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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 111, 12 May 1910, Page 9

Women In Print.

He was a man'take him for all in all. I ne'er shall look upon liis like again.—Hamlefc

There was a meeting of the Executive Council of the Victoria League held yesterday morning at Miss Coates's residence, Ilobson-sireet, In the absence of Lady Ward, Miss Coates (vice-presi-dent) was in the chair. Those present were : Mrs. Corliss, Mrs. Algar Williams, Mrs. Larnach, Mrs. Stott, Mrs. Corrigan, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. W. Hislop, Miss Holmes, Miss Harding, and Mrs. Chatfield (hon. secretary). A good deal o* routine business was done. Miss Coates proposed, and Mrs. W. Hislop seconded, that a vote of deep sympathy and condolence with the Queen Mother and Pioyal Family be sent from this branch of the Victoria League. It was [tossed in silence, all standing. Mrs. Corliss proposed, and Mrs. Algar Williams seconded, that all the branches of the league in the four city centres ba telegraphed to asking them to join in sending a wreath to the late King s funeral. It is proposed to cable to the High Commissioner requesting him to kindly arrange to have this carried out in the name of the league. The Victoria League wa-s originated in commemoration of King Edward's coronation, and he had a very special interest in its advancement to every part ofhis Dominion and to have it benefit all classes of his subjects. There was a meeting at Miss Beere's rooms this morning for teacher*, to practice the State Lancers, so that nil the children (over 600) may be taught to dance them exactly alike at the pageant in July. Mr. Martin Chapman left yesterday for a trip to England. Miss Rulter, of the Friends' Hostel, is in Auckland attending a conference of "Friends" who are gradually arriving in New Zealand in considerable numbers. A friend travelling on the Continent writes of the curious experience of a. picnic on the slopes of Mount Etna. It is a very weird sight to watch the progress of the lava streams spreading with terrible rapidity and devastation. Thousands of people are out watching it. A frivolous paper suggests "that it is a unique opportunity for making buttered toast!" Now that living in flats has become so universal, quite a natural sequence is that the inhabitants are circumscribed for room for any work of art or bric-a-brac. The latest hobby is the craze for very small possessions. Large pictures are not sought for, but miniatures are eagerly purchased. China vases are replaced by dainty enamelled buttons. . A tiny blouse button, if well painted, will fetch several pounds. Fans and snuff-boxes are greatly in demand because they take little room and are ornamental. A London paper, writing of this hobby, remarks, "Everything must be small — except hats." The Post's Palmerston correspondent telegraphs that the death occurred yesterday of Mrs Oliver, n,n old resident of the district, and mother of Mr. Stuaa*t Oliver, manager for C. Smith at Westport, and Miss Isabella Oliver who recently left for England to receive a musical training. The London correspondent of The Post writes: — "Nowadays there is hardly a material that is sacred to tho dressmaker — the tailbr seems to make free use of tho whole range. In addition to hopsac, silk, linen, canvas, heavy makes of Shantung, cashmere do soie, crepon, serge, cloth, and tweed he is*going to add voile to his list, voile of a silk and wool texture. It seems much too flimsy a fabric for the tailor to use, but the modern tailor likes to turn out fanciful costumes as well as the more severe and plain styles. In all likelihood the tailored voile costume will be made over a contrasting colour, and thus the all-desired effect will result. The skirts of these will have to be made with a certain amount of fulness, but most of it will be confined about the kneos or ankles. There is a popular new skirt whose front panel is broad and plain, with a piping at each outer edge ; the sides and back are generously treated in the matter of material, but by the time the ankle is reached it has all been tightly bandaged beneatn the continuation of the front panel strip which encircles the skirt all round. Generally speaking, however, there are only two varieties of the tail-ored-made skirt — that set in generous pleats which are allowed to have all their own way in the region of the feet, and that which is plain and tight and contains ju&t enough material to cover the wearer. All these skirts are short, and there are many inuications that the skirt of the walking dress is going to be short as well. Skirts of dresses are in immense variety — tabhors, tunics, pa-n-ieis, panel-arraiigements, deep flounces, wide "'hems," plenteous drapings. all being given immense scope; no fashionable model dress is seen with, a plain skirt, but as a rulp long lines" arc encouraged rather than a trimming which cuts the skirt in han and dwarfs even the tal'est figure. Very great attention is devoted to the back of tho skirts, whose elaboration equals that of the front." A curious honeymoon trip was made recently by the aeronaut M. Emery Tierlynck and his bride, Mile. Angele Quesnoist, daughter of a manufacturer of Roubaix. After the wedding ceremony was over they left Roubaix in a balloon for a short aerial journey. It was the 130 th ascent of the aeronaut, who had just returned from Morocco, wnere he did his military service as military aeronaut at Casa jjlanca. As for the bride, she had never been in a balloon before. After leaving the church the wedding party proceeded to the velodrome where ths balloon Neptune was in waiting. The balloon and the car were gaily decorated with flowers and flags. The' young I couple entered the car and the balloon was !=ent off amidst the cheers of a large crowd of people vho had gathered round. Two hours after it came down at a little country place near Arras, in the Pas de Calais Department, about thirty miles from the start, and there the young couple received an ovation from the peasants. M. and Mme. Tierlynck returned in a motor car to Roubaix in the evening for a wedding banquet. The bride declared herself delighted with the aerial honeymoon trip. Leguminotherapy is the name of it. You should not be appalled by that. Like many other words of modern jargon, it will annoy the scholar quite as> much as the ignorant, for its construction is riot happy. What it means is "healing by vegetables." The theory of it is that all the ills flesh and spirit are heir to can be cured by judicious application to the greengrocer. The physician who believes in leguminotherapy will prescribe not drugs, but turnips or cauliflower, or spinach, oi* something of that kind. As you justly observe, physicians often do so now. It is not exactly a new disco-v-ery that vegetables have a medicinal value. Like many other brand-new names, leguminotherapy merely conceals something as old as the hills. ' For even the second phas« of it is nothing new. Not merely the body, you observe, but the mind is to be. ministered to by. a

radish. And this, also, is an old wives' tale. How old asceticism is probably no one knows. But the hermit in the "Ingoldsby Legends," who "lived upon cabbage* and hot cross buns," was onft of a long line who believed in the spiritual efficacy of green-stuff. We can tind still mora instiuctive examples. Not only has the eating of some vegetables been considered of spiritual value, biu to eat some others has been held ruinous. There was in Greece a- sect of philosophers who took a vow of total abstinence from beans. We commend the idea to anyone who is searching for a really impressive fad. That old difficulty, the definition of a gentleman, has come up again. An examiner with an instinct for torture, developed even more than is usual in examiners, set as a question for small boys, "What is a gentleman?" Oneanswer deserves immortality : "A gentleman is a man who gets on in the -woi-ld." It would be pleasant to know the boy who ventured on that. Is he a precocious cynic? Is he satirising the gospel of our hurrying civilisation? Or is he, iii a, purely human spirit, pulling the examiner's leg? "No human voice has yet equalled the nightingale, but the formation of the human throat is such that it should be capable of producing music beside which the notes of the most delightful bird would seem harsh and discordant. The world has given me fame and fortune, and part of this debt I propose to repay by giving the world a tenor greater than myself." So Signor Caruso is said to have announced in his best Italian. He is trying to discover home lad who, with judicious training, ■jvill develop a voice I hat will enthrall the world. When he is found, the boy must agree to a ten years' legal guardianship by a commission, and he must obey his guardians to the letter. All that Caruso proposes to do is to supply the funds. "One thing only shall I insist upon," says Caruso, "everything else shall be decided by the masters of music. My own experience has led me to believe that there are two places in the world where the untrained voice can best develop : the Swiss Alps in summer, and Naples in winter. The candidate must not be over 20 years old, and must possess the greatest passion for music besides the natural gift of a fine voice. He will not for ten years be permitted to marry. 1 do not want to be misundeistood as being opposed to marriage, but the great tenor of the future will have no time for anything but his art. When he has mastered that as no one else has yet mastered it, it will then be time enough for him to take a wife. I have already communicated with the Director-General at Milan, and have received his assent for one of the greatest musicians to be a member of the commission. Ons other commissioner will be an American, ■and the third either French or German." In the Chancery Division, Dublin, on 24th March, Mr. Justice Barton delivered judgment on the question whether a bequest in the will of the late Miss Alice Mary Swifte, of Dublin, of £4000 Ne.w Consols, to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests, for the benefit of the Cats' Home at^ the Grand Canal-quay, Dublin, was a valid charitable bequest. An English journal reports that the judge held that the bequest was a perfectly good charitable bequest, and decided that the administration of the schemes should be undertaken by the Dublin branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His lordship remarked that this home, which was for starving and forsaken cats, was established by the lady, and ifc was impossible not to admire her tender devotion to what was evidently the absorbing interest of an unselfish life. A telegram from the American Legation at Bogota, Colombia, states that the anti-American feeling is still so high' there that two young English ladies who were mistaken for Americans were mobbed in the streets of the capital or/ 21st March. A Washington message says that lire two ladies were shopping, and as they came out of one of the shops in the principal streets of the town a large crowd of men and boys gathered round them shouting and uttering objectionable epithets, and calling them "Yankees." The ladies tried to make their way and go about their business, but the mob prevented thenij and used them roughly, pome of the men striking them and pushing them about, while others threw stones at them, and one was rather badly hurt. They finally made their escape into a shop, and were afterwards .taken charge of by their friends, who were sent for. The British Consul at Bogota has taken thematter up, and made strong representations to the Colombian G-overnment.

Stewart Island oyster- are making a name- for themseb-es in Auckland during the present season, and largo consignments arc coming to hand by vail and steamer, says the New Zealand Herald. In tho past 'ocal citizens have been pione to des-pifco Southern oysters, and nave shown a marked preference for the products of the Northern district, but the closure of this source of supply has thrown the market open to Stewart Islanders. A maiked feature of the invasion is the fact that the prices in Auckland are even lower than those that have been ruling in Southern centred during the past two or three years. Bays were recently selling the Southern bivalves in Queen-street foi 4d per dozen. When all other languages were confounded tho confusion of babel left music unconfounded, and i* has therefore become the universal language. Music affords the one great pleasure for all nationt>, but some are more musical than others. For its size New Zealand is extremely musical, and the pioportion of fingers nn : rl players must be very great. The piano is the pooular instrument, and the choice of a pia'io is often a source of trouble. There is no reason why it should be, and those who vi<it the warehouse of the Wellington Piano Company, Ltd., Lambton-quay. coirie to a decision very quickly. The Challen Piano captivates everyone by its beautiful vibrant tone. Come and liar the Challen Piano and judge for yourself. — Advt. It is a well-known fact that dainty fabrics require a good soap, and when Borax Soap is used no annoyance is caused to ladies, who require all their J laces and fine linen to look well. Of j course, there are other soaps, but Lewis and AVhitty's Borax Soap is by far the best. Once you use it, its superiority over all other soaps is apparent. In your next order to your grocer include Lewis and Whitty's Borax Soap. — Advt. A tailor-made costume is the most economical and stylish out-door garment, .and Walter Scott Bedford is New Zealand's premier artist and fitter. Only address, 52, Willis-street. See Scarlet Hunter Costume in window. — Advt. TAILOR-MADE COSTUMES. New season's goods, just arrived. Cufr- . tomers may rely on their orders being ' executed without delay. — Nodine and Co., Ltd., 74-76, Wellington-terrace.— Advt, 1