WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 48, 12 June 1931, Page 47

WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

A Bad Habit, Loxrp DARLING, the distinguished Judge, says that the writer of an illegible signature must be a person of importance. But, that is far from always being the case, and the practice of writing personal signatures illegibly ‘is unfortunately very prevalent, Anyone can do it, so why thé obvious selfsatisfaction of many who claim that their scrawl is indecipherable? If what is intended for John Jones looks like a row of palings uprooted in a storm, why should the harassed recipient be assumed to be possessed of the attribute of clairvoyance? It is suggested that correspondents should avoid affectation and take the trouble to write distinctly. After all, it is only another aspect of the golden tule "Do Unto Others," Not Too Drastic. We often hear people say: "I would diet if I-knew what to eat.’"! Here is a fairly. comprehensive list. of possibles ; (1) Clear and vegetable soups. (2) White fish, either: grilled, boiled, or steamed. : (8) Chickens, turkeys, and game. (4) Lean meats, beef, and mutton, (5) All vegetables which grow above the ground, and celery. (6) Raw. fruits; cooked fruits if not sweetened, (7) Rusks, plain biscuits, gluten bread, and a little brown bread. (8) Bggs boiled, steamed, or seramed. (9) Black coffee; tea without sugar ; still mineral lemon juice and water, water, The following should be avoided :- (1) Thick soups and stews. (2) Shelf fish and oil fish. (3) Duck and goose. (4) Pork.’ (5) Beetroot, carrots, turnips, potatoes, dried beans. (6) Bananas and nuts. (7) White bread. ‘ (8) All sweet drinks; chocolate; cocoa; all alcoholic. drinks. (9) Pastries, sweets, puddings, sugar, -cream, and butter. One rest day a week with a diet of orange juice is well recommended. A glass every two hours will stave off the pangs of hunger. Before launching into a diet, we must all'take our daily occupations into consideration. People who live active lives should allow themselves more latitude. For instance, the busy woman needs that slice of bread and butter and piece of cake with her {afternoon tea. But, whatever we may ‘do, we must not rest after eating. Economical. [THE vogue of the tunic is popular with the woman who simply must use last year’s clothes, With a short length of some effectively contrasting material she can turn an-old frock into an up-to-the-minute creation. Judicious addition of tabs or bands of the same material as that used for the skirt on the tunic will make for -real success in renovation. Many a last year’s black satin will see life afresh this season as a modish tunie with a broderie Anglaise slip underneath. . A Note of Colour. QND hears all sorts of iispataging remarks about the influx of imitation jewellery and trashy baubles, but fashion very wisely continues to smile on these pretty adjuncts to the toilette, The charm of colour-schemes can be

enhanced by a necklace of crystals in all shades, coral and semi-precious stones, while for sport there is steel, silver, gold, wood, and leather. In this season of ultra-feminine fashions, and with the return of lace, lingerie petticoats, fichus, and flowers, it .was a sure thing that the appropriate ‘ornaments would arrive on the scene. Stark Truth. mo ys "Life as We Have Known It," b Co-operative Working Women, is given some insight into the tremendous difficulties which are faced by work-ing-class women. It is well worthy of thoughtful study. It is edited by Margaret Llewelyn Davies, and Virginia Woolf has written’ an introductory letter in which sympathy is curiously blended with detached bewilderment. The brave deeds so simply described in this book are being repeated day- by day, year by year, in a thousand homes TST STNHITITSITHITSHI ETT StE ULL Lie

scattered the length and breadth of Britain. These are stories by women who have had little to help them in a lifelong fight against drudgery. and poverty. The struggle of a woman who works for a few pence a week from the age of ten years until marriage, who bears three or four children, keeps them and a husband on an income of less than’ 25/- a week, is surely as heroic as any deed that was ever: ‘praised in song or poem. It is heroic for just the reason: that it has not those ‘qualities which make. if exciting enough to. be sung by poets, Nothing of romance, none of the thrill of sudden, daring deeds-only a long, weary struggle against circumstance, a war that has defeat as the penalty for anything but unceasing watchfulness and constant toil, The days when little girls of ten went to work as domestic ‘servants or in factories are happily _over, but the trials of women who have TOMS SHOU LS UML We ALL .

to bring up families on incomes' tha$ represent a bare escape from starvation are still being endured. They are set down here to bring shame and ad miration to the hearts of all who read, Up In An Aeroplane. AN Bnglish correspondent writes:"Did you have a nice holiday?" asked Mrs. B--~- when she came te char on Wednesday. Her face beame ed. "I did that, ma’am. I’ve ber come a flyer." I probably looked my astonishment, for she. hastened to ex* . piain, "Yer see, on Haster Monday, Mrs. Smith and I decided to go on e excursion to Southport. When we got there, if there wasn’t a. chap telling another up in th’ air what to do, and rare capers he cut I can tell you. ‘t wouldn’t mind having a bit of a fly meself, I ses .to Mrs, Smith, it seems safe enough to watch you. ‘Captain. Barnard is taking passengers in hi¢ — famous aeroplane, the Spider,’ ses & young toff to his gel just at side o’ me. We'll ma’am, long. and short of it wor’ I went and paid me money, and had # rare do. It wor’ real homely, Th’ engine made such a din you could have: shut your eyes and thought yersen in, #? mill. I allus have enjoyed going up t? Tower at Blackpool, but going up in. that plane beat it holler. Yes, ’m a for flying in future, ma'am. Me and. Amy Johnson, both Yorkshire yer sec, It must be in ¢’ blood." The Sport’s The Thing. : "THIS year will see the fifth season of women’s organised cricket, and the development of the game is progressing rapidly, with the help of the Women’s Cricket Association. There are some fifty women’s clubs in Nngland, . to which over fifty of the largest girls’ schools are affiliated.. Hitherto if has been -difficult for a girl to follow. the game after leaving school owing to the laek of club facilities and playing grounds; but these deficiencies are gradually being made good. An alle England women’s county cricket organe isation is the next undertaking, There is a county women’s club for Leicester shire and another is being formed for. Notts, a os Tribute, , P . QO sentinientalist, but rather an * apostle of the macabre and supere natural, yet Edgar Allen. Poe ‘could sing thus tenderly :- r ‘In the. heavens above. , The-angels, whispering: to one another, Can find, amid their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother." Work for Women. THE following paragraph from am ‘Hnglish paper ix of interest:The girl fond of outdoor life and garde ening, and with capital at her dix posal for the necessary three years? training, or a scholarship to a horti» cultural college, should find it. well worth while to go in for this work. Women gardeners are experiencing little difficulty in acquiring posts, many of them responsible ones and highly paid. Some are able to start success- _ ful undertakings of their own, such as lavender growing, mushroom -cultivation, and bulb ‘farming. Of course, special advantages in soil and situation are needed. for success in such enterprises. .. Another vocation that appeals to many girls is angora wool farming, Only six. months to a year is required for training, and the student can> then commence to earn money for herself. Dressmaking and cooking~~ which includes. sweet-making--are o¢cupations highly..approved by girls to-day, and. both are remunerative,