WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1438, 13 May 1912, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

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TO-DAY'S DINNER,

[Specially written for Tire Dosiision.] MONDAY. Mulligatawny Soup, Macaroni and Meat Pudding. Potatoes. Vegetable Marrow. Itice l'ucklijijf. Slewed Pears. MACAROXI AND MMAT PUDDING. Three-quai-lors of a pound of cold meat, 3oz. stable bread, one egg, pepper, and salt, parsley or a little onion. Joss.' macaroni, a little stock or milk. Boil the macaroni in salted water until tender. Butter a plain mould or pudding basin, and line it with the macaroni, putting it round in a. circle. Mince the meat; add the seasoning and the bread—which must lie previously soaked in stock or milk—and the well-beaten egg; moisten with a little stock or milk, put into the prepared mould, and steam two hours. Serve with tomato puree poured round, not over, the pudding. FOR TO-jrOKHOW. Celery. Stock. Loin of Mutton. Onions. Apples. Breadcrumbs. Suet. Cur- , rants. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Pioneer Club Evening. A' "Dickens evening" was held in the Pioneer Club rooms on Saturday by members and their friends, and proved to bo as delightful as it was uncommon. A paper dealing with various ispects of Ins writings was read bv Mrs. Gray, who showed in her sympathetic, handling ot her subject her appreciation of the great writer and his work. Selections from some of the books were given by Mrs. J. Darling, Mrs. Myers, and Mrs. Corliss, and some delightful old English songs sung by Miss Newton and Mrs. Snick. A series of social evenings havo been arranged for during the next three mouths, and with the recollection of Saturday in their minds', will be looked forward to by members with much pleasure. A Golden Wedding. On Friday, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Krull, of Wanganui, celebrated their goluen wedding. They were married on May 10, ISC2, at St. Peter's Church, Wellington, by the Re-v. Mr. Stokes. The Rev. Mr. Mcadowcroft and Mrs. Meadowcroft left for Sydney on Friday. The engagement has been announced of Miss J. Draper, Hemuera, Auckland, to Mr. Roger Fenton, also of Auckland, and elder so'n of the late Judge Fenton. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Watson, of Dunedin,, havo been visiting Wellington, and leave to-day for Huntervillo, where they will stay With Mrs. A. Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Cameron, lately of "Pahao," Martinborough, are at present in town, and are staying at the Windsor Hotel. Mrs. Lourie, "Belle Villa," Oriental Bay, has returned from a mouth's holiday in the country. Mrs. Mvers has accompanied the Hon. A. Myers' on his visit to the south. Mr. S. V. Bracher and Mrs. Bracher, who are leaving Wellington for England, via Svdncy, on the 30th of this month, leave 'their house in Elliee Street to-day, ami until their final departure will be staying at 169 The Terrace. Mr. Albert Goldie and Mrs. Goldie have arrived in London, states a correspondent of April i, and after a short stay there are leaving for New York. s Miss de Thierry, of New Zealand, states an English paper, read recently, by special invitation, a paper on the subject of "Some Famous West Indians," before the members and friends of the West Indian Committee, at the rooms, Seething Lane, London, K.C. Sir Charles J.ucas, of the Colonial Office, presided. ! Miss Betty Turton, who has been spending some time with her sister in . 'l'e Kiiiti, is expected to return to Wellington early this week. Miss Audrey Richardson, a young New Zealand violinist, has just given a successful recital in London. She was trained at the Guildhall School of .Music, where she won the Merchant Tailors' scholarship, and also carried off all the chief prizes for violin playing. MRS. KOLLESTON, Hair Specialist (qiial. 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From these we gather that she must have been burn at about 935, and must have died after 9(iß, probably not until 1002. She. must have entered the convent young to have gained such an amount of learning and such perfect mastery of the Latin language, ami yet nuist have had a thorough knowledge of the world and its ways before she became a nun—and some experience in love' affairs, too! Hoswitha had made a thorough study of the Latin poet, Terence, and her. regret that those desirous of higher culture should have to be fed by heathenisn poetry, caused her to write six dramas in imitation of the Latin poet, but on Christian subjects. Probably . there is not much in common between the works of Terence and those of Hoswitha, except the number six, and to some extent the j language. The Latin, of l'oswitha s works was that of the monks of her time, which she certainly handled with a facility and vigour far excelling that of contemporaneous writers. 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number of short scones arc loosely strung together, and the plays are-for this, if for no other reason, unsuitable for the stage. Tlie whole littlo volume of the six dramas, which lies before me, contains i:"J .-small pages. It is a German translation, and with introduction, bv Uttomnr Pill/., edited by Phillipp Keelnm, Leipzig. Hut, Jor ail their shortcomings, tlier-e little works have something extremely l';w.innling about, them, and one, being of special' interest to English people, I must mention by name. "The Resurrection of I)ru»iaiia*aud Caiimachus," which shows such an extraordinary relationship to Shakespeare's "iiomeo and Juliet" that, in' one scene, if such an assumption were not absolutely out of tho question, one might say Shakespeare hart translated certain passages from Hoswitha. Of course the only solution, can be that Shakespeare's' informant and Hoswitha must have gone to tho same source for their subject! Roswitha's poems show in some parts still greater poetic power than her dramas, and in one we find the whole of Goethe s Faust legend foreshadowed, even with its redemptive ending. And when wo consider the dearth of literary achievement in the period in which she lived, and the nositnn of women, her fame and recognition in her own time speak even more, loudly in her favour.