WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 25 September 1922, Page 9

WOMEN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS. Miss Rosemary Rees is the gties; of I Mrs. A- M. Ferguson at "Erl-tone." j Manukau Road, Epsom. Mrs. 0. C. White, manageress of the j Queen's Theatre, is resigning the posi- ] tion and retiring to private life. Miss Whitson. of Dunedin. who has i been staying with her sister. Airs. Edgar Elliott, Remuera, returned to Wellington i this week. Lady Jellicoe left Auckland for Sydney by the Moeraki, and will be the guest of Governor and Dame Margaret i Davidson for the spring race meeting, i afterwards proceeding to Melbourne. Miss Kate Stephens, a leading English educationist, who has 'been studying conditions in Australia, in tlie course of a trip around the world, will leave for New Zealand shortly, writes our Sydney correspondent. Miss Stephens has been very pleased with what she saw of the work done in the schools in Australia generally. While staying in Queensland she was taken for a 700-mile motor trip into the far west of Queensland. An "At Home" was given by Miss Edna Curtis, of Vincent Avenue. Remuera, last Thursday evening. The house was tastefully decorated with flowers, balloons and streamers, and during the evening many musical items were given. Among those present were Mesdames Curtis, Hewlett and Saunderson, Misses Smith, Callaghan, Oldbury. Gribbin, Miller, Laird, Curtis. Jones, Paltridge, Lightfoot and Crawford. A recipe out of a great-grandmother's book for unsightly (probably red and brown) hands is quoted in an English exchange as follows: Beat together an ounce of clear honey, an ounce of almond oil, the juice of a lemon, and the yolk of a fresh, raw egg. Apply the mixture every night, and wear loose, white kid gloves with the palms cut out. Miss B. E. Raugha.n. the well known New Zealand writer and poetess, will be in Auckland about the middle of October, and is going to deliver an address on her work amongst the prisoners in our gaols before the Civic 1-o.ig.ie. Miss Baughan. who has a reputation amongst English literary people as well as in New Zealand, is trying to establish the wreckage of our civilisation again in a position in which these unfortunates can be self-respecting and not a drain on the community. the Commonwealth delegation to the Mrs. Dale who has been appointed to Assembly of the League of Nations, is the wife of Mr. G. E. Dale, solicitor, of Challis House, Sydney (states the ''Australasian"). She came into prominence in literary circles last year, when the Sydney Repertory Theatre produced one of her plays, "Secondary Considerations." which will be sttged this year in Melbourne by the Mermaid Play Society. Mrs. Dale, vrho is described as a "highly educated and broad-minded woman," went to London in February last with the intention of submitting her literary work to English publishers. She was accompanied by Miss Peterson, a Danish journalist, who had been visiting Australia. Mrs- Dale's appointment, according to Mr. Percy Deane. secretary to the Prime Minister's office, wa3 endorsed by a great number of women in Australia. The question of the presence of women in Parliament as members representing constituencies is one which is interesting a large number of thinking people today. Discussions serious, mocking, tentative, anything but businesslike (says a I writer in the "Evening Post"), are beard in many directions. Auckland women have made a definite movement, and there are many who will applaud their fine initiative, good citizenship, and brave spirit, and will wish them a wise selection and the best of success. Selection is a big subject. Women cay, "Oh, but all sorts of men get into Parliament!" True, but when women do appear they will be subjected to intense criticism; their task will be immense, both in the way of surmounting prejudice and showing patience, tact, and firmness in upholding what they believe to be right principle. Expediency muet be an "also started," if in the race at all. The humorists who used to predict I that women M.P.'s would be more occupied with keeping abreast of the I fashions than with their work as legislators are sadly out of it (writes "Way- , farer" in the "Otago Daily Times''). A i change in of Lady Astor'a hat is a parliamentary event. Ever j since she took her seat in the House of | Commons she has been conspicuous ior the modest and sober garb in which she i has appeared at Westminster; and she lis actually said to have worn only two hats in two years. But, then, Lady | Actor could afford, if she chose, to wear a fresh hat every day of the year. It jis only those to whom expense is an I abject that consider it necessary to | indulge frequently their taste" for | changes in their headgear. Those who I can afford the expense can afford atao to I ignore the fashions. The Englishwomen's Exhibition of I Arts and Handicrafts, opened recently at ] Westminster (says an English writeri, was in every- way a success. C'ompariI sons are odious, but perhaps the most I brilliant achievement was that of Miss j Edith Bannister, an Australian girl by ' birth, whuse wood-carvings may, without exaggeration, be said to rival those of Grinling Gibbons.

Tlie first woman publisher in England is Mrs. Eyre Maeklin. The "Westminster Gazette" says oi her: —"She i. not only a successful publisher, but the first woman in England to have purchased a business and seriously taken up publishing as a career. It is now over a year since she bought the business oi Messrs. Mcßride, Nast and Co., changed its name to A. M. Philpot, Ltd. (she was nee Philpot), and, assuming full control, begun the work of building up a house. "Miss Bess Norris," who has one of her watercoloure reproduced in a recent "Colour" (England), is the wife of .Mr. J. Nevin Tail, the London representative of tbe firm of .Messrs. J. and N. Tait. Starting her career as a painter of miniatures, she became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and examples of her work were purchased for the Melbourne and Sydney C'alleries and the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. One ot her best portraits is that of Mrs. Walter Russell, a well-known model, who at one time was known as tile Belle of Chelsea. She sat often for Waterhouse. who depicts her in his "Ulysses and the Sirens,' in the Melbourne Gallery. Miss Norris is fond of painting Cockney characters, and goes to immense trouble in securing interesting types.

Ail invitation watt sent out bj thp . president (Viscountess (.'owdrayV and ' executive of the National 'Igoaaen's Liberal Federation. England, to ten , thousand women Liberals to takv part in the League of Nations demonstration in Hyde Park recently. Miss Marie Tempeot a4ded two paii-t----ingß by the late Van der Vekk.i. the Dutch artist who settled in Sew Zealand (a large canvas hangs in our local gallery) to her collectron while hi Xew; 2«aJam , d. ami in Australia >slie boughta Streeton, two Hans Heysen paiu't'ngs, and two Norman Lindsay pen drawings. Turkish women are about to come ; under the whip of a new law elaborated by the ''liberal Sheii-ch-ul-Islam (the chief ecclesiastical authority of Turkey. The proposal enforces the severest code on women, who are not to be allowed to be seen publicly with any men, nor em- j ployed in any establishment with men. ' As far as possible they must stay at home, and when going out they must wear a specified dress. Men are expected to keep an eye on the morals of their quarters and to denounce infrac- | tions. Turkish women of late years have . been seeking greater freedom. They j have sought to east aside their veils, visit places of amusement, and many j whom they please.