WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1922, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

All notices and descriptions of weddings sent to The Post- for insertion in this column must be authenticated and properly signed by responsible people, or they will not, be published. Engagement notices must be signed by tha parties concerned.

During, their stay in Christchurch, their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Jellicoe are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Q. Rhodes.

Mrs. Moore, Wanganui, is paying a visit to Wellington. .

Mrs, Herriok will be the guest of Mrs, A. Duncan for the races.

The Misses Kennedy have returned from their trip north.

Miss Martin, Featherston, is paying a visit "to Wellington.

Captain and Mrs. Jennings have taken Mr. arid Mrs. M. Wilford's house, while the latter are in England.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, . Kelburnparade, will be passengers for Sydney and Melbourne by the "Ulimaroa on Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baxter arrived in Auckland by the Dorset this week. Both Mr. and Mrs. "Baxter have been studying music at Home, the former under Mr. Albert Sammons and the latter at the London Academy.

Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Greenwood will arrive from the South in the morning to attend the xaces.

Captain and Mrs. Rattray are in Wellington to farewell Mr. and Mrs. George Helmore and Miss Kathleen Helmore by the Athenic.

Miss D. Tompkins, Auckland, will be a passenger by the Athenic for England.

The Misses Tnrton (Wellington) -will be the guests of their aunt, Cacly Denniston, at Cashmere during their stay in Christchurch,

Mrs. G. Beamish, Ha-wkes Bay, is visiting Wellington. Mr.,&nd Mrs. Alex. Boyle, Miss Boyle, and Mr. David Boyle (Christchurch) are leaving by the Athenic from Wellington for England.

JVtiss- Dorothy Shirriffs (Christchurch) and Miss Gladys Dumaden (Sumner) are on a holiday visit to Wellington.

Dr. Mary A. Blair' (formerly of Dunedin and 'Wellington) has been granted permission by the King to wear the Serbian decoration of the Order of St. Sava, 4th Class, awarded to her ior service in connection with the Serbian Belief Fund. Dr. Blair has once more settled down in London, where she has a very busy practice.

A cable message from London mentions Miss, Frances Hodgkins among a number of exhibitors of paintings in the Colour Magazine Exhibition.

The wedding took place at the Friends' Meeting House, Truro (writes The Post's London correspondent), of Mr. John Holdsworth (Havelock North, New Zealand), and Miss Lucy Violet Hodgkin, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L,, and Mrs. Hodgkin, of Falmouth.

The board of directors of the Wellington local Y.W.C.A. will be "at home" to members and their Mends (including men) at the Herbert-street Y.W.C.A. social hall at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow. The occasion is the opening rally for the year, arid it will include a farewell to Miss Stevenson, who is leaving, Wellington to undergo a course of training in ,w.ork. at the training school in Sydney; and to Miss Muir, who is going to Auckland for a course of physical trainiifg. The members of the Harmonic Male Quartette will sing, and other contributions to the programme will be made by Mrs. Hindle, Mrs. Gunn, and the Misses E. Chapman, G. Sutherland, and Carte.

The Auckland Star announces the engagement of Miss Gladys Ilayner, only daughter of Mr. J. H.< Rayner, of Auckland, to Mr. Alex James Lodder, youngest son of the late' Mr. A. V- R. .Lodder, of Bellavue Gardens, Lower Hutt. ,

A correspondent asks.if readers could advise her of the best method of removing grease spots from a saxe-blue taffeta.

Some interesting information as to the political and municipal doings of women appears in an exchange as follows;—In Norway, Miss Karen Platon has been elected to Parliament, being.-the first Norwegian lady M.P. Sweden has returned five women representatives. In Britain, at the November municipal elections, nearly 50 women were returned as town councillors in England and Wales, and 17 in Scotland, while four women were elected as Mayors, Canada, where women only obtained the franchise in 1918, can nosy boast of two women Cabinet Ministers, ,Mrs. Ralph Smith, President of the Council of British Columbia, and Mrs. Walter Parlby, a Minister in the Legislature of Alberta. Mrs. Nellit M'Clung has been elected.to the Legislature of Alberta, for the city of Edinondton. Another notable figure Judge Emily Murphy, who is mentioned as a possible nominee for the Senate. Judge Murphy has done splendid work in her jurisdiction over the Women's Court at Edmonton, where [children also are tried, .proving, herself I the friend as well as judge of the women ! and. girls who come before her. In India the University of Calcutta has conferred a doctor's degree on Mrs. Sarojini i Naidu, the Indian poetess and political I worker, and Miss Cornelia Borabiji, the first Indian woman graduate in law, has been admitted to, the Bar of Allahabad. In two Presidencies, Madras first, lately Bombay, the women, have been enfranchised. A Peruvian lady, Miss Acosta. Gardenas, a doctor of jurisprudence, has been appointed to assist with the reform of the Peruvian Common Code, especially as it affects women, lour women were appointed by President Harding to the Advisory Committee at the recent Washington Conference for the' limitation of armaments. And perhaps the most significant event is the formation of the International Federation of Working- Women, a result of the Working ' Women's Congress held at Geneva last October.

The girls of the W.N.8.. would welcome gifts of flowers for the Soldiers' Cemetery at Karon. Their activities during the week-ends result in the graves presenting a pretty sight, and relatives of soldiers buried there feel grateful to the energetic workers who so faithfully and regularly carry out their self-im-posed offices of caring for the restingplaces. Flowers may be sent to the Pioneer Club or to the Returned Soldiers' Club.

Writes The Post's London correspondent: "One of the results of the 'Marys of the Empire Fund' has been to disclose the fact that, the name is by no means so usual as was the case a few years back. A large number of letters have been received deploring the fact that their writers had no right to participate in this gift to the Princess, and from all districts come reports of perhaps only .one or two Maxys in -very large households and even institutions, in which fox'merly the name would havo been well' represented. Bearing upon this paucity—or comparative paucity—of Marys may be quoted a passage from a, letter received from the headmistress of a. well-known girls' school, who says that 'out of fifty girls only four are Marys, and they are proud to be allowed to contribute to the Princess's present, and are the envy of the school.' A domestic! servant gets over the difficulty by saying, with her gilt of 2s 6d, that one of her names begins with 'M,' and she does not think any question need be asked! Amongst some touching gifts was one made in a rural district just outgide London by an old man, who brought 3s 6d—» goodly sum for him—wrapped up in a scrap of paper, on which was ■written in pencil the message that 'it came 'fromx my dear Mary, who died last Christmas, after nearly fifty years married,' and who begged that the* message might be carefully noted, because 'she' would have wished so much to give something for 'the little Princess.' "■