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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ross, of Auckland, are staying at Heretaunga. Mrs. Denniston, wife of Mr. Justice Denniston, who has been paying a flying visit to Levin, to visit her daughter, leaves for Christchurch this evening. Miss Dorothy Nisbot, who has been staying with her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Pike, returns to Dunedin on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Nisbet, her parents, return next week from Australia. Lady Ward takes the chair at Mr. Foster Eraser's lecture on Wednesday t afternoon on "Women of Many Lands." That same evening she goes South to pay a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Cyril VVard, at lnvercargill. Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Smythe arrived from Christchurch on Saturday, and arq at the Windsor. Mrs. and Miss Ehrenfried, of Auckland, are at the Empire, en route to Christchurch. Mr. John Newth, the Mayor of Waihi, and his daughter, are guests of Mrs. \V. Lange, Brooklyn. Mrs. Fowlds is staying at the Hotel Windsor. Jiiss Ada Carey, from England, who has been visiting her brother at the Lower Hutt, left on Saturday to stay with her brother in Chrietchurch. Mrs. Heaton, of the Lower Hutt, went South on Saturday. She goes to Ashbiirton to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fowke. The delegates to the Conference of the Chambers of Commerce at Sydney arrived yesterday, and spent a delightful afternoon. They motored to the Upper Hutt, and after visiting the golf links, stopped at Mr. John Duthia's hospitable llouse at Nai-Nai, where they had afternoon tea. They were charmed with the lovely Hutt Valley, now beautiful in spring green and gold. Eighteen motor-cars were filled, many of them being lent by private ownera. The beautiful gardens with the charming stream that curves about between its picturesque banks were much admired, and tho guests thoroughly appreciated the hospitality and the fair landscape. A letter from Lady Stout comes from Glasgow, where sho and Sir Roborthave arrived from Shetland. The weathor was cold, but they were enjoying their stay, especially appreciating a motor ride to Inverang, pa3t the Lochs Esk and Fyne. They also went to Rothesay and tho Kylos of Bute — the scenery at Ormidale resembles Wanganui Harbour on a minute seale — and only sunshine was necessary to make tho views perfect. So cold was it • that Lady Stout had to wear warmer clothes than she ever wore in New Zealand, and this was in summer. Tho Lerwick women, when Lady Stout was in Shetland, were very keen about the franchise, and LadyStout consented to become president of their league. Mr. Wason, who opposes the movement, had a very hostilo meeting, and a vote of no-confidence was passed, although Mrs. Pankhurst could not arrive in time. The society of which Lady Stout has become president is not to become militant, and not to oppose Mr. Wason if he reconsiders his position on the franchise. The militants aro getting hundreds of adherents and thousunds of pounds. Women certainly require the vote if only to help to improve tho conditions of their children. In driving down to the quaySir Robert and Lady Stout passed through the waterside slums, which were awful, and tho womon there too dreadful to look at. The laziness and shiftlessness of the Shetland crofters much impressed Lady Stout, who marvelled that any crops or vegetables could grow under such conditions, for weeds abound, and the disorder is awful. No attempt is made to make the surroundings of the cottages even decently tidy, and no beautifying is ever done. The contrast between the neatness, charm, and order of even the smallest cottage in Switzerland contrasted keenly with the squalor and depression of the Shetland farms. The women, too, have a hard life. ' Old women whose life-work should have been completed, having only rest and comfort at the fireside, dig peats and carry them home on their backs, and many upend the whole day digging in the field. Women were seen by Lady Stout when in Germany guiding the cow that dragged the plough that the man drove, but she never saw women there doing degrading work, nor • acting as beasts of burden, as do the Shetland women. Indeed, there they «eem to do all the hard work, all the farming, peat-carrying, and digging, while the nfen are fishing. New Zealand women have a most enviable time in comparison with their sisters in other lands. Mrs. C. W. Adams, of Lowqr Hutt, returns to her home on Thursday next from a visit to her daughter in Auckland. To the girl who does not always fill her programme at a. ball (writes a lady in the Sydney Morning Herald) comes consolar tion in the latest theory that excessive dancing enlarges the feet. Dances aro muoh longer now than thoy used to be. There is less time between tho music, consequently the dancer is on hor feet for a muoh longer period, with the result that she takes a largeT size in shoes. Ifc is said that ball slippers which fitted comfortably at the beginning of the season are quite tineomfortably tight after a month or more of continual dancing. A good plan to prevent the feat swelling uncomfortably after dancing is to gently massage them, then Boothe with a cooling lotion before going to bed. This will take the ache out of the feet, and prepare them for another night's dancing. Hundreds of articles are sold each week on the hire purchase system, and it is a convenient way of procuring such a household necessity as a piano. These hire purchase systems vary with each firm, but the easiest and most liberal are those of the Wellington Piano Company, Ltd., 124, Lambt6n-quay. Any piano in the warehouse can be secured on one, two, or three years' hire purchase. The rate of interest charged is only 5 per cent., while most other firms charge 6£ to 7 per cent. If the balance is paid off before the time agreed upon, n proportionate reduction of interest is made. All the time you are playing ana paying for the piano it is kept insured, and in the event of destruction by fire you have the privilege of selecting another new instrument of equal value* 1 to the one destroyed, and go on paying tha instalments as if nothing had happened. The Wellington Piano Company's terms are absolutely the most liberal. — Advt.