WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

"Silence is golden, and talk is silver; shrieking is copper; bawling is mud.

Miss Hayward left for the south last night, Mrs. Sydney Hall, of Levin, is staying with Mrs. Cleland, of Tinakovi-road. Mrs. R. J. Collins and Mies Collins have returned from Auckland. Miss Baker and Mfcs Tudor Jones, of Auckland, are guests of Mts. Meadowcroft. They are both to be bridesmaids at Miss Meadowcroft's -wedding on Thursday. Mrs. Elder has returned to Waik&nae aft^r a trip to the South Island. Mts. and Miss Beftuclerk, of England, who have been touring New Zealand, have returned to Mies Malcolm's. They leave on Friday en fotite for London. Mies Newcom'be i and Misa Margaret Hodge, representatives of the Australian and r»T e'w Zealand Women Voters' Association (London) will address a meeting of the Wellington Women's Branch of the Zealand Political Reform League on Monday, 3rd March, in the Boulcottstreet Hall. Miss Hodge will take for her subject, "Women's Work in Local Government." and Miss' H. B. Newcombe, New Zealand's Place in the World Movement' of Womanhood Suffrage, arid in the International Cottgfess to be held at Budapest in 1914. Members of .the "league may bring i friends, and women interested ate invited. Mre. .Dees, who was a 'Miss Warne. of Auckland, is visiting Wellington after an absence of forty years. Her home 'is in Cumberland, England. She is a guefel of Miss Coates. Visitors from Blenheim at pl'eSent in Wellington are Mrs. J. H. MauricesOn, who is visiting her sister,, Mrs. Galvin, Lipman-street ; Miss Francie Newport, who is the guest of Mrs. Walsh, Ellicestreet, and the Misses Lehy, who are spending a holiday visit with their brother at Newtown. Misses Olyve • Arthur (captain) and Florence Outtrim of the Ladies' Seagull Amateur Swimming Club intend going to Masterton to compete in the ladies' swimming carnival to be held next Thursday afternoon, the #7th inst. Both have entered for several events and should come home with good results. Their intentions are to return in time for the Swifts ladies' carnival at Te Aro baths next, .Saturday afternoon, Ist March. Miss Mestayer,- Sydney-street, wishes to remind friends of the Mission that all contributions, in cash or land for the tuck boxes, should reach her by 28th February; also that the tuck boxes are for the White Workers in the Melanesia*) Mission. The Ladies* Seagull Amateur Swimming Club held two J club races yesterday evening at the Te Aro baths. The 50yds handicap race, resulted in a win for Miss Daisy Bolton (18se6), with Miss Marie Nolah second, and Miss Olyve Arthur (scr) third. Also started : Misses T. Daubney (18s6c), M. Butler (24sec), B. Gibbs (Bsec), and M. Daubhey (16sec). The 25yds swimming-on-back handicap race Tvas also swum off and resulted in a win for Miss B. Gibbs (6sec) first, with Miss Tottie Daubrrsy (losec) second, and Miss" Mary Nolan (20sec) third. Also started: Misses M. Daabbey (14sec), M» Butler (12sec)', D. Bolton. (7sec), and 0. *M. Arthur (scr).- following' is^the order the member's are in for"' the PlattsMills points trophy s— Miss T. Daubney 26, Misses M. Daubney and 0. Arthur 20, Miss 'B. Gibbs 17, Miss M. Butler 14; Miss M. Nolan 14, Miss D. Bolton 7, Miss K. Arthur 5, Miss'V. Sorties 4, and Miss G. Hayes 1. Imagine dancing on a floor strewn with golden spangles that whirl with vivid brilliance about the flying feet. This— a new idea and yet an old one, for it was in vogue centuries ago in Spain — was carried into effect -at a recent dance in England. The spangles add considerably to the polished slip' periness of the floor. There were 400 native weddinfgs in Bombay on a recent Saturday among members of the Lewakundi caste. The majority of the, brides were from one to seven years of age, and the bridegrooms from three years to nine years. The contracting parties lay in the laps of their parents^ and were given sweetmeats to keep them quiet. This particular casts only celebrates weddings at intervals of ten years. The bloom of the peach, which was so long accepted as the symbol of beauty in woman, is going out of fashion, and is being displaced by pallid cheeks, which are intended to suggest weariness with the world, based on a cynical knowledge of the emptiness of life (writes a London correspondent). The reason for the change is probably that in England cheeks with the bloom of the peach are so 'common. In the winter time in England the great majority of young girls have rosy cheeks, even when they have no othef attribute of beauty. In the summer the rosiness "fades away to a great extent, but it returns with the return of the Wet and the cold air of winter. *• ' The change in the standard of female beauty from red to pallid cheeks has been vouched for by fashionable photographers. Of course, it is not sufficient merely to have & pallid appearance in order to be a modern beauty. It must be accompanied by a blase manner, and the cynical smile which has so long been one of the main characteristics of the villains of the lady novelists. "One cannot saunter through the West End thoroughfares," said a fashionable photographer to a press interviewer. ■"witbxHvb seeing girls of the 'flapper' age, looking prematurely weary, with artificial . complexions, and garments obviously designed to accentuate their sex. t It is becoming a Soft of public tfuisartce." Another fashionable photographer declares that "in cosmetics and fashions thel'e is a noticeable ten* | dency to-day among women .to. attract attention by pallor, and an expression of melancholy and cynicism, which is { supposed to have the appeal of cleverness." But it is difficult to acquire a pallid complexion during the moist English winter, and therefore the society beauties of to-day are seeking the aid of opium. It is admitted that a comparatively large number of wohten in English society are becoming victims of the opium habit. Opium replaces the redness of the cheeks with an unhealthy pallor, and that is why it is being smoked in West End mansions. Claims amounting to £1.093,4(51 have been made in New York against the • White Stnr Company for the- loss of relatives or property in the Titanic, which, was sunk' on 16th April. The largest claip (writes the Daily Mail correspondent) is that of Mrs. Henry B. Harris, widow of the theatrical manager, who seeks £200,000 compensation for her husband's death. Mrs. Howard i>. Case, widow of the late managing director of tho Vacuum Oil Company, and Mrs. , Jacques Fubrelle, widow of the novelist, ask for £60,000

each for the loss of their husbands. Mrs. Frank D. Millet, widow of the American artist, wants £20,000 as a similar compensation. No claims either for the loss of relatives or property have been made by the heirs of Colonel Astor, Mr. Isidor Strauss, the millionaire, and Mrs. Strauss, Mr. Benjamin ' Guggenheim, the millionaire, Mr. Charles M. Hays, late chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway, Mr. W. T, Stead, and Mr; George Widener, the traction magnate— all of whom iwent down in the Titanic. The questions of the company's liability and the limitation of the liability have to be settled by the Courts in New York. A donation of £5 lias been made by Mrs. S. A. Rhodes to the representative of the Bush Nursing Society of St. John (Mr. W. B. Fisher) in aid of the fund for supplying a skilled nurse to work among struggling settlers in the backblocks of the Wellington provincial district. Further donations and subscriptions will be promptly acknowledged, and information can be obtained by ringing up telephone No. 2393. The new standard laid down in the Paris law Courts for a married woman's dress allowance by which she must not spend more per annum in dress than the rental of her home does not meet with general approval (writes the Paris cotrespondent of a London paper). Mine. Miropolsky, one of the best known women barristers in Paris, does not think the judgment can be taken seriously nor as applying to a-11 cases. "Imagine a fashionable woman," she says, "being obliged when ordering a dress to give the amount of her rent and meeting with the declaration. 'If madame only pays £96 a year, then I can only furmsh her with 'an evening dress at £76 and a costume at £20.' " Men are equally interested in the decision, but fr"om another poilit of view. They fear that women will consider themselves justified in "always spending the maximum sUm allowed by the Court. M. Lamperlere, a distinguished barrister, points out that in many cases such a sum would be excessive. Although our furriers say that the fantastic prices of fur afe caused by- the scarcity of skins, statistics inform us that just as many, if not more, pelts wet e put on the European market last autumn as in preceding seasons. In Siberia, 4,500,000 e^uirrels have been killed^ and in addition to this 1,500,000 white hates were caught in order to supply the demand for superb ermine. Over 1,200.000 sables. 100 blue foxes, 200,000 ermines (real ones this time), ISOO btown bears; 200,000 skunks, 16,500 grey wolves, and some .200,000 ' pole cats have all been sacrificed for my lady's beauty and comfort: And these figures only relate to Siberia. If to these are added all the animals killed in America and Canada, a prodigious total ia affived at. Then, when we remember the millic-lto of tabbits which leave the colonies, to be transformed into fecal coney, that mythical animal that never saw the light .of day, we begin to understand how it is that women all ovef the wotld can wear on their backs the skins of 'such a fabulous number of beasts. . Madame Clara Butt, in the Woman Teachers' World, gives a message to teachers.> She would have the teacher regard the child as a flower— -"a tender, delicate flower, to be loved, and reared aright while it is in the human gardener's care, and so prepared to b© worthy of transplantation to the soil of the Master Gardetiei-. aboW.^' If every ieachet- taught front this standpoint our schools would be ' kindergarten ' in a new and beautiful senge-— nufftery gardens, where the great aim would be to discover and develop the most beautiful Waits of character in each little human flower." Admitting that it is no easy task to train the child '.' flowers," Mme. Butt adds that " nothing is mote helpful towards the overcoming of a trying and difficult task than the cultivation tof the spirit of- cheerfulness — of a smile instead of & frown." Mine. Butt adds: "It is not everyone who can sing, but everyone can absorb the spirit of a song conveyed in its words, and can realise that spirit in everyday life. That is why people should be talked and Sung to in their own language, and why speakers afld singers should choose only those words which, are intelligible. Every song must have some real truth in it if it 'is | to be worth singing, and the words, therefore, come first in consideration. Otherwise the purity and idealism of the Realm of Song lose their power of a«peal at the outset. It has often struck hie ] that the songs selected for children are < very unsuitable, though^ I realise the dim- | culty of finding compositions which shall suit every requirement. May I, therefore, suggest that the good old English, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh folk-songs | should bo used more freely? They Ate so quaint, so simple, and yet require such careful study. Many of them could be adapted quite easily for part singing, and any musical teacher who would take some of them in hand and treat them in this way would be conferring a very great benefit upon her profession. There j are also ' the old English ballads. 'Barbara Allea.' 'Passing By.' and countl.-js others. Let us be British, and let our songs be ' old-fashioned ' rather than mete tunes which defy all musical I rules, set to words which are still more I worthless."

I "1 like your cheek," he eakl, kissing % her. "Dou't be facetioue,". oho responded ooldlyi