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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

And when a lady's in the case, You know all other th ings give place. —Gay. »

Mrs. Geddis and her girls and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel are back from Picton. Mr. and Mrs. Nicol, of Picton, are ppending a week in Wellington. Mrs. Thunder, of England, is a guest of Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher. Misses M. O'Farrell and A. Segrief j have returned to Wellington. I Miss Elsie Massey's marriage will probably lake place at Mangere in March. She has received from the Opposition a presentation, consisting of a lea-service, a large vase, a»d an exquisite chatelaine bag, all solid silver. Mrs. O'Connor has returned from Christchurch. Mrs. J. Studholmo is in Wellington, a guest of Mrs. Moorhouse. Mr. and Mrs. 11. Evatt returned yesterday from Picton. Miss Fanny Sealey has come back from a holiday in Nelson. Mrs. F. W. Chatterton leaves on Friday for a trip to Germany aud England. In the recent charming weather, the Kelburne bowling green has been fully occupied, and the ladies have been keenly contesting., for Lady Ward's trophy. Miss Hilda Hamerton carried off the prize, after a most^interesting game with Mrs. Knowles. The next excitement is the contest for the trophy given by Miss Williams. It is hoped that the Greytown ladies will accept an invitation to play a friendly match at Kelburne. Miss Mary Sladdcn, who has planned a delightful tour to England, Ireland, •Scotland, and the Continent, leaves by the Sydney boat on Friday. Music-lovers will feel regret at saying farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mallinson, whose final concert was given last night. Talk about the dropping of the proverbial pin ! Why, ono could hear in the pauses the ticking of the watch in the waistcoat pocket of the man next. The accompaniments, marvellously played by the ono mai\ who knows how they should be played, the exquisito words — for the composer never sets his beautiful melodies to unworthy words — and the delightful voice, caressing, joyous, tragic, all made up a whole not easily forgotten by those who were present. "Baby," granted by Madame as an encore, was greeted with shouts of delight, and was altogether fascinating — the sweet replies being sung with the simplicity, the wonder, and the freshness of a littJo child. As for "Four by the Clock," it was received rapturously. It took me back many years, when — as a tiny child, convalescing from 'most unromaiitic measles — I lay in the dusk of the dawn in a lodging at, Brighton, England, and listened for the first time to the thunder of the surf along the beach. The train song was splendidly sung by TSIr. Prouse, who was in fine voice, and gave all his items with great sympathy and force. Quite, apart from the music, it was a pleasure to watch Madame's face, with its varying emotions, the petulance of \ the girl with no lover, the gaiety of the | little child, the horror of the Indian maiden whose brave lies dead. In "The Blood Pied liing" the intensity of feeling was almost painiul, and the whispered sigh a marvel of tone effect. She was a striking figure, with her shining, ftiir hair, so simply coiffed, her expressive face, and graceful jetted frock, j with its touch of soft white across the corsage. The bouquet of pink and white blossoms, with which she was presented, added to her costume a deli- j iate note of colour. Mr. G. W. Deller, of Carterton, and Mrs. Delier leave on a trip to the Old Ccmntry by the Corinihic on 22nd April. Mr. and Mrs. J. Earlo are leaving for Christchurch for a few weeks by touight's steamer. The "What to do with our Girls" Exhibition promises to flourish like the green bay tree (says an Australian paper). Lady Dudley, who is much interested in the movement, has promised to open it in person, and every day new names are added to the list of exhibitors. A big typewriting firm will have dozens of girls working ; a wellknown sewing machine company will show what its machines can do. A photography firm will give an exhibition of daylight photography, taken, developed, and finished while you wait; in the dairy section girls will be taught the art of cheese and butter making; there j will be a competition for girl ritle shots, and many individual women will ply their trades. The whole exhibition is being run, not with the idea of moneymaking, but as a- lesson, of what girls can do if they want to. The education of the Turkish girl is nowadays a matter of great importance, and there are many foreign schools scattered throughout Turkey. In Constantinople (a correspondent states) there are three French schools for girls, in Scutari one managed by an American woman, and at Pera a big English school, with many Turkish pupils. These girls follow the usua' curriculum, aud also attend classes for dancing, gymnastics, and physical culture. They do not. go to school in the first instance ignorant of all save their own language, for now the children of those parents who follow the modern trend of thought are in their infancy provided with governesses who speak English, French, and German. Then, after several years at school, they return home, at the age of 13 or 14, to be "finished" by a governess, usually an accomplished Englishwoman. Indeed, the modern Turkish girl, with her knowledge of liteiature and her interest in national affairs, is as unlike tho veiled and cloistered woman of a few years back as it is possible to imagine. An English exchange informs us that in the grape cure as used in Germany from one to eight pounds of the fruit are eaten daily. For a while very little if any other food is taken. The quantity of grapes, at first small, is gradually increased. Those taking the cure pick the grapen, thus having the benefit o\ outdoor air and genile exercise. The obese, as \vell as those leading sedentary lives, are the ones who ofteuest lollow this regime. Professor Fritz Koch, of the Lake Geneva School, ha.i lately visited the United States, and has been telling American parents and teachers that they try to make their children too tidy. "Cleanliness is a virtue not demanded from the factory hpnd while, at work, but children while at play are constantly reprimanded because of their dirty hands, spots on their clothes, etc.' 1 This insistence on outward decorum interferes with the '"intense, wild play which is natural lo them. "Heal boys and twirls," says Profussvr Koch— -and let tho inclusion of "iris not be ovei IlookpJ by the high schools— "are rovers

in field and forest, in alleys and dangerous plaaps." The Swiss professor's comfortable doctrine would be highly appreciated, at any rate, in tho school mentioned in Miscellany the other day, whose debating society, while disagreeing with the objects of the suffragettes, approved their methods. A massage movement said to be used in Japan is thus dehcribed : The face is gone over with the fingertips anointed with a little olive oil or cold cream, little nips being given to the entire surface. The skin becomes red and glowing. After the process 4 generous application of, cold cream is left on the face for a time- Such a procedure stirs up the circulation, bringing colour to the cheeks. A unique experiment is to be tried at the University of Illinois (says an American woman's paper). Tho department of social science has rented a large dwellinghouse, and divided it into two equal apartments. One is fitted up according to the most improved theories of household economics. The other is furnished in " the good old way " of our grandmothers. How far it is possible, for a person with limited means to adopt the first instead of the second scheme of housekeeping is the problem to be solved by experiment to last one year. In one apartment only the most modern furnishings have been installed. Heating, 1 cooking, and laundry work are done by gas and electricity ; .tho floors are varnished or waited, and covered with rugs. In the other apartment coal, wood, and coke are used to heat the rooms, as well as for cooking. Oil lamps are used for light, the water is drawn from a pump, and carpets are tacked to the soft pine floors. Classes in household science have charge of each of the apartments, under the supervision of the professors. A careful account is to be kept of the expenses, the convenience and the time consumed in the preparation of foods and the discharge of all the other domestic duties. This is the first opportunity that college women will have had to see the two methods tested side by side, and the result will be watched with much interest by all who are concerned in the important work of house manage- ' ment. Belinda of Natal Mercury observes that "Only a woman with a wellrounded form can look well in a perfectly plain tight-fitting gown, and then her figure must, not be unduly plump or j heavy-looking. Quite recently (she says) I was admiring a portrait of Miss Marie Tempest, and thinking to what advantage she appeared in a sweeping gown of black velvet closely fitting her perfect figure, and relieved at the decolette wiih some rare lace and fine embroidery. Another woman who has a figure for a tight-fitting gown is Mrs. Winston Churchill, and very handsome she ought to look in some of the lovely Directoire frocks which form part of her trousseaux. I note, however, that these gowns "are not in the extreme of the mode, but cleverly adapted so that the bride of th& neason nan display the charms of her perfect figure without in the slightest degree offending the susceptibilities of Mrs. Grnndy."