and pour it whilst, hot over the beetroots in the jar. Then firmly seal the jar in the