WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 98, 20 January 1926, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs. Hope Lewis lias left Hcretaunga for a mouth’s visit to Auckland.

An English Teacher Abroad.

Miss Jovce Seth Smith, o( Wanganui, is visiting Auckland.

Mrs. Elder, of Havelock North, is visiting Christchurch.

Mrs. Williams and the Missys Williams, of Gisborne, are visiting Wellington.

Miss Sheila .Macpherson, who Ims been staving with Mrs. J. D. Ritchie, The Terrace, has left lor the south.

Miss Betty Mcßae (Palmerston North) is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. Lethbridge, Turakina.

The Misses K. and Al. Wheeler returned to Wellington by the Makura on Monday from an overseas tour.

Mr. and Mrs. Ambridge and daughter, of Raratonga, arrived in Wellington by the Makura.

Miss B. E. Banghan has resigned tier position as an official visitor to the Addington Reformatory.

Mrs. Miro Cowper lias returned to Dannevirke after spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs. G. Hume at Piriiioa.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Rowe and Miss Eowe, who have been visiting Christchurch and Dunedin Exhibition, ha; e returned to Day's Bay.

Sir George and Lady Clifford and Sir Charles and Lady, Campbell are among the Christchurch visitors who have come to Wellington for the races.

Mrs. O. T. Alpers and family, after spending the Christmas and New Year holidays at the Rakaia Huts, leave today for a visit to Dunedin.

Miss M. Lusk (Napier) and Miss B. Rutherford (Canterbury) are staying with Mrs. W. B. Lloyd, Otahuhu, Auckland.

Miss Freda and Miss Margaret Guy (Palmerston North) are staying with their sister, Mrs. J. Macky, St. Heliers Bay, Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Brabant, of Auckland, Mrs. Codes, and Miss Sydney Brann are visiting Wellington. Mrs. Brabant and -Mrs. Aootes are playing in the croquet tournament.

Miss Alice Jackson has returned from Masterton, where she was the guest of Mrs. R. K. Jackson. Miss Yolaiide Jackson has accompanied her back to Wellington, and is at present her guest.

Miss Clarke (Christchurch) returned this week from an extended overseas tour, and left for the south last evening. Miss Clarke, in the course of her travels, visited the Continent, Britain, Palestine, South Africa, Ceylon, and other places of interest. She intends leaving for Australia shortly.

Miss M. A. Hcnnelly, supervisor of the Gisborne Telephone Exchange, and previously of Auckland, has been transferred to the position of supervisor of the telephone exchange in Christchurch.

Mrs. W, A. Holman, wife of the late Premier of New South Wales, is at present in London. She has lately been giving "talks” on Australian conditions for the Victoria League, and has been asked to accept the distinction of honorary membership of the Ladies’ Carlton Club’, her proposer being Ladv Worthington-Evans, wife . of tlie .Minister of War.

The wedding was solemnised at Kumara of the West Coast All Black footballer, Mr. J. Steel, second son of Air. and Airs. James Steel, of the Golden Eagle Hotel, Greymouth, to Aliss Alaggie Johnsen, fourth daughter of Air. and Airs. H. Johnsen, of Ku-

mara, states the Christchurch “Press.” Aliss Alarion Steel, a cousin of the bridegroom, was bridesmaid, and Mr. 11. Johnsen, a brother of the bride, was best man. The Rev. T, N. Cuttie performed the ceremony.

A Press Association message from Paris, dated January 18, states that the la'.est freak of fashion demands that women wear dinner jackets with velvet collars on informal occasions. The coat is cut like the male garment, but with wider lapeF, one button, and a small breast pocket for a handkerchief. The vest is also of black velvet, with three buttons. The skirt is of cheviot traced with a narrow border of velvet. A luce frill with a black bow is used instead of a collar. The, reason advanced for the radical change of custom is that it solves the problem of the high cost of evening wear, though the lowest price quoted for the new stvle is £2O.

The marriage took place at “Valmai,” the home of the bridegroom’s parents (Cambridge) of Eleanor, daughter of Mrs. Watson, of Dunedin, and tlie late Mr. Watson, of South Africa, to David, son of Air. and Airs. E. A. Hart, of Cambridge. The bride wore a frock of lace with a deep cream crinoline hat, and carried a bouquet of white flowers. Aliss Myra Hart attended, the bride and wore a frock of rose georgette with pink hat and bouquet of pink roses, Air. Allan Hart was best man.

Mrs. W. J. Polson, wife of the New Zealand president of the Farmers’ Union, who is at present travelling in Canada with her husband, writes as follows:—It is wonderful what Alberta is doing for her women in the backblocks, especially when a winter closes in and there is little mental recreation.

It’s here that the Home Bureau Service branch gets busy. It had all the activities of a women’s institute. A rose with another name, that’s all. From this branch instructors on practically everv subject are sent out, their board ami travelling expenses paid, 'fhe institute only provides a room mid members. Tile Home Service Bureau practically answers every question, sends notes, even prepares the papers lor members to read at their meetings. It is wonderful what Canadian women have done, and are doing. The more I come in touch with them the more I realise that if the men fall down on their job, the women will be there to pick them up. They are so intellir ent, so wide-niimled, so ahvohltelv out for the benefit of all women.

We have pleasure in advising von tiiat the exclusive Wellington retail agency for the sale of Elizabeth Arden’s Venetian toilet preparation Ims been placed in our hands. This means that the famous toilet treatments as arranged and recommended bv Elizabeth Arden are available to tlie ladies of Wellington for use in their own homes, or our saloons.—Stamford and Co.. Ltd., 6S Willis Street, Wellington -Advt.

Have you tried Peck’s “Anchovette”? The finest fish paste obtainable—stocked bv all grocers and stores •- Advt. 7.

Weddings to he artistic must i- HVt nouquets to harmonise with frocks Miss Murray, 3(1 Willis Street. Deliveries anywhere m Dominion.—Advt.

A passenger by the Makura for Sydney yesterday was Miss Dorothy J. Webb, who has been on exchange from •England to New South Wales schools to get further experience. Miss Webb lias spent twelve months in New South Wales, most of the time at two schools in Svdnev, as well as at the Albury, Lismore, and Dubbo Schools, where she was greatly interested in the educational methods there At the end of I lie school vear she decided to spend her vacation in this Dominion, and has been holiday-making at Rotorua, Wairakci, and the Hot Spring-, district, as well as paying a visit to Mount Cook hermitage and spending two nights on the Tasman Glacier. Her experiences she describes as marvelions, and a perfect treat from beginning to end. She has made arrangements to spend six months in New Zealand at school work, if possible, and it was gathered that she would have no objection to a permanent position here eventually. In five weeks’ time Miss Webb will return to New' Zealand, and then decide her future movements. Miss Webb came from the Sherbrooke Road School, Fulham, under the control of the London County Council's Education, Committee.

Mrs. and Aliss Curtis, of Wellington, will leave for the south to-day to visit the Dunedin Exhibition.

Aliss Skerrett returned to Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui from a visit to Australia.

The wedding of Irving Berlin, the former Jewish immigrant boy and now a popular composer, and Ellen Mackay, New York’s leading Catholic heiress, has seized the popular imagination, especially since the refusal of the bride's father, Mr. Clarence Mackav, the bend of the Commercial Cable Company, one of the great corporations that control the Trans-Atlantic cable services, to bless the marriage, states a New York message dated January 5. Ellen, it is said, agreed to a civil marriage to the famous lazz songster on condition that .a Catholic religions ceremony wou’d subsequently be. solemnised, but the letter event has not vet taken place. To-dav they are at Atlantic Citv. Thee have secured the Presidential suite aboard the liner Lc'-iatban (59 000 tons), on which they will sail for Europe Irving’s father was Rabbi Moses M.aline, who brought his family from Europe in 1892.

Artificial silk continues to enjoy an astonishing popularity. The mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire are producing immense quantities, not only as silkv materials, but in combination with cotton and wool. Everv month sees the flotation of a new company to produce artificial silk, and some of the products compete in beauty with real silk, states a London correspondent of "The Australasian.” Tapestries and brocades in artificial silk achieve the sumptuous loveliness of the real thing. Only in one direction is the demand for artificial silk falling off—that is in stockings. Tins branch of the trade is disturbed by the icmarkable vogue of the Russian boot. Four months ago an English firm determined to manufacture a few thousand Russian hoots to test the market, temnted bv the popularity of rubber Wellingtons in America. In a few days the markers found they had "a gold mine.” To-dav, 40 factories in th? Leicester district are producing Russian boots at the rate of about WO,OOO pairs a week, and something like a million pairs of Russian boots have beet: sold in three months. The practical justification for the craze is that the high boots save the stockings from being splashed with mud, and so are an economy rather than an extravagance.