WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 86, 10 January 1928, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Colonel and Mrs. T. A. Hunter have been spending a holiday in Uimaru,

Miss Little (Karori) is a holiday visitor to Hanmer Springs. -

Mr. and Mrs. H. Merrell, of Karaka Bay, are visiting Wanganui.

Mrs. J. W. Stock (Wellington) is visiting Auckland.

Mr. and Airs. W. A. Hawkins are Wellington visitors to Auckland.

Dr. Phvllis Mather (Wellington) is visiting Wanganui.

Miss Dulcie Perrett (Sanson) is visiting Takapuna, Auckland. Miss Shirley Illingworth, of Palmerston North, 'is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. E. C. Hall, of Wellington, is visiting Palmerston North.

Mrs Ivory, of Wellington; is staying in Auckland, and is a guest of Mrs. Keesing, Constitutional Hall.

Miss I. Dutnphv (Lower Hutt) is the guest of Miss I. Allpress, Dune Hill, Wanganui.

Mrs R. M- Chadwick and Airs. R. B. Chadwick, of Napier, have been visiting Wellington for the holidays.

Miss Pauline Pilgrim (Glencoe Ter race) has returned from a holiday visit to Napier.

Mrs. Leonard Tripp will return to Wellington this week after a visit to Timaru.

Mrs Prowse (Wellington) has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. Prowse, Wanganui.

Miss-Downes (Wellington) is the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. Runnerstrum, Wanganui.

Mrs. Bulkley, who has been spending some months in Auckland, has returned to Wellington.

Mrs. E. H. Dean is visiting Stoke : Nelson, where she is tl|e guest of IXlrs. Price. '

Miss Greenwood and Miss Dora Greenwood (Eastbourne) have returned from a visit to Taupo.

Dr and Mrs. Graham Robertson and Airs. ’ Gear, Hobson Street, are spending a holiday in Napier. Miss Stollerv, principal of lona College, Havelock North, is the guest of Airs. Athya, Kelburn.

Miss Clougher is the guest of her sister, Airs/Ferguson, North Terrace, Kelburn. ,

Mrs. A E. Hunt (Takapau) and hef sister, Miss Fleming (Wellington) have been spending a few days in Napier and Hastings.

Miss Ena Miller (Thames) is spending a few days in Wellington on her return from a visit to Christchurch. She leaves for the north to-night.

Dr. Wilson, medical superintendent of Wellington Hospital, with Airs. Wilson and their children, is spending a holiday at Eastbourne.

Miss Helen Thomson and her sister, Miss Mary Thomson, of Dunedin, spent the Christmas and New Year holidays with Airs. Alan Strang, Heretaunga.

Mr. and Mrs. Roland Gapes and Mrs. Ellis (Kelburn) have returned from a motor trip to Napier, Tauranga, and New Plymouth.

Mrs. Foster Welch, through her election to the Mayorship of Southampton, becomes, ex officio, Admiral of the Port. In this capacity she has a steam launch, as well as the more usual

Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Rothschild, of Leiverston Terrace, Wellington, who have been guests at Mondesir, Takapuna, are staving with their daughter, Mrs. F. H. Hope, Parnell. Mrs. Middleton (Auckland) is spending a few days in Wellington. She and her husband', Commander Middleton, R.N., are busy house-hunting, as their home in future jvill be here.

Beatrice Sharwood, daughter of the Victorian Crown Solicitor, is the first woman doctor to commence practice at Canberra, the capital of the Australian Commonwealth.

Mrs. Kelly, her son and daughter, with Mr. L. A. C. Warner, LL.A.B., and Miss Daphne Warner, started on Christmas Dav from Martinborough to tour the North Island, camping at New Plymouth, Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, and Napier.

Mrs. Elliott Lynn, one of Great Britain’s pioneer air-women, and perhaps the most daring yet capable her sex. was recently married in London to Sir James Heath, Bart, 'lhe bridegroom is 75 years oi age ana a wealthy iron manufacturer and coal mine owner.

Miss Gordon Holmes, who is the only woman stockbroker of England, was once dispatched to Africa to deal there with' many thousands of pounds. She has now been made director of the Savings Bank in Budapest—the first and only woman bank director in Hungary. Miss Holmes began life as a London typist at a pound a week in a wholesale establishment where her sex and youth prevented her taking over better work She is scarcely English in blood, her father being an Irishman of letters, who published a book on Justinian and Theodora, and her mother part German and Dutch.

motor-car, placed at her disposal. London fashion has decreed that for dance wear stockings should be in the finest possible weave and of a delicate flesh shade, and should have narrow open-stitch clocks. Coloured or black stockings are only worn when the ankle alone is displayed, never with short frocks. Dance shoes may be of blonde satin, of satin dyed to match the frock, or of dull gold or silver kid. The smartest are very plain in shape, a court shoe or a sandal with a single narrow strap being the most fashionable. Heels are not excessively high (many girls, indeed, dance in low-heel-ed shoes) ,and the line at the back of the heel is somewhat straight, the curve being more pronounced on the inner side of the heel.

Beautiful wavy hair belongs, uot onlv to the fortunate possessor of nature’s gift, but to every lady whose hair is waved by our skilled operators Why spend a tiring half-day, resulting, very often, in an indifferent wave, when specialists are et your service, whose experience abroad enables them to give a perfect permanent wave in less than two hours? Stamford and Company, Ltd., 68 Willis Street, and Auckland. Telephone 44— 745.— Advt.

Wedding Bouquets of charm and distinction, presentation, posies and baskets, at Miss Murray’s Vice-Regal Floriste, 36 Willis Street,—Advt.

Air. and Airs. Al. D. AlacGoun have returned from a holiday spent at Alakiwa, Queen Charlotte Sound.

Helene Simon, the leading woman in the J. C. Williamson farce-comedy “The Cuckoo in the Nest,” in Sydney, is a daughter of the late Sir Philip Fysh, of Tasmania. Her father was French. She learned the art of acting from Lady Benson.

A recent arrival in New Zealand is bliss F. Dorothy Davies, niece of Dr. Gray Hassell. She has been appointed dietitian to the New Zealand Mental Hospital Department and will begin her work early in the year. bliss Davies graduated in home science at Otago University, and has been studying dietitic work in the mental hospitals in England.

Frocks designed for dancing, as distinct from those intended to be worn at dinner , parties and evening receptions, arc of chiffon, georgette, or satin in plain colours —white or pale pastel shades —with draperies to give width and movement to the skirt. The hemlines of these dresses are uneven, |he floating panels of the draperies dipping down at irregular intervals, and under their wide over-skirts a short narrow foundation, usually of crepe de chine or satin in the same colour, is always worn so as to preserve the slim silhouette (says “The Queen”). Waistlines are marked at the top of the'hips by girdles, sometimes by a sports-shape belt of moire with a coloured paste buckle, more often by a drapery of the material very closely fitted. Nowadays it is essential for smartness that frocks should fit very tightly at the hips, a fact which caiinot be too much emphasised. Many of the dowdy looking frocks seen about would become smart at once if the fit at the hipline were altered. Necklace, buckle, shoulderbrooch, and bracelet of crystal or coloured paste are the only decoration for the draped frock of chiffon or georgette.

The ancient Samson certainly came to grief through having his hair cut by a woman, but, a modern Delilah has lived down this superstition, and has made a very successful business venture in cutting men’s hair (says a London correspondent). She is a visiting barber, and gets about to her clients on a bicycle—a mode of transport far removed indeed from Biblical days. “Men like me to cut their hair,” she explained recently; ‘‘they actually prefer me to London barbers! I will tell you how it happened. One day each week I devote to a small and scattered village in Essex. I arrive there early in the morning and do not return'till late at night. Arriving at a house later than usual I found the husband .at home, and as he watched me trimming his wife’s hair, lie expressed the opinion that he would like to have his done too. He was so pleased with the result that he urged his fyiends to have theirs done likewise. Now I have tvorked up a good business and niv appointment list grows longer and longer.” That may be true, of course, but there is just the suggestion to make that men find themselves very small fry with the London barber these days, who devotes all his time' and energy on his women customers, so that the men are only too glad to find someone who will take a sympathetic interest in whatever hair they may have. Even barbering has its psychological aspects to be taken into consideration.

Crisp white pique, relegated for so many years to nurses’ uniforms and schoolgirls’ tennis frocks, has come into its own again and is the fabric of the moment for certain modes (states a fashion writer). Chief of these is the pique blouse. Made on coat lines, with a cross-over fastening, coming below the hips and belted there, blouses are made of a softer and finer pique than the material of a decade or so ago. Sometimes their revers are embroidered, sometimes a collar and waistcoat effect is designed to show outside the coat. Another use for pique is the buttonhole flower in the costume. Very novel this last, but fragile, since its crispness is an essential and a fleeting virtue. I J ique is also being used for sleeveless waistcoats and for tennis hats. Silver Hair.

All down the ages, and among all peoples of the globe, colouring the hair by artificial means has been practised. From the crude daubing of the “savage” with coloured mud or lime, to the latest synthetic dyes and “brighteners,” these aids have been sought bymany women, not only to follow some prevailing fashionable tint, but as a means of hiding those “silver threads among the gold,” which betoken the march of Time. To-day that order of things is rapidly changing in all civilised countries, and the vogue of the silver hair is hourly gaining in popularity. (says “Woman”). Several reasons may be adduced for ' this. The fact that so many members of our Royal Family have chosen to allow their hair to follow Nature’s course and get frankly grey or white, is no doubt one of them. Realisation of how vastly becoming were the white wigs worn in olden days may also have played its part in this present fashion. Of dourse there is the period to be gone through before the desired silver stage is teacher, but by careful dressing of the hair itself, and a thoughtful choice of clothes, this period of probation need not be unattratcive. With the idea of hurrying nature, a form of bleaching (quite successful with hair which is being made up into wigs), was tried, but was found to cause the growing hair to break off near the roots. Hair can be bleached to a yellowy tint without harming it, but never to the pure white which we call silver. The care of silver hair is worth learning by the owner of such a head, because its beauty can be grertly enhanced or detracted from, according to the treatment which it receives. Grey or white hair, to look its best, should be shampooed at least once a fortnight, only a thoroughly reliable soap or powder being used. The drying should always be done with an electric dryer or by rubbing the head with warm, rough towels, and never at a fire or in the sun, because both will tend to bring yellow streaks into tbe silver. It is never wise for the owner of a silver head to go about bareheaded in the sunshine, unless, of course, a parasol is used, for the sun very quickly burns tbe hair, and it takes many months before it loses this yellow look and returns to its original beauty. A few drops of blue in the rinsing water bring out the snowy whiteness which is so becoming.

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FESTIVE GAMES z It is not only the children who love games; grown-ups, if anything, enjoy them more than the kiddies, especially during the festive season. There 'is nothing that makes more for success at an evening party than a few well-organised competitions and amusing games, and the more original the better. Do not wait until the guests arrive; arrange the party programme well before the date of the party, and have a good supply of pencils and paper and the necessary “properties” in readiness, so that no time is lost, and the guests enter well into the spirit of the fun right at the beginning. Here are a few novel suggestions for the festive season. “THE ROAD TO BEDLAM.” For “The Road to Bedlam” game the guests divide themselves into two sides. Each side then chooses a cap-

tain, who picks a small committee. The two committees form a joint board, known as the Lunacy Commissioners. These members of the party sit together in the centre of the room, if possible, before a table. The captain of one side then gathers the rest of his flock together in a semi-circle and proceeds to cross-examine the other side, one at a time. I'ive questions are put to each candidate. The questions must be reasonable, general knowledge ones, and not of a technical nature. The commissioners have the right to strike out any question they do not consider fair, and they also award the marks by voting among themselves. A maximum of ten marks is allowed. Anyone obtaining less than five goes to “Bedlam,” and forfeits all marks obtained by himself or herself. The side gaining the greatest number of marks wins, and all “lunatics” must contribute one penny to the hospital fund. This game, if well organised, provides endless entertainment.

Mr. and .Airs. J. Woodward and Mr. end Mrs. Percy Denton, of Wellington, who have been on a motor trip through the North Island, are returning home to-dty. HORSESHOES. Roll out some of the dough about f inch thick, cut it into triangularshaped pieces. Roll up each triangle from the base to the apex, which should turn over in a point on the outside of the roll. Shape this roll into . a horseshoe.