WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OE INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs Noel Johnson has returned to Hamilton from a visit to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Welch are Wellington visitors to Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgkins have been on a visit to Cambridge. Miss Manoza Baudinet is on a visit to Masterton. Mrs. S. R. Wills, Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Davidson have returned from a visit to the Far Hast. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Fairweather, ot Fielding, are staying at Kelburn for a tew weeks. The engagement is announced of Miss Rosa Hawkins, Eketahuna, to Mr. Sydney Bell, Remuera, Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Findlay, Kelburn, and their family are spending their holidays at Paraparaumu. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lloyd. Roseneath, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smyth, Papanui, Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rule and daughters (Masterton) are staying at Roseneath, Wellington. The engagement is announced of Miss Rosa Hawkins, Eketahuna, to Mr. Sydney Bell, Remuera, Auckland. Miss Lawrence, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. W. D. Stewart, Hobson Street. Miss H. Bell has returned to Wellington from a holiday spent at Wanganui. Mrs. E. R. Gresham has returned to Hamilton after spending aome weeks in Wellington. Miss K. Rogers, of Wellington, is staying with Mrs. R. McDonnell, Symonds Street, Auckland. Miss M. Wauchop, Christchurch, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Warn chop, Thompson Street. Mrs. and Miss Gower, Wellington, are staying with Dlrs. W. L, Burgess at Castlecliff, Wanganui. Mr. and Mrs. S. Bryant, of Lower Hutt, are at present touring the North Island. Mr. and Mrs. H. Reid have returned to Wellington from a visit to Mrs. E. Howden, Park Laue, Timaru. Mrs. Dawson and Miss Helen Dawson, Wellington Terrace, are spending a holiday in Auckland. Miss Delcie Williams and Miss Elsie Gray, Waipawa, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Ellis, Ollivier’s Road, Christchurch. Mr. and Dlrs L. W. Gee, Papanui Road, Christchurch, have returned south after a holiday spent at Parapara:umu and Wellington. The Hon. W. D. .Stewart and Miss Stewart, who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. G. W. Armitage, Temuka, have returned to Wellington. Mrs. S. Bigham, who has been spending a fortnight’s holiday with Mr. and Mrs. A. McDonald, Prebbleton, has returned to Wellington. Mrs. O. J. Hawken, wife of the Hon. O J. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture, will accompany her husband on his comprehensive tour of the North Auckland district. The engagement is announced in an exchange of Mr. W. J. Meyer, second son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Meyer, Roseneath, to Marion, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. Nahr, Russell Street, Westport. The engagement is announced in an exchange of Stella, elder daughter of Mr. T. H. Lovegrove, Wanganui, and Thomas Wilford, youngest son of Mrs. H. Christensen, of Wellington and Wairarapa. The marriage took place on November 24 of H. M. Monro, F.R.C.S., Ed., youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Monro, of Palmerston North, to Molly, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Crameri, Ashford, Kent, England. Mrs. J. M. McLean and family, Kaiwarra,/ are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Tait, of Featherston. The Misses Bannister, Nelson, who left for Pahiatua on Tuesday, have also been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. aTit.

The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Caldwell was celebrated recently at their home, Te Punga, Pohangina Valley. There was a family gathering of five daughters and a number of grandchildren. The bride and bridegroom of half a century ago received many telegrams and presents from all over New Zealand. Many relatives and friends were present, including Mr. and Mrs. Porter (Feilding), Mr. and Mrs. Hadfield, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell (Auckland), Mrs. Walpole, Mrs, White, Mrs. A. Fitzherbert, Mrs. Rutherford, the Rev. M. Kenipthorne and Mrs. Kempthorne, and Mrs. W. Coombs. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have lived since their marriage in 1878 in New Zealand.

A quiet wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church, Waipawa, on December 7, when Mary, eldest daughter of Mrs. C. E. Duggan, of Hautere Cross (Te Horo) was married to Herbert, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Waldrom, Lindsay, Waipawa. The bride, who was given away by Mr. Waldrom, wore a blue coat'frock trimmed with coffee crepe de chine, and hat to match, and carried a bouquet of lilies and maidenhair fern. The bride was attended by two bridesmaids. Miss Edith Waldrom wore a pink crepe de chine frock and hat to match, and carried a bouquet of lilies and maidenhair fern, while Miss Helen Waldrom wore a pale lavender crepe de chine frock and hat to match, and also carried a bouquet of lilies and maidenhair fern. Mr. D. Duggan acted as best man, while the Rev. F. W. Robertson was the officiating minister. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs MacGregor, friends of the bride and bridegroom.

New pottery of Grecian design is in good marled effects in soft grey and gold colourings arc showing at J. R. McKenzie’s this week Jardinieres, tall slender vases with handles at each side, jugs, and graceful high fruit dishes. —Aovt.

The wonderful C.O Polishing Oil for cleaning windows, mirrors, motor-cars, furniture, etc., and for use with mops Brilliant and economical. C.O. Pro ducts, Ltd., ’phone 24—541.—Advt.

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

WOMEN EATING FEWER SWEETS London, January 11. Confectioners are the latest victims of women’s craze for slimness, says the annual report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Imports of refined sugar and candy dropped six million hundredweight within the year, being a fall of 35 per cent. Experts say that, whereas a man used to give a box of chocolates to his girl, he now gives a box of cigarettes. Doctors, however, deprecate the cutting of sugar from the dietary of women. It would be wiser to secure slimness by cutting out pastry and potatoes. The superintendent of the Wellington Presbvterian Orphanage and Social Service Association wishes to thank the following kind friends for gifts of goods received during the month of December: —St. Andrew’s Ladies’ Guild (Palmerston North), Mrs. P. Higgs (Blenheim), Miss Dorothy Mcfsaac (Taumaranui), “Anonymous” (Wellington), Mr. de Brontes (Government House), Margaret and Robert Sutherland, Mrs. A. P- Smith (Seatoun), Whangamomona Sunday School, M. Tankersley (Masterton), Mrs. Standard (Stanley Street, Wellington), Mrs. M. A. Harvey (Carterton), Miss Feist (Wellington), Dlr. Crozier (Marton), Mr. A. J. 'Barley (Adelaide Road, Wellington), St. David’s Church (Petone), St. Andrew’s Ladies’ Guild (Hastings), Patience Bros. (Berhampore), Hawera Presbyterian Church, Mr. and Mrs. Forsberg (Mauriceville), “Anonymous” (Hastings), Rev. Dayie (Masterton), Inglewood Presbyterian Church, W. Chapman (Palmerston North), St. Stephen’s Y.W.B.C. (Lower Hutt), Brooklyn Y.W.8.C., Mrs. Wesney, Seatoun, Lyerville Sunday School, Miss Chcvne (Waverley), “The Spinsters’ Club” (Wellington), Miss Joseph (Hobson Street), Four Horoeka School Children, Miss Ogilvie (Claremont Terrace, Wellington).

Airs. Gladys Siddie Powell, of South Court, Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, who was recently called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, is the first wife to enter her husband’s profession in the history of the English Bar. Het husband, Mr. Dapho L. Powell, practises on the South Wales circuit, and is a member of the Glamorgan County Council. Cougar is a short-haired fur receiving increased approval at Home. It is the skin of the puma, the largest of the American cats after the jaguar, the colour is pale yellowish-fawn prettily marked with light brown. It should look well on black coats, but probably its best and most usual service will be as trimming on tweeds. Citizens’ Day Nursery. The monthly meeting of the Citizens’ Day Nursery was held on January 9, when the following members of committee were present:—Airs. Gray (president), Airs. Firth (lion, treasurer), Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Alurphy, Airs. Magnus, Mrs. Levy, Airs. J. Alyers, Mrs. W. Luke, Airs. Leicester, and Alisses Aloss and Cable. An apology for absence was received from Airs. Clarke. The president opened the meeting by wishing the committee and staff a happy and prosperous New Year. Gifts from the following were acknowledged:—Air. Rod (bones), N.Z. Trawling Co. (fish), Air. Frazer (prunes), Mrs. Kirkcaldie (clothes), Aliss Booth, Masterton (groceries), Lady Luke (strawberries), Spinsters’ Club (paper hats), Anonymous (linen and books), Susie White and Alarjorie Rowley (scrap-book), Aliss Borchardt (Christmas cake), Commercial Travellers’ Club (£10), Airs. McCarthy-Reid (£10), and Mrs. Crawford, Airs. Al. Alyers, Airs. H. J. Thompson, and Airs. A. Levy (£1 Is. each). Frances Hodgson Burnett. When Airs. Frances Hodgson Burnett created Little Lord Fauntleroy, with his velvet suits, long hair, and lace collars, she allowed it to be known that her model for the portrait was her own son. In “The Romantick Lady,” Vivian Burnett, the son, writes of his mother. Airs. Burnett spent part of her childhood and her vouth in comparative poverty, and was a teacher of a small class of children in Tennessee when she discovered the gift of writing that was to bring her wealth, and enable her. to live as magnificently as the most blue-blooded of the characters which she brought to life. After the death of her father in Manchester, where Frances Hodgson was born in 1849, her family became impoverished. When Frances was aged 16 years, her widowed mother and her five children joined an uncle in Ameriica. Within six years it became apparent that the success of Frances as a writer of children’s books and touching romances was assured. When aged 24 years she married a young doctor named Swan Burnett, who eventually became a well-known specialist in Washington. Airs. Burnett enjoyed her success. She travelled from country to. country, entertaining and being entertained, buying houses, working, making speeches ,and meeting celebrities. Even her affection for her children did not prevent her from leaving her home for months together. In 1898 her marriage with Dr. Burnett was dissolved. Her second marriage with • Stephen Townesend was a failure. Possibly the success which she enjoyed so much made her self-centrel and impatient of restraint. Writing to Airs. Burnett, Oliver Wendell Holmes mentioned “the delightfully memorable evening, though we were all crying like babies,” when he had gone to the play which she wrote, Henry James, who dwas her neighbour when she lived in Kent, wrote of “your grace and your genius.” Airs. Burnett fought a legal battle to preserve her dramatic rights to “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” The case was an important one for British authors, and, as a result, the Society of British Authors entertained her at a banquet,. and presented her with a diamond bracelet inscribed “To Frances Hodgson- Burnett, with the gratitude of British authors.” Beautiful wavy hair belongs, not only 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 at 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 RELIEF FOR HAY FEVER'. Do vou suffer from hay fever? Wonderful relief can be secured with Comenthol. Just rub a drop in the palms of vour bauds and then sniff The subsequent feeling you will find most delightful. Comenthol is obtainable at Is. a bottle from most chemists. Fairbarn, Wright, and Co., are the wholesale distributors.—Advt.

Since the beginning of ti,me women have frequented beauty establishments and sought eagerly for strange lotions and ointments. Even in the early days of tne great Empire of Crete we read of the various aids to beauty employed by the women of the day (says the “Daily Mail”). Yet why? Beauty has never yet helped a woman to gain her ends or to enjoy her life one fraction more. I have talked to many men on tlie subject, and they all agree that a lovely face means nothing to them. It is just that odd, indefinable something which has nothing to do with beauty. In the abstract a man may admire a slim pair of ankles or a wonderful, skin. He may even notice and be impressed by them when he meets them in the street. But further than that they do not lead him. Most of the beauty attributed to the famous women of history is purely legendary. Mary Queen of Scots was not lovely. Cleopatra vas no dark, flashing-eyed siren; she was a slim, blue-eyed little thing. One of the most fascinating women 1 have ever met was stout, had a bad

skin and legs like champagne bottles; yet men- simply fell down and worshipped her. No one knows what causes ti woman to attract men, but it is certainly not her looks. It is true that knowing she is lovely may give a woman confidence, and the confidence in herself will increase her magnetism. But it cannot give her that strange elusive charm which is a gift of tlie gods. The onlv thing I have ever heard a man comment on was a woman’s teeth, and in this case they were quite dazzling. In the majority of cases she might as well put awav her creams and her lotions. Either she was blessed by the gods at birth and given the power to charm or she was left undowered.