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HONG KONG. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1935 ·

No. 22

BACK TO THE KITCHEN?

Woman Says "No"

keener the competition

Pot-Pourri As It Was T for jobs the harder it is

Made In Old

Country Houses

Do you enjoy reviving the

quaint old customs of grandmother's day? We've re- vived, the fashions in both gowns and bats. so why not begin making pot-pourri again and talking about the various · recipes at our afternoon teas? Well even if we don't do that. perfume is always a favourite subject -among women and it's quite fascinating to learn" how these old mixtures were got together.

Almost every big country house in the past had its special blend of pot-pourri.Now is the moment to choose your recipe!

Some prefer the dry pot-pourri, rose petals and spices, some the more strongly perfumed moist pot- pour with its addition of essential oils.

In either case the rose petals must, be gathered dry, and spread out on trays or on paper until they be come quite brown and chip dry. Then place them in layers in à - large jar, scattering powdered bay salt between each layer. Leave for a day or two and then add the poz- pourri powder.

ounce

A good recipe for the powder, is- very important Rather a nice mixture is obtained by mixing one

of powdered storax, ounce of powdered allspice, one ounce of ground cloves, a stick of ounce of ground cinnamon,

ounce caraway seeds and one

of one ounce coriander seeds, powdered benzoin. óne nutmeg, ope ounce of toaquin beans, one ounce of vanilla beans, quarter of a pound of powdered orris root.

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A very famous damp pot-pourri, made at a West of England coun- try house, contained in addition to rose petals an equal quantity of rose leaf mixed lemon verbena, geranium, jasmine petals, and lavender. These were placed in a large jar and. the following dry.

added: Ingredients were

Quarter of a pound of allspice. quarter of a pound of sandal wood, quarter of a pound of cedar wood," quarter of a pound of orris root, quarter of a pound of patchouli.

The mixture was left to stand for three weeks before adding the liquids, then it was well stirred and impregnated with essence of musk. ambergris, oil of almonds, oil of - bergamot, oil of cloves, oil of

lavender.

Could you get all those ingredi- ent here? It's doubtful perhaps, but if you go a-searching you will find flowers and spices to make a much more exotic and fragrant combination. Hong Kong would surely be just the place to take up. pot-pourri making as a hobby?

fer woman to find a place for herself outside the home. Her "Dew freedomTM stands her in good stead when war or a high pitch of prosperity creates an abnormal demand for labour. It does not help her much when there are far fewer jobs than applicants and the male comes to the front not as a mate or a companion but as an unrelent- ing competitor.

-Women are being forced back into the kitchen," said Dean Vir- ginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard College, speaking before a group of university women..

The Business Woman "She Finds It Hard to Secure Execu

American women are by me. means united on the question of special legislative protection for tire Positions their sex. They probably are unite ed in believing "protection," even if necessary in some cases, should rot become discrimination. The trach is that there are discriminations. against women, and that the pres- ent economic situation is intensify- ing them.

No woman denies that within the past 50 years her sex has made advances all along the line, collec- tively and individually. Nor does any woman deny that these ad- vances have been more difficult for her than for her male fellow- workers.

Women are not shut out of many opportunities to make a living, but they are hindered and impeded, and the more bitter the struggle for jobs the more the difficulties. There is a superstition in mining camps. and fishing villages that to let a woman go down a shaft or to take oce on a fishing trip is to invite disaster. The taboo is "frank and superstitious." But the supersti

tion, in vaguer form, floats like an impenetrable veil over other corn- pations.

Woman finds it difficult to ge into actuarial or appraisal work, « * in the case of insurance com- panies, because there is a tradition that she is

mathe- not good at matics For the same reason ber- career as a public accountant is

Architecture 'is'. usually blocked

almost, clused to her because build- ing and construction are considered (by men) to be alien to her nature. The same rule applies to engineer- ing and metallurgy. Aviation is

made difficult, although, as Amelia Earhart and other women fiers have shown, not impossible.

And women are not supposed to be able to lead orchestras, the theory Being that they are not good team-workers.. They find it hard to secure executive positions *n commercial life because male em- ployers, fear that they will marry and because male employees do not like to take orders from woppen.

Women themselves are ctimis- ed by male superstitions with re- gard to them. Many women's or-

them ➡ganisations, among

labour bodies, prefer to have a mau repre- sent them, on the ground that men representing other organisations dislike working with women.

Some of the prejudices against women workers linger on in old Taws or have been enacted into new- ones. In some cases it is difficult to tell where the well-intended hu- manitarian motive leaves off and the prejudice, begins.

There are a good many other bar- riers, psychological as well as Jegal, but these are sufficient to in- dicate the complex network which binds the progress of the individual woman who wants to get ahead. The exceptions that prove rule may easily be cited. In the face of all obstacles, there are wo- men engineers, women architects, women geographers, biologists,

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The Professional Woman"She Has Had to Fight Bitterly for Admission to Medical Schools and Law Schools"

aviators, astropomers and fores - ters.

Of the remaining women profes- sional workers the vast majority are engaged in work that is, or is considered, feminine type and background. Librarians, social workers, actresses, artists, writers, fashion, experts and home economic specialists make up the bulk. Phy- sizians and surgeons total up but one-half of 1 per cent. lawyers bat two-tenths per cent. of the million. and a half of professional women in America

The future of the working wo-, man is hard to predict. At pre- sent, surely, the swing of "the pendulum is against her. Eren though America is not following. in the footsteps of Germany and Italy and trying to relegate her to "children, church and kitchen" the tendency to force her out of the most desirable positions in the Ja- bour market.cannot be denied.

Frances Perkins, US. Secretary for Labour, recently outlined the situation as she saw it.

"It is the unusual thing, general- ly speaking." she said, "for the wo man college graduate to set out to carve a career for herself; it is the usual thing for the man to do it. Biological reasons which cannot be ignored and explained away are re- sponsible for this. The man's is a single-track career, the woman's a double-track one.

"Before she can convince others. of her single-mindedness on her job she must convince herself that it's a career and not marriage she wants. Once she is convinced of her choice, she gets there if she has the grit and the ability, but it's a hard puli.for her all along the line, and it can be taken for grant- ed that every promotion she gets is predicated by the fact that she has been better than the man com- peting for the same job. After she achieves distinction in her oWE field, however, she is judged as a person, not as a woman. But her testing period is very much longer."

Perhaps the real liberation of the masses of womankind rests on slow. and deep-reaching changes in our social system and our social atti-· tudes. The most that those who believe in equal opportunity "can mow do is to see to it that no new and arbitrary discriminations are *imposed. As for the individual woman," she can summon all her courage, and assail the barriers, leading even though the mass of ́her sisters cannot follow.