WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1914, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

"Life I* only the journey. Don't overlook the scenery while worrying about the deltination; and in the inarch of life don't forget to listen to the band."

Miss Coates was hostess at a teaparty yesterday afternoon, given with a double purpose, to farewell Mrs. Corliss and Miss Corliss, who are leaving shortly for England, and to entertain Miss Holmes, who is a member in England of the Victoria League, of which Miss Coates here is president. Miss Holmes leaves by the Piotorua to-morrow for London, and has been staying with her niece, Mrs. Kemp, of the Upper Hutt. The rooms were prettily decor- • ated with flowers — hydrangeas in the drawing-room and gallardias and delicate foliage on the tea-table in the diiyng-room. Assisting Miss Coates— who wore black silk-striped voile, with black satin and white lace— was Mrs. Stott, in pale blue voile, with a deep purple satin sash and a black velvet hat with a white plume. Mrs. Corliss was in grey ninon and satin, with blue embroideries, and a grey plumed hatj Miss Corliss wore blue foulard and lace, and a wide white hat with floral ribbon ; and Miss Holme 3 a golden brown frock, with satin and embroideries, and a hat with brown feathers. At St. Anne's Church, Wellington South, Miss Winifred Angela, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Worth, of (Balregan), Constable-street, was married to Mr. C. A. Young, of Palmerston North. The Rev. Archdeacon Devoy performed the ceremony. The bride, was given away by her father, and wore a pretty white duchesse satin dress and the usual veil and orange blossoms. She also carried a Prayer Book, the gift of her sister (Sister Refina) of the Loreto Convent, Kilkenny, Ireland. Mr. J. A. _ Griffiths was best man. The bridesmaids were^ Miss J. Ken* and Miss Ilean Passua, niece of the bridegroom. After the ceremony a reception was held at Godber's, Courtenayplace. _ A large gathering of relatives and friends being present. Mr. Hindmarsh, M.P., proposed the toast of the bride and briuegroom Mr. A. W. O< Travers the toast of the bridesmaids, and Mr. F. Kelling the toast of the parents ; after which the happy couple left on their honeymoon to Napier. They return to leside in Palmerston North. Miss Sylvia Wilson is staying with Dr. and Mrs. Wills, Rangiora. Miss Rothenberg has returned from Christchurch and Akaroa. Mrs. H. D. Bell, Mrs. Harold Johnston, and Miss Violet Bell, leave on Monday for Dargaville, where Miss .Violet Bell will stay for some time with her brother. Mrs. Tully and her little daughter left for Carterton this morning to attend Miss Cormack's wedding, which takes place this afternoon. Colonel and Mrs Knox, who returned on Sunday from Auckland, are at the Hotel Cecil. They leave on Friday week for Sydney, > where they spend a week before joining the Otmito for London. t Mr. and Mrs. W. Rogers, of Nelson, arrived yesterday in Wellington en route for ( Auckland and Rotorua. Mrs. Hansell is visiting Mrs. Julius, Christchurch. Mrs. W. Wright is staying in Westport with her father, Mr. J. L. Mtirison. • '• — • Mrs. Seddon has been visiting Westport, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Beck. ,The Christchurch Press announces the engagement of Mr. Stanley M. Wiggins to Miss D. Gpsset, only daughter of Dr. Gosset. The Canterbury Times has the, fallowing engagements : — Miss Bertha Matthews, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Matthews, of Fitzroy, to Mr. Harry Davies, of New Plymouth, son of General Davies , (England) ; Miss E. C. Bean, 'only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Bean (Takapau, Hawkes Bay), to Mr. A. H., Grant, of the Bank of New South Wales (Wellington), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.* 0. Grant, New Plymouth. " A pleasing and evidently authentic story comes from Baltimore about a family servant," says the New York Nation. " She came from Germany twenty-seven years ago, has lived with one Baltimore family ever since, andnow returns to Germany with the tidy sum of nearly 10,000 dollars, accumulated by steady saviug. Particulars as to wages are wanting, but it is evident that she has been having all these years a comfortable home and has been thoroughly appreciated in the household in which she lived. It is not improbable that her wages have been somewhat more liberal than usual, and that she has received presents that have helped her to economise in the matter of dress. But it is to be noted at once that there is nothing in the least marvellous about the tale. There are thousands of servants who, without sacrificing the requirements of comfort or self-respect, and without failing to live up to a Very good standard of appearance as to clothing, could put by a hundred dollars a year out of their wages. There are many whose pay would permit the saving of two hundred dollars a year, with the same conditions satisfied. And two hundred dollars a year, regularly invested at 4 per cent., amounts in twentyseven years to just about 10,000 dollars. Furthermore, 10,000 dollars at the age of fifty means, for a single person, independence for the rest of her years— a comfortable and sure income for life without further labour ,• for it means an annuity of about 650" dollars a year in a perfectly safe insurance company. The story carries more tfian one moral. For one thing, it may serve to draw attention to_ a phase of the servant question which is far too much neglected. It is idle to deny that the position of a domestic servant Carries with it- disadvantages which weigh tremendously, and justly, against its advantages in the minds of young women in our time. If it were to become a general thing for the better type of servants to take advantage of their opportunities for the accumulation of a fund calculated ultimately to insure independence and leisure, the effect upon their immediate feelings in regard to independence, and inevitably before long upon their social status, would be very gieat.