WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1924, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

The Earl and Countess of Harrowby and Lady Frances Kyder lelt last .evening for the South Island, where ' they iwill make a tour. Later, they will visit the North, and will pay a visit to Sir Andrew and Lady Russell at Hasting 'Hawkes Bay. Mrs. Hosking and her younger son, Mr. Christopher Hosking, are leaving by the Athenic, with Mr. Justie Hosking, for! a visit to England. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Buckeridge have returned'from a holiday to Nelson. \ Sir John and Lady Luke returned this ; morning' from the South after a trip to Canterbury and the West Coast. : Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Short, who have made a tour in Australfa, returned to Wellington by tha Maheno. Major' and Mrs. Forgie and family, . who have Bp-ent the. holidays in South : Canterbury, have returned to Wellington. ° Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gillingham, who have- been visiting Mm. Gilhngham, at Fairlie, Canterbury; have returned to , Wellington. ; Jlrs. T, Xl'Clelland/ of Opawa, Christchurch, has returned home after spending gome time in Wellington. ■ : Mijs. and the Misses Norwood, of Wellington, ure visiting friends-in Christchurch. • ■ Mr, and Mrs. W.. Watson, of Wellington, are among the visitors to Christchurch, i A social event, which all the dancers of Wellington may anticipate with great pleasure will be a ijrand leap year ball, for which the To\vn Hall has been engaged on Friday, 29tli February. Thi3 was resolved upon by ii large meeting of officers and others interested in the. candidature of the pageant queen, Britannia. ; who_ will stand for the' infantry companies. Mr. J. A. Smyth.e, who is known as a flrst-cluss organiser, has tho matter in hand, with the assistance of tho officers, and. Jn such capable.management the success is assured. The ball wiil be a plain and fancy dress one, and will not lack most original ieatures. Details appeav elsewh.ereTin this issue. Sincere , nnd hearty cordiality marked tho reception-given by the Returned Soldiers' Association to the Earl and Countess of- Harrowbv au'di their daughter, Lady Frances Rydor, yesterday afternoon. The. function: took place at tho H.S.A. Booms, and the guests of honour were welcome! by Colonel Hall, who was accompanied by Mrs. Hall. He'expressed the great -.pleasure, the officers of the N.Z.E.i*1. had in meeting again those who had shown such fine and' acceptable hospitality to New Ze.-ilaiid.ers during the war, Some of them had stayed with Lord and Lady Harrowby, a,nd a number of othershad been occupants of, the hospital which had been so capably managed by Lady. Constance Kyder. Nothing could repay the guests for their goodness to Australian and New Zealand officers during the years of conflict. Lord Harrowby, m returning thanks to the officers, said that he was a stron" Imperialist^ and hoped that tho bond between England and tho. Dominions, would grow steadily stronger. . He spoke of the value of the frequent interchange of visits, and urg«d all who could to go Home and see the Empire Exhibition, It .was the greatest ever'planned, and tho Americans weve so impressed with its prospects that they had chartered several steamers to take them t,p England. He had found the. people, ; in. &mth Africa rather luke-warm about, it. ' In connection with this country and Australia it waa said ,thafc. about one hundred thousand ot the residents were intending to travel across to see the Exhibition. - It would be of value in the. way of. seeing for themselves what other countries were .doing to capture, trade, of the world : and they, would realise, what must, be' done tor th«, country to hold its own. bputh Africa. w Us becoming a B erious rival to Australia in wool, and the people there, were making other- efforts to Wei.: U had to be remembered that the population of, Britain depended to' a l aV ge extent upon the products of the Dominions, and every country was doin- its utmost _to capture the markets. £ady Harrowby-spoke of their pleasure in meeting their New Zealand friends a-ain and m finding that'they had not' beeri forgotten Lady Constance Ryder said she hoped that any young New Zealandera who went to would visit her rooms in. the- South, African Hi s h Commissioned Office h Trafalgar " square. s bhe would like to help make th fi £ fee! that they were among frknds, ' though away lrom their own country. Though her rooms were in the South African part,.her work, which, caused her area" pleasure, was not only connected "With that country, but was. • .general." Durinthe last three years over SQQ naval rnd military cadets, undergraduates and atuden& had visited her" in her office! and she hoped that, many more . would come, A ter the. speeches the meetu* became pleasantly informal, and the guests chatted with a number of thosl whom they had met- in England. A group photograph wa«'al« taken to ooru-' memorate the occasion. ■ ' ■ - Pleasing news comes from London of ■JJr. .blame Uurr, daughter of Mr. and Um. Norman Gurr, of Wellington ■ On her arrival in London Dr. Gurr obtained a position on the staff of the welt-known Pr. Eric Pritchard., of tho Infants' Hospital Vincent square. Siuco then she has been relieving house surgeon at the Chelsea Women's Hospital,' a post which has given her tho advantage of working with such men as Dr. Victor Bonnoy and others. Dr. Quit has recently left London to put in three months' work at tho, Coombo Hospital, Dublin, and, will go from there to Ulusgow before returning to New Zealand. Dr. Gurr has had mucli encouragement j. from Lady Barker, a well-known suri geon, and has been privileged to assist ! her at operations, and in all has found a great deal of kindness both' as a doctor and as a New Zealander. Mrs. Gurr has taken a flat at. Lancaster Ga.te, London,, and will wait'in'England till her daughter is ready to return to New Zealand. An enthusiastic meeting of officers and members of the Senior Cadets in connection with the queen candidate of Joan of Arc at the forthcoming pageant was held yesterday afternoon. Miss Joan Kirkcaldie, daughter of Mr. and Mir. S. Kirkcaldie, who has accepted nomination as the Cadets' queen, was present, and tho proceedings wero marked with much enthusiasm. Captain Miles presided and detailed tho plans which have already been made in support of tho queen, while others were suggested which are likely to be a great success. The death is reported of Miss Marv Gleed Tuttiett, whose famous novel, "The Silence of Dean Maitland," written under the nom de plume of Maxwell Gray, has rather over-shadowed her other works, which arc of great merit. Among1 the friends of Miss Tiitlictt wei-e Miss Braddou and llhoda lit'ouqlitoii. Siic died at West Kaliii" hiiviiip; lived at the Isle of Wight, and at Itk-hinmul. Surrey, for a loiig period' of her lift'. Mi:;s Tuttieli1 was bom in ISIS, in her Inter years site became quite blind, but continued to work by ciktii. Uo». Her last book wus tuiupU-lstl nut loajt befuro her (le.ut-h,

Talking of scarlet it is the prevailing colour this year. Everybody is wearing it, writes a Sydney correspondent of the Christchurch "Sun." Nobody is fashionable without their scarlet, just as once the touch of mauve was considered not unbecoming in woman's attire. Little scarlet shoe3 go tripping along the pavements like busy poppies, and high abo\-;e them red hats liKe roses sway and bend graciously to the wind. Even scarlet dresses are worn, and scarlet bags and parasols are .the rule rather than the' exception. The only people who should not wear the new colour are tha ultrastout, because their complexions never go with their gowns. It's no good, you can't mix puce and red and not expect them to fight dismally. Besides, a fat woman in a scarjet dress is apt to resemble a pillar-box. The engagement is announced of Veronica., daughter of the date Air. F. Neylon and, Mrs. Ncylon-Butler, Wellington, and Mr. J. A. Tunnington, elder son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Tunnington. Kidderminster, England, Among the New Year's honours is the name, qf Miss Nina T. Brentnall, B.A. of Sydney, has been awarded the kai-sor-I-Hind medal . for distinguished service -to tha Empire. Miss Brentnall has been fourteen years in India in the. service of the Y.W.C.A. first as a Student Secretary in a field stretching from Calcutta to Rangoon, and later she did some special War Service. For the last five years Miss Brentnall has been Secretary of the Y.W.C.A. in Travandrun, capital of Travancore and thi3 work is very highly esteemed by the native ruler, the Maharajah of Tr^vancpro. .In this State the women are emancipated and educated, and the Maharajah has provided large University colleges in -which both women and men. receive higher education. One part of Miss Brentnall's work has been to provide a hostel with suitable living accommodation for. the girls who come from different parts of the State to attend the Maharajah's college. The significance of this work for the development of India lies in the fact that it is to1 the State of Travancore with its educated women that India must largely look for its woman leadership, and the home influence and training provided in the Y.W.C.A. by Miss Byentnall, is a very valuable, factor in the development of wiser, and more- balanced lead T ership 'for the women of India. That this•■wor t k is appreciated by the government of India is evidenced by the fact that this high honour has been awarded. Quite an interesting fact to. note- is that widows of three of tho greatest men of our times have married again, two of them within a few months of theiriiusband's demise, writes Lady Kitty. Signora Caruso'.v.-idow of: the famous tenor, who died in. 1921, again faced the altar in November, 1923. Lady Nortncliffe, widow of the most remarkable newspaper proprietor in. the British Empire, and Lad* . Carnarvon, widow of the great^Egyptologist who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb, both married a few months after the death of their respective1 husbands. There does not seem to bs much in being a wife of a, great man ; his career is the greatest thing in his life, a wife is merely an appendage. He probably would not be so great if the wife came first, for to be big at anything concentration on that to tho exclusion of everything .else 'is necessary. A-iputty j" woman makes the most successful wife for_ the exceptional man. There is alI ways the beautiful love and perfects companionship of the William Gladstone's for the exception that "proves the rule. On the other liarid, think of tlw Thomas Carlyle's; they fought like cats. One caii well understand the widow of a .great man marrying soon in her eagerness to find just that something the ordinary human man can bring into her life which makes for happiness. . v _ Some of the wedding costumes mentioned in the "Gentlewoman" ahdw an artistic revival which is very marked. A bride whose gown was of gold cloth, adorned with old Brussels lace, had her bridesmaids in apricot-coloured luce, \vith wreaths of autumn, leaves, the bouquets carried being of tawny red chrysanthemums. Two small boys in attendance were in brown velvet suits. Another bridal gown was of white satin beauts, embroidered in silver ivy leaves,' the train being of silver cloth, veiled with old Brussels point lace. This was carried by a little boy and girl dressed in 'silver tissue. The bridesmaids followed in gold lace frocks and crimson velvet capes, with which they wore wreaths of crimson berries. Yet another 'bride was in lace, embroidered in silver, and draped over pale pink georgette, her veil of Brussels net being worn over a coronet of orange blossoms. The' bridesmaids were in picturesque frocks of primrose chiffon velvet bordered with sable squirrel, gold lace veils, and bouquets of brown and gold shaded orchids.