WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 54, 5 March 1923, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

! TO CORRESPONDENTS. All accounts of -weddings or other ' functions intended for this column must be legibly written in ink. Marriages and engagements must be certified by the : people concerned or by responsible relatives, i An interesting report was presented by the Red Cross Sister (Sister Lewis) at the | recent meeting of the Peace-Time Activ- ! jty Committee of the Red Cross, which I stated that classes had been formed in j home nursing at Queen Margaret's College. In addition, health talks were be- ■ ing given to the younger students at that institution. A programme of health talks (extending throughout, the year) 1 had also been drawn up, and was being given to St. Peter's Mission Red Cross Circle. Classes in home nursing, formed at Eastbourne, were being well attended. Residents on the eastern side of the harbour, having ;set up a strong committee, were displaying a commendable degree of enthusiasm in furthering the society's work. Sister Lewis, in company with Dr. Morgan, had visited Upper Hufcfc, where Red Cross operations had been taken up. Dr. and Mrs. Kemp themselves having been associated with ! the society's work throughout the war period, had readily agreed to continuetheir efforts on the society's behalf in the Upper Hutt district. Classes in home nursing and first aid at Upper Ilutt would commence , immediately. Sister Lewis reported upon a number of distressful cases to which she had given attention. The advisory clinic in the Red Cross Chambers, 615, Dixon street, had also been attended by a number of mothers, young women, and children during the month. Mr. and Mrs.- F. Dyer, Park street, are visiting Auckland. Mrts. Gillon is visiting Mrs. Guy Ronalds, of Christchurch. Mris. J. A. Heavey was a passenger by the Mauflgamii for Sydney. Mrs John Deans, Riccarton, Christchurch,'hae returned from a visit to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Ballinger have returned from a holiday visit to the j North. Miss Frengley, ■Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. D. H. Monro, Christchurch. . | Mrs. Werry, who has been .living in Tinakori road,, has taken up her residence at 14, Featherston terrace. Miss Norma Collins, New Plymouth, is leaving New Zealand by the Athenic to carry or her studies in x-ray work in London. Mrs. G-. A. Hill and the Misses Gill, Christchurch, have arrived in Wellington, and have taken up their residence tv Hobson street. About forty children attended the annual party given by Miss Florence George to the juvenile pupils of her elocutionary class last Saturday. In entertaining their guests, the . Misses George were 'assisted by several of the senior pupils, among whom were the Misses E. Aitchison and W. Lea, wuo have lately returned from Canada ana the United States. In addition to promoting games they gave some amusing and interesting accounts of then- trip, which added greatly to the enjoyment of the evening. The first of a series of.dances held at "Jazzland," Sydney street Hall, on Saturday night last proved a great success, over sixty couples being, present. The hall was tastefully decorated in blue and ■gold relieved with lyeopodium. An excellent orchestra supplied the. music, which was a feature of the evening. Hostesses for the Community Club, Buckle .street, for tlfe week will be as follow:—This evening, the "Wellington South Nursing Division ; Tuesday, Mrs. Coster and Mrs. .R. Johnston ; Wednesday, Mrs. Parton; Thursday, Mrs. Mur.- , phy and Miss Griffiths; Friday, Mrs. A. Marsden ; Saturday, ;. Sunday, Mrs. Vine; Monday, Miss Rix-Trott. j In a private letter from Miss Bessie Mac Donald, a well-known Christchurch dancer, who is at present pursuing her dancing studies at the School of Ruth, St. Denis, Los Angeles, some interesting details of life in "Movieland" are given, says the "Dunedin Star." To quote from the letter: "You have no idea, of the gloom cast over the whole place by the death of Wallace Reid. Everyone loved him. Mrs. Reid had quite recently contributed in serialform the story of their married life to one of the newspapers here, and she little dreamt that she would be a widow before the last chapter appeared. Bill Hart, Theodore Roberts, Jack Hart, Will Desmond, and Marshall Neilon were the pall-bearers, and Norma Talmadge and scores of well-known picture people were ut the funeral. It. took four policemen at the church corner to handle the traffic. . . . The amount of j drugs and dope used here is appalling, and the night parties are every whit as fast and furious as depicted. No one need try to convince me that there is no drink in America. At every party you can get as much as you want." A London correspondent says that the christening robe to be worn by the infant son of Princess Mary (at the ceremony announced to take place on Palm Sunday) possesses considerable historic intisrest, since it will be the onei that was first used for King Edward. Queen Victoria subsequently gave it to Queen Alexandra ( who used it in turn for each ! of her children, and in turn passed it on to Queen Mary, who utilised it at the baptism of the Prince of Wales. It is a beautiful garment, enriched with old lace of a value it is almost impossible to estimate. The numerous friends and relatives in New Zealand of Dr. Mary R. Barkas, M.Br, 8.5., Lond., will be interested to know that she has lately gained the diploma in Psychological Medicine awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons (in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians), and that she has just received the appointment of junior assistant medical officer at the Maudsley Hospital, which has lately been opened for the treatment of early and borderline cases of mental disease, writes a London correspondent. Dr. Maudsley left a bequest to the London County Council for this purpose, and the hospital, which was used during the war for military shellshock cases, is now to bo opened for civilian patients. Dr. Barkas looks forward with much, interest to her new duty, for there have hitherto been very few opportunities of the kind available in this country. In 1919 she was at Betlilem .Royal Hospital. Then came a year at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen's square, and during the past year Dr. Barkas has spent most of her time in Germany and Austria seeing something of the treatment of nervous and inontal disease, si nd studying psycho-analysis in Vienna, .where she herself was analysed by Or Otto Rank, one of Hie most famous of Freud's pupil». The application or psycho-analysis to tho study of nieiilsil disease, as well' as lo neurosis, i;> Uie Subject which niosi. interests her, ;;n<l clio hopes in tho future to <york chinfly til this and the treatment of early stages ' of mental illness.

The Plunket Society will benefit considerably by the production of the revue "Heller-Skelter," by Mr. Pat Ward and the company of Wellington amateurs on last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. There have been excellent attendances each evening, and the whole affair proved most successful. Mrs. Hosking, president of the Plunket Society, was present on Saturday evening, and in a brief speech thanked Mr. Ward and the members of the company for the kind and generous help given to a most deserving cause. The- engagement is announced; of Miss Queenie Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Graham, "Ngarkaroa," Ormoud, Gisborne, to Mr. Waldo Sherriff, only son of tho Rev. F. T. Sherriff and Mrs. Sheriff, of Tinakori road, Wellington. Miss Stella Murray, -writes "The Post's" London correspondent on 26th January, is singing at several concerts i which are beipg organised by Dame NelI lie Melba, who has with her much Australian talent. The Christchurch singer j is in very good voice, and many complimentary remarks were to be overheard about the richness of her voice when she was singing with Melba at the People's Palace. Next month Miss Murray and I Miss Vera Moore (the Dunedin pianist) are going to Herefordshire to fulfil concert engagements. Then Miss Murray will sing in Bath, and she is very much looking forward to her engagement at Bournemouth in the musical festival weak, organised by Sir Dan Godfrey. The following kindly message from the Queen forms part of- tho interesting matter contained in a neat little magazine, entitled "The Woman Journalist." "The Queen learns with much interest that in January, 1923, the Society of Women Journalists will issue the first number of their new magazine; 'The Woman Journalist. 1 Her Majesty understands that the main object of the publication will be to form a link between women writers throughout the Empire. The Queen sincerely hopes that the magazine will have a happy and prosperous career.' In the same number is an interview with Sir John Le Sage, editor of the "Daily Telegraph," which paper, it is stated, was a pioneer in the recognition of the value of women's work for the daily Press. "One of the notable things in my lifetime," said Sir John, "is the entry of women into journalism, and the prominent part they are taking alike as reporters and general writers, as well as contributors upon general subjects. I am sure that they will go very much further than they have at present, and that their contribution'will, with the advance of women in the professions and the political sphere, be of great service in the discussion of Imperial and international affairs. But where I see the greatest scope for their work is in relation i to the domestic interests which mean so ! much to the home-life of the people in all | those great movements that are tending to social progress, education, the care of the sick and infirm, and the well-being I of the children. . . The influence of women will tend,, I hope and believe, to make journalism a still more valuable force for veal progress. They can do much, to counteract in some quarters the tendency to over-exaggeration and over-emphasis of trivial and passing little foibles. These do not represent the highest standard of journalism. But it< is to the best advantage of the country, that the Press should be maintained upon' a high level and the finer instincts of women should be directed to this endl" Everything possible is being done not t<> let dancing die down at all this winter in London, we are told by an Englishwoman, remarks Lady Kitty in the Adelaide '' Observer." Its greatest lovers find that young men are.not so enthusiastic about it as they used to be. A. chaperon of her acquaintance, who has been unemployed, and without even the dole, for some time, says it ia all because » man is supposed to be tied to one partnei' for a whole evening. She heard one youth say to another who was recommending him a dancing partner: "Dances jolly well? Of. course she dances jolly well! But if she was Pavlova and. Karsavina rolled into one, I'd like a change!" That is partly why young men are hard to bring to book for 'dancing. They prefer to be proprietors of programmes which they fill to suit themselves. The one-partner fashion is dying out, and private dances are coming in again, and my chaperon afore mentioned says that hostesses will not have men who are paid partners at their houses.