WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 149, 18 March 1924, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS .-OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Matherson (Tima.ru) is visiting relatives in Wellington.

Mrs. G. W. Mclntosh and iho Misses Mclntosh, of Dunedin, are taking up their residence in Wellington and will live in Featherston Terrace.

Mrs. Alister Macandrew is visiting ' her parents, Mr. and Mrs. de Lautour, of Hamilton.

Misses Dora and Mary Grimley, of Sydney, with their sister. Mrs. Ralph King, are touring'New Zealand.

Lady Elliot (Auckland) will leave with Sir George Elliot by the llemuera for England. Mr. and Mrs. 11. G. Williams, of Lansdown, Masterton, have left for a motor tour of the North, which will include Rotorua.

Miss F. Hobbs, who recently returned from a visit to England, is visiting Dannevirke, and is the guest of Mrs. TV. McKinnon.

Miss Mary Enright (Christchurch) has' been visiting Airs. Malfroy (Alurph.y Street), while on her way back to the South from Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rawson, of Soatoun. left yesterday for Auckland, where they will join the Niagara for an overseas tour.

Sister Sellar, who has resigned from the staff of the Napier Hospital, was presented by patients and ex-patients of Robjohns Ward last week with a gold wristlet watch in appreciation of her attention to those under her care.

The engagement is announced of May, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt Turner, Wesley Road, Wellington, to Mr. Eric W. Alaclean, fourth son of Mrs. C. H. Alaclean, of Napier.

Miss Dorothy Robinson, of Christchurch, after spending a week with her sister, Mrs. .Tamos Andrews, in Wellington, left by the Manama for Sydney, where she joined the Baradine for a visit to England.

Hostesses for the Community Club this week are as follow:—Monday, Mrs. Mclntyre; Tuesday, Mrs. Dormer; 'Wednesday, Mrs. J. Abel; Thursday, Mrs. C. H. Chapman. Friday, Mrs A. Coster; Saturday, Mrs. Blaxall; Monday, Airs. E. G. Pilcher.

An afternoon organised by the Wellington Ladies’ Croquet Club recently to raise money for the Radium Fund proved successful, from every point of view, and the seorotar.v cf the club has forwarded a cheque for £'2o odd to the Mayor (Mr. R. A. Wright) to be paid into the fund. A donation of £4 15s. was received by Mr. "Wright from a ladies’ committee at Manakau, being the sum realised at a social evening by the committee .

Two Peeresses l are appearing on the London stage—Viscountess Torrington, as Norah Byng, in “The Green Goddess,” and Viscountess Dunsford, as Peggy Rush, with Miss Marie Tempest, in “Alice, Sit by the Fire.” Lady Torrington, formerly Miss Eleanor Souray, married the ninth Visccunt Torrington in 1910, and divorced him in 1921.

Mr. H. C. Lane, formerly secretary of the Canterbury Education Board, and Airs. Lane, of Christchurch, will leave on Wednesday for a trip to England, and expect to be away for a year. They will spend four months in England and afterwards visit France, returning to England to spend Christmas with relatives. They wdl leave on their return to the Dominion earJy next year.

' The matron of the Women’s National Reserve Residential Nursery, 137 Owen Street, acknowledges with many thanks gifts from the following:—Airs. Taylor (four offerings), Karori Branch, Mrs. H. Rudkin (two offerings;, Mrs. McWhirter, Kimbolton Branch, Mrs. Ross (Lower Hutt), Airs. Beales, Mrs. Harding, Mr. Along Poy, KelbnruKarori Road-North la nd Branch, Mrs. Gordon Smith (Khandailah), Irvine Br os., Miss Sheppard, Mrs. Willis (Wadestown), Indy Beauchamp, Mis. Morris, Airs. Field, Aliss Kirk, Air. G. M. Alorris, Hawke’s Bay Fisheries, and Lower Hutt Branch.

A remarkable “new occupation” for women is mentioned in “AVoraen’s Employment,” but, though tho profession is not overcrowded, it is not suggested as an outlet for bored or unemployed girls. Aliss Ruth Rhett, of Alaska, is the owner of a large herd of reindeer. “Last winter, with tho help of only one man in charge of two or three Eskimo herders, she drove a Government herd over 500 miles across the wilds of Alaska.” Surely no mean feat! Another novelty in women’s occupations is found in America, Aliss Helen Schultz, of lowa, being the owner of a fleet of omnibuses. She began modestly with one and now t possesses sixteen motor buses which cover one of tho longest “bus routes” in the world.

Tho wedding took place in St. Matthew’s Church, Hastings, last Tuesday evening, of Miss Bessie AVakeley, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. j. Wakeley, of Meanee, and Mr. Herbert O’Loughlin, manager of the Bank of Australasia, To Kuiti, son of Mr. A. O’Loughlin, Papatoetoe. The Rev. R. Hall officiated. The bride wore a gown of ivory charmeuse, with overdress of radium lace, and train of ivory satin falling from tho shoulders. The tulle veil was arranged in mob-cap fashion, and she carried a shower bouquet of white flowers and maidenhair fern. Miss Limbrick, of Napier, was bridesmaid, and wore a sleeveless frock of pink charmeuse with lace bertho and wreath of silver leaves on her hair, Her bouquet was of pink flowers and maidenhair fern. Little Hazel Walton, wearing a frock of pale pink charmeuse was flower girl. The best man was Air. G. Frampton, of Moteo, and Air. AV. Younger was groomsman. Following the ceremony, a reception was held by Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Wakeley, and later the bride . and bridegroom left for Auckland.

Ladies will be interested to learn that one of tho finest marcel wavers from London is now operating at our Halons. Certifioatcd masseurs in attendance for Vibro, Violet Ray, and Electric-magnetic treatments for the face and scal.p. Surgical chiropodist and foot specialist (for ladies and gentlemen). All hair staining, tinting, shampooing and cutting Stamford and Co , 68 Willis Street. ’Phones 21—220 and 2250.—Advi. “TRAVEL-SICKNESS” BANISHED. When going a journey by sen or train include a bottle of Senior’s Effervescing Saline in your luggage. It will drive away any feeling of train or sea sickness. Will keep you fit and free from headache. Only 2s. 6d. per bottle from any chemist.—Adyt. Weddings to bo artistic, must hate Bouquets to. harmonise with frocks \fisx Murray, 86 Willis Street. Dcliv eries anywhere in Dominion.—Advi;.

Mrs. English (Hamilton) is visiting Wellington.

Tho death took place at her home, “Burnside,” Clydebank, Wairoa, on Friday of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Tayloi, widow of the late Mr. J. E. T.lylor, at the ago of 76 years. She was a niece of the Rev. R. R. Bradley, and went to Wairoa in 1855.

Air. and Mrs. S. W. Dean, of Christchurch, arc (states a London correspondent) touring England. Later on they are going to Spain, and will take that opportunity to attend the Poultry Congress at Barcelona, which is being held in May. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Morrett will also attend this Spanish conference, Mr, Merrett in his capacity as official delegate for the Dominion.

Lincoln has a woman steeplejack—she calls herself “Steeple Jill,” but refuses to disclose her name. For years she has been climbing tho tallest chimneys and other buildings. Is there another instance of a woman following this hazardous calling?

What a dull old world this would bo if all women were just “plain sensible I” says a writer in an exchange. Then we would not hear of such entertaining things as the latest variation of the beauty spot, for which an English artist named Arthur Forester is said to be responsible. He makds minute portrait silhouettes of tho men friends of his women patrons, and they stick them on their faces in the most becoming place. One wonders if the competition for position is at all keen, and if tho ladies change their silhouetted spots very frequently, or if “turn about’s fair play.”

A meeting of the Plnnket Society was hold at Upper Hutt recently. Mrs. Balcoinbe Brown was in the chair and 'there was a good attendance. The nurses’ report showed the attendance at tho Plunket room was satisfactory. 'lt was decided to,endeavour to raise funds by holding a garden party at Mrs. Balconibe Brown’s next month.

Miss Sutherland, who has been stationed in Wellington at the head office of the Forestry Department, has followed a career that is still new to women in New Zealand—that of forestry. She has taken her degree in it, and arrived here from England towards the end of last year. It is a three-year course. including pure science, agriculture, _ and . technical work, and the four universities in Britain in which a degree can be taken are those at Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bangor. At Rotorua Miss Sutherland lodks forward to doing practical forestry work.

I . Tho death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. GorJ rie, which occurred on Friday at her * residence, Pitt Street, Auckland, will 3 carry back the memory of old Aucklanders to their school days—the days . preceding the establishment of “free, secular, and compulsory” State educa--1 ition, when private enterprise and church schools alone were the rule. Airs. Gorrie was the widow of the late Rev. John Gorrie. who, in the ’sixties, 3 carried on a grammar school in Coburg (now Kitchener Street), just round the _’ corner from Victoria Street (.states the j “Herald”). There are still many professional and business men of Auck- , land, now grey-beards, who are proud to own themselves “old boys” of Mr. . Gorrie’s scholastic institution. In I the mid-’sixties Air. Gorrie was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and appointed io the charge at Whnngarei, where ho died on March 9, 18G9. respected and regretted by the whole community. Mrs. Gorrie, during her long widowhood of 55 years, lived in Pitt Street—for some time on tho site now occupied by the St. Helens Hospital. Despite her advanced age —she lived to her 90th i year—she retained clearness of intellect until a few weeks ago. Tfc members of her family still surviving are Mr. John Gorrie, of tho Auckland staff of tho Bank of New Zealand, Mr. Jarnos Gorrie, sawmillcr, of Rangi- ’ taua, Mr. ‘William Gorrie, cf Melbourne, and Miss Corrie, who nursed her mother in her last illness. ■ WOMAN, THE WOOER ! 1 When once the girl of to-day is con- ( vinced that life holds the possibility of greater achievement and greater mystery than a profession, can offer, her tactics show no hesitation whatsoever. She starts out on the great adventure, love. And nothing can stay her new-found enthusiasm. If necessary, she becomes the wooer. I do not mean that she flirts. She gives no sign of “intentions” until the right man has appeared and has been carefully weighed and tested. But then she is frequently forced, to act, for the modern young man is incurably modest, and she cannot allow a man’s modesty and deference to stand in the way of happiness. She has none of the resignation of the women of the 19th century, who faded away and died when ’the only-man-in-the-world was too timid to approach them. With a bold gesture Miss 1923 sweeps away obstacles. What? The man is too modest to woo? Then she must become the wooer! And with consummate skill anil exquisite tenderness does she play her part. Few men realise that their share in the game wins acquiescence and not conquest. . E.M. HOUSEWORK FOR MEN Frenchwomen, who, unlike Englishmen. have not vet secured the vote, are demanding equality ■ in directions other than that of the franchise. At a recent feminist conference a resolution was passed calling upon the French Minister of liclucation to alter tho curriculum so that instruction in hosework should be given to both sexes. Thus overv member of the family would be able to take his or her share in looking after the homo. Englishwomen did .not use “comnulsorv hoasework forlmen” as a plank in their platform when thev were fighting for equality. Was the reason, perhaps, that the average English bus- ■ band is reallv rather a good sort in lending a hand about the house? Many of us know men who do rather strenuous little iobs at home before catching the usual morning, train or tram. Getting breakfast is another art which the voung Englishman has acquired. generally before ho marries, cither during camping days or while ; living in rooms at which tho service is j faiiltv. As to tho balance of housework be- ( tween bushand and wife that can oply ( bo decided, bv each particular pair, j for everything depends upon individual conditions, the number of hours that the man is working, awav from homo, tho mental or physical fatigue caused ' bv that work. and. on tho woman’s side, the size of tho house or flat, and f tho number of children, or other members of tho household. , i

FASHION FANCIES

WHAT NEW YORK IS SHOWING

If advance showings are any indication, the straight, beltless dress that gives an uncorseted effect and is quite flat in back is to be a feature of the coming fashions, states a New York correspondent of tho “Sunday Times.” There are to be collars and cuffs and jabots, as well as tho unrelieved neckline, and jtliere ■will lie sleeveless dresses and dresses with long, tight sleeves. The square and V-neck will he shown as well as the round and the bateau, and some of the new models show round, high necks with stiff little Eton collars a youthful fashion, if becoming. If tho before>-mentioned advance showings of Paris designers are any indication—and we are reasonably sure that they are —-ribbed fabrics, crepe satins, and moires will be popular, and black, blue and brown will continue to rule supreme, with combinations of black and white, navy and white, and the copper browns and navy to lend variety. There is a decided flair for black and white, always a most effective. and at times a really beautiful, combination.

In general, the silhouette will be slim, and the beltless effect a part of the mode, but for the street skirts will bo shorter—from one to three inches above the ankle—and ankle length for the house. Although the choice of the fur itself may be quite different, the sport coat is averse to a warm collar of -some durable skin, as opossum, lynx, raccoon, fox or gazelle, but fur is applied to this type of coat by iro means as lavishly ns it is to dress wraps. The utility coat is unite sure to be either a plaid or a stripe—running up and down or round and round ■as proves most becoming—and English noveltv cloths are in great 'demand. Tho fabrics used for dress coats and wraps are the si’kv. deep piled true, and tho furs are the more expensive ones and the more sunnlo kind, since they are nut to much the same use as fabrics in the trimming methods employed,

Linos seem to have settled quite definitelv into the tubular silhouette with side closing, nc belt, and no rinple, though there are circular models to l-,f» had. There seems to be no diminutiop in the pleats employed by loading designers, for tliev are too graceful and too generally becoming ts- be cast aside. Tunics should bo increasingly good, since thev carry out the straight-line effect, nnd are very generally becoming. At times they reach to within five inchoq of the hemline of the shift. Ono Paris designer is sponsoring the three-piece suit, in two-fabric and two-colour combinations, the coat waist or finger tin length, and tho skirt short.'' Rut knee-loncth cents are also Iming shown as well as tailored suits. The next few weeks will most surely bring many irtercsting changes.