TOPICS FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 15

TOPICS FOR WOMEN

ENGAGEMENT. HALI/—M'KENZIE The i'Sngagcßient is announced of Euia, y Gunger daughtoE of Mr. and Mrs. it . M'Kenzie, Pancourt street, X arori, to Fenwick, only son of CV:lonel and Mrs. G. T." Hall, Fj iend street, Karori. Ladj- Sidey left for the South on Friday with Sir Thomas Sidey. Genet al and Mrs. Clark, who ha^e been Bt< ying with the Hon. Sir Heaton Rhodes,;, leave- by, tho Maheno for Melbourne. ' Lady .Husking is returning from the South on Thursday. Miss M 'owbray, president of the Auckland Vici oria League, has received notice that; Their Excellencies, the Gov-ernor-Genbral and Lady Bledisloe,-will-attend th* league's annual ball on 21st May. Mrs. Col eridge Farr has returned to Wcllingtoa after a brief visit to Napier. ' Mrs. E. W. Kane.has returned to Wellington , from Palmerston North. Mrs. E. 1 Irowning, Wellington, is a visitor to CS hristchurch. Mr. and 3 Mrs. Page, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Brctwn, and. Miss Luckio are among the 'Wellington visitors to Auckland. ■ • - ' : ' Miss Jean , Begg has returned to Auckland from Dunedin. She recently received lejiv^ of absence from the Y.W.C.A. to attend the .Pan-Pacific Conference at .Honolulu in August. Mr. and Mrs. A. Austin, Wellington, are visitors to' Auckland. Mr. and Mni. W. D. Stewart were recent visitors ito Napier. Mrs. and Mit is Fotheringnam, Wellington, are visitors to the East Coast. ■ Mrs. W. A. "Vy.itch has left Wellington for a visit ito Wanganui. Miss Joy BarVier has returned to Gisborne from Wellington. Mrs. George S obe"rts, Dunedin, has arrived in Wellii igton to . visit her daughter, Mrs. li ouglas Whyte, Wellington. - ! . .. One or two rail ing clvb1 secretaries in the Dominion Have been singularly fortunate in having? as assistants particularly competent members of the opposite sex. Miss . Ivy Tippard of the staff of the Hawker- Bay Jockey Club is one very able !o\ isistant whose impending departure fa r the Old .Country has aroused considei able regret. She has been in the chub's employ,for eleven years. During the meeting last week all-concerned'•wTith the club took the opportunity, in liariOus forms, of expressing their appri :ciation of Miss Tippard's good work. \ It is probable that she will take up» her permanent residence in England. . * Concert »t Lower Hutt.', A concert was given iat the Lyceum Hall, Lower Hutt, by tho junior pupils of Miss Muriel Adams, 1i.A.8., when a large gathering of pareals and friends were entertained with an' excellent musical programme, which in eluded some Maori songs. Among those who took part were Patricia-i H&wkAv Allan Wilson, Ellen Nielsen, Frances Clout, Joan Hodges, Winnie Evans, ' Jack Noble, Doris Wright, Edith JV-an.ce, Freda Hodges, Molly Evans,- Eitty Bance, Gladys Barker, Peggy Harris, Bob Schmitt, Nola Simeon, Mavis Bock, Joan Enton, Betty Jowett, I'ercy Andrews, and Patricia Theory tests and competitionffollowi-d the programme very successfully, avd afternoon tea was followed by gaimes and dancing. . : , '• : To Dance Across Europe. ' A new way of making their, country better know in.other lands is shortly to be tried by students from- like University of Bucharest (states an English writer.) Twenty-ei|*ht of the most talented students have been granted leave of absence s^a that they may tour' Europe, including' England, by motor-car, and give performances at various towns of the eentUriesold Rumanian peasant dances and s^ngs, together with lectures about their «ountry. Of the company, eight will' be women, chosen for their beauty as ivell as their intelligence, and each memiber will wear the typical costume of 4lifferent districts. These peasant wstumes, wflieh have gaily cmbroider^id shirts and leather coats, skirts studdatd with silver or woven of gold and silver thread, and long sheepskin cloaks anVhigh pointed fur caps for the men, are said to be the moit picturesque in. Europe. The party will travel ia two-, motor-cars, and plans to cover, over ' 12,500 miles during the tour, tin their '■■ rway to England they will visit Austria, Czocio-Slovakia, Germany, Hoi- ' land, and Belgiam, and on the return journey pass through France,. Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Jugoslavia, and Bulgaria. Besides stopping for several days at seventy-five principal towns on the route, where they i will ibid Rumanian festivals that will j be broadcast, they intend to make short j halts for performances at 534 other \ towns. The. students have organised the tour through their'leading organ- ■ isation, "The Country's Guards," and \ students' organisations in the lands 3 through which they pass will entertain < them.; : i A Charming Story. i A pretty story- comes from Golds- ] borough, in Yorkshire, where Princess ( Mary gavo a party for tlxe villago children. Her elder boy, to whom that i part of Lord Harewood's estato will ] pass when he is ready to make a home ] for himself, accompanied her to the ] little school where the guests were hay- { ing tea. He was to have shaken hands ■> with some of the grown-ups, but he was so overjoyed at the sight of tho •, huge Christmas tree that he stood lost 1 iv wonder in front of it, leaving his mother to offer all the greetings. It j was a wonderful tree, lit withtiny col- , oured wax candles —for there is neither j gas nor electricity at Goldsborough— } and containing a.toy for every child in 1 the village. ( A. Mystery Oar. 1 To keep the British flag flying in the 1 sport of motor racing, the Hon. Dorothy Pagot has bought tho three cars 1 which competed so successfully last ( year and a new "mystery" car which < is being made and has placed them. ' again in the handß of Captain Birkin, ' the famous motor racer, to raco during the present year, says an ■' exchange. J This sporting action by Miss Paget on < behalf of the British motor industry < will now ensure that Captain Birkin's ' team, which will include some of the < world's best known drivers, will be 1 able to make a good showing in every 1 part of the world this year. ' Queen Margaret College. \ At the annual meeting of the Queen '. Margaret College Parents' Association 1 this week, endorsement was given a pro- ] posal to constitute separate LoaTds for : the control of Queen Margaret College i and Scots College. - The gather- . ing was addressed by Mr. J. T. . Martin, chairman of the present joint . board of governors, who outlined the ' scheme, -which was suggested for sub- : mission to the Wellington Presbytery. The election of officers for tho Parents' i Association resulted as follows:—President, Mr. W. M. Page; vice-president, i Mrs. A. H. Johns; hon. secretary and i treasurer, Mr. A. H. Hoby; committee, | Mesdames H. F. Norman, H. D. Ben- i nctt, A. B. Sievwright, S. Eichelbaum, . E. F. Richardson, E. P. Hay, and Messrs. . W. M'Lay, B. L. Dallard, F. W. Row- < ley, and J. B, Moodie. <

A Pleasant Tare-well. Mrs. H. R. Barclay entertained a number of friends to afternoon tea, the occasion being a farewell to Mrs. P. W. Scully, who, with her husband, is leaving for an extended holiday in England and on the Continent. A very pleasant time was spent, and best wishes expressed by all for bon voyage and a happy holiday. A Commendable Objective. Tho National'lnstitute of Industrial Psychology of Great Britain, which was founded in 19S1 to reduco fatigue and waste of energy among tho workers in tho country's industries, has been approached by various women's organisations for a special study to be made of methods of reducing fatigue in housework. Tho object of the institute's house section^ will bo to advise women how to run their homes to .the best advantage, in tho minimum of time, the minimum of effort, and the uaximum of comfort. i A Curious Industry. In a remote village in North Wales there is an industry solely dovotea to the cracking of Brazil nuts. A peep insido the "factory" reveals dozens of girls each ueing a hammer with marvellous dexterity, tho nuts being cracked with just sufficient force to leave tho kernels intact. The demand for Brazil nuts is greatest at Christmas, wh«n huge cases of kernels go from this Welsh village to the chocolato factories, where they aro coated to make "chocolate Brazils. J1 Bad Butter and Oood Honey. "Talking o£ cows," writes a Rawhitiroa. resident,; who i« at present on a visit to the Old Country, to a friend in Eltham, "tell B.F. that there is something far wrong with Now Zealand butter, or tho way they market it. If he had to eat some of the New Zealand butter I have eaten, he would turn his cows out on to. the road. New Zealand honey gets the best name of anything New Zealand I have struck, and I have seen a lot o.f it in tho shops. Moral for Taranakb"Sell your cows and keep a bee!'" ,