WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 14

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Miss Nellie Simpson is leaving next .week on, an extended holiday tour, prior to settling in Auckland. Misses- Stella and Alfa Bayley (Duncdiri), who have been visiting Mrs. John Lomas, Maoribank, Upper Hutt, are now the .guests of Mrs. J. A. Shand, Hataitai. Mrs. Albert Russell and Miss Buckendge. have returned from a visit to the' country. I Mrs. Dorothy Evans is returning from a holiday visit to Nelsph. to-day, Mrs. iMjlsey and Miss Kelsey remaining there till the end of the school holidays. i .Mr. and Mrs! D. A. Hamilton, Wellington, are among the visitors to Auckland. ' . Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barton and family, Mataikuna, - are staying at Island Bay. Mrs: 'Howard Booth and her daughter, Carterton, are visiting- Wellington at .present.,. , \ Mrs. Lewis, Masterton, is the guest of Mrs: Percy Cameron, Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. G. F; Wilson, Kelburn, have reutrned from a holiday visit to the country. .-... " ■_ Miss M. Ball and Miss-Sybil Rhodes, North Canterbury, are visiting Wellington. ' Miss Montgomery Moore is visiting Wellington, having come to town to be present at the wedding of Miss Russell and Mr. C. V. Birch. Captain and Mrs. T. G. King, Lower Hutt, have returned to Wellington from the -French Pass. Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Tripe and family have returned from a visit to the country. ' ■ Another of',.the pleasant entertainments which have formerly been so successful will be held at an early date at the grounds of the residence of Mr. J. Mills and Dr. Platts-Mills at Ka-, rori. For several years these functions have been held in aid of the school funds, and this season the results of the entertainment will be largely for asphalting. , The grounds,- formerly known as Donald's; Gardens are very beautiful. A garden party will be held in the afternoon, with stalls and games, and in the evening dancing will take place, the grounds being specially illuminated for the occason. The High Commissioner has cabled to the Acting-Prime Minister stating that Miss Margaret Dyer, of King's College for Women, London, who has been appointed woman inspector of Domestic .Subjects in New Zealand, will leave by the lonic for New Zealand on 7th February:. -A, few days ago, writes "The Post's" London correspondent on Bth December, the .wedding took place at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, of Lieutenant Oswald W. Cornwallis, o.'B. E., 8.N., and the Hon. Venetia Digby, daughter of the late Lord Digby and of the Dowager Lady Digby'. The bridegroom, it , will bi> remembered, was in New Zealand witli.H.M.S. New Zealand on Lord Jellicoe's naval tour in 1919, when he was midshipman. He is the youngest son of Colonel and Mrs. Cornwallis, of _ Liritpn l?ark, near iMaidstone.The bridal retinue comprised "Miss Dorothy Cornwallis" (sister of the bridegroom) and tljtee. couples of little girls and boys : Lady Mabel ;Fbx-Strangways, the Hon. Pamela-Dugby, Miss Patricia Cornwallis, Malcolm Steel, Ralph DrUmmond, and David Malcolm. The little girls'had'dresses of apricot-coloured lace over gold tissue, and the little boys wore brown velvet suits with lace, collars and cuffs. Lieutenant Cunliffe, R.N., was best man. Sir.. Benjamiii : "Fuller has left London | to-day (Bth December) to- spend a week in Devonshire with Lady Fuller and then- daughters. He will return to London, but his family will remain at Hope Cove, Kingsbridge, until the New Year. A civic reception was accorded to Lady Fcrbes-Eobertson in Christchurch yesterday in the City Council Chambers. Lady Forbes-Robertson was welcomed, not only on her own account as a woman of outstanding talent, but for her great kindness to New Zealand soldiers in wartime, having been one of the helpers and supporters of the Shakespeare Hut, London. The Mayor (Mr. J. A Flesher) and Mr. W. E. Leadley, on behalf of the R.S.A., spoke in eulogy ot the work of 'the distinguished guest. In reply, Lady Forbes-Robertson spoke of the way. in which the New Zealandera made friends for themselves-wherever they went by their cheerfulness and good manners. She admired the spirit of Empire, which seemed so evident in the country, and eulogised the beauty ofthe Dominion and the kindness of the people. There was a large gathering of representative people to meet the guest of honour, and the function was a very pleasant and cordial one. j Miss Simpson, matron at Point Halswell, has just returned from a holiday visit to the South, when a part of the time was spent in camping near Dunedin, when the weather was mostly favourable, and a very enjoyable time spent.. ' The annual social gathering of the Australian Club will be heldVon Thursday, 24th January, when it is anticipated that there will be a large gathering of members and friends. .. Afterorion tea is such a well-estab-lished institution nowadays that it is interesting to read that it was originated [>y Duchess Anna of Bedford. A writer in an exchange says:—Our duchesses to-day do not wield the same power as their predecessors of two, or even one generation ago. Is there a duchess now who could set the fashion of a new meal? The answer is a very definite "No." But we owe afternoon-tea to an old-time duchess—Anna, wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford: Before her day afternoon tea was unknown. People ate prodigious breafasts. Luncheon. .was .' a sketchy affair, a sort of picnic 'with no servants waiting. Then there'was nothing else until dinner, a huger meal which lasted two hours. Tea was served in the drawing-room after dinner. Duchess Anna of Bedford struck ouV'aWieW line. She had tea and cakes. in the' after-' noon, and all the world, including the Court, copied the innovation. She took her tea at 5 o'clock because, to quote herself, she had a "sinlung." It's.odd to reflect, isn't-it, that. millions of people, east, west, north, and south, have the habit of afternoon tea becaiise of that ducal ' 'sinking' '?-.".■ Nearly'''every nation in the world, has 'copied .our' 5 o clock tea, yet nobody m:Enßland ever dreamed of afternoon- tea .jintil Duchess Anna of Bedford satisfied' ducal "sinking. A well-known resident, Mrs. J-. T. .Pinion, died at 16, Roy street, on Monday. She was the widow' of, the late Jules Simon; a Westport merchant. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Easton, who were very old colonists, mid was born ii^ VVangnnui. Mrs. Simon leaves an aault.family of five sons and four-daugh-ters, living in various parts of the Dominion.

A beautiful day favoured tho effort for St. Joseph's Orphanage yesterday, and the stalls were particularly well provided, therefore the results were aa satisfactory as possible. The cause ie a popular one, and deservedly, for excellent work is done in rearing good citizens for the future, and tho £460 or thereabouts, which was the result of the day, should.be a substantial help to the authorities of the institution. Those m charge of the stalls were:—Government Buildings, Mesdaines E. W. Gibbs and Mornant; Kirkcaldie's, Mrs. Quin and ladies of Upper Hutt; Kclburn tram, Mesdames Le Sevre and Moore; Royal Oak Hotel Corner, Mesdames Hawth°™e and Keogh, Misses M'Parland and Doherty; Bank of New Zealand Corner, Mesdames J. J. L. Burke (Lambton quay), J. J. O'Gorman and Linklater; iioulcott street; Mesdames J. E. Gamble, P. Mackln, D. Burke, and R. Dwyer; Courtenay place, Mesdames Col°ne' Hughes, R; Collins, C. Hickmott, is. Kelly; Newtown,' St. Anne's Sodality of the Children of Mary; GcneralPost Uflice, Mesdames O'Driscoll, Carroll. I and Compton. ,_,-A-, special attraction for Welcome Week will be the dances held every night in the Navals' Hall, Jervois quay. Excellent music and supper will be provided, and the building has a cool and comfortable- balcony overlooking the sea. Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser evidently believes in men and boys having a practical knowledge of housewifery a.nd cookting. • Speaking- at a debate lately in London, she said: "Men excel in creative work,, and if they can create better music, painting, and poetry than women, they can also create better savouries and soups." If men and boys had a knowledge of the two domestic arts mentioned, argued Dr. Chesser, it would help to a°lve many, social problems and improve .the health of the community. Continuing she said: "Housekeeping was much more arduous work, than journalism, public speaking, or medical practice, therefore, men were more fitted for it. .than women." That sounds logic, but is logic always logical? Women are. not generally supposed to be logical, according to the average man. No doubt it would not be altogether easy to ; convince the lords of creation of the logic contain--ed in the learned doctor's remarks. The many coloured and nibst ingenious electric signs in Piccadilly Circus are a great source of amusement to visitors in London' at night, says the "Australasian." There is the engaging Studdy dog, which lights somebody's cigarettes and wags an appreciative tail; there is the man who pours somebody's wine into a glass and drinks it with gusto, and the family starting off in the something or other motor-car. At Charing Cross a ballet girl dances to advertise a theatre, ahd 'across the river there is-the huge Scotchman dancing a i hornpipe, but he has been one of ths sights of London by night for years. We are even getting all the latest news in electric signs now, and going hotne from shopping or the theatre can learn that there will be a great sale of hats at fco-and-sos to-mofrow, and the Imperial Conference lias decided'"upon such and such. -The problem of the future occupation ol pupils :of the school was touched ■"•up-' on briefly by Miss W. Picken, headmistress of the Auckland Girl's Grammar School. Miss Pickfen said she had made inquiries from parents for advice on this point, and while a great number turned naturally to teaching as the most obvious career it was not every girl who had either the taste or the capacity for this work. She thought, however, that the addition of journalism to the university subjects offered .a possible opening for a few, , while architecture, at least in some of its branches, would, to her mind, prove quite a possible and congenial profession for women.