WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 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 he published. Engagement notices mast be signed by the paxties concerned. l

Sir Thomas and Lady Mackenzie are" returning to Wellington from Auckland. Mrs. Buckleton, (Oriental Bay) has1 re^ turned from a visit to the Nortli. Mrs. B. Wilson (Lower Hutt) has left for a" vttit to tEe South. Mrs. J. B. p. Spicer has returned to Wellington after a visit to Auckland. Mrs. R. Pearson, of Auckland j is visiting Wellington at present. Mrs. E'.-J. Gravesto'ck is giving a reception at the Midland Hotel this afteV--noon iv houour of Miss Rosina Buckman and Mr. Matlrice D'Oisly. Mrs. A. W. Rutherford and Miss Rutherford, of Mendip HilljS, arrived from Christchureh this morning. They leave tomorrow by the lonic on a vißit to England. Tlio Misses Sullen (3), of Christchurch, are staying at the Midland Hotel. They are leaving by the Tahiti" bn Tuesday next for. San Iftancisco, accompanied by Mrs. Louis Blundell. The Misses Macfarlane (3). ' and Master Allan Macfarlatie, Woodville, will sail by the lonic for England, where they will join their parents, Mr. ana Mrs. O. D. Macfarlaner Colonel D'Arcy Cbaytor1, C.M.G., and Mrs. Chaytor are returning to their hoihe in Wanvickshfre, England, by the1 lonic. Mrs. Gorton (Feilding) is in town staying with Miss Edwin, to bid farewell to her sister and brother-in-law. The position of queens inconnection with St.- Patrick's bazaar;is: Margaret Fitzgibboh, 9920; Gladys Edwards, 8872; Mary Moron, 7287; Kathleen Crawford, 5545. This evening's proi gramme will be supplied by Mr. | Knowsley's dancing pupils, and vocal and instrumental .items by Mr. Claude Sanders and party. A good night's entertainment is assured. A number of raffled will also be drawn this evening. A committee of the Wellington branch bf the Public Service Association is at present engaged in making arrangements for1 a concert and dance, to1 be held on the 22nd June,. in honour bf the visiting delegates to th« Public S*'vice Association Conference. The Town Hall has been engaged for the purpose, and an excellent musical .programme ha» been a»raiiged'. Th» following is to ihteritstirig qflwl!^ tion from aft inspiring and iUumfeathig speech given by the Key. A. Th6mp*6n at a, meeting held At Mrs, Seville's reeidonee, Hatait*i:'-''Tfce wflrit of the Bible Society is vital not only td th«f spread of Christianity tipori this fdfeign field, but also to our work at the l*b«*S base; in fact, wherever supplies of Scriptare are heeded within th« ptrch«sing po ( wev of the poorest. It may be poasiW* to impose Christianity upon a jfeople without 7 the Scriptures in their language) but it is utterly impossible to implant it and make it indigenous without the Bible in the language of the people. . . . The Scripture ha« already been circulated -from our .Wellington Bible house in at least a dozen different language* here iri New Zealand itself." Mrs. Seville amd Airs. Gaby were, elected vice-presidents, of the' Kilbii-nie and Ly&ir'Bay- branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society.Mrs. Kirkpatrick (secretary) enrolled :new subscribers arid helpers, several'also" being added to the comntitteei Afternoon tea-was served at the close) and » vot* of thanks passed to ite. Seville for" the iis'6 of. her house and for her hospitality. The ; Sot. 11.I1. B. Page,'.of Seatouri and .Lyall Bay, was among ; those present. A jumble sale will be held at St. Andrew's Hall, Wellington-terrace, at 2.30 to-mofrow afternoon. This sale will be in aid of the missions in which thft Presbyterian Women's Mission Union are interested. -Dance parties in America do ndt always have to obtain tHe services of an' orchestra to supply the music. They equip the ballroom with a wifeless telephone set,, and sdme wireless station will broadcast the necessary music t6 thousands bf similar parties. Musical telephones of various descriptions answer the same purpose very satisfactorily in New Zealand. Dr. Hild« Northci'oft, president of the Auckland branch of.- the International' Federation of University Wotiien, gave an "at home " to welcome Miss Gfaiifr, who has arrived in New Zealand to interest and enlist the support of the Dominion students in their starving brothers and sisters in Central Europe. Yerji' interesting addresses were given a«d support promised. A redord day mentioned in the nioiftfily report of the Auckland Pliiriket Society occurred near, the end of ISsi rhoritH, when 264 mothers and babies attended, while quite a iitinibef Mb without attention, being diseburag'e'd at the' large1 number. Gtiod reptfrts are' giveii of ill* Tongan and Samoari babied who are under Phinket treatment. A matter brought iind^t the notice, of women's societies, in CMistchtirch by Mrs. Herbert was the utter disregard of pViicautions againit sickness.; Workers, she ssii.d, would often find a whole family huddled together in one bed", yet one might b& suffering from tuber-1 ciilbsis. The people, naturally enough; crowded together' for: warniih, as they had irisufneieftt cl<Sthirig. Then there were undesirable people who would hot stay in the ■ sanatorium when they were admitted tlfere. came homeland took no precautions whatever. Such people slidlild be taught to have some-' i-dgard ici-,other peopld's health, if they, had none for' their own. T-hen, a matter which struck all.wprkefs wag the erio'r-. moiis tents people had tp pay for little cottages' that were hardly worth anything. From 17s 6d to 30a a week was asked for tHe. fjooi'est habitations. Landlords were' .in ihariy case's isd ihsolutioti :' That the Minister iff Charge out theV.jnbst liec&ss'a'ry' r'tipaifs. Mrs. L. R. Wilson ni6v'ed the foiloSvirig motion : : "That this mfetstilig endorses the' action of the Hospital Board iii trying to ahie'nd the existing legislation, arid affirms the jiririciple Of the boal'd's resohltion : That the Minister in Charge of Prisons Be urged to amend existing legislation so as to pfovide that, persistent defaulters in the matter of maintenance orders shall be, employed in some fofm of Remunerative work, arid their earnings applied to the maintenance of their families." How many wYe'tch'dd se'asieic travellers hove wondered ana wondered if there ever Will be a.really arid\truly seaaicV cure discovered? "ferj; pi^misihpl arid cheering news oh this siißject is surely to" be found iri the' following extract: "Passengers by sea. will learri with interest that the Pasteur Institute of Paris hopes to. cure- seasickness by a remedy shortly to be given to the public free of cost. After Mnsc and patient study thd institute, found that 'neither Bogs, rabbits, chickens, nor p'igeoris SOffored from seasicltneeß. How this fSct was proved 'is siioWtßr story, fctit Dr. Pozbraki. of the institute, thinks He has solved the problem.

-* There was an excellent attendance of members at the Wellington Nursing Division, St. John ■ Ambulance Brigade Overseas meeting a.t the Red Cross rooms, when a good practice of bed-making was -h«W under the supervision of the first nursing officer, Nurse M'Andrew. A movement has been started to establish a Plunket Society Committee at. Roseneath and Oriental Bay. A meeting of those interested will be held at the residence of Mrs. Downs, 49, Cres-cent-road, Roseneath, on Friday evening, at half-past 7. A jumble sale, including sweets, produce, refreshments, arid other stalls, will be held in the Methodist Schoolroom, Brooklyn, to-morrow afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. ■ The fact that two of the sections on the recently cut up block bought from Mr. Kirk, beyond the Rangitaiki, has been taken up by ex-riurSes, was itientibned at the R.S.A. re-Union at1 Whakatane. Mr. ' M. Douglas Said the settlement was making rapid progress; two cottages-had been finished, three more wfere to be built,- orders for six sheds" had gone in, and another house was to be built later. Two nurses had taken up sections. They Had painted their own cottage, and put the finishing touches on the inside. They had cleaned out the six-foot drains,. and were grubbing uji the ti-tree stumps. In addition, they had dug up a good big patch, and since their arrival, at the end of February, they had grown and were gathering ve*dtables. . The energy they were displaying would put many of the men in the shade, and they were' going to be first-class settlers. (Applause.) A writer in an exchange tells o£ a woman passenger travelling by the same steamer as M. Briand, the French Minister, when he returned from the Washington Conference, whose magnificent diamonds attracted much notice. She was tHe mystery passenger in the ship, and her identity only became known after she had landed in France. She-was the daughter of a woman who kept a scent shop iri a poor quarter of New York. A negro who was employed to clean out the place1 discovered a solution to take" the kink out of negroes' hair. The woman bought the recipe from the inventor, aud . made a fortune. The paESenfeer ofc the boat with the beautiful diamonds' wa« this woman's daughter, arid is" now touring Europe. ' • There is no spot on this terrestrial globe where a woman may not safely go alone, provided only that she is acbompanied by common-sense, declares Gertrude Emerson, who has just returned from two years of travelling around the world. The small but intrepid Miss Emerson is associate, editor of Asia, and in her wanderings she gave special time and attention to the lefeg-fre'qitenied parts bf the world, where one would most gasp at the thought of a lone American woman making her way.' $H& travelled by camel,' elephant, satnpan, horseback, train, motor, iship, airplane, Ind canoe, and she worried her, friends to death most of the time, of course.. "I had warnings all along the way," she stys. "Everyone told trie that the next lap of riiy trip wag one 'which n6 woman would undertake alone,'. But I never, even had a fright.."-Sixty-tw<J thousand fM hundred pbiirids sounds, like, a. ,pretty ..stiff, claim for the loss of a woman's beautyj but we read in an exchange that tfiat amount is /-being brodght by a member of the Greenwich Village Folks Chorus against a wealthy ; yonm? N«w. Yorker. It seorhe i the lady was the guest of the American in a motor, ride* and the car crashe_d into a post. The; result of the accident seems to have been pretty serious, for when the actrese recovered consciousness .she was told one eye had been affected, her skall fractured, arid her jaw broken, which to a very beautiful woman, as the lady was, must have been very dreadftd news. Site was inconsolable at- the prospect of her gc*d looks' being gone for ever, and she alleges tha.t the accident was due' to her host driving without proper caution.- Reading about the accident, on 6is impressed with the costliness of the ifidtor drive to both parties concerned, arid.it gives one a new" idea of the value of beauty.