WOMENS WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2 January 1924, Page 9

WOMENS WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Taylor, jun., of Wellington, are visiting Auckland, and are staying with Mrs. Taylor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brett, Owens | Road, Epsom. • ] Miss Mavis Meadowcroft. of Wellington, is visiting Auckland, and is stay- j ing with Mrs. Ross, of Devonport. j Mrs. Sydney Nathan and Mrs. Baume are paying a visit to Christchureh. I Miss K. Kissling has gone for a holi- | day to the Alpine region of Canterbury,! and is staying at the Hermitage. I Miss L. R. Baker, of New Plymouth,' returned from England by tbe Athenic | on Monday last, and is now staying ] with her sister, llrs. "White. "Uplow-1 man," Woodley Avenue, Remuera. Mrs. P. LVansfield (Pahiatua) is spending the New Year holidays with 1 ilrs. DransSeld. in Auckland. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Miss Heather Cooke, youngest daughter of : Mrs. and the late Mr. C. J. Cooke, of; Wanganui. and Mr. Sydney J. S. Palmer, of Remuera. The engagement is announced of Miss E. Murphy, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. "Murphy, of Parenga, to Mr. Harold Edwards, eldest son of Mr. and , Mrs. H. Edwards, of Grey Lynn, Auckland. The engagement is announced of Miss Muriel Gorton, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gorton, Mount St. -Tohn Avenue, Epsom, to Mr. Hunter Harrison, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Harrison, Wapiti Avenue, Epsom. WEDDINGS. On Thursday last St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, New Lynn, was prettily decorated with blue hydrangeas, roses, lilies, greenery, and a huge bell of white daisies, in honour of the marriage of Miss Pearl Crum, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Crum, to Mr. Arthur E. Moore, third son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Moore, of Christchureh. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a draped gown of ivory brocade, the drapery held on one side by orange blossoms, and falling to form a short train. It was lined with georgette, with long sleeves of georgette caught in at the wrists by loops of brocade, a honiton lace veil with coronet of orange blossoms and bouquet of white and palest pink lilies and dahlias completed the costume. The bridesmaids were Misses Kathleen Steadman (Thames) and Miss Marjorie Crum, who wore Victorian frocks of apricot and lavender satin, with loops of satin and flower-shaped insets of georgette outlined with narrow lace, hair bandeau of tissue flowers in apricot, lavender, and gold, and carried posies swathed in tulle of the shades of both frocks. Little Mary Wrightson made a charming flower girl, wearing an exact replica in pale blue of the elder girls' frocks.

Tr>e marriage of Miss Honour Scott, daughter of Mrs. E. Scott, of Mount Eden, to Mr. Marshall White, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. White, of Herne Bay. took place at the Presbyterian Church, Mount Eden, on Christmas Eve. The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her brother, looked extremely sweet in a white crepe de chine and georgette frock, over which a long tulle veil, fastened with a wreath of orange blossoms, was draped. She carried a white shower bouquet. Miss Dorothy Muir, as bridesmaid, wore a beaded blue georgette frock and black picture hat. Mr. W. E. Brown, of New Plymouth, 1 was best man. After the ceremony,: Mrs. Scott, who wore a black taffeta. • gown and hat of pink roses, held a reception, at which about sixty guests were present. Mrs. White, mother of the bridegroom, wore black accordeon pleated georgette, sequin embroidered, with a black picture hat trimmed with white ospreys. Miss C. White, green taffeta made in the early Victorian style, and Miss J. White draped blue crepe de chine.

ROTORUA NOTES. Dr. and Mrs. Bertram are spending the holidays at Maketu. Miss I. Edmonds, "old Taupo Road, has leit for Auckland. Mrs. Rees-George and Mr. A. Rees-George, Ranolf Street,are visiting Auckland. Mrs. G. Forden (Adelaide) is visiting Rotorua, and is the guest of her brother, Mr. H. Hardcastle. Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas Davyes, Pukeatua Street, have left for. the South. Miss Joan Dodds, Monganui, is the guest of Mrs. F. "Wilkie, Pukaki Street. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. H. Teape, Stanley Bay, and Mr. Warren Teape, motored through to Rotorua for the Christmas holidays. Miss Dora Grove, Fenton Street, who has been for some time on the staff at King George V. Hospital, has left for Mount Manganui: she will later proceed to New Plymonth, where she will join the hospital staff. Dr. and Mrs. Campbell-Smith and family have left for The Mount, Tauranga. Mr. and Mrs. George Urquhart, and family, Sophia Street, have left for Mount Manganui. Mrs. Wrigley, Auckland, is staying at Kia Ora. Mr. and Mrs. E. Makersy. Te Kuiti, are holiday-making at Rotorua. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings. Auckland, are staying at Brent's Bathgate House. Dr. and Mrs. MacCormick. Remuera, are staying in Rotorua for the holidays. Mrs E. McKenzie. with Miss Margaret McKenzie. Ranolf Street, have left on a visit to Marton, Christchureh and Dunedin. Mrs. Archdale Tayler and Miss Tavler. Parnell, are guests at Brent's Bathsate House. Mrs. C. R. Hewett and family. Pukeatua Street, are spending the holidays at their farm at Cambridge. Mrs. Mathison, Miss Mathison, and Miss B. Gudgeon are visiting Rotorua. and are guests at "Brent's.*"

A children's sports meeting, under the auspices of the Athletic Club, was held on Boxing day at the Marine Parade. There was a large attendance. A baby show was also held, Dr. Laurenceson (Matamata) acting as judge. The Arawa Brass Band was in attendance.

Among the guests at '""Hinemoa."' Rotorua, are: Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and familr (Hastings). Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hudson (Auckland), Mrs. Wilson (Auckland). Mr. H. Dadley (Auckland). Miss Mclaughlin (Auckland), Mr. Price (England),

Among the guests at Grande Vue are: Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. S. SWilliams. Mr. and Mrs. Teape, Mr. and Mrs. Churton, Mr. and Mrs. Saeh fXew South Wales), Mr. and Mrs. Orme. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jacob, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander. Mr. Shore, Misses Carter (2), Waddingham (2). Cochrane, Crabtree, Gifford" (2), Wells (2), Moloney.

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MATTERS OF GENERAL LNTEREST. (By SHIRLEY.) The women of Victoria, it seems, took very pi? cidly the just-passed law permitting them to sit in Parliament. "Really! How nice!" According to a ! local observer that seems to have been j the limit of their language in regard to the new boon. With this calmness the male critic seems quite disgusted. What did he expect the ladies to do; Throw up their toques and shout huzza? Curiously enough, convention permits women very* little expression of pleasant emo-1 tion when in public. We can neither cheer nor chair a successful candidate, for instance, nor may we lift our hats or wave our teacups in the air in lieu ,of wine glasses. The only thing really allowed us is to smile, and we cannot be always doing that. The Victorian women may be in ecstacy. and we New Zealanders rejoicing with them, but we cannot seize timbrels and dance as in days of old. As Eastern women veil their faces so must we our expressions. Sulkiness in public is no more permitted than hilarity. Thus some of these same Victorian women have been warning old maids against wearing a sullen expression out of doors. "You may be only musing over an interesting problem," said the speaker to those thoughtless spinsters, "but the world does not know that. Many a girl has taken to I marriage because of the soured expression of her unwedded friends." However, should not the teemingly j soured ones continue the good work, to help marriage along? For the deterrent is quite a real one. A girl is never turned from marriage by failures in that state because the is always dead sure that her own marriage will be "different." "When she contemplates herself as a perpetual spinster, however, she sees 'herself resembiinz the specimens round her. In these holiday times, when everyone is out of doors and making restaurants of parks, it is surprising that fruit vendors have not attempted making their dear commodity more popular by selling mixed fruit bags for small amounts. We can purchase mixed biscuits, and mixed lollies; we may also consume mixed fruits in a salad if we care to sit in a crowded room to do so. but "roomers" out for the day, and those large masses of people whose refreshments must be kept within modest dimensions are barred from tae pleasantest "snack" of all, the frui: snack, because they will not confine themselves to one parcel, the content* of which are monotonous. In some colonies. I believe, we can purchase our fruit salads dry and not cut up, but in this semi-tropical country we seem to be in the hands of mysterious force; that have a down on the fruit diet.

In holiday time, one should prefer [changing the mental rather than the I material environment, says a psychologist. Don't go anywhere on a train. IJust change your thoughts, occupation, | enemies, friends, reading matter and so forth. Following out this ideal, an Auckland lady sent for an Australian magazine not on sale here, oniy to find that our Postal Department does not allow us to send a postal note even for fivepence without an additional sixpence to itself. Being a woman, she naturally grudged this doubling the cost of her magazine (which came to sevenpence) and asked for Australian stamps, to be informed that only five may be bought at a time. She purchased five [and walked round the post office, to be 'informed when she re-entered that "it ! could not be done that way." It took jher some time to make up her quota of eeven stamps, for the next office i happened to be out of this kind, and the third was up a hill. However, she saved the sixpence, and did not yield to a Government which certainly seems to have little sense of proportion.

Psychologists are informing writers that it is in their hands to raise tbe status of domestic service. Let them make the heroine an ordinary servant, and they will raise her even as they raised the governess. As a matter of fact something has been done in this direction. Some years ago there was a comedy, "The Lady Slavey," which had such a heroine, and I can remember the storm of applause when the disguised millionaire hero declared that ''this was the girl for him." Zangwill also has made the domestic servant other than a comic character, and Somerset Maugham, when his fame still Jiung in the balance, staged a servant drama simply entitled "Smith." Smith wasn't a soldier or the hero's best friend. She was the parlour maid of a smart lady's fiat. There was no romance about her. She does not turn out to be anything but a servant. Sue was made so agreeable, however, that had there been any truth in the psychologist's contention, cap and apron would 'have been the only wear. None of these writings, however, had any effect! Is it that human nature demands some occupation to despise, and will not do without it? The servant difficulty certainly has always been with us. An Australian magazine even traces it to Arthurian

times, and states that it was merely cruel local gossrp that ascribed the lady of Shalotfs desertion of her home to a knight in King- Arthur's Court. Tennyson was misinformed. It was really lack of domestic service. "Did her handmaids give her tronble? Did she have to pay them double To leave towered Camelot? Always fretting and deceiving. Always packing up and leaving The island of Shalotc" So the poetess tenderly inquires, and !<iecides in the affirmative, telling how [the poor dame grew weary J "Or reddened hands and laddered hose, x ired witli anger iicrce she rose, : And looked down on Camelot. I Then she gathered up the cat. And left a note beneath the mat: •I'm leaving here to take a. flat, The Lady of Shalott." , • * • ♦ Living out of Auckland i= useful for jthe sole reason that it makes tfae city ;more interesting. Many southern people for instance have the idea—almost complex by now—that this town is rather a dangerous and exc-itincr place in which to reside. The further soutii you £o the more this fancy of Auckland is taken for granted. It is not exactly the Wild West or the Texas of cnis fair land, but in their opinion it i≤ rather near it. Every incident enilarges itself as it travels south. Thus ■ I am certain Dunedin and Invercargill j are visualising this city as under the i sway of the Klansmen—fracas take place lin the street, but news is suppressed by a venal Press. That is why some women feel they are missin? so much of Auckland just now by beinz in it. However, there i≤ pleasure in the near future when Aucklanders return from visiting tho?e imaginative cities and tell us all the curious things that have been happening here. : * * * J The Xew Year is brinsinjr the return of Mr. Massey. May it also brins us the return of a woman or two to Parliament as well as some male politicians . that are not jellyfish.