WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

All who joy would win mutt, share it. Hap plncss was born n Uin.— B>ron.

Mr. Perry (Hawkes Bay) is slaying at the Grand Hotel. Mips Stevenson (Wanganui) is in town, en route for the' Southern lakes. Mi p. A. De Castro in leaving on Mondny by the Main Trunk line for Auckland. Jn. ana Mr*. Knphael (Chtistchurch) are in Wellington, staying at the Grand Hotel. Mi. and Mrs. Sargent (Dannevirke) are down here for Easter, and staying at Columbia Hotel. Mi*-s Karoara Whiteluw (sister of the newly-appointed Lady Principal of the Wycomue Abbey College) has been the guesL of Mr&. Knox, Keiburnc. She is now visiti»g Mrs. Corkliill, Oriental Bay, till Wednesday, when eho return* to Auckland The tennis tournament h closing amidst n keen interest. It is expected 10-dav's play will finish the contest*. On the 'lliorndon courts the following is the list of players : — Brown v. Young-, Mr*. Holmes v. Mit>s Nunueley, Misses Traveia and Merchant v. Minxes Newman uud Ditnant, Mit,nc* Livingstone and Patertoit v. Mixse* Simpson and Prouj>r. On the Brougham Hill courts : — Eller v. Jones, Mii-new \V«bb and Shepherd v. Mi»i<e» Atinoro and Parker, Mihues Bennett and Davit* v. Mrs. Burton and Mi»* Morgan. It is anticipated that in the final ladies' singles the contest will be belweeu Miss Travels and Mis» Nunneley. A Wellington woman was greatly Interested a short time mice in an oxhibition which took place in a London &üburb of the work of the Cripple gate children. This chnrity has 11 nunl her of homes under its care, and the children are divided according to their infirmities The exhibition was of the finest basketware and very beutiful artificial flowers. Blind children were seen making these flowers, and picking uut the variously-tinted petals with absolute accuracy, and with marvellous skill putting them together in dainty arrangements of wreaths and sprays. The oueanned littlo artists, by means of a wheel with several fixtures, were cheerfully and happily at work both at Indian baeketry and artificial flowers. They all looked healthy, and very happy to be showing off their accomplishments to th« visitors. The committees who manage thet-e Cripplegate homes sell thousand* of pounds worth of these exquisite flowers to the London wholesale houses every year, and they are to a considerable extent self-supporting. When the children are old enough to leave the homes, hundreds of these blind and crippled waifs are able to earn a very good livelihood by Fending their work to be disposed of by the manager* of the Cripplegate homes for them They say the great characteristic of those heavily handicapped little ones i.» their cheerful contentment, and they find pleasiue in tho smallest ways and means. Miss Annie Whitehiw's appointment to the high position of principal of the Wycombe Abbey School is certainly » triumph for a New Zealander. Mis.? Dove (the retiring lady principal) is a sister of the Hey. Julian Dove, of tho Wanganui College, who was invited to come from England to succeed Mr. Kmpson. Wycombe Abboy School is a lovely old establishment, with old trees and gardens of great extent. There are between 200 and 300 pupils, all boarders, who are taught on the newest and best lines by a carefully-selected number of teachcis. Bishop Wallis's sister has been one of these for some years. Miss Whitelaw wa« there after she left college, and took high mathematical honours. She left to come back to Auckland lo organise the girls' college at the urgent request of Sir Maurice O'ltorke. She has been successful in their work, and will be a great loss to tho cause of education in New Zealand. Miss Whitelaw is sister of Mrs. J. D. LI ray. The Wycombe Abbey governors wrote asking Mies Whitelaw to apply, but sho demuriod, stating the only teims on which she would take it very fearlessly. Evidently they respected her candour and independence of character, for they appointed her without her application. The retiring lady piineipaf's salary has now reached £1000 per anuura. All New Zealand vomen feel pleased at Miss Whitulaw'tj unsolicited appointment to tho high position. Mrs. Pcnrice returned from Auckland this morning. I _ I The engagement U announced of Miss Maile Doughty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dqughty, Fale Mauga," Karaka Bay, to Mr. £. W. B. Hornabrook, Wellington. Mr. R. M'Ewnn, manager of Puponga , Colliery, was in Wellington on Thursday to meet Mrs. ME.wan and family, who arrived by the Main Trunk express, en unite for Puponga. — — — Mrs. and the Misses Cuff, of the Lower Hutt, gave an enjoyable afternoon tea. this week for Miss Jackson, who, very shortly, is to be married to Mr. Dillon-Kelly. The feature of the allernoon was that each guest brought a written out receipe of some dainty dish, which, afteiwards, will be bound together to form n cookeiy book. Mi>. Cult received her guests in a handsome gla<e silk gown, Mis-s full wore pale blue crepe de chine, tummed with lace. Her sister wore pale pink with lace. Mis. Tone, who is staying with Mis. Cuff, wore black silk ; Mrs. Jackson, a beautiful black costume, pretty bonnet with touches of white; Miss Jmk'on crimson Empire silk gown, black hut with ribbed velvet trimmings ; Mrs. Barclay Hector, iigured eau-de-nil silk ; Mrs. Malcolmson', T)lack silk ; Mrs. Haire, coffee-coloured crepe, white furs; Mrs. Mowbiay, black, with becomming bonnet; Mrs. Barthoip, saxe blue coat and skirt, black hat ; Mrs. Mirams, navy blue costume, hhw k feather boa and black hat ; Mvs. (Dr.) Mirams, white embroidered muslin, pink and white hat; Mrs. Barlauci, pretty mauve nnd whito striped silk, hat to match ; Miss Barraud, white muslin froikj Miss Wilson, white; Miss Climio, rose-coloured linen loat .■ o.d skirt, hl.-uk hut with mseji ; Mis. Treadwell, handsome grefn frock with darker shade of velvet tiimmings,, hat to match ; Mrs. .Adams, dark green mat and shirt ; Mrs. Exley, bmait plum-coloured coat and t-kiit, ptumUilomed toqua with touches of pink ; Miss Yonng, sage green cont and hkitt with black buttons and facings; Mrs. Jdlliife, blue, black hat ; Miss Oivonti<>ld (who sang duting the al'ti'Mioon), .sti'aw-colourerl Chinese s-i lie tout and hkiit, black hat. lovely blue &(.;rf : Miss Kiik. nuvy blue; Miss. .Stimi t Foibis. im\y costume, blue and black hat : Miss (Jwen k'orbef-. 11. ivy costume ; Mis. Wilmjm, |£ie t \ .silk black hat ; Mifs» iii'itc liuikiun, gieeu Jinen ii<«k. blown hat »\ith cluitois of inset,: Mis-. I'athboue, o\*;ler,ioloiiir.l cm' and skill, jnclly \'ioli<l' hdt, h"i mHpi wore n,iv\ n, s - tnin* 3 ; Mis^ AUpuit. aicjni <ca: ,in<l 6kirt, black lut wuu »luu io»e»; Miis Kingdon, grey costume, brown

hat; Airs. Girdlestone, black silk and black toque to match; Mi&s Holinclcn, 'grey silk, whits lace, blaclj toque; Miss Miller, brown costume, brown hat trimmed with ears of wheat: Miss Gladys Foster, green costume; Miss Minnie Foster, grey coat and skirt ; Mrs. Sol Myers, black silk, black hat with white osprey; Mrs. J. Jones, black; Mrs. Keinpthorne, white doth costume, black hat. The drawing-room was very tastefully decorated v.ith red salvias, and the dining-rooir was eet apart for afternoon-tea. A beautiful example of the cakcmakers' art has been on view in the windows of (Jodber's, Lanibton-quay. Its weight —lsolb —is memorable, but the trimmings are at once unique and handsome. Horses and dogs, in sugar, are very prominent, and sugar horseshoes (it is a wedding cake) add a sporting touch. The top of the creation is a specially-mado silverepergne i lepresenting a New Zealand tree fein, and in appropriate places Maori mottoes are attached. Various other chaste and chic designs in silver and sugar make fo rfurther attractiveness. The cake will occupy a prominent position at the wedding of Mis* Valiauce, Masteiton, with Mr. Earl Williams. IJosy cheeks and bright complexions are discouraged in Vicuna society this season, and the dream of Viennese ladies W to acquire a pale cream complexion. A grimly satirical letter from a poor diessmaker on this vogue is published in the Vienna paper Arbeiter Zeitung. She offers her readers a certain means of acquiring the fashionable pallor. Her receipt, she says, is infallible. She has tried it. She sits for twelve hours a day leaning over a sewing-machine with eleven other girls in a room only large enough for six. A single window only half lights the room, and the air is vitiated by the gas that is burnt for manyhours of the day. Any lady desiring the fashionable pallor need only take her place for two or three weeks. If she wishes to add a modish i>lenderness to this charm, she can omit a mid-day meal two or three times a week, as is the dressmakers' custom. She adds : "1, Anna Plagdich, with my indestructible pale-cream complexion, guarantee) the \ success of this experiment." Mins Sarah Stanford, aged 81, succeeds Miss Sarah Jones, whot-e death was announced recently, as the oldest inmate, in length of residence, of the .Royal Hospital for incurables at Putney (remains a London paper). Mims Stanford, who became an in-patient of the hospital in 1858 a few months after Miss Jones arrived there, will next June have'been an inmate of the hospital for 62 year*. According to the medical diagnosis Mif-s Slaniord, when admitted, was suffering from debility and threatened with blindness. The old lady is now stone blind, but very active for her years, knowing every inch of the hospital, which has been her home for more than h«lf a century, t-he finds her way unassisted from room to room. It is her great delight to deliver the morning newspapers to her friends, and with the wonderful sensitiveness of touch that comes to the sight lets, hhe "is able to distinguish one newspaper from another by the texture of the paper and its weight. The old lady v very proud of this gift, and never by any chanco does slie deliver the wrong paper. Miss Stanford, who is very liappy and cheerful in spite of her affliction*, is a great knitter, and is rarely to be seen without a piece of knitting in her hands. Tho oldest inhabitant among the male patients is Mr. Thomas Henry Haines, who was an engineer on the Midland Railway, but* he has only been forty years at Putney. The cost of the long-lived incurable is very heavy. The hospital authorities calculate that the maintenance of Miss Jonef, and Miss Stanford has accounted for a total expenditure of over £7000. The average cobt per head of the in -patients it £70. An interesting experiment is about to be made by a number of ladies in Brigh tpn, under the immediate patronage of tho London Education Committee (states the London Daily Telegraph). It represents an effort to capture girls of 14 years of age or. leaving the public elementary schools. The evening classes established years ago by the old School Board are an admitted failure. Few boys, and scarcely any girls, can be attracted to them. It is notorious that when girls have passed the required standard in the elementary schools their parents allow theni to drift into casual employment, requiring no definite traming, and which tejiches them nothing i that would be of service to them in after life. To counteract this tendency a number of ladies connected with educational work and socia.l movements in the town have banded themselves into a Women's Work Sub-Committee, and the first step they intend to tpke is the establishment a homemaking centre and model 'house. With the assistance of the officials of the Education Committee the girls who leave school are to be kept in view, and th,e ladies will use their Influence with parents to induce them to allow their, daughters to submit to special training for situations to be found for them. One of the features of this endeavour i* that it is purely voluntary and unofficial except to the extent of being heartily supported by the Education Committee. It will not cost the ratep.ayers anything except the cost of the use of offices. Members of the Education Committee pay a high tribute to the completeness with which the ladies have worked out this scheme entirely on their own initiative. They regard it as one of tho best things yet done for the training of the young, to a? tq become fit for their station in life. The chairman of the Education Committee* frankly acknowledges that the women's glen for dealing with giyls on leaving Hthool is in advance of anything men have yet devibed for the treatment of boys of the S3 mo age.