WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS ..OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,.

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Norah Moore (Masterton) is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. Thompson, of Palmerston North, has been spending a few days in Wellington.

Lady Edwards of Wellington, is leaving to-day by the Tahiti on a holiday trip to Australia. t>

Mrs. J. L. Mulholland-and her two little sons, who have been the guests of Mrs. John Coyle, Lyall Bay, will be returning to Sydney this week.

Miss E. A. Chapman, who is severing her connection with the Normal School and Training College, 'Christchurch, was entertained Im the fifth and sixth standards and presented with a Doulton bowl as an expression of their love and esteem.

The annual meeting of the Women’s National Reserve will take place tonight, at 7.30 in St. John’s' Church Room Dixon Street. It is hoped that all members and subscribers will mako a point of attending so that the meeting may be fully representative.

On the eve of her departure to take up, an appointment in the South Island, Miss Isabel Mead was presented bv the head office staff of the Charles Haines Advertising Agency, Ltd., Wellington, with a gold wristlet watch. Miss Mead left for ftie south last night;

A large number of friends visited the Corinthic yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Misses Mabelle Es'quilant and Eileen Driscoll, both popular singers, who aro, making a trip to England. The ladies received liberal gifts and other tokens of the regard in which they are held by their numerous friend® in Wellington and. elsewhere.

The marriage took place at the residence of the bride’s mother, “Ken Burn,” Rakaia. of Miss Heather Burns, eldest daughter of Mrs. R. C. Burns, to Mr. James Weaver, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A, Weaver. . Miss Esme Burns attended her sister and the best man was Mr. Harold Weaver. Mr. Angus Burns gave his sister away and the Rev. A. S. Morrison officiated.

A great task has devolved upon Dr. Mabel Elliott, director of the American Women’s Hospital, who has arranged with the Greek Government to take over the entire island of Macronisi, thirty miles south of Athens, Greece. Plans aro being put forth for the equipment of this island io handle 10,000 refugees. at - one time, in an effort to cope with the unprecedented outbreaks of epidemic disease which 'has been brought in by the refugees. American women will install, finance, ’tinil direct what will be the largest medical quarantine station in ths world.- Dr. Elliott is known for her relief work in. Turkey, Armenia, Anatolia, and Greece, and she is well able to handle the situation.

Quite a number of lectures on New Zealand and its prospects seem to have been given in various parts of the country recently, states a London correspondent, under date February SO. The Rev. Vallnnce Cook, who was lately in Now. Zealand on six months’ visit in connection with the Methodist Union cause gave a lecture in Nottingham. Mr. Mann, J.l’., of Hamilton, whose wife is a native of Timaru, lately also lectured on NewZealand, and'Colonel J. L. Sleenmn, of Hampton House, too, has been lecturing on the charms' of New Zealand. Colonel Sleeman, it will be recalled, went to New* Zealand on the outbreak of Avar as director of military training. Ho emphasised the points that, there was no workhouse and no do]e in the Dominion,, and it was not infra dig to be a worker.

Madame* Amelita Galli-Curm, tho famous soprano, told an interviewer, representing tho “Christian Science Monitor,” that she made her earliest conspicuous success at Madrid in the first year of the war. She found Spam a far from easy land to conquer; and she co.nfirmed what, so many artists aver, that a Spanish audience is the hardest.of any to please ; but she main, tained at the same time that -no public is quicker to discern and applaud good work than that of tho Madrid Opera. Almost of a piece her Spanish experience was one in the Canary Islands. which she visited in the spring of the same season on her way to South. America. Teneriffe was tho island on which she stayed; no other locality in the wide world, she declared, can be so rich in flowers. Sh* was there long enough to give four concerts, using a theatre as her auditorium. At the farewell a shower of rose petals was sent down on her from the stage aloft, until she stood ankle-deep in the drift;

Airs. Susannah Kennelly, of Peterborough, who used to sell Sunday newspapers in the market-pl ace to supplement the family income, recently learned that she was entitled to a fortune of between £9OOO and £lO,OOO left by an uncle in South an exchange. Just before Christmas Mrs. Kennelly took home a Sunday newspaper from her bundle. In-it she read that particulars were required of. the whereabouts of the relatives of Walter Williams, of South Wales. “My father’s sister,” said Mrs. Kennelly in an interview, “married Walter Williams, who left London some years ago for South Wales. Tliey had no family, and I ■ knew there would bo something to come when "they died. I immflfliately wrote to tho address, and they wrote back enclosing forms to be signed, and these I forwarded to London. They told me my share in the property amounted to nearly £10,000.” Asked about her plans for the future, Mrs. Kennelly replied: “Well, I have given up selling Sunday papers for a start. I always said if over I got .enough money I would sot up my husband, who is a bit of an agricultural mechanic, with some tackle of his own. I have already ordered from a firm at Leeds two engines, n. plough and cultivator, water-cart, and van, and they are to delivered by tho end of February. Mv next step is to ’ buy a motor-car, and my busband can drive mo to where the tackle is being used, I 'have a car waiting for me at the door now to take me into town to transact some business, so you must excuse me.”

Ladies ca.nnot do better 111817 visit our well-known salon for hairwork of every description. La Naturelie partings' in transformations, toupees, and wigs, are delightful creations. Combings mounted ito switches, puffs, adjustable bobs, and pads, 2s. per oz. Children’s hair cut. Is. ; Marcel waving 3s. 6d. Stamford and Co,, 123 Cuba Street. ’Phono 21—220.—-’Advt.

Weddings to be artistic must have Bouquets to harmonise with frocks. Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion.—Advt.

Miss Edna Koeley. Since her return to New Zealand Miss Edna Keeley has been very busy catching up -with old friendships and making new ones. The nast four years since she was last here with the Allen Doone company, have been passed in a. most interesting manner. Two of the years were" most happily spent in South Africa, a country that not all people like at first, but that one is apt to take’ to after a few months’ residence. Miss Keeley thinks it a most fascinating country, and one which has a great destiny. It has for a hundred years been held back by wars, rebellions, native troubles, exploiters, and strikes, but it has lived through them all in the most wonderful way. Miss Keeley also wont home to America, and witnessed many delightful shows in New York and elsewhere. Yesterday was Miss Keeley’s birthday, and in honour of the event she was. entertained at luncheon at the Grand Hotel.

WOMEN NOVELISTS LECTURE BY MR. C. WILSON. “A. hardened and unrepentant devotee of good fiction” was how Mr. Charles Wilson, the Parliamentary librarian, styled himself at the commencement of his entertaining talk on “Some Women Novelists: Old and Now,” which he gave before a largo audience at the Pioneer Club on Wednesday night. Mr. Wilson took his audience back as far as the early years of the seventeenth century, ip- ■ ferring to the famous, or. as she is sometimes called the notorious Mrs. Aphra Behn, as the first English woman novelist and jilaywright, -Mrs. Behn was followed by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, wffiose once famous romance, “The Mysteries of Udolpho,” was, said the lecturer, a forerunner of the , “shockers” and “thrillers” of the present day. An interesting cllat on the work of Fanny Burney, Dr. Johnson’s friend, on the very prim. and proper Hannah Moro; highly moral story, “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,” was so detested by Becky Sharp, on Maria Edgeworth, whose Irish stories are credited with having suggested to Sir Walter Scott the writing of stories .descriptive of Scottish life and character, was followed by a warm eulogy of the novels of Jane Austen, “the fair ana witty Jane,” as the late Andrew Lang called the author of “Pride and Prejudioo,” u Scnso and Sensibility, and “Emma.” Coming to the Victorians proper, Mr. Wilson had much that was interesting to say of the sisters’ Bronte, of Mrs. Gaskell, whose little gem of literature, “Cranford,’ was snecially commended, of George Eliot,' and Mrs. Lynn Linton.. In “Onida” there was, said Mr. .Wilson, a strange combination of genius and extravagance, and he took nil the cudgels for the often sneered-at Miss Braddon, who, said the lecturer, .revelled in melodramatic themes, but at least- had tho merit of being a born storyteller. The half-forgotten stories of Mrs. Henry Wood, of “East Lynne” fame, were, alluded to by tho lecturer, who recalled as an example of ewly “Pussyfootism” her temperance story,'“Danesbury House,” a depressing ■ romance with which young Victorians, brought up in a- specially virtuous atmosphere, were supposed to regale themselves, while at heart they were dying, th© boys, to get Back to their favourite, Captain Marryatt, and their sisters to the love stories of Miss Rhoda Broughton and Miss Helen Mathers. Mr. Wilson caused considerable merriment by reading some extracts from an early Victorian novel, “Delind Delane,” by a Mrs; Ros. .Later on, the novels of Mrs. Humphrey AVard were discussed, and the fact was recalled that her father, Thomas Arnold, brother of the great Matthew, lived for a short time at Makara, and was a-ftemvards a schoolmaster in Nelson. In all probability, said Mr. Wilson, the father stood in some respects as the original of Robert Elsmere. Lucas Malet (Charles Kingsley’s daughter) was also referred' to, together with yMiss Mary V. , Cholmondeloy, Miss Ellen Thorney- ’ croft Fowler, Mrs. Flora Ahnfe Steele, whoso “On the Face -of tho Waters,” “The Potter’s Thumb,” and other Indian stories were highly commended by the lecturer, Miss Beatrice Harradon and others. A very entertaining gossip was concluded by a brief survey of the fictional work of several lay writers of the present day, in particular the novels of May Sinclair, Sheila Kaye Smith, Violet Sackville West, and Rebecca West. The brilliant promise shown by Miss Katherine Mansfield (the late Mrs. Middleton Murry), and the delicate wit of her relation tho Countess Russell. tho author of the e"/er deli/ffitful “Elizabeth in lier Germing Garden,” was also alluded to. A brief reference to the work of certain American lady writers of fiction concluded a chatty and often amusing talk. Upon the motion of Mrs. Coleridge, a kearty vote of thanks was’ accorded to Mr. Wilson, who, so tlm hope was expressed. would give the club’s mem-’ bers another similaf literary talk on some future occasion. Dr. Agnes Bennett occupied the chair.

Tlie new school at Longburn, which was built last year, has been furnished in a very tasteful manner throtigli the efforts of the scholars and the residents of the district,, states the “Manawatu Standard.” Apart from the usual furnishings and fittings provided by tho Education Board, n number of framed pictures, purchased with the proceeds from the boys’ garden fund, decorate the classroom walls. The teachers’ office has been furnished with a chesterfield couch and several other articles designed to afford the maximum of comfort and convenience, and a piaho has been supplied for school use and social gatherings. Tho funds were raised by the residents of tho district by means of. social functions, » sum of' £l3O being realised.

Doctors in a West London suburb are suggesting a “black list” of patients who go from one mcdipal man to another instead of paying their accounts.