WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 21

WOMEN'S WORLD.

- SOCIAL JOTTINGS, i Miss Bessie Pagni, of Remuera, left by the Aorangi on an extended visit to ■Australia. . .. . i . Mr. and Mrs." T. G. Roberts, of Wel- " lington,' and Mr. and Mrs. Thome are staying at Hotel Mon Desir, Takapuna.* Mr. and Mrs. J; A. Carr leave Auck- • land at the end of the week for Pahia, . Bay of Islands, "where they intend spending the Christmas holidays. ~ Mi§s Eileen Partridge, secretary of the Auckland branch pf the Plunket Society, "who has been attending the annual "conference in Dunedin has returned to Auckland. Miss Janet Murray (Auckland), who : las been in Dunedin for the conference of the Ked Cross and Women's Club's, v ~will spend a short holiday in Christchurch, before returning north. The outcome of the recent deputation of women .to the Wellington City . Council' "will be the foi nation of a • Women Voters' Association, in -which all • women •in • the city will be invited to > join. The promoters of the deputation state that they have had. so many inquiries, and so much, interest has been shown in the matter that they are confident that a very strong body can be y.formed.- A meeting will be held early : in the New Year. Miss Joyce Nathan, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nathan, has become engaged to Mr. Nat. Madison, ■ eon of Mr. Maurice Moscovitch, the weil- ■ known actor, who was recently in Auck- ! land. Mr. Madison was a member of the company-when in Auckland, and' the I marriage is to take place next year in this city. Miss Nathan is on a holiday trip with her parents to Java, Singapore, Colombo, Egypt and Palestine. Mr. Madison is to join the party at Colombo, and will travel with them to • England, while part of the holiday .will - be spent with Mr. Robert Hiehens, the well-known novelist, at his villa at Loxor. Mr. Hiehens is Mr. Madison's godfather. . Miss Mona C. Hay, or Auckland, expects to be in England till after Chnstmas, visiting friends and relations, one returned to London on October 24 having been on the Continent since August 10, when she landed in Antwerp with the Overseas Education Lea°ne Teachers' Party. They motored irom the Belgian capital to Paris and visited the Western battlefields en route' After I • a fortnight in Paris, Mi ss Hay travelled • tfl ?t Gjenoble for a two months' stay at the University. During that time she managed to attend the concluding ses-

Miss Hellaby is staying at Hotel Cargen. Mrs. Warwick Wilson has returned to Auckland from Wellington and Napier. Miss E. Alison, is' the guest of Mrs. Bonner, St. Helier's Bay. The United Irishwomen, the Irish Society for encouraging and promoting rural industries, -has launched a little monthly magazine, called after itself, "The United Irishwomen." Miss H. Sutherland, of Auckland, is now in England to meet her sister on her arrival from New Zealand. Miss H. Sutherland has spent .the last few years in France, where she has been-engaged in nursing. Miss Katharine Woodward underwent a serious operation some months ago, but is now convalescent. Miss Woodward was engaged for the past few years in Paris nursing. Mrs. Chapman, who is accompanying Mr. William Ernest Chapman, a wellr known portrait-painter of New York", on a return visit to his native land, is very interested in child education, and has gix'en a great deal of study to the question— In conversation with- a "Star" representative, Mrs. Chapman mentioned that she met, in Portland, Oregon, Mr. Theodore Harper, a son of the late Bishop Harper, of Canterbury, who had married Miss Hunter Brown, of Nelson, and that Mr. Harper had written two delightful children's books, "The Mushroom Boy," and "The Singing Feathers." . Mr 3. Chapman's work has lain among medieval literature, of which she has made a special study, and she has translated the story of Sir Galahad, from Malory and earlier sources, and has also given the first story from the medieval poem, 'Tarzival," by Wolfran yon Eschenvach, which has been illustrated by Mr. Chapman. Mr. Chapman left New Zealand and the Christchureh School of Art, where he was an instructor, in the year 1891 to study in Paris. He attended the Julian ateliers for five years and afterwards had a studio of his own in Paris, where he exhibited at the Old Salon twice, and at the New Salon once. Subsequently he went to New York, where his work mostly lay in painting portraits of ladies and children, that most difficult part of a portrait-painter's profession. Mrs. Chapman, who is also deeply interested in all child life, is a devoted student of kindergarten methods; and of rhythmic expression, as applied to the education of the child- The visitors are on a round the world trip, and proceed from Auckland to Wellington and thence to Christchureh, the home of Mr. Chapman's boyhood. ', Lady Crawford-Wa-tson, of WMtby, Yorkshire, widow of the late Colonel Sir Henry Crawford-Watson, and her sister, . Helena Harrowing, a/c expected ■to arrive in "Kew Zealand in January. They anticipate spending two or three months in a tour of the Dominion, during which time they will visit relaSilß|4!4-MMa* _ £fc£ U^—

Mr. W; E. -Macdonald, "of jLevin, came over last Christmas as ship's Burgeon on the e.s. Kaikoura, with; 1 his sister, Dr. Elizabeth Benson, of Levin, well known in Auckland as Dr. Elizabeth Macdonald, and her two children. He has remained there since' studying in Edinburgh and London, and hopes to visit the Paris hospitals soon. ■ Mr. Maodonald was recently elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. He hopes to return to rfew Zealand early next year. •/■ Mrs. Charles Maguire and Miss Ellen Maguire, of Auckland, leave ■ London this month to spend the winter in the south of Europe. They are going first to the north of Spain for the winter 'sports in the -Pyrenees, and will then go through Portugal, and may possibly visit the North of Africa en route for Malta, their main objective. The late Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a most original collection of beautiful shoes. Among others were brocade shoes worn by Queen Anne'e ladies of the Court, others that had belonged to famous dancers, wellknown 'beauties, and a complete set of evening shoes worn by Lady Randolph herself. -• • — ••• - The "Morning Post" allows much latitude to its Paris.correspondent, comments "Time and Tide." The editorial eye missed a gem last week. The correspondent expressed strong disapproval of w.men becoming barristo.s, instead of marrying and taking up "the role for which their Creator intended them." Then follows a list of their experiences and considerable successes in different! jobs after failure at the Bar, but alasl! one took up the correct role, had two children, was deserted by her husband, and - fell to- charwoman. Seems rather - -hard, • but perhaps this correspondent had misunderstood his Creator. ;Miss : H. M." Lister finished second against thirteen men competitors in the I Essex-fifty-miles handicap at Brook-1 lands, and drove an Aston-Martin car. Miss Lister afterwards told a representative of "The Daily Chronicle" that she was just beginning to enjoy herself when she had to drop out. "Racing is really exhilarating," she said. "I was never at a race meeting until about a couple. of years , ago, and' after watching for some time I decided to try my hand. But there are so few meetings open to women. The Essex -Motor Club, who have organised this one, aHowe us to compete in open-car racei, and I think we ought to have better treatment from other clubs. My luck was out, but I shall try again." Miss Lister was a Russian ballet dancer, until about a year ago, when .she sacrificed dancing for motor racing. She comes from a Yorkshire family, and told "The Daily Chronicle" representative that she hoped to be able to attend.a meeting 1 at Cat-! terick for the purpose of forming an] _. +~r

Miss Lena Aehwell, ttifc famous actress, is ia private lifj Lady Simpson wife of a doctor who ha* just beer knighted. President Mary E. Woolley, LL.D. LittJX, of Mount Holyoke College Mass., is being nominated for the office of Moderator of the National Counci; of the Congregational Churches oi America. The council, like the Congre gational Union of England and Wales and the Baptist Union of Great Britaii and Ireland, has never had a womai as president. During the war women turned theii hands, to many trades which had hither to 'been confined to men, and to-day altnough there is no necessity for then to take up heavy and difficult tasks, th { latest figures show that women in Bri tain are still occupied in all kinds o men's work. There are nearly 18(K women engaged on railways a; shunters, level-crossing workers, por ters, pointsmen, yard-masters, anc etationmasters. About 22,000 are em ployed as electrical workers, and 83,05; are on the land. There are 149 womei undertakers 500. women bargees, 7.' bookmakers, 23 chimney-sweeps, 1] racehorse trainers and jockeys. The authoritative life of Mies Marii Corelli is now being written by hei lifetime friend and literary executor Miss Bertha Vyyer, who is the present mistress of Mason Croft, the novelist , ! beautiful -home in 'Stratford-oil-Avon bad better opportunity than anyone else to gather the necessary material: hence it is certain that the book wil contain an array of surprising facts One hitherto unrecorded point wil doubtless be made clear. Miss Corell had a brush veith the committee of th< Shakespeare Memorial. The qualifica tion - for a life governorship of thi memorial is B, donation of -£100 (or th< equivalent value in boolis, pictures etc.) Miss Corelli wrote out a cheque but it was not accepted. Her .criticisn of certain methods employed there anc at other local institutions had, perhaps some thine to /do with this. . The Industrial Welfare Society oi England -(states "Time and. Tide") .has made a study of the problem of how suggestions from employees for improve ments can be brought to fruition anc used by employers with fairness to botl parties., j- The society now iseuee s called•" "Suggestion Schemes,' and claims that the adoption of th< schemes therein .would, and in man; cases, has, already solved this problem . 'vS'omefi y; mu*tft:not use the telephon* between 10 a.m. and is the no ties which restaurants near the Bourse frequented almost exclusively- by Paris stockbrokers, have been compelled .to pul UP.-; Tjie /proprietors declare " thai women monopolise the... telephone bj gossiping with their friends to such, ai extent" .thafr business _men ; /who. .nr< snatching a hurried Juncheon are unabl< to keep-in touch wj*l» $b«ir offigea, __

The revival of interest in house decoration has been so widespread that it i 3 not surprising to find that it has infected yacht-owners. In-some of the newly-fitted yachts are to be found charming replicas of the painting of marine subjects on glass which, seventeenth-century Dutch glass painters used to delight in. These glass paintings were usually hung in the homef and offices of the great captains and merchants of-the Low Countries, or in the counting- houses of the shipowners, who would have a glass "portrait" of a new ship much as the present shipping companies display a model. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Reginald Harold Manning, only eon of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Milton Manning, Portland Road, Remuera, and Olive, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gardien, St. George's Bay Road, Parnell. The engagement is announced of Helen Mabel, elder daughter of Mr. and I Mrs. Geo. S. Lapwood, of Tuakau, to Edward Thomas, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. T. Carroll, of Mamaku. The engagement is announced of Eula, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Markman, of Wellington, to Gilmour, only eon of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ellis, of Auckland. The engagement is announced of .Dulcie, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pollard, "Lynndale," Mount Eden Road, to Murray, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wiseman, Fairview Road, Mount Eden. WEDDINGS. The wedding was celebrated last Monday, at Waiwera, of Miss Winnie Jephcoate, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs! T. Jephcoate, of Waiwera, and Mr. Jack Finlayeon, fifth son of Mr. Angus Finlayson, of North Auckland. The church was prettily decorated. The . bride wore an atmosphere French, crepe de chine frock, trimmed with deep cream lace and Eat to match, and carried a bouquet of sweet peas, lilies and maidenhair fern. The j bridesmaid, Miss Lynda Jephcoate, was I charmingly frocked in an Alice blue georgette, trimmed with French flowers and picture hat to match, and carried a! bouquet of pansies and sweet peas. Little • Miss Sylva Anderson, flower girl, wore a pink georgette frock, and carried a posy of sweet peas. Mr. Geo. E. Whitley acted as best man. The bride's mother wore a black silk maroc-i-i frock and black hat, and the bridegroom's mother, a frock of black accordian pleated crepe de chine and georgette. Amongst the guests present were Mr. and Mrs. G. Cowley, Miss May Cowley, Mrs. Lornie (Dargaville), "Mm. Lowe, Mrs. Remiger, Mr. and Mrs. Snow (WarEworth), Mrs. Flowerday, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Rudal, Mr. and Mrs. Daw ( Warkworth) , and Misses P. and A. Scholium, F. Bartley, D. Rope and F. Joblin. After the ceremony the guests were entertained at