WOMAN'S PAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 3

WOMAN'S PAGE.

■ / ; »;*. ’ • : n CARMEL LEROY

ROYAL RESIDENCES. A kind of musical chairs is going on in English society, and it has even caught up the Duke of York and Princess Mary in its whirl. She and her husband have given up Chesterfield House, as the Earl of Harewood finds its upkeep too expensive in these days of high taxation, and they are to take over 32, Green Street, off Park Lane, which the Queen purchased about six months ago. This house, which is Georgian in style, wa.s built for Lord •Ribblesdale, an ( l is described as a miniature marble palace.

THE NEW SLEEVES. There is an increasing tendency to “mix” sleeves of brilliant green, for example, may well form the top of « dark brown wool dress, or a cerise top look well on a. navy frock, states our Paris correspondent. For evenings, the little puffed sleeve and round neck, both frilled, are popular, and for afternoon wear many straight sleeves are frilled and some are divided in the middle,like an hour glass. More than one smart coat in the newest collections begins at shoulders with straight sleeves that billow out into the bishop variety lower down.

THE TUDOR ROSE. Tn England the present wave bt patriotism is causing Mayfair to take shopping more seriously than evdr. The West End stores are thronged with titled women wearing the little red rose of the Tudor Rose League, a sign to the shop assistant that they have pledged themselves to see British goods first and so give them a fair trial. Eton boys, with the approval of the headmaster, flaunt the red rose as a warning to the shop assistant only to show them British penknives or sell them British sweets. A famous girls’ school in Edinburgh has not only taken up the Tudor rose, but even attaches it to the collars of household dogs. New members, states news from overseas, are enrolling at the- rate of about 1000 per day, and the league is undoubtedly growing at snowball pace. Its success is only one °f the many means by which British housewives are countering the present crisis.

GAY AS A RAINBOW. Gay as a rainbow is how a New York paper describes the golfing suits of its society women at Washington. At the opening of the golf course of the National Women’s Country Club they wore smart suits of brown, hunters’ green and maroon. The suits of thin wool or jersey were matched by turbans, berets, and email felt hats. There was a distinct trend towards harmony in colours which extended t(> the golf shoes. Some of the outstanding women golfers of the middle Atlantic section were there and Bobby Jones contributed two of the prizes. Clothes vying with the autumn foliage in pretty colours, seen against the background of green grass, elicited admiring comment.

BRIDGE PARTIES. Vienna’s little cafe bridge parties ar e threatened with extinction, writes our Paris s correspondent. Tt is eight years and more since the city rather passionately to bridge. Then came the financial collapse, and social life at home was transferred to the cafes. This gave some clever Viennese women an idea. They were poor, and in some cases their husbands were out of work ; they began to take special rooms at the cafes and to organise little bridge parties, later on getting up circles for rummy and other card games. There are now about a hundred of these rooms in the cafes in the city, Already their “manageresses” have to divide their incomes with the cafe owners, and now officialdom has stepped in, and the municipality wants a share too. If the matter becomes an official one it is thought that the little bridge parties will come to an end.

SHADED LACE. Lace—that popular fabric for evening wear—is still in the height of fashion and it seems as if it will always be there, despite efforts to replace it with other materials, states an overseas writer. Lace has proved itself such a durable, wearable and becoming medium for evening frocks, and at the same time is so practical and hardwearing, that women will he reluctant to abandon it for something newer. It shares with printed chiffon a high place in their regard for dance and dinner gowns. Next dancing season will see many lace frocks, but most of them will be treated in a new way. One predicted fashion is that ol shaded lace, in which two or three tones of the one colon). or sometimes two colours are combined in one frock.

Pink lace will be used with black in Ibis wav and blonde lace with black, light with dark blue, white with black, and two tones ol green will also be worn. The darker tone will always form the skirt of the frock, for light-toppc,; frocks are the latest note in evening wear. Other ways of treating lace will be a revival of an old fashion - the use or a lj<rlit foiimlntinn under a dark' lace. H'hicli serves to throw up the pattern of the lace, apd . the -beaded motif.

sewn on the lace frock at wide intervals to give a glittering effect. LIGHT-WEIGHT WOOLLENS. A summer coat of some light-weight woollen material is a most necessaryarticle in the wardrobe, especially if a holiday trip or other travelling is planned, for the weather can be very changeable, and some warm wrap is needed on many evenings, even in the middle of the summer. For motoring, too, such a coat is useful, to guard against a chilly evening breeze which is so often met. states a Sydney writer.

An ideal fabric for the summer coat is «. light-weight kasha, as it gives warmth without much bulk, and can be made up in many styles, from the severely tailored to the dressy, flared, and tucked type of topcoat. Summer tweed is popular, too, hut is more suitable for the coat which is designed solely for sports wear, while kasha may be worn over the most formal and elaborate chiffons. Wool, georgette, and wool mamcain are used for the afternoon type of coat, and have less warmth than kasha.

The new season’s coats -are unlined, and must fit tbe figure well below thewaist. For general wear, an unbelted coat will be found most satisfactory, as the coat with the belt is usually associated only with sports and heavy winter wear.

A coat without a belt, too, is easier to slip on over a thin and fragile frock, aful there is less danger of crushing. Double-breasted effects are among the most fashionable, and the' buttons may be very large, for buttons are at present enjoying a great vogue.

AT HOME AND ABROAD. Seventeen women were among the 343 students sworn in recently as members of the bar in Brooklyn New York.

Mrs Frederick John Fox, wife of a prominent New York physician, raises minks as a hobby on her farm in Westchester county.

MJlle. Josette Laval, 18-year-old daughter of Premier Pierre Laval, of France, is studying law at the Faculty du Droit, in Paris.

Under new laws of the republic of Spain a jury trying crimes of passion is composed of four men and four women instead of being exclusively male as in the past.

A young Egyptian at Alexandria devised an ingenious plan to cover up an elopement. He related to the Court at' Wasta, where lie " was on trial for abduetion-ydiow/ being a : "Moslem, "life was unable to approach the Christian father of the girl he loved. So he and the girl eloped. Before departing he bought a huge piece of meat, which he placed in the girl’s bed, and then set fire to the room. He subsequently wrote a letter to the High Court accusing the father of having burnt his daughter alive. The father was arrested,- but further inquiries led to his release, and the girl was later found in Suez with her lover.

Tn the extreme north-west of South America is situated the Republic of Colombia. Its ivomen have, asi yet, no franchise rights, but it boasts at least one woman diplomat, states an exchange. This is Mine. Maria. Brigard de‘Pinzano, who, for more than a year, was attached to the Colombian Legation at Madrid, and has now been appointed Attachee—the feminine form is still unfamiliar enough to us to look odd on paper—at the Colombian Legation in Paris. Her distinguished husband, director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bogota, arid the,author of several books on art, died prematurely, and it was then that the Columbian Government had the sagacity to recognise that Mine. Brigard tie Pinzano’s great ability and thorough knowledge of the Latin languages would he wasted outside the Diplomatic Service. So Mine. Brigard de .Pinzang got. her ohaiiT'e which she might riof. have beeri given in some more “enlightened” countries—and -she hag- amply justified, the honour paid her. •

HAVE YOU TRIED THESE. Coffee Cake. 3 eggs, Jib butter, ilb sugar, oozs flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons coffee essence Cream butter and sugar, add coffee, then eggs oiip by one unbeaten, lastly flour and baking powder. Bake in a shallow tin, and ice u'itli coffee ioing made by using 1 tablespoon essence and a little melted butter etc. Ornament wfith burnt almonds. #* * * Tomato P.aste. 2 large tomatoes, 2oz,s cheese, 4ozs breadcrumbs. 1 egg, loz butter, 1 small onion, pepper and celery salt. Scald, peel aml cut tomatoes iiito small pieces. Mince the onion and put onion and tomato in saucepan to simmer until lender. Then add well beaten egg nn dstir quickly until thickens. Take, oil' the stover and add cheese and breadcrumbs, then pepper and celery salt to taste. Put into jars and cover with melted butter. German Biscuits. .',lb butler creamed with o tablespoons sugar 2 eggs well beaten ."> tablespoons flour /» tablespoons cornflour, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix ~i a stiff paste. 801 l and cut in rounds and I lake in a cpiick oven. Put together with jam. spread n little jam on tup, and dip in cocoa nut.