Women in Print.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 149, 23 December 1908, Page 9

Women in Print.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back than a weak back and a caddie to carry life s luggage.

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Harper, whose marriage took place on sth November in London, are expected in New Zealand in February ior a visit. They will be staying in Nelson with Mrs. Hunter- Brown., the bride's mother. Mrs. F. G. Bolton is staying at Day's Bay for the holidays. Miss M. Putnam is staying with Mrs. Beauchamp at llotorua. Mrs. Costello, of Timaru, has been for a few days with Mrs. Chas. Tringham, and goes on to Pigeon Bush to visit Mrs. Tringham. Mr. and Mis. Tnngham and their children leave today for Homewood, Pelorus Sound. Mrs. Frank Waldegrave, who has been a trip Home, arrived by the Sydney boat to-day, and Mrs. Fitzherbert, of Feilding, has arrived in Wellington to meet her father and mother. ildlle. Ceska Rubinstein goes to Auckland to-morrow via the Mam Trunk line. She visits the Wanganui River on the return trip, and then leaves for Melbourne. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Robertson got a very impressive "send-off" yesterday morning. The station was, barricaded, only ticket-holders being allowed to get on to the platform, and one enthusiastic lady, eager to say good-bye to her friends, climbed over with agility and courage, the latter tempered a little by tho fear of feeling a policeman's big hand on her shoulder ! In addition U the many handsome gifts that have cvi denced the popularity of Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, trmy received, just the night before starting, a very fine silvermounted dressing-bag and suit-case combined, and Mr. Robertson was given a silver flask. Flowers were given to sweeten their weary train journey, and at the last minute "thejr English 'letters from their son were brought to them. By the same tram Miss Coates went to New Plymouth, en ( route for Auckland. Talavera-terrace shortly will have the distinction of sheltering three n<nv ly-married couples, almost in adjoining houses. The trousseau frocks will be subjects of much interest to the rest of the inhabitants of the street ! Miss Margaret Knox is going to Pahantamri to stay with Mrs. Leonard Reid. Later on she goes to Christchurch. Mr. Russell and Mr. Fulton gave a pleasant puchre-party at the Hutt last night as a house-warming for the naw residence. Mrs F. Hume, Mrs. U. Allen, Mrs. Allport, and Mrs. HarryRose were chaperonea. Yesterday Miss Mai ion Kate Purdie, only daughter of Mr. D. R. Purdie, of Eilice avenue, was married to Mr. Chas. Collins. tho City Treasurer. The wedding took ,place in the, Vivianstreet "Baptist Church, which was decorated charmingK with white flower.M-u.-l foliage. The service wss choral, Mr. Maughan Bai'nett plnying the orgati. The wedding gown was of white Louicine, with lace and siher tassels, and sho wore a wreath and vtal. Miss C. Calhis nr\d Miss ElSio rficol, Miss Helen May, and Miss Dorothy Goclber were bridesmaids, tho elder two wearing pale green ninon and pretty white hats -with pale frreen and heliotrope sweet peas, theii bouquets beinp, of mauve sweet peas. The smaller girls were in dainty pale blue muslina, and carried baskets of white flowers. Mr. Pargiter was best man, Mr. A. G. Cathie groonvsman. Mr. Collins, who has, been the organist at the Baptist Church for eighteen years, was presented by Uis inombeis of the church with a silver tea-service, and by the members of the choir with a silver cake basket. There is on view in one of the Lnmbton-quay shops an exhibition cf <trt needle-work that ought to rejoice the hearts of all lovers of charming and quaiiio things. The blending of colours is fine — sometimes a combination such as would never have occurred to v less subtle fancy, and yet used f>o deftly as to produce a delightful harmony. ( The designs, too, are exquisite, and yet tho amount of work is not alarming, broad effects being obtained without much labour. They are the handicraft of an Englishwoman, who makes all her designs, as well ,as carrying them out into beautiful realities. , A double photograph 'frame of beige linen was ready to embroider. The back slipped out, and the frame kept the linan taut and made the worlr much easier. Every one knows how unsatisfactory it is to embroider on unstretched linen, and what an anxiety and labour it is to get one's work mounted afterwards. This solves the difficulty., Mrs. T. M'Ewan's health has sufficiently improved to enable her to pay a holiday visit to Christchiirch, for which city she leaves on Monday next. Mrs. M'E-van will be a guest of Mrs. John Lambie, of Kyle. Of Miss Ina G. Richmond, the young Irish girl who was recently appointed manager of the great Magherafelt gasworks at Dublin, a writer remarks :— Sho is the first woman to occupy such a position, and all Ireland is proud of her. Miss Richmond first entered the Royal Post Office service and became an expert in telegraph and postal work. Later she studied gas manufacture and dishibution. Thu- Woman's Jourml says : "In Ireland this capable girl can vote for all officers except members of Parliament, but if she were to show her enterprise by 'emigrating to the United States, she would immediately lose her vote and find herself classed politically with idiots, lunatics, and felons." The London Daily Mail remarks that of late years the teaching of deportment has been allowed to decline, and has been revived of late because of "the well-known predeliction evinced in high society for ths gentle girl as opposed to the hoyden of athletic aspect." "A very famous mistress of deportment teaches her girls the game of ball. She has been busy teaching this exercise for years and years as well as the use of Indian clubs and a very pretty fan exercise, and it is noticeable that among her pupils are included the most elegant and justly-admired members of society to-day. Fan drill will appeal more foicibly to demoiselles whose last school term has arrived. The movements partake of the nature of those required to mske the court courtesy, leading up to them by a series of poses, each one an epitome of elegance and very characteristic of the various movements of the minuet, a dance in which tho fan plays a prominent part. Furling and unfurling the fan calls into evidence the turn of the wrist and the display of a pretty hand, the head is raised or depressed in order that point may be given to the expression the fan helps to make manifest, and the movements of the arms, of great importance when an awkward girl has to be drilled into grac^ must ,

be properly controlled. Undoubtedly there is excellent use in this apparently simple course of drill. The chief difficulty that is being found in acquiring the correct obeisance, or courtesj r , required for all court occasions is not that of dipping the body right down to the> ground until almost a sitting posture is reached, but in raising the body from that position without the assistance of the hand to prevent a complete collapse. The novice at first descends with a "wabbling" movement from side to side that is far from pretty, dips down in a most graceful heap, and then cannot get up again '. Her instructor teaches her the correct' movements one after the sthe>r with the utmost patience, show- I ing her her appearance before a look-ing-glass, until at last the descent is all that is graceful and the slow ascent full of dignity and beauty." Mrs. Howard Gould has filed, in Now York, in her suit against her husband for separation alimoiij, a detailed statement of tho expenses which she coiifciders indispensably necessary to_a woman in New York society. T?hose expenses are as follows: — Monthly rent of an &partinont, not ultra-fashionable, £100 ; rent Of furniture or deterioration of furniture owned by her, £100 ; coal, gas, electric light and telephones, £20 ; but ler, £15 ; cook -housekeeper, £15 ; kitchenmaid, housemaid, ami lady'smaid, i/Z0 ; linen, curtains, carpats, bedding, silver, dishes glass, etc., £140; repairs £35 ; gvoeel 1 , butrher, and baker, £200 ; four horses, veterinary service, sllCeing, etc , £40 ; coachman's salary, £15 J grooms and stablemen, £11 ; livery and boots, £10 ; harness, saddles, whips, etc., £5; two motor cais, £200; chauffeur, £30 ; gowns, street dresses (cheapest), £200 ; hats, veils, etc. (no tnore than twd a month), '£20; shoes, slippers, and hosiery, £10 ; lingerie, £10 ; fans, parasols, umbrellas, and opera glasses, £10 ; doctor, dentist, and massage, £6 ; books, stationery, and music, ££0 ; amusfimenth and theatres, £10 ; tips, £10. These items make a total of £1222 monthly, exclusive of travelling expenses and contributions to charity. Airs. Gould tells tho court that her wardrobe is now detained for her hotel bill, jewellery, and othei debts. She suggests that ihe £40,000 per annum allowed by the French courts to tho Countess of Caslellane was a reasonable sum, though she is asking oniy £30,000. She adds : "It costs as much to furnish a table for one person as for two; it costs moie in proportion for on? person to live than it cloes # for two. I have been accustomed to horses, and I do not know why I should give them up simply because my husband has unjustih'ably left me. It Scarcely pays to keep a motor car longer than a year. No dre^s that any woimn of means is apt to wear costs loss than £50. A jewellery bill of i-i1,400, I submit, cannot be called extrawgant in tho wife of a man with my husband's great wealth."