MAKING HISTORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1922, Page 10

MAKING HISTORY.

AMERICAN WOMEN’S MEETING, A history-making meeting took place at Baltimore from April 20 to 29th this year, when two thousand women from every one of the U.S.A. states and from twenty-two countries of the Western Hemisphere came together at the third annual convocation of the National League of Women Voters and the PanAmerican Conference called by the league. For three days the women.discussed conditions and laws in the various countries with women who held high governmental positions in the United States presiding over the conferences. Airs. Willebrandt, Assistant U.S. Attor: ney-General, directed a conference, on the legal status of women, and laws and conditions for women in industry were considered under direction of Miss Anderson, Chief of the Child’s Welfare Bureau. Miss. Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children’s Bureau, presided at the consideration of the welfare of children only. Social hygiene was controlled .by Dr. Valerie Parker, executive secretary of the U.S. Social Hygiene Board. Mrs. C. C. Catt presided over the deliberations on the political status of women A permanent association was formed, with officers from various States and countries, the general aims being:.—To promote general .education among all women and to secure for them higher standards of education; to secure the rights of married women to control their own property and their own wages; to secute equal guardianship; to encourage organisation and discussion; public speaking among women and freedom of opportunity for all women to cultivate and use their. talents; to educate public opinion in favor of granting votes to women and to secure their political rights; and to promote friendliness and understanding among the Pan-American .to the end that there may be perpetual peace in the Western Hemisphere.

CONCERNING HONEY. A NUTRITIOUS FOODSTUFF. Very few people realise that honey, which is produced in such large quantities in New Zealand, is one of the most nutritious of our foodstuffs. It is particularly beneficial in the case of children, containing, as it does, sugar in its most assimilable form. It is a well-known fact that the majority of people never think of buying honey until they have sore throats or colds, but when the great food value of honey it better known', it will be found that the people will use a great deal more at meal times. Many people still have doubts regarding the purity of honey whfn it is granulated —that is, when it is in the solid crystallised form. Consumers have speculated on the point, some declaring that sugar had been mix'ed with the honey to bring it to that form. Such, however, is not the case, as practically all honeys throughout the Dominion granulate, and it is usually found that when foreign matter is introduced the granulation process is greatly retarded or stopped altogether. Thus, if honey is in a granulated form, this condition is, to the layman, one of the best indications of its purity.It is frequently desired that honey be consumed in liquid form, and in this •case the glass jar or tin containing the granulated article should be placed in a vessel of water at a temperature of about 150 deg. Fahr. This heat should not be exceeded, as otherwise the aroma and flavor may be seriously affected or destroyed. Sometimes, according to the solidity of the granulation, the honey may take as long as three hours to properly liquefy. It is advisable to place something under the tin or jar to keep it from direct contact with the bottom of the heating vessel. A great many people are under the impression that, in order to be pure, honey must be white; this is quite wrong. The color of the honey depends entirely on the flower from which the honey has been gathered, ami it will be found that, in many cases darker colored honey has a much finer bouquet, flavor, and texture than the white honey. This is another point which people will do well to prove for themselves, and they may find that the darker honey, which they have considered so inferior, is really more pleasing to their palate, but it is entirely a matter of individual taste.

SUPERSEDING CUPID. “A marriage has been officially arranged ...” . That, in the opinion of many social reformers, is what it must come to before the very serious ‘’marriage crisis” in Germany can be effectively dealtwith. The German still has a firm belief in official supervision and action; if anything can only be carried out with official help, it is certain that all will be well. So a campaign is beginning with a view to getting the State or the municipality. or both, to take up the horny task of seeing that the right people marry the right people. A serious crisis does ex'ist in the marriage market in the Fatherlaud, as a result of the war and its aftermath. NO CHANCE OF MARRIAGE. There has been such an upheaval in social conditions that marriage has become the remotest of prospects for a vast proportion of the population. Large numbers of men in the old upper classes cannot now afford to marry; the same can be said of an indefinitely greater proportion of the old middle classes. The voung women of these classes, therefore, find that there is no chance of marriage for them. A new upper and a new middle class has arisen (the more or less successful get-rich-quick ers), both wealthier than the old, but they do not come into contact with the old. The great problem, therefore, is how to bring the right people together, now that classes have been so recast and social conditions so tremendously altered. A DEFENCE OF THE FLAPPER. The inevitable flapper, with her rolled hose, cosmetics, short, skirts, and bobbed hair, is both defended and attacked by delegates tn the twenty-sixth national convention of the Mothers’ Congress and Parent-Teachers' Associations’ meeting held in Taeooma. California, recently. Mrs. Harry .1. Ewing, of California. was one of the defenders. Mrs. Thomas Ogdon, of Idaho, told the delegates at a round-table conference on public schon’ n-irls what constituted a 100 per cent, girl in Boise. “The girl of to-day is given too much discussion,” countered Mrs. Mary Zimmerhackle, president of the Colorado

P.T.A. “I have found the modern girl good and fine. She needs helpful encouragement and understanding at home. . There is one moral to be derived from the present-day young person, and that is, educate the parents.” “That’s right, we must £tand behind the girls,” Mrs. Harry J. Ewing, president of the California Parent-Teach-ers’ Association, said. “A California school girl, ordered home because she came to her classes in a peek-a-boo waist, naively said: ‘lt belongs to mother, and I thought it w.u all right.’”