WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 28 December 1925, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Miss M. E. D’Oyley was a passenger for Wellington yesterday by the Ruapehu from linglnud.

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, Kelbutn, have left on a fishing excursion ior Hawke’s Bay and Makura.

Miss Isabel Eager left by the Maun-g.-inui for Sydney, eu route for England.

Dr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Shannon Street, Wellington, and tbeir family are spending the holidays at Muritai.

Miss V. B. Hutchison (Masterton) returned with Mrs. R. F. Beetham by the Ruapehu from au overseas lour.

Miss Gibson (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs J. Tatliam, Homewood, Whareatua.

Miss Marsdon, of the- staff of the Wellington Hast Girls’ ' College, has gone to Sydney’ for the holidays.

Mrs. A. M. Hammonds, matron of the All Saints’ Children’s Home, Foxton beach,, .is at present a patient in the Diphtheria Ward of the Public Hospital, Palmerston North.

The engagement is announced of Mabel, third daughter of Mrs. R. Jollai’ds and the late Mr. !■'. W. Jollands, of Petonc, and formerly of North Lodge, Tedworth, Surrey, England, to Charles Hewson McCormick, eldest son of Mrs. G. Rutherford and the late Mr. P. J. McCormick, of Jit. Eden, Auckland.

A London correspondent’ states that at St. Richard’s Church, Hayward’s Heath, on November 7, the marriage took place of Frederick George Newman, second son of the late Mr. and Jlrs. J. H. Newman, of Christchurch, to Priscilla Eunice, youngest daughter of the kite William Aherne, and of Jlrs. Vlierne, Tower Holme, Pevenscy Bay, Sussex. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. Johnson Jons, assisted by the Rev. 11. Livesey.

jlr. and Mrs. W. Hide, of Tiniaru, celebrated their golden wedding recently with a gathering of the members of their family and other relatives to the number of fifty Speeches were made, toasts honoured, and afternoon tea served upon the lawn. Gifts were also made to the bride and bridegroom of fifty years ago.

At St. Richard’s Church, Hayward’s Heath, on November 7, the marriage took place of Frederick George Newman, second son.of the late Jlr. and Mrs. J. H. Newman, of Christchurch, to Priscilla Eunice, youngest daughter of the late William Aherne, and of Mrs. Aherne. Tower Holme, Pevenscy Bay, Sussex, states a London correspondent. The ceremony was performed bv the Rev. \V. Johnson Jones, .assisted by the Rev. 11. Livesev.

'J lie .wedding took plpcc at St. Augustine’s Church, Napier, of Jliss Daisy Alma Curran, third daughter of Jlr. and Mrs. Robert Curran, Napier, and Mr. Thomas J. S Gurney, eldest son of Jlr. and Jlrs. T. P. Gurney, of Waipukuran.. The Rev. 11. W. Klingender officiated. Misses Marie JL Smith and Gwyneth Wel/b attended as bridesmaid and flower girl respectively.

Jlr. Herbert Priestley, I’.S.A.A., F.C.P.A., J.P., and JTrk. Priestley, of Sydney, are visiting Wellington and are staying at the' Midland Hotel. Since leaving Sydney last February Jlr. and Jlrs. Priestley have toured extensively through Great Britain France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Canada' and the United States, and will join the Niagara at Auckland on Januarv 4 for Sydney. Jlr. Priestley’s son, Professor t’riestiey, JLD., Cb JI., B.Sc., of the Sydney University, is married to a sister of Jliss W. G. Maitland, of Wellington.

The perennial myth about the “good old days” has been completely smashed by a very detailed comparison between conditions existing to-dav and those of a century ago, compiled by Jlr. Joseph JlcCabe, Jlr. JlcCabe, while agreeing that there is plenty of room for further reforms, proves very conclusively that we are much better off in nearly ail respects than were our ancestors in 1825 at the e;id of the last great war, and insists lliM “in the last hundred years there has been more progress in every respect than 'had ever before been witnessed in five hundred years.” To cite only a few points. In 1825 the Government did not spend a penny on education; we spend £711,000,000 a year. Ws devote £2.30,000.0(10 a year ,to old age pensions; in 1825 they spent nothing on that. The average hours of labour of the workers in 1825 were 81 per week; now they arc 44. . Dress makers girls in London worked from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m and often till midnight. Agricultural labourers worked lf> hours a day in 1825, ami 12s. was the highest wage. Now they worked eight hours, and the lowest wage is 2’,ls. One child in ten was illegitimate, ami these “parish children” were sent as practical slaves to the mill owners, where,, in the absence of factorv acts, they died like flics. The treatment of the insane was harsh and ignorant. In the country reputed witches and wizards were still flung into water to see if they would float; if. they did, they were obviously guiltv, and if they didn’t—well, "that settled it. “Resurrection men” diig up bodies in London churchyards and sold them to anatomical schools at 15 to 30 guineas each. 'I he censors of our day who make scornful, references to the crowds pouring out of picture palaces ami football grounds are reminded that in LS2S prize fights, dog fights and cock fights were the ptipular recreation, and V/ombwell, the menagerie man, was allowed to set six mastiffs to fight a lion. Serious crimes were rampant in spite of savage sentences. Noneomformists were forced to be married in church. Ships on the Thames were plundered by gangs of craftsmen—"light horsemen, ’’ "mudlarks” and “scuffle hunters.” The corrupt I’arliament, elected by corrup electors, resisted all reform, and the bishops in the House of Lords voted against removing the death penalty for horse stealing. To-day transport and the improvements of manufacture which science has introduced have added enormously to the national wealth. Medical and surgical science have given their help to the national health. So the next time anyone says "times are not what they were,” it will be possible not onlv to retort “Thaul: God.” but to give reasons for this gratitude.

To-dav, the woman whose hair is permanently waved by the Eugene process, whether she retains her tresses or is shingled, has a wave indistinguishable from the natural, and her individual charm is accentuated. Perfection and nothing less is the ideal offered you in the artistic distinction of the Eugene permanent wave. Stamford and Co., Ltd., 68 Willis Street. ’Phone 44—715. —Advt. Weddings to be artistic must have nouquets to harmonise with frocks. Mies Murray, 3(1 Willis Street. Deliveries anywheie in Dominion.—Advt. Peek's Aneliovette F’sh Pastes fot sandwiches and s.vourics—recommended and stocked by all grocers and sto.es.—Advt. 1.

Sister Webster (New Plymouth) is spending the liohdajs m Wellington. Jlr. and Mrs. W. Kemble Welch arc visiung Chnstchiucli.

Mrs and Jliss Greatbbtch (New I’lymouth) arc visiting Wclhngton.

n r and Jlrs. Barnett and family (Palmerston North) are visiting New Plymouth.

ATrs B M. Williamson, of Christchurch, returned from a trip to Nuglaud by the s.s. Ruapehu.

Mrs M. Mason-Chambers ’(Hawke’s Bav) returned to the Dominion . Wyterdav bv the Ruapehu from a visit to Great Britain and the Continent.

■Ure A Jf. Gedd.is returned by the Ruapehu "yesterday from -an overseas tour.

Dr. and Jlrs. C. F. Treadvyell (Wanganui) arc spending the liohdajs the Taranaki district.

Mrs Harris and Jliss M- E’ Hurns, r/cTi’ristcliureh, who have been on a °-isit to EnglaAd and the Continent, returned by the Ruapehu yestcraaj.

The death of Jliss Chilman at Inter-car-ill on Thursday last severs an; < er link with the early 11 sl^ r ' v naki, for the deceased lady rgLh! granddaughter of the late Jlr. R“- lla ™ Chilman one of the pioneer settlers who came out bv the William Bryan, ihe first ship. Her father, the late Mr Edward Chilman, was for . many vears in the Customs Department, and a cousin of Jlr. Newton King.

Sir Charles Mansfield Clark and Ins daughter. Lady Tomline, of Loudon, have been the guests of Jlr. and Mrs. \V Barton, 'Fareham, Featherston, during the past week (states a Wairarapa exchange). Sir Charles who is 85 vears ol a.gc, fought in the Jlaon wars in the ’sixties. On Ins return to New Zealand recently, the only member of bis old regiment still living was Sergeant-Major Bezar, father of Mrs. J T Watson, of Mastertou, gild of Jlrs IL C. Wilkinson, Western Lake road, Featherston, with whom he was delighted to talk over old times and their happenings. *

With the winter weather has come a big extension of a fashion which had a small vogue some years, ago—the wearing of Russian boots (states a London correspondent). Then Russian boots were a craze, but the flesh-toned silk stockings of to-day have suggested a new use for them. The high Russian boot protects the stockings from mud, and the feet of the wearer from cold. A well-to-do woman who drives in a motor-car can reach her destination with stockings in the pink of condition, but the woman who boards an omnibus or walks must tread very warilv if she is to escape. So business women are wearing Russian boots todav. The demand for Russian boots is so great that supplies eaniipt be secured quicklv enough. They cost from 15s. to 255. a pair, but if they arc farlined or hand-sewn boots may be much more expensive. The general belief is that, while short skirts remain fashionable, there will be a big demand for Russian boots.

The wedding took place on Tuesday, December 15, at the Church of Nativity, Blenheim, of Miss Olive Constance Francis, eldest daughter of Jlr. and Jlrs. B. T. Francis, Hillcrest, Blind River, and Jlr. Hugh Morison, second son of Jlr. and Jlrs. Hugh Morison, Gleiimoweti, Greytown. Archdeacon York performed the ceremony, and the church was decorated by friends of the bride. Mr. Randall played the wedding music. The bride entered the church on the arm of her father, and wore a white georgette frock trimmed with blonde lace and pearls with veil and orange blossoms. Her bouquet was of St. John’s lilies and maiden-hair fern. Miss Louie Francis, sister of the bride, wore a frock of apricot georgette with hat to match, and silver shoes. Miss Rita Jlorison (sister of the bridegroom), wore a frock of e.au de nil georgette, with hat to match, and silver shoes. The duties of the best man were carried out by Jlr. Rodney Grey, of Akitio, and the gtoonisman was Jlr. James C. Jlorison (brother of the bridegroom). Following the ceremony a reception was held at the Salome Tea-rooms. Jlrs. Francis received her guests in a frock of sapphire blue silk piarocain and hat to match. Her bouquet was of blue- delphiniums and irises. The guests included relatives and friends from the North and South Islands. The bride and bridegroom left later for the north, the former wearing a tailored costume and Bangkok hat to match. Why Western Women Shingle. 'There arc two reasons for the unprecedented cutting of locks by the great ladies of Western Europe—first, a desire to make manifest their newfound political power; secondly, the natural indolence which is the heritage of all mortals, writes Connoske Komai, the celebrated Japanese poet, in the "Daily Mail.” When a shingled woman realises that she need but put soap on a towel and rub vigorously the beautiful pedestal of her head, she spends only a few minutes of time, and thereafter can answer the telephone; harangue the cook, or sell tickets for the next charity ball at the Albert Hall. As a Japanese, I find a great difficulty in knowing female from male .when I venture into the haunts of London, that most intricate civilisation. Bewildered, I look at the neat, shorn heads of the intelligent women and wonder whether they wish to proclaim to all that their political freedom is a fact. 'To me, a Japanese, who lias been brought up to think that action belongs to the waterfall, that colour is the exclusive privilege of the. azalea plant, and that tenderness is shared onlv bv breezes and the weeping willows, the western women do so stimulate my brain.and upset me by their restlessness. It is nil. so new and so mysterious. Shingled hair is not, to mv mind, a portent of a. sex revolution. Women will be mothers -in spite of a million wars and a thousand coiffeurs, ami men will be husbands although civilisation undergoes centuries of chaos. It is not the dressing of the hair ami body that matters—these whims pass into the museum or into a picture. The full wigs of the 17th century, the taut hair of Sir Thomas Lawrence’s heyday, the “ambrosial” whiskers of 'I hackeray, arc merely externals. Although we all are trying to enjoy ourselves and draw admiration to ourselves, we still do our bit of work in order to pay the piper, and sweat blood in doing it. Whether her hair be shingled or down to the waist, the woman of East or West is torn bv the twin wishes of excitement for herself and peace in this world for others. Even Governments recognise the dual significance and the prophetic • depth of woman’s shingled hair.