WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 10

WOMAN'S WORLD.

TO-DAY'S DINNER. (Specially irriUon for Tns Douinioh.) SATURDAY. Stcnk and Iriduey pudding. Potatoes. Cauliflower. Stewed pears and rice. STEAK AND KIDNEY PUDDING. Two pounds steak, one ox lcidney, one dessertspoonful of llour, one teaspooniul of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, half a pound of flour, ■ quarter pound of suet, one level spoonful of baking powder.. Mix the flour, baking powder, and a pincU of salt' together in a basin. Shied and chop the suet, and mix it with the (lour. Make a well and mix to a stiff paste with cold water. Roll out thinly, and line a well-greased pudding basin. Trim the edges, and roll the trimmings out into a piece large enough to cover the pudding. Mix the llour, popper, and salt together. Cut tho steak and kidney up, and mix them with the seasoned flour. Fill tho basin half full with water, cover, and tie dotfn with a wet pudding cloth. Put into sufficient boiling water to cover and boil for four Hours.

• SUNDAY'S DINNER. Boast sirloin of beef. Yorkshire pudding. Potatoes. Baked tomatoes. Pineapple soufl'lee. Apple tart. ' SUPPER. Cold beef. Galantine of veal. Tomato salad. Chocolate charlotte. Jelly. : SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Croquet Handicap. , The first round of tho Handicap' Singles, Croquet, tournament has been completed; results boing as follow: —Mrs. C.-, Johnston (10' bisques) beat Mrs. Rolleston (10 'bisques); Mr. E. P. Bunny (G bisques) beat'Ars. von Zedlitz (3 ;bisques); Mr.. H. 'F. : ;"'Johnston (8 bisques) beat Mrs. S. Pearco (9 bisques); Mr. C. Johnston (G bisques) W.O. Mr. G. Pearce (4 scratched); Mrs. A. Duncan (9 bisques) beat.Mrs. Turnbull (7 bisques); Mrs. H. P. Johnston (10 bisques) beat Mrs. Brandon (9 bisques). Second round: Mrs. Pisher (10 bisques) beat Mrs. PitzGerald (7 bisques); Mrs. C. Johnston (10 bisques) beat Mr. E. P. Bunny (G bisques); Mrs. A. Pearce (5 bisques) beat Mrs. Barron (10 bisques); Mr. K. H. Izard (scratch) beat Mrs. Elgar (9 bisques). The matches between Dr. Purdy and Mr. J. Joseph, Mrs. A. Duncan and Mrs. H. ,F. Johnston, Mrs.. Purdy'and Mr. Ivebbell, Mr. C. Johnston and Mr. H. P. Johnston will complete the second round by March 10. The following is the draw for the matches for the prize given by Mrs. G. P. C. Campbell, vice-president of the Perrysido Croquet Club, Day's Bay: Mr.'Guy Pulton plays Miss V. Zohrab;. Mrs. Geddis plays Mrs. W. K. Fulton; Airs. Zahrab plays Mrs. Tabuteau; Jlrs. G. Fulton plays Miss Dorothy Bulk-ley; Mrs. Wilkin plays' Miss N. Zohrab; Mrs. J. "\V. Henderson plays Mrs. S. P. \V"right; Miss Geddis plays Mrs. W. H. Didsbury; Miss Henderson plays Miss Poss; Mr. Didsbury. plays Miss, D. Conner; Mr. Bovin plays Miss Goodman. The handicaps of the above players are posted in the club-house. • The' semi-finals for Mrs. J.- G. Findlay's trophy aro being played this afternoon.

Freo Kindergarten. Council. Last night, in the' Mayor's . Room at the (Town Hall,.ithe Free Kindergarten held for , tlio year 1910.- ,The .'last was; held in October, and it decided;,that in future, the annual meetings.- should be held as early as possible in the school year, Iso that a complete year's, work might ,come-under review. • .There was a small attendance, and the Mayoress; Mrs. Newman, presided. The election of in the. reappointment of the former year's committee, to wham were added- Mrs. Corliss and .Mrs. Darling.. Mrs.. T. H. Gill was elected president, while. Miss .Richmond was appointed organising secretary. Miss Richmond, who read the report of the work done since last annual meeting, emphasised again the council's dosire that the Government • should 1 set examinations' and • grant certificates to the kindergarten student teachers, and also arrange. the ' syllpbus, and so give the teachers 'a definite standing. Tea in Hobsoh Street. '■ It was a. most, enjoyable tea that Mrs. Brandon gave yesterday afternoon at her home in Eobson Street to. enable their friends here to meet Mrs. 1 and Miss Wroughton, who are spending a few days in Wellington, on their way home, .'to Ashburton. During the afternoon several songs were charmingly sung 'by Miss Wroughton. The tea-table was effectively decorated ■' with pink amaryllis . and maidenhair fern, and Mrs! Brandon's daughters all helped. to serve . the tea. Mrs. Brandon received in a frock of black and:white, with vest of cream lacc;.Mrs. Wroughton wore a cream cloth costume and black hat with'pink .feathers: Miss Wroughton a.whita «ilk frock and . black hat with white plumes; Mrs. Larnach, black and white atripad frock, and Miss .Brandon a fawn "l'rock. Among other guests present were: Mrs. Newman, Mr. and Miss Duncan,. Mrs. Lan Duncan, Mrs Crawford, .ilrs. Collins, Mrs. G. FitzGerald, Mrs. fisher, Miss lurnee, Mr* and Miss Barron.

A Handkerchief Tea. Miss Ida Evans, of the Telephone Exchange, .who is shortly to )>b married, was entertained yesterday afternoon at a handkerchief tea given by Mrs; Hervcy, J™ 11 about thirty .guests . were present. Ihe afternoon -was a ■ very. enjoyable one, and -Miss Evans -received many dainty gif.ts.-, During-the afternoon there was a clever competition, which • was arranged by Mrs. Kroeft and'won by Miss Bagget. : Children's Wards. One is so accustomed to think of the children's ward as an essential part of a general hospital that it is rather surprising. to hear on Lord Plunket's authority that many hospitals have no children's ward. During his farewell visit to Napier, his Excellency opened the hospital children's ward, which is provided with twenty-two beds. '• The ward owed its existence, said his Excellency in opening it, almost entirely to the chairman, and lie only regretted that Lady Plunkett was not present ow--ing to her interest in these matters. He found, that a number of hospitals did not have a children's ward, and this was very regrettable, as in many cases a doctor thought that it would be better -to keep a child out of a hospital than to put it in the, general ward.

lUTTERS OF INTEREST FROM JTEAE AZD FAB, , G3T BoZCSULtej

The Graceful Art. ' Fencing is steadily gaining in - favonj' among English girls, says Miss" Gladys Campbell, a lady who, after several years' experience as a teacher: of dancing, -calisthenics, and fencing in London, has, coma 'to teach in Wellington. She is a .cerfciheated teacher of Mrs. Wordsworth'in all" these subjects, and Mrs. Wordsworth,' it seems, lias one of the largest schools' for - lencmg m England. . , "A great many.'Eng-. usn arts go in for .it now," says . Miss. • ~e y aro always eager to leara o\erj tiling they can, and they have'a peculiar springy style, the Belgian lioavy but \cxy quick, and the French, which'is JF 1 , 00 ? 11 -L'ho French system is tho in Eng'isli schools. . s?* ft ls wcar a specially adapted costume—knickerbockers, or short skirtMiss Campbell favours tho short skirt— tluckly-padded jacket- and mask. One imagines that after a long course of this, with plenty of practice in the thrust and parrj, a jprl with an umbrella, would bo a match for a Wellington garrotter, but Miss Campbell 6eems'to think that-the greatest advantage in learning fencing ,ia the graceful' carriage it gives, not ths. militant powers it'confers. ■ i': . Swedish calisthenics and dancing are tha other subjects for which Miss Campbell holds Mrs. Wordsworth's certificates, 'and she disabuses one's mind of the'idea that a variety of .apparatus, is.necessary for Swedish gymnastic work. It is true, sha says, ■ that some Swedish teachers do uso various apparatus, but it is not necessary, and one great .value is that "it trains the pupil s mind as well as her body, for tha teacher is supposed to do everything by direction, not. to show anything, which' means that the pupil must give her mind to working out'the exercises for herself according to direction, and by this means ■ the muscles are.'properly exerted 1 as they would not be if the teacher's movements' were slavishly copied. . Of dancing Miss Campbell has a great ■deal to say—by the way it appears that the Boston waltz is . the most populal dance in London just no**;. She .expresses great admiration for Miss Mand Allan's wonderful-' (fences, and tho'complete absence of staginess which she manages tosecure. Tho classical dance has an appearance of perfect spontaneity, but Miss Campbell, who. has studied it in theory, says that it absolutely bristles with rules, and thougli no two dancers would perhaps interpret the same music in, the same way, they would both, interpret it'rigidly, ac< cording to rule'. The matter is too com< plicated to be explained in a few words, but each note has its value; and a minim is matched by a "minim march," whila there is,,, a "crotchet march," iind so on. One would like to know if . there i 6 a "demi-semi-quaver march" as well, and what it . looks - like, . also whether the Greeks; did their dancing by such elaborate rules. The man who invented the modern classical, danccs composed also tho music for them, but his system can, be adapted to'any music. : ' . ' '

Lady visitors to the Trentbam niDge, yesterday were Mrs. F. B. Mabm'ani. Miss Kelling. , / . .. Miss Baldwin Warn and Hiss -Durranii left on Thursday for Dunedin, .wherft they will probably exhibit their pictures.' Miss Gladys Campbell is the guest ofc Mrs. Oswald Johnston at tha Hutt. Mrs. Gear and her two daughters leffe( yesterday for a trip to Sydney. Mr; and-Mrs. E- Barnett, of Barirua,, leave by the Moana next Friday for a* holiday trip to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Dive, of Taranaki, and Mr. and (he Misses Dormer l&), of Auckland, ara staying at. the. Columbia Private Hotel., Lower. Cuba Street. . . . partyv. is. - to . .be held"? at; the ■hbme,vof KMOtf.'j;# aid • >o j fl thtf T funds, of the '.'Baptist s Ghnrot' at Ohakune. , ' - Announcement, is made of ment of' Miss Mabel • formerly-, sister at Wellington Hospital, to • Hi«Ajiiu'ri Robinson. . Mr. and Mrs: Charles Izard,'vim, since,' their return-from England, have been, living at Bellevne Gardens, are now. back at their home in Talavera Terrace. Miss .Talbot will bo the guest of Dr« and Mrs. Hope-Lewis dura? her -visit to Auckland;:;.-. ■ Mrs,;.,J. D. ;D..- Spicer.-left for/her-home in Auckland • yesterday . by- the Main Trunk, train.- . . ... . Miss Amy Duigan.from Wanganui,\ia visiting ■ Mrs. C., W. Adams,- Bellovua Road, Hutt. Miss Florence. Williams,- Mus. Bac., andi MissiDulcie Williams, B.Sc., - left. yesterday for Sydney,: where they .join the Moldavia, for .-.England. . Miss Florence. Williams go?s Home to undergo a further course- of musical study and hersister to continue the study of medicine at Edinburgh. University.. ' Both -young . ladies are daughters of Mrs. Nat Williams, an. .old .and highly respected resident of Napier. '•*• Mr.- Rutherford, of Mendip Hills, witli his wife and three daughters, left yesterday for ■ Sydney,. on' routo to • the Old World, where they intend to travel for two years. They will - travel by tlie Otranto as far as Marseilles, and then go for a. torn; in Spain, returning-to Marseilles and going on -for a stay in Paris." They will afterwards spend some time motoring in England, going first to the southern counties, and as far as Cornwall..... After a stay in England they mean to travel through Europe and'tlis East. . • - - •'