WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Lady Russell and Miss llarjoiie Russell, from Hawkes Bay, are staying at the Royal Oak. The Misses Turner have gone to New Plymouth, where they stay with Mrs. Munro. Mr. and Mrs. Eastlake, Dr. Bell's brother-in-law and sister, arrive in Wellington from England in June. Both are artists, and will probably find much pleasure in our beautiful country. Dr. Bell's picturesque house at Chats worth, Silverstream, will soon be completed. Mrs. Tibbie, the matron of the Nelson Mental Hospital, who has been visiting Wellington, returned home on Saturday. Last Thursday Mrs. Frank Leckie and her twin daughters came back from their visit to Mrs. Kebbell, of the Wairarapa. Miss Holmes, of Masterton, is visiting Wellington. She is one of the team who are, to play a match against Trenthain, players. Other Masterton golfers who "are included in the team are Mrs. i>. Beetham, Mrs. H. Booth, and Miss Booth, Miss Payton, and the Misses Robieson. Miss Malcolm, from Masterton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cruickshank. Mrs. Nunnelly, who has been staying at Lansdowne, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. T. M. Wilford, who leaves in July for Scotland with her son, will remain at Home for a year. According to the Gentlewoman, this hanging of a fulness of material from what one might call a deep hip yoke is characteristic of the tailor suit. So many of the newest tailor skirts pleated from the knees are hanging from a deep yoke. This gives the extremest slimness to the hip line, whilst obtaining the prettjr becoming ripple of the pleats at the foot of the skirt. Fashion always finds a middle way. to mediate between the past and the future. We are not yet inclined to the aggressive hip-line, although the tightness of the directoire skirt and its extreme narrowness at the base have given rise to a desire for more freedom, a better .condition which is quite nicely provided by the skirt that is gathered or pleated from a hip piece. To revert again to these low hung paniers one notices what pretty harmony of line may exist between such a skirt and a short sleeve prettily spreading just where it reaches the eloow. Not that it is necessary for the sleeve to be short in order to have this little spread at the elbow. In a very new frock I saw the other day made of chiffon, the sleeye was of the long to the wrist close fitting order, but had extra drapery at the elbow to place it in relationship with the draperies of the skirt which spread out muchly below the knee. One may thus if one wants to dodge the wearing of long gloves. At the same time tho long white glove is, like the petticoat, coming back into favour. I think with frocks of grey and mole, aid such soft neutral tones, the suede glove exactly matching the frock distinctly elegant. Tho coloured glove is, of course, a terror, but these soft neutral tones are quite different, and often work with such harmony and restfulness into a scheme. In reply to the statement made by an American University professor that "woman suffrage was a kind of witchcraft that seized upon neurotic women,"' attention has been dr*awn to a few facts about some of the earliest advocates of the suffrage in America. Lucretia Motfv had six sons, each 6ft tall, and she died at the age of 88, strong and vigorous to the last. Elizabeth Cody Stanton lived to be 87, and was the mother of seven children. Susan Anthony died at 86, Mary Livermore at 82, both strong and vigorous to the last ; while Julia Ward Howe is still alive at the age of 90, and still going strong. These women were the earliest and most vigorous champions of women's rights, and, -judging from facts, they certainly do not seem to come iinder the head of "neurotic women." "There are women doing things that you or I woxild not do for £5000 a year," said Dr. Mason, in eulogising the female nurses at the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board meeting last week. It was, he said, the innate gentleness of women that made them more satisfactory nurses than men. In spite of what one or two members the board remarked, he said if he v> -re ill he would prefer-a female nurse. Advertisement is generally considered to be an outcome of the present-day emulation and eagerness to make money. But here is an advertisement from the Morning Advertiser of 1800, glorifying a certain soap, which by the way — unless the ingredients be forgotten — would be much in demand in this present age, even if it only produced a tithe of the beneficial results ascribed to it. The convent soap, of surprising qualities. — The recipe for making this extraordinary soap was given, by the lady abbess of a nunnery at Belleisle to the wife of an officer of rank after the taking of that island in the year 1761. She has used it herself, and distributed it among her acquaintances upwards of thirty years, by whom she is now pressed to make it public for the benefit of society. Every attempt to describe its excellence in cleansing, softening, and whitening the skin will fall so very far short of its real merits that the proprietor will only recommend a single trial, which must establish its virtues infinitely beyond everything hitherto invented for eradicating eruptions and beautifying the skin. It is far the best shaving soap at present known. Those who may doubt its superior efficacy may make a trial before they purchase it. It is sold for the proprietdr in Pall Mall at 2s 6d per pot, which will last a considerable time, as a very small quantity at each washing or shaving is sufficient. N.B. — As an incontestable proof of its superior qualities, it will in a few times using soften the hands of such as are grown callous by hard work. A perfume, advertised in the Daily Courant of 200 years ago, is the subject of still greater praise. The princely perfume, being a most delightful powder, which incomparably scents handkerchiefs, gloves, and all sorts of linen, making them smell moat deliciously odoriferous ; fine, and charming. It perfumes the hands, the hair of the headland periwigs, most delicately, also all" manner of cloaths, beds, rooms, hcrutons, presses, drawers, boxes, and all other tilings, giving them a most admirable, pleasant, and durable scent, which is so curiously fragrant, so delicately sweet, reviving, and enlivening, that' no perfume or aiomatick in the world can possibly come near it. It never raises the vapours in ladies, but by its delicious odour, fragrancy, and charming perfume (which is really superior to all other eccnts upon earth) it refreshes the memory, cures the bead- ■

ach, takes away dulness and melancholy, makes the heart glad, and encreases all the spirits — natural, vital, and animal — to a wonder. It is a • thousand pities if the recipe of this extraordinary preparation is lost to a wopld who suffers too often from loss ofAiemory, headache, dulness, and melancholy. What an invaluable addition it would be to dinner parties and afternoon teas ! Old age come to us women all too quickly and naturally we do not like to be thought even a little older than we really are. Sometimes, misfortune, illhealth, grief, etc., causes the hair of quite young ladies to turn grey, and it's those grey hairs, which judging by anpearance, add from 5 to 10 years to your age. Now, there's no need for you to allow this state of affairs to continue, for there's a wdjaderful hair medicine which is not a dye, nor is it &ticky, greasy, nor staining to the skin, a scientific composition which nourishes the hair, stimulates the growth, and restores the hair permanently, naturally and completely, to its proper colour after a few applications. It is "Milos Hair Restorer and you can procure it right here in Wellington at 7s 6d per bottle, but if your chemist does not stock it, write direct to Miss M'Elwain, Toilet Specialist, 254 Queen-street, Auckland, who will send it to you by return, post free, giving also any private advice you may solicit. — Advt.

When it becomes a choice whether you do a thing well or do it fast, do ifc well every time. Speed may be deairable, but accuracy is invaluable.