WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 13

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hunt and family (Wellington) were in Christchurch during the week-end, en route for Duaedin.

Miss Pownall '• (Wellington) is among the visitors to Dunedin.

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Cotterell, Wellington, «re visiting Christchurch.

Miss G. .Boulton, Wellington, is visiting Mrs. E. P. Turner, Chriiitchurch.

Nurse Maude Sexton,, of Wellington, is staying in Christchurch with Mrs. Croll, St. Albans.

Mrs. and Miss Corliss are leaving for a visit to the country, and later are to visit Dunedin, where they will attend a conference of musical people, and Miss Corliss will give several lectures on technical musical subjects.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Peacock and Mrs. Arthur Young, of Wellington, have been motoring in the South Island, and are now in Christehurch for the tennis tournament

Mrs. C. E. Shallcrass, of Timaru, is paying a visit to Wellington.

Miss L. Marks, Dunedio, is visiting Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Walker, Wanganui, art) spending Christmas and New Year at Oriental Bay.

The Misses Y. and D. Dennehy, well known in musical circles in Tims.ru, are on a holiday visit to Wellington, and are staying with their tiister, Miss Eileen Denreby, musical directress of the Queen';; Theatre oruhestra. .

The matron of the Convalescent Home acknowledges with thanks further Christmas gifts from Mrs. H. Kirkcaldie) Mrs. Dwyer, " and Miss Barron.

An appeal for flowers for the Memorial Cemetery at Karori is made by the members of the W.N.K. Girls' Club, as many of those who give regularly for this patriotic • work are absent on holiday, and the girls are finding it very difficult to keep the graves ta they would like. It is specially desirable to have them looking well-cared for' in the holiday Reason, as visits are paid by relatives from a distance very often, and the joy of knowing that the graves are so kindly and thoughtfully tended is, in many cases, some consolation. Flowers can be left at the Pioneer Club, Lambton quay, or at the tea rooms, Karori. The girls made their usual special journey out to the cemetery on Christmas Dayi and everj* grave was freshly decorated as usual. It is to be hoped that those with gardeas will not forget this appeal. :' "

Thjs marriage of Miss Myrtle Goile, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernhardt Goile, of Marton, to Mr. O. B. Lange, of Adelaide, South Australia, was celebrated recently. > Mr. and Mrs. Lange Icit for their home in Australia by the Maunganui on the 25th.

Rejecting on the influence of the tango, with its unhurried and effortless steps, during the present dancing season at Home, an English paper records the fact that the tempo of fox trot, music is suiting itself to the trend of public inclination and is becoming slightly slower. There is now a general tendency to dance a little more slowly, and some dance bands arn coming down to 48 and 50 bars a minute. The tango craze has spread from London, and has the provinces in its grip. Some of the pupils of the West End dance teachers come one hundred miles for a weekly tango lesson.

The marriage took" place last Wednesday evening at St. Mark's Church of Miss Iris Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs; J. B. Gray, of Kelburn, to Mr. Albert Jackson, of the Wellington College staff. The Bev. E. K. Fry officiated. The bride wore a pretty frock of powder blue floral ninon and a blue and silver turban, her bouquet being Christmas lilies and delphiniums. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson left for a tour of the South Island during the week-end.

Under the very exciting heading, '' A Plot Against Womankind,'' moreover "Disclosed by a German," comes the news that conspirators are at work all over Europe. Their work is "a dastardly plot to ruin the happiness of millions of women," says a writer in the "Daily Mail." It appears that this plot consists of an organised effort to induce women to give up'the bob and shingle in favour of long hair again, and that this to be financed by the makers of hairpins, both metal and- tortoiseshell, combs, transformations, fringes, and plaits, who see ruin staring them in the face. The idea is to broadcast the idea that the truly fashionable woman is no longer cropped, dnd to create in women 'the longing for flowing tresses once more.! "Fot a thought," says the writer, "do they give to the mistry of their' vicitims in the months, and perhaps years, which must elapse befbre hair has grown to rat-tails, and rat-tails to a tress which ean be nlaited into a neat knob. All. they Ihink of is their own pockets. They

:,te already sowing unrest in the minds of women by means of ingenious paragraphs in' the .newspapers. They are seeking to suborn artists to praise the fashions of bygone days, and they have gone so far as to drive the girls into the streets of Paris with bits of other girls' hair attached to their heads." The story finishps with the statement that in Berlin the attempt to stop bobbing and shingling (which only recently commenced) is quite a failure, and the hairdressers are all kept busy cutting off "pigtails," to the great joy of the owners. The only difficulty appears to be the husbands, who still uling to the idea that woman's hair is a "glory" to them, and as it is the only "glory" vouchsafed to most of them in this world, it is a tragedy for them to part witli it; but one woman met said that when her husband made the horrifying discovery that her hair was gone, and "performed" accordingly, by the calm statement that it had been done for a week, and he had not noticed it, therefore it was perfectly clear that lie did not love her. Such a scene did she make that he felt obliged to forgive the liair-cut-ting and to give her a handsome present to secure peace The aim of the conspirators is stated to be "to burden women's heads with masses ol' hot false hair, and to stick them full of iron pins." The writer has certainly taken (;ood means to "put a spoke in their wheel" if there is really any such wheel.

The' new Cinderella may not wear glass slippers; she dances on a, glass floor instead. Such is among the very latest dance novelties on the Continent'(says an English writer). There is no glass dance floor yet in London, but certain experts are investigating the tifa f oo»tjoi* wltk ft *i#W 10 iJ»Utt= tie* ...... ■ ' :'

To Correspondents. —Several unsigned notices of engagements are held over, as they cannot be inserted in this column unless signed by two responsible people—by those immediately concerned if possible.

Mr. H. Wright, president of the Wellington Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association,'has received a letter from the children of the Levin Home thanking all concerned for "the lovely Christmas" which they had aelped to provide. Mention is made of all the good things in the way of sweets, cakes, fruit, ham, and other treats, as well as a pillow-case full of nice gifts for each girl. It is also stated that ,i picnic is to be held later as a result of the kind gift of the association.

The engagement is announced of Lillian Maude, only daughter of Mr. C. Kelly, of Wellington, to Thomas Stafford, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs! H. Williams, also of Wellington.

Photographs of the charming frocks worn by some, Wellington girls at their recent presentation at Court, during their visit to London, show that the skirts came to quite the ealf of the leg, and it is stated that Her Majesty likes a short sleeve to be worn. The trains were formed by the veils, and with the three feathers prescribed for the headdress completed very artistic costumes. A writer from London says that Her Majesty was heard to speak of the "notoriously short skirts," and certainly does not approve of the evening gbwns with no sleeves and a mere chain i>£ passementerie over the shoulder tokeep the frock on the wearer. It is said that Princess t Mary wears her frocks shorter than she used, but moderation is her note too. She dislikes anything extreme, and included the fashion of wearing the hair trained over the ears. It is rather a remarkable thing that more girls and women cover up their ears nowadays, in spite of the fact that the majority have exceedingly pretty ea'rs; the hygienic view is also disregarded, for the eovaring the ears with warm hair is most unhealthy, and may cause deafness later on in life.

The engagement is announced of Tessie, eldest daughter of Mr. T. B. M'Laughlin, Wellington, to Mr. Tai L. Hathaway, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Hathaway, of Napier.

Mr. H. F. Wood, supervisor of the De Luxe Theatre, has received a letter of thanks from the matron and children of the Levin Home for Girls for a delightful afternoon when they had an opportunity, of seeing "Peter Pan." It was thoroughly appreciated) and the children in their latter express their gratitude for a great treat. A number of children from other orphanages were similarly kindly entertained at the De Luxe.

Powder, blue crepe de chine ' was chosen for the bridal frock at the wedding of Mary,, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Harper, of Blantyre, Scotland, to John Kirkpatriek, second son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Paton, of Wellington, late of Blantyre, Scotland. The ceremony, which was of a quiet nature, was performed by the Rev. Wm. Shirer, at St. James's Church, Wellington, on Friday, 18th December. The riride's dainty blue gown was relieved with touches of. fawn, and her fawn pieture hat had a folded brim outlined with blue forget-me-nots. Fawn shoes and Stockings and a bouquet of blue, with touches of pink, completed a charming ensemble. Miss Nan Cunningham was bridesmaid, in a becoming frock of apricot silk marocain and black hat relieved with fawn. Her bouquet was in apricot tints. Mr. John Cameron gave the bride away, and Mr. Ernest M'Quade was best man. The reception was held at Dustin's, Mrs. * Paton, mother of the bridegroom, wearing a tunic frock in silk marocain; Miss B. Harper/ sister of the bride, was in silk marocain. The bridesmaid's present from the bridegroom was a gold armlet. Later Mr. and Mrs. Paton left in their own motor for a tour of the North.

Was there ever such an age jfor people writing for and against with regard to woman's work? Beally, it becomes quite tiring, says a woman writer in a London paper. I pick up the paper one day and see yards of flattering opinions of women's cleverness. The next I see equally long yards as to the harm they are doing themselves by competing with men. So there it is: "Do as you like," I say. A:ad now I've run against some American women in London on business associated with big western commercial organisations. They say the fiuture of women in big commercial undertakings is brilliant, and they find the women employed in London now quite up to the grasp of affairs as they are themselves, who started life ia business from school— only they disdain tha word school. It is "college" or "university" with them. School is good enough for us, but not for onr American cousins. The lady with whom I was conversing predicted that there would be double tho number of Englishwomen in business in a few years' time, and she said: "I find in my capacity the greatest courtesy is meted out to me in London, which was not exactly what I expected, as I had a feeling that women in prominent business positions were not desired here."