THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2477, 16 April 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

SOCIAL GOSSIP. "While the English suffragists are shouting their way into battle, their American sisters arc trying the softer methods of song. Mrs Mary Moore, a j popular composer, who recently sang a suffrage campaign in Ca'ifo'rnia, is now preparing the music for a suffrage vaudeville, the libretto of which is being written by another woman champion of the cause. .

A course of evening classes on ‘‘Practical Law” for women has begun in Paris, with the object of making known woman’s legal position and her rights and obligations as regards her husband. The classes, which are gratuitous, are entirely unofficial, although the lecturers are professors of the Paris Faculty of Law. The idea originates from Bordeaux, where'similar classes were formed a few years ago and were regularly attended.

In Italy the relation between employer and servant is not invested with the ' stiff ceremony that prevails in England; Perhaps the curious Italian housekeeping system is accountable for this; it is usual for tho mistress to pay her servants a lump sum per month, on which they provide for the family. It will be easily seen that the system is not without advantage; the mistress is relieved of much trouble and responsibility, while tho servants have a direct interest in keeping down- waste, being put on their mettle to secure the best re- " suits on the least outlay.

Mrs Maybrick," the much-discussed “heroine” of the sensational poison case, is, it is reported, about t-o be married. The betrothal is the result of a curious courtship. Mrs Maybrick was lecturing in America on prison reform under the . auspices of a well-known institution, and the secretary, Mr Charles L. Wagner, was so deeply struck by tho lecturer’s eloquence and personality that he offered her his hand. After ret fusing many times, fearing that marriage with her would injure his career, she has at length, it is reported, accepted. Mrs-Maybrick is forty-seven years age. v

Mrs Hetty Green is the richest woman in the world, and she lives with lier daughter in a little three-roomed flat in Hoboken, New Jersey. Last year she removed to the Plaza Hotel, New York, and tasted the dehglite of being a multi-millionairess in society. But habits are neither formed nor broken with ease at seventy, and m a tew weeks Mrs. Green was back at Hoboken with her daughter and her poodle. Mrs Green presumably found New York society 'less tiresomo forty years ago, when she was the admired Miss Robinson, tvitli whom tho King dcincod on his early visit to America.

After a brief return to civilisation, Frau Valentin, the famous Scandinavian painter of Arctic scenery, has, according to a Stockholm correspondent, returned to her desolate island-liqme -off the coast of Norway, upon which:is built her studio, tho loneliest in the woild. Passionately fond of painting tho. scenery of the Arctic wi'ds, Frau Valentin is an exoert shot, understands the handling of a boat, and is thoroughly used to roughing it. Clad in her picturesque working costume, and carrying her painting materials, she makes her way over snow and ice to distant points in--search of the beautiful. When overtaken by night, Fran Valentin sleeps in a tent. AJ ..... ;

A workers’ bookshop in connection with the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women has been opened in New Oxford’ Street, near the. British Museum Tube Station. The enterprise, originated in the work of the bureau at the inquiry office in the womens .section of the Franco-Brutish Exhibition. It was felt that there was an mass of useful publications interest" to women which was not easily available, while there was also a «Towine' demand for information concerning all branches of women s work. An experienced worker will bo m -charge, and care will be taken tq ensure that the various societies interested shall be adequately represented. ....... „

COOKERY RECIPES. ; Haro Scup.—The bones andj trimmings of one cold roast hare, :or the bones of 'an uncooked hare, 2ozs of ham or bacon, 2ozs of. butter, or dripping, 2ozs of flour, 1 onion • 1 small bouquet of herbs, i teaspoon fill of whole peppercorns, 3 pints of water. Cut the. carcase, and bones of the hare into convenient sized pieces, and the bacon into dice. Melt the butter or dripping, put in the bacon,. shake the flour oyer the joints of haTe,- and add them to the saucepan with all. the flour. Stir well in the dripping until slightly browned, then add the water, the onion cut small, the herbs, peppercorns, salt, and a blade of mace. -Stir until the soup -comes to the boiling point, then draw to the side of the firo and let it simmer gentlv for about two hours. Strain off and skim thoroughly. For serving, return the soup to the saueejoan and once more boil up. A glass of port or other wine may now bo added, and a teaspoonful of red-currant jelly, but these of course, are optional, though an improvement. Very often (if the troume is not too much) a little of tiie meat is taken from the boneY, passoch through a very fine mincing machino, of* pouncled and sieved, and returned to the S °Strawberry Pudding-Half a pound of caster .sugar, I lb. of butter, 2 eggv>, . Jib of flour, J tea spoonf r.l of bakingpowder, half lib pot of strawberry jam (i.e.. 2 heaped tablespoonfuls). Beat, the butter and sugar together, beat the eggs and add them, then the jam, and lastly, stir in the flour and baking-. r - p Qwder. mixed. Put in a buttered basin .steam-for labours. ' Turn out, and with sweet , melted butter; sauce. Egg Tripe.—Take eight eggs, beat up, add salt, pepper chopped parsley, and a dessertspoonful' of grated Parmesan cheese 1 (or other' cheese); make a thin omelet, more like a large pa>icake. When cooked, let it get cold - Then cut it into strips, tho shape of trine 1 put these in;a saucepan \vi»h a bit of butter and some tomato sauce, •and cook over the fire for .a-Tew minuY ;tes. Servo as hot ■as possible fwith a dusting of grated cheese over the >vh 1 .