WOMAN’S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 243, 8 July 1921, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

An investiture, followed by a reception, is to be held by Their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Viscountess Jellicoo at Government House, bn Wednesday evening next. Mrs. F. Pearce is visiting her sister, Miss Cameron, at "Oakhurst," Palmerston North. Mrs. John Perry and: Miss Perry, Sulphur Wells, Masterton, have been spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs. R. Bird is visiting Mrs. Reid at Heretaunga. Miss Agnes Kennedy and Miss Scully are visiting Sydney. According to recent advices, Miss Audrey Harper, daughter of the Rev. C. C. Harper, formerly of St. Peter’s, Wellington, and Miss Constance Nelson, of Woodville, N.Z., were leaving for a tour in Norway.

A suggestion was made to the executive of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association by Mrs. A. M. Wilson, says tho "N.Z. Herald," that it should get into touch with soldiers’ widows, particularly those with young children. Mrs. Wilson, who was organiser of the Solders’ Dependants’ Cbmmttee of the Patriotic League, stated in her letter that since that committee had disbanded there was no organisation to take its place. She suggested that the association might give a social afternoon as a means of compiling a roll. The matter was referred to a sub-committee.

Tho engagement of Miss Edna MooreJones, daughter of Major H. J. MooreJones, of Matamata, to- Mr. H. L. Bayly, late lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, Tirau, is announced by an exchange. Another mentioned is that of Lieuten-ant-Commander Sale, of H.M.S. Chatham, to, Miss Muriel Marriner, younger daughter of Mr. H. A. Marriner, IvyNook, Mount Eden, Auckland.

The death took place at - Ponsonby, Auckland, this week, ■of Airs. Ellen Green, who was tho daughter of one of the first Europeans born in Auckland.

Mrs. Hogg, Midhirst, is tho guest of Airs. G. Sellar, Masterton.

An enjoyable gathering was held by Airs. S. <l, Watson at her residence. Rata Road, Hataitai, (on (Wednesday afternoon, in aid of the newly-formed Hataitai Ladies’ Croquet Club. Many .guests were present, all members of the club, and with competitions and music very pleasant entertainment was provided. Tha winners of the competitions were Mrs. Wellings, Airs. Chambers, Airs. Ross, Mrs. Hastwell, and Airs. Gibson. Songs and pianoforte solos were contributed by Mrs. Kerr, and little Aliss Betty Menard gave, some recitations. A sale of needlework, pot plants, a case of eoap, marmalade, etc., realised the sum of £5, which goes to the club funds. As it has only lately been formed, the club has yet to buy equipment in the way of balls, mallets, hoops, etc., and it has been arranged to hold these gatherings fairly frequently for the benefit of the funds. Tea was served in the dining room, the table having been arranged with spring flowers and mauve and gold ribbon streamers, these being the club colours.

Air. and Airs. Lewis P. Hayman are leaving by the Tahiti on July 18 for a health visit to Sydney and Melbourne.

The marriage took place recently in St. Andrew’s Church, Hastings, of Miss L. Southwell, of, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, and Mr. Hugh Chesborough Mills, of Te Pohue, Napier. The bride was given away by Mr. F. W. Burwood, of Hastings, late of Altrincham, and was attended by Miss Winnie Bur Wood and Miss Marjorie Dluncan, and Mr. Gordon Holt was best man. A reception was subsequently held by Mrs. Burwood, and later Mr. and Sirs. Mills left for the south.

Society women are rapidly joining the business women’s ranks, states an. English exchange. , The latest recruit is Lady Henry Cavendish Bentinck, who is opening a little shop for hand-paint-ed furniture. "The Canal 'Workshop, the name of the new venture, is m Carlton Street, one of the quaint little byways of the West End. "This is a real commercial venture." she said, ‘ and 1 hope to make it go, and to get money by it. I am not particularly interested in hats and frocks, and I thought th ero would be less competition m painted furniture.” All the furniture m tho showroom is designed by Lady Bentinck or her partner, Mr. J. Bong, and is made by hand in the firm’s workshops in Harrow Road. No machinery is used.

Bare and refreshing fruits, real and artificial, transparent and; opaque lini the latest fancy in womens hat acco ation, states an English writer. Fruitci ers, horticulturists, market gardens s, street-barrow men however, wouldi tad to recognise the strange growths which women are now flaunting on their heads. Paris is said to be the home of tnese. unknown fruits. Wo have the ataee of red currants, carrots and cobnuts The designer is filling rto shop windows with fruits that have never been known to grow « xce P^. 111 Kf f “? s books and in the transformation «cms of the Christmas pantomimes. A voman passing along Bond Street was seen “ 3 rtf* fruits resembling crystal preserves. Miss Grace Joel mTi P\ ct ™ xi 4 Paris Salon of a musician, and it is interesting to know that the sitter is a New Zealand girl Miss Kathleen Levi. Miss Levi, it will be recal. has won important prizes at the Royal Academy of Music for piano and. composition. The Paris Salon also has three pictures bv an artist who hails Hom New Zealand. They are by bliss Evelyn Chapman, only daughter of Mr and Mrs. Frances Chapman, former y Wellington, but now resident Sydney Miss Chapman, wlnlo in Sydney, studied with Dattilo and since going to Europe has had considerable success. She exhibited three pictures in last year’s salon. _ Al Worth, the famous Parisian dressmaker has just been married. Every bride will wish to know +ho trown ho designed for the biide. It was of white satin, veiled with tulle and girdled with a wreath of orange blos--s>iu 0 The sleeves of white satin were Rng and the train of white damask was embroidered with silver. The charm of the design, which could not have been rimpier, lav in its graceful and unbroken lines Though a Frenchman by adoption, M Worth is an Englishman by origin. The first AVorth was the son of a lawyer 6 clerk in an English provincial town After serving as a counter-hand in a london drapery shop, DOC Paris with tho proverbial jEI in his pocket Hero he persuaded a certain Mme. CeXlin to allow him to design dresses filler shop. Later,. M. Worth opened establishment on his own account, in tho lino do la Paix. It was in the nalmv days of the Second Empire and M Worth was lucky enough to interest tho Empress Eugenio. He added to his profits bv introducing the modern system whereby dressmakers supply the materials of a gown as well ns make it up. It was a grandson of the founder who has lust been married.

Wedding at the Basilica. The wedding was quietly celebrated at the Basilica, Hill Street, on Wednesday afternoon, of Miss Ida Oldridge, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Oldridge, of Whakatano, to Mr. Harold A. Corrigan (of tho Bank of New Zealand staff), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.. A. A. Corrigan, Talavera Terrace, Wellington. , The Rev. Father Bmythe, Adm., officiated. The bride wore a very pretty frock of rose point lace over duchesse satin, the train lined with gold brocade, and a beautiful point lace veil (a family heirloom) worn coronet fashion, with orange blossoms. Sho carried a bouquet of white hothouse flowers, with white tulle streamers. The bridesmaids were: Alias Corrigan (sister of the bridegroom) and - hie two little cousins, Ruth Skerman and lima Lovy. Afiss Corrigan woro gold lace over blue satin, with gold lace hat with touches of blue. The little girls in cream georgette over gold, with hats to match, and they carried Iwuquete of yellow flowers with tulle streamers. Mrs. Oldridge, tho bride’s mother, received the guests (who, with the exception of a few intimate friends, were relations of the bride and bridegroom) in pale grey, with hat of same shade, and touches of pink. Airs. Corrigan (the bridegroom's mother) were a nayy taffetas frock with blue hat to match. The bride’s travelling dress was a navy tailored coat-frock, with an American ribbon hat to match and black fox furs. Air. and Mrs ; Corrigan are to make their future home Carterton. EDUCATION IN AMERICA LECTURE BY AfISS HETHERINGTON At a meeting of tho Women Teachers’ Association held.on Thursday in the Edu--cation Buildings, Miss Hetherington gave an interesting lecture -upon "Retardation." Aliss Edwards (president) was in the chair. Miss Hetherington, who spent some time in the States of America, visiting educational institutions and studying many matters in connection with educa-: tional work, said that a great deal, of the work that was being done in tm» connection in America hud been done in England for some time, although very little had been said about it. There was so much to see in the former country that there was great need for the visitor to limit herself, as it was quite possible to spend ten or fifteen years there, and yet not see all the various kinds of schools. One thing that struck her was that there was no system of central contreir—the Federal Bureau only had control over certain sums of money for the use of education. Each State was absolutely free to follow out its s*"" 11 system. It might be said that NewYork and California were regarded as the leading States in education, and size was practically no consideration in America. One high school had as many as 5500 students, and its work was carried out in two shifts. There were other schools with between 3500 and 2000 students attending them. A prominent ture in many of the schools of the States was the foreign element. In one school in Los Angeles with 900 children , attending it, there were only three or four Americans—the others were Mexicans. Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Polish, etc., and this foreign element involved a language problem that tin* country was entirely free of. It meant, also, that quits a good deal of the schema of education in America was directed to what might be called the Americanism tion of the foreign element. - New Zealand, said Miss Hetherington, with its freedom from such problems, its freedom from slums, from language difliculties, ought to lead in education. The system of organisation followed tn the educational scheme in America was ■described—the eightgrade school, leading to four years in the high schools, and ' then on to the universities. It was only the State universities that were free, not such universities as Harvard nnd several others that Miss Hetherington named. One feature of school life that struck her was the importance attached to the social side of school life. If a child did not enter into games and social activities, was not what they called a "good mixer, inquiries were at once made into the rea6ons _ W ere there morbid traits in the child or' its family? Did it have nerves? . Was it eye trouble etc., And, again, greater attention was paid to tho cultural side of school life. In many places the school was the centre of the community life of the town or district Miss Hetherington spoke of the systom that was largely followed of grading th children, this including medical examinations. intelligence tests (testing the men-, talitv of the child), etc. AV here retardstion was found, and the reasons for it, a definite attempt was made to cure th child Alias Hetherington described the system followed in dealing with retarded, children Some were retarded only by tho language difficulty, others by various causes, but every effort was made to bring them up to the required steminrd of development. The A merlc , an U"i°s’ great believers in teaching out-of-dooi£ and the roof was greatly used. They believed that teaching out of floors with a great deal of play, was veiy he’pful to tho child. Miss Hetherington also described the system of seif-disciphno tha existed in many American schools which was often free, self-discipline J*® est sense. The children undeitook the XUes were responsible for securing and maintaining its i^®r W t criticised very franklv and carried out the voik unde toe guidance and control of the teacher. The svstein extended to their play grounds as well. The tween the universities and the teaching profession, which found its centre in the teachers’ colleges, was outlined by the speaker, and at the close ot the lecture a very hearty vote of thanks was passed to her by the gathering, several questions also being asked. Mrs Scholefield (Alasterton) is on a brief visit to Wellington.