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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mrs. Boyd, of Taihape, is a gueet of Mrs. Frank Mackenzie. Mrs. Tom Fitzgerald, of Kimbolton. Ie vi town for Miss Beseie Fitzgerald's wedding. Mrs. Macarthy and her eißter, Mre. llutter, left yesterday for a trip to »Sydney, wh«re Mr. Macarthy joins them Jat^r. Mrs. Thornton and Miai Greta Ewen liavu returned from an enjoyable trip to the Hot Lakes district. A dance is being given by Mies Borlase and a committee, consisting of Mieses Baeyertz, Freeth, Gibbee, and King, ou 30th April, in tire Thorndon Hall. The chaperonea are Mesdauiee Cleghorn, Burnett, Freeth, R. A. Holmes, Jameson, SLUd M.OE6. Mies Baskin, of Taqroa, after spending a few weekt> at Shannon, has jus.t foncluded 'a vieit to friends at Wellington and the Lower Hutt. and intends returning ( home on Monday. The engagement has been announced of Mr. George Stanley Amos, of Roes and Glendinning. Chratchurch, late of Wellington, to Mies Emily Onslow Pilling, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Pilling, of Wellington (late of Lawrence, Otago). Among those staying at the Empire Hotel % are Lieutenant Clutterbuck, of H.M.S. Encounter, and Mrs. Clutterbuck, Mrs. and Mifis Blennerhaesett, Mies Meredith, of Masterton. Mi*, and Mrs. Meyer Caselberg, and Mi", and Mrs. David Caselberg. Mies Caeelberg has left on a vieit to South Africa, where she joins her eieter at Johannesburg. The wedding 6f Mr. H. L. Leveßtam and Mke L\ 0. Ruddy, both of Wellington, took place at Npaio last Wednesday afternoon. The bride was given away by Mj. J. Irwiu, of Ngaio. The brid& grocftn was attended by Messrs. R. Fullerton and H. J. Clark,, and the bridesmaid's were Misses Mollie M'Grath (Wdlington) and Maisio Lee-Elliott (Christchurch). The ceremony wa6 performed by the Rev. Father Walsh. Tho bride looked charming in a gown of white velvet, with fichu and trimmings of chifton. Her beautifully embroidered veil was worn over pearls and a spray orange blossom, and she carried a bouquet of choice white blooms. The bridesmaids were attired in creme ninon, with lovely bouquets of autumn leaves and berries. Mrs. Irwin received in a brown cloth costume, with touches of pink in her hat. Mi's. Lee Elliott, sister of the bride, wore a navy costume and a pretty hat. Mrs. Leveetam, the mother of the bridegroom, was in black eilk. Aftor the*' ceremony tho guest® were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. Irwin at their home in Ngaio. Amongst the guests were Miss Levestam, Miss M. Leveetam, Mi's. H. Lovestam, Mrs. and Mies Richardson, and Mieses Clark, Bock, anA Fraser. Later" the bride and bridegroom left for Wanganui, the bride wearing a smart navy c.ostume with facings of black and white, and a pretty black hat with pink, wings. The presents included gifts from the staffs of the Government Insurance Department and the Telegraph Department. A meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children was held on Friday afternoon, Mrs. W. A. Evans presiding. ; There were present Mesdames .A. ( R. Atkinson, J. Kirkcaldio,s .T. R. .'Glasson,' G. Ppnsdnby,"' and G. Winder. A number of cases had been investigated and were reported upon; others were being attended to. The following subscriptions were acknowledged with thanks -.—Mrs. J. Kirkcaidie, £1 Is ; Roberts. N.Z. Ltd., Mr. Myers, ,and Mr. Alex. Ferguson, Gear Company, 10s each ; Miss Coates, ICte 6d ; Mr. Frost, Miss Greenwood, Mrs. Balcc-mbe Brown, Hill and Sons, 3s each; Mrs. Frouhauf, ss. Mrs. Levi," of Dunedin, who nas been a guest of Mrs. J. Myers, left last night for the South. Mrs. Lindsay has arrived from India, and is staying with Mrs. Riddiford at Fern Grove, where the marriage of Miss Phyllis Riddiford shortly takes place. Mrs. Mark Cohen and Miss Cohen, of Dunedin, left yesterday by the Maunganui on a trip to Sydney. The engagement is announced in the Melbourne Leader of Mr. Phil Finkelstein, of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., to Miss Eve Solomon, of Wellington, New Zealand. , At the annual meeting of the Victoria League last night in St. Paul's Schooiroom, Miss Coates, Dr. Martin, Mrs. Luke, and Mrs. Corliss were on the platform, and Dr. Newman presided. Sirs. Chatfield read tho interesting main report, and Mrs. Luke the financial report, and Mrs. Corliss gave an account of the fine work that the "Our Gh-ls' " branch' is enthusiastically carrying on. Some music and recitations \me much appreciated by the audience. The, engagement is announced of Misa Nellie Mahoney. third daughter of Mr. P. Mahoney and the late Mrs. Mahoney, Hawkeslone-street, to Leon J. Kay, t>«eoud sou of Mrs. and Mrs. Georgo Kay. of Karon. The German Enipre&s was present on 23rd February at a women's exhibition in Berlin. The festival cantata was composed and conducted by a woman, and performed by a chorus and orchestra of women. The president (Frau Hedwij; Hoy-e) claimed the exhibition to be tho "flourish of trumpets," signifying peaco between tho home and the profession — women's.two great spheres of work. Tho movement had two objects — to Know what German women can do. and to put before the public certain ideals to guide, them in the choice of luxuries and necessities. All sorts of gpodb wero on show, from groups of ha-ts and skirts to a series of model dwelling rooms. The mofit striking feature was— and here mere men organisers should sit up and take notice — that it was practically complete on the opening day ! Miss Margaret Murray, aged fortyeight, has just died in the Palmeretoii Hospital. Sh* was with Mrs. H. F. Robertson's people in Scotland . before Mr. and Mrs. Robertson were married, and afterwards came out to New Zea. land and remained with them for twentysix yearn. Miss Birch, general secretary of the Young Womenis Christian Association, arrived from Sydney by the "OlimaToa on Wednesday, and it is hoped' that, under her direction, the work will make good progress. The London Morning Post announres the engagement of Lieutenant lan (>. Shirreif 'Hilton, of 41. Roland Gardens. South Kensington, to Bertha, second daughter <.f Mr. Walter L. Clifford, of Flaxbuurne, New Zealand. Under didb 9th March, our London correspondent writs*: L-4«t nMit Thvir Majesties the King and Queen held their

first Court of the season, at Buckingham Palace. Two New Zealanders had the honour of presentation — Mrs. Alfred Kidd (Auckland) and Mies Maria. Bauchop (Wellington) — Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, wife of tho Secretary of State for th« Colonies, prs&enting them. Mrs. Kidd's gown was of ivory aatin with an overdress of d'Alencon lace arranged in panniers. The train was old French design of gold and white chiffon brocade, hemmed with graduated cloth of gold falling from both shoulders in a cascade allowing the lace gown to appear through. Mre. Kidd's bouquet was" an early Victorian posy composed of mauve orchids, white lilac, pink rosebuds, and blue forget-me-not?. It was tied with streamers of mauve and pink ribbons. Miss Bauchop -wore a dainty dress of pale pink satin with an overdress of white net mounted on white chiffon. Tho overdreßs, which was made in pannier style, was handsomely embroidered with pink flowers. The Court train of pink satin was outlined with shirred ninon and trimmed with clusters of pink flowers. Her shower bouquet of white Madonna, lilies was tied with white satin ribbons. At the Court of 14th March Mrs. Irven E. Raymond (Invercargillj will present two of her daughters, and probably at one of the Court 6 after Easter Lady Mout will present Miss Janet Stout. Lady Ward and Miss Eileen Ward will accompany Sir Joseph Ward to Australia, leaving on Monday next. The Baby Clinic in Telford-etreet, North Kensington, London, which was opened a few months ago as a memorial to Mrs. J. Ramsay Macdonald and Mrs. Mary Middleton (writes a London lady correspondent), is doing excellent work, and every day its usefulness is more strongly felt and appreciated. The clinic is a little house in a little street, and without any show this home of healing is open to mothers of the poorest class to obtain medical treatment for their sick little ones. The clinic is free ; those mothers who have any money are williug enough to slip a few coppers into the contribution box. Dr. Ethel Bentham ia at the head of affairs, and she and another lady, Dr. Kamm, are in attendance on two afternoons a week, and additionally when operations are necessary. The babies come every day from 10 to 12 for treatment and dressings ; some cases need treatment twice a day. Tho babies are taken into a waiting-room, where all kinds of toys are waiting to amuse them. This room leads to ' the consulting room. ' The clinic is on the one floor, and there are no stairs to try the mothers. Once a week the mothers are entertained at tea and a talk, and the poorest are invited firet. This talk, or " lecturetto," ie devoted to the welfare of the baby, and gives all sorts of practical hints about hie bathing, feeding, clothing, and health., The mothers are learning many things at tho Baby Clinic, and the knowledge is imparted in tho most honvely, pleasant, and tactful way. Resident at Hastings, England, is Mrs. Ann Tibbie, now in her ninety-first year, one of the twenty-five women who went out with the Scots and Grenadier Guards to the Crimea, and of whom live only returned. Mrs Tibbie, who still enjoys good health, receives a pension from the Patriotic Fund. A London paper relates a, story' that while on the way out Mrs. Tibbie ,had a dream, in the course of which she heard the words, "Thou shalt return, .but he, shall not." She {•old her husband, who laughed, but the dream proved true. He "went through all 'the fighting," and no£ till after peace was proclaimed did the end come. For eleven months she and the other women were before Sevastopol fortress, and sh« witnessed the start of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. After the battles the women were allowed to go over tho battlefields to see if their husbands were amongst the killed or wounded. In their tramps after the troops the women had saucepans, in many cases fastened to their wrists. While at Scoutari she assisted in the hospital under Mies Florence .Nightingale. A pathetic story of a daughter's devo tion to her mother is recalled by the death of an octogenarian, Miss M. T. Turner, at E'arnham-street, Martin, Suffolk. As a, young girl she became engaged, but refused to marry while her mother was alive. Fifty years later the couple were still engaged and the mother still alive. Then Miss Turner's sweetheart became ill and died, and she nursed him to thft end. The suffragists of China, outdoing their Western sisters, aro desirous of asserting their ' military valour. At Shanghai the Chinese girls at the Chang Yu school wrote to the leader of the Republican forces, offering their aid as soldiers. " Heaven has given woman the same rights as man," the letter says. "Soon^ the Manchus will be chased out of China, but till now no regiment of women has been formed. Wo wish to take a. share with the men of China iti crushing our enemies. The needle does not suffice us. Wo ask forearms." Th« warlike ambitions of these girls were damped, however, vonsiderably by tho Republican leader, who simply replied that -their services would be called for if required. To make and keep home homely you need a piano in it. Thanks to the Dresden Piano Company's honest and reasonable system of deferred payments there are pianos in thousands of New Zealand home^ and the number, increases daily. The four best pianos are — the fcroadwood, the Ronkch, th«» Lipp, tho Steinway. The Dresden Piano Company carries very large slocks, so that there is* not the slightest difficulty in suiting all tastes and requirements. Dresden Piano Company. M. J, Brookes, North Island •Manager. — Advt. Despite the fact that Corsets are made in all civilised countries now, and that Corsetiers who make to measure are in almost every populous city in the world, the average woman." may generally bo found still searching for an entiicly satisfactory Corset. English Women find this in tho peerless P. & S. -'Zairoid." It was the first of all English Corsets, and it has fully maintained its reputation said pre-eminence. It is mado in' models tci suit all figures, in stylos to .suit all tastes. Tho "Zairoid" supports are perfectly tfnd permanently rust lost.. Tho husks are virtually unbreakable. Stockt, ia Jarge varieties at C. Adorns and Co., Com»t, Costume, and Millinery Specialists, 108 and 110, Cuba-street. — Advt. Goclber's. Ltd.. aro prepared to cxc* cut* orders for Recherche Supper Dishes, 6uch as veal and ham pies, chicken pies, aspee jelliop, and mayonnaises of all kinds, oyster patties, oyster vol. au yeut. poultries, etc., and sweet dishes of all kinds.— Advt. Wedding bouquet 3 artistically designed. Wreaths, crosses, nil kinds funeral emblems tsent to any part of the Dominion. Miss Murray, So, Willis-fatreet (Florist to His Excellency Lord lelineton). — Advt. Ladies will find that Warner's Rust Proof Corseth are made to fit any figure ami conform »o any style. All diaper." boll them. — Advt.