WOMEN S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1926, Page 17

WOMEN S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS. Dr. L. EasifiVtd. of Tauranga, is paving a visit to A- !:' t>l. t Mrs. Mervyu Well*, of Cambridge, is a at" protein /raying in Auckland. n Dr. Eva Day. of Pio Pio, is at pre- * sent on a visit to Auckland. a Dr. M. Marshall, of Raetihi, is visit- p ing Auckland for a holiday. Jlr«. E. M. Cooper and Mies Cooper. of Wellington, are ct present paying a visit to Auckland. c Amonzs: the guests at the Central a Hotel are Mre. M. K. Bevin, Mise B. F. a Lumsden. and Mise X. Douglas, all of a Hamilton. r Mr*. A. L. Foster, who has been visit- 1 ing Sydney, returned to Auckland by the ' X.'agara yesterday. She was act-om-panied by Mi.-- X. Hay. Mrs. T. Guthrie Blakely, who has been c visiting Auckland, left again for Roto- - ma this morning. She was accom- £ panied by her niece, Mrs. Lan G. Bews, t Remuera. c Miss U. P. Green, of Suffolk, England, r Mr. and Mre. Boag. of Glasgow, Miss E. x A. Saarpe. or London, and Captain and Mrs. Albrecin, of Capetown, are at fctonehurst. , Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson, , ■who has been visiting and sketching in ; water-colours at Tongariro Xational ] Park, returned to Wellington on Satur- • day.' ' The Countess Dalrymple will probably ' spend a holiday in New Zealand, when ' her daughter. Lady Marjorie Dalrymple. ' is staving .it Woodfurd House, states the ' Xapier "Daily- Telegraph' , of August 25. The Right Rev. Bishop Molyneux t Assistant Bishop of Melanesia, was ' expected in Wellington on Saturday, and during his stay will be the guest of Mrs. ( R. E. Hayes, Karori. , The proposal to establish a ladies' club in Xew Plymouth has taken definite chape with the calling of tenders for the erection of premises, to include tearooms, above Barry's Buildings in Devon Street, says the "Taranaki Hwald." On Tuesday evening, August 24, the Auckland Xureing Division was inspected by Colonel Barclay, deputy commissioner, acompanied by Dr. Hilda Xorthcroft. lady corps superintendent, Mr. C. J. Tunks, assistant commissioner, and Mr. T. J. Hutchinson, senior district superintendent, were also present. After seeing the members at work bandaging, bed making, etc., Colonel Barclay addressed the division, expressing satisfaction with the work of the members in the past and urging them to go forward with greater earnestness in the good work of the brigade. Mrs. Griffiths gave many valuable hints on the art of fluent public speaking at the meeting of the Auckland branch of the League of Penwomen on Friday. She advised aspirants to study their subject, group the important ideas . under main headings, cultivate tho. \ znemo-ry, to concentrate, avoid unnecessary movements of the hands and any mannerisms likely to detract from th<# force of the epeaker's words, increase ths •vocabulary by reading of the classics, practise observation, and use the imagi-1 nation, for without imagination goor» j public speaking cannot be attained. When notes are necessary use only headlines; they will suggest to the speaker all she wants to say. providing she really knows her subject. Attention to ail these points will soon banish nervousness and enable the speaker to give a forceful and interesting speech whenever called upon. One of the powerful positions now open to women of fine ability is that of secretary to a distinguished politician. It is remarkable that both Lloyd George and Ramsay Mac Donald should have had women secretaries. This should kill the old chestnut, beloved of so many men, men as a rule of quite ordinary ability, that women cannot keep a secret. What tremendous secrets either of these ladiee could tell if they were not as silent as an Egyptian sphinx. Writing on Miss Rose Rosenberg. T. P. O'Connor, the Father of the House of Commons, says: There are no men so dependent on their secretaries as politicians. Every politician of any big position is as much beset by fussy or self-seeking intruders as tha honey by fliee; they have most of them to be kept off. but at the same time not to be an antagonist. It 13 a modern but a good idea that these important dutie3 shall be entrusted to a woman. Tha ■woman secretary (who was an unknown being in his early days) now passes on her way through the lobbies and corridors of the House of Commons accepted as part of the permanent features of that busy thoroughfare, and almost unnoticed. No man has been luckier ia his selection of a lady secretary than Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald. Miss Rose Rosenberg is one of those popular new figures; serious, but bright and smiling, and terribly industrious. She has aa much energy as two male secretaries, =jhough her figure is slight and apparently fragile. Xow another member of Miss Rosenbergs family, also a lady, ia lending her pen to the Labour cause; this is her sister, Miss Kate Rosenberg, •who has written an excellent little volume, which has a preface from tha scientific and legal pen of Lord Haldane. The title is, "How Bntain is Governed." It explains in simple language, so thai the man in the street can comprehend how the country is really governed. There is a great vagueness on the position of the King and his Ministers, on the powers of the Prime Minister, and on the whys and wherefores of the Cabinet system, and so on. Miss Rosenberg elucidates these mysteries of our Constitution. She takes us to the beginnings of our system of government and works up to the result in our presentday institutions. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Elfrieda Louisa, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Elliott, "Redmount," Papakura, to Grey Williams, sixth son of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Wild, Tβ. Aroha. The engagement is announced of Elsa Hinemoa, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Coosley, of Auckland, late of Tauranga, to Thomas James Kirk, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Ballantine Burnnand, of Auckland. The engagement is announced of Sydney, youngest daughter of Mrs. Jenkineon and the late Mr. G. H. Jenkinson, of Remuera. to Frank, only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Foster, of Lyttelton, Canterbury. The engagement is announced of Miss Ruby Irene Gemmill, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gemmill, of Cambridge, to Mr. Les. Day, eldest son of Mrs. M. £. Day, Auckland (late of Waikato).