WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 105, 29 January 1924, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS ..OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Wakelin (Palmerston North) is visiting Wellington. Miss F. M. Small (Invercargill) is a visitor to Wellington. Mrs. Blackmore (Palmerston North) is visiting Wellington. Miss England returned last evening from a visit to Otaki.

Mrs. M’alker leaves on Thursday on her return to Gisborne from a visit to 'Wellington.

Miss Amy Kane leaves this evening for a visit "to Christchurch and Dunedin.

Mrs. Russell (Christchurch) is visiting Wellington, and is the guest of hoi- brother, Air.. B. Wilson and Airs. Wilson, Lower Hutt.

Mrs. R. Caughley, of Kelburn, and her family have returned from 1 kariki, where they had been spending the holidays.

Mrs. Fowler, who recently arrived in the Dominion from India, is staying with her mother, Airs. Lewin. Christchurch.

Aliss Connop, of the Connop School of Dancing, has returned from a visit to Australia, and at present is spanning a few days with her sister in tlm Manawatu district before resuming her dancing classes.

Hostesses for the Community Club this week are as follow:— Tuesday, Mrs. Alorice; Wednesday, Mrs. Percy Dalrymple; Thursday, Airs. J. C. Andersen; Friday, Airs. J. A. Campli ill; Saturday, Airs. J. P. Firth; Monday, Wellington South Nursing Division.

Air. and Airs. T. H. Lowry have returned to tho south of France after a brief visit to London. New Zealand friends will be interested to learn that Air. T. C. Lowry has taken his B.A. degree at Cambridge, his subject being history (states a London correspondent).

Airs. F. H. Giblin, a widely known and highly respected cifisen of Nelson, died yesterday (reports our special correspondent). Deceased, who was a daughter of the late Air. Hemingway Firth, had not enjoyed good health for some time, but it was only recently that her condition caused concern.

The marriage took place in London on January 5 of Captain R. C. R. Stevenson,’ Royal Engineers, son of Mr. and Airs. James Stevenson, of Fort James, County Derry, grandson of Airs. J. B. Russell, of Auckland, and Alargery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bentley Auley, of Cheltenham.

A very keen interest is being taken in the baby competition to bo held in the Lower Hutt in aid of tho Blanket funds. The collectors start collecting on February 1, and the winning babies will be announced at the Plunket garden party, recreation grounds on February 23, when the prizes will bo handed over to the successful babies. The society are working hard to obtain £5O from the baby competition. Some of the most able young ladies in the valley will be collecting for their respective champion babies. The decision will be arrived nt by popular vote.

TTie most sumptuous negro wedding ever held in the United States was celebrated in Now York recently, when Miss May MoWalter Robinson became the wife of Dr. Henry Gordon Jackson, of Chicago. Nino thousand guests attended the reception. The bride is the grand-daughter of Mrs. Aleila Walker Robinson, who, when the barbers of Lower Fifth Avenue wore charging high fees for. imparting "Marcel waves” to the hair of white people, opened a pa'atiaL establishment where she removed the kinks and straightened the hair of New York’s negro aristocracy. By ridding the negro hair of its curly characteristics Mrs. Robinson made a fortune of over £250,000. With this she puohased a mansion in the most exclusive white section of Irvington, a fashionable New York suburb on the Hudson River, and at her death left instructions forbidding its disposal to any white purchaser.

On Wednesday evening, the Memorial Hall was packed floor to coiling when the residents of Kumara gathered to welcome the first lady doctor to the West Const. Dr. Fisher J.as been in Kumara but a few weeks, but in that short time her kindness and attention to duty has won the respect of ail she has come in contact with (states the "Grev River Argus”). Kumara is proud of "her doctor, and showed it by the packed hall on Wednesday evening. The welcome took the form of a concert, social, and dance. The Mayor, Mr. W. Benyon, presided, and Mr. G. Head acted as master of ceremony. A concert occupied the earlier part cf the evening, aftor which the Afnvor took tho chair and welcomed Dr. Fisher to Kumara. Other sneakers wore: Air. Spiers, for the M’estland Hospital Roardi Air. J. Murphy, chairman of tbe Medical Committee, and Air. .J--O’Brien, ALP. Mr. G. Head spoke for Dir. Fisher, thanking everybody for the welcome they had given her. The Mayor asked everyone to rise and welcome the doctor, which they did by a long burst of applause and the singing o’f "She’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” After supper, the rest of the night was spent in dancing.

The matron of the Wellington Hospital acknowledges with thanks tho following gifts:—-Tobacco and cigarettes, Red Cross Society; books, Air. Cummins, Dr. Kemp; flowers. Afrs. Hills (weekly), St. Thomas’s Sunday School; papers, Air. Murphy, Aliss Kinohella, Mrs. Hills; toys, Presbyterian Girls’ Home, Junior Red Cross, Lvall Bay School; Father Christmas with toys, Empire Alasonic Lodge ; doll, Mr. Hart (AVillis Street); treat fcr soldiers, Rod Cross, per Lady Luko; old linen, Airs. AVhitwell, Eva Jones. The matron also thanks the pupils of Aliss Carwell-Cooko and the St. Joseph’s Concert Party for very enjoyable entertainments given to the patients of tho Ewart M’ard. A woman’s personal appearance is her greatest asset. Good features with a poor complexion can be made 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. ; shampooing from 2s. 6d.; combings mounted, 2s. 6d. per ounce. Stamford and Co., 68 AVillis Street. ’Phone 21 —220.—Advt. BUBBLING OVER MTTH HEALTH. In spite of its moderate price Senior’s Effervescing Saline is equal in quality, flavour, and effectiveness to any other similar preparation on the market. It makes an appetising, bubbling drink which drives all impurities from the system. Only 2s. 6d. per bottle from any chemist.—Advt. Weddings to be artistic. mutt hate Bouquets to harmonise with frocks. Miss Murray, 36 VTllis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion. —Advt.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN WOMEN TRAVELLERS ON TRAINS. A meeting of the Wellington branch of the National Council of Women was held last evening and was presided over bv Aliss Kane. . . Replies were read from Ministers ■with regard to sorno of the remits that had been passed at the Dominion Conference of the council held in Auckland la.st year, and which had been forwarded to them for their consideration. In reply to the resolution regarding tho difficult position of women travelling with children, or alone, at the principal railway' stations, addressed to the Alinister of Railways and by him referred to Air. AfcVilly, General Afauager of Railways, Air. Ale Vi Uy replied that the Department was desirous of affording women travelling bv rail all possible assistance, but it had received no information leading it to think that its staff of porters at any station or at any of the centres was insufficient. If the council found that reasonable attention was not given to women at any particular station ho would be glad to be informed theron.' It was pointed out by one of the members that while the railway men gave every assistance that lay in their power at the stations, the trouble was that there were not enough of them, and it was resolved that the attention of the Department should be drawn to the system that prevails in Canada and Australia.

A letter was read from the Hon. AV. D. Stuart dealing with the resolution uiging that a scheme of renting houses be provided, in which ho cutlined what had been done by the Government already to meet the housing difficulty. TJm Government did not consider .it either advisable or expedient that dwellings should be erected by it for let ring purposes. Much appreciation was expressed by the meeting of tho Govornmnnt’s work in meeting tho housing shortage. At the same time it was asked why the Government could not do for all its Departments what it had done for the second division of the Railways Department. Such general action on its part would ease the situation still more.

With regard to the request that women should be represented on the Prisons Board a letter was received by the hon. secretary of the National Council from the hon. secretary of the Prisons Board, stating that as there were only five women prisoners that came before the recent meeting of tho board, and that as the daily number of women prisoners in Now Zealand averaged only 50, it was considered unnecessary to have a woman member on the board. It was decided that the Dominion president, Airs. Carmalt Jones, who will be arriving in Wellington shortly, be asked to take a deputation to wait upon the Prime Minister asking him u. bring before Parliament at its next sitting a Bill making women eligible foi' appointment as justices of the peace and as jurors. Wedding at Kilbirnie. The marriage took place last c'eniiig in All Saints Church, Kilbirnie, t f Aliss Jean AfcDonald, daughter of Colonel and Airs. T. W. McDonald, Waipapa Road, Kilbirnie, to Dr. W. J. Hutchison, of Wellington, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hutchison, of Dunedin. Tho Ven. Archdeacon Johnson officiated. Tho bride, who was given away bj’ her father, wore a graceful early Victorian frock of shot heliotrope and silver baronet satin. Silver tissue roses ornamented each side, and from one shoulder fell at the back long streamers of silver tissue ribbtvt Held in place with a little cluster of silver Rowers. A wreath of silver leaves held in placo the veil of heliotrope silk ret, and she carried a posy (f heliotrope and-pink shaded flowers. Attending her as bridesmaids were Aliss Kathleen Copland (cousin of the bridegroom) and Miss Doris Whitson, bi th of whom wore frocks, also Early Victorian in fashion, of gold shot with silver. From one shoulcier at the back, to which they were fastened with little posies of flowers, fell long heliotrope streamers, and both bridesmaids had fastened to her wrist a little posy of heliotrope flowers. Poke bonnets of heliotrope georgette were also worn, and they carried posies of gold-coloured and heliotrope flowers. Also in attendance were two little flower girls, Betty and Joan Kimbell (cousins of the bride), who wore frocks of heliotrope taffetas and heliotrope and gold rosettes in their hair. They carried goldcoloured baskets filled with petals, which they cast before the bride pud bridegroom. The best man was Dr. Stott and the groomsman Dr. Maclaurin. Following the ceremony a reception was hold at the residence of the bride’s parents. The guests were received by Colonel and Airs. McDonald in the hall, which had been decorace;! with flowers and foliage, after which they paused intb the drawing-room to congratulate the bride and bridegroom. Over the heads af the latter was suspended a large floral bell c-nd quantities of pink and heliotrope flowers were massed about the room. The table in tho billiard-room, where supper was served, was arranged with the same coloured flowers, and the health of the bride and bridegroom was honoured in the customary fashion. Later on in the evening dancing took place. Airs. AlcDouald wore a frock of grey laco over a fuchia-coloured under-dress and a hat of black, antin with net brim trimmed with ospreys. Her bouquet was of flowers to tone. Airs. Hutchison, the bridegroom’s mother,' was in a frock of tabac brown with heavily-beaded embroideries and a black feathered hat. Her bouquet was of flowers to harmonise with the frock. Among the relatives who were present were: Mr. J. Hutchison (.Dunedin) father of the bridegroom;, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kimbell, Mrs. AlcNeill, Di and Mrs. Hutchison (Wanganui), AH. Douglas Hutchison (Carterton), Air. Hector McDonald, Air. and Airs. F Pope,' Air. and Airs. Young, Airs. Schlaadt, Air. and Airs. J. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Reid. The bride travelled in a frock of green taffetas and grey crin hat trimmed with vari-oolourtci forget-me-nots bunched nt the back To the bridesmaids were given a signet ring and a pendant respectively by the bridegroom, and to the little ilowei girls pretty brooches. The best man received a "gold pencil and the groomsman a set ol evening studs. Differentiation!

The following letter from the secretary of the General Post Office, written in reply to one from the AVellington branch of the National Council of Women, asking for information regarding the conditions under which women were employed in that department, was read at last night’s meeting of tho branch : — "I have to inform you that it, was decided to fix the maximum salarv of female officers of the clerical division at £225 )>er annum from April 1 last instead of allowing such officers to proceed to the maximum salary allotted to male officers. In fixing a

maximum for women the Department brought tho female clerical officers into line with those employed in other Government, branches. The fixing of a maximum salary for female clerical officers of this Department was decided upon only after the matter had been carefully considered. It has been the Department’s experience over n period of years that it is undesirable to employ" women executing during certain fixerl hours of the day and evening. It has also been found that thev are unable to overtake the snme volume of work ns can be handled by male officers. Generally speaking, it requires three women to do the work of two men. It has been tbe practice for many years past tn pay lower salaries to women than to men, and in applying the same principle to the female clerical officers the Department has merely extended that practice. It considered by tile Department mat the procedure followed in fixing a maximum salary for female clerical officers was the correct one, and the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board, after hearing both sides, decided to disallow the appeal which had been lodged on behalf of those women whose salaries had been fixed. It does not necessarily follow because t'-n maximum salary of female clerical o**cers is fixed that such officers would not 112. V" an opportunity of competing for position above the rank and file. Every officer has such an opportunity, and. "if dissatisfied with any decision of the Promotion Board, has the right oT appeal. Tlie Department clainis to have the interests of the women at heart, and considers that in view nt the services rendered, the salaries at present paid to them compare favourably indeed with those paid to male officers.” It was decided to set up a .subcommittee to reply to the letter stating the views of the council upon the matter. , The convener is Airs. Forde, and with her are Airs. Chatfield .i.nd Aliss AfcGill.

Aliss Bertha Gore (of Kendal, England) left Wellington last week for Auckland.