WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1922, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All accounts, of weddings or other Junctions intended for this column must be legibly written in ink. Marriages and engagements must be certified by the people concerned or by responsible relatives.

Her Excellency, Viscountess Jellicoe, hae left Ohriatchurch and is visiting Blenheim.

Mrs. J. Martin and Miss Dymes, of Martinborough, are visiting Wellington.

Mrs. B. Triggs, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Wanganui.

Mrs. M'Kelvie, of Bulls, has returned home after a visit to town.

Mrs,- Bower Knight, of Dannevirke, has taken a house at Kafaka Bay for part of the summer. i

Mrs. D. Basham, of Waipukurau, has been engaged by the Hamilton Choral Society to sing the contralto solos in "The Messiah," the concert taking place next month.

The matron of the W.N.B. Residential Nursery, Owen street, acknowledges, with.thanks, glffcs\frani Irvine Brothers, Mrs. M'Whirter, Mrs. Barclay, Karori road, Kelburn, and Northland branch of W.N.R., Seatoiln bvanch, Mibs Freeman, Mrs. Whitehorn (Otaki), Mies Sheppard, Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe, children of the free kindergarten, Mr. Preß' ton, Mr. Button, Karori btatiob.-W.N.8,., Mrs. Moore, Miss Mantell, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Peach, Mrs. Bennett, Mr Hope Gibbons, Mrs. Sowbe«( (FeUding), Elaine Simcox (Manakau), Mrs. Gvay. Young and friends, and an anonymous gift of £5 from the Seatoun branch.

A well-arranged sale of work was held at the Jewish Women's Club, Cuba street, yesterday afternoon and evening, and proved to be both pleasant and profitable. The large hall was decorated Vifch balloons and streamers of coloured paper, while the stalls were arranged round the sides. There was an excellent supply of produce, and lovely flowers, roses being particularly fine. The sweet stall was a feature, and afternoon tea was served. Those in charge Were:— Jnmble stall, Mrs. Edelman; sweets, Mrs. Phil Nathan and \ Miss Shotlander; fancy, Mrs. (Dr.) Levy, Mrs. Goldberg, and Miss .Vail Staveren; produce and flowers, Mrs. J. J. Nathan and Mrs.

Myers j afternoon tea, Mrs. Triester and helpers; ice creams, Mrs. Shotlander. ■

The closing of the dancing season at St. Anne's Hall, Northland, will take place on Saturday next, when special arrangements have been made for a successful evening. The music and floor are well known to be of tr(e best, and Mr. Walter Platt will be the M.O.

Mrs. Harriett Parsons, who died recently at Te Kopuru Hoßpital, on the JXaipara Harbour, had just entered into her hundredth year, and was the first white woman to arrive at the township of Paparoa, about sixty years ago. She, ■was the widow of the late Mr. John Parsons. A letter which she wrote her brother, Mr. Thomas Cockayne, on Ist January, 1863, expresses the fine spirit which animated many of the early settler* in this country. The letter, dated from Paparoa, was published in a Nottingham !paper,-and was as follows:—"Although I have spent many happy Christmas Days in England, I confidently declare we never felt so free, so well, so happy, and so thankful as on this Christmas Day. I have had my house built. It is large, strong, and weatherproof. It cost $20. We have wild pig, pigeon, and fresh fish. No bad debts, no returned bills, and no anxiety at all, free aa a bird. We have no rates and taxes, but free shooting, free'fishing, and free hunting. I give my advice to all to come, let nothing stop you." Mrs. Parsons is survived by several children, and many grandchildren and great-grandohil-dren, at Paparoa afcd elsewhere. She is the last survivor of a gallant pioneer band, which helped to lay the.- foundations of New Zealand's prosperity. N

Dr. Sophie Bryant, who died while mountaineering in Switzerland, was the first woman to take the degree of Doctor of Science. Her career was moet brilliant. From 1895 till 1918 she was head mistress of tha London Collegiate School for Girls, where she was highly esteemed a.nd much liked. ■, Her chief recreation was mountaineering, and shs climbed the Matterhom twice. She published several books, ■ and just before going on her last trip gave into ths hands of her publisher a volume on "Liberty, Order and Law, under Native Irish Eule."

On the subject «f th« "ill-luck" which is supposed to be attached to the wearing of opa.ls, a writer in an exchange says : —There is no more beautiful gem than the rainbow -hued opal, and undoubtedly it would be worn very much more than it is if it were not saddled with a reputation for bringing misfortune on its wearer. The prevalence of this superstition is very ourious, for it can be traced back to nothing more unluoky- than Sir Walter Scott's famous novel, "Anne of Geierstein." This book introduced an opal that brought sorrow on all its possessors, and, so widely was it read a century ago, when ■ Sir Walter was at the zenith of .his popularity, that ths gem began to %. be credited with the evil power he gave it in the story. But there is no reason why we moderns should be influenced by an almost forgotten piece of fiction, which most of us have not even read. In real life opals are no more unlucky than any other stone, and. plenty of people who possess them can point to happy lives. The opal is the symbol of hope, and is said to sharpen the sight and strengthen the faith of, its wearers. Tt is considered particularly the stone of the October-born.

The death of Mrs. Christina Nalder, wife of Mr. J. V. Nalder, of Nelson, occurred last week, at the advancecJ age of 82. She was one of the early colonists who arrived in New Zealand in the sailing ship Cissie in 1867. She is survived by her husband and the whole of a family of nine—Messrs. C, E-> Nalder, Begistrar-General of Land and Deeds and District Land Registrar, Wellington ; H. M. Nalder, Chief Examiner, Audit Department, Wellington; J. Nalder, Clerk of Court, Gisborne; Mrs. W. Harper, of Glenmore Studio, Auckland; Mrs. J. 0. Schildhauer, Eltham; Mra. W. M'Alister, Brisbane; Mrs. 0. Beat, Brightwater; Miss G. Nalder, teacher, Karamea; and Miss A. Nalder, Nelson.

In a questionaire recently submitted to the young women students of Wisconsin University, they were asked what qualities they preferred in their future husbands, and what faults they, had discovered to. be most common among men. Conceit, the answers agreed, is most general; rudeness next, and insincerity third. Lack of morals was near the end of the list, "with laziness and selfishness running almost even with drunkenness. The quality most desired in men was ambition, with intellect second, and a strong' character ranking high. Only a few girls admitted that they wanted husbands with an income. The possession of money ranked lower than that of a "nice disposition" or "a . sympathetic nature." Nfit inuny of tile sirls ' !;oM> fJitortd yw.d ley Us 'highly de'sU-aUe in the part of their future husbands

Among those who were met by members of the solar expedition in Australia, Dr. Adams, in his decent lecture, mentioned Mrs. Cowan, who is a member of the Australian Parliament, Professor Picken, Professor Laby, and Professor Hercus, Mr. de CoUrcy Clarke, Mr. Montgomery, brother of Mr. W B. Montgomery (of Wellington), and many others. Some of the best entertainments given the party were at the women's clubts, the Karakatta Club in Perth being specially mentioned.

The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Parsons, of Ellerslie, was recently celebrated, the wedding having taken place at All Saints' Church, Nelson, in 1872. The Rev. Mr. Thorpe was the officiating clergyman. Both Mr. and Mrs. Parsons arrived in the colony by the ship Berkshire in 1850.

The central committee of the National Memorial Military Chapel is holding a sale in Harcourt's buildings on Friday. Mrs. W Q. Ecid and Mrs. Murphy will be in charge,'and will be grateful for gifts of flowers, produce, etc. .

Au Australian, paper-reports that Mrs. Eliis Rowan, whose paintings of Australian and American flowers and birds have charmed the greatest artists and satisfied the most exacting scientist, died at Upper «Macedon' recently. Her death was regretted by everyone. ■ For many it not only he-Id sorrow, but a good deal of pathos as well. Mrs. Rowan some time ago offered her collection of paintings to the Federal Government for £6000 and a gTant of land in Papua. The mOney would have been ÜBeful at the eve of a. life spent in active service, but no decision was reached by the: authorities until two days after her death, when it was decided to make the purchase. It seems very sad that so great a. national artist Should have been denied her natural ambition until death shore it of all its material benefit to herself. America would have bought the collection long ago. It has been valued by experts at £20,000. Mrs. Rowan visited^ New Zealand to paint the wild flowers of the country.

The name of Lick Observatory is so well known in this ■ country that the few details given by Dr. Adams in his lecture on the solar eclipse were of much interest. It appears that a Mr. James Liok gave the handsome sum of 140,000 dollars to establish the observatory, the maintenance charge of which is borne by the Californiari University.

The death occurred recently, after a long illness, of Miss Isabel Anne Dickson, 0.8. E., who was the first and only wom_an\aßsistant-secretary in the Civil Service. Her first appointment was as acting-principal, of the Women's College in the University of Sydney, New South, Wales, and she became acting-principal of Bedford College, University of .Lon* don. About seventeen years ago she was one of the first women to be appointed an inspector of schools under the British Board of Education, and was, later on, the first woman inspector of training colleges. During the war she was lent to the Board of Agriculture and Fisher ies, and received the 0.8. E. in recognition of her services. Three years ago she was appointed an assistant-secretary at the Board of Education, being the first woman to hold that position.

In her presidential address at the National Council of Women at Cambridge recently, Lady Frances Balfour said that whenever she took up a newspaper she saw the unexpected in , women. The Everest Expedition did not seem one where women would be.singing "Excelsior !" Yet reading of that great ascent, and the deeds performed by the porters, she found singled out tho prowess of a Tibetan woman, who carried a tent weighing 1601b in which all the- men lived, and plunged with it through the long snowy passes with the best of the porters. Women were first in buttermaking in Devonshire,' first for breeding dogs, calves, and hacks, and first in sheep-dog trials. Two young women in Buckinghamshire by scientific" methods on their allotment won every prize from the sixteen county houses round them, and ingain, moßt. unexpectedly, she' saw a woman appearing as the winner of the Calcutta Sweepstakes..