WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 13

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mr. and' Mrs. D. Corrigan, Otaki, are visiting the South Island. Mrs. Hunter L. Hendry, who has been the guest of Mrs. A. Randal Berry, "Wintonmere," Holmwood avenue, Karori, will leave to-night for a visit to Waitonio, Rotorua, and will join her husband at Auckland. Dr. Ada Paterson is at Auckland, and was one of the spoake*. at tho Child i Welfare Conference hold there. Mr. and Mrs. Hester, visitors from Canada, arrived in Wellington at the week-end. Mrs. M. H. Godby, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Christchurch. Miss Pharazyn, Wellington, has been visiting friends in JJapier. Mrs. Herbert Kirkcaldie has returned from a visit to Wanganui. Miss C. B. Mills, M.A., B.Sc, at present principal of the Palmerston North Girls' High School, has been appointed to succeed Miss ■ Lorimer as principal of Newson Girls' College. Miss Lorimer has resigned on superannuation. * The Misses Cowlishaw, Christchurch. returned to the South'on Saturday.' Wanganui visitors, to Wellington last week included Mesdames Hope Gibbons, Earlc, J. Stevenson, and Bussell Steven- ' son. Sir Heaton and Lady Rhodes are returning to Now Zealand by the XTli.maroa, which is due in Auckland tomorrow. Miss Dorothy Speedy, of Takapau, is at present visiting Wellington. Mr. T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., and Mrs. Seddon are visiting Auckland. Miss -Hazel Robertson has returned from a visit to Invercargill. Mrs. Guy Scholefield (Masterton) has been in Wellington for a few days; Hostesses for the Community Club for the week will be: This evening Wellington South Nursing Division, Tuesday, Mrs. R. M'Leod; Wednesday, | Mrs. Pow; Thursday, Mrs. Murphy; Fri day, Mrs. E. E. Muir; Monday, Mrs. I G. M' Gregor. The scope of the work of the Plunket nurses has all along been the subject of a certain amount of misunderstanding, and the official writer of the society make's an energetic protest against this misunderstanding, and sets the matter right as follows:—"There seems to be a great need for a clear explanation as to the period which the Plunket nurses aro intended to cover in their services to the public. In some quarters the impression seems to exist that the nurse's duties end when the baby is a year old. Yet the very name of the society, which is not for. the Health of Women and Babies, but of Women and Children, should have prevented such an idea from ever growing up. That it has, however, grown up is proved by "such remarks ias the following, which I have heard quite lately:—'Baby is a year old this week, so this is the last time I shall bring him to the Plunket nurse,' and 'I did have a copy of Feeding, and Care of Baby, but I don't know where it has got to since baby was a year old.' That the dangers of the second year and onwards are not sufficiently realised is proved also by ,tho difficulty the nurses sometimes experience in getting close-attention paid to. detail after the first birthday is reached, although the .mother niay have been most systematic "up to that point. The time has come to protest energetically against this Erroneous impression. It is strange that it. should havo been entertained anywhere, for tho society's' text-book hag largo sections in it devoted entirely to the needs of the second or later years, and emphatic warnings are\uttcred about the danger of want of knowledge and method when the times comes for solid food to be given. Some 30 pages towards the end of the book are given up to the care of the teeth and development of tho habit of mastication, .and the prevention of such diseases as adenoids and rickets. 'These important questions have their beginnings, certainly, in the period before birth and in the first 12 months,.but success or failure in these directions depends greatly on syste-. matic care throughout .the second year and onwards. Without this the child may be, and often is, ruined as regards his futuro health, even wheu ho has thriven well for the first year. But the second year has problems all.its own, by far the most urgent of which is the care of the teeth and the development of the habit of mastication, which has such far-reaching effects on the whole future health of the child. Tho foundations of good health and sound teeth are laid before birth and during the early months; but the best .beginnings can be ruined later on, and with them the whole future health.and efficiency of tho individual. . A hundred other matters, such as sleep and exercise, exert far-reaching influence on the development of a child long after the first year is past, and the Plunket nurses are always ready to help parents in these directions. At least until children aro of school age and come under medical inspection, parents should keep them under supervision of the Plunket nurses. When this is done throughout the country we may hope* to see a rapid lessening of tho present widespread unfitness among school children. Much of this unfitness 'datea-'from the first year, but much also from the time when the child was thought to be past the need for special care." An amusing account of deceptive mirrors is given in a Loudon daily paper as follows:—Mirrors aro now being made which distort the truth and disprove tho old saying that "a mirror cannot tell a lie." Women who go to buy new .dresses in some up-to-date dress salons should .take care not to be'duped by a "lying" mirror. A woman who went to buy a new dress in Mayfair recently sighed with relief as she looked at herself in the mirror that was placed in the centre of the softly-furnished fashion-room. "I really am getting thinner," she remarked, "and this dress does give me the right slim lines. I think I'll take it with me. It is so nice;to find something that does make one look fashionably slim." "Quite, 'modom,' " said tho mannequin. "You are not at all too plump." "Modom" returned to her home with the box. She eagerly lifted the dress front its tissue paper wrappings and tried it on. Those slim, easy lines the garment had given '". r when she looked at herself in the shop mirror! What had happened to them? Now, as sho stared at her image in her own looking-glass she saw uusightb' lines and creases which she had not observed in the fashion, salon. The new dress did not make her look any thinner, but, on the contrary, gave her the plump effect she was trying to avoid. What hadblinded her in the shop? Why had she been so deluded? 'Modom" was frankly puzzled, just as scores of women arc worried by the same mystery every day. The answer to the riddle was simply this: In the North of England there exists a glass factory which makes special mirrors for fashion salons. 'They are slightly convex, and give a delightful illusion of slimncss to the woman who is trying on a new frock in Hie iialon where they are used. "Lying" mirrors have been placed in many dress houses in Loudon recently, following (ho example of some Paris salons. —

Ostrich feather boas are definitely "back" again; but in their new edition aro made of long uncurled fronds, and usually in two contrasting colours, notably red and black, as a finish to tho imperishable black toilette that is still in the front rank of fashion for afternoon, wear. Many cape-cloaks are bordered in front with ostrich feather trimming dyed to the same tone as tho fabric of which the wrap itself is made. In reference to tho choosing of gloves an expert says:—Choose gauntlets with discretion. If these flare very much, they will make a short hand look absolutely stubby. See that the gauntlet begins well on the wrist, and doesn't come over the hand at all. A long, slender hand shows off a gauntleted glove better than any. When you're trying on a glove don't forget to fasten it. Remember that the fastening should come actually at the wrist, and not across the broad part of your hand.below the thumb. . . where it often does come in a carelessly-cut glove. If a glove fastens at the wrong place it will never look nice, no matter how well the fingers and thumb go in. White kid brings out all one's bad points; it's shiny and conspicuous, both faults to be avoided if you don't want to draw attention to your hands. A swede finish is the kindest to the short-of-perfection hand, and beige or mole are the most friendly colours. They needn't be deep shades. Now gloves must be put on slowly, and you should take care that the seams are quite straight. If you wear gloves for the first time with the seams all anyhow, you'll never get them quite right afterwards. Avoid conspicuous stitching if your hands are small, and never buy "fancy" gloves unless they are of the best quality. The ornamentation on cheap gloves very quickly becomes tawdry. Mr. Johannes Andersen is well-known as an authority, on Maori music, and the members of the Lyceum Club and their friends will have a very interesting evening on the occasion of his promised lecture on that subject at the club. Supper will be provided after the lecture as usual. As showing the far-reaching value of the newspaper scheme of the London Victoria League, the following letter from Borotsiland, N. Rhodesia, is quoted in the yearly report:---"A Captain Hills called at my camp Jlr.t month, and much to my surprise handed me a bunch jof illustrated papers — ' Tatlers,' 'I.L.'s,' 'Dramatics,' etc. —and during our conversation he told me that they were sent him-by your league which send papers to Englishmen who were living on the outskirts of the Empire, and told me that if I wrote to you I might get some. Of course, he might have been pulling my leg, but leading such a lonely life and "getting so little reading matter, I am taking the chance. I am trading at Lukulu on the Zambesi, my nearest neighbour 74 miles away. The mail comes to Livingstone and from there is brought by runners to Mongu (434 miles), and I send in my mail-boy and fetch it from thero. I can assure you that- anything in the reading lino will be greatly appreciated, and when I have finished with it I will pass it on to my neighbour at Bala Vala, who will in turn pass it on again, and it will finish up. somewhere in Angola or the Congo. The date of the papers does not matter, however old, as anything is news up here." '•- Tho child in the kindergarten stage was taken as the subject at the Auckland Child Welfare Conference by Miss Kennedy, of the Auckland Training College, who advocated this system for the child whose home was not capable of giving it attention. Miss Kennedy gave a short history of the system, and pointed out that it was first brought forward in England by a man named Owen, in Lanarkshire, over 200 years ago. • At the present day there were thousands of little ones of five or six crowded together, starved for lack of equipment, compelled to sit in crowded, badly-ventilated rooms, through heat and cold, and sixty to seventy of these adventurous little beings wero expected to be kept quiet by one teacher. The teachers, said the speaker in an impassioned speech, were missionaries in their zeal, but the parents were not sufficiently interested to see that the children of the country had tho best conditions. They could not afford it was their glib reply, but they afforded all other forms of expenditure, while the unfortunate children suffered from want of light, space, and crowding. The 'modern teacher had banished for ever '' tho • scholar creeping like snail unwillingly to school." In fact, some of the children could not bo sent away from school, and she gave one instance of a little girl who said she did not want to go homo, and when asked why by her teacher said they banged her about at home. Evidently a member .of an overcrowded and unsympathetic home. If tho home supplied good conditions in which the child was strong and happy, well and good; if not, the kindergartens should be able to take up tho wofk for the sake of the child, for the child was the nation. The speaker made an appeal to the public for more interest in the kindergartens and the welfare of the little children. Miss C. B. Mills, M.A., B.Sc, at present principal of the Palmerston North. Girls' High School, has been ap j pointed to succeed Miss Lorimer (who has resigned on superannuation) as principal of the Nelson Girls' College (states a Press Association telegram from Nelson). , At the close of the evening service at St. Alban's Church, Eastbourne, yesterday, members of the choir and vestry met at the Vicarage, and presented Mr. Eric Shortt, who has retired from the position of organist after soven years' service, with a gold watch. Tho Rev. O. M. Stent n.ade the presentation, eulogising Mr. Shortt's services to tho church, and hoping that at some future time ho would again officiate at the organ. Mr. Shortt suitably replied, thanking all for their very handsome gift, which would remind him of the pleasant association he had had with St. Alban's Church. Although Saturday was far from an ideal day for the opening of tho new tennis courts at the Wellington East Girls' College, there was a good attendance, and tho number of bright and healthylooking girls about and the general choeriness made for pleasantness. Miss Batham, tho principal, was presented with a beautiful bouquet of roses, and much attention was given to tho speech of Mr. J. C. Peacock, as an authority on tennis. Tho stalls with ice cream, cool drinks, cakes, flowers, and needlework were well arranged and provided, and added a great deal to tho attractions of the afternoon, not to mention the ever-welcome afternoon tea. Tho visitors wero shown round the new school, which received much admiration, it being realised that the girls who have such bright and pleasant surroundings are to bo congratulated, and should have a kindly memory for those who worked for years, with many discouragements, before the AVellington East Girls' College was an accomplished fact. The situation seemed ideal, ami Ihe future of the college should be a very I bright one, . -