WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1167, 30 June 1911, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OE INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAB.

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TO-DAY'S DINNER. (Specially written for Tub Dominion.) FRIDAY. Pea Soup. Curried Schnapper. Eico Cheese. Potatoes. Roly Poly Jam i'uclding. IUCE CHEESE. Quarter of a pound of rice, loz. flour, }oz. butter, £ pint of milk, 3oz. cheese. Mixed mustard, pepper, and snlt to taste. ' , Put the rice into boiling ealted water, and boil for. 13 or It minutes. Drain carefully and dry before tho fire, (irato tho cheese. Molt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the Uour, add tho milk ami stir until it boils. Boil for 3" minutes and season to taste. Butter a pie-dish and put the rice, cheese' and sauce in alternate layers. Drown and make very hot in the oven. FOR TO-MORROW. One pound and a half Fillet of Beef, cut 2 inches thick. Artichokes. : ' Golden Syrup. FOR SUNDAY. One Ox Kidney. Stock. Sirloin of Beef. Horse-radish. Parsnips. Apples. Pastry. Cream. FOB iSTJPPER. One Rabbit. Gelatine. Sood Stock. Salad. One Tin of Apricots. Almonds. Cream. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL A Palmerston Wedding. At All Saints' Church, Palmerston, on Wednesday afternoon Mr. W. L. t Bailey, of Mangaweka, was married to Miss Ohvo Walkley, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Walkley, of Palmerston North. Mr. A.. Bailey was best man. Tho Rev. Mr. Kendrick officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, ■■ whose future home will be in Mangaweka, received many congratulations from friends. Mrs. Adams (Marlborongh) is staying af the-Royal Oak. Mr. and' Mrs. A. Hannay (Lower Valley) are spending a few days in town. Mrs. George Humo and Mrs. W. Hnme (Lower Valley) are staying at tho Royal Oak. , Mrs. M. Meredith (Masterton) is in town. : . . ... Mrs. W. Perry .(Masterton) is a visitor, to town , . '..'■■ Mrs. F. Maunsell (Tcnui) is spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs. Albert Beethain and Mrs. W. W tham (Masterton) have come to Wellington to attend the Sheffield Choir performance and are staying at the Royal Oak. , Mr. and Mrs. D'alziel ("Marawa") are spending a' few days in Wellington. ; Mr. mid Mrs. Erl Williams (Wairarapa) are visiting Auckland and are staying with Mrs. T. (J. Williams. Mrs'. ; Monckton (Otaki). was a visitor .to town last week; y . ... Mrs. Hugh Williams (Masterton) and :her-chiMren are , spending-scveral-weeks-at Plimmerton. . ~ ~,,:, Last week Mrs. J. B. Henry, of 'Ttfyrus," Lansdoune, gave a largo farewell tea for Mrs..Galwey, who;-with her children aie. leaving very shortly for iNapier. Nurse Klem (formerly of the'""Ellice Street Private Hospital), and her sister are .leaving for Sydney tho TJlimaroa "to-d'ay. ■ Mrs. W. Booth (Carterton) is in town. • Mrs.i Johnston (Carterton) is, spending a few days in Wellington. '. ' " ■ Miss Doris Roy (New Plymouth) returned to Wellington on Wednesday from visiting friends iu South Canterbury, and is "spending a few days with Mrs. Strachan.

Visitors to Wellington at present staying at "Kcnilworth" are:—Miss Lydia Williams, from Hawke's Bay, and Miss Keith, Mrs. Cowx (Waipawa), Mrs. Atkinson (Wanganui), and Miss Watson, also from Wanganui. ' •

Mr. and Mrs. White, who have been touririp the South Island, are at present in Wellington, staying at "Kenilvrorth.' They intend leading for theit , homo in Auckland on Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Tait (Featherstori), with their two daughters, are on a visit to Wellington.

DR. IZARD SPEAKS. POLITICS, EUGENICS, ETC. Dr. Arnold Izard addressed a meeting of women in tho Sydney Street Schoolroom last evening, taking as his subject matter eugenics, infantile mortality, and the declining birth-rate. There was an attendance of between fifty and sixty. The speaker was introduced to his audienco by Mrs. Dyer, who presided. In the com-so of his address, Dr. Izard stated that he considered it advisable that thero should be at least one doctor in .Parliament, especially as many questions regarding health were beginning to occupy a prominent place in tho public mind. He was .standing for Parliament in tho Liberal interest, pledged for the Liberal Government, as against the Opposition, but, in all other matters, he would vote as ho thought right. In regard to general politics, Dr. Izard spoke on the lines of his previous. address. Municipal control of milk was also dealt with, and charitable aid and medical relief. Thero were many people who could not afford to call in doctors—their charges were too exorbitant—and ho thought the Charitable Aid Board should supply them, with medical relief. Women should receive the Old Age Pension at sixty years of age. Dr. Izard thought that there should be an extension of maternity hospitals. Tho cost of maternity undoubtedly helped to lower" the birth rate. If the St. Helens Hospitals were extended, more women could be trained, and so attend to women in their own. homes. There was great need for sufficient recreation grounds. More care should be taken in the laying out of our towns—more air, more space, and, if the city authorities did not consider them,, then the Government should in and compel them' to. ••' In speaking upon eugenics, Dr. Izard .said that the health of-a nation did not censist in property or industries, but in its men and women. Eugenics pointed out tho importance of bringing into the worid the right kind of life, and how it should be taken care of; also it would assist in preventing those diseased in mind and body from marrying. The ratio of healthy children born into the world, to those who were unhealthy, was 90 to 10, and' this proportion showed that environment,- and not heredity, was accountable for the lack of health which appeared later.' The sneaker then delved into figures, comparing tho birth rate of New Zealand with that of Australia, and with the European countries, and the average number of children in families. The illegitimate -birth rate in New Zealand was IS in every thousand—the lowest in the world save for Switzerland and the Netherlands. The marriage age was now increasing, and that accounted partly for the declining birth rate. People were more luxurious in their tastes now, and waited until their prospects were fairly assured. The infantile mortality in New Zealand was in the proportion of 68 per thousand children in tho first year—tho lowest in the world. Many causes contributed towards that mortality—the ignorance of mothers, artificial feeding, injudicious »a of drugs, chemicals in milk, and many things. He would urge that girls in the schools, should be'taught tho feeding and care of infants and elementary hygiene, instead of. some of the useless rubbish which they were learning nowadays. Ihe stomach of a newlv-born child could hold only twp tablespoonfuls of liquids, and mothers often tried to cram them with twice or three times as much food. Insane people should, of course, not marry, and neither should criminals. In ■-regard"to criminals, it was said that edu-. cation was a cure, but, if there were fewer crimes, they were -subtler. More created by alcoholic parents than by anything" else, and Dr. Izard again gavo figures illustrating this point, as well as quoting from research anthori;tie< Ho added, however, that, lie was 'speaking of tho abuses of alcohol, not on 'prohibition. „ At the close of the meeting _Nurse Everitt proposed a hearty vote of tnahks to Dr. Izard, endorsing his . remarks from her actual experience lioth here and in London. She advised-all women to -work for his return at tho general election. Mrs. Kirby seconded the motion, stating that it was quite tinio that women faced these questions seriously, and that it was the' duty of < : women to secure tho return of Dr. Izard.