NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24909, 24 June 1946, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Bobbie Cameron Smith, who left Christchurch for England in March, is now working in London with Mr Lawrence Turner, the well-known English wood carver. She is doing Gothic carvings for churches and abbeys. Miss Cameron Smith is the only woman member of the Carvers’ Guild in London. More than 200 guests attended the eighth birthday party of the Christchurch Crippled Young Men’s Club held recently. The president (Mr H. Grainger) said that the club had had a successful year. The membership, however, was still small, and any crippled young man between the ages of 16 and 30 years would be welcomed. It was hoped that, later, the club would have its own rooms. The programme for the evening was presented by members of the club’s orchestra and drama circle. The birthday cake was cut by Mrs H. B. Duckworth, wife of the chairman of the advisory council.

Developments in treatment for crippled children will be studied by a Wellington masseuse, Miss Patricia Greenfield Brown, who plans a sixmonths’ tour of clinics and children’s hospitals in England and Scotland. She has been awarded a rehabilitation bursary and hopes to leave for England in a few weeks. After completing her training, she specialised in massage for crippled children, and was working with the Crippled Children Society before the war. She returned to New Zealand last year after four and a half years with the Army Nursing Service in the Middle East. When she comes back after studies overseas, she hopes to continue her specialised work with the Crippled Children Society.—(P.A.) According to a recent message from London, an envoy from the French Government flew to London early this month to ask the Australian soprano, Marjorie Lawrence, to sing in Paris at a special gala in her honour next October. The gala was to have been held at the Paris Opera House, but the French Government now has decided .that this would be “too small for all who wish to pay honour to this gallant artist.” So it is being arranged in the biggest concert hall in Paris, where 6000 will be able to attend. Marjorie Lawrence will also be given a special reception by members of the French Medical Academy, who have offered to do anything in their power to help alleviate her condition. Recently, Marjorie Lawrence, who at present is on a concert tour of England, went to Australia House and sang to members of the Australian Victory Contingent. This was in spite of one of the heaviest concert schedules ever arranged in England for front-rank artists. Already she has sung three times in one week at the Albert Hall. Women demobilised from the A.T.S. resent taking orders from business women who have not had war service, according to a recent message from London. This is said to be one of the reasons why hundreds of demobilised A.T.S. have asked the British War Office for permission to re-enlist. About 40 per cent, of the girls applying for peace-time service in the A.T.S. have had war service, many overseas. They say they dislike office and factory after open-air service in the Army. After three and a half years’ service in the W.R.N.S., throughout which period she has been superintendent of W.R.N.S. for the Auckland district at H.M.N.Z.S. Philomel, Second Officer Joyce Duthie has retired from the service. Miss Duthie, whose duties included administrative and welfare work, went to H.M.N.Z.S. Philomel in December, 1942, when the W.R.N.S. first started in Auckland, and has worked there ever since until her demobilisation this week. Third Officer Mary Morten will succeed Miss Duthie as Auckland superintendent.

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BREAD PROBLEM

HEALTH DEPARTMENT’S ADVICE People complain about-the staleness of bread at the week-ends (says a bulletin issued by the Department of. Health). In trying to keep bread fresh, abandon the old-fashioned tin, with its tightly-closed lid. The best way to keep a loaf fresh is to wrap it in a clean, dry cloth and store in a wellventilated place in a cupboard. If you have a built-in bread bin, it should be well ventilated. If you use a box or tin, there should not only be ventilation holes, but the lid should be prevented from shutting tightly, and fie kept tilted. Any bread storage place should be washed out once a week and dried thoroughly. The point is, if you want to keep bread fresh, the loaf must have air.

"As a matter of fact, on medical grounds there is no point in having bread fresh,” the bulletin continues. “It is more digestible when stale. New bread, unless very thoroughly chewed, forms doughy lumps in the stomach. These doughy masses put up considerably more fight against digestion than does stale bread. , “The story begins in the mouth. There the saliva starts off the digestion of bread, by turning the starch into sugars. The more tne bread is chewed, the more the saliva gets mixed in, and more and more of the starch is turned to sugars that are soluble and therefore digestible. The moistness of new bread is the trouble. It is not so easy to chew and because it is so moist already, it does not take up so much saliva. Stale bread is broken down more finely by the teeth, and is more easily' saturated with saliva. That is why toast and crusts are more easily digested. ‘‘There are folk who can eat fresh bread with impunity; but that does not prove that it is as digestible as stale bread. A test showed that newlybaked bread can pass the whole of the small intestine without becoming digested.”