WOMEN IN PRINT

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 23, 27 July 1920, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT

The Missss Pe^y (two) hay© been appointed to the committee recently formed at Seatoun in ooimection with the formation of a Seatoun branch of the Women's National Reserve Residential Nursery. Mrs. Mathew Holmes and her two little daughters have left for a visit" to Lady Rodwell (Fiji), and will stay at the Islands for some time. Mrs. H. P. Rawson, of Seatoun, 'accompanied them as far as Auckland. :. Lieutenant-Commander F. G. Coorjer, j 8.D., E.N.R., accompanied by Mrs. ! Cooper and Miss Cooper, is leaving by the Arawa on Thursday for England Mrs. James Dykes leaves by the Arawa on a visit to England. She is travelling with her sister, Mrs. Fred Cooper. The second of a series of social evenings visa held at the Hataitai School on Saturday, when over one hundred attended. Progressive five-hundred was played, Miss Arnott, Mrs. Wickes, and Mr. Turnbull and Mr. Buckitiaster winning the ladies' and gentlemen's prizes. Supper was in the 'hands of a committee consisting of Mesdames Arous, Bear, Fea-rne, Barnett, Cappbell, and Batt.. The dance was organised by the Eataitai branch of the Women's National Reserve in aid of the Re»idsntial Nursery in Owen-street. Jfrs. Searla provided the music.

The employees of Messrs. W. and T. Staples and Co. held a. ".social" arid dance in the Hew Century HaJi, Kentterrace, on Friday evening, when about sixty couples were entertained. Songs iv«re given by Messrs. Bentley and Howitt, and a xylophone and piano duet by Messrs. .Ward and' Marshall. Mrs. Oscar Johnston was the caterer. Music for the enjoyable dance that followed wp,s supplied by Mr. Nicholson.

The Combined Banks' Staff Ball, which was to have been held in August in the Town Hall, has been postponed till 3rd September.

The following item, sent t>y The Post's London correspondent, is of interest to members and friends of the W.O.T.U. :—After an absenc* of seventeen years from England, Sister E. L. Moody-Bell has come to revisit he>r friends. Since the convention of tha W.O.T.U. she has been addressing various meetings of the British Women's Temperance Association, and she has various other engagements on hand, taking as her subject "The Prohibition Campaign in New Zealand, and its Prospect for the Future." Also Sister-Moody-Bell is collecting information relative to the N.Z.W.C.T.U. department, "Prison and Reform Work," of which she has been national superintendent for some years. She hopes to visit various institutions, and to obtai ' facilities from Scotland Yard and the jnomo Office, in order to prosecute her inquiries. On account of the difficulties of securing a return passage, Sister Moody-Bell may stay in England for some considerable time, if a sphere of suitable work opens up for her. This week she has visited the Borstal Institution at Aylesbury.

The Post's London correspondent writes :—On the 27th of May the wedding took place at Colgate, Sussex, of Princess Ola. Humphrey-Hassan, widow of the late Prince Ibrahim Hassan,- and daughter of the late Mr. T. M. Humphrey and Mrs. M. J. Humphrey, of San Francisoo/ to Cagtain John Henry Broadwood (late Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), son of'the late Mr. J. A. R. Broadwood and Mrs. A. S. Broadwood, of Merstham. Surrey. The ceremony was performed by the Bey. A. G. Maister. Mr. and Mrs Arthur Myers (Auckland) were among the 1 guests at tea in the House of Commons of the Empire Parliamentary Association. The meeting was arranged to enable members of the Executive and Hospitality Committees of the Association in the Lords, and Commons to meet the members of Dominion Parliaments and their wives who are visiting London. Mrs. Lowther was the hostess. At a Court on the 24th of June, Mrs. Myers is to be presented by Lady Curzon of Kedleston. At the same Court, Mrs. Alfred Nathan (Auckland) is presenting her two daughters, and another New Zealander to ', have similar honour is Mrs. Lawrence- Chaytor, whose husband is the brother of Lieut-Colonel E. W. O. Chaytor, late G.0.C., N.Z.E.F., in- Egypt; The official announcement of "no veils and no feathers" came as a disappointment in the first instance to many debutantes. The idea, of course, of the Queen was to reduce expense as far as possible, and at her express wish, too, the dresses are to 'he~less elaborate thaiv^ formerly,, and there are to "be no long trains.

Sister West is giving a second series of lectures on Simple Home Nursing in connection with the Kilbirnie branch of the W.N.R. Mrs. Taylor, the president, has offered the use of her room, and will answer any inquiries in connection with' the lectures. Telephone, 24-222. The first lecture on Wednesday, 28th, at 7:30 p.m. It is anticipated that a .great number of ladies w/ll laks advantage of these lectures.

A pleasing little function took place last Thursday afternoon. At the quarterly meeting of the committees of the Women's National Reserve, Mrs. Tattle, the lady who bought the Residential Nursery, and leased it to the Reserve, was made a life member of the W.N.R., and presented with the Reserve badge by Mrs. Corliss, who made an appropriate speech in sd'dding. Mrs. Tattle suitably replied and expressed great interest in the work.

Dr. Herbert will give the last health talk arranged by the Y.W.C.A. for the winter ssries on Thursday evening next, at 8 o'clock, at the Y.W.C.A. This is the first time this year that Dr. Herbert has lectured, and it is hoped that the audience will be large. It will be open to all women.and girls.

Mr. Elsdon Best will give another 'of his interesting talks op "Maori Myths and Legends" at the Y.W.C.A., Boulcottstlreet, to-night at 8 o'clock. A warm invitation is extended to all interested.

A'mid-season "social" and dance will bo given by St. • Mark's Church Girls' Club next week. Miss Sutherland, of Morton-street, Berhampore, is the secretary for the occasion.

The story of a "very-near tragedy," which occurred to Miss Daisy Kennedy, is 'told by an Australian writer as follows : —How terribly,' dreadfully dull everything is. There- is something in looking forward to the return of Miss Daisy Kennedy and her violin next month." It nearly happened that Miss Kennedy might have had to return without her precious Amati. She had a- terrific, thrill in her journey through' from Melbourne to Sydney. At Moss Vale she went to the refreshment room for breakfast, taking the violin—which she .never allows to leave her side when travelling—with her When in the train again, and well on the way to Sydney, she suddenly discovered that the violin, had been left in the refreshment room. After some hours of _ agony, and much telegraphing, she received the violin safe and sound, but it might so easily have been otherwise.

At a smart wedding.in London recently the bride wore a _ gown of pale pink crepo de chine embroidered all over with silver butterflies, with a pink tulle train, and in place of the orthodox bouquet she carried an ivory backed prayer book. The bridesmaids wore Dolly Varclen dresses of white satin with U'oeoco flowers round their \isi& and ct their -waists.

"The cult of respectability is carried too far in the education of children, In certain girls' schools the scholars are even prevented from running about the playground" during recreation time. And overywhere around you, you find careful mammas spending practically the whole of their day repeating to their girls: 'Sit down and keep quiet,' as if children are wooden dolls to be set on a chair and left there inanimately for hours," says G. Herbert in "L'Edueation Physique Feminine" (Vuiberr, Paris). "There must be less suppression of animal spirits; and if we want to see the modern girl as she ought to be, there are the Amazons on the Parthenon Frieze, showing us healthy beings 'at play. Games during childhood are the natural training school, fitting children to enter the arena of the real world at adolescence."

The smart thing among women in London society to-day is to be able to tell a witty story, not a risky one, for there is a subtle difference between wit and—well, the other thing, that all women of refinement avoid—or display a gift for mimicry. Princess Bibesco (one of the Asquiih girls) is a famous mimic, and, so, greatly ;n request for dinner parties. One of the smart stories going the rounds in London at present is that of an extremely shy man who sat, in a terribly overcrowded tramcar, next to a woman whose hatpins stuck well out in most dangerous fashion. For a long time lie suffered the restless bobbing about of her head, which threatened danger to all in her vicinity, and at last he summoned up enough pluck to say, "Forgive me, madam, for addressing you without an introduction, but I thought I ought to tell you there is a spot of blood from my eye on one of your hatpins!"