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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1912, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Sir Walter and Lady Clifford, and the Misses Clifford, of Christchurch, are passengers to Sydney by the Maunganui to-morrow. Mrs. H. Nicholson is at present on Ji visit to Wairarapa, having been ordered a change on account of ill health. At the Windsor are Mrs. and Miss Huffam (Motueka), Mrs. G. Stowe (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. Wiley (Waipatitiki), and Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Playcock (Martinborough). To-night the sixth of Miss Borlase'a junior assemblies takes place, and, judging from the acceptances and preparations, bids fair to be as great a, success as those held previously. The late Mrs. James Ashcroft, whose funeral Bervice was held this morning, was, before the illness winch for fourteen years set her aside from active work, most energetic in furthering the Girls' Friendly Society, the Melanesian Mission, and the St. Paul's Dorcas Society. Her kindness and sympathy were ever ready, and she was very highly esteemed. She leaves a family of three — a daughter in England, a son in Auckland, and Miss Ashcroft (who lived with her mother). Mrs. and Miss Toxward, who have been staying at the Empire Hotel, returned to Carterton this morning. Staying at the Empire Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson and Miss Gibson (Patea), Mr. and Mrs. W. Cox (Sydney), Miss Tautou (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Archibald, Miss Archibald, and Miss Backhouse (England), Misses O'Neill (Wanganui), and Mrs. Fowler (Nelson). The matron of the Hospital acknowledges with thanks tho following gifts: Flowers, Her Excellency Lady Islington, Mrs. Massey; Mr. Jortes; books, Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs, Miss M. Chance ; illustrated papers, Government House, Dl\ Holmes; children's books, Mrs. Thome George, Messrs. Tanner Bros.; cakes for children's wards, Mrs. Louis Blundell; old linen, Mrs. Fordham. > Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, Dunedin, and Mr. and Mrs. Woolven, Wanganui, ajre staying at the Hotel Cecil. Mrs. and Miss Massey left for Auckland yesterday morning. Mr. C. Hughes, of the Union S.S. Company, and the Misses Hughes, arrived yesterday from Sydney. Mrs. T^ G. Macarthy has returned from Napier. She was present yesterday at the meeting of the Trustees of the Macarthy Estate. . ' The Misses M'Lean, of Dunedin, are back from Sydney, and staying with their sister, Mrs. Wilford. At St. Mary of the, Angels, Boulcottstreet, on Monday niorning, Miss Molly Hamilton, a member of the choir, was married to Mr. .Barry Smith, of Messrs. Bing, Harris, and Co. The bride wore white satin and a wreath and veil, and the bridesmaid, Miss Johnston, was in a white embroidered frock, and carried a shower bouquet. The Rev. Father Herring officiated at the ceremony, and Miss Rita Hodgins, niece of the bridegroom, presided at the organ. Mr. H. Smith, brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man, and the bride was given away by her brother. A reception" was held afterwards at Godber's, Cuba-street. Miss' Somerville has been visiting Lake Wakatipu, and is staying in Christchurch. A committee of ladies from Maranui have arranged A " hard-up " social gathering in aid of the Maranui Church building fund, in the Maranui Church Hall. . Tho members of the Girls' Peace Scouts are working hard to make the aims and objects of the association widely understood. They have to get good representative patrols to enter for the New Zealand Competitions in November. The Dunedin and Christchurch patrols have each been invited to send a patrol for First Aid, Signalling, and Physical Cul-tui-e. Tenders are being received for the new uniform, which is to be navy blue serge, with brown, detachable collars and cuffs, brown belt, brown hat, slightly different from the old ones, ana brown haversacks. The change to blue is not a radical change by the Wellington Council, because Mrs. Cosgrove made it optional to wear either blue or khaki, when the movement was started. All the G.P. Scouts of Wellington and Petone, past and present, and those intending to join, are invited to meet at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday next at the Sussex Chambers, Panama-street, to arrange for the competitions. The • Business Conference of the Y.W".C.A. begins to-morrow morning in St. John's, Schoolroom, and continues till Tuesday. Invitations have been issued by the president and committee for the celebration of the sixth a,nniversary of the association, to be held in the Sydney-street Hall on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m. His Excellency Lord Islington will preside, and Lady Islington will address the meeting. . Among the other speakers will be Miss Helen Barnes, M.A., of New York, and Mrs. Kaye, of Christchurch. There will be good music. Miss Helen - Woodruff Smith, the middle-aged lady millionaire, whose letters to Mr. Russell Griswold brought her world-wide notoriety, now seeks fame as an aviatress (states an American paper). She has ordered a "monoplane for two," and a local paper, in reporting her ambition, unkindly comments: — "The soulflights which Miss Smith took With young Griswold, . and which she described in her letters, signed 'Brunhilde,' have not contented the lady, and by means of a monoplane made for two she now proposes to take occasional jaunts, as. the spirit may dictate, into the ethereal regions." Miss Smith, now a buxom, middle-aged lady, was once married and divorced. In her time she has been a great success at bagging Polar bears and Walrus. According to Mr. Griswold, who was her private secretary, she tried to captivate him, and not he her. Mr. Griswold claimed heavy damages, but a chivalrous jury, recognising 'his youth, refused his claims. The plaintiff, known all over America as "Ruzzie Lamb," adopted the view that if a woman can sue for breach of promise so also can a man, and Miss Smith could well afford to pay. There is in Sydney (writes the Australasian) a small band tof enthusiasts who cultivate the fast-disappearing nrt of walking. Appropriately enough, many of them are associated with the Department of Public Health, and the vigour induced by their habit of construing the verb "to go " into "to go afoot " must be a valuable asset to their department. Quite a number of ladies belong to this club— the Warragamba — and thoroughly enjoy tho tours, wnich take place in the cool weather between

Easter and October. One of the qualifications for ( membership is an ability to cover* 15 miles a day £or several con* secutive days. This is acquired by degrees and the hon. secretary of the club (Mr. H. J. Tompkins) recommends to beginners a graduated course of walk* ing. When one is able to do 20 to 25 miles a day with ease, one may be con* sidered a master of the art. Thirty miles a day has been done by some heroes of the club, but their report is that "there is no poetry in it." Four is considered the maximum number' de* sirable for a walking party. Two is the chosen number of some people, while others prefer the unanimity of opinion obtainable in a party of one. For kdies the equipment consists of a shortskirted costume of light and strong' material, strong-soled and broad-heeled boots, ,a shady hat, and veil, a mackih* tosh cape or umbrella, a knapsack containing a change of garments, toilet articles, a drinking cup, a small measure of boracic acid, and a supply of Pla&mon chocolate. At the annual dinner of the Warragamba Club, held recently, there were forty members present, and ten new ones were enrolled. Mr. W. Mogford Hamlet (Government analyst) is tne president, i and he and the hon. secretary lately distinguished themselves by walking from Sydney to Melbourne. The Jenofin and Yarrangobilly caves, Mts. Kosciusko, Wilson, and Irving are among the club's longer tours. Writing on "Airy Clothing in Berlin," an Englishman states : —"But while one cannot but admire the German baron of Berlin's smartest set when one sees him walking across the Tiergarten to pay his Calls in a brown silk frock coat and what have been aptly termed lemonade trousers, it is in the dressing of their children "that German parents make the English mother seem by contrast an inhuman tyrant of decorum. The example is set by the arbitress of Germany's fashions, the Crown Princess, wlio dresses her bonny littlo sons, four and six years old, in simple loose little tunics cut low at the neck and the shortest of short knickerbockers, so that the tiny prihces' arms and nearly the whole of their chubby little legs are bare and cool. The pink and white little girls of t Berlin who are not already at the seaside— where a bathing-suit is their only wear — have reduced their promenade costumes to the dimensions of a pinafore. In fact, yesterday I saw on Kurfeurstendamm, Berlin's Park-lane, a diminutive dress reformer, who was braving the critics in what is called a 'tricot,' which seems to consist of a pair of small running shorts surmounted by a vest. And so there is not a child to be seen who does not look cool and comfortable." Mrs. Clara Brown, a beautiful and wealthy widow, of Kansas City, Missouri, recently made known through the press that ehe> wae in quest of a husband, hot "Western" of "cornfed." In response letters by hundreds' were sent from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other large Eastern cities. The egotism of the writers, however, received a set-back when Mm. Brown, interviewed for the firet time, declared that she had renounced every one of her 1500 suitors. "I am rejecting them," ehe said, gmiling, "more in sorrow than in anger. I have no feeling against; 'a»y' of these men ; they merely won't do. The 1500 love-letters were about ac varied a lot as were ever gathered together. Among the widow ' 6 rejected suitors atfe.: — • Harvard graduates 66 Yale men 30 Oxford graduates ..• ..• 13 Scions of "nobility" 150 Men with fortunes between £2000 and £10,000 ... 200 Clergymen or students for the ministry 18 Men eepaTated, but not divorced '29 Widowers 208 Perhaps the real reason for Mre. Bi'own'e rejection of all her euitora wa<s the receipt of the following letter front Mr. W. J. Gaynor, Mayor of New York City, which Mrs. Brown eaid was the only letter she had received that was worth while, and she" was going to acton he advice. The Mayor's letter was as follows :— "New York, 9th July.— Dear Madam,—- You are looking for nappine&s in the wrong direction. I do not think there ie any man living who would suit you. If you want to be really happy for the rest ot your life, work for the happiness of others, and forget yourself.— Sincerely yours, W. J. Gayttor, Mayor." Mrs. Brown also received a letter from Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, Massachusetts, in which he gave the names of Boston's most wealthy eligible ■ bachelors, with marginal notea on their accomplishments and fortunes ; but, as Mrs. Brown pathetically remarked, "You can't propose, you know, even in Leap Yeai", and as the result of the letter* addr*esed to me 1 have learned so much that I don't want any husband now." jVlany of the gems of literature sent to Mrs. Brown were published in newspapers, and they afford amusing reading. All show a remarkable bump of egotism to be possessed by all the writers, and where the man did not have money to offer he dilated upon his grand physique and general manly charms. Perhaps tho most amuaitig and flattering letter came from a New York chauffeur, who declared to '"dear madame" that he wa« willing to marry any woman — black, white, red, green, blue, or yellow—because he wwats t out of work ; but if he had a good position he wouldn't marry the best woman on earth. NO HOME WITHOUT A PIANO. To make and keep home homely you need a piano in it. .Thanks to the Dresden Piano Company's system of deferred payments, there are pianos in thousands of New Zealand homes, and the number increases daily. The four best pianos are the Broadwood, the Ronisch, the Lipp, and the Steinway. If you are thinking of a piano write or call now. The Dresden Company carries Very large stocks, so that there is not the slightest difficulty in suiting all tastes and requirements* If you want a good piano go to the Dresden Piano Company. Lambton-qttay, Wellington. North Island manager, M. J. Brookes.— Advt. Sjpring Weddings— Brides and bridesmaids' bouquets of , fashion's favourite flowers, roses, carnations, lily of the valley, exquisitely designed by Miss Murray, 36, Willis-otreefc (florist to His Excellenoy Lord Islington).— Advt. Violets! Tiolete! Violetßl Mias Cooper, floriste, Manners-street, ie receiving fresh daily her woll-known beautiful violets. Posted to any address. Telephone 882.— Advt. Low bust and long below the waist characterise Warner's newest corset models. Every pair guaranteed by Wellington drapers.— Advt. Mrs. Woodward will be pleased to give a price for ladies' and gents' left-off clothing and boots, 121, Ingcstre-streefc. 'Phone 2379,-AdH. Magistrate (discharging prisoner) : ."Now, f advise you to keep away from bad company." Prisoner (feelingly) : "Thank you, air ! .You won't see mo here agaiu !"

Love, to be of any lasting use, muet be well mixed with respect.