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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 7

Women in Print.

"All yrlse work is mainly threefold in character. It is honest, useful, tuid cheerful."— Raskin.

Wolliiigton for Oliristohurch. Mrs. Hadfield and her little daughter returned this morning to Waikanao. Mrs. Chatfield, who has been staying a month in Christchurch, returns to' Wellington on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Noel Nelson have taken tlio house adjoining Professor Brown's in Aurora-terrace. Mr. and Mrs. Te&chomaker arrived from Lyttelton yesterday. Mrs. C. B. Rusdel! arid her daughter are expected back in Wellington from Australia about the middlo of this month. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Smith, -who have been on a year's trip in England and on tho Continent, have returned to Wellington and are staying at tho Empire Hotel. Mrs. Morice, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs. Seddon, went South last night. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Tewsley leave for Auckland on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel leave on. Thursday for Sydney. They will spend a littlo time in Katoomba before settling down for the winter in Sydney. Mrs. Asher and Mrs. Greig, two of the ladies belonging to the Australasian Press party, left by the Maori last night with the rest of the delegates. They are charmed so far with New Zealand, and particularly delighted with Wellington und its surroundings. Miss Embling, daughter- of Dr. Embling, of Melbourne, arrived yesterday by the Mceraki. Lady Findlay left la£fc night on a visit to the South, Mrs. Hickley, wife of Captain Hickley, of H.M.S. Encounter, is staying at "Kenil worth." Mrs. Arndi is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Philip Nathan. Mrs. H. H. Beetham is staying at Miss Malcolm's. The Hon. Captain Baillio and Mrs. BailHV left yesterday for Marlborough. Can no authority stop tho woeful devastation of the beautiful grounds of old Government House? Not content with transforming vivid flovirer-bede, lawns velvety with years -of care, and great trees, some of historic value, into a howling waste of clay, the powers that be are destroying the charming ehrubbery at the Lambton-quay entrance. After the duet and glare of tho street, and the heat of the pavements, the softvaried grotns of the Government House trees were intensely grateful to the eye, and now a bare ugly space takes the place of a tangled wealth of foliage. Mis. J. Kaye Macfie, of Dunedin, who is spending a few days in Wellington, ie staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. A pretty wedding was celebrated at Landdowne on Wednesday afternoon, when Miss Elsie .Clark, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark, of Lansdowne, was married to' Mr. T. Wrigley, eldest son of the late Mr. Wrigley, and Mre. Wrigley, of Kangitumau. The bride* who looked charming in a^white silk dress, was given away, by ■ her' father,, and -was attended by Misses Elsie, Wrigley. Lulu and Laura . Clark, as bridesmaids. The bridegroom's ■ gift to the bride was a beautiful gold necklet and pendant, and to the bridesmaids gold broaches. Mr. H. Wrigley acted as best man, and the Eev. A. T. Thompson, of Knox Church, was the officiating clergyman. After the ceremony, a. reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents, when a large number of guests were entertained. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. ,Mr. and Mrs. T. Wrigley left by the afternoon train for Wellington, en route for Napier, where the honeymoon will be spent. An enjoyable parcel evening was held last night by Mrs. J. B. Howe, Brougham-6tretit, in honour of Miss D. Kerslake, whose marriage to Mr. S. G. Cowles takes place on 9th April. During the evening various competitions were held, and songs and recitations were rendered by Misses Davis, Winder, Mack (2),- Zohrab Clater, and Messrs. Mack and Williams. There were fifty people present. The Rangitikei Advocate, in a sympathetic notice of the death of Mrs. Walter Crawford, of Mount Curl, describes her remarkable pereonality. In consequence of an accident which entirely incapaci tated Mi". Grawford for the strenuous exertion of a hilly stock farm, the responsibilities largely fell upon Mrs. Crawford and her three healthy daughters, now rapidly growing to womanhood. They had made their nome practically in the centre of a giant rata forest, and theso three girls, under the guidance and direction of their parents, cleared away thu giant rata logs, fenced and planted their orchard and gardens, and assisted in the construction of *heep pens and the smaller paddocks in the vicinity of tbo house. In all this they had the valuable assistance of a meet remarkable man, who was* a near relation of Mrs. Crawford. 'Phis whs Mr. Robertson, a pur© Highlander, who was saturated with the legends and traditions of his race. No* moro sterling man has ever been known in the Paraekaretu district than "-Old Robertson," as- everywhere ho was fondly called. Ho worked away at the felling of the bush like a young maw. and when at about the age of niiigtv he thought he' had lived long enough lie took quietly to his bed and peacefully yielded up his spirit to Him who gave it. The girls became quite adepts amongst the stock on the farm, mustered the sheep and cattle, carried upon pack horses their produce to the nearest market, and. travelling on .•iome of the worst and most dangerous trucks in the Paiaekaretu district. What an ideal home presented itself at Mount Curl ! It would not be speaking in the language of exaggeration if it was said that Mrs. Crawford had one of the kindest hearts thai beat in a human bosom. < Mrs. Crawford's; character finds delineation in the words of the gre?,t Hebrew verse — " One of these whose price is above rubies and whose daughters! will rise up and call thqe blessed." On Thursday, at St. James's Presbyterian Church, Adelaide-road, Miss Elizaboth Grace Marley, third daughter of Mr. Norval F. Marley, was married' to MjJ. Robert Stewart Cowan, of the Union Steam Ship Company. The bride wore a drees of Indian shantung silk, beautifully embroidered, and the usual veil and orange blossoms, and carried a •bouquet of white- cactus dahlias and orchids'. • Her bridesmaids were the Muses Irene and Dorothy Marley, who wore dainty white muslin drosses and carried bouquets "of red cactus dahlias. The bridegroom wins attended by Mr. <!. M'Nab as best man, and Mr. R. Harlev

as groomsman. His gift* to the bridesmaids were gold bangles. At St. Peter's Church on Wednesday, Miss Kate Hoggard, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Hoggard, of Oriental Bay, was married to Mr. Basil Lucas Donne, second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Donne, of London. The ceremony was performed by the vicar, the Bey. C. Coleridge Harper. The bride was given away by her father, and Mr. John Hoggard, brother of the bride, was best n an. Later in. the day Mr. and Mrs. Donne left for the South. " Our Anna " the people call her. Officially she is Anna Rogslad, member of the Norwegian Storthing as deputy from Christiania. She was elected by the Conservatives, yet ever the Socialist wing of the Radicals' rejoice in the popularity of "our Anna." All the country is prourl of the first woman membor «»t Parliament. A teacher she ha.% been for more- than thirty years in tho public schools of Chrifstiama, and. a teacher she still is in aspect and habit. Her manner ie prim, and she wears simple, plain frocks of dark soft blue cloth with no jewellery or ornaments. Though her hair is greying at the temples, her calm, youthful face makes it hard to believe that she ii fifty-seven. There is little of luxury in the busy life that Anna Rogstad leads. In Christiania, when she is attending to her school work, managing the various, societies in. which she is active, lecturing, writing, and attending to th© meetings of the Storthing, she makes her home in a modest apa-rtment' of , the- thh'd floor of No. «$ Heiuricheensgade — and there is no elevator. What she calls her real homo is far in the north of' Norway, in the fouest. At her ' cottage, " Vessfoela," through the summer holidays she gardens — she even chops and saws wood — and in the simplest of outdoor life gains strength for her winter's work. Her iamily has long been prominent in Norway. Yet it was through her own solid worth and quiet accomplishment that .this modest lady reached her E resent position in the public eye. She as been an extremely successful teacher. In her classes there is always sunshine. Pictures 'adorn the walls of her schoolroom, and there are plaiits* at the windows. She has \vonderful control over tho lazy and mischievous, and truants are unknown in her classes. It was this quiet " echoolmarm " who forced the authorities to open the seminaries to women as. well as to men teachers, and it was she who practically forced the women teachers to attend. She pointed out to them that before they could justly lay claim to " equal pay for equal work ' tvomen teachers must have had the same education as men teachers. For the high •quality of Norway's educational system much credit is, given to Mits Rogstad. For nearly thirty years, too, . has been at the head of the Society of Women Teachers in Christiania, bringing the organisation up from an afternoon tea club to a great and powerful institution, the 'demands of which are heard with respect. It was before this body that 'the' venerable Bjornsen spoke for the " last time.' When he had finished his lecture* h« turned and bent to kiss Anna Rogstad's hands in appreciation of what she had done for her country. Sixty .of the' fairest girls in. Kingston-on-Thames and .•.S.u H r.bi|ton..ha>;e neen enrolled to act during one week . only as special recruiting officers for the local lerritorial Force (states a recent London paper)'.' The three companies of the 6th "Battalion.. Eas>fc' Surrey Regiment, ' at Kingston, have been ahort by *133 of their- complement, and an appeal was issued by the officers to all ladies ,of . the .-> neighbourhood to wear recruiting favours for a week. A pair of gloves was promised for every recruit introduced. A start was made on a Saturday by twenty girls, and by the evening fifteen recruits had been sworn in. •Another twenty-two were enlisted on the Monday, making thirty-seven recruits in two days. By Monday the number of lady recruiting officers had increased to sixty, and a battalion officer stated that by next day 100 of the Kingston belles would be wearing the regimental colours.* "We are recruiting first among our friends," said one wearer of a gay rosette. "On Saturday I made a house-to-house visit, and extracted promises from several young men that they will Join the Territorials. I tell them that if they don't do ac I aßk they need never again speak to me." The Longridge Company of the" 4th (Territorial) Battalion North' Lancashire Regiment, which requires 'forty recruits, is offering to lady recruiting officers Is for every recruit who is 'passed. Territorial associations all over the country (comments the samo journal) are watching with keen interest the success of the young women who are acting as recruiting officers. "It is left to the local Terri--torial associations to adopt what methods they think fit to bring in recruits," said a high military authority. " Inviting women to use their influence to make young men join is certainly a method of recruitng which has the support of i the authorities,- and it mignt with great advantage < be extended. Lord Haitian e has himself more than once pointod out how greatly the fair sex can in this way help tho Territorial Force."