WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mrs. T. M. Wilford presided afc the annual general mcefing of the Girls' Realm Guild on Thursday, held in the clubroom. The reports and balancesheets from the various New Zealand centres showed that the guild was doing good work ; that many cases of distress and want had been relieved; and that substantial support had been given by sympathisers. Mrs. Wilford's consent to again fill the position of president was received with much satisfaction. Her Excellency Lady Islington was elected patroness for the time that she- is yet to stay in New Zealand, and the following officers were appointed : — President, Mrs. Wilford ; vice-presidents (list made out subject to acceptance) ; secretary, Mrs. Claridge; treasurer, Mrs. V. Mueller; committee, Misses Wallace, Lambert, M. F. Young, J. Newenham, and E. Hurley. Three pounds was voted to the funds of St. Mary's Home, and six pounds to help a girl nominated by Dr. Agnes Bennett. Votes of thanks to Mrs. Wilford for presiding, to the retiring officers, and to the press, concluded the meeting. Miss Kathleen Millar has left for some visits in the south. j Mrs. Harold Cooper, who was at theGrand Hotel, returned to Palmerston North yesterday. Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Spence left yesterday for Sydney and England. Mrs. Henry Blundell, Miss Eileen Btundell, and the Messrs. W. and G. Blundell were passengers yesterday for Sydney, whence they go to Colombo. Mrs. Hardy, of Waipukurau, is staying at the Grand Hotel. i Mrs. G. Poynter, of Wanganui, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Graham, of Wellington. Mrs. Brennan, of Wanganui, is paying a visit to Wellington. Nurse Lucas has returned to Nelson. Mrs. Morice left by the Maori last night. Miss F. Stafford is in Palmerston North, a guest of Mrs. Walter Strang. Miss Charity Downing, of Wallaceville, left last night by the Manuka via Sydney, for England, for a six months' holiday. Miss Fitzgerald, of the Agricultural Department, has been appointed to the staff of the Solicitor to the Public Trust Office, and has 'taken up her new duties. A quiet little wedding was coiitracted at Wellington between Mr. 'David Simmons, of Petone, and Elsie May Quinton, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrsi QuintCu, of Rintoul-stroet, Newtown. After the ceremony they and their guests adjourned to Godber's for refreshments, and then all went out to the bride and bridegroom's future residence in Petono, where a most enjoyable evening was spent with relations and a few friends. At St. Mark's Church, Sussex-square, Miss Flora May, fourth daughter of Mr. J. Lawrence, Ellioe-street, was married to Mr. Percy Dunstan, eldest son of Mr. R. Dunstan, Newton, Auckland. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr, J. W. Lawrence, wore a beautiful gown of crepe de chine, trimmed _ with crystal trimmings and ivory satin ;. she wore the usual veil and orange blossom, and carried a shower bouquet. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Edyth Lawrence, who wore a pretty frock of pale blue ninon and a large black hat trimmed with pink roses and veiled with black lace. The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a silver tea service!, and to the bridesmaid a gold bangle. The duty of best man was performed by Mr. James Furrie. A reception was afterwards held at Godber's, Courtenay-place. Mr. and Mrs. Dunßtan left by motor for the North, where the honeymoon is to be spent, the bride wearing a navy tailormade costume, with a white ostrich boa, and black legal hat trimmed with roses. The annual gift tea in aid of the funds of the Levin -Home takes place on Tuesday next. It has been an avenue by which a number of people who otherwise know nothing of the work of the Home have been interested in it and given their assistance to it. The Home is kept mainly by subscriptions — part of the income is from the parent or guardian, who pays a small sum per week, but eten that fluctuates with the circumstance of those poor folk whose little ones ive have in our rare. Miss Jolly is quite a mother as well as matron. The girls are very fond of her, and she is very proud of the children. The yards of material given last year Miss Jolly has cut and made up into garments. Some of the ladies of the committee give an afternoon now and again as a sewing bee, fpr the sewing is a great item tor twenty-five" girls, ranging from three years to fifteen years of age. The last year's grocery gifts have lasted for some months, and the donations in money have enable the committee to do some very necessary improvements to the Home. The children attend the State schools, and very good reports are received from Mr. Flux. The voluntary subscriptions are the main revenue of the club. If anyone cannot come out on Tuesday to the Home, the tradespeople would willingly bring out gifts. But it is hoped many friends will attend. The Milwaukee Medical Association, which recently adopted a resolution to inaugurate a movement to make the exchange of kisses a crime, has lost its fight before the real battle of kisses began. "Laughed to death" may bo the diagnosis of the physicians of the malady which caused the 'unseemly de mise of their campaign against the bacillus osculatorious. The medical men's idea to tnake ■ the exchange of kisses an offence Dn a par with the crime oi mashing, the law against which is now being enforced by the city police, sounded good to the high brow element of tho city population, liut with the deadly lack of humour which is said to be a characteristic of the individual with a lofty forehead, the enthusiasm of the theorists carried them so far that their efforts to put the law into effect are now ready for burial. The crisis came when ths proposition was made by ths, City Superintendent of Visiting Nurses that the State Board of Health be per mitted to issue kissing certificates to those untfilicted with disease. All with out sucl| certificate, it was proposed, should be forbidden the delight of the osculatoiy evidence of affection. Then there arose a clamour from those who have not forgotten said delights of kissing, and the jeers aimed at the proposed commission proved fatal to the plan. Fifth-avenue fashion and its dealings at a Sixth-avenue second-hand store are the subject of some alleged revelations in the JCj-w York Evening Post. The stove is of the "Second-hand Ladies' Kvpning Gowns a Specialty"' vaiict^, and it is, understood lli.it the " secondhand " applies to the gowiut, not the • iadjtfi .The m»bi in too etore thus ut

burdens herself to the reporter: — "And take it from me, marryin' the long green and havin' it in your own pocket aint one and the same thing, by no means, no. Let me lead you to something. There's more women on Fift' Avynoo that aint got car fare in their purses than there is on Sixt' — I tell you this in confidence. My customers, them as comes in here to buy, arc always astin" me why en earth rich women bother to sell their cast-asides. They bother because they gotta have the money, that"? why they bother. Fift' Avynoo husbands shell out houses and motor cars and diamonds, but they won't shell out coin. Aint that queer? Their wives can go anywhere in the burg and charge anything they want, but they gotta quit shoppin and automobile home for lunch because they aint got the ready for a cup of tea and a wafer with a hole through the middle. Sell their castasides? Why, they go to the department stores and order things, from twenty-button kid gloves to sweep-length silk dresses, and have 'em put on the bill and telephone for us to come take 'em at a discount. And when I get there the things aint ever been taken out of their store wrappers S You gather me?" There are more Archduchesses in Austria than Archdukes, and, unless plebeian blood is allowed to come to the rescue, some of the Royal ladies will (remarks the Argonaut) "be driven reluctantly and regretfully into race suicide, which Heaven forbid. Never let it be said that the manhood of our race stood idly by white archduchesses were forced into a role for which they are so illequipped. The trouble is this :An archduchess must not marry a mere man. He imist be an archduke or something approximating thereto. Now archdukes are scarce or else are unwilling to marry archduchesses so long as the chorus is able to provide so many counter attractions, and of so alluring a type. Small blame to the archdukes. We knew a chorus girl onee — but no. > This is not the place for autobiographical material. Let it wait for the regular memoir. Now Americans might stand a chance where the mere Austrians would have none. The American suitor might safely claim to be an archduke, because where there are no ranks there are all ranks. He would arrive in the nick of lime, for it is only the emperor's stern decree that prevents these archduchesses from defying precedent and marrying the common or garden man. Some of them have been doing it already, and proving how entirely unsuited they are to race_ suicide. For example, take this pitiful story from the pages of an Eastern contemporary famous for its staunch .and I democratic simplicity : — ' "The qiiescame to a head when Archduchess Elizabeth'Franziska was affianced to Count yon Waldburg-Zeil, her brother's aristocratic but non-royal tutor. Coming on top of Archduchess Stephanie's marriage with plebeian Count Lonyay de Nagy-Lonyay and of her daughter Archduchess Elizabeth's marriage to mere Prince Othen Windisgraetz, the Waldburg-Zeil marriage has shaken the old belief that the Hapsburgs are not mortals. And now Archduke Franz Salvatot, Archduke Rainer, and several other members of the family have taken the matter in hand and are trying to devise means for reconciling Hapsburg's pride with Hapsburg's need for husbands.' " The last rivet on the tower of the Woolworth building 'in New York, the highest 'structure in the "world, was recently placed in position by a woman, Miss Alberta Claire, "the girl from Wyoming," who had previously provided New York with a sensation by riding up Broadway after an 8000 mile journey on horseback from the West. After "the elevator had taken her to "somewhere around the fiftieth floor,"' Miss Claire got out on the bare steel skeleton. She skipped along the narrow beams until she reached the very top of the mound. There she put in place the last rivet, waved her hands to the thousands below, and posed for the pliotographers. It may be as well to state here that Miss Claire was not wearing the blue corduroy skirt when she reached the top. She discarded that adjunct of feminine adornment when she left the elevator, and the rest of the climb was made in dark knickerbockers. In Berlin the popularity of the sun bath is extraordinary, and in the best districts of the city the most modern houses possess roof gardens and erections, which are to all intents and purposes lineal descendants of the Roman Solariums. In. such delightful wooded resorts as the Grunewald and Wannsee, and also J^B^nd the lakes between Potsdam and j?«Jin, may be seen large numbers of sun bathers, both in single spies and in club battalions. Upon taking part in a recent German lottery a lady in South Africa insisted upon obtaining, and eventually did obtain, a ticket bearing the number 27. Two months later she was informed that this ticket had won for her a prize amounting to £2000. Asked why she had selected No. 27, she answered, "You see, I dreamed on three successive occasions that No. 1 had drawn a large prize, so I said to myself, 'three sevens are twenty-seven,' and immediately wrote for. that number." GET A GOOD PIANO. There are no better or more reliable instruments made than the Broadwood, the Ronisch, the ( Lipp, and the Steinway. We have just received big new shipments of these superb pianos; prices and styles to meet all requirements. We will make terms to suit any purse. Our name alone is sufficient guarantee of quality. Call upon us, or on request we will gladly call upon you. We keep a staff of expert tuners and repairers, and can attend to any of your piano needs. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Lambton-quay, Wellington. North Island manager, M. J. Brookes. — Advt. Spring Weddings— Brides ahd bridesmaids' bouquets of fashion's favourite flowers, roses, carnations, lily of the valley, exquisitely designea by Miss Murray, 36, Willis-street (florist to His Excellency Lord Islington).— Advt. Violets! Violets I Violets! Miss Cooper, floriste, Manners-street, is receiving fresh daily her well-known beautiful violets. Posted to any address. Telephone. 882.— Advt. Enthusiasm in selling is doubtless responsible in some measure for the wonderful demand that has set in for Warner's Rust-proof Corsets, but their reliable wearing qualities have also much to do with it.— Advt. Mrs. Woodward will be pleased to "give a price for ladies' and gents' loft-off clothing and boots, 121, lngestre-street. 'Phone 2379.— Advt.

Mrs. Eastlalto — You visited Vcnico while you were in Europe, I hear, Mrs. Trot- , tor? , , Mrs. Trotter — Yes, indeed; and \\6 were ' rownd about by ono of the chandeliers for 1 which that city is noted. "Arc you a friend of flip groom's ' family V" afUetl the it-her 'at ihn church wedding. ! " "I ihinl< not." replied the ,laily nr|. u-drouedj "i'm th« mother of lh« bads."