WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Miss Rita Simpson has returned from her visit to the Wairarapa, where she was staying with Mrs. Vallance. Mr. and Mrs. J. Pike and Miss Nisbel have gone to Sumner. Mr. Pike only stays a few days, but Mrs. Pike and her sister will remain some weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schatz are spend- ! ing a few days tit Waikanae. ' Mrs. Haselden leaves on Monday for ' Palmerston North, whero she stays with Mrs. Harold Cooper. I "" ~~ *■■ •■" Miss Card, of Featherston, is in Wellington. ' Miss Alken Ward leaves on Monday for Christchurch, where she is to stay with her aunt, Mrs. Boy'es. Miss Prouse leaves by the same boat, j She is to be the guest in Christchnrch of Mrs. Gower-Burns. Miss Mackenzie, daughter of the late Lady Mackenzie, who lias been paying visits in the North Island, loft for the South last night. Mr. and ■ Mrs. Richards, from New York, are staying at the Grand Hotel. They leave Wellington shortly to torn* through New Zealand. ' Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Hales askod '& few friends to meet ,Mrs. Russell, who is better known to Wellington as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." It was the pleasantest of gatherings. During the afternoon Miss Cooper sang and Mrs. Malcolm Ross recited. The hostess wore black voile, with full sleeves of whito liet, banded with chantilly lace. Mrs. Russell was in a cream cloth coat and skirt, with a net blouse decorated with tinted embroideries, and a blue straw hat swathed with blue gauze, into which were thrust vivid-coloured macaw feathers. Mrs. Hales' garden was ablaze with blossom, and her drawing-room gay with early roses. Mrs. Russell is a most charming person, who carries her bright humour into everyday life, is interested in new places and people, and answers with smiling patience all the tedious repetition of questions that are generally asked of the new imer. She was most interesting about her early life in Salt Lake City, where she spent a happy, joyous girlhood. There, now, with Tier aunts — one of -whom is not many years older than the girl herself, is Mrs. Russell's daughter of fourteen, Lorna Doone, living in the old home set among beautiful gardens, to which the ever-snowy mountains send cooling breezes, even in mid-summer, and where her mother used to play when a child. In the strenuous life that Mrs. Russell spends, she has but few days at home in the year, but her enthusiasm is great for its attractions. The baths in the Salt Lake are, she feels sure, the most delicious in the world, so buoyant and invigorating. One comes out covered with a coating of glistening whito salt-crystals., The original 1 Mrs. Wiggs she has seen and spoker to. On being asked if she is really the cheery optimist of the story, Mrs. Russell Said : "Well, she was when Mrs. Rice wrote about her. After that the tourists came around and soured her naturally, sweet temper. She used to get so mad that s]ie threw bricks at them. And," she, added, quaintly, "I'm sure I don't wonder. I should do it myself !" Miss Somerville's school was much favoured yesterday, for, though the morning seemed absolutely hopeless, the sun blazed out in, the afternoon, making parasols and umbrellas grateful necessities on the' tennis enclosure. It was a quite delightful gathering, and the growr-ups grew as excited and as keen as the children. The ' mothers' eager, anxious faces, as their ooys waddled in sacks or carried along their eggs in theif spoons, were worth studying, and the little sisters' loyal, partisanship was pretty to see. There was an adorable pair of twins — one with a name as big as herself — who.took part in the needlethreading race with absorbed interest, and a little plump boy who, when ready to start, was so scared by the pistol that he burst into tpars and refused to be comforted. Dr. Newmah, "Major Hughes, and Dr. Izard managed the events with much skill. The winner of the race had to be captured ' directly the tape was dropped, otherwise his identity would be lost in the crowd of boys all dressed alike. Tea and delicious cakes were served to the guests, and after the sports the prizes were given out. Moat beautiful prizes had been given, and so generous were the donors that some gifts had to be refused until next year. It was a regular sports meeting in minia- ' ture, even to the slices of orange supplied to the panting competitors. The children were, of course, the most charming figures on the ground, the baby girls being specially fascinating. There were some noticeable frocks among the elder*. A heliotrope Empire irock, expuisitely made, was trimmed with bands of velvet, or worn with a wide hat massed with viplet, blue, and red convolvuluses — or convoluli, if you like it better. Another lovely heliotrope gown, with braid and jaunty little tassels, was worn by an-, Auckland girl. A tall lady in a striped blue-green-vio-let tweed wore a becoming hat with large blue and brown roses. Two sisters looked well, one in blue with a burnt straw hat crowned with beautiful wallflowers, the other in royal blue,, and wearing a • flat violet v straw hat wreathed thickly with violets. Lady Ward was in biscuit-coloured voile, a black taffetas coat, and a chip hat with blue tulle and leaves. Miss Ward wore a blue cloth fijock, wnite furs; and a blue hat; and i Miss Mackenzie, who came' with Lady Ward, was in black, with a smart black toque and white furs. A meeting of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and ChUdi-en was hpld at the rooms, 119, 'Willis-street, yesterday. There were E resent Lady Btont, R-ev. Mother Avert, ilosdames Fell, Maurice Richmond, Holgate, M'Vicar, and Mits. Brown. Apologies for absence were received from Mrs. A. R. Atkinson, Mrs. Chappie, Adjutjint Duff, and Miss Richmond! Accounts amounting to £9 Is were passed for payment. The nurse's report was received, and showed that good work had been done, 17 new cases having been added to an already lengthy list since last meeting. Since the inauguration of this society not 12 months since, the nurse's services have been requested for over 120 babies, and' grateful ackowledgements have been received by the committee. The" committee acknowledge with thanks the following subscriptions : — Mr. Martm Chapman £10, Mrs. Chapman £5, Dr. Iraby King £5, Mr. Corrigan £3 3s, Mr. "Walter Bethune £2 2s, Mrs. Balcombo Brown, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs>. J. E. Fulton, Mrs. C. M. Luke, Mrs. Seaton, Mrs. Corrigau, Mrs. R. W. Kane, B. E. W. and J. S., Miss Brown, Mrs. M'Lean, Mra. Gill, Mrs. TreadgoW, and Mrs. R. W. Kane,. 5s 'each ; Mrs. Bowler 10s, Mrs. Hawker 10s, Mrs. Duder 10s. Further donations and subscriptions will be thankfully received and acknowledged by the hon. teetetetry, Mrs. M'Vicar, 45, Majoribanks-etreefc*