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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 29, 3 February 1912, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

No man Is more unsatisfactory than the one who if satisfied with himself, I

Mrs. Tweed and her daughters arrived from the South yesterday, and have left for Feathorston. The friends of Mr. A. Cassin, of the Railway Department, Wellington, will regret to hoar of the death of his wife, which occurred at the- Wellington Hospital after a painful illnese. Dr. and Mrs. Bowerbank, Miss M'Kellar, and Miss S. Tennant left yesterday on a three weeks' tour in the North. " N Mrs. Vallance, of Kahuming, is in Wellington. Miss Johnston, head teacher of the Korokoro School, left by tne Warrimoo yesterday for Sydney, en route to India, where she will spend a six month*' holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Coverdale have returned from Rotorua and Taupo. Mrs. Elgar, of Featherston, is visitIng Wellington. Miss Maude Reynolds, of .Dunedin, is staying with Mrs. Leslie Reynolds. Miss Meta Johnson, of the Hutt, left yesterday for India, via Sydney. Mrs. Menzies and her children, arrived from the South yesterday. Dr., Mrs., and Mis 6 Salmond, of Dunedin, who haye 1 been visiting Wellington during the session of the University Senate, left last night for the South. Miss Newcombe, of Wanganui, is leaving on a trip to England and Europe by the Grosser Kurfurst, which sails from Sydney on 20th March. Mrs. Denniston hau returned to Christchurch. What promises to be a very pleasant afternoon's entertainment is to take place at "Taurima," ■ Hamilton- road, Kilbir* nie. North, on Wednesday afternoon next, when a garden fete in aid of the funds of All Saints' Church will beheld. Mrs. (Dr.) Newman has . kindly promised to open the fete at 2.45 p.m. Many arrangements have b«»en made for the entertainment of the guests — tennis, Aunt Sally, quoits, etc., and there will also be a stall of work and tea provided.. As is usual, a small charge for entrance will be tnadp, as will be seen in our •/ advertising column. At St. Joseph's Church, Buckle-I^reec, Miss Sarah A. Dowling was married to Mr. James M'Nee (both of Wellington) by the Rev. Father Yenning, who celebrated Nuptial Mass. The bride, who was given away by her brother, IVIr. J. F. Dowling, wore a handsome dress of cream satin, trimmed with embroidered chiffon and insertion, and carried a shower bouquet of roses and maidenhair fern, the gift of her brother. A wreath of orange blossoms and a veil were also worn. She was attended by two bridesmaids, the chief being Miss Nellie M'Nee, of Dunedin, sister of the bridegroom, who wore a dress of cream silk ninon over satin, trimmed with guipure, and a hat to match. She carried a shower bouquet of lilac and cream sweet peas and .maidenhair fern. The other bridesmaid was -Miss Dolly Petersen, of Wellington,' whose dress was cream silk ninon over satin, trimmed with silk insertion. She wore a- hat to match, and carried -a shower- bouquet of pale pink and cream sweet- peas and pink streamers. Mr. J. Laurent acted as best man, and Mr. M'Laughlan officiated at the organ, playing Mendelssohn's Wedding March as ,the bridal party left the church. Surely the height of snobbish insincerity has been reached in Paris, where a merchant has a shop where, when the supply of wedding presents has fallen short of expectation, an assorted quantity can be hired. The guests are duly impressed with the importance and popularity of the couple, a detective attends to see none are stolen, and all' articles are returned the next day, having fulfilled their worthy mission! The premiere ' milliner (writes a J Lon don paper) lookh^ far and wide for her ideas, and lat the same time pays little attention bo what others are creating, or. indeed, to fashions at all, but searches instead for fresh ideas and materials. These often come from unsuspected sources. Not long ago, for instance, • a Parisian premiere visited Montenegro, bringing home a trunkful of the wide felt hats worn there by the peasants. This summer clients will wear creations that echo the picturesque headgear of the Montenegrin muleteers, ornamented, Perhaps, with the bright shells 6ewn, on the mules' harness. Flower-makers work with the premiere to bring out her ideas, developing new things of their own or counterfeiting natural blossoms _ and plants with the utmost fidelity. Neither ot them gives any attention to cost, for their productions are sold only to wealthy customers who come to Pa-ria and buy weeks after the humbler model houaea have shipped their goods off to be in season in distant markets. The premiere never makes two hats alike, and has no facilities whatever for the reproduction' of her work. "Lady Kitty," •in the Adelaide Observer, writes thus of Henrietta Watson, in Mrs. DeaTmer't play :— lt almost seemed beyond the bound of possibility that this selfish, extravagant, artificial, and wicked world of London could be captured by. the beauty of a morality play, but this miracle has occurred. Mrs. Percy Dearmer was inspired to write a passion play entitled "Soul of the World," and being a woman of much energy arid resource not only wrote it, but succeeded in getting it produced. She is the wife of a clergyman in North London, and, after having leceived the approval and help of the Archbishop of Canterbury, formed a society for the purpose of producing the play. With the help of several hundreds of ladies most of the costumes were made by the wearers themselves, over a hundred robes being provided for the angles in th* play. It rather upsets one's old-fashioned theory that angels were only white when one hears that according to a passage in the Bible^ their robes were coloured; I am not quite sure which chapter contains this statement, but, however, on this authority the angels cf the Passion play were robed in purple and orange, which made a rich and distinguished colour-note in the scones in which they took ,part. S-everal well-known actors and actresbe3 were prevailed upon to give their services for mast of the principal parts, which they were able to do because the performances wore given in the afternoon; four have already taken place, and were so crowded it is quite possible that several extra ones will be given. Several well-known amateurs were in tho cast, and"llie third King was superbly played by a member of Parliament in the person of Mr. Hugh Law. All the highest dignitaiies of the church have been, present, and altogether the play has caused quite a stir. .It has been a triumph for Mrs. Doarmer's genius from beginning to end. Among th« players it was an Individual tritrmph lor Miss Henrietta Watbon, who played

the part of the Virgin Mary. In her the spark of genius glowed brightly, and her interpretation was so tenderly beautiful that it thrilled the audience with a, great sympathy ; h«r whole appearance was strikingly aetherealised and spiriiuelle, her great, expressive, brown eyes were filled with dewy tenderness and exalted feeling; she was as a being not of this earth but veiled apart by the beauty of her own. eoul, which had attracted God's favour and made her the instrument for 'the coming to earth of His Son. It was one of the finest performances ever 6een in London. And this makes one wonder why Henrietta Watson is not the leading lady at ahy of the West-end theatres. She is a great actress. There is no play in which she assumes a part, however small, that the playgoer does not go away with the 'recollection of her acting standing out as one of the features of the piece. She possesses power, personality, magnetism, everything that goes with genius, and she is immensely popular with audiences, but sha never gets any big chances. I asked a wellknown actress th«- cause of this the other day, and she said, "Wssll. oco reason i» that all the West-end theatres are in the hands of actor-managers, who aren't going to- have a leading lady likely to overshadow them, and another wason is Henrietta Watson is a good woman. Sad as it ie to say of my own profession, the really good woman has no chance; it ie the pretty woman with no morals who get^ all the theatrical chances nowadays. She may be clever and make good, or she may not; sometimes she need not be even pretty or tho least bit clever, bat if she can gain the attention of a duke her future fe made, and any theatrical manager can be persuaded to give her a leading part." The lady who told >me this is a good woman herealf, and she gave her opinion with such sincerity that I have no reason to doubt her word, but it seems an appalling state of things. It is indeed a pretty bad old world if strength of character, high ideals, . and straightnefrs of conduct generally are a bar to progress in life. • A romance of New York mission work culminated recently > in the novel epec* tacle of a wealthy and beautiful lady giving her hand in marriage to a burly denizen of the Bowery elum quarter, whom her missionary zeal has converted' to a life of Christian industry. The wedding was solemnised in the Hadley Rescue Hall amid a chorus of prayers and fervent ejaculations from a congregation of rough human derelicts, to whom the bride had ministered consolation. When the couple stepped before the officiating minister a Bpontaneous cheer burnt from the lips of the great throng of outcasts, on- whose faces the lights from a huge Christmas tree shed strange and fitful gleam* (says the New York correspondent of a London paper.) One aged derelict, who a few moments previously had been giving testimony to his conversion, rose, and in an exultant voice cried, "We have all got to thank the Lord for one thing to-day ; that is that ' Sunny Jim ' and our dear friend Mies Butler are going to be married. May the Lord bless them and keep them happy." The bride, a dainty figure in a blue ailk dress, then placed her hand in the giant palm of Mr. Kronenberg, her first convert, and the Rev. Philip Waters pronounced the couple mail and Wife. ' The age of the bride was given as 21, and that of the bridegroom as 45. Mrs. Kronenberg announced that there would be no honeymoon, but her husband would resume immediately his poet as one of the guards of the Hudaon River tunnels, which she was instrumental in procuring for him. Her own wealth, which^ ift considerable, she will devote to mission work in the slums. It is a little more than six months since Mies Anna Butler, leaving her magnificent home at Pitteiiekl (Mass.), called one morning at the Rescue Hall in the Bowery, and informed the superintendent, Mr. John Callahan, that she wished to be enlisted among the settlement ~ .workers. She speedily made friends among the outcasts. None was too low for Her, none too confirmed a backslider for her words of cheer and encouragement ; but her attention from the first was specially directed to Charles Kronenberg, a giant? ne'er-do-well, whom his fellow unfortunates nicknamed " Sunny Jim." After she had •ecured him the job at the tunnels she induced him to become a member of the Washington-square Methodist Church. In his hours of leisure she was constantly at his side exhorting him to repentance. Kronenberg, the settlement workers are all convinced, is now a permanently reformed man. He says the one ambition of his life is to assist, his wife in her missionary work and show by deeds his gratitude for the happiness he has undeservedly won. Hitherto unsuspected vistas of social conflict were opened by a unique dinner Earty given at the most fashionable otel in Philadelphia recently by a man who is described in the newspaper ' reports as one of the wealthiest parvenus in the city to a score of brotner parvenus. The object of the banquet was to organise a social boycott by tne newly rich against families who claim the leadership of fashionable society solely on the ground of an impeccable line of ancestors unsupported by money. The newspapers did not publish for obvious reasons the list of the ' guests who attended the banquet, but they state that the host wa« "a young man credited with making a fortune in three years in the Stock market, who, in the days of his obscurity, was not admitted even to the circle that clings to the fringe of society, but who is now welcomed in the homea of many of the Four Hundred." The result of the banquet is reported to have been a unanimous decision on the part of the newly rich to boycott the poor aristocracy. For shampooing the hair by a new and effective proceed, Mrs. Kolleston has imported from England a Dry Shampoo powder. No risk of catching cold. Price, 2s 6d per box. 256, Lanlbtonquay. — Advt. FRONT-LACED CORSETS. The "Spirella" is the one front-laced coreel that produces the perfect figure «o greatly admired, in no other corset is it possible t6 secure- the comfort arid perfection of fit that is produced by the JJpirella Habit Back Corset. 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