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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 9

The engagement is announced of Miss Gladys Genr, of "Akowi," Porirua, to Dr. Graham Robertson, of Johuhonville, foimeiJy «f the Wellington Hospital. Actresses have the best chance of ■murrkigo among the representative callings open to women. Next in older como the waitress, shop-girl, clerk, teacher, and niu-60. Miss 'lna Rozant, herself an actress, has written a book, in which she a&ks, "Is it easy lor an actress lo get ma-Tried?" And she goes on to explain why it is easy : Whatever drawbacks tho stage may have as *a profession, however, it certainly has a distinct tendency to keep people young — both men and women. "•.A-s a rule, actresses of every class have a gieat many social opportunities, of meeting men. Also they are often personally attractive, and 'quickly acquire an €,i*e of manner and 6ort of cainar.iderie towards the opposite sox that men seem to like — especially if they happen to be shy themselves — and which women who follow other callings find it more difficult to attain." A London reporter interviewed Isidore Salmon, manager to Messrs. Joseph Lyons and Co., and was lold : We have 3500 waitresses, all necessarily of pleasant manners and appearance; il is not, therefore, at all *vi prising that the marriage rate is decidedly high. .Mr. Bernard de Bean, principal "of Pitman's (M-etiopolitan School, where 3000 new students enter annually, states that quite 50 per cent, of the pupils marry. He relates from personal knowledge that mot nt all infrequently the employer nnarries the trained and valued worker. 'Miss King, for forty-three years secretary to the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women, says thai she has noticed that the nursd af equal ■social standing very often mimics a doctor. 'Miss King, moreover, added her verdict on a seventh profession, not, 'however, numerically important enough to be considered a repiesentativc calling. '"Lady doctors," she said, "I place in the front lank for marrying among all ithfl professions that have come under my notice. I Austrian girls are carefully taught in school until they are fifteen years old (says an exchange). They are "not during this time kept entirely out of society, but aro dreseed with the greatest simplicity, never wearing a silken gown xintil they have left school and attend their first ball. On leaving the schoolroom they have one or two .years' training- in the kitchen and pantry, either by some m«piber of their own family or imder a trained cook in another's house. Though they may never bo required to cook for themselves, they know exactly ihow everything should be done, and long before they set up housekeeping on their own account are competent to take charge iof a household. They make most affectionate wives and mothers. An 'Austrian lady is said to be as accomplished and learned as an English governess, as good a cook and housekeeper as a German, a.s 'bright and witty in society as a. Parisian, and as handsome as an. .American. In Vienna aro found some of the most beautiful women in Europe. Austrian girls are brought up ilx habits of industry, and are rarely seen without some kind of "work in hand. They aro famous for their great piles x of linen, a certain number of yards of 'which are every year from a girl's birth woven and laid aside for her marriage portion. The grandmothers spend much of their time hi knitting for their grandchildren, not only supplying their present need, -but laying by dozens of stockings of every kind for the young girl's trousseau. Some of these stockings are as fine as the finest woven ones. Tea table etiquette was somewhat complicated in the days of that "hardened and shameless lea-drinker," Dr. Johnson, when "many people thought nothing of drinking ten or twelve cups at a sitting. It was considered proper, notes the London Daily Chronicle, for the cups and saucers of a parly of teadrinkers to be all passed up to the hostess in one batch, when replenishment was considered necessary, and in order that each persdn might be sure of getting back the right cup, the teaspoons were numbered. When the cups were passed up, those who did not require any more were supposed to place the spoon in the cup. Anil this writer remembers a very ancient dame teaching a small hoy to place his spoon in his cup after the. first cup had been emptied. Jle wondered for the reason. I\ow he knows that tea was once very expensive, and little boys were not expected to ask again. When a young girl entered a pawnbroker's shop in Leipzig with 14 rings she was suspected and detained. Inquiries proved that she was the rightful owner, and that the rings were souvenirs of 14 fiances. A mild sensation was produced in Hyde Park recently, says a London journal, by the sudden appearance of three sti'angers clad in garb of the very lightest nature 1 copied from ancient Greek vases. They were a man, a woman, and a small boy. The man had long hair and went bareheaded. He woi'e, so far as could bs gathered on a cursory inspection, a bingle garment — a clulou or toga — of white calico, wrapped picturesquely about him. His arms and logs were bare, and on his feel weie sandals. The woman was baie-heacled ; she wore her hair parted dawn the middle and caught back with a band into a (lieek knot. Her dress \Va-s a brown chiton or tdga over a white peplon or uhder-garment, arid she too walked in sandals. The boy U-as attired in primitive raiment. His only garment was a little white peplou, tied round the waist with a leather band. Hourid his bare head \vas twined a wreath of flowers, and on his feet were sandals. The movements o£ the three, as they slfDlldd along the Serpentine, U'ere watched by a small crowd and photographed by various observers. Tho trio aie vaguely reported lo belong to v wealthy Greek family which has taken up its lusidencc near Hyde Park, and is said to be bent 011 living the simple life. There was a large* audience in the Masonic Hall last night to listen to a lecture given on the subject ''Adam and Kvv, and the Garden of Eden," by Sister Avabamitt, colonial representative ot the Vediilita movement. After the lei'turess had explained that "she did not intend lo go into argument as to whether such place as the Garden of Eden had, of had mil r>xis(ed t but (dial she intended to deal with the symbolic meaning it might have," she said in part : — "Uod has spoltPii to mankind in all ages in and by symbols, and when Iht* race has evolved to «. higher plane than the physical il will see that every syrtibol is a message fiom (he Lord." The theme, which was elaborated at considerable length, was listened to with giesil. attention. Mrs. Rolleslon's is recommended for hair dressing, shampooing, clipping,' and singeing, and all hair treatments with and without cleulricityr Milos preparation in stock, also special Powders, recomniendsd for d-inces, etc, 4. WiJHei.Btr&dl, bv&v CaU'oUV Tbls* V(3»S IS3Br- *U£t