WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 292, 27 August 1923, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS ..OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Swinburne has returned to Hastings from a visit to England. Miss Ethelwyn Kirk left yesterday for a visit to Sydney. Miss Sutherland (Masterton) is spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs. H. E. Either (Masterton) and her family are spending a holiday at Rona Bay. Mrs. George (New Plymouth) is visiting Wellington. Mt. and Miss Diddams, who have been staying at the Windsor Hotel, return to-day to Greytown. Miss Sellar will return to Masterton to-day from Wellington. Miss Pilmer has returned to Masterton from a visit to Sydney. Mrs. Hornabrook has returned to Masterton from Wellington.

Mrs. Dalziell has returned to Masterton from a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. Kenneth Luke is visiting her mother. Mrs. T. E. Taylor (Christchurch).

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Keesing (Wanganui) have been spending, some days in Wellington. Later they leave for Auckland). Mr. and Mrs. W T . J. Hopkins, of Christchurch, returned by the Niagara last week from an overseas trip.

Mrs. T. Devine, of Wellington, has taken up her residence in St. Geoerge’s Bay Road, Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stead, of Cambridge, left by the Niagara last week for a visit to Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Matamata, are visiting England for health reasons. They arrived by the s.s. Paparaoa, and are returning by the Osterley, via Australia.

Miss B. Vallance (Masterton) has been spending a few days in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Crisp, of Gisborne, returned hist week from a visit to Honolulu.

Miss Ethel Osborne, a well-known Australian soprano arrived in Auckland last week and will bo the leading soloist at the Royal Auckland Choir Concert this week.

The engagement is announced in an Auckland exchange of Miss Dorothy Van Been, second daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. B. Van Been, of Northcote. Auckland, to Mr. Ralph Harris, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harris, of Billersden Grange, Blue Mountains, New South Wales.

A conccrta and dance, organised by the Singing Circle of the Pioneer Chib, will be held in the club rooms on Friday evening next. Members are invited. to attend and bring their friends. The evening has been arranged as the circle’s contribution towards the extension fhnd.

Miss Bannerman, a Canadian teacher who has been located in the Hawke’s Bay education district for the past year, and for the last six months in the Napier Central School, left for Sydney on Friday. She was the recipient of a presentation before she left.

Mrs. J. E. Donald, Mrs. S. Lawrence, Mrs. Bernard Wood, Miss Maberley Beadel, Miss Marjorie Dixon, Miss Rita Cracroft-Wilson, and Miss Dorothy Anderson are amongst the members of the Christchurch Ladies’ Golf Club who intend competing at the New Zealand championship meeting at Nelson next month.

A .rather neat quip is going the round of the London clubs regarding Mrs. Philipson’s election. It is suggested that the three women M.P.’s —Airs. Wintringham, Lady Astor, and “Mabel Russell” represent, piety, •sobriety and variety. It is a rather curious thing that Mrs. Philipson should resemble her two predecessors in one respect—she succeeds her husband in the representation of her constituency. It was when’the present Viscount Astor inherited his peerage and had to leave the Commons for the Lords that his wife became the first woman to sit at Westminster, while Mrs. Wintringham was elected for Louth on the death of hor husband. The new member takes the place of her husband, Captain Philipson, the first M.P. to be unseated for 13 years. The first aid class recently conducted by Dr. Line was completed on Thursday evening, th© class members thoroughly appreciating the work put in by the doctor and demonstrators. Dr. Line was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his patience and thorough-, ness, and was present at the final practice, to present Airs. Gaby and Miss Eossette, the demonstrators, with a token of appreciation from the class, in the shape of handsome cases fitted with forceps, surgical scissors, and tongue forceps. The surprise gifts were greatly appreciated. To restore the contour of the face and tone ,up the scalp is very needful after the winter months. A delightful face massage will prove beneficial. For the scalp, our Medical Electric Treatment is wonderful. Full course of seven treatments and two shampoos, £2 2s. Henna application, 21s. Staining for grey hair, 30s. to 50s. Stamford and ' Co., 123 Cuba Street. ’Phone 21—220.—Advt. MADDENING ITCH RELIEVED. THE “KLEXEMA” WAY. The effect of “Klcxema” is not merely temporary. Where a complete course of treatment is taken, successful and happy results are enjoyed. “Klexenui” is a scientific treatment, controlled by specialists who have made the profession their life study. It gives instant relief to skin diseases such as eczema, barber’s rash, acne, and psoriasis. The intense and maddening itch is surely and soothingly relieved in the pleasant "Klcxema” way. Most skin diseases are more than skin deep, and it is useless to attempt to dry up the complaint at once. “Klexema” draws the disease out of the system, and then heals the affected parts. „ __ Consultation free. Hours: TO to 12.30. R to 4, or by appointment'. ’Phone 2271. Klcxema Rooms, 13 Woodward Street, Wellington, and at Christchurch and Dunedin. —Advt.

Mrs. F. Meadows has returned to Wellington from a visit to Greymouth.

Mrs. Florence Porter, organising secretary for the British and Foreign Bible Society, is visiting Feilding. Miss Rosina Buckman and Mr. Maurice d’Oisly spent last Good Friday at Niagara Falls, so the latter states in a private letter to a friend in Auckland, and that they were surrounded by snow and ice everywhere. They were accompanied by Captain Wilkinson, of the English cricket team, and his wife. They afterwards spent a fortnight in New York, and heard a great deal of good music, and also met many old friends amongst the artists at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Readers of “The Roadmender,” by “Michael Fairless,” will bo interested in the sale of the Shermanbury estate, near Henfield, Sussex. “Michael Fairless,” who was daughter of the late Mr. Fairless Barber, of Rastrick, Yorkshire, and sister of Mrs. John Haggard (herself an authoress and Sir Rider Haggard’s sister-in-law), wrote most of “The Roadmaker,” at Mock Bridge House, Shermanbury. and died there. The Sussex scenery she describes is all in the neighbourhood of Shermanbury, where ffiie wished to be burind, but actually she was laid to rest at Ashurst, two miles away.

Mrs. Margaret Jacobson, who died on Thursday afternoon at her home, Mount Leinster. Akaroa, at the age nf 73, was the widow of the late Mr. H. C. Jacobson, an early Akaroa settler. Mrs. Jacobson was a daughter of Captain Daniel Dougherty, a navigator of some note, and her early life was spent in Wellington. A portion of her married life was passed in Ashburton and Lincoln, and finally the family settled in Akaroa. Mrs. Jacobson leaves a family of seven daughters and two sons, Mr. R. Jacobson, of Christchurch, and Mr. W. Jacobson, of Akaroa. Mrs. C. E. Adams, wife of Or. C. E. Adams, Government Astronomer. is one of her daughters, and Mrs. J. W. Donnelly, of Christchurch, is a niece.

The death last week of Mrs. J. 0. Masefield, of Gladstone, Road. Parnell, removes another of Auckland s earliest colonists. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Young, the first collector of customs at Auckland. Mrs. Masefield, well-kppwn in Auckland, later moved with her husband to Batley, Kaipara, where she endeared herself to the settlers by her kindness of heart and ever-ready hospitality. Her relatives in England' have filled important positions in British diplomatic service, and her first cousin, Lord D’Abernon, is. at present British Ambassador at Berlin.

The wedding took place last week in jSt. Andrew’s Cl urch, Gisborne, of Miss Catherine Ferguson, daughter of Mrs. J. Ferguson, of Gisborne, to Mr. George H. Douglas, eldest son of Mrs. Robert Douglas, of Wellington. The Rev. James Aitken officiated. The bride wore a dress of white georgette, beaded in mother-of-pearl, and draped, with honiton lace. An embroidered veil was held in place with a coronet of orange blossoms, and she carried a shower bouquet’ of '.hyacinths, freesias. and maidenhair fern. Miss Margaret Ferguson, who attended as bridesmaid, wore a frock of pale blue georgette, with radium lace, and black hat with ospreys. Her bouquet was of pink roses and maidenhair fern. The little train-bearer. Marie Shone Hall, was dressed in primrose taffetas, and carried a posy of primulas. Mr. Allan Sandland was best man.

“Although a land where many have been killed in riots, China, when peaceful, gives a feeling of security and restfulness not enjoyed in the same degree even here at home,” stated. Miss Moore in the course of a lecture to the Federation ,of University women at Dunedin. Hence it is that ladies can and do travel alone in peace and safety. Just as an example of this 1 may mention Miss M’Dougal and a friend travelled alone from Shanghai to Burniah, a distance of about 3000 miles, most of which was by native boat and sedan chair, then attendant being an English-speaking Chinese. When the journey was,over Miss M’Dougal published an interesting book recounting her experiences.

I never know why domestic work is supposed to be essentially woman’s work, now that a husband goes to the office to earn a salary instead of to the forest glade to hunt the dinner (states a writer in the Manchester “Guardian,” discussing the domestic, help problem). It is highly skilled work: it involves brains, psysical strength, organising ability, elementary science, imagination, and a flawfess temper. The most determined feminist would scarcely maintain that all or any of these qualities are exclusively present in woman. Only a proportion of them, it is certain, would be required for the performance of most kinds of so-called men’s work; but one would not like to infer that any man of normal ability could not easily acquire such qualifications for domestic work as were not called into action by his previous employment. Besides, dating at least from the war period, we have any amount of evidence that husbands never really knew what perfect cooking and attendance meant until both were supplied by male orderlies on the field of battle. Where are those eptrfect'urderlies now ? If they could be again mobilised for domestic service, a real step might be taken towards raising its status. The charming young thing who now turns up her nose at domestic service would probably not decline to walk out with an ex-soldier who has become a “general” in the home, though we are told that her present young man will not walk out with her unless she pretends to be a typist. A good deal of the snobbish prejudice against domestic service would vanish if the orderly became a servant, because that would imply thrft the servant had become an orderly. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Harris celebrated their golden wedding at their home, Ortona., Prospect Rise, Mount Eden (Auckland), last Saturday, when they were the recipients of very beautiful flowers, and numerous congratulatory letters and telegrams from their many friends and well-wishers.. A very pleasant evening was spent in the company of their sons, their wives and children. Mr. and Mrs. Harris arrived in Auckland from London in 1901, and soon afterwards took up their residence at Mount Eden. I KRUSE’S FLUID MAGNESIA. FOR TEETHING BABIES. When baby is teething, a teaspoonful of Kruse’s Fluid Magnesia will soothe the stomach and allay feverishness. Insist on Kruse’s; Is. 6d. everywhere. Cheaper than imported brands because no duty rates to pay —better value too. —Advt. As protection against fin’ “Nazol” is unequalled. Dependable, penetrative preventative. Inhale through handkerchief. Bottle fits vest pocket. GO doses Is. 6d. —Advt. Weddings to be artistic, must have Bouquets to harmonise with froclts. Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion. —Advt.

The Rev. J. E. and Mrs. Draper left Dannevirke last week to take up their residence in Napier. Before leaving they were presented with farewell gifts, Mr. Draper receiving a smoker’s companion and Mrs. Draper a set of aluminium saucepans.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hurst, who died at Konini on Friday last, was born in the Hutt Valley 78 years ago. The deceased lady was a daughter of the late John Hooper, a pioneer settler, who arrived in Wellington in the Arab in 1841. The late Mrs. Hurst is survived bv Messrs. Robert Hooper, of Lower Hutt, and George Hooper, of Taita (brothers), and Mrs. Eaton, senior, of Carterton, a sister.

Mrs. Jennie Louise Robinson (Miss Jennie Nye, well known in New Zealand in the early ’seventies as an accomplished actress in standard plays, especially on the West Coast, died recently, at the age of 73 years, leaving her money (£5510) all to charities.

“There are not a few openings for single women. Some nurse in hospitals where Europeans are received as patients, some find employment as managers of hotels, boarding-houses, or shops, others are employed as stenographers and saleswomen. Increase of foreign business will increase the number of these positions, but Eurasians and trained Chinese women will compete with them. They are well paid, but the cost of living is very high—about £l5 per month. Besides these comfortably-settled classes of women there arc many poor, hardworked foreign women whose outlook on life is very drab. Among these are the absolutely destitute Russian refugees, many women of culture and refinement who have somehow drifted into Shanghai, where they offer their services free in return for food. Shiploads of these refugees were refused a landing in Shanghai. Food and clothes were collected for them, and they were sent on to South America, I believe.”