LADY CAPEL WOLSELEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 11

LADY CAPEL WOLSELEY.

"The last wag of the family tail" is how Lady Capel Wolseley terms herself, for there are three Lady Wolseleys. There is Viscountess Wolseley, daughter of the late Field-Marshal, Wolseley, and also Lady Wolseley. wife of Sir Charles Wolseley, who before lier marriage was Miss Murphy, an Irish American. Lady Capel Wolseley is the widow of Captain Sir Capel Wolseley, who served throughout the Great War, and before her marriage was Miss Knollys, whose father, the late Colonel Knollys, at one time commanded the 93rd Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. Lady Wolseley, accompanied by Miss Janet Murray, is at present in Auckland on a health trip round the world.

In speaking of Empire ties, lady Wolseley expressed the opinion that the people in the colonies and at Home should know each other better. She thought it would be an excellent idea if a Kith and Kinship League could be formed in places throughout the Empire. Her suggestion is that there should be a small vearly subscription which would cover expenses and that, by strict ballot, it could be decided upon a certain number of people to visit different parts of the Empire. Leading local people could be elected to form committees in the various towns, and besides the subscription, the league could be worked for in the same way that other leagues were financed. "Although it brought many sorrows," said Lady Wolseley, "the war did a great deal to solidify and cement the Empire, by the visits paid to the Old Country by large numbers of men.

On arriving in Auckland, Lady Wolseley'a first impression was how clean and tidy the city was. "I hope," she said, "that New Zealand is not going to encourage sky-scrapers in the cities. They are hideous things." When in America and she was asked what she thought of their streets, she replied, "They are all right, but the architects have forgotten to put in the sky." Sky-scrapers shut out the light and sunshine, and it is the poor that suffer. The rich man can afford to go away, but the poor are hedged in between blocks of granite. Although not Scotch, Lady Wolseley admits to suffering from what she termed "Scotia Mania," and was delighted to learn that there were a great number of Scots settled in New Zealand. She hoped to visit the South Island at a later date. Lady Wolseley leaves for Rotorua on Friday, after which she will meet the Tahiti at Wellington and sail for San Francisco.

The good old rumour of long hair for women comes up as persistently as 'the cable man, acting as publicity man to the big clothing interests, announces that skirts are once more going to sweep the streets. The only drawback to these sources of information is that they are usually wrong. The long hair rumour has been taken up by H. Pearl Adam, the well-known woman journalist, who to Auckland with the recent Press delegation, and whose home is in Paris. Discussing the matter in the pages of "The Queen," she says: "Let nobody listen to the people who say long hair j s coming back. I went for a walk through the shopping streets of Paris, from the haughtiest to the gentlest, and I saw no comb, no hairpin. Those are left to the petite bourgeoisie. Anybody above that who has kept her hair spends careful hour* folding it in to look as thoueh it were cut."