WOMEN'S CORNER

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19862, 25 February 1930, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of social or personal news. Such ite ™? shou-d be fuUy authenticated, and engagement notices must oear signatures of tooth parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

Mrs Blair, St. John street, Papanui, Mrs A. Thomas and .Miss N. Thomas, Ralton street, Papanui, have motored to Tiinaru and are staying at Maori Hill. Recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel include Mr and Mrs F. C. Widdop, and Mr and Mrs A. G. Cathie (Wellington), and the Misses B. and S. Sutton (Oamaru). Mr and Mrs M. Coughlan, Mr J. L. Conghlan (Salisbury Flat), and Mr and Mrs A. C. Owen (Wellington) are guests at the Clarendon Hotel. Mrs Gosset, of London, is staying at Warner's Hotel. Miss L■ Familton, who made the ascent of Mt. Cook on Saturday, left ihe Hermitage yesterday for her home in Oamaru. Her achievement will •v.-obablv stand as the record mountaineering feat of this season. Dr. and Mrs T. Leslie Crooke (Oxford terrace) have left for Nelson and expect to be away till about March 25th. Professor Macmillan Brown and Miss Helen Brown (Cashmere Hills) are leaving on Thursday for Wellington to join the Rangitane for England. Miss Jessie Elliott (Wellington), who has been spending a few days with Mrs J. F. Duncan, Eossall street, left yesterday for the south, where she will be the guest of Mrs Orbell, Waikouaiti, and Lady Ferguson, Dunedin. Mrs K. H. J. Camm (Heaton street) is leaving shortly for a trip to Australia.

The Misses Davis (Chapter street) returned on Sunday from a motor tour,visiting Dunedin and the Southern Lakes.

Recent arrivals at the Lodge, Hanmer Springs, include Mr and Mrs J- A. Mullins (Timaru), Mrs Harold Ford (Sumner), Miss Phyllis Pigott (Timaru), Mrs P. J. Overton (Scargill), Mrs J. Dampier-Crossley (Fendalton), Dr. and Mrs Lovel Grigg (Pieton), Mr F. LovelGrigg (Picton), Dr. A. Moreland (Christehurch), Mr and Mrs Wickens (Christchurch), Miss Marie Wickcns, (Christehurch), Mr Thomas Purvis (Melbourne), Mr and Mrs Barrett (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs E. F. Chapman (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Leslie le Cren (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs E. M. Harrison (Christchurch), Mr J. L. Harrison (Christchurch). Recent arrivals at View Brae, Hanmer Springs, include Mrs and Miss >l. Johnston (Linwood), Mrs Pannie, Mr Painton, Mr McFaren, Mr B. Barritt (Christchurch), Mrs Campbell, Mrs Cooksley (Dunedin), 'Mr and Mrs Warren Jones (Dunedin), Mr Thompson (Wellington), Mr W. Hastings (Gore), Mr Benbow, Mr Gudsell (Ashburton), Mrs Brown (Anama), Mrs Wilson (Oamaru). Eecent arrivals at Hanmer House, Hanmer Springs, include Mr H. Melville, Mr J. Lunu (St. James), Mr T. Parker (Oamaru), Messrs S. Haberfleld and R. Borland (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs J. Simpson (Timaru), Mr and Mrs J. S. Bowie (Christchurch), Miss Janet Timbs (Christchurch), Miss E.. P. Borton (Oamaru), Mr and Mrs A. Livesey and daughter (Christehurch), Rev. and Mrs G. Peterson (Roxburgh), Mr and Mts J. W.' Willets (Invereargill), Miss Beaton (Christchurch), Mr Ashworth (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs L. L. Jones (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Christie (Dunedin). Mr and Mrs Cooper (Ashburton), Miss Peggy Cairns (Christchurch), Mrs Ashworth (Christchurch). Recent guests at "Fairview," Hanmer Springs, include Mr and Mrs Brady (Dunedin), Mrs Gillespie (Christchurch), Mr Todd (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Forrester (New Brighton), Mr and Mrs E. A. Jordon (Oxford), Mr and Mrs Partridge (New Brighton), Mr and Mrs Chapman (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Farrier and child (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs F. Green and child (New Brighton), Mr and Mrs Reed, Mr Marrigold (Christchurch).

The latest arrivals at the Hotel Federal include Mr H. Neal (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Gardiner (Calcutta), Mr and Mrs Taylor (London), Mr and Mrs T. York (Taranaki), Mr and Mrs J. A. Mullins (Timaru).

WHEN YOUE HAIE COMES OUT I When your hair is coming out in handfuls the trouble is probably due to a congested scalp, and a consultation should be immediately made with hair specialists like R. and M. Beattie, 748 Colombo street, next Chisnall and Stewart's. Probably a tonic will remedy matters, but there is no treatment so permanently beneficial as scientifically applied massage. —2

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Superfluous hair destroyed by "Rusma" (Regd.). Signed, stamped guaranteed cure. £5 12s 6d. Florence Hullen, C.M.D.. 7 Courtenay place, Wei lington. Send stamped addressed en velope for particulars. —6

VENUS' ANKLE—7$in. Venus' ankle measured 7}in. The famous Espanol reducer gives results in the shortest possible time. Dieting is no longer necessary to obtain a charming figure—use Espanol. Consult E. Cameron Smith, Chemist, Cathedral square about Espanol. —6

HOLIDAY PACKING HINT. Packing for the holidays, be sure and include o jar of SydaJ. Takes little room and is widely useful. Diluted with milk it is invaluable'for sunburn. A little applied to cuts and scratches prevents trouble. Use before washing in hard water. Shavers, rub a little well. in before lathering. —4

Miss Gillett, private secretary to Lady Stonehaven, is visiting New Zealand and is staying with Mrs J. D. A'Deane, of "Ashcott," Takapau. Miss Gillett will be remembered by many New Zealanders .as the popular secrctary of Lady Jellicoe during Lord Jellicoe's term of office in New Zealand. Mr and Mrs W. Thomas (St. Andrew's terrace) have returned from a holiday visit to Taihape, Lake Taupo, and the Chateau, Tongariro National Park. Miss E. Andrew and Miss J. Lawson have returned to Oxford after spending a holiday with Miss Andrew's parpnts in Dunedin. The engagement is announced of Mavis Helen, only daughter of Mr and Mrs J. B. Jack, St. John's Hill, Wanganui, to Albert Laurence Miller, eldest son of Mr and Mrs G. Perry, St. Albans, Christcliurch.

To-morrow the members of the British Seamen's Guild are making an appeal to the public for funds to carry on and extend their useful work. The guild provides entertainment for the hundreds of sailors who visit Lyttelton, where, at the Seamen's Institute, they find a welcome awaiting them and comfortable surroundings in which to spend their leisure hours. As the St. John Ambulance Society are holding a street collection on Friday, March 14th, the members of the Hospital Lady Visitors' Association, who intended holding a fete in the Hospital grounds on that day, have decided to postpone their gathering until the next day, Saturday, March 15th. The various stall-holders and helpers are busily engaged preparing for the fete, which should prove a great success.

LONDON PERSONALS.

(.FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, January 16. At Holy Trinity, Sloane square, on January 15th, the wedding took place of Gilbert, second son of the late Dr. G. E. Moore, of Redcroft, Maidenhead, to Margaret, younger daughter of Mrs R. Kennedy, of Gisborne. Lady Plunket yesterday underwent an operation for appendicitis. The latest news is that her progress is satisfactory. At this time of the year Lord and Lady Plunket are generally enjoying winter sports at St. Moritz. When Lady Jellicoe leaves for her cruise by the Royal Mail motor liner Alcantara she will be accompanied by Lady Norali Jellicoe. Other passengers will include Lord and Lady Baden Powell. Count Geoffrey PotOcki de Montalk is to be chairman at Miss Viola Meynell'B lecture on the poetry of 'her mother, Alice Meynell, to be given in London at the end of this month at Foyle's lecture room. Foyle's have asked the New Zealander himself to give a lecture later. lie has chosen as his subject the assertion that New Zealand has a group of poets comparable to that of Greece or Elizabethan England —with special reference to R. A. K. Mason, A. E. D. Fairburn, Clifton Firth, Carl Strabel, and himself. He has lately spent an interesting two months in Lithuania, at the palace of a Polish friend, the Count Adam Clirapowicki, who is head of one of the great families of the "crimson noblesse" of Poland. While he was there ho learned to speak Polish, which he found a lovely but difficult language. On January 9th, at 14 Hammersmith terrace, London, the death occurred of Caroline, widow of Charles E. le Grice Easther, and daughter of the late William Wailes, solicitor, of Leeds, in her 92nd year. Mrs Easther had friends in New Zealand.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office include Mr and Mrs A. R. Pontifex, Miss Ailsa Newton (Wellington), Mr B. L. O'Brien (Auckland), Mrs R. Poots (Auckland), Mr J. Morewood Dowsett, Mr E. S. de Beer (Dunedin), Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. Hulbert (Wellington;, Miss G. M. MereditliKaye (Christchurch), Mr C. J. Wortliington (Westport), Mr and Mrs C. Lucas Donne, M.R.C.S., Captain and Mrs T. E. Donne, Mr and Mrs W. S. Percy, Miss I. Percy, Major-General Sir E. C. Chaytor and Lady Chaytor (Wellington), Mr and Mrs J. R. BowdenSmith (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Evan Parry, Mr C. \V. Kennaway, Mrs T. J. Mcßride (Christchurch), Mrs Guthrie Moore' (Wellington), Miss Stella Murray (Christchurch), Miss' M. Grose (Wellington), Mr H. B. Vogel, Mr and Mrs J. Douglas Scott, LieutenantColonel and Mrs M. W._ B. B. Thorns (Christchurch), Mr Lucien Cesaroni (Wellington), Mr R. Thomson (Waiahu), Mr and Mrs J. B. Henry (Auckland), Mrs Vere M. Curtis (Auckland), Mr and Mrs J. R. Rooper (late Wellington), P/O. A. T. Orchard (late Seddon), Mr Lloyd Ross, M.A., LL.B. (Otago,, Miss A. E. Scully (Wellington), Mr and Mrs F. J. Lysnar (Auckland), Mrs G. M. Symes (Fairlie), Mrs B. E. Thompson, Miss N. Thompson (Christchurch), Miss Raie Robinson (Auckland), Mrs R. Hart (Wellington), and Miss H. F. C. Hart, and MisS H. B. Ariell (Auckland). Miss G. M. Mcredith-Kaye is about to return to Christchurch after two interesting years in the Mother Country. She has booked by the Orford, leaving Tilbury on Saturday.

Mr and Mrs J. B. Henry (Auckland) are about to leave for St. Jean de Luz, and they will probably spend several months touring on the Continent before coming back to England, to make a general motor tour of the United Kingdom. They arrived in December by the Bemuera, and after a week in London they spent a short holiday in the north.

Mrs Ware (Rcmuera) is leaving by the Corinthic, on January 31st, on a short visit to New Zealand.

Sister Saunders-Jones (Chief District Nurse, of Auckland) has been in England since October. Her headquarters have been her sister's home at Hereford, from which she has made excursions to Scotland, the South of England, and Wales. On 21st Sister Saun-ders-Jones will attend the investiture of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and receive the badge of Serving SisterShe returns to Auckland by the lonic on the same date.

Miss Hannah B. Ariel] (Auckland), who has been in London since last January, has been on a visit recently to Yorkshire. She will leave for home, via Panamj, towards the end of March. Miss Grace Wilkinson spent the Christmas vacation visiting friend? in Warwickshire. She has now returned to London to attend her musical studies. Mrs Guthrie Moore (Wellington) had a very delightful tour on the Continent visiting Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and France, and greatly enjoyed the motor journey along the Middle Corniche road from Ventimiglia to Marsei les. She made this tour in the autumn, and returned to England in time to enjoy a real old-fashioner] Christmas and New Year with her sister, Mrs S. T. Parker, who lives at King's Lynn, Norfolk, where Dr. Parker is practising. In February Mrs Moore will be one of a small party of New Zoaland.-rs who are going to Torquay, making that a centre for tours in Devonshire and Cornwall. In June Mrs Moore will go to Forfar to stay with friends for a short period, and in July she will leave by the Otranto on her return joumcv to New Zealand.

Miss Margaret Aitken (Christchurch) has had a pleasant round of travel since leaving Auckland at the beginning of last July. She came via Honolulu and Canada, and shortly after reaching England she made some enjoyable motor tours in Scotland. Just now she is wintering in Torquay Miss Aitken expects to leave for New Zealand in the spring, but she will first visit Paris and the French Riviera. It is twenty years since she was previously i n London.

MR AND MRS J. W. DICKSON.

Among visitors passing through Christchurch last week were Mr and Mrs J. W. Dickson and their small daughter, who have just returned from a six years' sojourn in England. Mr Dickson, who was lor many years aitmaster at the Southland Technical College, Jelt New Zealand in 1924 to go abroad and widen his knowledge of art and art methods. l<'or a time, serious eye trouble caused hiin to give up painting altogether in order to give his eyes a complete rest, but later Mi Dickson resumed his work in London, where lie did etching and portraiture in pastel and oils, and watercolour landscape. He spent a year taking I'efreslior courses at London art schools, studying with Walter Boyes, at Westminster School of Art, and with George Morrow, the well-known "Punch" artist. Mr Dickson, who had previously spent several years in English and Continental art studios, had manv reunions with fellow students of those days, and was interested to find that some of them had achieved world-wide reputations, the most notable being Georges Broque, the originator of cubism. Mrs Dickson, who was well-known in educational circles in Southland, studied the latest devlopments in educational theory and practice, visiting schools of every tvpe in England, especially those dealing with post-pri-mary education. She was granted special facilities for visiting some of tiie most famous preparatory and public schools of Great Britain, as well as private institutions where interesting educational experiments are being tested. In 1929 Mrs Dickson took special one-year courses in education and geography at Oxford University, and was successful in gaining the Oxford Diploma of Education, and in being elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society as a result of her studies. Fn addition to her educational work. Mrs Dickson entered the lists of free-lance journalism, contributing articles to the "Daily Mail," "Dailv Express," "Manchester Guardian." "Birmingham Gazette," "Woman," and other London and provincial papers and magazines.

FAREWELL PARTIES. Misses Carrie and Claire Morkane, "Rosebank," Cashmere Hills, are leaving Wellington next week by the Ulimuroa for Sydney, where they will join the Mongolia for Europe. They will make ail extensive tour of Italy, France, and Austria, and will visit Ober Ammergau, in Bavaria, to see the Passion Play, and will attend the Eucharistic Congress in Carthage, early in May. Later, they will visit Britain and will return to the Dominion via America.

Yesterday three pleasant parties were given in their honour. In the morning Mrs Colin Macdonald entertained a number of friends at her home in Bristol street. The entrance hall was decorated with hydra'ngeas and the drawing-room and dining-room with orange marigolds. The hostess, who was assisted by her daughter, Miss Nedra Macdonald, wore a smart frock of black satin beaute, with band of vari-coloured embroidery defining the waist-line.

The guests included the Misses Morkanc, Mrs Frank Petre, Mrs W. T. Ward, Mrs James Hight, Mrs W. H. Sheffield, Mrs Orr. Mrs Cyril Ward, Mrs P. A. Ardagh, Mrs Alfred Bunz, Mrs Bridgeman, Mrs J. Davidson (Brisbane), Mrs W. M. Cotter, Mrs Maurice Allen, Mrs Gladstone Ward, Misses Buckley (2), M. Sheridan, Enright (2), Alice Hannan, and Mona Ardagh. In the afternoon, at her home in Kugby street, Mrs Frank Petre was hostess at an enjoyable party, the guests including the Misses Morkane, Mrs R. G. Petre, Mrs J. Hight, and Miss Doreen Ilight, Mrs W. M. Cotter, Mms N. Enright, Mrs Hubert O'Beirne, Miss Nell Buckley, Mrs Maxwell, Miss V. Buckley, and Miss M. Petre. In the evening the Misses Morkane were again entertained by Miss D.tilcie McCredie and Miss Alice Hannan at a small bridge party given at Miss McCredie's home at Fendalton. The players were Mrs A. J. McCredie, the Misses Morkane, Mrs F. M. Denneliy (Greymouth), Mrs Richard Jamieson, Miss Minn Ward, Mrs Owen Baker, Miss Nellie Gunn. Mrs Charles Bacon, Mrs Colin Macdonald, Mrs Peter Wilson, and Mrs S. P. Godfrey.

AFTERNOON PARTY

At her home in St. Andrew's square, yesterday afternoon, Miss Hilda Otley gave a ''at home" in honour of Miss Bertha Harris, who is leaving Christcliurch next week for Sydney, en route for England, where her marriage to Mr S. S. Jenkins will shortly take place. The drawing-room was decorated with hydrangeas and gladioli and the dining-room, where tea was dispensed, with roses and pink heather. Mrs Otley wore a handsome dress of black georgette with plisse pleated flounces, narrowly banded with black satin. Miss Otley wore a beige and rose-pink patterned ninon frock with yoke and very deep hem of beige silk lace. The guest of honour, who was presented on her arrival with a bouquet by Miss Otley, wore a patterned ninon frock in black, blue, and cyclamen, and a wide blue hat. Two competitions were held, the first being won by Mrs Cyril Stringer and the second by Mrs Elliott Myers and Mrs Stringer. Many gifts, both useful and charming, were presented by the guests to Miss Harris, as a memento of the occasion.

Those present included Mrs H. J. Utlev and Miss Otley, Mesdames W. H. Simpson, A. G. Henderson, Ernest Boulton, H. E. Button, N. Wilks, H. Caro, Stanley Binns, Edwin Milnes. T. Hunter, G. H. Holmes, J L. Wilson, H. J. Ballin, H. East, A. Hale, Cyril Stringer, Roy Mathews, S. Otley, Keith Brown, S. Hickmott, Elliott Myers (Wellington); Misses Leah Cohen. Esme Eliott, M. Enright, Evelyn Comyns-Thomas, Marjory Studholme, Pat Allison, It. Burns, Madge Simpson, and Alice Partridge.

PARTY AT OXFORD. Mrs Charles Bassett and her niece, Miss Nancy Henderson, were hostesses at a "variety afternoon," held under ideal conditions at Burnt Hill, Oxford, on Friday. Miss Alice Henderson, who is shortly to be married, and in whose honour the reception was held, was the recipient of many pretty and useful 1 gifts. In the grounds tennis and clock golf were played, and indoors bridge was enjoyed and afternoon tea was dispensed. The guests included: —Mesdames Henderson, Johnston, Bassett, Marlow, Morrow, Wolff, Gorton, Wright, Chapman, K. Henderson, Anderson, T. Blunden, Styche, and Williams, Misses A. Henderson, P. Hales, A. Dixon, C. Cristian, K. Dixon, G. Henderson, S. Bassett, D. Wolff, and M. Bassett.