WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 21, 5 December 1930, Page 31

WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

"y (CHARADES are an old-time entettainment, and are now coming back into some of the best homes. Somehow the balls and dances of this year are tame affairs, entirely without originality. You know exactly what is the procedure. Literally, you roll up a carpet and put on a record, and, perhaps, if it is a lucky night, you can dance to radio. However, there are none of the old-time thrills about them. Dinner and bridge parties, which call for no stage arranging, seem to be the height of entertaining that the community is capable of at presentvery little of the happy surprise parties of yesterday. .

THIS is an age of slogans, and we might well add yet another to the ever-growing list: "Drink more milk." Milk is an extremely valuable food, not only for infants and invalids, but for those of more mature years. It contains the three staple constituents, protéin, carbo-hydrate, and fat, includes vitamins A and B, and has also a. high calcium content. It will thus be understood that it is of paramount importance in the diet of growing children. A pint of milk a day is not too much between the ages of 5 and 14, and working girls would find their health much improved by drinking milk at their midday meal

s bd * VE made the linoleum at our seaside bach look _ like new last week-end by mixing turpentine wth warm milk, and washing this over the covering. ® 2 a FUVEN the best cooks are apt to have difficulty with poached eggs sticking to the bottom of the saucepan. ‘To prevent this, try greasing the saucepan well beforehand. FOWEVER careful you are boiling eggs it often. happens that the white oozes out. In order to avoid this, try wrapping the egg up in tissue paper, and you will find that as soon as the paper gets wet it seals the crack. i xu * % GOOD carriage is as essential to the beauty of a woman as her ankles. Therefore at all times we should form the habit of sitting straight, standing straight and particularly of walking with head well thrown back. Clothes, however expensive, look "ordinary" if the carriage of the wearer is unimpressive. . cd a * HB boy who "crept like a snail unwillingly" to school is an anachronism nowadays. A new school has been opened in Surrey which is advettised as being "run on modern lines," and which has a landing-place in the grounds for the aeroplanes of its older pupils. One boy of 17 actually flies from Croydon each day in his Moth machine. . . * Eo * AN experiment which may prove a boon to the cotton industry is being tried in Burnley. Lancashire. Several streets are being re-surfaced and on certain portions of them Burnley-made cotton cloth is being used, to test its efficacy for road work. It is claimed that this will materially assist in making the surface waterproof, and the innoyation is being watched with great interest by foad engineers and the cotton industry. ts * a Ps RBASE stains on carpets can be removed by scrubbing them with hot water with a tablespoonful of ammonia per pint and then rubbing dry with a cloth. Spread a_ paste of Fuller’s earth mixed with cold water over the stains, leave until dry, and then brush off. Stains of long standing may require two or three appli; cations of Fuller’s earth. & 2 Ey Our New Zealand writers are beginning to make themselves felt in London. Just recently Mr. Charles Quentin Pope has compiled and edited ‘for Messrs. Dent 200 poems written since the ar by 60 representative New Zealanders. This anthology is called "Kowhai Gold," and I understand from the local booksellers it is selling remarkably quickly, Last year Messrs. Dent also published a volume of New Zealand short stories which had an appeal all of their own for overseas readers.

[HE French do not appear to know much about about dairy or sheep farming. A correspondent writing to the "Daily Sketch" says that the great disadvantage of living in France is the difficulty of getting good butcher’s meat. Even New Zealand frozen meat is unobtainable, though there would be an immense demand for it, he said, if the New Zealanders sent it to France. And why not? But there are doubtless many .and © varied answers to that question. a . % Ba * Tyo cool, without ice, drinks such as lemonade, soda water, and milk, do as they do in the Hast. Wrap the bottle or jug in a piece of wet . flannel, place in a draught by an open window, leaving the door open as well. Or hang the bottle, similarly treated, from a branch of a tree. The draught and warmth of the air will

evaporate the moisture in the flannel, and in doing so will cool the contents of jug or bottle by several degrees, in even half an hour. bd B s {VERYWHERE women are discussing the impracticability of trails and frills which, when they are not scooping up the dust are gathering mud. Moreover, young girls are beginning to realise that there is a great saving of money and a minimum of discomfort in the shorter skirt.. The. sudden transition to gowns requiring from. seven to eight yards’ more material than those of the previous season, with a consequent. rise in prices of from 25 to 40 per cent., is causing many to reflect seriously that long dresses do not march with short purses, = x * ROR workers in domestic service there are more openings than candidates (says a writer in "The Queen"). A pamphlet issued recently by the Association of Head Mistresses of Public Secondary Schools and the Minister of Labour states that posts available for educated women in England range from plain cookery work to administrative positions. It is always possible for a girl well trained in domestic subjects to obtain employment immed’.tely on completing her studies. Many of the training centres guarantee posts at the ‘outset.

AT splashes made when frying are quickly absorbed if the top of the stove is strewn with coarse salt. The salt absorbs all the grease and much of the smell, and is easily brushed off when the frying is finished. s * & N order to freshen up velvet it is a good plan ™ to hang up your frock or wrap up in the bathroom, close both door and window and turn on the boiling-water tap. . Leave the garments in this Turkish bath atmosphere for an hour, and they will be quite restored to perfect condition again. ® e 2 RDENERS cannot know of too many ways of making their hands soft and clean after a long day’s weeding in the garden. A most effective way is to use cold boiled potatoes, the same way as one does soap, and rub it well in when washing. . : os 8 Se VERYONBE uses pyrex ware for cooking nowadays, but there is one little point which it is necessary to remember when using casserole dishes of this substance. Do not have your heat too great at first, for if you do it will make the upper portion of the dish very hot, and the lower portiom, containing the slower-heating gravy, will remain comparatively cool. This often causes the ‘casserole to crack right round in a straight line. # % & AN Wnglish dress-designer who has just returned from Paris says that jewel-coloured evening dresses of turquoise, jade, ~ 1ethyst and ruby will be the rage this season. The only patterned material that will be permissible is chiffon lume. These jewel colours are magnificent in soft chiffon velvets, and are kind to most complexions. So we may expect next winter to see our cabarets and ballrooms glowing with the colours of the jewelcasket. & * * HEN putting hats away in their box, do not place them to allow their weight to rest on the brims. Pad out the crown with tissue paper, and then place the hat wrong side up. Then shoes need careful attention. Never put them away dirty. If they become soiled: remove any marks as soon as. possible with a slightly moistened soft rag with a little soap on it. Finish off by polishing with a perfectly clean pad or duster, and they will look as fresh as new. i ue * OW that the salad season is here, a recipe for mayonnaise without eggs should prove useful to housewives. Ingredients One gill of milk, a teaspoonful of salt, 14.teaspoonfuls of sugar, a dash of cayenne, 2 tablespoonfuls of salad oil, two small teaspoonfuls of mixed mustard, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, 3 tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Method: Mix well the salt, pepper, sugar and mustard, add the oil, stirring rapidly all the time. Beat in the milk, and lastly the lemon juice and vinegar. Keep in an air-tight bottle and shake well before using.

Thought for the Week The life of every man is a diary in which he means-to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he "compares the volume as it iswith what he vowed to make it. —

J. M.

BARRIE

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ICROPHOND actors, vocalists, and ° speakers little dream what a responsibility they have on their shoulders not to damage this sensitive unit. A heroine in a radio play, according to her part, had to shriek at the end of her speech. She yelled--! and the result? Well, it cost the broadcasting company £40 to repair the damage. For this noise pierced violently through the primary and secondary coils, leaped desperately, but noiselessly across the condensers, and rushed into a transmitting valve, which spluttered and gave up the ghost. (With apologies to "Retired Volt.’’) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." T is strange that otherwise upright and honest people think it is not wrong to defraud the Customs officers, and do their best to conceal anything on which there is duty to pay. Is it a surviving trait of the old smuggling days? ‘There is a story of an enterprising woman who succeeded in a elever ruse. Unclaimed goods were auctioned, and among those "put up" was a crate of gloves. They were found to be all for the right, hand, so they were "knocked down" very cheaply. Customs officers talking one day discussed this curious crate, when 2 Bristol official overhearing told them they had had a similar crate for lefthand gloves, which was sold for a mere song! "Would this pass the Customs, I wonder, if we had gloves sent out one at a time, and never in pairs?" * ¥ = [TF your face is thin (says a writer i n the "Home") it demands a soft style of hairdressing. Let the hair

ens be full at the sides, but do not draw it forward too much on to the cheeks, for this will only tend: to accentuate their thinness. If your forehead is low and your face oval, part your hair in the middle. It should suit you. If your neck is not long, do not dress your hair very low at the back. Instead, arrange your coil, swathe, or. -eurls high in the nape of your neck. If your ears are a pretty shape, curls nestling loosely in the neck and at the sides behind the ears look charming. If your face is narrow, your parting should be rather low at the side, as this gives breadth. For a broad face it should be nearer the centre. [t is not long ago since I was telling you about the new Cambridge Theatre in London, replete with every modern convenience for the comfort of its patrons. Now there is another addition to London’s new playhouses, the Whitehall, which is said to be the perfect theatre. To begin with, the proscenium arch has been projected forward to include front rows of the stalls, thus imparting a delightful air of intimacy to the building. When the cloakroom accommodation is a special feature, including, as it does, a room set aside for business women who come direct to the theatre and wish to change into evening dress. Hven the men are to be kept in good humour, and lest their womenfolk should keep them waiting, the mirrors are specially tinted so that a glance satisfies her ladyship that her complexion is perfect. Can an obliging management do more? ry 2 ENIUS analytically," says Hdison ‘Ss 1 per-cent. inspiration and 99 per cent, perspiration." Edison was never afraid of work, and determination to succeed, coupled with the fact that no idea of failure ever entered his mind, has resulted in the tremendous success as an inventor. He worked on his first machine to produce speech in 1876. One night after long research he entered his laboratory, locked the door, and put the key in his pocket. He then pointed to the phonograph and said to his assistants, "We none of us leave the room until this thing speaks.’"’ And eventually it did! g by Q R. OYRIL SCOTT, the British composer, had some very definite views about the value of wireless when speaking recently at the Radio Pxhibition at Olympia. "The dissemination of wireless," he said, "may be instrumental in changing the whole temperament of the race in the course of time. It may ginger-up their minds, tickle-up their brains, and make them think a bit quicker. Their slow-mov-ing legs will feel more like dancing, and so on. Before the introduction of radio we had no musical gloom-dis-peller handy. So if we couldn’t play the piano or did not possess a gramophone we had to put up with gloominess or get rid of it as best we could."

ALISON