WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 310, 27 June 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted, by "Eileen.") ORANGE BLOSSOMS. AMBURY—VOSPER. Considerable interest was taken in ■ the wedding on Saturday, June 15 at ' St. Paul's Methodist Church, Cambridge, of Mr. Horace Joseph Ambury, only son of Mr. Walter Ambury, ■of New Plymouth, and Miss Jessie Roberta Vosper, second daughter of Mr. W. Vosper, of. Dingley Dell, Cambridge. The Ttev. W. I Beady (the President of the Methodist Conference of New Zealand) officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a dress of ivory pailette silk, trimmed with silk Brussels lace, with square Empire train, wearing also the usual bridal wreath of orange blossoms and veil. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet. She was attended by.Miss Elsie R. Vosper (sister) and Miss Olive Clarice Ambury (sister of the bridegroom) as bridesmaids, those ladies being attired in pale grey tailor-made frocks, richly braided and trimmed with pipings of cerise velvet, ■wearing grey tagel straw hats, and carrying exquisite bouquets of autumn leaves and flowers. Mr. Jack Martyn (of Broadmeadows) was best man, and Mr. Frank Vosper (brother of the bride) acted as groomsman. After the ceremony the relatives and frierids, to the number of about 100, were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Vosper at Dingley Dell, Mrs. Vosper receiving her guests in a handsome gown of Slack i silk, trimmed with Oriental velvet. Mr*. Ambury (mother of the bridegroom) wore a brown cloth costume. Shortly after the breakfast the happy couple left by motor for Rotorua, en route for their new home in South Taranaki, where Mr. Ambury is well known, being a pro- | minent footballer. The bride's travelling dress was a navy tailor-made costume, with brown facings, and black beaver hat. The presents were costly and valuable, including several cheques, a case of cutlery and a Broadwood piano. NOTES FROM LONDON. INSURING AGAINST MOTHERHOOD. London, May 10. The Italian Government has just passed a law by which women industrial workers are compelled to insure against maternity. The payments begin from fifteen years of age, girls between fifteen and twenty being required to pay one lira, or about ninepence halfpenny is English money, per annum, and women from twenty to fifty contributing two ■ lira. Upon the birth of a child, any ' woman, whether she be married or single, will receive the sum of £1 12s, which is partly provided by the State and partly by the employers. INDIAN LADY'S ENTERPRISES. Madame Mohan Lah Mehru, wife of a well-known barrister at the High Court of Allahabad, is one of 'the candidates for the vacant post of Municipal Commission in the Civil Service Ward at Allahabad. She and her husband are both very keenly interested in raising the status of Indian women. Should she be elected, she will be the only woman Municipal Commissioner in the whole of India. s WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUBS. A ladies' miniature rifle association has been started in Sussex. Miss Grini wood, the organising secretary, has offfered a challenge cup, and the Countess of March has accepted the presidency. She considers that every woman ought to learn to handle a rifle. CHINA'S"' FIRST PUBLIC WEDDING. A very interesting ceremony has recently taken place in one of the Chinese suburbs of Shanghai. This was the celebration in public of a marriage ceremony. Instead of the bride being carried in a sedan chair to the 'bridegroom's house and remaining in seclusion throughout the ceremonies, which frequently last several days, both she and the bridegroom came forth openly in the presence of their friends and relatives and were united with much elaborate ceremony. The marriage contract was read, and the public exchange of troth and rings was followed by the presentation of flowers to the married couple, and a banquet in which the bride participated, sitting by the 'bridegroom's side. Both are of good families. No more striking evidence of the change from the old to the new order in China has yet been ' recorded. WOMEN MEDICAL OFFICERS. ,The number, of women school doctors and dentists in' Germany is gradually increasing. Many towris in South Germany have lately appointed women to these posts in preference to men, while in the State school clinics at Berlin, Charlottenburg .and Strasburg women doctors are' employed as assistants. NOT OPEN TO WOMEN. A number of Swiss ladies have recently formed a league entitled the "Cantonal Berna Frauenverein," the object of which is to open up new trades to women workers. They hope to prevent girls trying to obtain work in factories, cafes and other trades, which a,re already overcrowded, and thus assist in keeping down wages, and to enter, instead, others which are better paid, and which at present are entirely in the hands of men workers. In Switzerland, all the book-binders, sign-painters, chemists, farmers and travellers are men, but it is proposed now that women shall compete with them and also take up carpentering and massage. WOMEN SERVE AS FIREMEN. In several villages in the mountains of the Canton of Grisons, in Switzerland, girls and women are obliged by law to serve as firemen, for, owing to emigration, the women population dominates. It happened some years ago, in 1865, to be exact, that an entire village was burnt out while the men were working in the fields and forests, and again some years later the same thing happened at Malix, near Coire. Since then all healthy women have been called upon to serve in the village fire brigades, and they do not object to the work.

THE OVEN. Perhaps there is no point in housekeeping which puzzles the beginner so much as the proper heat of the oven. It is said that the oven is half the cake, and different articles require such varying degrees of heat that much practice is necessary to always succeed. Many cook books are very definite on this question. A French authority on cooking gives the following rules for testing the heat of an oven: "Try it with a piece of white paper; if too hot the paper will blacken or blaze up; if it turns a dark yellow it is fit for bread and the heavier kinds of cake; if light yellow, the oven is ready for sponge cake and the lighter kind of desserts." A small pan of water placed in, the oven, and filled as often as it becomes dry, is also a great help. It prevents the bread and cake from burning, even with a full oven and very hot fire, saves nearly one-half the labor in watching and turning the loaves, and prevents a thick, hard crust. It is usually filled •with water from the tea-kettle, 'but if the oven seems too hot, throw out the

hot water,, fill with cold, and put back. Use a pan lOin long, lin wide, and lin J 1 deep. It is made by folding the tin at' the ends and pounding lightly until the' , folds are so close that the pan is water- [ tight. A pan made with solder will not | do, for with the best of care it will soniei times become dry, and the solder melt, and run out. This pan slips in beside the pan of bread, next the fire-box, and takes up very little room. Always .have a holder to handle it with, and handle carefully when pouring in water after it has become dry, or a bad scald will result. USEFUL HINTS. Sweet orange peel, if dried and powdered, makes an excellent flavoring for cakes and puddings. A never-failing rule to follow in placing sleeves is to measure one-inch back of the shoulder seam, measure one-half of the arm hole and place the underseam of sleeve at this point. Delicate cretonnes may be washed in a lather of Castile soap and warm water. This soap contains nothing which will injure the colors. Badly stained lamp chimneys may be cleaned by rubbing with methylated spirit. If the stain be very obstinate, add a little whiting. ' Boots that have become hard from wearing in wet weather can. be softened by being rubbed with mutton fat. 'A little salt rubbed on cups will take off tea stains. As a tooth-powder it will keep the teeth white and the gums hard and rosy. It is one of the best gargles for sore throats, "'euralgia of the feet can be cured by '-i thing night and morning with salt and water as hot as can be borne. When taken out, rub the feet briskly with a coarse towel. Salt and water is one of the best remedies for sore eyes, and if applied in i time will scatter the inflammation.