WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 3

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

FOR BUSINESS GIRLS

SOCIAL CENTRE IN LONDON

Business girls in London heed no longer feel lonely. This week the Duchess of York will formally open the new Central Club of the Young Women’s Christian- Association —an enormous building situated in the hearr of London, on the corner of Tottenham Court Road aud High Holborg.

There for a subscription of only 12/6 a year lonely girls will be able to find all the social life they desire. Large comfortable sitting-rooms, a

spacious lounge where friends of either sex may bo entertained, a. concert-hall with stage adapted for dramatic performances, a dance-hall, a comprehensive library and lecture rooms will offer ample facilities for the varied interests of all members.

Eighty bedrooms, available for nonmembers as well as lor members, at a charge of from 4/6 to 6/- a night and fitted with hot and cold running water, have been attractively furnished, and many of them have already been used

There is also a sewing-room fitted with a sewing machine, a laundry, and a practice room for those wlio have no facilities at their own "digs,” while a gymnasium and a roof garden are now in the course of construction.

One novel idea is the provision of a property-room stocked with costumes likely to he required for period or Biblical plays and available for chib use when dramatic entertainments are afoot.

As soon as funds permit, a swimming bath is to be built in the basement, and the clmpel and various additional club rooms will he completed.

But in all this, the most popular spot promises to be the cafeteria, which has already been open for a short time. • Meals can he obtained there both cheaply and quickly. Like the residential part of the building, it is open to the public as well as to members of the club —-and T have heard a rumour that the cooking there is so good that all the young men from the Y.M.C.A. headquarters just opposite now flock across the road to breakfast! QUILTING COMES BACK. SOME EXQUISITE EXAMPLES. Do women’s clothes influence their behaviour, or is it the other way round? asks a writer in an English paper.

Some time ago we nil had short skirts. Eton crops, and cigarettes in long holders. Noxv all that is a thing of the past—our skirts as well as out hair have grown in length, and we have become decidedly more feminine in

our pursuits. With the return of the womanly woman there has also come a revived interest, in women’s occupations, and foremost amongst these ranks needlework.

We hardly ever pick up a daily paper without seeing an announcement that an exhibition of needlework is taking place somewhere, and those of us who take the trouble to visit these exhibitions are well repaid. One cannot help marvelling how busy women with heavy calls upon their time find the opportunity for such ex-quisite-'work. Tt is liai’d not to be a trifle jealous when we see the beautifully embroidered panels and bedspreads, heirlooms of the future, to be handed down from generation to generation.

Women capable of this sort of work are truly to be envied, for they are never bored. They never know the tedium of wondering how to get through an empty hour or two. These lucky people are unfortunately in flic minority, but a tremendous amount of pleasure can be derived from stitcliery by the great majority, who possess neither patience nor aptitude. There is quilting, for instance —so easy that it is impossible to go wrong so quickly worked that there is no time to tire before completion, and, above all. so extraordinarily attractive. Until the last lew years, quilting has been a dreadfully back number, connected with cheap Japanese goods. Now all that is changed. We emit whenever we can. We bring it in on sofa cushions, work-bags, nightdress-cases, pram-covers. Coloured padding is most effective. For instance, a cream night-dress case with a rose design, the faint blush-pink petals wadded with deep coral, while a strong jade will lend a green sheen to the leaves. Another idea would be a maize-col-oured work-bag with primroses and daffodils padded with a. bright yellow A most fascinating bed-spread can be made with small pattern chintz, the tiny hunches interlaced with stitching HELPING WAR HEROES. BRITISH WOMEN’S LEGION. rife Something of the heroic work which is being done by I lie Women’s Section of the British Legion was revealed by delegates attending the annual conference In-Id in London this week-end. In all parts of the British Isles members of the Women’s Section of the British Legion, remembering their debt to those who took part in the war, are making a tremendous effn-t to give practical, help to ex-Service men and war widows. They also organist' Christmas treats and seaside holidays for war , Ipluili:;,

\ * Mints from Jiome and Jibroad.

| An example of one aspect of the work carried on by these women is found in the achievements of the "chairman” of a small branch in a poor district in the North of England, where the unemployment problem is terribly acute. Having decided that letters would achieve nothing, she set out on a round of personal calls which included managing directors of large businesses, foremen in fbe shipyards, owners, of large estates, anyone, in fact, }vho might have work to be done. . . with the result that she found jobs for ninety-seven men. Another side of the work done by these women was shown by Lady Edward Spencer Churchill,; the chairwoman of the conference, who announced that a bouse which had been offered to the Legion was to be utilised as a rest borne for war widows and women who had themselves served in the war. When well, she added, the women would cither he found posts as residential housekeepers, for instance, or they would he taught some "borne help” occupation by means of which they would he able to earn a living in their own homes. The conference also passed unanimously a resolution expressing resentment at the inclusion of disablement in the means test. This, it was maintained, was unfair, particularly to the blind. The pensions were awarded fm* definite physical loss or disablement, and should therefore be free of all restrictions. LADY MYRTLE JELLICOE. BRILLIANT LONDON WEDDING. Nows of the marriage of Lady Myrtle Jellicoe to Mr Lionel Maxwell Balfour was cabled last week, the message describing the wedding as one of the most brilliant of the London season. A writer in the Daily Telegraph o e May 6 stated: "Four members o'" the Royal Family will attend All Souls’ Lnngbam Place, on June 11. to see Admiral Lord Jellicoe. give away Ids second daughter. Lady Myrtle, at her wedding to the aviator, M' 1 L. M. J Balfour. The Earl of Athlone ftnd Princess Alice are to be present, and j n .ul/ljlion Princesses Helena, Yictori' 1 and Marie Louise.

"‘The King’s aunt. Princess Peatrice, sent the bride the first present Hie received Tt is a beautiful painted ivory fan, and Lady Jol’leoe told me that the Princess sent ’t before leaving for her Continental holiday. The Princess has just celebrated her Toth bi’ihdnv. and although she will net attend the service, is making an except'on to her rule against social functions by attending the vecention the afternoon before the wedding.

“There has been no bride in Lord Jellicoe’s family for four generations, and possibly not for 200 years. Lady .Tellicoe told me. The only weddings have been of male members of the family. While she was telling me what a pretty wedding it will he the blade herself was at the dressmaker’s being fitted for her wedding gown. Bride, bridesmaids and page will be in parchment. Their dresses and the bridesmaids’ red roses will match the white lilies and British Legion poppies that decorate the church. “Ladv Myrt'e’s three sisters Lad-’ Gwendoline. Ladv Xnrah and Ladv Prudence, wi’l all he bridesmaids, am l her 14-vear-old brother. Lord Brocas, is getting leave from Winchester to he one of the 12 ushers. There is to he ano her adult bridesmaid, two small girls and page, making n retinue o seven. A horseshoe of myrtle and orange blossom will be attached to Ladv Myrtle’s train, and she will liavn myrtle and orange flowers on her head The. bride was born on August 28. 1908.

THIS WEEK’S RECIPES

Chocolate Squares

Ingredients: — 4<r/. butter. 3oz. castor sugar, 4 teaspoon fill baking powder, a<)z Bournville cocoa, 3oz flour, 2 eggs, milk, chocolate icing, loz almonds (for decoration). Method:—Mix the flour and ha king powder together. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Stir in the cocoa and bent together. Add each egg separately, stir it in quickly and limit well before adding the 'oexU When both are added, stir in the flour and baking powder and mix well together lightly. Add about a tablespoon of milk if required. Have ready a small baking-sheet, lined with greased paper to stand just above the sides. Put the mixture on to it and spread c-ver evenly. When cooked, turn out and leave mil iI (:old To ice tin. cake.- Stand il on a cakerack over a dish, with the flat side uppermost. Pour chocolate icing on it. and coat the ton evenly. Sprinkle chopped almonds over (he icing. A) hen the icing is set, cut into squares with a sharp knife. Note:—Prepare the almonds before icing the cake; just blanch, skin and chop them. ** * » Melting Moments. 1-1 alf pound luiltcr, two <i/.s bine sugar 6>/,s flour. 2o r /-s cornflour, vanilla essence. Cream butler ni l snirr. add flour and ennillmr sifted l.” ,r otl’e>' Put small teaspoon fills of mivt'" e on a, cold shelf and bake in a Hinder lo oven fifteen to twenty minutes. Put together with icing.