WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1909, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

]\lrs. Martin Kennedy returned from her trip to Auckland and Rotoiua on Saturday. Miss Clavk, of Nelson, who has been visiting Dannevirke, is staying with Mrs. Martin Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy Macdonald and Miss Greenwood are expected back from England by the Athenic, which is due tomorrow. ——— f Mrs. Bowerbank and Miss K. MacKellar are visiting Timaru. Mrs. Quane, of Christchurch, arrives by the Sydney boat, from England. Mrs. Boyd, of Willis-street, is leaving to-morrow for Hawkes Bay. Mrs. Morrison, of Rarotonga, is the guest of Mrs. Darling, at Kelburne. The Garrison officers at Mount Cook Barracks on Saturday gave a pleasant tennis party. Captain Butler received the guests, and Mrs. o'Sullivan superin* tended the very acceptable tea. The afternoon was much enjoyed. Next Saturday the Free Kindergarten Council, to add to its funds, is giving a garden party in the grounds of Awarua House, very kindly lent by the Premier for the purpose. Tho cause is most deserving, for four schools, Taranaki-street and Constable-street, Island Bay and Biooklyn, have been started and are kept up by the association. Surely this is a work worthy all admiration and support, and it is to be hoped that numbers will attend with full purses and generous hearts. Various attractions, beside tho delight of a charming garden and pleasant company, are to be forthcoming —fortune-tellers, band, music, and concerts, and afternoon tea —for a consideration. Sweets and flowers will be sold, and copies of Miss Richmond's songs are to be on sale for the benefit of the fund. The Girls' Wellington East Cricket Club takes at present the premier 'place. At the beginning of November it defeated Wellington South by an innings and 30 runs, and on Saturday, in a match with Wellington North, it won by an innings and 42 runs. The game was played at Kelburne Park, and the highest scorers wore —Miss Cameron o4 runs, Miss Dobson 20, Miss Rivers 10, all belonging to "the winning team. Mrs. and Miss Buick and Miss Gil lies, who have been staying at the Occidental Hotel, go to Palmerston iSorth to-day for a few days. Miss Skerrett has gone to Napier. Professor and Mrs. Adamson leave to-morrow for the South. They will probably visit Queens town, and do the Te Anau-Milford trip. Mrs. A. St. J. Parsons left for Hawera on Wednesday, accompanied by her uncle, Mr. Goortacker. The puzzle mania is by no means dying out at Home. Indeed, the latest competition at country afternoon teas is provided by a number of small dissected -pictures, the guest who puts hers together most quickly gaining the prize. The many women who love crotchet will rejoice to hear of v its immense popularity. New and old patterns are much sought after, and it is put to many uses, ties, collais, and yokes being especially in favour. The latest idea is crochet applique. You work little leaves, ' flowers, sprigs, and flourishes, and then applique them on fine strong net. After it is finished, the work may be dipped into weak tea or coffee, or left for a whole night in milk. The next morning squeeze it, and put it for a few seconds into cold water, and then press. It will take on a pretty old lace tint by this process. A quiet wedding took place at Greytown on Saturday (states our Grey town correspondent), when Mr. James Judd was married, at his private residence, to Miss Mary Davis. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. J. Elliott, of the Carterton • Wesleyan •Church. A great many relatives and friends were present, and numerous wedding gifts were made. Mr. and Mrs. Judd left by the morning train for a trip through the North Island. An old and respected couple —Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Reynolds — celebrated their golden wedding at Greytown on Saturday. They were married at Staffordshire, and came to New Zealand 43 years ago, and have lived here 41 years of that time. In St. Louis 1000 men are now enrolled in the League of Politeness, and are now wearing true blue buttons as a pledge that they are ready to surrender their seats to women. Mr. Stafford, a St. Louis millionaire, declares that he was delighted with the experiment, which, he is confident will spread throughout the country, and counteract' the public incivility which he believes is giving America a bad name throughout the civilised world. In issuing the buttons this enquiry is made : —"' Aie you a gentleman? Are you willing to give your seat to any woman standing in a street car? If you are, you may wear the Stafford true blue button, by which you are pledged to see that women are seated before men." Mr. Stafford says that if men do this for one week, they may get into the habit and keep it. He has lived in New York, Chicago, and, St. Louis, and he says St. Louis is the politest of the three towns; but lie believes there is ample room for improvement everywhere. In New York, where the invasion of business offices by women at high rates of pay has rather nettled many men, there is admittedly an enormous field for Mr. Stafford's propaganda. Once in a while fashion tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. At the present moment she is showing unwonted -consideration to the woman with straight hair. Curls and waves do not fit in with the classic bands that are now wound around the head, and as only about one woman in a thousand possesses curls and waves, except such a-s can be purchased from a hairdresser, womenkind ought to return hearty thanks to the powers of fashion for the new style. Unfortunately its classic simplicity calls aloud for a classic face, but, as one writer succinctly observes, most of the women who adopt the style won't be aware of that fact, it perhaps won't make any difference. .