WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 7

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Jjady Chayter has beeu paying a brief visit to Palmerston North. Miss Brenda- Yon Dadelszen is visiting friends in Nelson. , Miss Drnmmond, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Waipu- ' '•ikurau. ' j Mrs. John Barton has returned from a j visit to the Wairarapit. I Miss Joan Fulton has returned to Christchurch after a .visit to Wellington. Dr. and Mrs. A. Pate'rson, of Christchurch, who have paid a brief visit to Wellington* have returned home. Mrs. Murray Fuller, Wellington, is visiting Christchurch. Mrs. J. Martin, of Martinborough, has returned home after a visit to Wellington. -. - • . . 1 Mrs. Charles Copper has returned to Christchurch after a visit to relatives in Wellington. Miss L. Duthie,. who has spent a holiday with her mother, Mrs. J, Duthie, in Wellington, has returned to , continue her training at Karitane Hospital, Duneduj. Sister C. R. Clarke, R.R.0., who has had the ten months' course in public health nursing under the auspices of the Red Cross, at Bedford College, London, returned to Wellington by the Ruahine yesterday. .... Miss S. C. Aston, of Wellington, and Miss M. Harvey, of Auckland, who have been on duty in American- hospitals during the past four years, are arriving on Monday from; Tahiti. Mr. and Mrs. R. S, Hellaby have returned to London after a very delightful round of travel in .New Zealand, Fiji, Canada and the 'States, writes "The Post's" London correspondent. In Chicago and New York they made a point of visiting the chief picture galleries to Bee how ' far American and British artistic taste is in agreement. Some pictures by Mr. and Mrs, Hellabv will be seen in the Fijian Court ut the British Empire Exhibition. A wedding of private' interest celebrated recently at St. Matthew's Church, Dunedin, was that of Miss Amy Fish, yourfgest daughter of the late Mr. H. S. Fish, M.H.R., and Mrs. Fish, of Dunedin, and Mr. Oliver Harvey, third son of .Mr. D'Auvergne do Jersey Grut and the late Mrs. Gruit, of Auckland. ' The couple have both lived in Christchurch for some time, and they will make their home there. The wedding was very-quiet, only relatives being present, and the ceremony was performed by the Roy. W. A. Hamblett. The bride was given away by her aunt, Miss J?i6fi, and wore a frock of cinnamoncoloured silk marocain, richly embroidured. Her hat to tone was trimmed with a soft-curling ostrich feather, and her bouquet was o! roses. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's, aunt. Miss Fish j was wearing a frock of black silk orna- ' mentedi with bead embroideries and a hat to match. When Mr. and Mrs. Out left subsequently for the north by motor, the bride wore a gabardine costume of navy blue banded with mole fur and braided with black, and a smart hat of putty-coloured velvet. "Observer" writes to the "Post" as follows:—"As I go along the street I sometimes see small babies lying aßleep in_ their prams without fiats and even without.hoods on the pram to protect their eyes from the blazing sun. Surely' this must be injurious. No adult in his senses would put up with such exposure, and since the baby cannot air his grievances I" thought I would, and so pbpsibly ensure for him better sight and health in the future." The doll has arrived in Adelaide, says a correspondent from that city. No, not the one of which you are thinking—the one with round, pink cheeks\and blue eyes. much, beloved of little gMs. Not the kewpje or the celluloid doll bjther— but the new, smart (?) creationNfrom overseas which has been adoptedNjy grown-up women. One knew that theyare the vogue in London, Paris, and New York; one suspected that, perhaps there might bo one or two to be found in Melbourne or Sydney; but to come face to face with one hero in Adelaide I proved a distinct shook: • Polls, heel.less shpes, shingled hair, and (one is ' informed) pyjamas for bathing suits—what nest? Concerning dancing, a writer in an exchange says:—Dancing in many parts ofthe world during the past few years has called forth much comment, and criticism. Just recently some stir has been caused in the province of Quebec by a decree issued by ..Cardinal Begin, Arch.Wshop of Quebec, the Roman Catholic Primate of Canada, who has placed certain dances, including the wait?, fox trot 'and one-step under the ■ ban of the Wiurch. Cinemas, and theatres, too, are threatened with being banned unless they' are improved morally, and present-day women s fashions have been characterised as immodest, and have been described as "another fprm of revived paganism." "The higher the rank held by a woman the more strict is her duty not to allow women who,, visit her to offend her modesty." No doubt there is much common-sense in the Cardinal's views but one of the dances he seems to disapprove of is the harmless horribly energetic old-fashioned polka, which is so often simply regarded as a children's dance, Dancing sin itself cannot be harmful it is good, healthy exercise, and helps to make men and women graceful and elegant. Most things can be abused and made harmful, but one wonders why disapproving people do not hit upon the abuse of dances and not condemn dancing as a whole, as so many people do nowadays. It seems such a pity to turn, a good thing into something not'nice when in itself it is good, healthy, and happinessrproducing as dancing, the true art, really is. TTiiQer the heading, "That Unswerving stare. ■ an Adelaide woman mentions an annoyance that may be found anywhere in I\ew Zealand, women or young girls boing usually the offenders. 'The writer says :—"The habit of staring at-anybodv for no apparent reason is not, presumably, confined to the inhabitants of Adelaide. Many_ of them, however^ make such a practice of this unnerving pastime that surely they must be eacpnd to • none in their execution of the art It is mpst disconcerting to enter an almost full tram and find the eyes of all the passengers fixed upon you in an unwavering stare. Cold shivers begin to run down your back, ypu! glance furtively in your little mirror to see if you have a dirty face, or raise a. cautious hand to discover if your side hair has slipped from, its moorings. Nothing disastrous has happened—you look perfectly normalwhy, then, the stare* It is incomprehensible, and. even when directed upon eccentricity, stupid and unnecessary. Ra, oently an eldorly woman, obviously'from the country, was walking along one of Hie main streets of tho city.*" Dressed in the quaint fashion of 30 ( years ago she certainly did present rather an unusual appearance. Not sufficiently so, however-, to warrant the giggles,"stares, and remarks of many of her fellow-pedes-trians. Fortunately, she was too much absorbed in her surroundings.to notice Ilioii- interest, but surely it j B possible for us to bis interested in ofhms without waking th,eni ujaconif_orta_bls,"

The matron's report, given at the meeting of the Boys' Institute, Ladies' Auxiliary, was very satisfactory, there beine 30 boarders in residence. 'The' Visiting Committee reported everything in order. The honorary treasurer, Mrs. Geo. T. Bell, acknowledged, with thanks, animal subscriptions of~2s 6d each from the following members: Mesdames G A. i Troup, F. E. Tomlinson, A. M. Wilson, L. T. Watkins, A. Hamilton, and Stanton ; Mesdames Bell, Remington, and Wilson were elected visitors for the ensuing month. Accounts were passed for payment. Mrs. J. Hislop, president of the auxiliary, was in the chair. The monthly meeting of the Levin Memorial Home Committee was held at the home, on Tuesday, Miss Archibald j presiding. There were also present, Mesdames M'Eldowney:' Knowles, Willoughby, Christie, Hail,'and Misses Mor-i rah, Greenwood, Robiesen. and Tendall. Gifts were received from Miss Archibald, Miss Brown, St. Thomas's Club, the Girl . Guides, Mr. Duncan,. and. Mrs. .Collins. | A Press Association message from Christchurch states that at the.Christ-j church Presbytery yesterday a motion, "That the Presbytery initiate the necessary steps to amend the Book of: Orders to admit women as elders of the Church," was lost, only the mover and seconder. voting for it. In writing- of other days an Adelaide writer discourses thus:"—Well, there have been scant garments before. Take' the time of the Empire, with the waistline under the arms, and a curiously sculpturesque effect about the draperies. Did you ever hear how they obtained those clinging lines? An old lady once told me that her grandmother told her that in her young days a great increase of consumption (they called it "decline") was attributed to "the habit of not only wearing tho thinnest gowns over the minimum of underwear, but in putting both on damp so that they would mould themselves to the yearers' limbs. Oh great-great-great-great-grandmother, how could you! But I * suppose, then as now, there were a few who went to extremes while the wiser majority went their owri way modifying the fashions to suit themselves, instead of themselves to suit the-fashion. Yet the general look of womankind does change. Looking over' old fashion plates is instructive. We wonder over the hour-glass waists of the past—mannequins had to sleep in their corsets in order to keep their 18-inch waists, once upon a time; the agony of' lessening the pressure was too great to be endured. Thanks.be, that phase has gone! But I wonder' what the . highshouldered crouch now correct will result ..in when the sweet, slouching girls of today reach middle age? Washerwoman's shoulder, some one suggests. The effect you see where women have worn themselves out with over hard work. So do extremes meet. Some amusing "good resolutions for 1924" are stated in an English paper, 'no doubt without any reference to the ''resolutipnists," and are as follow:— To be photographed at least once without a pipe (Stanley Baldwin). To try and remember that—for the moment— Mr. Asquith is my leader (D. Lloyd George). To write an article entirely devoid of italics " (Lovat - Fr'aser). To avoid "Court"., circles.; for at least six months (Lord Alfred Douglas). To stick to my resolve not to give a Cabinet post to Mr. Jack Jones (J. Ramsay Mac Donald). To write a play which no critic^ could possibly describe as "whimsical" '(Sir James Barrie). To summon up courage to send.a copy of my poems to Miss Edith Sitwell (Ethel M. Dell). To deny (once a week that I ever saidthat I ate a beefsteak whenever I felt I wanted one (G. B.ernard Shaw). To give half the Nobel Prize to any one who will come forward and swear that he r-r, she is the author of "Innisfree" (W. B. Yeats). While continuing to take off my hat to France, to "keep my hair on" (Rothermere). :