WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 178, 16 April 1923, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS „OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By

Imooen.)

Air. and Airs. T. Kincaid, of Taihape, are visiting Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hall-Munro are visiting Christchurch.

Dr. and Mrs. Cameron (Dunedin) have come to Wellington to live.

Miss Eileen Shand (Hataitai) has returned to Wellington from Dunedin.

Miss Fox, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, is visiting Wellington.

The Misses McLachlan,. of Cole Street, Masterton, are visiting Wellington. '

Air. and Mrs. S. Twigs', of Napier, are visiting Wellington. Miss Colin Pyne. Christchurch, is visiting her sister, Airs. Ashley Deans, King Country.

Mrs. John Deans, Christchurch, has been spending some days in Wellington.

Mrs. Pegg, late of Wellington, but now of Stratford, is staying with her sister. Mrs. George, Lower Hutt.

Miss Muriel Buttle left Wellington on Saturday for Auckland, where she will stay permanently.

Mr. and Mrs. John Fuller, .inn.. Miss Phyllis Fuller, and Mr. A. Ben Fuller have gone to Auckland, after having spent some .time at Rotorua. Airs. Moore, Bidwill Street, has returned from a two months’ visit to Dunedin.

Mrs. F. H. Pyne has returned to Christchurch from Wellington, afte- saying farewell to her sister. Miss Lowe, who left last week for England.

Lady Jellicoe will attend the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch,. on Anzac Day.

AlLss A senes Stark and Miss ,E. Browne (AVairoa) arrived in Wellington last week from Christchurch en route for Hawke’s Bar.

Mr. and Mrs. Murray Hobbs (Christchurch) are due to return from an overseas trip on Wednesday, via Australia

Mrs. W. G. Roberts, of Christchurch, has been nominated for the Canter bury Hospital Board, by Dr. A. O. Sandston and Nurse Maude.

Miss May Mahnke and Miss Bessie Hill, Taranaki, are spending a few days with Miss C. Mahnke, Christchurch.

Mrs. Coralie F. McKellar. Press representative of Andre Skalski, has ar rived in Wellington to make preparations for the opening of the season here.

The engagement is announced of Miss Eircna Hicks-Ross, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hicks-Ross, of Manly, lato of Timaru, New Zealand, to Mr. John Marsland, second son of the late Mr. John Marsland and Mrs Marshall, of Neutral Bay, formerly of Brisbane, Queensland.

According to recent news received by their Wairarapa friends, the Misses Cissie and Katie Morrison, who left New Zealand two or three months ago for an overseas trip, have been spending some little time in Arizona and Mexico after leaving San Francisco. Later they will go to England. Scotland and the Continent.

After thirteen years’ service as deputy registrar and registrar of births, marriages, and deaths in Palmerston North. Miss L. M. Shortt has resigned frojn the position. The office will in future be administered by the Department of Internal Affairs, which will appoint a public service official to till the position vacated by Miss Shortt.

The next town to turn its attention to the matter of establishing a rest room for mothers and children is Feilding. / In most instances the men of a country town have their clubs and hotels to go to when they want to pass an idle hour or so. The women usually have nowhere to go unless to the pie ture theatres, where they can- rest, and yet they often have four or five children on their hands, while the men are care-free. It is a good thing the l these handicaps are at last being recognised. Since the Feilding Borough Council has expressed itself as being unanimously, in favour of a rest room for women, it seems as though one is likely to materialise in that town, although they have left it to the incoming council to deal with.

The marriage took place recently at the Trinity Methodist Church, Wellington South, of Miss Muriel M. L. Murdoch G)filler), eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Murdoch, of Wellington, to Mr. Alan H. Hornblow. second son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hornblow, of Wellington South. The Rev. E. Drake officiated, and Mrs. Webb presided at the organ. The bride. who was given away by her grandfather, AJ)r. Matthew Murdoch, of Wellington, wore a frock of pale pink crepe de chino and georgette, trimmed with silver laco and pink and silver rosebuds. The veil was of fleshcoloured embroidered silk net, worn with a coronet of silver net. Tho bouquet was of roses, carnations, and dahlias in toning shades of pink, with raaiden hair fern and asparagus. There :vere two bridesmaids —Misses Kathleen Burns (Auckland), and Gretta Burd (Wellington). Tho former wore an early Victorian frock of apricot satin, trimmed with gold beads and touches of mole fur, and a black and gold hat. Miss Burd’s frock was of eau-de-nillo georgette, trimmed .with tucks and pastel ribbons worn with a black and gold hat, finished with paradise plumes. Both carried bouquets of autumn flowers. The best man and the groomsman were Messrs. R. R. and C. W. Hornblow respectively, brothers of the bridegroom. A reception was afterwards field at “Tho Dainties” rooms. The bridegroom's mother, who received the guests, wore a fawn cloth costume and becoming hat of autumn shades. At the reception musical and elocutionary items were given by Mrs. Woodmore, Misses M. Shand, M. Barclay and Crow, and Mr. P. C. Dixon. The bride’s travelling costume was of navy serge, with hat to match, and she also wore ’ a black marabout fur.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Seen and Heard at the Races.

It has really come to be a moot point whether men or women are the •keenest race-goers these days. Let the weather bo what it may—rain, hail or sunshine —women are there in almost equal numbers to the men. And their knowledge of the horses, their, achievements, the jockeys who are riding them, and a thousand and one other points is quite surprising. There seems, indeed, to .be very little that women do not know about races. All the same, they sometimes throw to the wind all their carefully garnered store of tips, because of. some quaint superstition, or coincidence, and are left deeply lamenting. Sometimes it is the other way round, and a very happy woman goes home to her family at the end of the day to show them what one lucky dividend biought her. So at least it happened to one woman on Thursday. She had made up her mind to put her money upon Quest in the Thompson Handicap, and then, being of a Highland blood, she felt she could not pass over Highland. Her 'oyalty to the country of her birth was well repaid. Then there was the woman who had selected Rapine in another race, but because she wore a kind of zouave to her drees thought that it was a specially sent sign to her to back the horse of that name. She did so, and has lost her faith for evermore in such signs and portents.

While a race is in progress some women become wildly excited and lost to all the world but the horses. Thon there are the women who arc determined to control themselves, and do so till the last thrilling moment, when the contained excitement becomes too much fpr them. Others, again, are very controlled, and take everything as it comes without a quiver. It must be said, however, that horses do not absorb all the attention of numbers of -women. There is yet another absorbing interest to he found in the study of what other women are wearing, and comments are very frank and free. Sometimes, however, there is frank admiration both of the dress and its wearer.

Miss Patterson, of Dunedin, is visiting Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren, of. Christchurch. who have been touring the North Island by motor, passed through Wellington on their way south last Friday.

The wedding -was quietly celebrated in St. Thomas’s Church, Wellington South, of Miss Mary Cdnstance Thornton, youngest daughter of Mrs. A Thornton and the late Mr. Edward Thornton.' 1 of Wellington, to Mr. Joseph 'William McCabe, eldest .son o f Mr. J. AV. McCabe, also of AVellington. Miss Molly Hare was the bridesmaid, and Mr. L. McCabe' the -best man.' Mr. Ih 0. Thornton gave his sister away. Mr. and Mrs. McCabe left later in the day, en route for their home in the south.

The wedding took place at St Mark’s Church of Miss oessie Mary Newenham, third daughter of Mrand the late Mr. W. H. Newenham and granddaughter of the late Commander Newenham, R.N.. and Mr. John Morris Calcinai, both of Wellington. The Ven. Archdeacon Johnson officiated. The bride was given (vwav by her brother, Mr. W. E. A. Newenham, of Nelson, and was attended h-r Miss Zeta. Blackmore, little Joyce Bedford (train bearer) and Miss Edne Gigger. Mr. H. W. Morris was best man, and Mr. L. ’Watkins was »t the organ. The reception was .held at the residence of the bride’s sister, Mrs T. H. C. Bedford, Seatoun.

.The wedding took place on March 28 at St. John’s Church, Wellington, of Miss Lesley Dryden, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Dryden, Paekakariki, to Mr. SV. Spencer Fleming, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, York Street, Wanganui. The Rev. Dr. Gibb was the officiating minister, and Mr. C. W. Kerry played the Wedding March. The bride, who’ entered tho church on the arm of her father, wore a frock of ivory charmeuse and Chantilly lace, Jwtih silver tissue roses at the low waist-line, also a veil embroidered with roses, and fastened with a coronet of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of cream roses and maidenhair fem. The bridesmaids were Miss Gwen. Dryden, who wore a frock of pale heliotrope broche crepe de chine and hat to match, and Miss Madge Fleming, who Wore apricot crepe de chino and hat to match. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Air. Jack Fleming. Afterwards Air. and Mrs. Dryden entertained about forty guests at Dustin’s. The bride travelled in a putty coloured gaberdine costume, with a brown velvet hat.

Alany of us fancy that the matrimonial agent is a development of comparatively.recent times. Not so in France, at any rate, for the following advertisement appears in a Paris news sheet of just a hundred years ago: “Alarriages. — Are offered, 1. Three young ladies, aged from 20 to 25, with 1500 francs portion. 2. Four young ladies, from 18 to 24, with 4000 francs, ditto. 3. Two young ladies, from 2S to 38, with 8000 francs, ditto, and 20,000 more in expectation. _4 Two young ladies, from 17 to 18, with whom can be guaranteed from 60,000 to 80,000 francs. 5. Two young ladies, from 18 to 19, with 20,000 francs. 6. Two widows, from 45 to 50, with incomes of 2400 and 3000 francs. Address to Al. Adolphe, Hue Feyreau, (His office is open on Sunday).”

Tho youngest actor-manageress in London is Aliss Jane Prinsep, daughter of Airs. Anthony Prinsep, better known as Marie Lohr. She was born in the early summer of 1913. The pretty little girl recently produced at the Globe, her parents’ theatre, a children’s play entitled “The Seasons Severed,” in aid of charity. Probably few people know the reason for Jane’s old-fashioned name. but it was her father’s choice, being the petit nom by which he always addresses his wife.

BABY ECZEMA. Most babies occasionally suffer from one of the many skin diseases, such as eczema-. When the child is but a few days old it is quite usual for a Tash to com© out on the face, and if neglected will quickly spread over the other parts of the body. The “Kloxema” treatment, which is a scientific method of permanently curing skin diseases, is specially recommended for babies and young children Right from the commencement of the treatment the child puts on weight and shows general improvement until the skin is in perfect health. Sufferers from eczema, barber’s rash, psoriasis, acne, and scalp troubles can be cured by taking a course of the “Kloxema” treatment. Country sufferers are specially invited to write or ’phone for details of treatment. Hours of free consultation: 10-12.30. 2-4, or by appointment. ’Phone 2271 KLEXEMA ROOMS. 13 Woodward Street, Wellington, And at Christchurch and Dunedin. — Adv s t.

MEN AND WOMEN TEACHERS

The greatest difference between masters and women teachers, says a correspondent in the “Daily Mail,” is that the latter are much more conscientious, and they expect their pupils to be so as well. Most masters take up this position: “If you want to do the work, do it, and I will correct it for you. If you don’t want to do it, I don’t mind—it will save me a lot of trouble. You know whether you ought to do it or not.” Masters appeal to the common sense, but women teachers try to appeal to the emotions. With them it is not a case of whether or not you want to do a thing, but whether (in their opinion) it must be done. My instructress says: “■When I teach von I want you to do it (shorthand) well. I like my students to get on quickly.” If one does anything wrong, a master may say: “Whatever are those hieroglyphics? Why, anyone outside a lunatic asylum ought to be able to do that!” Does an instructress say anything like this? Not she. She says: “My dear boy, what are you doing?” Or if it is near lea-time: '“That’s all wrong, my boy! My instructress pays much more attention to detail than a master would. She looks upon everything as real and not merely a convention. In contrast, I remember a master who used to say: “There is nothing that must be done.”

“I am a Belgian now, as I married a Belgian,” said Mrs. Gerardy, who with her husband, Mr. Jean Gerardy, arrived in Sydney last week. Mrs Gerardy was a Sydney girl, and was Miss Amelia McQuade, daughter of the late Mr. Harry McQuade, of lotts Point. It is seventeen years since Mrs. Gerardy was in Australia, and she is amazed and delighted with the city of tall buildings and busy wharves (says an Australian writer). “Our home is at Spa, Belgium, where the Pence Conferp-nce was held, and whenever my husband’s engagements allow we spend a lew months there. It is a delightful spot, with a variety of scenery, moorland, pasture land, and woods. Belgium is, I think, the most music-loving country of all. The conservatoriums of music are crowded with students, who are given free tuition if they cannot afford the fees.” Mrs. Gerardv accompanies her husband on all h>s tours, and is a much travelled woman. She has been fifteen times to America, so she is well acquainted with that country, and is full of admiration for it. Mr. and Mrs. Gerardv attended Paderewski’s first recital on his return to the concert platform. His performance was as wonderful as ever, and he had a great reception. Before coming out to Australia. th.ev had an interesting tour of Poland.' where Mr. Gerardv gave ten concerts, and Northern Europe, which Mrs. Gerardy says is still sad and suffering from the war.