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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 9 January 1926, Page 26

gauze gown will have a corsage and skirt trimmed -with loops and featoorie of pearls of the same colour; sometimes a girdle of pearls with tassels is added, and if the fair wearer has a sautoir of the same pearls around her neck she looks like nothing more than a princess of the fairy tales of our youth. _ THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN The advancement of women was referred to in an editorial of "The Daily Mail/ which said that another step forward in the advancement of women has been attained. Hitherto only a father has had the right to give or withhold consent to the marriage of a child who is a minor, but in future this right will be shared by the mother. This is but one of many steps that have been taken of recent years to equalise the position of men- and women before thtf law,'and "it ia obvious that the time is rapidly approaching when absolute equality will have been attained and when women's legal rights will be precisely on a level with those of men.

No one can say that these great innovations* have produced the harmful results that were freely prophesied. Women have taken their new responsibilities in a serious spirit and have brought intelligence and acumen to bear upon public affairs, and shown high.academic ability. All the same, the tendency of girls in every class to compete with men has certainly helped to disorganise social life, and the difficulty of procuring domestic servants is, to some extent, bound up with this. Sooner or later this may right itself through the workings of the law of BUpply and demand, and then the modern girl will discover tho Work for ', which she is moat suited.