WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1912, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

"Hearts are flowers; they remain open when dew falls gently, but cloee In a heavy downpour o£ r«n.'— Jean Paul. 6 J *

I Sir William and Lady Russell arrive $o-<lay from Hawkes Bay, and will 6tay I at the Royal Oak. I Mr. and' Mrs. R. J. Gilmer leave for j Invercargill on Friday. I Mrs. Scott, wife of Mr. Scott M.P.., I has arrived from the South, and 'leaves I again at the end of the week. j Mra. and Miss Sclauders/ of Nelson, I are at the Royal Oak. [ This morning Mr. A. W. Rutherford, j Mrs. and Miss Rutherford arrived from I Christchurch, and are at the Royal Oak. | The Hon. Barbara St. John arrives ■ from Hastings to-day, and leaves by the I Taimii on. Thursday. , | Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hallenstein and • Mrs. E. J. Hallenstein, of Chrietchurch, I are staying at the Royal Oak. I Mr. Macassey, whose wife is expected ■ in Wellington in about a fortnight^ has I taken the Solicitor-General's house, while ■ Mrs. Salmond is in England, • ' Mj^s Stafford leaves at the end of the week for a few weeks at Napier. I Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Russell, of I Hawkes. Bay, are passengers by the Tainui for England. Mrs. J. J. (Dameron, wife of Captain ■ Cameron, arrives in 'Wellington from Gfer borne by the Victoria on Friday, and ■ goes on in the afternoon to Dunedini where she will stay with her father Mr T. 'W. Whitson. Miss Wedgwood, who has been to the South Sea Islands, is expected back by the next Sydney boat. All functions of the- week in connection with the Pioneer Club are cancelled, in deference to the bereavement its president '(Miss Richmond) has sustained in the death of her sister. The Wellington Harrier* give their sixth annual dance in St. Peter's Hall on Friday evening. I Mies Christie, organiser for the Thetv [ sophical Society, leave* next week for ■ Motueka. and Nelson. i Dr-. Elizabeth Gunn lectured on Monday to the Wellington Nursing Division ■ on "Home Hygiene." Mr. Barlthrop showed interesting slides illustrating the Ij address. A hearty vote of thanks was carried. Miffi Marjori© Michie is a guest of Mrs. \W. Watson. She leaves on Saturday for Auckland, and returns to Wellington by the Rotorua., in' which she sail* for England. The dance given by the Social Committee of the Unitarian Church, held last night in the New Century Hall, proved a great success. The hall was decorated with flags ' and foliage, and the stage, where the chaperones sat, was comfortably furnished. Supper, on tables decorated with jonquils and violets, was served upstairs. The dance was most enjoyable. Among the chaperonee were Mrs. Jellie, in blue velvet and lac» ; Mrs. Geddis, in black ninon, with gold embroideries? Mrs. Spragg, in black and jvelvet; Mrs. Macdonald, in black ninon « and silver; Mrs. Stevens, in black satin and cream lace ; and Mrs. Baldwin, green velvet. Mr. Fleming furnished excellent music. Mi-.. Forrest- acted a-s M.C. On Tuesday afternoon a tea was given by Mrs. Charles Collins, Island Bay, in honour of Miss Hoby, whose marriage to Di'. Hatherleigh Deck, of Sydney, will shortly take place. The function was a very pleasant one, and was greatly enjoyed by those present. Music and an interesting competition added to the pleasure of the gathering. First place in the competition was tied for by sirs. Godber and "Missas Fossette and 0. Hart. Miss Hoby received many dainty handkerchiefs from the guests present. Miss Ethel Williams, whose marriage with Mr. Newlande takes place early next month in Sydney, was the guest of i honour at an afternoon tea given by Mrs. F. Petherick, at Kelburne, on Tuesday, afternoon. Mrs. Fabian, "Brentwood," Tawa Flat, gave a children's party for her daughter Rena on Saturday last. There were ov.er fifty children present, and the tables were prettily decorated with rata vine and early spring flowers. Guessing competitions, games, and music made a bright and .enjoyable evening for the i children. ! Lady Eileen Knox was one of a picturesque group of bridesmaids at the marriage of the youngest daughter of the late Lord Brabourne, to Mr. William Loyd, a, nephew of Lord Lurgan. The girls, there were ten, wore soft white chiffon and lace with hems and sashes of pink satin. Their big black lace hats had pink plumes, and each wore the bridegroom's present, a diamond and amethyst pendant. 1 For at least six centuries the Japanese, 1 with their inherent artistic temperament, have been finishing the woodwork in their homes and odd pieces of furniture by the "Sugi" process, and samples imported have been held in high esteem as rare curiosities. The "Sugi" process of finishing, i6 extremely simple, and the result is wonderfully beautiful. It is simply the chairing of the surface of the boards to be used and the rubbing out of all charred particles Until the surface is clean. In Japan this charring is done by ordinary fire, and the rubbing is done with l'iQe straw, but a more approved method, which will get quicker and much more satisfactory results, ie the use of an ordinary gasoline blow torch such as is , used by painters and plumbers, the rubbing to be done with a wire brush. When the wood is finally cleaned and is dusted out with a cloth it can, according to taste, be rubbed with the smallest possible quantity of ordinary floor wax. The result is a soft brown tone showing in embossed effect every slight variation of the grain ol 1 the wood. It is the custom for Chinese women to use cosmetics and to put them on with a lavish hand. Indeed, no Chinese lady, unless- a widow or well past sixty, is supposed to appear in the presence of her family without a regular coating -of cosmetics A little while ago, a Chinese woman complained to a European of the difficulty she had in lifting her eyebrows, and asked what the reason was. "Perhaps." was tho answer, "they am partially paralysed by the lead in your cosmetics. Wash off the paint, and see if the nerves do not recover their tone." The lady looked horrified at the sugges-' tion. "But," said she, "I would not dare to appear in the presence of my husband or family without paint or powder ! 11/ would not be respectable. ' . Some notes on prison discipline and fare for women are given in the Sydney Sun. and illustrate what treatment is meted out to suffragettes. It is quito true that men. for the fivpt fourteen daju after they are sentenced to hard-labuux.

are made to deep on bare boards, unless the doctor orders otherwise, but women never have to do so. They sleep on a mattresa — not a downy, feathery-bed, you may be sure, but a mattress for all that. And there is no oakum-picking, nor are there any treadmills for women nowadays, while oakum-picking is, done only in a very few male prisons. Again, unless a woman is a convict, she does not have to work alone in her cell. She works with her fellow hard-labour prisoners in the sewing-room, the kitchen, or the laundry. Here she washes, scrubs', or makes mail-bags or shirts for the' men prisoners. The hard-labour woman lias to work not more than ten hours, and not less than, six, in the day, exclusive of mealt imes. The exact time depend* on the medical officer, who certifies her "fit" or "unfit" for a certain number of hours' work, as the case may be. The prisoner— l am, of course, alluding only to the "hard labour" one rises at 5 o'clock, folds, up her bed, and cleans her cell, after . which she goes int,o tiit>" grounds for one hour's drill. After this she^ returns to her cell for breakfast, which consists of six ounces of bread and a pint of gruel. At) 8 she attends service in the chapel, and starts scrubbing passages and landings at 9 o'clock. At a quarter pact 11 she returns to her cell for djnner. The menu for this meal varies according to the time of imprisonment. For instance, for the first seven days the, prisoner has six ounces of bread, with one pint of porridge, or eight ounces of potatoes, or six ounces of suet pudding. After the first week of imprisonment, and for the whole term, if not exceeding four months, dinner consietß .of the usual .ration of bread and po tatoes daily, with one pint of soup, three ounces of cooked meat, and eight ounceß of suet pudding on two days a week each, and eight ounces of • beans and one of fab bacon on the remaining day. The next four or five hours are spent in tho needlework room. Supper, the same diet as breakfast, is served in the cells ab 5 o'clock. Then the prisoner is allowed to read for a little while before turning in. Lights are out at 8 o'clock. Tire prison dress is not "frightfully unbecoming," though many people seem to imagine it is.' • It is made of a dark brown material, quite simply, and a dainty white cap, which is far from ugly, is worn with it. Tho death occurred here late last night (statos our Otaki correspondent) of' Mrs. J. D'Ath, sen., aged 68 years. Deceased, who was only ill for a. Bhorb time, was a. well-known resident of Otaki of many years' standing," and was highly respected. She leaves a. husband and grown-up family to mourn their loss. Coming from parts of Southern Nigeria where , scarcely a white man, and certainly no white woman, had gone before, Mi*, and Mrs. P. 'Amaury Talbot recently returned to ' London, ■ bringing over 2000 varieties of botanical specimens, of which about 10 per cent, are expected to prove new" discoveries, and a hundred mammals, which have already provided .two varieties ( new science. Of the flowere many grew on trees at such a height that the only way to secure them, was ,by shooting them down, with a shot 'gun. Mr. and Mrs. Tal\ bot started on their journey in August, 19fO, and have been travelling about an almost unknown part of Southern Nigeria* They . have . discovered the Lake of the Dead, the abode, as the natives believe, of the ghosts of the whole country. Mr. Talbot found, too, an immense «eri«s of -vast caverns stretching under the earth so far that no man has ever reached their limit, and filled eternally with the roar of underground rivers and the screams of thousands of bats. The extraordinary hold of supeiv stition upon the natives is one of the subjects which Mr. and Mrs: Talbot have studied with" attention. Witchcraft is one of the greatest factors in the lives of the native* of West Africa, and the observance of rites for its defeat is among their .greatest cares. The witch-doctors who profit by thie disposition to fearfulness are undoubtedly pos-. eessed, according to the investigations of Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, of ■. considerable powers of v an occult nature. They canj for instance, produce, whether by hypnotism or come other ineane, the appearance of a rainbow in the ■ sky. Poisoning is carried by the natives of Southern Nigeria to such heights of art that no house ie without ite provisions of antidotes. " First in the piano procession are the Broadwood, the Ronisch, the Lipp, and the Steinway. The Dresden Piano Co. have to Jiand great now shipments of these delicious instruments, the latest models. V'e hold the largest stocks of pianos in the Dominion, and have instruments, to suit all classes and all purser. It' is our endeavour to give the fullest satisfaction and to enable, anyone who desires a piano to get one on. the easiest possible terms. Deferred payments from 20s -per' month. .Our reputation hafi indeed been built up on such methods.. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., I Lambton-quay, Wellington. North Island manager, M. Brookes. — Advt. ELEGANT ECONOMY IN CORSETS. The trouble with the average cheap I oorset is that it makes any costume worn over it look cheap. It lacks distinction. The famous P. & S. " ZaiI roid" Corsets are of a quite remarkable cheapness, regard being had to the exceptional quality j but they are not cheap in style or effect. The P. A; S. was the first great English corset to be designed and' put on the market, and it lias easily kept its lead from that day to this. It is made with scrupulous care, of the finest obtainable materials. Stocks in large varieties at C. Adams and Co., Corset, Costume, and Millinery Specialists, 108 and 110, Cuba-street. — , Advt. The public are recommended to try Godber s walnut cakes. They are delicious, and only cost one shilling. — Advt. Wedding bouquets artistically designed. Wreaths, crosses, all kinds funeral emblems sent to any part of the Dominion. Miss Murray, 36, Willis-«treet (Florist to Hie Excellency Lord Islington). — Advt. Mre. Ledez, 212, Lambton Chambers (opposite Kirkcaldie's) is making the latest and daintiest jmodels in evening gowns and coats. — Advt. Violets 1 Violet* 1 Violets! Mibb Cooper, ' floriste, Manners-street, is receiving fresh daily her Well-known beautiful violets. Posted to any address. Telephone 882.— Advt. Warner's Corsets are not only good figuro builders, but through their scientilie deigning are only felt for their senne of support and perfoct comfort. The tall, well-de.veloped woman should wear No. 265. From all drapors. — Advt.

Ono must be a, genius to bo a successful barber. One is reminded of tho tonBorial artist who operated in the eauio village for fifty years and never made a mistake. In his early days a handßomo boy gpt in his chair. "Shave, sir?" asked tho barber. "You flatter me," laughed tlie youth. "You flatter me. No, I can only uae a haircuU" Years passed. In fact, thirty years did. The name man canio U> tho same barber. "Hair cut. sir?" asked the barber. "You flatter- me I" tighed tho man. "No-MWily «. eh»Y«."-