WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 13

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mrs. and Miss Rapley returned by the Makura after an extended visit to Sydney. Mra. E. Wilson, Irwell, Canterbury, has returned South, after a visit to Wellington. Mrs. and Miss Herbert returned with Dr. Herbert from Australia by the Makura yesterday. Mrs. D. Hursthouse, Hastings, lias been visiting Wellington. Mrs. J. B. Gow is leaving for the North by the Limited this evening. Mrs. Bernard Wood and her little son were among the passengers by the Makura from Sydney yestorday. Pleasant news comes of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson, of Wellington. They are both well, and writo from Holland. They were just leaving for Hague, then going to Brussels and Bruges, before returning to London. They had enjoyed fine weather, and sent greetings to New Zealand friendß. Mrs. A. E. Cameron and her little daughter arrived in Wellington by the Makura on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Wilkening, of Bidwell street. ' Miss M'Neill, Now Plymouth, is the guest of Mrs. James Munt, Moturoa street, Wellington. Mrs. D. Bauchop has returned to Wellington from Christchureh. Mrs. King, Tomoana, is staying at Caulfield House, Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hume returned to New Zealand by the Makura. Sir Donald and Lady M'Gavin have taken a house at Oriental Bay. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Wilford are staying as the guests of the Rev. Hubert Simpson, of Glasgow, at St. Andrews. Mr. Simpson, it will be remembered, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford in New Zealand last year, writes "Thp Post's" London correspondent on 11th August. Mr. Wilford says that he is much better now in health, and, though not quite fit, is quite able to go back to got into harness again. They expect to leave England about the end of October. Before then they i . probably accept an invitation from Lord and Lady Jellicoe to stay with them in the Isle of Wight.

Mrs. P. Braik, of Whakaronga, formerly of the Feilding district, lias been appointed by the Public Service Commissioner to "the position of first assistant with her husband, who has received a special appointment under the Public Service in the North Auckland district. Besides being a fully qualified teacher (C certificate), she is qualified to teach home science subjects (London and City Guild's certificate) and is specially well qualified in art subjects, and was highly rocommended for the position by the art director (Mr. L. J. Watkin), of the Teachers' Training College, Wellington. Mrs. Braik will have the assistance of a junior teacher in h9r work.

It is announced that the Right Rev. Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley, formerly Bishop of Auckland, who died on 3rd March, left £18,002, with net personality £14,714, says "The Post's" London correspondent. On his wife's death he leaves "his residence and furniture and, after other bequests, four-twelfths of the residue of his property to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and one-twelfth, between the vicars and the churchwardens of St. John's, Egremont, of St. Columbus, Egremont, of Seapatrick Church, Banbridge, Down, of All Saints', Bast St. Kilda, Melbourne, the Rev. Frank Summers, of St. John's the Baptist Vicarage, Newport, Mon., and other persons."

"The Post's" London correspondent sends the following items:—Mrs. Barron and Misses D. H. and O. E. Barron (Wellington) had a most interesting trip across Canada and the United States. They intend Btaying in London until the weather gets colder, and then proceeding to France and Italy. They will return again to England in the spring.

.. . Mr. and Mrs. A. AY. Wright (Seatoun), who are accompanied by their daughter, Mrs. E. Evana, have come up to London from Torquay. They intend staying here for a month, and then going on to Scotland. Mr. Wright has almost completely recovered from his illness. .. . Mrs. E. Shorley (Wellington), who has been in London for some weeks, will presently go to the west and south of England, where most of her. time will be spent. . . . Dr. Helen. Bakewell (Wellington), who has been staying in the Midlands, will be leaving shortly for a, trip to Alsace.

Modern sculpture —if the term sculpture can be applied to Mme. Caterina Banjanska's dainty little portraits and figure studies and dressed "dolls" at the Brook Street W. Art Galleries, London—has produced few things as fascinating and attractive as these minute works, which bear the same relation to monumental sculpture as an ivory miniature does to a life-size portrait in oils, says a writer in an exchange. The ideal of a miniature is that, seen through a strong magnifier, it should have the firm construction and breadth of a painting on a largo scale. And the Polish artist's modelled miniatures in wax, in the same way, are like large works of sculpture reduced to tiny proportions. In spite of their minia-ture-like scale, they are truly sculpturesque conceptions, amazingly life-like and searching as studies of character.

There was a good attendance of the Women's National Reserve Executive Committee recently, Mrs. L. 0. H. Tripp presiding.1 The matron's. report was received and showed August had been a particularly heavy month, both for booked up and emergency cases. The work of the Kelburn branch was greatly appreciated, also gifts from Mrs. G. M. Morris and Mrs. Marchbanks. A visit from Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson had been a great pleasure. Miss Bennet'a voluntary help, as well as valuable assistance with knitting, etc., were specially mentioned, also Mrs. Hooper's help with the sewing. Mrs. Findlay (treasurer) reported donations of £1 Is from Mrs. H. Crawford and £2 2s from Mrs. C. Elgar, for which the committee expressed grateful thanks. Accounts were passed for payment. Tho Management Committee meeting was also held, various matters to do with the work of the different branches were dealt with, the report being gratifying and cheering to all concerned. Mrs. H. W. Hargravos was elected as representative of the Residential Nuraery Committee on the committee of the League of Mothers, which has recently been inaugurated by Her Excellency Lady Alice IVrgusson. It was decided to hold a meeting' of Violet Day helpers after the nursery committee meeting next month, when all returns will be in.

Women of fashion in Paris arc said to be indulging in a new walk. Whet flares and flounces were popular women walked briskly to show them oft, but now that they have gone a new walk called "the shawl walk" has come in. It is rather languid and is supposed to suggest the somnolent beauties of Spain. Mannequins and those who always like to bo in the forefront of fashion aro said to bo practising the shawl walk assiduously. The legion of men who already cry out that a woman is never punctual will •urely protest vigorously if women -Adant a alow, carnal stale of walkinaJ

A meeting of the Boseneath-Oriental Bay Circle of the Women's National Reserve was held at tho residenco of Mrs. A. Waterworth, Oriental Bay, when a delightful musical programme was arranged by the president (Mrs. A. M. Lewis), the following taking part: —Miss Wigg ('cello), Miss Isa M'Laren (songs), Mrs. Lewis, find Mrs. Fauvel (duet), and Mrs. Lewis (recitation). Mrs. Porter was invited to speak upon the work of the Residential Nursery for which object the meeting was held. Mrs. Waterworth (vice-presi-dent) and her daughters entertained all to an acceptable afternoon tea. Hearty appreciation was expressed of the hospitality extended. The Building Fund of the Residential Nursery will bo conridcrably helped by this effort.

Mr. and Mrs. John Myers (Wellington) and their son and daughter, having returned from a visit to Holland, Belgium, and France, have left by the Montcalm for Canada. They will make several trips to places of interest in that Dominion and the United States, and join the Tahiti at San Francisco on 18th September, says "The Post's" London correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Carpenter (Wellington) toured in France, Italy, and Switzerland for five weeks, afterwards paying a visit to Cornwall and Devon. They go to Scotland, and on their return spend three weeks in London. They sail for home by way of San Francisco, leaving for New York on 23rd September. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Burbidge (Wellington) have had a very interesting motor-car tour of England and Scotland, covering 3000 miles in all. They leave on 29th September to catch the Aorangi at Vancouver on 20th October.

Dame Edith Lyttclton is a lady whose flair for polities has been recognised by statesmen of insight. Dame Edith was the second wife of Mr.' Alfred Lyttolton, the well-known cricketer, who served as Colonial Secretary in the Conservative Government after the Boer War, and was, perhaps, the best-loved man of his time. Dame Edith Lyttclton has been chosen a member of the British delegation to the League of Nations, headed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, which will go to Geneva in September. She was a substitute delegate to the Assembly in 1923. During the World War Dame Edith was deputy-director" of the women's branch of the Ministry of Agriculture, and helped to organise the land army. Like Miss Gertrude 8011, Dame Edith's pen is also active, and she has one novel to her credit. It is pleasant to know that the women of the Empire will be so happily represented at the all-important Assembly in September.

University students are famous for their ingenious ideas, which generally have full play in Commencement celebrations at the beginning of tho year, says "The Leader" (Melbourne). However, though Commencement is long over students have recently been exercising their ingenuity to raise funds for Sport's Week. The students' sports union runs and pays for all sporting, activities, and usually manages to send representative teams to inter'varsity contests in tho different States. Owing to increased expenditure the sports union was compelled to announce that it could not finance the sending of teams to Sydney and Adelaide in the coming vacation. The students took the matter up, and ran a Sports Woek, which was a huge success. They struck a special button, which admitted all students to any university function during the week; they organised a series of lunch-hour lectures given by prominent sportsmen; they ran dances and cabaret shows, and, most successful of all, they organised an ugly man' competition. In this competition persons were not respected, and wardens and sub-wardens of colleges had to submit to nomination along with the and ugliest student. By splitting the nominations up between the colleges a healthy and keen rivalry was produced, and it became a matter of honour to the college that thoir ugly man should win. The result of the poll is not yet announced. Indeed, one almost feels that it might be an indelicacy to announce the result.

In London there are many curious things, but one of the strangest and most curious is a church known as "The Mystical Church of the Comforter." Mystical .it certainly is, though its surroundings are of the most prosaic type imaginable. At the Denmark Hill railway station, in South London, there was a disused waitingroom built next to the booking office. The waiting-room has now been transformed into a church, and people may now buy their tickets and check their luggage to the accompaniment of hymns. Babies are baptised in a room that was once used only by impatient travellers; funeral services are read in it, and a marriage has been solemnised. The church has been in existence in its present premises for about six years. One end of the waiting-room has been transformed into an altar painted white and surrounded by the seven colours of the rainbow. Seven steps lead up to the altar, and at tho side are two pillars, representing beauty and strength. In this remarkable church there are countless symbols. Every member wears a badge, which represents a dove standing in a circle, with a sevenleaved branch in its beak. Ono is not surprised to hear that the leader and founder of the church is a woman, by name Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Eagle Skinner. She is the mother of a large family, and during the war she kept a son's dental practice alive by acting for him in her spare time. Her official title is the "Messenger," and most of tho members of her church call her mother. Mrs. Skinner is a tall, commanding woman, and when she is leading a service she wears whito robes ornamented with mystical signs and a coloured headdress. "I am a rosicrucian," Mrs. Skinner claims. "And the signs we use refer t° some of thfi inner orders of that society. My work means everything to me. I have had visions ever since I can remember. These visions have helped me tremendously, and it is through them that I have been specially directed to prepare the orders for the services in my church." '

The death of Mrs. Eeece, wife of Mr. William Ecece, which took place at her home on Dyer's Pass road. Cashmere, on Saturday, will leave a space not easily filled in her circle of relatives and friends, says the Christchureh "Sun." Though for many years she had lived a quiet home life, she found opportunity for countless deeds of unobtrusive kindness, and the radiating sweetness of her personality was felt by all with whom she came in contact. During the year of Canterbury's Jubilee, as Mayoress of the city she acted as hostess to the city's many guests; all work for the betterment of the conditions for women and children had her active support, and she was one of the promoters'of the now flourishing Domestic Science Hostel. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. L. M. Molineaux, and six sons, Mr. E. T. Eeece (Christchurch), Mr. W. A. Eeece (Buenos Aires), Dr. L. N. Recce (England), and Messrs. Harold Rnece (Napier) and Guy Eeece (Southland).

Dr. E. M. L. Morgan, until recently with the Red Cross in Wellington, forwards a report of a conference of editors of junior Bed Cross magazines, which he attended in Paris in April last. The conference was opened by an Englishman, Professor Alfred Zimmern, in the absence of Sir Claude Hill. Professor Zimmern had to leave immediately for Geneva, so Dr. Rene Sand was really tho guiding genius of the discussions. "To begin with," writes Dr. Morgan, "this conference was the only known assembly or conference of adults over financed wholly by children, for all expenses of all delegates were provided by the high school juniors of the United States of America. The secretariat is in a fine building, rented for £500 a year, once the residence of a 'Sugar King,' who was the notorious and self-styled 'King of the Sahara.' The lease is shortly to expire, and it is hoped to get an extension, though it is expected that the rental will be double. At the head of the marble stairway are the photos, of Red Cross national presidents. A notable absentee is the Now Zealand president. I hope this will soon be remedied. The directorship of the Junior Eed Cross is in the very capable hands of Miss Benedict, of California, formerly a European director of the Mid-European relief, section of the United State* Red Cross, and before that an American official of the United States Eed Cross. Her first assistant is Miss Charlotte F. Kopp, also of California, who deals with the detail work. The third assistant is Miss George, of New York, who superintends the international correspondence section. Miss Fairweather, of Scotland, edits the information circular. Dr. Livingstone (English) edits the world's health. The assistant-dir-ector is Messieur Gilgend (Messere Gilgoo), a Frenchman, educated at Oxford. The secretariat is supported almost wholly by United States contribution, and the ground floor is occupied by the Pan-American Red Cross—the European relief, sections of the United States Eed Cross Society." A very striking example of the differing mental trends in different countries is mentioned by Dr, Morgan, who points out. the difference between Austrian Ked Cross magazines and, say, American or New Zealand magazines. "The Austrian magazine is to us dull and stolid, and dreary in its articles, and yet it is undoubtedly one of the most successful of junior magazines in its own country. The Austrian editor informed me that stories other than the kind published seem to be unintelligible to Austrian children, while they are extremely eager for the type that are published. His explanation was, at any rate, unique. 'You know,' he said, 'it does some people good to cry!' " There is praise also for the New Zealand magazine. "I gathered unofficially from some editors that when the bundles of magazines were month by month placed before them, the New Zealand one was the one they picked out first. The secretariat officials also unofficially informed me that what they liked in the New Zealand journal was its fearlessness of expression, its always seeming to have something definite to say, and its saying it concisely, and its attitude of talking to the children as intelligent beings, and not tallying at them, and the support given to its disguised propaganda by illustrative articles which were made to blend unobstrusively with the tone of the leading article, and, finally, the well-selected and limited aimount of

good poetry. ... I concluded that New Zealand Junior Red Cross is developing along right lines, and that New Zealand may be proud of the junior section that is being built up. It holds a very affectionate place in the hearts of the officials of the junior section of the secretariat; its work must not be allowed to lapse;_ at all costs it's magazines must continue to be published —and in its present form: it is setting a standard for the other magazines to follow."