WOMAN'S ' WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 10

WOMAN'S ' WORLD.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM-PAR AND NEARi

(By Imogen.)

Answer to Correspondent. "An Eltham Reader."—ln answer to your request, wo reprint the recipe for the soldiers' Christmas cake. Tho directions are as follow:—2Jlb. flour, 1 Jib. sugar, lib. currants, lib. raisins, lib. sultanas, Jib. lemon peel, -Sib. cooking almonds, lib. butter, 10 eggs, 1 small teaspoon soda, 2 small teaspoons cream of tartar. Cream the butter and sugar, add the well-beaten eggs, mix tho soda and cream of tartar with tho flour, then gradually stir all the ingredients into the mixture. This makes two cakes. Bake for four hours. Havo tho oven rather hot at first to prevent tho fruit eottling, tlion a steady moderate heat to finish the baking. Chit down a 51b. tea tin to five inches deep,-' lino with sis thicknesses of brown paper and one of white, and hake your mixture in two of these tins. When baked, Temovo the papers, ico tho cakes thinly round the' sides and thickly on the top with an icing made of- the whites of two eggs and enough icing sugar to.mix. when tho icing has . set, pack .the cake in tho tin in Which it »was baked, put tho lid of your tea tin on, and seal with was or solder, and your cake is ready for posting to your soldier. The icing help 3to keep the cake moist. Regarding the addressing of a case of Christmas comforts to the men in the trenches, a good plan would bo to. send it to .-the Mayoress at the Town Hall, Wellington, at the same time sending a-wiro to say you were doing so. : Through the Countess of Liverpool Committee, who havo stencil appliances for addressing cases, it could ue sent to a depot where it would be forwarded to the soldiers at tho front.

In Aid of the Hospital Ship. A very pleasant "at home" was given by Mrs. W. H. Evatt, 'VWestbeach,' Island Bay, in r.id of tlio funds foe the new Hospital Ship. The diningroom and hall were decorated with bowls and clumps of arum lilies and a number of smalt tables displayed boxes of home-inade sweets and cakes for Sale. A room had also been set aside for fortune-telling, a pastime that never fails, to entertain. As a result of the afternoon's undertaking the sum' of £4 4s. was taken. Music, songs, and recitations were contributed by the hostess, also by Miss Jessamime Evatt, Miss May Evatt, . Misses Olga and Norah Monrad, and Miss Holland. Mrs. Evatt wore a gown of black velvet, and among the guests were: Mesdames Baeyertz, Henry, Hazel wood, Moore, Senton, Palinor, . O'Regan, Morfis, Dixon, Prophet, Sample. Afternoon tea was much appreciated, and later, a pleasant and profitable afternoon was concluded.

invalid Cooking and Our Soldiers. Many of-our readers will be interested',to learn that a new edition of Miss Ronnie's cookery book is to be brought out. within the nest fortnight. This little book, of tried recipes of cakes, "scoiies, biscuits, etc., was sold at the recent exhibition ana sale of work organised in conncction with Miss Rennie's cookery classes qt tho Technical College for .the. benefit of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, and so greatly was it sought after that too edition, quickly ran out. ■ So many requests have been made for. , the book that Miss Rennie has decided to get 1 another edition published.' Later on she proposes to publish , a book of invalid cookery, and when it is- remembered what a great need :there is;already for such a guide and : how much greater that need will become in a little while, tho value of such a book will be readily appreciated. Miss Rennie, who, as is well known, ia the instructress of - the cookery classes at the Technical College, has mado a very special feature of invalid's food, and has studied it thoroughly in various hospitals. at Home. The proceeds of tho sale of this work will also go towards the /Wounded Soldiers' Fund. In this Miss-Rennie should feel that she is benefiting the soldiers in two very essential wayis. . ' .

Soldiers' Room Fund, The.lion, treasurer of- tho Soldiers! Room Firnd acknowledges receipt of tho following donations-Mrs. D. Robertsoil, £1 Is.; Sergeant Price, £1; Miss Tabart (Christclniroh) l £1; "K1.L.H.," £1; Mr. J. Knox, 10, 5.j also the following monthly subscriptions Mrs, Wilniot and Mrs. H. Rose, 103. each: Mts. B. M. Litchfield, ss.

Children's Effort for Wounded Soldiers. A bazaar in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund was held in the Te Marua School on Friday, September 3. The result, £20, was most gratifying to the promoters, the scholars of the school, who under tho supervision of their teachers, Misses Banks and O'Donnell, organised and carried out one of the most successful functions yet held iu the district. Annette Kellerman. Annette Kellerman, the star o£ "Neptune's Daughter," is au indefatigable worker. Audiences, to see the beauteous Annette dive and swim, run, and dance, and do a few hundred other acts in the photo-play "Neptune's Daughter," marvel at this veritable queen ,of the sea, but they never,realiso how very much hard work and indefatigable labour were necessary to produce t'ho results tlioy admire. ' Miss Kellerman herself, however, could tell a different story, for sho has a wonderful capacity for hard work, and never leaves anything until,she has mastered it. Take her diving! _In the midst of her vaudeville tour twice a day she practised for hours in a gymnasium, and many of her double turns in the air were learned on tho spring-boaTd with a gymnastio mat ill the place of water. When she is not playing, the amount, of work she does is prodigious, and she is busy every hour that the gymnasium is. open. Bight hours without cessation is her daily : practice, which she divides into sixteen periods, taking exactly half an hour for each form of exercise, starting with weights, then fenoing, then wrestling and boxing, and so on. Yet any one Joking at her marvellous feats .in "Neptune's Daughter" would say how very easy it is for her to do it all.

Red Cross Workers In Nathan's Buildings. The workers at the St. John Ambulance Brigade and Red Cross Depot in Nathan's Buildings have been working away very steadily at supplying and packing hospital necessities to be forwarded to the hospital base at Alexandria for the needs of our wounded soldiers. Since August 10 they have sent away goods to the value of fully £800 or more. Yesterday a large case of hospital requirements had been received from the Red Cross Society in Feildirig. It comprised nightingales, night shirts, fracture jackets, pyjamas, 'and all kinds of bandages, all beautifully packed and sealed ready for use. Everything that had a pocket had a little {jacket placed in .it, containing a bos of cigarettes and a handkerchief, and stationery had also been supplied. The workers at the depot are anxious that it should be fully understood that they are nob having anything to do with the equipment of the .Hospital Ship. Their work is in connection with the hospital base-at Alexandria, from which place the goods are distributed wherever they aro most needed. If anything should be forwarded by mistake -to the depot in Nathan's Buildings for the Hospital Ship, it, will be sent on to the St; John Ambulance Association's depot in Belcher's Buildings, Courtenay Place.

' Advice has been received in Dunedin that Nurse Wilkin, who left the Dominion in May. for Egypt, is attached to . the first stationary hospital, Port Said,- as sister in charge of the operating theatre. Dr. and Mrs. Harcourt Arthur have been spending a few days in Auckland. The. staff of Messrs. George and Kersley have handed to the Spinsters' Club the sum of £10 for Red Cross work, fContinned on next page.)