WOMAN’S WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5453, 26 July 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD.

• SOCIAL NOTES. PRAISE FOR MRS. F. S. BUDD. The many Paeroa friends of Mrs F. S. Budd will be pleased to learn that she is still in the limelight with her singing. At a reception given to Lady Alice Fergusson by the Hastings Women’s Community Club Mrs Budd contributed several musical items. In the course of its report of the entertainment the “Hawke’s Bay Tribune” of July 1 says :— 'Mrs F. S. Budd, accompanied by Miss Williamson, sang “Sincerity,” and as an encore, with dramatic gesture and much expression, rendered “Haere Tonu,” the Macri Contingent war song, composed by themselves, and used by the Maoris on their way to the Great War. Her Excellency, who is greatly interested in Maori song and verse, congratulated Mrs Budd on her effort. Miss Paul, of Ngatea, who has been visiting Mr and Mrs W. Boyden at Pahiatua. and also other relatives in Southern Hawke’s Bay, left there recently on her return north. Miss Paul spent the week-end in Palmerston North, where she formerly resided. SIR OLIVER LODGE ON WOMEN. In his book, “The War and After,” the great scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge, discourses thus on the position of women, as follows :— “One more of the welcome changes which must follow the war is that women will surely not have to revert to their old unrecognised political position. We have had quite enough of a nation which systematically underrates and suppresses its own womenfolk, making them take a merely subservient position, and treating al! other women with disrespect and barbarity. The exclusion of women from due recognition and the mean estimation in which they have been held is responsible for much evil. It is perhaps a curious outcome of war that women should come more to the front, but so it is—in every department their help and influence are more and more gratefully recognised—indeed, the one bright spot in the hideous blunder of the Crimea was the emergence of Florence Nightingale.

“Women have once more shown that they can take their share in war preparation, and in national labour and suffering and achievement, and in services near the front; while they were already engaged usefully in civic and municipal enterprises. War does not spare women vicariously—it does not even spare them personally, as we may have thought and hoped that it did—and they are entitled to a voice in the affairs which lead to or avoid war. Some of them in a too recent past have been terribly irritating, but the wisdom of the best must be trusted to hold in check, or at least to counter-balance, the impudence and folly of the worst. Besides, they have made some amends by wise and patriotic counsel and activity in face of real danger. Clamour and violence, in past frivolous times, have done their cause much harm; but in spite of the antics of a minority the wise instincts of womanhood can no longer be ignored or treated as a negligible asset in the government of a State. Daughter nations of the Empire and independent States of America have tried experiments from which we can well learn : and surely the present time will not be allowed to pass until artificial and unnatural disabilities are removed and opportunity be given to all properly qualified citizens to take a recognised ana official part in work which already they share, and often largely influence.

“It has for some time been noteworthy how far more eagerly women put themselves under educational influence than do men. Of the few who enter professions or become scholars it would be impertinent to speak; I speak only of the average. They form the majority of an audience at any lecture or at a not immediately professional or too technical opportunity for receiving education. Their minds are developing and their spirit rising to an unprecedented looked for training in its youth ; to them it will be looking also for training in its age. The faults of emancipation and the exuberance of political youth in«ty be upon them just now, but they are striving for light, they are proving towards the dawn, and their loud and sometimes discordant utterances are but the birth-pangs of a sane and noble future.” RECIPES. Devilled Sausage. Parboil several pork sausages, cut in two lengthways ; when cold, spread with mustard and cayenne. Dredge thickly with flour, and fry in boiling fat until golden brown. Serve each piece on a finger of fried bread, very hot. Kidney Soup. One quart of stock, quarter pound of ox kidney, one ounce of butter, three mushrooms (if in season), one dessertspoonful of flour. Any ordinary stock that is available will do. Chop the kidney, season the flour with salt and pepper and roll kidney in it. Melt butter and fry kidney and mushrooms in it for five minutes. Stir it into the stock and simmer gently for two hours. If not thick enough thicken with more flour.