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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 9

Mr. and Mrs. Dove, of Wanganui, left . Wellington for home on Saturday. Sir William and Lady Steward have gone to Ashburton for a month. Mr. W. A. Kennedy is spending a few da>s in Wanganui. Mrs. Hacon has returned from Auck- : land. Mra. and Muss Gear, aud Dr. and Mrs. Robertson, leave next month on a trip to England.' v i Miss Una Geddis has returned from I Hanmer. Mi*. Croasley is in Wellington with her husband, the Bishop of Auckland. Mks Litchfield left on Saturday for Dunedin. Mrs. Mitford is back from Greytown. Mrs. and the Misses Feldwick, who are at the Hotel Cecil, leave fop Invercargill on Thursday. They will shortly return to England. Miss DOyly has. come back from Christchurch, < The Miesea Hassel went South on Saturday by the Mararoa. . Miss Vavasour, who has been visiting Mias Harcourt, left on Saturday for Blenheim. Mr. and -Mrs. Leo Buckeridge are back from their holiday trip to Nelson. Miss Palliser is visiting Napier. Mies Beswick (who retired from the matronship of the Seacliff Asylum, Otago after a service of twenty years), and Miss Marchant (who is at present staying with her parents in Wellington), leave Wellington on the 9th, and go via Orient to Egypt, where they make come stay before going on to England. The garden party held on Saturday in the gardens of Mr. and Mrs. Keene at Island Bay, proved an entiro success, and the funds of the Y.W.C.A., to aid which it was organisfed, should be considerably augmented. The Salvation Army Band played selections at intervals and the stalls on the lawn did a thriving trade. The tea stall was in charge of Mrs. Foasettej needlework 6tall, Mrs. Nicoll ; the -flowers, Miss Darling ; and sweets, Mies Alderson. On Wednesday last, at Nelson Cathe.dral, Mr. Herman R. Yon Dadelszen was married to Miss Winifred Cock, second daughter of Mr. J. H. Cock, of Church Hill, Nelson. The Rev. F. W. Chatterton, assisted by the Rev. J. P. Kempthorne, performed the' ceremony. Mise C. Stapp, who has been the guest of Mrs. H. Livick, Oriental Bay, returned to Nelson to-day. Miss Wiltshire (daughter of the late Mr. .George Wiltshire, formerly City Engineer of Wellington), who has been on a visit to the Cold Lakes district, is spending a week in Wellington prior to leaving for hor home in Dannevirke. , Mrs. Callister, who on Friday last received a handsome present on severing her connection with the firm of Messrs. T. Shields and ' Co., is going to. America, not to Sydney, as previously stated. In the London Express there is an mii cresting critique on the Princess Eulalia's work, which recently her nephew (King \Alfonso) forbade the publication of. Here are some extracts: — Princess Eulalia. has ideas of hor own on servants, and these, are perfectly charming. ' The chapter begins with tfos commonplace that domesticity has taken a new and oppressive form, and is disappearing altogether since slavery disappeared and the world began to talk of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. But by. the time one has read well into "On Life's Stream " on© has gained the trick of skipping the opening commonplace of each chapter and getting to Princess Eulalia's own ideas -through the . maze of quotation. For a master to be respected in his private life (the Princess is very severe on the role played by English servants as witnesses in the Divorce Court), masters and servants must be kept at a material as well na at a moral and intellectual distance from ' each other. So Princess Eulalia has invented a system. It is employment of servants by the hour. The Princess, she says, "knows a lady without children or husband who was obliged to go to bed fully .dressed because her maid had locked herself in her bedroom and refused to get up and unhook her." To prevent -the recurrence of such a catastrophe and of similar ones Princess Eulalia. has' invented a system of "hourly service by specialists." "If every apartment house had .a sick nurse in case of immediate need, and a kind of gendarme to prevent theft," she writes, "would not the principal necessities be assured ?" I do not think they would, somehow. One would like food now and then, and a bath. But I must not be unjust to the author. She suggests that one should always be able to telephone for a " bather," a maeseur or masseuse, a hairdresser, a manicure and pedicure, a maid to pack, a man to clean the flat, a dressmaker to repair dresses, and a tailor to look after a man's clothes. "And what joy !" cries Princess Eulalia with amusing enthusiasm, "to feel' free when ono gets home, not to be spied on, to remain the master without any servants !" In this book of hers she orders our lives for ue, and tells us how we are to do everything under all' circumstances. For instance, she disposes of the housing of large families in the working class in this fashion :-— '.'A working man marries and lives in a small house. He hac several children, and the house becomes too small for him. Close by lives a working man who has a large house because he has a large family^ but his boys and- girls have gone out into the world. Let the man with the children exchange with the man who lives in the larger house. Relative happiness for everybody and hygiene for all. It is quite simple. Unfortunately simplicity is the enemy of reason." Yes, sometimes. And Princess Eulalia declares that women's finest qualities are "hardiness and presence of mind." Somehow I do not think that many women will approve of this drastic dismissal of the other qualities on which they pride themselves. Bead work has never enjoyed such popularity as it is doing now (eaya a Melbourne writer). It is done not only with glass and pearl, but wo.od beads, such as were st-en for the first time last year, are now stained and enamelled, and brought to wonderful perfection. Grey beads aud brown beads are sewn on to tinted laces, and the coarse bead work such as is seen in. Bulgarian garments ha» been seen several times recently worn in connection with {Jala gowns. Many hat« are trimmed with bead embroidery ; while bead buttons of all tihte aic often marvels of ingenious work. The piactieal stitcher will l>o irlati to know that by l means of Uio smallest sized cross stitch transfer patterns it is oaav to work the big ' elaborate button*;, JN-he foundation