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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mr. Justice and Mrs. Williams left for the South on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Gordon Ponsouby left for Nelson with Miss Ledger to-day. She intends \ to take a trip in July to tho South Sea Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Da,vid Findlay are inNapier. Mr. and Mrs. Corliss are at present living in Mr. Findlay's house in Grant-road. Miss Ivan Hislop is back from her visit to her sister, Mrs. Cooper, of Christchurch. Miss Denniston, of Peel Forest, has returned home to Canterbury. Mrs. M'Gregor and the Misses M'Gregor, of Marton, are staying at the Hotel Windsor. Mrs. Russell Duncan, of Napier, is staying at the Royal Oak Dr. Platts-Mills has gone for a visit -ti Dunedin. Mrs. Collie is visiting friends in the Wairarapa. Interesting visitors to Wellington are Mrs. Taylor and Miss Webber, from South Africa. They have been travelling in the South Island for some time. They are members of the Guild of Loyal Women, whose care it is to tend the soldiers' graves in South Africa. On Wednesday, Miss Greenwood was { hostess at a small tea at the Kelburne Kiosk, to welcome Mrs. Harold Kemp and Miss Barton. The latter's marriage to Dr. F. Kemp is fixed for an early date. Yesterday, at, St. Joseph's Church, Buckle-street, Mr. Frederick William Whitaker, of the tramways clerical staff, second son of the lato Mr. Charles Whitaker, and stepson of Sub-Inspector O'Donovan, was married to Miss Jeannie Leatchwich, of Wellington, the JRev. Father O'Shea officiating. Miss Hilda Scott was bridesmaid, and Mr. W. O'Meara best man. The wedding breakfast took place at Mrs. Elliott's residence in Hayward-terrace. Last night, at the Hotel Windsor, the Mountebank Dramatic Club held its monthly reception. A literary competition and a Shaksperian competition were keenly contested. Music and recitations were much enjoyed. The hostess wore a pretty gown of green silk in the Empire style. It is quite unusual in London streets to see a smart woman with an umbrella. In cases of absolute necessity there is always a cab or a. taxi at hand, and the rainy weather hats are quite unharmed by showers, however heavy. The very newest of these are entirely made of straw twisted and curved in cunning complication, and their only trimming is a huge jet rosace or rosette — an immense ornament composed of many knobs, generally set towards they left hand front of tho hat. Some of theso straw toques are to be seen in our Wellington shop?, and, to certain styles of faces, would prove as becoming as they are smart and useful. There is no end to the way in which the straw ia vaded.in tho newest hats. In somo a band- oi chinta is set in round the crown, and in others silver and gold is woven in with the plait. Some of the new earrings almost touch the wearers' shoulders, and are said to be most becoming But they mn&t be slim and light. The "Rococo Rose" is the latest noto in millinery. This is a huge rose of quaint and delicate shade. Many tints are blended on one hat, and ribbon velvet is an indispensable addition. Old bead bags are rery much desired, and, antique patterns and designs aro being faithfully copied. Some of the Directoire gowns have a long fiat pocket hanging from the girdle below the knee, such a bag as forms part of the costume of Marguerite. Navy blue serge, especially when braided with black, is to be out of the favourite materials for winter wear. Combined with mauve or green it is charming. A hint for the woman undertaking a new ball-dress is to veil golden satin with blue gauze. The result is most artistic. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Carlson, BlackBridge, Lower Hutt, on Monday evening celebrated their silver wedding. A large number of friends gathered to congratulate them on the happy event, and a pleasant evening was spent. Green tomatoe pickle. — Mr. W. Jaqnes, the Government's canning expert, supplies the following recipe for making^ green tomato pickle : — Gut the tomatoes into pieces or slices, lay them in a dish, sprinkling salt between the i layers, and let stand for ten to fifteen j hours. Have ready a boiMng hot syrup made as follows : — 1 pint vinegar, 31b (or less) sugar, £oz cinnamon, cloves. When the tomatoes are ready for pickling, drain them, and place on a saucepan with fresh water over a fire, changing the water frequently to remove all salt The tomatoes will now be partly cooked. Then take them out and drain them and place them into the hot syrup, simmering them until they are sufficiently soft. Now lift the tomatoes out of the syrup and fill into hot, dry bottles (or drain off the liquor and fill the fruit into the bottles). Boil the syrup in order to thicken and reduce it and pour over the tomatoes. After t-wo days agam boil up the syrup and fill the bottles again. When all is cold tia down into jars or bottles as you would jam. Store in a cool and dry place. An invention that will be welcomed by housewives has been brought out whereby curtains can be adjusted on rods and then raised to the required position without any climbing being necessary. The cost is stated to be trifling, and the invention has been patented throughout the world. While women are competing with men iv many lines of work which were formerly considered sacred to the stronger sex, some men are retaliating by winning laurels in feminine arts. Recently in Chicago a young man 'of 22, an engineer, won a gold medal at the Convention of the National Milliners' Associa1 tion for the best design for a lady's hat. I George Meredith's daughter is an ac- ! I'omplished musician, ana an able conductor. Quite recently the conductor of the Harrowgate_ Municipal Orchestra — one of the best in England — was unable to be present at a performance, and at a moment's notice Miss Meredith fctepped into the breach, and wielded the baton with great success. The Dirootqiro d»»6 (b blamed tot the t present epjdgaie-pf £heum&tißm an d

influenza among society women in Vienna. According to Dr. Bruel, a well-known Vienna physician, fashionable women are risking their lives iv wearing Directoire dresses during the cold weather. Influenza is epidemic in Court circles, and it is believed to be largely due to the popularity of the Directoire costume. The engagement is announced of Miss Adele Jackson, youngest daughter of Mrs. Henry Jackson, of Lower Hutt, to Mr. Louis Dillon-Kelly, of Auckland, son of Dr. Dillon-Kelly, of Ireland. The West Coast Times states that Mrs. Sutherland, who has severed her connection with the Westland Hospital, was a few days ago presented by members of the staff with a memento as a token of the esteem in which she was held by them. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, has joined the ranks of the restaurant-keepers of New York. Armed with a- special license from the Federal authorities, she will open at the Brooklyn Navy Yard a first-class eating-Tiouse, at which whole-somely-cooked meals will be served at moderate prices to thousands of Government employees. The restaurant will be sixty feet wide and a hundred long, and will accommodate 700 diners. It will uot be managed as a charity, but as a sound business enterprise. Many of the best-known ladies of New York society, including Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. H. Gerry, and Mrs. H. L. Satterlee (Mr. Morgan's youngest daughter), are associated with Miss Morgan in her enterprise. The wife of Mr. Morse, a well-known New York financier, who was recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment, has sold all her jewellery and valuable furs to the value of about £50,000, in order to satisfy the -creditors of her husband. Before he was sent to prison the fortune of Mr. Morse was over £4,400,000. Miss Ada Ward told her Christchurch audience in the Syclenham Salvation Army Barracks that the statement that she was going back to the stage was quite correct. It was the vill of God that she should do so, and she was going to do a)l she could to teach the Gospel to those connected with the | theatre. What good, she asked, had been accomplished by the theatre? Where a, few had perhaps been elevated by it, thousands had been sunk in degradation and despair. It was impossible to live on the* stage and lead an absolutely pure life. It was impossible for the parsons to get into touch with the profession, and she intended in the future to do all within her power to induce actors and actresses to leave the stage and live the godly life. Although ifc has been quite a common thing of recent years for well-born English women to go into trade, and tearooms and blouse-shops opened by members of society and even of the nobility have become quite a matter of course in London — as well as in Australia — it is only now that the Frenchwoman has followed her English sister's example. The firfet "femmes dv monde" to lead the way in Paris are the two daughters of tho late Edmond About, the wellknown writer For some time, writes the Londoii correspondent of a Sydney paper, the eld>3r Mile. About has beeh teaching the young girls of the leisured class how lo make hats, but last year, when on a visit to the Franco-British Exhibition, they were struck by the number oi well-born English women in charge of shops, and decided to follow their example in Paris, where their success is already assured. In 'America very remarkable success has attendod the formation of optimist clubs to combat the feeling of pessimism so largely prevailing in all ranks. The late President and tho present one of the United -States, also the various Governors of the individual States, hay© taken up tho matter with enthusiasm. An Australian lady, Mrs. W. Curnow, of Enmore, states the Sydney Morning Herald, has inaugurated a movement on similar lines, which has mado a, good start. The 'Right Hon. G. 'H. Reid is patron, Lady Pooro has accepted the position of president, and the vice-presidents are Mip. Hugh Dixon, Lady Harm, Mrs. Le Gay Brereton, 'Mrs. R. 15. Trindall. A number of well-known ladies are on the committee. Much interesting information has been given by Madame de iPerrot (.writes a London correspondent to the Sydney Daily Telegraph), whose course of lectures on the love stories of eminent French men and women have attracted crowded audiences on the question as to whether we should adopt the French system of tho "dot" in England. She aigues that there are a large number of girls who would make excellent wives, und there are many young men who would make equally good husbands, but they are kept back from marrying owing Lo ■want of means. This refers not to the upper classes of society, but of the middle class, who after all are the backbone of the nation. Girls who are canning 30s or £2 a week would do much better if they saved-something every week towards a dowry, and stayed at home of an evening sewing and' making an outfit for themselves, instead of being out in the streets with youths. When a girl is born in France her parents put by a certain sum every week to go towards a do-wry for her when grown up. There is nothing of this in England. Madame de Perrot would like to pee-some influential man. take xit> this idea, and lend the weight of his name to the proposal. Ho would bo a far greater .benefactor to the public than if he built hospitals and poor-houses. She would also like to see a 'State Lund created for providing every girl with a- dowry, which should be graduated ticcording to the financial position of her father, and restricted to the lower and middle classes. It would be made payable at the age of 21. Amongst all the, personal charms that go to inafee a woman beautiful, the one which ranks highest, and which is the most easily preserved, is a lovely complexion, povr a beautiful skin is not as unattainable as you might think — it is simply the result of care and wis dom in the treatment, and, if you are worried over your complexion, you can make your skin as soft and beautifully tinted as a child's, just by going the right way about it. It must be done in a natural way, and Milos Skin Food, which is prepared from Nature's own products, will cure in a natural vray, all imperfections and blemishes of theskin, removing pimples, blackheads, crowsfeet, wrinkles, lines, etc. This natural preparation has been tited by thousands of ladies iv England, and om tho Continent, and here in New Zealand, and always with the most beneficial and satisfactory results. It cannlot harm even the most sensitive skin — it is simply un aid to Nature, and a most efficient aid. Try it now. It is procurable from your chemist at 3s 9d a jar, or post free < fwm Miw M'Elwain, !BoJhst Specialist, 25* -Quflju-Bfcrsetj Auckland.— 4.dvt.

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