WOMEN IN PRINT.

• " T ,° a ? p ! a s* to ered l t a woman wit , n , ?n? n in telligent opinion on serious subjects is the pinnacle ot flattery-just as easy as robbing a child's bank-but it is a method seldom taken advantage of bj' e\en the cleverest men." ™ seiuom lantn

Mrs. Bowring, from Christchurch, ar- | rned this morning, and left for Kr.pier with Mr. Bowring. The two Miss Fairells, of Melbourne, who have been staying with Mr». Samuel, left yesterday morning for the Hot Lakes, where they intend to stay three weeks, leturning to Wellington via the Wanganui River. Mrs. Brett, oi Auckland, and Mrs. George Fenwick, of Dunedin, accompany their husbands to tfie Press Conference in London. Dr. Harty has taken the house at the end of Tinakori-road foimerly occupied by Mr. Harris. Mr. Harris has taken Mr. Leighton's house and grounds at the Lower Hutt. j Miss Fanny Richardson of Tinakoriroad, left for Auckland this morning. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Iza-rd will leave Wellington on either the 12t-h or 19th inst., joining the P. and 0. Malwa at Sydney. They go to the Bellevue Gardens to-morrow, their house at Talaveraterrace being occupied by Mr. M'Bean and his mother Judge and Mis. Haselden are at the Empire Hotel. Professor and Mrs. Adamson have moved from Professor Baukine Brown's house to that of Mr. Millwaid's, which they have taken during Mr. and Mrs. Millward's abs-enee. Miss Berry, matron of the Wellington Nurses' Home, has leturned from a holiday in Wanganui. Mrs. A. A. Lucas and Miss Lucas, ol Nelson, have come with the Rev. Mr. Lucas to the Methodist Conference, and are staying with Mrs. Harland. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. A. de Castro, of Kelburne, gave a tea for Mrs. Izard. Flowers were arranged about the rooms, and the tea-table was decorated with coreopsis anti grasses. Music and tea-cup fortunes entertained the guests. The hostess wore a black velvet skirt, a directoire sash, and a. bine silk blouse and lace coatee Mrs. Izard was in grey silk and a hat lined with rose pink and trimmed with ribbon. In a most interesting article in Harper's Bazaar, by M Escoffier — cook at the Carlton Hotel, and acknowledged to be the greatest chef in the worjd — he describes how h<> was inspired to create, some of his dishes. One in particular was the result oi an episode that impressed him strongly, and which he endeavoured to express in a culinary manner. A ship, the Jeannette, was sent to try and find the North Pole. It never returned, and only two men survived, one managing, more dead than alive, to reach Siberia, and thence home. This is the dish that expresses in petto the tragic occurrence. Poach a fowl, and lefj it cool. Cut into collops and coat each with white chaud-froid sauoe and decorate with very cool green tetragon leaves. Set a layer of aspic jelly at the bottom of a square dish. On this set some slices of foie-gras, cut the shape of the collops, and. place one of the latter on each slice. Cover with fine half-melted chicken jelly. When about to serve, encrust the dish in a block of carved ice. This is the concrete embodiment, a I 'Escoffier, of the Polar tragedy. The great chef is nothing if not imaginative. Hearing of an actress, Mile. Eban, in whose beauty bath floated daisies and blue cornflowers, he annexed the idea and was inspired by it "to make a very pretty dish. His Peche Melba- — which is renowned as a gastronomical triumph — was thought out and perfected to please Madame Melba, and was a marvellous arrange* ment of peaches poached in vanilla syrup, laid upon vanilla ice-cream, and coated with raspberry puree. The opinions of M. Escoffier on the subject 01 the unsuitability of a woman to become a chef are most decided. He considers the mental and physical strain far too fatiguing, and the rush that suddenly occurs at the Carlton, for example, about eight in the evening, would overwhelm a woman of fine feelings and delicate nerves. But fie admit* thai women are exceedingly good cooks, and that cooking is their natural work, not man's. Domestic science is a subject which the teacher should learn to handle, but, unfortunately, the trend of public opinion runs counter to this side of learning — esteeming it of less value, and certainiy placing it on a lower intellectual plane than other studies. A writer in the Australasian is of opinion that instruction on this important branch should be given to teachers — if only to dissipate this false conception of education. A short series of well-planned lessons would suffice to prove that as much preparation is required to produce a good housewife as to produce a professional or but-iness woman. The more intelligent and thoughtful of the parents are alive to the fact that too little time is devoted in our public schools to preparing girls for the duties of life. "1 like my daughter to be well educated/ said a working woman. "I like her to learn, history and geography, and it'll make her an intelligent woman all this new teaching about nature. But, what's the good of her learning French? She'll never get far enough for it to be of use." One was reminded of Hamerton's advice to the victims of a neglected education: Not to "waste time in dwelling in ante-cham-bers" — i.e., in dictionaries and vocabularies — but to choose those studies which admit the neophyte at once into the temple of knowledge. How many public school children ever get beyond the "ante-chamber" of a foreign language? Would it not be better to admit them straight into the temple through the gateway of domestic science. The day of "rule of thumb" methods is at an end. The modern teacher must be a man of wide and varied interests, knowing "something about everything, and everything about something." More important still, he must be capable of awakening enthusiasm in the breasts of his pupils, and of leading them through new and pleasant waj.s to scale the heights of noble endeavour. All honour to those men who spend part of their hummer holiday in the attempt to render themselves more worthy of the vocation and ministry to which they are called. The true teacher knows better than any of his critics that the time can never come for him to say — "I need to learn no more !" While there is great elaboration in out-of-door costumes and evening dresscs7 many of the blouses seem almost puritanical in comparison ; sleeves and bodice portion are simply arranged in flat tucks, and there is a turn-over embroidered lawn collar or some other simple relief on an otherwise severe blouse (writes our London correspondent). The same shade as the skirt is now always selected ; soft silk is chiefly used, while there is a great deround for hlouaea of couros-meaned net, -which is to be had in evgry known

colouring. There are still many dainty blouses in white and cream net — plain and faney — but this material is too popular nnd too cheap to please particular people. On to some a touch of colour is judiciously introduced with good effect, often in the form of narrow pipings 1 more daring are those who introduced upside-down revers of coloured silk, and n, lacing of the same across the front of the blouse ; for the present these are liked, and they certainly are pretty, but before lon<j the style will be done to death. All the up-to-da-te bloiifces of not an<l crepe and lace have the sleeves arranged in flat narrow tucks round the arms. Although plain materials in sell colours are more worn thrn any others just at the moment, adds the correspondent, there are some people who prefer a pattern, and for such there is a neat small check adaptable for many putposes. In this in-between-season tailors are introducing a variety of distinctive lines, for theru is reully no other way of changing the present fashions. Some figures look best with the line of the coat cut right round, others are improved by a curve or bias either to front or back. The long lino of the coat cut away either to a point or biau makes something quite different in appearance, and when the skirt appears below in box-pleats with a slight decoration, the effect is rather better than the severe plainness to which people are most accustomed. Buttons continue to find favour with tailors, and these are usually of blocks covered with the material or in contrasts of silk and velvet. When expensive and rare buttons are introduced, they are put in seta of two on slim chains, such as were worn in the early part of the century, and then they are slipped through. Directoire coats with a side sash put round the wai&t well under the arms and tied in front into a bold double bow, through which a buckle is clasped, are still worn. Toques are growing bigger and bigger, and rumour states that they will continue to do so for the spring, writes our London correspondent. Brims of many hats hide the shoulders from view ; others which do not possess brims of excessive dimensions have crowns which are so cumbersome and heavy-looking that they have less to recommend them even than the excessively-proportioned brims ; these crowns still have a liking for the beehive shape. The straw used in their construction is of the coarsest, and this helps to add to the massive appearance. The cloche, or bell, hat is like an extinguisher in too many cases. It is so large and the effect is so heavy that only those who have pretty mouths and china should ever wear it ; even then it would be preferable to choose a more becoming shape. Large jet ornaments and ropes of beads are still a craze with milliners, who often edge a brim all round with beads of cut jet, while the crown at times is a-glitter with jet or garnet. There was a time when every one had a marabout neck boa, disposed of at length because ifc was shabby in parts or considered to be out of date ; had such people keot those boas they would have been provided with the most up-to-date hats and toques, for many are made wholly of these marabout strands, which are made as nearly as possible like the military busbies ; they do not need much trimming. Mile. Jlelene Miropolsky, a talented young lady barrister, made her first appearance recently at the Palais de Justice. For the first time in the history of the modern Paris Law Courts a woman stood alone before the red-robed judges pleading in her own right as legal counsel the cause of several prisoners. Clad in the sober black gown and white bib of counsel, but without the mediaeval bob-wig so familiar in England, Mile. Miropolsky was not in the least overawed or outwardly nervous. She is doscribed as a handsome brunette, and it is said that even the Public Prosecutor, her adversary, unbent from his stern mission as the avenger of justice, and made a graceful little speech welcoming his learned friend at tho outset of her legal career.