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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 154, 27 December 1912, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, And it will out at the casement. A) You Like It, iv. ».

Het Exc6lteney ,Lady Livef jxiol paid a visit t6 Soames Island to-day in the I Government steatitef Janie Seddon. Mfs. Arthur Young and her children go to-day to Heretattnga for some weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Eustace King, of KelImrhe, leave for Sydney to-day by the Maungarttti. Miss Mary Proctor, who has been lee* turing in Wanganui, teturned to Wellington yesterday, and leaves for Sydney to-day. Mr. and Mrs. P< Myere are in Napier. Mr. and Mr*. Harold Beauchanty are at Waiwera, Auckland. 'At the Empire Motel are staying :-*• Mr- and Mrs. David Cfewe (PahtatUa), Miss Taylor (Invefcatgill), Miss M'Cartney and Miss Burniston (Wanganui), Mr. and* Mrs. Hobett . Greig and M»s Marion Dunn, of the "Get'Rich*Quick Wallingford" Company. j Mr. and Mrs. Baxter , who h*v« been ' staying .at the Empire, leav-a by tEe lonic to-day. The Miss«s B&phael, vvho have been at the Empire, return to-night to Christ* church. , ' | Mrs. Henry Hadfield and het children ' arrived by the mid'd&y train to^ay, and will spend three weeks .in Wellington. She has takefr Mr.' Bryan's house in Tinakori-road. Miss Grieison leaves on the 3rd for Sydney, where she joins the Domosthenea for Capetown. Mr. and Mrs. Harry BloGftifield accompany her to Australia. Her marriage to Cftptain Tuckey takes place at Capetown. Mrs. Birkett and Miss Wedgwood are in Napier. Mrs. Macdonald, from Waverley, Mrs. Sainsbury, Gisborne, Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, Mr. arid Mrs. Bradley and children, from Napier, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Oakley, Palmerston North,, and Mr. and Mts. Ldvien, Napier, are at the Hotel Cecil. Mrs. Titton tfraser, of Pahiatua, and Miss Roy, of New Plymouth, arrive in' Wellington to-day. They will stay at Hotel Cecil. Miss Agnes Leopard left on Tuesday night for a short stay in Christchurch. Mrs. - Coverdale, of the XJppef Hutt, has tieen Visiting Mrs. Hawken, of Wa« nganui. •The Chrietchurch Preds amiounces the , engagement of Miss Eva Gibbs, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs, Bank of New Zealand, Timaru, to Mr. H. Skiniier, of_, Wellington ; also that of Miss Luck Roberts, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, of Lansdcwne, to Mr. Jameß Payton, second son ej the late Mr. Joseph Payton, and Mrs, Payton, Hitvlston House. There Was a packed houife last night to Witness the Anttricftn play., It was really an interesting audience-—quito apart from the novelty of the entertain' ment— for' it wa« the first visit their Excellencies had paid to the' Opera House, and • naturally there w»* excusalle curiosity on the part of thoae who a& yet had not Been Lord and' Lady Liverpool. , T)ie Prime Minister and Mrs. Ma«sey. too, were in the drees* citcle, ac well as the Hon. H. D. Bell and the Hon. A. L. Herdman. H«t Excellency, who was presented by the management with a charming bouquet, wore a grey frock, of e«tin embndid«rie«, and a email tiara of diamonds in her brown hajr, Miss Foljambfc "Wore a white frock and a pale blue .cloak. Mrs. Maasey was in grey satin with etri* broideries. The play called for little in the way of exciting costumes, if one may except the weird attire of the American "hired girl" Mies Holloway, who was' delightful as Faany Jaepiir— • the, nuaiuteet blend of fihrewdnes* and naivete, with a brain keen enough, to see through the schemers, and the voice of a .shrinking viokt— Wore the usti&l American livery of white shirt waist, dark ekirt, and coat. But the touches of crimson at her neck and in her hat were most effective. As secretary to Wallingford, she wears a golden brown foulard, the sleeves and net being* of cream net, atld in the la«t acene she is radiant in white, With a beautiful coat of while silk embroideries. Miss Mary ,Proctor, who recently lectured at the Town Hall on "Other Worlds than Ours," arrived \n Wellington last everting from Wanganui, where she gave the same lecture on Monday night before att appreciative audience. She leaves for^Sydney to-day, going from there to Melbourne to attend the Australian Science Congress, but especially to hear the presidential address which is to be given by Professor David, of the Sydney University. He will make special reference to the proposed Solar Observa* tory, in which plan Miss Proctor is so deeply intete&ted. After the cotvgre&s, she will continue on her way to India, leaving Melbourne on 24fch January, on the s.B. Otranto. In India, she wiU bo the gtlesfc of.tjie director and his. wife, Mrs. Evershed, at the' Solar Observatory at Kod&ikanal in, Southern India. After her visit shd will return to this part of the world, making a> lecture tour through Australia under the management of G. N. Southwell, of Paling's, Sydney, and then coming "to New Zealand, giving lectures for the purpose of raising a fund for a Solar Observatory in this country. She donated the proceeds of her lecture, given at the Town Hall on 12th December, as a nucleus for this fund, and has a promise of twenty pounds for the same purpose from Dr. Jatries Douglas, of the Royal Geographical Society. A quiet wedding took place at "Burnside, - Porifua, when Charles Bolsind, eldest son of the Hon, C. M. Luke, was married to Olive, Rosalia, third daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. J. Mitchell. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. William Mitchell, of Longburn, was dressed in a goWn of Liberty satin, vith the uSual wreath and orange blossoms. She carried & sheath of Christ* mas lities. Miss Helen Mitchell, sißter of , the bride, was bridesmaid, being dressed in apricot Sa« Toy with hat to match. Mr. A. J. Luke, brother of the bridegroom, was beet man. The travelling dress was a grey costume, with pale blue hat and ostrich feathers to match. The bride and bridegroom left in the afternoon for Picton and the Sounde. Amongst the many prfeSents was a silver entree dish, presented by the employees of Messrs. Luke and Co., Ltd, Mrs. Bryce, the wife of the British Ambassador at Washington, as a hostess has won favour in Lohdon arid Ireland, as well as in Washington. Indeed, the American ladies, who are invariablygood hostesses themselves, admitted when they met Mrs. Bryco that there was "otic Englishwoman who could entertain," but put the faGt down to her big dash of American blood, for her mother, a Miss Gair before her marriage, was partly, AmeriuMi. Of 'Jato years it Las

bettMrie usUal to select an Ambassador f6r Washington whose wife is of American lineage. This happened in the case of the late Sir Michael Herbert, Lady Herbert being a, stater of Mrs. Ogden Goelt, the mother of the Duchess of Roxburghe. Mr. Bryce himself is half an Ulster niftn, for his mother was one of the Youngs, of Abbeville, County Antrim. A quiet wedding took place at St. Mark's Church, Dufferin»str&et, Wellington, on the 19th December, 1912, when Miss Graci« Ne^enham, eldest daughter of Mrs. and the late W> H. Newcnham, and granddaughter of the- late Adino Boughton, toaa married to Mr. Thomas H. C. Bedford, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ftank Bedford. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. A. Askew. The following cable message front London appeared in the Sydney Sito on the 20th ir»t. :— "A Russian Lochinvar, a widofrer 40 years 6f age, and father of BdVen childreh, carried off a widow of 80 years of age during the absence of her relatives. The pair were then married py a priest, who concluded the ceremony just as the enraged relatives arrived upon the scene." ' Queen Alexandra (according to a cable message in the Sydney Sun) presented a number of jigsaws to, the Christmas fund for the poor. A jigsaw k a sawiu^-nu-chine with a narrow, vertically reciprocating saw, used 'to cut curved and ir« regular lines, or ornamental patterns in openwork. Feminism encounters as many oHstacles in the New World as in th& Old. The students of the University of Montevideo.. h&Ve decided to boycott the leotures of Mile. Clotildo Luisi, who has been recently appointed to the Ch&ii of Roman Law in the University. Mile. Luisi enjoys a distinction that is perhaps unique. She is probably the only woman ever attached to a legation as its official legal adviser, an office which she held in Paris. She is the daughter of an Italian publicist who, has. long made his home in Uruguay $ her thesis for her doctorate of law .was among the most brilliant ever submitted to the University of Montevideo ; sho is an acknowledged, expert in her subject ; and yet the men students will have nothing to do with her lectures. Crystal ' gasring k becoming mor& and more a fashionable hobby. One could {;ive the names of at least a ecote of eading English society women who have, of late, become adepts in the "de* cult science" of the East (says a London paper). It 10 certainly an interesting one, and one in which • curious results', to 6ay the least, are obtained by very simple experiment*. Anyone intently ?[azing at a crystal globe can see vision*. So you can, by th& way, in ink, water, and in any polished surface.) ■ There can ,bd'no doubt about that for, time after time*, experiment has estijbliehed the fact. But, a* a, rule— «o I hear from. two ot three amateur crystal-gamers-— those visions ate chiefly iancy pictures. The gazers sec what they imagine. Sometime*, however, the visions reptettettt persona, and even events, utterly unknown to the gimr, and hV happens that th^ event* are after watds realised. This we must not attempt to explain— %e leave the solution of this fasdnftting problem to those interested in psychical research. Still, try crystal-gazing, if only oftce, as an experiment. The mystery as to the identity of the "Mr. Bower, of New York," who recently married the Countess Waldau At Bohonez, in Hungary, has been solved, it is' anttOUßCetl by the Berlin "Montags* 2«itung. .His right name, it is sftid, is Ludwig Ba'Uer. The story is very romantic, according to the paper. The Countess iB the widow of Count Waldau, who was an intlnute friend of Archduke and Crown Prince K-udolf. the only BOri of the Emperor Francis Joseph ot Austria-Hungary. When the Archduke and Baroness Marie yon "Vetsera committed suicide together at Meyerling, in January, 1889, Count Waldau 'fled to America, where he married & pretty iirl from HiihgaTy. After the Coun^ died the young widow returned to her native land. The Berlin paper asserts that Batter originally was a chimney sweep in Vienna, who ingratiated himself into the circle of queer characters that lived on Archduke Budolf, and fled to New 1 York'SoWe time before Rudolf and the Baroness ended tlieir lives. Changing his name to Louis Bauei', Ludwig is sam to have prospered so that he became a man of fashioh in appearance and manners. After having undergone this transformation he made the acquaintance of Count and Countess Waldau, finally blossoming out, after the Count's death, as "Mr.- Bower." YOUU CHILD AND THE PIANO. Teach your children the piano ! Think of tho future. The purchase of a pi4flo may seem a big item; but, really, now* 4d»ye things have been made fio esay that everyone may poasefce an iwitrument, and on ftttch «mpl« terms that the sum required each week is never mi/wfcd. The Dresden PiAnt> Co., Weilitigto'n, will give you iho most superb piano for a small cum down, and there? after monthly payment* of frotti 20a. Think ! In a ehort time the iti»tmment will be your very own— and whab an Ifc«xhatidl>ible source of pleasure it will prove to be. Do not delay another day —write to Mr. M, J, Brookes, th» North Island manager.—Advt. At « recent afternoon tea, the topic of conversation .turned to purity in eat« ables. "Take butter as an instance, my dear," said Mrs. Smythe, "it is bo easy to be deceived. A neat wrapper, you kriow, covers many deficiencies. Candidly, I have bebome so suspicious of some brands that I always insist upon the grocer "supplying Defiance Butter. It is always pure; and good."— 'Advt. 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