WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

♦ i (Conducted by "Eileen"'). j

SOCIAL NEWS NEW PLYMOUTH. Musical Evening.—.Mrs. Bewley gave a most enjoyable musical evening last Friday, vocal items being rendered by Misses Capper. Leatham, I. Taylor, Standish and Warren, Mr. and Mrs. I Johns and Mr. Heard. Mrs. Bewley received h(-r guests in a black velvet robe, with handsome Maltese lace bertlie. Miss Gwen. Bewley, dainty white muslin; Miss Leatham, pale blue striped eolienne; Miss Maginnity (Nelson), cream voile, finished with strappings of silk; Mrs. Gapper, white silk blouse, black silk skirt; Miss Gapper, cream crepe de chine; Miss B. Webster, very pretty cream Louisine silk, 'braided with fancy braid; Miss Standish, rose-pink eolienne; Miss W. Webster, cream voile, with tucked front panel, finished with silk strappings; Mrs. Glasgow, brown chiffon taffeta, cream lace yoke; Miss M. Glasgow, cream silk blouse, with cream cloth skirt; Miss I. Taylor, dark blue floral voile; Miss Warren, cream silk; Mrs. A. Jones, bottlegreen velvet, with beetle bolero; Mrs. Johns, heliotrope floral muslin, trimmed with bands of velvet of a darker shade; Miss Birdling, cream silk; Mrs. Chaney, cream voile; Miss Blundell, cream chiffon tafieta; Mrs. Kyngdon looked handsome 'in black chiffon taffeta, white tucked net yoke and sleeves; Mrs. Armitage, black silk; Mrs. Heard, pale blue and white voile, trimmed with valenciennes lace. At the vicarage last Wednesday evening Mrs. F. G. Evans gave a most enjoyable musical "At Home." The hostess received her guests in a charming pale grey chiffon over a silk foundation; Miss Evans, natty blue voile, with cream lace berlhe; Miss B. Evans, cream silk; Mrs. Gapper, white silk blouse, black silk skirt; Miss Gapper, white crepe de chine; Mrs. Johns, pale blue voile, trimmed with lace; Mrs. Burgess, white silk, with silver trimming; Mrs. Chaney, black silk, with beaded trimming; Mrs. Bewley, black silk, with Maltese"lace berthe; Mrs. Courtney, black silk, finished with jet trimming; Mrs. Jones, bottle-green velvet; Mrs. Howarth, green floral muslin, trimmed with valenciennes lace; Mrs. Htvard, saXe-blue voile, trimmed with pink and blue floral guimpe. Bridge.—Mrs. H. Day gave a most enjoyable bridge party last Thursday evening and the prizes were won by Mrs. Percy Webster and Mrs. Schnackenberg (consolation). Mrs. Day received her guests in a white tucked silk blouse, trimmed with lace, cream voile skirt; Miss Davy, black chiffon taffeta; Miss Carte, white muslin; Mrs. Heard, pale blue and white voile, tucked and finished with lace; Mrs. Schnackenberg, pale green taffeta, cream lace yoke and under-sleeves; ™ ? r °! lins ' P ale P ink flor al taffeta: Mrs Mills, black silk; Miss Hempton, black silk; Miss A. Hempton, pale heliotrope floral silk; Mrs. J. Harvey, cream silk; Mrs. Dodshun, cream silk blouse, black silk skirt; Mrs. Newman, pale blue tafieta; Mrs. Percy Webster, black chiffon taffeta skirt, pale blue taffeta blouse.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss Ruth Horrocks, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. Bedford, New Plymouth Miss Queenie Glenn and Mr. Jack Wenn, who have been touring the Old Country and the Continent for the past nine months, passed through New Plymouth last Thursday «n their return home to Hawera.

_ Miss Wade, sister of Mrs. (Dr!) Home is expected to arrive in New Plymouth from England next Thursday morain*. Mr. and Mrs. Dingle, who have been on a trip to England, passed through New Plymouth last week on their return home to Hawera.

Miss Gladys White, who has been the guest of Mrs. Turnbull, New Plymouth, has returned to Hawera. Mr. and Mrs. Reg. George (nee Miss T. Devore) arrived in New Plymouth last Wednesday evening by the express. Mrs. C T. Mills, who has been the guest of Mrs. Devore, Parnell, returned home to New Plymouth last Monday morning. J It is reported that Miss Rosina Buckman whose people reside in New Plymouth, is to be married to Ernest Toy the violinist shortly. Miss Buckman who was in Brisbane at last news is to ?mg m the new Melba CompanT which is to tour Australia, and Mr. Toy is to Play in the orchestra. 7

MARRIAGE IN GERMANY.

It is not in everybody's power-much a % 4 V °v ybo<ly ' s ta *te-says Miss I. vi. » l V^he ', author of "My German iear, to make their home abroad in order to learn to appreciate the foreigner. ° It has been her lot, however, to live the ordinary German life in an ordinary German town, and ordinary experience alone has led her to regard the people among whom she lives with respect ano affection.

This is a frankly sympathetic book about Germany and the Germans, and it will doubtless interest a great many people. The chapter on "Marriage- Before and After" is in many respects peculiarly interesting. . "A girL in Germany must be a deformity and a pauper combined not to be able to find a husband if she wants to; and more than once I have been bewildered by the brilliant matches which the most dowdy and impossible looking have been able to bring about under° their mother's skilful generalship. ' "For the men in Germany do not marry—they are married. They are more or less passive articles for sale which stand in rows in the matrimonial shopwindow with their price labelled in large letters in their button-holes, waiting patiently for a purchaser. They are perfectly willing, even eager, victims; they want to be bought, but their position does not allow them to grasp the initiative, and they are thankful when) at last someone comes along and declares capable and willing to pay the i price. ' j

'•This may seem exaggerated, and there are always the exceptions to be reckoned with, but it is true in the rule; and in every social circle, however low or high. The girl and her mother, wit>l* their purse in hand, pass the articles in review and choose out the one which best suits their means and fancy. '•A pretty and charming girl can find

her partner without any other perquisites than her face and charms, but her choice becomes at once more limited, for the in mi who can afford to marry u. penniless wife are too few in number and too scattered.

''Hence marriages in Germany have in most cases a practical side, though they in no way resemble the French marriages re covenanee. A young man in the marriageable age—in Germany, from twenty-three onwards to thirtyfive—is rarely in a position to set up housekeeping unless he receives support either from his own father or from the family of his wife. "Should he have chosen a State or professional career his income will not lie sufficient until he is at least thirtythree, and an unmarried man of thirtythree, in Germany, is a man who has been a considerable time on the shelf. "The officer is even worse off. At no time in his life is he in the position to support a family on his pay alone. All the support he gets from home is needed to ■fill up the gaps in his own personal existence, and only one in a hundred is able to put the financial side of the question quite out of sight.

"I cannot marry a wife without money, but I will marry her for her money, is the clear and definite standpoint of most German men, and they prove their sincerity.

"The financial side of the case expains the custom of first appealing to the parents before speaking to the girl. Naturally, the girl knows well enough whither matters are tending, but no doubt she suffers many anxious moments of suspense. "An amusing illustration recurs as I write, relating to a young pair whom the world had for a long time looked upon as 'settled.' They were always together, his attentions were very obviously intentions, but somehow or other he never —as it is vulgarly to the point. The girl was distracted with uncertainty, until one day her parents returned from America after a long voyage.

"The same hour that they landed in Bremen the young cavalier packed his trunks and went to meet them, received their blessing —and the promise of the dowry—returned by the next train, and laid his hand and heart at his Penelop's feet. Whereupon she flung herself into his arms with the exclamation, 'Endlicli du Shensal!' ('At last, you horror!'). Which form of acceptance, if unusual was distinctly satisfactory." HINTS. Biscnits can be warmed to be as good as when just baked by placing tihem in the oven dry, covered closely with a tin. It is a great improvement over the old way of wetting them. The secret of making a very light, baked custard pudding is to bring the milk to the boiling point, take it back from the fire, and slowly add the wellbeaten eggs. Sweeten "to taste, ano brown in a rather slow oven. White feathers are cleaned with veTy little trouble. Take a firm piece of wadding, and fill with fine, clean plaster of Paris. Rub the feathers briskly from the quill out. Be careful not to disarrange the feather. All patent leather boots and: shoea will crack. When', new they should be held to the fire, then rubbed with a little oil. There is nothing to stop the cracks from showing but to varnish them. Dissolve half an ounce of asphaltum. in one ounce of oil or turpentine, also a quarter of an ounce of caoutshouc in two ounces of mineral naptha. Mix them together and put on with a camel-hair brush.

Chair seats and table tops that have got their leather shabby and scratched can be renewed by repairing all jags with scccotine, then rub all over with a flannel pad dipped in white of egg. They will look 'greatly improved. When frying raw potatoes or raw onions, if a little cold water is added to the grease in which they are fried it will >be found that they cook much more rapidly, and there is less danger of them burning over the outside before they are cooked through. If glass is very dirty.pour some strong ammonia over it, and icrub well with a brush, afterwards rinsing in clean water. Dry and polish, and your glass will look as good as new.

Kerosene may be removed by the use of Fuller's earth. Cover the stain with a thick layer of hot fuller's earth, and let it remain tewnty-four hours. Then brush off. •

Here is a simple recipe for cleaning white serge that has been rain-spotted: Rub the spots with raw potato, and procure from a chemist a little powdered magnesia, which rub well into the material, devoting special time to the more soiled parts. Fold up tightly in an old pillow-case or bag, and shake occasionally. In a day or two brush well, and the garment should look quite clean. A useful article to make for a bazaar is a coal glove, which is a real boom in a sick room in avoiding the agitating sound of coal upon coal. Such gloves have a thumb, but no fingers. They are sold singly, and are made of black velvet, with an embroidery of flame-colored silk upon the outside.

Glycerine ffcid water used' to dampen the hair will give it a stiff wave, ana there is an old-fashioned quince-seed lotion, consisting of quince-seed stewed in water, which will give a rather heavy wave that is becoming to many faces. Great care should be taken, when washing delicately tinted blouses or summer gowns, to prevent fading. Alum used in rinsing water will prevent green from fading. A handful of salt thrown into the rinsing water will set blue. Ox gall is good to use for grey and brown. Hay-water, made by pouring boiling water over hay, is excellent for washing tan or brown 'holland and linen. A tablespoonful of black pepper stirred into the soapsuds in which cottons are washed will prevent the colors from running. Vinegar is useful in reviving colors, added in the proportion of one tablespoonful of common vinegar to every quart of cold rinsing water. A good perfume. which is a preventive against moths may be made as follows: Take of cloves, ca'rraway seeds, notmeg, mace, cinnamon, and 'Tonquin beans, each one ounce; then add as much Florentine orris-root as will equal the other ingredients put together. Grind the whole well to powder and put it into little bags amongst the stored goods.