Women in Print.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 7

Women in Print.

Wo paint our lives in fresco; the soft and fusile plaster of the moment hardens under every stroke of the brush into eternal rock.—Sterling.

On Thursday afternoon, in the Bap- | tist Church. Berhampore, Miss Mabel ) Peek was married to Mr. Joseph W. Duncan. The church was prettily deco rated ior the occasion by the members of the' choir, of which the bride is a member, Mr. Duncan being the church organist. The service was fully choral. Mr. H. Wilson presiding at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her brother (Mr. George Peek), wore a gown of .ivory duchesse satin, the bodice and skirt being draped and trimmed with peals and lace. A court train of cream brocaded satin was. worn from the left shoulder. She also wore the usual Veil and orange blossom, and carried a bou^ quet of white cactus dahlias and maidenhair fern. The Misses May Duncan (sister of the bridegroom), Doris and Eva Peelc (sisters of the bride) acted a* bridesmaids', and wove dresses of cream Oriental satin trimmed with pearls, lax:e, and swansdown. They wove pearls an their hair, and carried bouquets of violete. Two small girls — Mavis Maaon £t,nd Jean Duncan — acted as flower-girls, and wore white embroidered dresses, and carried baskets of bronze chrysanthemum, with apricot coloured streamers. The bridegroom was attended by his brother (Mr. A. Duncan) as best man, and Mr. James Peek, the bride's brother, acted as groomsman. The Rev. D. B. Forde-Carlyle performed the marriage ceremony, after which a reception was held in the Masonic Hall, Berhanu pore. Mr?. Peell received the guests in a dress of black voile trimmed with black lace and cream satin. She wore a, hat of black velvet trimmed witjh black plumes, and carried a bouquet of violets. Mrs. Duncan, the bridegroom's mother, wore a. costume of black satin and s, bl&ck hat trimmed with black ospreys and pink roses. She carried a bouquet of pink carnations and cosmeas. Mj-s. Mason, sisted of the bride, was in wedgwood blue silk, with a black velvet hat with plumes. The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a sealskin coat, and he gave to the elder bridesmaid a brooch of pearls and green toumalines, the two younger bridesmaids receiving solid silver purses, and the two small girls gold cable bracelets. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan left for the North on Friday, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The bride's travellipg costume was of wedgwood blue serge, trimmed with black fur, and a white plush hat, with lancer plumes. Mr. and Mrs. Ovmcaifc received many presents, including a massive oak sideboard, presented to Mr. ' Duncan by his fivm, Messrs. John Rigg and Co., of this city. Yesterday word was received by Mrs. Dew, wife of Senior-Sergeant Dew, of the Mount Cotfh Police Station, that she had won, at the Westport Horticultural Show, the twenty-five guinea cup for chrysanthemums. The prize bloome wtre grown in Wellington. Mrs. Dew, having gained the cup three times, it now becomes her property. A danco in connection with the Women's Social and Political" League takes place next Wednesday m St. Peter's' Schoolroom. An At-Home in aid of the fund for the Plunket Nurses' Association* is -to take place at Arikitoa, the Prime Minister's residence, on the 12th of May. It is being organised by girls, and only girls are invited. The committee consists of the Misses Massey. Bell, Kendall. Dall, Hawson s and Sybil Nathan, and there are to be .Competitions and music. Yesterday in the society's rooms in Vivian-street j Mrs.' AJgar Williams presided over a meeting of the Society for the Health •of Women and Childreti. Thene were present Mrs. W. F. Massey, Lady Stout, Mcsdames M'Lean, Birkett, Kirkcaldie, M'Vicar, and Miss Barnett. Apologies were , received from Mrs. Fitchett, Mrs. W. P. Ward, and Mrs. Coull. The nurse's report showed several serious cases were improving. Already an energetic campaign has commenced for funds for the Plunket Homo aud School for Mothers. Our Greytown correspondent writes :*— In St. Luke's Church yesterday afternoon, Mr. Edward' Richards, of the W.F.C.A., was married to Miss Ethel Wenden, daughter of Mr. R. Wenden. The bride, who was given- away by her father, was dressed in a soft cream pallette and' trimmed ' with lace and pearls and the train was relieved with pale blue. Miss Olive Richards was chief bridesmaid, and wore a cream voile with apricot sash and hat with white plumes. The Misses Rhoda Wenden and Jean Dallis,. as bridesmaids, wore white embroidered Swiss muslin with pale blue caps. Mr. R. Russell, of Masterton, officiated as best man. The bride's mother wore a grey silk dress with black velours hat. After the ceremony the usual toasts were honoured at, the Town Hall. The presents were' numerous. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Calder. of Melbourne, left yesterday for Wanganuiand the Hot Lakes district. Mrs. Kinsey, of Christchurch, and her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Moore, of Dunedin, arrived to ; day by the Remu&ra, in which steamer they leave for 'London next week Dr. and Mrs. Hope Lewis, who have been visiting Mr. ■ and Mrs. Guy Williams in Masterton, have letumed to Auckland. The engagement is announced in the Tablet of Mr. John T. Donovan, LL.B., of Dublin, one of the Irish envoys to Australia and New Zealand, to Misfe Alda Ralph, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ralph, of Auckland. Miss Ralph is at present in London, and leaves' for Auckland in 'five weeks. Dr. Agnes Beainett left ' yesterday for Sydney. Dr. and Mrs. Deamor were passengers to Sydney yesterday. The Gentlewoman comments on a rival to Tango Teas : — Fencing Teas 1 They have been introduced tx> Washington with unheard-of success by Lady SpringRice, wife of the English Ambaetsador. aud meant an immediate death to Tango Teas. Grace is a requisite for good fencing, and the exercise happens at the same time to be quite the healthiest known for woman, improving her figure beyond belief. At Washington—would that we had one in London— 'there is a Fencing Club where everyone who wisheß may practise with the foils at certain hours every morning. A debutante who loved dancing and fencing equally well, hegged that "Fencing and Dancing Teas" should be held every week at the clubland Lady Spring-Rice was so struck with the notion that forthwith sho Ihrow open the doors of the British Em* habsy for a jolly inaugural tea, and now in pvery other pnvotp house you hear of similar entertainments. Of course, the question of the right Fencing-Tea costume cropped up. The Ambassadress herself stuck to the traditional velvet skirt, plain silk shirt and white fencing vest. Other mavr-ied women voted, however, for the loom "middy blouse"; but the younger member* of the Fencing Club, to a girl, profejprwl ta sjiortr blue jrebgi Woemw*,

heavy eilk crepe blouses of the same shade of blue with soft Tolled collars, and silk ties of the bright pink of the American Beauty rose. Their fencing vestis were of white broadcloth. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Haycock will return to their mission work in the Argentine "Republic, South America, next Thursday, by the s.s. Remuera. Mrs. Haycock will address the meeting at the Young Women's Christian Association to-morrow afternoon. Reference will be made to the Y.W.C.A. British and Foreign work in Buenos- Aires, where Mrs. Haycock was a secretary prior to her marriage. , Lady Liverpool will formally open a new Y.W.C.A. Hostel in Park-avenue, Auckland, in a few days. Miss Dunlop, of the Wellington F.W.C.A., has been in Auckland helping with the preliminary plans, and on her return last Tuesday she was give n fancy-dress welcome party by the boarders in the Y.W.C.A. 'Hostel. A Melbourne girl in Pai'is writes to the Argus :—": —" Although March is upon us, it is bitterly cold. Nevertheless, the shops are making a. brave effort for spring trade, just as in Melbourne, winter is forgotten, at any rate, as far as fashions go, in August. This season we are inspired with ideas garnered from the Second Empire, even to the crinoline, to which there is a decided ten« dency, for some of the long tunics with stiffening at the hems are simply smallcrinolines. However, there are but two correct silhouettes —the straight line and the ' Amphore,' which causes the figure' to look something like an' Egyptian mummy. This type widens out in the middle, bub is narrower at the feet ttian ever The waist-line either "exists or not at all, .according to the style chosen by the wearer. From the knees up to the shoulders, every effort is made to widen the figure, and the 'grand chic' is to appear to wear no corsets. One of the curious tendencies I have noticed is an attempt for smart women to return t6 the airs and graces of the days of powder and patches. These little* affectations are quite charming _on a French girl, 'but I can hardly imagine an athletic Australian young woman as» suming the languishing poses and speech which are captivating the fancy' of Parisian high society. W4 are, in fact, back to the ' prithee, kind sir,' and ' gadzooks, madame ' • form of conversation. All this is in curious contrast to tho very twentieth century outlook on life which is characteristic of the French." ' ' '