WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs. Russell Standish, New Plymouth, is visiting Wellington.

' Miss Morpeth, Wellington, has been paving a short visit to Napier.

Miss Stuart Mentcath has returned to Havelock North from a visit to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Strang (Heretaunga) arrived in Palmerston North last night.

Miss Cowles, secretary, on behalf of the Babies’ Horae Executive, thanks the Two-Garment Society . for their generous gift of warm clothing.

Mrs. M. J. Forde, president of the Wellington branch, lias left for Auckland to attend a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the National Council of Women

A cable message from London reports that New Zealanders to be presented at Court on June 9 and 10 are Misses R. and M. Tripp, of Timaru.

Mr. J. H. Hearn, of the Admiralty office, Hong-Kong, accompanied by his wife, is at present on a holiday visit to Hastings, where he is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Price.

Captain Weston (formerly of the Netv Zealand Shipping Company) and Mrs., Weston are staying at “Pendennis,” and purpose leaving for England next month.

■Mrs. C. Roy Spackman and her little daughter leave Auckland to-day by the Aorangi for Vancouver. Mrs. .Spademan will spend some months with her sister, Dr. Wyman, who is Professor of Psychology at the British Columbia University, Vancouver, and will return to Napier .early in 1927.

Hostesses for the Communitv Club for this week are:—Tuesday, Mrs. G. McGregor; Wednesday, Mrs. E. L. M. Meaclien : Thursday, Mrs. Reddell; Friday, Mrs. N. Broad; Monday, -Mrs. W. D. Robinson.

The annual Public Works dance is to be held in St. Francis’s Hall., Hill Street, to-morrow evening. This is one of the most popular social events of the year, and the usual complete arrangements have been made for the success of the gathering.

The annual meeting of the .Wellington Free Kindergarten Association is to be held next Monday, at. 196 Taranaki Street. The speakers will be Mrs. Gill and Mr. Kidson (headmaster of Kelburn Normal School). All interested are invited to attend.

The monthly meeting of the Wellington Convalescent Home was ' le *“_ a ' : Mrs. W. Young’s on June 2. Present: Mrs. Martin (in the chair), Mesdames Kemp, Stout, Joseph, Young, Miss Barron, Miss Harcourt (holt, treasurer), mid Miss Morri p (non secretarv). The matron reported seven patients admitted and seven discharged during the month.

A Sydney paper devotes a column to Miss Willis, of Wellington, Assistant Inspector of Hospitals and Midwives, under the Health Department of NewZealand. Miss Willis has given a cleat and concise statement of the work done bv the women of the Department, and the statement is made that the trainees in the nursing profession in New Zealand are in favourable position compared with those of New South Wales.

On Wednesday afternoon a solemn and impressicve ceremony was held at the Wanganui Girls’ College, when Mrs. D. McFarlane, wife of the chairman of the College Board of Governors, unveiled a tablet to the memory of Cecil Leigh, who, was drowned in the Wanganui River last summer in attempting to rescue a companion (states an exchange). The tablet has been placed in the assembly hall of the college, together with a photograph of the brave girl who made the supreme sacrifice,

. At an excellent concert given by the Hawera Male Choir at Hawera on Friday night, the soloists were Mr. Harison Cook and Mrs. Hemingway. The numbers chosen bv Mrs. Hemingway (savs the “Star”) were “The Pipes of Pan” and Gounod’s “Ave Maria.” Both demand much executant ability and power of expression, and in' both the singer scored a a great success. The florid movements in the former were performed with nice appreciation of the character of the song, and there was in the latter a svmpathv that was most fitting The violin obbligato played bv Miss Hopkins, of Stratford, for the Gounod number, formed an effective setting for the beautiful melody. Tn resporrse to decided encores Mrs. Hemingway added “Annie Lauric” and ‘‘There’s a Land,” and in both she was very successful. Mrs. Hemingway was presented with a bounuet as a token of appreciation from the members of the male choir. Miss D. Joll was an excellent accompanist.

The wife of the stationmaster at the Newcastle (England) Central Station, in declaring open a first-aid room at tiie station, Said that if railway-men were injured thev would be able to come into a place where they could “groan in comfort.” Sometimes they had to keep a stiff upper lip when a groan would do them a lot of good.

Fires are a continual problem 'in onr erratic climate. There is no doubt that gas fires possess great advantages over the old-fashioned method of burning crude coal in a grate. They are clean, convenient, healthy, and if the household budget be taken as a whole, they are in the truest sqnse economical. It may be laid down as a general principle that for all intermittent heating gas is more economical than coal. In a living room constantly used, however, a coal fire may prove cheaper, and indeed is preferred by some on what one can only call sentimental—though comprehensible—grounds; but the housewife who really intends to save money by saving labour, her own or her servants’, will think twice about retaining even one coal fire in her house. Certainly she will banish coal from the rooni in which breakfast is taken, as she lias banished it from the kitchen, otherwise her rising will have to be unpleasantly early; but a gas fire will adequately warm the room in a quarter of an hour, except in the coldest weather, when a little longer must be allowed. The Wellington Gas Company have a very comprehensive stock of ornamental mantelpieces and gas radiators.—Advt.

The woman of to-day rightly expects the best attention where her hair is concerned Whv tolerate a mannish and unbecoming hair-cut while a genuine shingle gives a graceful and attractive finish? Our assistants have been sp»ciallv trained for ladies’ hairdressing, and can give a correct London shingle,' a totallv different thing from a hair-cut. Stamford and Co., Ltd., Permanent Waving Specialists, Willis Street.—Advt.

SUZANNE LENGLEN TO MARRY A REPORTER

Suzanne Lenglen is engaged tp be married to Jacques Brindejones Offenbach, poet and writer, and grandson of Jacques Offenbach, the famous composer of “The Tales of Hoffman’’ (savs an exchange). The temperamental queen of the courts chose her intended husband outside the ranks of tennis players, but JI. Offenbach is considered one of the most delightful poets of the younger generation of French letters. The engagement is hailed as a real love match. Suzanne was twentvseven years old on May 24, while Offenbach is thirty-six.

Offenbach, unable to wield a racket, and seldom seen about the tennis courts, was smitten with Mdlle. Renglen during the hard court tournaments at St. Cloud in 1921, in which the French champion defeated Mrs. Molla Mallorv. . . Dunn? the intervening time, while reports "of Mdlle. Lenglen’s engagements succeeded one another, the poet kept well in the background. Recently he and his wife were divorced by mutual consent. The announcement of the betrothal came as a great surprise to Paris. Offenbach has been accepted by the Lenglen familv, but it has not been decided whether the wedding will take place before the Wimbledon tournament this year or after. Mdlle. Lenglen’s fiance is a reporter for the newspaper "Le Gaulois, acting as musical and literary critic.

Mrs. Duncan McGregor," of Grey, mouth, is visiting Wellington.

Major and Mrs. A. P. Smers. of London, who have been visiting Wellington, have gone on to Auckland.

Mrs. II Holland, president of the Canterbury Women’s Club, and wife of Mr. H. Holland, M.P., will arrive in Wellington this week, and will stay for the session.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell (Whareama), who have been visiting Christchurch and Oamaru, have returned to Masterton.

The manv Wellington friends of Mr. and Mrs. Parry, who lived formerly in Kelburn, and are now resident’ in London, will be interested to know that their son, Mr. Evan Parry, is on his wav to New Zealand, and means to practise his profession as a barrister here Mr. Evan Parry was educated at Welleslcv College, Wellington, and attended university at Home..

A very successful subscription brid«e afternoon, organised by. Mrs. Clayton and Miss Cameron, with Mrs. G. Johnston and Miss Barnett assisting, took place at Mrs. Clayton’s house, Talavera Terrace, yesterday afternoon. The proceeds are to go towards the big Plunkct effort to be made at the end of the year. In addition to the bridge the promoters had a . sale of cakes, and of some verv nice fancy bridge score cards, and ornamental pencils made bv Miss Cameron. Very quaint and pretty also were the table cards (indicating the players), which Mrs. Cameron made of ribbon and the ever-useful sealing wax, from a design acquired in Paris. These also were in great demand, and sold well.

The engagement is announced of Chloe Ruth, vounger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. ’ G. Withers, Geraldine, and formerly of Wellington, to Joseph Arthur, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wooding, Woodbury, South Canterbury.

A choral wedding was solemnised at St. Stephen’s Church, Waverley, by the Rev. W. Kelly, when Ethel, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wybourne, of “Brookvale,” Waverley, was married to Colin, eldest son of Mrs. Campbell, of “Mount Pleasant,” Kohi. The church was decorated by friends, of the bride. The bride, who entered the church on her father’s arm, wore a frock of cream brocaded taffeta and pale pink georgette, and an antique veil (lent bv the bridegroom’s family). She wore a string of pearls (gift of the bridegroom), and carried a bouquet of fresias, pale pink carnations, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaid, Miss Noemi Buyers, of Wanganui, wore a cyclamen georgette frock, trimmed with a deeper shade, and carried a bouquet to tone. The bridegroom was supported by Mr. Purvis Bremer as best man Owing to the recent bereavement in the bride’s family, onlv a small reception was held at “Brookvale.” Mrs. J. P. Wvbourne, mother of the bride, wore a navy and floral crepe de chine frock, navy hat with flowers to tone, and boumiet of autumn tinted flowers; Mrs. Campbell (mother of the bridegroom), brown costume, with violets and maidenhair fern. The bride’s travelling costume was of brown velour cloth and small brown hat to tone. ,

The wedding took pace at St. Peter's Church, of Alice Poesy, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earp, Tawa Flat,'and Mr. C. W. Thompson, engineer, s.s. Hororata, younger son of the late William Thompson, of Hull, England. The Rev. W. Watson officiated. The bride, who was given away by her cousin, Mr. D. Steele, wore ivory-georgette with overdress of silver and silver shoes. Her white veil was trimmed with silver embroideries, arranged as a mob cap caught up with a wreath of orange blossom, which was over 30 years old. Her shower bouquet was of pale pink cyclamen, white hydrangea, and maidenhair fern, with white tulle streamers. Her sister Blanche was bridesmaid, and wore rose pink georgette, beaded in silver. Her bouquet was pale pink carnations, cyclamen, and maiden-hair fern. Her mob cap was of silver, with pink and white streamers. The best man was Mr. Evans, second officer, s.s. Hororata. The mother of the bride wore a grey velour costume, violet velour hat with cyclamen trimmings, and carried a, bouquet of bronze chrysanthemums and maiden-hair fern. Miss H L. Earp wore a black and white coat frock, with fox furs. The bride and bridegroom were the recipients of manv presents, among them being a case of cutlery presented by the officers and men of the s.s. Hororata. The wedding march was played by Mr Short, organist at St. Peter’s. After the ceremonv a reception was held, the tables being artistically arranged. Among the guests were Mesdames Steele (aunt of the bride), D. f. bteele, Mowbrav, Cowlam, and Havnes. Mrs. Thompson will leave by the Rnahine to ioin her husband when, after a stayin the south of France, they return to England, where their future home will be.

Weddings to be artistic must have bounuets to harmonise with frocks Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street. Deliveries anywhere in Dominion. Advt