WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 10

WOMEN IN PRINT.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All announcements of engagements intended for this column must be signed by both persons concerned, or be personally delivered and vouched for as correct.

Much interest is being taken in the show to be held next Saturday at the Island Bay Hall by the Cottage Garden Society of that suburb. It will be the third show held within eighteen months. • The formar onas were particularly successful, and the indications for the present one are most favourable. Prizes will be given for collection of roses, sweet peas, carnations, pansies, violas, dahlias, gladioli, assorted flowers, and vegetables. The ladies' and children's classes include decorated tables, as well as bouquets, etc. Home products, sweets, fruits, and hand fancy work will all be ths subjects of competition.^ In these days of clever fingers and artistic education the entries should be a jjleasur'6 to view, and a special mention 16 made of the fact that the executive will welcome a display of articles of any description made by memebrs of the N.Z.E.F. Brand's Elite ■Orchestra, will be in attendance in the afternoon and evening. Mr. H. H. Dixon, of 13, Tibsr-street, is the hon. secretary of the show.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levin leave for England in April. >

Miss Mildred Itees, of Wellington, who saw considerable nursing service in a French hospital, and later on a barge on the Sotnme, is returning by the Bremen.

Mrs. H. Cuff, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington at present.

Miss Payne, who has been in Hawkes Bay for some time, has returned to Wellington.

Dr. Martin Tweed and Mrs. Tweed are returning to New Zealand by the Kigoma. „

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gavin have returned from a visit to Tarahaki.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Young arc spendinga holiday in the South.

Mr. and Mrs. George Nathan have returned from a visit to the South Island.

Mrs. Sydney Dransficld, who has bsnn spending the holidays in Wellington, is leaving shortly for Feilding

Cable news of the marriage of Miss Dora Wilson and Captain R. J. Bird, 35_th Scinde Horse, at Bombay, was receiver! by Mr. L. E. B. Wilson yesterday.

The wedding of Miss Dorothy Simp-' son, daughter of Mr.-,T. R. Simpson, of the Farmers' Union Advocate, and Mr. T. E. Beard, of (Jarterton, ' took place at St. Paul.*. Pro-Oathsdral on Thursday afternoon, -when the Yen. Archdeacon Johnson oiiirJated. The bride's jrretty gown was of gtjorgette over white satin, with dainty touches of pale pink and a wide pink sash. She wore an embroidered veil fastened with orange, blossoms, and i.-arfiod a bouquet of p.ti'.- pink curnatioiVs .>nd .sweet pea.°. Misr Beard (sister) was the bridesmaid, and wore a pate blue and heliotrope gown, with a W. to match..- 1 and carried a bouquet of-sweet pew ■ and: scabious. Mr. Leonard Beard was the best man, and Mrs. Bsar«,. mother of tho bridegroom, to. present at t.bo wedding. The reception was hsld at "Pendennis," the residence of Miss Martin, where the floral decorations were tasteful and beautiful, the wedding breakfast-room being arranged with pale pink carnations and foliage, and the receptionroom with pink and blue hydrangea. The byide's travelling costume 'was of putty coloured gabardine, with a Tuscan hat trimmed with pink roses and black velvet.

The Wanganui Patriotic Society has been notified by Mr. and JVlrs. Hope Gibbons that they have acquired the local Soldiers' Convalescent Home, and intend to have the building equipped as a Women's Welfare Institute—a home fo rthe accommodation of women before and after maternity. The equipment and arrangement of the home was to be poi-sonally supervised by Mrs. and Mrs. Hope Gibbons, who had consulted Vt. Truby King as to the beat lines upon which to run such an institution, as ha had so recently returned from the centres where maternity arid child welfare were receiving proper consideration.

The wedding of Miss Annie Elizabeth Doull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Doull, Taita, to Leonard William Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Sanders, Taita, took place on the 23rd December at Knox Church, Blackbridge, Lower Hutt, when the Rev. James M'Oaw. officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dainty gown, the skirt being of cream taffetas, worn with a ninon blouse and tunio of cream net, embroidered in gold, with silk fringe aud gold beading, and finished with a satin girdle. A veil and orange blossoms Were also worn, andi sha carried a pretty bonquet of roses and pale shaded 1 sweet peas.' There were four bridesmaids, the chief one being. Miss Lavinia Sanders, who wore a pretty frock of grey silk and a black tulle hat, finished with gold, and a bouquet of roseß and dark-shaded svaseb peas. The three little girl attendants were Doris Avery, Eileen Oottle, and! Ellen Doull, the first mentioned wearing a cream frock embroidered in pink and blue, and blue satin hat, while the other two wore dainty white embroidered organdi muslin frocks with pink satin sashes and. bows, with bouquets to match. Mr. Edward Turner was the best man, and Mr. Vivian Doull- the groomsman. After the ceremony a reception was held by the bride's parents.

A farewell presentation was made by the girls of the Catholic Hostel and some member* of the Danes Committee to Miss Keating, who has resigned, the position of matron of the hostel, and is leaving for Christehurch to take up the duties of matron, of St. Bede's College in that city. A' beautifully-illuminated, siddress was given to Miss Keating with' a leather suit case. Speeches were made expressing appreciation •of Miss Keating, and regret at her departure, and it was altogether a pleasant oc(sision.

The V.M.C.A. camping ground at Haywards is considered to be an Weal spot in which to hold the Y.W.C-A. Conference. The problems of reconstruction will be considered, especially in their relation to the association's work among young women. The conference will be under the leadership of the general secretary of the Australasian National Board, Miss Amy Snelson, and Miss Jean Stevenson, tbe National Industrial secretary. Mrs. Rayo, chairwoman of the New Zealand Field Committee, will act as president of the conference. An excellent programme has been thought out, and included in the studies will bo ''The Christian Woman and « World Citizen," "Ths Wqmnn in lndu»t,vv." "^h* Chvisti»n Faith and the Needs P.i 10-day."

To-night at the Y.W.C.A., Herbertstreet, there will be the usual Saturday "social," with Miss Bertinshaw, secretary of the Everybody's Club, in charge. The Olympic Club will provide the supper. At to-morrow's service of the Y.W.C.A. at Herbert-street, the speaker will be the Rev. B. Hutson. All girls and young women, especially those who are strangers to the city, are invited, and are asked to stay to the sociable tea which follows the service. At 8.30 there will be a song service at Boulcott-street.

Mrs. Harry Cutts, of Christchurch, is in Wellington, staying al ih» Bnke of Edinburgh Hotel.

The wedding took place on Wednesday at St. Mary's Church, Karori, of Mr. Leslie Andrews elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Andrews, of Homewood-avenue. Karori, and Miss Carrie Johns, youngest ■daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kirkham, of Te Awamutu. The Rev. G. Y. Woodward officiated. • The bride, who wore a smart tailor-made costume of navy serge trimmed with fawn, was given away by Mr. Strickland, uncle of the bridegroom', and was attended by Miss. Marjorie Andrews, wearing a floral dress and georgette hat. Mr. and Mrs. L. Andrews left for the North by the Napier express,

*The news of the death of Mrs. Margaret Malcolm, widow of the late Mr. David Malcolm, on Thursday morning at Kaikorai, Dunedin, will be received with regret by a wide circle of friends in Wellington, Melbourne, Oamaru, and Dunedin, by whom she was very highly esteemec 1

London papers announce that Miss Jessie Stephens, a, servant girl, with a ma6s of dark hair, who generally goes about hatless, has signified her intention of entering the race for Parliament on the Labour ticket. She is endeavouring to gain a seat in the local Borough Council of Bennondsey and will then stand as a Parliamentary candidate. Miss Stephens has been employed as a cook, housemaid, a cook-geiiefal, the "boss" of a large common lodging house in Glasgow, a porter in a chemical ware, house, and during the war drove a threeton lorry.

Some interesting details concerning silk ek>ckiiigs, rea 1 and artificial, are given in the Adelaide Observer, as follow :—"Madam, watch your stockings !" This, it seems, is a most necessary caution to wearers of some kinds of artificial silk hose. A perfectly appalling thing .happened to a group of beautiful mannequins taking part in a French fete; there was a sudden very heavy shower, and t!ie mannequins got a thorough soaking. They had' to retire hurriedly, because their apparently silk stockings dissolved in the rain, and sank about their ankles in a mess of pasty colour. The so-called

"silk" stockings were 'produced from wood pulp, hence the disaster. And would you believ* it? The:art of making that self-same artificial silk is making such tremendous way that it threatens to take the market from that patient, 'hard-working, creepy-crawly, paid, grey thing the silkworm, dear to the heart of every small schoolboy who; can raise a. cardboard box, worry a neighbour for mulberry leaves, and wheedle threepence out of dad with which to buy a dozen specs that eventually become silkworms, that being the market price in the schoolboy world. Can you bear to hear that the fad of wearing something that looks like silk stockings has brought this about, and so widespread is the craze for silk stocking-wear, in the fiscal year of 1819, 15,000,000 pairs of stockings manufactured from artificial silk were exported from the United States. Tliink of that! And to add insult to injury, the artificial silk manufacturers exported to every part of the world, and actually invaded the countries in wjiich natural silk is produced—China, Japan, and Italy the chief silk-producing countries of the world. Poor little silkworm, its rival seems to be a material easy to produce. An American magazine tells us that: "The process by which the forests are turned into silk stockings is a comparatively simple one. Wood pulp is treated with caustic soda to form a sodium cellulose, and then dissolved in carbon bisulphides. The product, alkaji-cellu-Icse-xanthate, is a viscous solution popularly called "viscose, 1 'and, after being filtered and allowed to ripen by standing, is forced through capillary tubes into a liquid which solidifies the 'threads, which are, when completed, similar in appearance, dimension, and chemical qualities t° the fibre produced by the silkworm. .This silk fibre or. thread, is used in the precise manner in manufacturing as are the threads produced by the silkworm, which are of similar composition and characteristics. The artificial product has in fact a greater brilliancy, being more lustrous than naturai silk, but a somewhat harsher feeling. Some of the early shortcomings of the artificial product, lack of strength and elasticity, have been considerably lessened, and these artificial silks are now used in fabrics rfor both warp and filling threads, for hosiery, dress trimmings, upholsteries, and rugs, also taking the place of real silk for insulating electric wire and making durable mantles for incandescent lights."