WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mrs. Bendall has gone to Napier to stay .with. Mrs. Cornford. The team chosen to play in the interclub golf match at Trent ham to-day includes Miss Brandon, Mrs. Lees, Miss E. Bell, Mrs. Tweed, Mrs. Turnbull, Mrs. P. C. Freeth, Mrs. Biss, Mi^s N. Brandon, Miss Stafford, Mrs. Rolleston, and Mrs. Watkins. Mrs. Chatfield has gone to Waikanae to stay with Mrs. Hadfield, her sister. Mrs. Haselden left on Monday for Palmerston North, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Harold Cooper. Mrs. Kane was hostess at a delightful tea yesterday, given in honour of Mrs. W. H. Webb who, with Colonel Webb and her two daughters, leave shortly for NeJgon. The pretty drawingroom was gay with chrysanthemums and late roses, grown at Lowry Bay. The decorations of the tea-table were yeDow chrysanthemums and grasses. The hosiers wore a handsome black silk, with cleam lace and black velvet, Miss Kane pink muslin, and Miss Amy Kane, grey crepe de chine. Mrs. Webb had on. a navy-blue coat and skirt, and a black toque with red 'flowers. Miss Webb also wore a navy tailor-made, with a hat with red,, and Miss Dolly We"bb was in dark blue ,with gre.en wings in her blue hat. The guests much appreciated recitations by Miss Hardinge-Maltby, and songs from Miss Bertha Miles and Miss Mary Jones. Mrs. T. E. Donne was the principal guest yesterday at a tea given by Mrs. A. de Castro. The tea-table was prettily decorated with gold and mauve chrysanthemums and autumn foliage. Mrs. Kendall and Miss Darling played and Mips Kreeffc recited. The hostess wore a blue Indian muslin with emt broideries and pale blue silk, Mrs. Donne a navy tailor-made, and a becoming black hat. Mr. R. Sinclair has taken the house in Portland-crescent, at present occupied by Mr. T. Humphries, A novel present for a bridge enthusiast, is a set of candle shades, each representing one of tbo suits of card&. The spades and clubh are mounted on red, the hearts 'and diamonds on black grounds, and thej are quite easy to make. If the plain white and red shades cannot be bought, the wire foundations can, and these are even prettier, for a neat-fingered worker can easily cover them with thin silk, and gum on the paper ornaments. These must be very correctly cut out, and a good effect is got by dividing the shade by lines of black or red — or even gold — into sections, the heart, diamond, club, or spade, just filling up the section. Marvellous are the flower decorations for a London ball. The staircases are often arched in with climbing roses or ivy geranium, or withsmilax alone when, from the crown of the arch, hangs a posy of choice blossoms. The mantelpieces are decked to the crest of the overmantel or mirror. Sometimes ,a tall column of ilowers or foliage is set each tide of the glass, and graceful festoons of smilax or blossom arranged across, far enough way to let the light penetrate behind, and to show the reflection. Archways are entirely covered with trellis-work, tinted borbcris, and that lovely flame-coloured azalea, being much in request. From either side, curtains of foliage fall to the ground, looped black with iope& of blossom. A floral hammock of flowers in light foliage, mixed with delicate-tinted ribbon is sometimes suspended across a high archway, and quainter still, is a punkah of foliage and blossom so made and hung that it sways to and fro. The Plunket Nurse who is resident in Palmerston North has visited over 70 mothers and paid 700 visits to homes in the six months she has been in the town. Gem jewellery is taking on a fresh lease of life (notes a lady in an African exchange), the setting being of fairylike character, and aluminium mounts are frequently employed in place of gold. Amethysts, tourmalines, aquamarines, divines, and last, but by no means least, yellow sapphires, are all leading fancies, and each oue is considerably enhanced by an alliance with small, closely-set brilliants. The very latest fad in bedroom decoration is the glass toilet set, which has the advantage of "going with" every possible colour and stylo of furnituie, and every change of wallpaper (observes one writer). But it is an exponsive fashiwi. A perfectly plain set of clear glass — ewer, basin, soap-dish, spongebowl, etc., costs from 39s 6d, while, though it looks pretty enough with wfiter shining clear in it, it falls far short of the sparkling charm of a cutglass set at £12 12s. This is a double set, inasmuch as it has a second jug and bapin of smaller size, in which the fashionable woman keeps the distilled water she uses to bathe her face. Another disadvantage is that glass is naturally much more trouble to keep clean than plain glazed porcelain. On an I antique washstand of polished mahogany, however, the top protected from I splashes by a sheet of plate glass with bevelled edges, showing the varnish of the wood through, and looking infinitely prettier than heavy white marble, the glass toilet set is delightful, and positively lights up the room. The Imperial Society of Dance Teachers of England have, written to the. Kin" suggesting that the programme of at least one State ball during the season be arranged to include a revival of some of the elegant court dances of former periods. The tell-tale wrinkles of age, or the mischief through wind and weather, need not trouble the women of Wellington. Within the reach of them all are the means of remedying every facial blemish, from whatever cause. The latest European Face Massage for eradicating wrinkles, freckles, looseness of the skin, and improving the general contour of the face is practised. Superfluous hair peunanently removed by electricity, also double chins, and undue redness of nose and cheeks. Electric Stalp Massage a bpecialily ; prevents ! all falling and fading, when the hair is | thing it induces health and luxuriant growth. Advice on all complexion matters free of charge at the Valaze Depot, Biandon-street. Valaze Skin Food removes wrinklei, sunburn, and freukles. In jars, 4s, 7f. Novenu Sun and I Windpioof Creme shields the complexion not only "hum sunbiu-n, t.iu and freckles, [ but also injury caused by wind and told. In jars, 2s and 3s 6d. Valazo Liquidiuc prevents and removes acne, r.imp]e&, blackheads, blotches, and groasiness. In bottles, 8s 6d. Of leading chemifath, or direct, post free, from Helena Rubinstein, ltubinslein Vaiasw Doput, Bi'audoH sU'csi, Wolilogttni.-"

A quaint old marriage custom is still observed by the Dukes of Atholl and their heirs— that of the bridegroom carrying the bride across the threshold of Blair Castle, it being in accord with au ancient tradition that il is unlucky for a bride who enters the castle for the first time to walk in the ordinary way. The most costly dress in Madame Sarah Bernhardt's wardrobe is one of ivory satin, lavishly adorned with diamonds and turquoises, and with a train lined with the fur from two hundred ermines. Apart from the jewels the dress is worth £1500. A wise woman who has just returned to Australia from New Zealand, wxites an Australian journalist, has brought a delightful bit of feather work, which is going to make a wonderfully attractive mutf. You probably know the sort of feather work I mean. It is done by Maoris, and is done so beautifully that the work is practically indestructible. Some kinds rather resemble Friesland fowls, but the special variety I have in my mind is as smooth as the back of a parrot. The writer suggests that Maori women, like the Islanders, Avork only when they feel so disposed-, and to establish an industry among them is attended with difficulty in a hard world, where dealers expect to have their "orders executed with care and despatch." If it were not for trifles Hko that, Maori women would find a, good market in Australia for much that they do, especially in these times when hand bags and feather work are so much in demand. In Kansas there are twenty-two newspapers that are edited by women. By the death of Mrs. Lushington last •week at her residence, The Park, Sandling, Maidstona, an interesting link with the past is broken, notes St. James's Budget. The deceased lady, who had attained the great ago of ninety-one, was the sister of ' Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, who died in 1892.

When it becomes a oUoice whether you do a thing well or do it fast, do it well every time. Speed may bo desirable, but accuracy ia invaluable.