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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1911, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

The Bishop and Mrs. Wallis went up | to Marion yesterday for a week, where they are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. \ John Marshall, "Tutu Totara." Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clarke (Auckland) are in town staying at the Grand HoteL Miss N. Thompson (Remuera) is in town, the guest of Mrs. Haybittle, till she leaves by the Friday steamer for Australia. Mrs. H. S. Hadffeld (Lindale) is in town for a day or two. Colonel and Mrs. D'Arcy Chaytor, who are the guests of Captain and Mrs. Edwin, are leaving for England in a fortnight. Miss Gossett .(Christ-church) is visiting friends in 1 town. Mrs. and Miss Mills (Auckland) are in -town. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Denniston are staying at the Bellevue Gardens. Miss Denniston is the guest of Mrs. Brandon, at Pahautanui. Miss Eachel Richmond, who has been, visiting friends in Nelson, iias returned. The engagement is announced of Miss Coleman, niece of Mr. and Mts. Clarkson, of Glenyon, Hawkes Bay, to Mr. Arthur J. Petherick, accountant, Wellington. Miss Ivina Tibbets, of Melbourne, who arrived by the Moeraki yesterday, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frances Stevens, of Oriental Bay. The really energetic measures that ar« being taken to raise the money to set the Y.W.C.A. in a new house should reap the reward of such excellent plans. The committee has arranged a very interesting programme for the entertainment, and it is hoped to sell the tickets very widely. If every one will buy at least one ticket — the sum needed will be assured. The new quarters for the hostel in Macdonald-crescent are being got ready for occupation. The Governor and Lady Islington will be present at the concert, and Her Excellency will speak. Miss Hardinge-Maltby has returned from Auckland after her vacation tour with the Nellie Stewart Company— which she has greatly enjoyed. She has settled down to her teaching again with renewed strength and energy. Miss V. Piper was married yesterday at the residence of her parents (Petone), by Pastor J. Pallant, to Mr. Harold White. The bride's dress was of ivory poplin, with, lace trimmings. The bridesmaids were Miss Amy Piper and Miss R. White. Mr. T. Williams was best man and Mr. C. Piper groomsman. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Piper held a reception of personal friends. Many beautiful Island curios decorated the rooms and were greatly admired. Mrs. Mary Ingerton (pupil of Sister Mary Ligouri, Hill-street Convent), has. brought ionours to Wellington by winning the gold medal presented by the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music, and the Royal College of Music, for singing and musical knowledge in the advanced grade. Mrs Ingerton is the possessor of a sympathetic soprano voice of unusual sweetness, and { her first appearance in public, which takes place this year, will be looked* forward to with interest in musical circles. ■'Mrs. Braddon (of Sydney)., during her stay in Wellington, was tha guest of Mts. A. L. Wilson. The engagement is announceh of Mi&s. Harriet R. . Hodge, eldest daughter of Rev. A. Hodge, of Masterton, to Mr. G-. Stanley Sharp, eldest son of Rev. G. W. isnarp, of Hobart. Mr. Sharp is at present pursuing his medical course at the Otago University. Miss Amy . Gertrude Blow, second daughter of Mr. H. J. H. Blow, Undersecretary for Public Works, is to be married at St. Mark's Church on Ist February Jo Mr. Leonard Clarke, of Napier. The race patrons could scarcely credit tbeir good fortune in having a third- lovely day for the summer meeting. Full advantage was taken, especially in the afternoon, when the day had decided to be fully summer, and numbers appeared on the stand who came by the afternoon train. Lady Islington and Miss Cotton were present part of the day.' Her Excellency's costume was coat and skirt of white summer serge, with a pretlv mauve toque. Lady Beatrice Claris wore a lovely braided violet coat and skirt. Miss Cotton had a cream costume d,nd hat to match. There were a great number of ladies present on 1 this third day, showing the interest they took in the meeting. At the Knox Church, Lower Hutt, yesterday afternoon, a wedding of considerable interest took place, when Miss ,E. C. England was married to Mr. Frederick C. Pilcher. The Rev. J. M'Caw officiated. The bride's dress ■sv'as of cream silk, with pearl bands, and she wore a tulle veil and OTange blossoms. There were four bridesmaids : Misses Ethel and Vera England and Misses Mary and Eileen Gilbert. They had pretty ivory silk dresses, white hats with pink roses. Mr. Sydney England was best man, and Mr. B. England groomsman. The bride's parents held a reception after the ceremony. In the evening a social dance was held in. the Epuni-Hamlet schoolroom.

Things done well, and with care, exempt themselves from fear. —Shakespeare.

I The monthly meeting of the Lower ■ Hutt W.C.T.U. was held in. the hall on ! Tuesday, and was presided over by Mrs Jansen. A despatch, requesting thei appointment of a, representative to the Electoral Council, resulted in the honour being conferred on Mies Dillon. Miss Knight was appointed white ribbon superintendent. It was reported that poor families had been visited and^ clothes distributed to the needy. Nominations for the Dominion officers were as follows : — Mrs. Cole, president ; Mrs. Peryman, correspondence secretary ; Mrs. Mitchell, recording secretary ; Mrs. Bendeley, treasurer. Greetings were received from the Phoenix Lodge of Good Templars and reciprocated. Mrs. F. T. Redman and son, of Masterton, who have been touring the North Island, are at present in Wellington. They return to their home on Saturday. Miss R«dman jvill remain, here for some weeks. A debtor, Robert George Hunter, described as of Carlton Chambers, Regentstreet, W., London, in his public examination, which was concluded at the London Court of Bankruptcy on 15th December, said that he had acted as managing director of a company carrying on Business as petticoat manufacturers, but owing to the change of fashion its trade fell off and the company failed. The Official Receiver : "In other words, ladies gave up wearing petticoats?" The debtor replied that that was so, with the result that his business disappeared. Switzerland) passed a law that a wife should have a sixth of her husband's income to do what she pleased with, it was her inalienable right. Why should not a wife have a savings bank account? asks "Housekeeper" in the Sydney Morning Herald. Why should all the money saved by her good management always be put in the husband's name? The house, which she has helped to pay the mortgage from, is also in his name, and he has the power to sell or remortgage it at any time, and she has no power to prevent him doing so. £ believe most young women when they marry are willing to do their best, and save for a rainy day ; but I believe there would be far more happiness in married life, if a wife, from the beginning/ had a fixed sum, however small, for her own to save or invest or disburse as she pleased. Of course -there is the other side of the picture, that many women cannot be trusted to pay household bills ; that trusting husbands sometimes find that the milk bill has reached £29, and that the baker has a claim for £16, though he has been giving an allowance regularly. It" should not take a man very long to judge if the woman he has married has no honourable sense of her duty to him and to society, and he should not scruple to make plain to such a woman that he intends that debts incurred shall be paid. Of course, .it is much easier for people in receipt of a regular income to adjust these matters, but I am sure frankness and* a sense of duty in husband and wife can make things much pleasanter and fairer. Sometimes a woman, who has earned her own living, marries, and has the galling experience of asking for money for all expenses ; what . could take away one's love quicker or breed a more poignant sense of injustice done to one! Nearly £3400 was realised at Messrs. Christie's rooms in kss than two hours for the collection of lace formed by the late Sir William Abdy. One reporter states that no' similar collection has appeared under the hammer during the past twerity-five years, and as a consequence the rooms were crowded when the dispersal of this wonderful collection of Point Alencon, Point Argentan, Point de Venise, Brussels, and Valenciennes commenced. Private buyers, however, were few, almost all the more important lots falling to the leaders of the trade. The display of some of the most exquisite laces of the world made the eyes of the many women present soften with pleasure, and ao the lace was carried round for the inspection of those preeent men ac well as women, examined the precious treasures with the absorbed scrutiny of connoisseurs. With a few exceptions each length was mounted upon satin or velvet chosen specially to display its perfect beauty. Rose, pink, violet, scarlet, blue, and green silks were used for the purpose^ The clou of the -whole collection was an old Italian gold and thread lace flounce 4yd long and 29in deep, which, after a long and spirited contest, sold for £740. It was de signed with an arabesque pattern introducing animals, birds, and panels of figures. The subjects represented a queen and attendants in a garden; St. John appearing to a monk ; a monk relating his vision to six figures seated on a bench ; a bride escorted by attendants with a dove above; and a king with a page and soldiers, carrying halberde, bringing a present to a queen with her maids of honour. The flounce was formerly in the collection of the late Sir Willam Drake. Scarcely less important was an- -Italian rose-point flounce nearly four yards long, which made £660, while £650 was given for a Point de Venise, flounce, 4yd llin long together with a pair of sleeves en suite. Another magnificent flounce of fine raised Point de Venise, sometimes called Point de France, sold for £600, and two others made £560 and £540 respectively. Finally, mention must be made of an Italian roee-point flounce, 3yd 19in long, which made £520, and one of Point do Venise a la rose, 4yd Sin long, for which £510 was given. One hundred pounds was the figure at which the bidding started for a superb Point .Argentan flounce patterned with pomegranates, which was sold eventually for £310. Then followed a brisk contest for a flounce of like lace with an eecalloped border, the design of which consisted of vases of flowers and doves beneath canopies of scroll work, which was knocked down for^the sum of £450. In all, the sixty-two lots sold produced £9397.