WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1918, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

PERSONAL. , Mr.-, -lame; Paul Is on a v| ; ;i, jo Wellington. »»* o V Mr and Mrs Kduard Beckett (Feeling), who have been visiting New Plymouth, leave for .Auckland to-day. Mrs James is on a visit to Auckland, The Misses Humphries are the guests of their sister Mrs Beamish, JJawkcs Bay, * * * Mrs Courtnay is the guest of her daughter, 3lrs Preston-Thomas, Hastings, ♦ » • *' 2itrs Alfred Grant, who has been visiting Mrs A, E. Grant, has returned to Lower Hutt, . * * * • Hon. ft .Samuel and Mrs Samuel relumed to Wellington last Monday. * »' * • Mrs. Birch-Johnston, who jias been on a visit to fnglewood and New Plymouth, has returned to her home in Wellington. Mr and Mrs Budge (Stratford) are on a visit to Auckland. ♦ * * • Mr and Mrs Bryan Malone, who have been visiting New Plymouth, left for Napier this week, before returning to Wellington. # * * » Miss Clara Crawford is visiting Jfer mother in New Plymouth. ♦ * * » Mrs McNaughton Christie, who lias beey visiting her mother, Mrs R. Bayley, has returned to Wellington. Miss Mace is visiting friends in Feikling. • » ♦ • Mrs and Miss Fox, Smart Road, leave to-day for a, visit to Auckland. * * * » Miss Robb leaves to-day by the s.s. Rarawa on a holiday trip to Auckland. **' # • Miss Purohas. who has been the guest of Mrs F. G. Evans, has returned to Wellington, « » m • Mrs C. Bayley (Hawera) is on a short visit to New Plymouth. » « » 9 Mrs Walter Bayly, who has been on a short visit to Auckland, has returned. «t * * • Mrs Jefcoate has returned to Wanganui after a short stay in New Plymouth, where she acted as judge at the pierrots' fancy dress ball. • » * # Mrs D. Teed. Pen., who lias been on a visit to Auckland, has returned. • • » » Miss T. Wade who has been the guest of Miss Wade, New Plymouth, has returned to Dunedin. * » * • Mrs Harry Fooke-s has returned from a short visit to Wanganui. * * * • Mrs T. S. Young has left for her future home in Dunedin, her husband, Manager of the N.Z. Express Co., 'having been transferred thither.

(POLICE WOMEN IN NEW YORE. Xew York has at, last real policewomen policewomen uniformed as policemen and equipped as policemen—receiving a salary of a:2-!0 a year (states the New York Evening Post). There are six of them, and the announcement of their appointment was made in August by Richard K- Enright, Police Commissioner, who believes that the employment of women is just as necessary as men for the detection or prevention of crime in a big city like t'iiis. On and after Ist January there will be twenty policewomen, uniformed and armed, and vested with all police authority, and later there will be many more.

New York's first regular policewomen are:—Mrs. Alary C. Hamilton, Mrs. E. L. Gay. Mrs. (."'. Mtirtha, widow, Mrs. Madeline A. O'Neill, widow of a policeman who was killed by a burglar, .Miss Rose Goldstein, and Miss Katkerine .Hyde. "Until the employment of policewomen has passed the experimental stage, - ' .said Commissioner Enright, "they will work under the direction of the Fifth Deputy of Police. They will be assigned to work in zones into which the city is to be divided for their activities. The duty of the policewoman will be to get in touch with the women's clubs and other women's organisations interested in the proper protection of girls ancf women, and seek their co-operation. She will be a sort of superintendent in her zone, directing such of the women who arc assigned to aid'her by the clubs or organisations. Her duties will have to do, among other things, with tracing missing girls and women, protecting girls from annoyance in subway and elevated trains and street cars, and aiding in the prevention and detection of ciime affecting girls and women.

•-The employment of women for police work lias come to be a necessity. \Vf liave found thai women do a certain character of work far better than men are able to do it. The women, will wear a blue uniform, the regular police sb.if.ld, and -.vill be equipped as policemen are. I intend to have a special badge made for them later on." SOLDIERS' ENGLISH WIVES; A large number of young English ■.women who have married Australian .soldiers in England arrived in Melbourne a few days ago. Kain was falling, and the wind was cold—not at all like the. weather the newcomers had expected. "We heard in England that this was the land of sunshine/' said one, "I never felt such a cold wind before." That Australia was a land of great winds, but a sunny land for all that, did not convince some. Babies and young children were numerous. .Six babies have been born between Capetown and Frecmantle. The mother of one of these was a dainty little Trench girl, Critical eyes scanned the "roups on the ship's decks, for everyone wanted to know what these conquerors, of tin) Australian soldiers were like. The.Y were (says the Argus) not all pretty, ol course, but allowances had to be made for the effects of a long sea voyage. Some looked about them rather timidly, Everything was so new, and tueyi.were a long way from England. ' j i INVENTIONS OF WOMEN. ■WfW.on-Siavß taken their place as cm" phatically in the laboratory <is in the industrial world, says the Df ly graph, so no actual differentiation has been made in the contributions to tiio

jn brief article la \W eafalnguo Dr. i'ithel X. Thomas points out tlint the in- \ wilt ions of women are concerned -with , death-dealing :_ases and with life-saving ':;.ilinls. Of i-ie applications made for patents during ihe paat year at the I Patent I'Miice. il"') arc from women, and ' fhri.ujjiout 'til.' various sections if is Ji'ii dillk-ult to Ira;'.: in research, as in : killed in.liMric-,. the accepted fact that i rex lias eca-'\! to b" lakcn into account ul'.re solid work, valuable, discoveries and inventions ai'o in question. In the orthopaedic brantli of tile (Surgical Kequisitcs Association are found Hie papier macke splints originated by Miss Halle and the waterproofed devices in | the same medium that owe their discovery to Miss Aclicson, both of which, from Mulberry-walk, have been so closely associated with the all-important and wide-reaching work of healing that is carried on for the lighting. Healing, too, has given the impetus to Dr. Florence Stoney, of Kulham Military Hospital, in her preparation of twelve skiagrams' illustrating the use of X-rays in surgery, the exhibition of wliie'h is made under the supervision of Captain Knox, K.A.M.C. The British Medicinal Herb School, Chalfont .St, Peter, has arranged a miniature garden showing how medicinal plants can be grown"" and turned to good account, and from them drugs obtained for w'hie'ii liiis country lias hitherto been dependent on imports. 'A set of spring bows (pen, pencil, and divider) iu case, entirely produced by women, is just one of those 'small productions that afford proof of accuracy as well as of skilled workmanship. These qualities are specially indicated in the room where lenses and optical instruments are displayed, in all of which women's trained industry bears a full share, although, according to Dr. Thomas, '/their most important contributions to science, upon which industry ultimately rests, do not lend themselves to exhibition."

THE FEEDING OF CHILDREN. Many parents suv beginning in recognise that nn excess of meat diet is the cause of blood impurities and nervous disorders, showing in the unhealthy state of the skin, and nerves easily irritated and excited. The youthful body regarded as u machine is made -to work at an unnecessarily high pressure. Fortunately there are quite a number of excellent substitutes for meat. -Most children are fond of custards, and in the egg we have a food as rich in proteids as twice its bulk of beef or mutton. It does not heat the blood as meat does, and other wholesome articles of diet such as nuts, fruit, dates and sweet things that children like can be combined with eggs. Any of the following custard recipes will prove attractive and palatable to the young, and provide strengthening and building up properties with a minimum I of wear and tear of the organs of digestion and nutrition. ftinger custard. —3 eggs, 2 cupfuls of scalded milk, V,. cupful of sugar, V, tenspoonful of salt, '/i ten spoonful of vanilla, Canton ginger. Cut the ginger into thin shrips and use for garnishing the sides of buttered individual moulds. Beat the eggs slightly, add the sugar, milk and seasonings; strain into moulds, set in a pau of hot water and bake. Caramel Custard. —4 cupfuls of milk. i> eggs, y : , teaspoonful salt, V'i tenspoonful of vanilla, i cup of sugar. Put the sugar in a pan and 3iiclt it, stirring it occasionally until melted to a syrup of light brown color.. Add to t'iie milk and blend well; add this mixture gradually to the eggs, beaten slightly, add the salt and flavoring; strain into moulds and bake.

Date Custard.—2 cupfuls of mill:, 2 eggs, '/ t teaspoonful of vanilla, I cupful" of sugar, J toaspoonful of salt. 2 tablespoonfnls of cornflour, two-thirds of a cupful of dates (stoned and cut). First scald the milk in a double boiler; tlien add the cornflour, mixed with a little cold milk. Cook directly over the fire for five minutes, and then cook in a double boiler for 15 minutes. Beat tlic eggs slightly, add the sugar and salt; add a little of t'iie hot mixture to the eggs, and pour into a double boiler; cook for one minute; add the steamed dates and vanilla; serve cold.

Honey Custard.—G tablespoonfnls of honey. 4 cupfuls of rice stock, 4 eggs, 4 tablespoonfnls of cornflour, '/, teaspoonful of vanilla, J teaspoonful of salt. Beat the eggs until well blended; add the salt, honey and cornflour which has been mixed with a little cold water; add this to the hot rice stock; strain and heat in the top of a double boiler until the custard is thick vnousli to coat a silver spoon evenly: add tlte vanilla; pour into moulds, and grate v. little nutmeg over the top of each mould; serve cold.