WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 99, 22 January 1924, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

' MATTERS I ,OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. C. Wheeler have returned from a trip to the South Island.

Airs. Fraser and Miss Margaret Fraser, Auckland, are visiting Auckland.

Mrs. George Nathan has returned from a visit to the seaside. •

Sir George and Lady Clifford have arrived from Christchurch for the races.

Mrs. Moodie and her children (Central Terrace) have returned from spending a few weeks at Lyall Bay.

Miss P. Monkhouse, who has been visiting in the north, is at present in 'Wellington.

Aliases Ernestine and Dorothy Hadfield. Hill Street, are visiting friends in Hawke’s Bay.

Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, Brooklyn, have returned from a visit to Palmerston North. fi< Airs. C. AV. Earle and Miss Beryl Earle left London for New Zealand by the Remuera on January 17. Captain and Mrs. A. P. Gibson, Hataitai, have r> turned from the West Coast glaciers and the exhibition.

Mrs. D. O’Sullivan, Ohakune, and her daughters, aue returning home, after visiting the AVest Coast exhibition.

Airs. Douglas Robertson and Miss Robertson, of Auckland, are spending a short holiday at Dr. Dudley’s cottage, Lowry Bay.

Miss Mary Stroute, of Christchurch, who >b at present on a holiday visit to AVellington, is the guest or Mrs. Frank Twiss, at Lyall Bay. Mrs. AV. Hope de Renzy and Miss Linda Do Renzy, of Auckland, are suiting Airs. Glendinning, AVellington Terrace.

Miss Imelda Fama has returned to Wellington after spending a holiday in Auckland with her sister, Mrs. John McGovern, Remuera. Alias Fama is leaving for Europe in February to further her musical studies.

Hostesses for the Community Club, Bucklo Street, for this week are: Tuesday, Mrs. IS. Muir; AVedneeday, Airs. David Bews; Thursday, Airs. Vine; Friday, Airs. AV. Blundell; Monday (the 28th), Airs. E. G. Pilcher. Air. Leon de Afauny and Madame Evelyn de Manny are away from AVellington this week and next. . They have arranged a concert tour, including visits to Feilding, Stratford, New Plymouth, and Alasierton prior to resuming work at their studios in February. The death occurred last’ week of Mrs. J. Simon, 16 Roy Street. The deceased was the widow of the late Jules Simon, merchant, AVestport, and leaves a family of nine—Airs. Cassie, the Alisses Alma, Una, Stella, of AA’ellington; Me-srs. 'Leon, Eugene, - of Gisborne: Gustave, of Christchurch: and Claude and Jules, of AVellington. Toti Dal Monte, the Italian colaoratura soprano, who recently completed a successful season of grand opera in Buenos Aires, has returned to Pans, prior te leaving for Australia to appear with the J. C. Williamson-Dame Nellie Alelba Grand Opera Company, says the ‘Melbourne Argus.” A cable message received bv the J. O. Williamson management on January 11 stated that Slgnorina, Dal Monte has been engaged for a special season at the Grand Opera House, Paris, pri.« to her departure for Melbourne. Air. and Mrs. Blackley entertatneff a number of gu«sts at afternoon tea yesterday in AHcker's House, on the occasion of presenting a really beautiful model of H.M.S. Sentinel to the Navy League. Amongst those present were: Air.'and Airs. J. P- Firbh, Mr. and Airs. J. Findlay, Captain AVilliams, R.N., Commander AVehster, R.N., and Aire. AVebster, Airs. Larnnch, Airs. Hunter-Brown, Alias Findlay, Airs. Phillips Twrner, Mrs. Darling, Mrs. L. Tripp, Airs. W. Luke, Miss Edwin, Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. Kirk, Mrs. Breda, Alisa Preece, Captain Chudley, Messrs. Darroch, AValkei’, Finch, Hunt, and Wiren. Mme. Curie, - who is to be given a pension by the French Government, has in her time found it hard to make both ends meet. Professor Curie’s income when they married was only 6000 francs a year, and his wife was still following 'he# university course, says an exchange. They lived in a flat of three rooms, all the household work being done by Aline. Curie, as they could not afford a servant. Still they were_istensely happy. “AAte lived a most united life,” Mme. Curie relates, “finding a common interest in all things—theoretical research, experiments in the laboratory, courses of study and examinations. During the eleven years our marriage lasted we were hardly ever apart. Aly hopband had such a passion for work that if we took a holiday he was sure to say distressfully, at the end of a few days, ‘I cannot help feeling that for quite a long time now wo have been doing absolutely nothing. An enjoyable concert was held on Friday at the Crown Theatre, Eastbourne, in aid of the building fund for the new Sunday school in connection with St. Alban’s Church. . The programme was performed principally bv the “Eastbournians.” a locally trained troupe of pierrots. All the items were well received Dreamheat” was effectively staged and a modal canoe lent reality to the scene. Miss Alargaret Smith sang the solo, and the chorus kept time to the movement of the silvered paddles. “By the AVaters of - Almnetonka” brought Aliss Smith to the footlights again anad again. The dance duo by Aliss Rene AVoolley and Aliss Joyce Martin was skilfully executed with much grace. Air. J. Irvine (baritone) sang “King Charles” and deserved the encore he received. The concluding item was a breezy comedietta “Airs Baxter’s Baby”—very commendably played by Aliss Alargaret Smith, "Norma Cook, and Peggy Aekins. supported by Alessrs. Jack Hartridge and Alex. Hanten. There was a good attendance and at the close a hearty vote of thanks to the performers was proposed by Rev. 0. M. Stent, and carried with ap-plause. The troupe was trained by Air. J. Irvine, and the play was stagemanaged by Mr. Eric. McAlillart. A woman’s personal appearance is her greatest asset. Good features with a poor complexion can be mads beautiful by correct facial treatment. Our perfect skin food nourishes the starved tissues, restoring the youthful contour of the face. All children's haircutting Is.; marcel waving, 3s. 6d.; shampoowig from 2s. 6d.; combings mounted, 2s. 6d. per ounce. Stamford and Co., 6S AVillis Street. ’Phone, 21—220.—Advt. AVeddings to be artistic must hate Bouquets to harmon.se with frocks Miss Alurray, 36 AVillis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion. — Advt.

miss Margaret Bondfield. It is a well-known fact among those who have followed women’s activities in public life in the last few years that the Labour movement in Great Britain includes many very able women (says an exchange). Of these none has been more successful than Aliss Alargaret Bondfield, who, according to a cable message, was assured of a place in the Cabinet should Air. Ramsay AlacDonald, the Labour leader, be called upon to form a Government. Frequent reference to Aliss Bondfield, who was returned as the Labour member for Northampton at the last elections, has been made in these columns, but since the election further information with regard to her career has come te hand. . She has always been an ardent trade unionist, beginning life as a shop assistant. She was assistant secretary of the Shop Assistants’ Union from 1897 to 1908. She has spoken much and written much, and she has been a delegate to many congresses; to the Berne International Conference in 1918; to the French Trades Union Congress in the same year; delegate for the British Trade Union Council to Russia in 1920; Labour adviser to tae Labour Convention at AVashington in 1913; and at Geneva in 1921 as secretary to the womens section of the National Union of General AVorkers, she was a member of the central committee on women’s training and unemployment, which undertook the task of placing the thousands of women and girls demobilised from the auxiliaries and dismissed from ammunition and other factories after the war. bhe is now chairman of the General Council or Trade Unions, and the first woman to hold such a post.

Superwomen and Tasto. At last I know why the great Intellects of the age predict the arrival of a Superman, but never of a Superwoman. The knowledge came in a flash as great truths do (writes Susanne R. Day in ‘The Queen”). One does not sit down to discover, them, nor does one grope through tortuous lanes of thought. One just, sinks into oneself and lo! the revelation. It is quite simple. Anyone can do it. even an unwashed Indian fakir, so of course it is Nothing to be exalted about. Resides, the truth comes from outside. Mine came through a recognised channel; the correspondence columns of the “Times.” It was in a letter on the subject of tea. The writer avers that it is too costly, but he does not attempt to explain precisely what ho means by "tea.” There is tea and tea . . . . and pondering the difference I found illumination. There can be no Superwoman because not one woman in a thousand —I speak moderately—really knows how to make a good cup of tea. They stew it, they permit it to overdraw, they fling it into damp, tepid pots, they never think of warming the cups, tney make a syrup of it with sugar, they drown it in milk and sacrificing flavour to appearances they serve it in a metal t>ot. Yet it is their staple beverage, the one they “can’t live without.” Making it is the most < lementary of all domestic duties, yet thev fail 1 It is a question of taste, presumably. Some people have palates, some have not. Some desire a flavour, seme only a hot brown drink. Yet I admit that even palates have their prejudices. An Irish peasant justly famed for tliq excellence of her tea, who lived far from railways and civilisation on the shore of deep, beautiful, mountain-shadow-ed Cooma-saharn,' told me once that a “towrist” who used to go there for the fishing sent her from London a huge canister of tea. “But indeed wo couldn’t be drinking it at all,” she mourned, “it had a quare wild k-asdl of a taste.” It was the very finest blend that ever came out of China. An so, in spite of the fragrant brew of Indian, made in a “black jack” with soft spring water freshly boiled, and in a teapot that was warmed by being set on a little mound of red-hot turf (not just rinsed out with hot water) I fear even she can never he a Superwoman. She has been denied greatness by a conservative palate.

A very successful concert and dance was held in the Plimmerton Hall on Wednesday evening last in aid of the Radium Fund. 'flic net proceeds, including donations and competitions, are expected to amount to somewhere about £7O. The committee worked hal’d for the success attained. The Plimmerton Hall Company lent its hall for the evening, and also for meetings free of charge.. Competition winners were as follow:—Airs H. E. Evans (Karehana Bay), Pyrex dish, donated by Aliss J. Walker; Miss Hunter (Plimmerton), handknitted socks, donated by Mrs. W. Alartin; Mr. Yates, jun. (Plimmerton), picture, donated by Airs. J. W. Johnson; Air. Alclntyre (Wellington), camisole top, donated by Mrs. J. A. Johnston. Those contributing to the concert programme were as follow:— Air. J. AV. Johnson, Aliss Quirk, blaster Phillips, Air. G. Tinney, Airs. E. Lewis, Aliss Ashworth, Air. W. R. Boyd, Mrs. AlcDuff Boyd, Airs. Alyers, Airs. (Dr.) Smith, Airs. Brady, Aliss Betty Amos, Air. E. Lewis, blaster Stringer, and Mr. G. Tinney. All the items were encored. Accompaniments were played by Mrs. I. Wilson, Mrs. F. Burnham, Airs. Alyers, Mrs. D. Phillips, and Mr. W. Martin. A very enjoyable dance followed the concert, music being supplied by Mrs. I. Wilson, Miss McMillan, Aliss Stevens, and Mr. AV. Alartin. Air. A. Lomas acted as AI.C.

The marriage of Air. 0. H. Green, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. AV. H. Green, of Seatoun, to Miss Florence Obrien, fifth daughter of Airs. B. L. Obrien, Standish Hill, Now Plymouth, was solemnised on December 31, at St. Alary’s Anglican Church, New Plymouth. The Venerable Archdeacon Evans officiated. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Air. R. Obrien, wore a dress of palo heliotrope marocain, relieved with silver, with hat to match, and she carried a beautiful bouquet of pale pink flowers. Her bridesmaid, Aliss T. Obrien, wore a gown of apple green charmeuse, the corsage being finished with a chou of vari-coloured posies, and her bouquet was composed of flowers, in shades of mauve and heliotrope. Air. Gerald Green, brother of the bridegroom, a<!ted as best man. At the conclusion of the ceremony the wedding party, consisting solely of relatives and intimate friends of the bride and bridegroom, adjourned to the residence or the bride’s mother, where the wedding breakfast was held. After the reception, Air. and Airs. Green left for the south by motor Rub a few drops of a Kiwi Flavouring Essence on to your hand, and then innale it. By this means you will appreciate the delicious, delicate flavour. Ask for the flat panel bottle. 9d., Is. 4d., and 2s. 3d.—large sizes ore’ most economical —from all stores. Ful] quantity in each boitln. Gnarantoed absoilutoly pure.—Advt.