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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

"It is because there is no marrying or giving in marriage in Heaven that the temper of an angel is the temper of an angel. If the angels had got husbands, there'd be a different tale about their tempers." —Isabel Carnaby

The engagement is announced of Miss Edith Bendall, third daughter of Captain Bendall, to Mr. Gerald Robison, of Wellington College teaching staff. Mr. Robison is brother to Mrs. William Pember Reeves. Mr. Mrs. and the Misses Rutherford, who have been spending a delightful time in Australia, return to New Zealand on the 22nd September. They are at present in Adelaide, which they think is the prettiest town they have yet visited. Miss Rattray, who has been staying with Mrs. G. F. Campbell, left for Dunedin on Friday. The R.ev. Mr. Moreland and Mrs. Moreland, .who have been visiting Wa- ( nganui, were passengers to Christchurch i on Friday. A most industrious association is the Kia Ora centre of the Girls' Realm Guild, although probably all of its members have their own special work, and can only devote their leisure to their charity. Their latest venture was a sale of flowers and home-made sweets held on Saturday afternoon in the Courte-nay-place' Congregational Church. The stage was prettily decorated with purple and white wisteria/ —the colours of the centre —and a long table down one side of the room was a mass of lovely blossoms, nearly all given by generous sympathisers. Anemones, freesias, violets, a wealth of daffodils and primroses —they came from many gardens, some from miles away. They fetched a ready sale, as did also the sweets. A most enjoyable concert took place before the little flower-bazaar, the performers being : the Misses G. and M. Young, S. Rapley, M. Carte, E. Scott, B. Luke, F. M'llwraith, Salmon, Bastings, and Mrs. Sutcliffe, who is president of the centre. Miss Effie Young is its energetic secretary. Mrs. Nelson arrived from Auckland on Saturday, and is staying with Miss Coates. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Riley will leave Vancouver in the Makura, the same boat as Sir Joseph and Lady Ward are passengers on. Mrs. Moyes was hostess at a very enjoyable dance on Saturday night for her two daughters, Olive and Sadie. Mrs. Mason's hall, in Ghuznee-street, was prettily decorated with foliage and flowers. Mrs. Moyes wore black satin and lace, Miss Olive Moves blue silk with lace and black, ana Miss Sadie pale blue eilk and lace. The dance was a great success, floor, music, and supper all being admirable. On Friday Mrs. Frederick Shipman gave an artistic little luncheon to some ladies at the •Grand Hotel. The table decorations were narcissi and lycopodium, and the hostess wore bronze ninon with Valenciennes lace of the same tone, a black silk cut-away coat and a brown poke bonnet with a cluster of brown and green plumes. Mr. and Mrs. Wright gave a very pleasant dance at their house on the Terrace on Friday. The dance was for their guest, Miss Kimbley. The garden afforded pleasant space for strolling and for resting, a.nd the rooms were beautiful with flowers. Mrs. Wright wore black satin, Miss Wright was in white silk, and Miss Knubley wore heliotrope silk. There is a rumour that the baby fringe and the flat coiffure is coming into fashion. By the fringe is meant, not the few pretty kiss-curls that hide the austerity of too intellectual a brow, and soften the curve of the hair, but the straight fringe, such as Lady Raiifurly- wore when first she came to New | Zealand. Probably our girls, so many of whom have lovely hair, will be too sensible to follow this fashion, and will cling to their own individual style of hairdressing-. There is an exaggeration greatly to Be deplored about some of the coiffures of to-day. They are out of all proportion to the face and the shoulders, and the amount of labour expended od them is wasted artistically. Two girls at a reoent affair were in keen contrast as regards their haiidressing. On tho head of one —whose immense pile of curls and twists was as wide as her 6houlders —l counted nineteen puffs, and this was only at the back. In front there were more, and tho small face, pretty, too, with delicate colouring and bright eyes, looked absurd in its huge frame of tortured tresses. The other girl had considerable fair hair, with a big wave —natural or acquired —in it. She had parted it, swept it back in curving puffs towards the back of her neck, and there softly coiled it. It was charmingly graceful and refreshingly simple, and gave added character to the sweet face. 1 Silk nets are to be worn over these coils, and even the thick chenille ones of fifty years ago are to be seen; while, foif gala occasions, there are silver and gold networks. An extract given from one of the lectures on the subject reads like this : "The well-bred girl will not hand round her photographs to her admirers, neither will she accept theirs. Should she be so unfortunate as to fall in love before becoming engaged she must be careful to conceal the fact, and bear in mind that a marriage proposal can never come from her." After the first smile at this picture of a naughty gir "handing round her photographs" as if they were cakes, we may consider this seriously. And still a smile is. likely to force itself to Western lips at the implied condemnation of falling in love "before becoming engaged." "Sentence first, verdict afterwards," was the principle of justicein "Alice in Wanderland.'" "Affection afterwards, occeptance first," is the method of a well-bred girl in Japan. Unless by some secret process they contrive to make the onset of love and a proposal exactly simultaneous. It would be interesting to hear more of the rule that I "a marriage proposal can never come, from her." Is it to be interpreted in the letter or the spirit? asks a writer ;n; n the London Telegraph.

It is hoped that the urgent need for a boarding establishment in connection with the Young Women's Christian Association will be recognised by the public. At the recent successful concert held in the Town Hall, in connection with their anniversary, the chairman, Dr. Newman, spoke emphatically of the benefit that sucli an institution would be. He asked the audience "whether the bright bevy of girls before them were not w6rthy of as fine a building as that belonging to the kindred association." I Owing to the enthusiasm being shown, he predicted that in less than four years the girls of Wellington would have a beautiful home pf their own. Dr. Rosa Collier, who has been appointed to a Clinton practice, telegraphed to the Dunedin. Hospital Board resigning her position as medical attendant to the Rock and Pillar Consumptive Sanatorium. The resignation was accepted with regret, reports the Dunedin Star, the chairman (Mr. Walker) remarking that it would be a long time before the board got 'a better officer to, take her place. The Skating Rink was well filled on Saturday afternoon, when a children's fancy dress carnival was held. Such a scene as it was — shouts of laughter, tumbles everywhere, and fun. It waa difficult to pick out individually all. the dresses, and it was only when a pause came in the merriment that it was possible. Miss N. Anstis, who received the prize for the best costume, came as "Spring at Warnock and Adkins." Her large poke bonnet was covered with roses and sweet peas, and worn with a charming -dress of stiff white book-muslin, bordered with tiny roses. A dark girl came as a daffodil, and a tiny maiden (who received a special prize) as "A Daughter of the Empire." There was an Irish Washerwoman behind her, and a laughing 80-Peep. Here a soldier, having an animated conversation with a Suffragette, who got the prize for the most original dress, while a footballer waltzed madly with a shepherdess, and just in front, laughing and talking, were a Red Indian and a Schoolgirl. Altogether the afternoon proved a great success. The work of the Guild of the Brave Poor Things and also of the Guild of Play has made remarkable progress during the past year. During the last two months ten crippled boys, having come to the end of their three years' training at the Heritage Craft School at Chailey, have been successfull placed out in firms bearing a high reputation for good work, where the boys are likely to be given every chance of advancement, and where at this moment they are earning wages varying from 12s 6d, 15s, 18s, to 21s _ weekly. One old Heritage boy is now ' earning 25s in spite of double crutches and crossed legs. One girl has been successfully placed out in a West-end lingerie business, and as the girls' school has only been in existence for three years, no other girl has yet completed her course. On the other hand, more than twelve girls entering on the domestic side have been successfully placed out, their course of training covering a shorter period than the needlework course. Of these girls, two had bnt one arm, and all were undersized and "ailing when they came to us, writes the secretary in a London journal. Lord Llangattock is one of the treasurers. Both schools are full. There is at present accommodation for forty boys and forty gjrls. A large and unexpected opportunity for extension has somewhat suddenly occurred, of which particulars will be given in confidence to anyone willing to help the guild with the scheme. ParticuhJfe of an interesting wedding which took place at Wood-green are given in a London journal. The couple are the Rev. John Thomas, whose age is nearer 90 than 80, and his housekeeper, Louisa Florence Nipper. The ceremony was very quiet, and the marriage register gives the age of the bride as 35, and that of the bridegroom as "full." The Rev. John Thomas is the oldest resident clergyman in Wood-green. Forty seven years ago he took charge of the parish of St. Michael's, Wood-green, as vicar, and under his active supervision the parish developed to a very considerable extent. About two years ago Mr. Thomas vacated the incumbency owing to advancing age, and settled down to live in retirement. His bride has been a servant of the family for many years. Some two or three years ago Mr. Thomas's son married a sister of his i father's bride. A correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle has been moved to indicate some remedies for what she calls "breakfast table snappishness," A well-bred young man who lives in rooms with three other men, she writes, once told_ me that while the seven o'clock dinner hour is always full of cheer and good will, the four friends seldom exchange a syllable at the break-fast-table beyond a brief salutation on entering the room and a curt "Good-day" in separating to their various places of business. "Thanks to this sensible silence, we have lived together three years without quarrelliing." He wound up the story by saying : "Every man is a brute until he has had his morning coffee." I told him it was rubbish , men, at any rate, had no reason to be "growl-» ing" at breakfast. Nor have they. They have their tvb — if they belong to the classes that wash, as 1 these young men do — they have a healthy five minutes with the dumbbells, and should be full of vigour, cheerfulness, and have developed a healthy appetite. In tho case of the women members of the family it is different. The cold bath is not a fetish to them ; and that particular form of ablution is frequently postponed till a more comfortable hour, and is even then more often warm or hot. Result, general sleepiness, disagreeableness at the breakfast table ; or, worse still, a half breakfast in bed eaten without appetite. Try getting up a quarter of an hour earlier. If you rise usually at eight, have the hot water brought to the door afc a quarter to eight, and get ap when you are called. A brisk bath 'and a smart rubbing with a coarse > towel, preceded by fifty gymnastic strokes, such as armswinging and general flexing of the muscles, twenty-fi\ r e deep breaths that pump the morning air down --to the bottomest well ,of the lungs and clear the respiratory passages — these, with a general disposition to speak civilly to your neighbour, will make the first meal of the day a cheerful family gathering iustead of a trial of patience. To breakfast in bed is to evade the difficulty, not to overcome it. It is, moreover, not a cleanly practice. The tray brought to an unaired room, and a tumbled bed are solecisms in an age of hygienic principles, much ventilation and matutinal baths. The inability to be in charity with one's fellow mortals, to smile genially, and to speak gently before the world is well started upon its diurnal swing, and the complainant's physical system is toned and tuned and oiled by eating, is Jc^vading In Heel*. Tb« sonfewion at , iV i» jnuerUe. '