WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1926, Page 13

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Invitations are issued by tho Board : of Directors of the Y.W.C.A. for the opening of the Petone branch of the association, which will take place next "Wednesday. The'ceremony will be performed by Sir Alexander Boberts. Mrs. Shaw, Karori, with her children, haii returned from an extended visit to Marlborough. Miss Chaytor, Marlborough, is* the guest of Miss Edwin, "Wellington terrace. Mrs. E. B. Lough and her daughter, Tho Terrace, are visiting Wanganui. Mrs. S. M'Pherson, Little Sivj-.r, has returned South after . spending some months in Wellington. Mrs. Mathew Holmes is leaving short- I ly for a visit to Hawkes Bay. Mr. and Mrs. David Thompson and family left to-day by the Ulimaroa for Sydney. ' Miss Edith Pilcher (Wellington) has left for a visit to Nelson. A "fine art evening" was held at the Wellington Lyceum Club on Wednesday, when there was an exhibition of beautiful work done by some of the members. It included some handsome articles in brass'and copper work, pewter, batik, needlework, etc., and some clever water-colour paintings. Mrs. J. C. Andersen, president, welcomed the guests, and introduced those who gave an artistic entertainment of music. Miss Gladys Watkins played a "Bomance" of Schumann's and Somrnerville's "We"st Wind" in her usual finished style (i and .also accompanied Mrs. Shaw hi her delightful songs. Other excellent items were given by Mesdames Ironside and Lambie, accompanied by Misses J. Sampson and K. Bankine respectively, and a recitation was given by Miss Bowe. The evening was most pleasant and successful. A very happy evening at the Borstal Institute, Point Halswell, was the result of arrangements made by the Ladies' Borstal Committee, which is doing good work for the girl inmates in a number of directions. Mrs. John Hannah has kindly given up a good deal of time to the girls, and trained them in a little play, with excellent attention in speaking and ready action, •this being given last night with much success. A number of committee members were present and enjoyed the entertainment with the audience of girls, the work which had been ;done to get such a good result. The superintendent, Miss Simpson, had made • arrangements for a little supper, some part-singing was given, with Mrs. W. Page as accompanist, and a tuneful unaccompanied song. The efforts of the committee are in the direction of giving the girls both useful and entertaining instruction after the day's work is over, with the.idea of promoting wholesome, cheerful thought, leaving uo time for anything undesirable. The aftercare is another charge upon the committee, members of which do their best to find work and friends when the inmates are leaving the institution. A message was given the girls last evening from Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson, who was much interested in the production of the play, and sent them good wishes for its success and expressions of kindly interest. An exhibition, of. the very beautiful work accomplished by the Arts and Crafts Circle of the Pioneer Club was held yesterday afternoon, and was admired by a largo number of members and friends. Lady Osborne^Gibbes, .pre, sident of the circle, in declaring the show open, welcomed the guests, and said that the circle, now m its eighth ye^r, had over 80 members, and would number many more if room could be found for them. She mentioned that the circle had sent a large exhibit to the Dunedin Exhibition, and had been awarded first place and special mention, together with four certificates, Mrs. Piper, (a member) also receiving four certificates for her work. Further, a letter had been received from. Miss Jean Begg' (in charge of tho women s -section at the Exhibition) deploring the fact that the work was not for sale, as she had been so very often asked to sell it. The work exhibited yesterday embraced marquetrie, pewter work, sealing-wax work of all kinds, raffia goods of every description, beautifully. embroidered leather work, needlework, knitting and crochet, batik, pastinello, and some wonderful flowers made of shells, water lilies and roses being particularly effective. Among those who exhibited beautiful work were Mesdames Blythe, Piper, Edwards, Butler, Jorvis, Bute, Duncan, Preston, Roskruge,, Bath, King, Doctor, Anderson, Street, Batten, Misses Myers, Maddison, Jacobson, and many others. The annual sports of the Yqung Women's Christian Association will take place to-morrow, at Seatoun Park, commencing at 2 p.m. An interesting programme of championship and open events has been arranged for both seniors and .-juniors, and a good attendance is anticipated. Afternoon tea will' bo procurable.

"Blood tells"—it may be said as truly, "hands tell." Breeding, personality, and character are all betrayed by the hands and the way they arc kept and moved. 'The-woman of nervous temperament fidgets with her fingers. She cannot keep still, and is continually and unconsciously touching her face, her clothes, and objects near her. The shy girl does not know what to^ do with her hands; she is awkward and self-conscious of them. They need to learn that good breeding demands repose and unobtrusiveriess where their, hands are concerned. Never point deliberately, wave your hands about when describing an incident, or finger another person's clothes in close conv'er-. nation.,. These are little habits, probably unconscious, which are in bad taste. Over-manicured hands with tinted, preposterously pointed nails, aro as unsightly, as ill-kept ones. The smart woman takes particular care of them, keeping the skin smooth and white, and the finger-tips well groomed. A minute or two's attention every day preserves their appearance, and should never be neglected. But it is unnecessary to be polishing and repolishing in public places at odd intervals. The woman with dirty nails, however, shows herself untidy and careless of personal cleanliness.

It was mentioned at a meeting of the W.N.R. Memorial Cemetery Committee held yesterday afternoon that much admiration had been expressed at the beautiful arrangement of tlio gardens at the Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial Cemetery at Karori on the occasion of the recent ceremony held there on Armistice Day. The thanks of tho committee are due to a number of people who havo contributed plants and seedlings for the cemetery, among these being Mr. J. ,B. Harcourt, Miss Humphries, and. quite recently a number of very acceptable plants from tho garden at the Hospital. Thanks were also expressed for the gift of gold fish for the two now lily ponds from tho 'Returned Soldiers' Hostel. -The committee wishes it to be known that the surplus from any garden is acceptable, specially in view of the new piece to be added to the cemetery, which it is hoped will be. in time quite as artistic aud beautiful as the present part. Grateful thanks were also expressed to 'all .yho took part In tho ceremony on Armistice Day, and those who assistod in making .it interesting and impressive. Mrs. Mathew Holmes .presided at the meeting.

A wedding which occasioned much interest at Kelburn was that of Irene May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoggard, of Kelburn, to Matthew Tarrant, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Dixon, of Napier. The ceremony took place last evening, at St, Michael and All Angels' Church, Kelburn, when tho Rev. Mr. Petrie officiated. The bride wore a charming frock of embossed silver lace over ivory satin tissue, the front drapery fastened with a pearl buckle. The long tulle veil formed tho train, and was worn with a coronet of seed pearls and clusters of orange blossom, and she also wore a pearl necklace. The wedding bouquet was ot white gladioli, white and pink roses, and pink carnations with maidenhair fern, and tulle and satin streamers. The

bridesmaids, Misses Phyllis Gray (Otaki) and Lylee Fountain, were in apricot mariett'e, with crinoline straw hats to match, and bouquets of cyclamen of the same pretty shade. Mr. C. Bryden, of. Palmerston North, ■ was tho best man, and Mr. Lionel Ijch was groomsman. The wedding reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents, Mrs. Hoggard receiving the guests in a frock of blue ninon over C3rclamen silk. The housa^was beautifully decorated with flowers, roses, rhododendrons, and stocks.all in shades of pink, which came from the garden of a friend at the Hutt. Thp table with- the wedding supper; was,decorated with..roses.., The younger guests, adjourned to the church hall nearby and enjoyed the rest of the evening in dancing, the hall being prettily decorated in rose and white streamers. Later, tho bride and bridegroom left by' motor, the former wearing a.blue ensemble suit and a fawn hat. Among,many Quests were Mr. and Mrs. ; Arthur Hoggard and Miss Hoggard, Mr. and Mrs. C. Richardson and Miss Richardson,. Mrs. Pollard, Mrs. Fountain, Mr. and Mrs. B. Donne, Mr. and Mrs. Kirker, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kirkcaldie, Mr. and Mrs. Lambie, Miss Patterson, Mrs. and Miss Rankine, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Rhodes-Williams, Miss M. Morris, Miss Reunie, and others.

•A green parasol decorated with a large life-size parrot of many colours was a particular' sensation in a recent fashion show, says a writer in an exchange. Parasols are to be-"in" this season, and some most original models have been made in readiness. Tho most striking are those in which, like' the parrot models, the bird note is prominent. On the''Riviera and at those places ".acre the sunshine makes parasols now necessary, the majority of those being used by women who count as fashion leaders display some sort of bird decoration. Plain silk sunshades are painted or embroidered with one great bird right across the covers, bright coloured tropical birds being

most favoured. Sometimes there is a flight of birds, as in a most attractive ivory silk sunshade painted with a largonumber of tiny blue birds "flying" round tho cover. Another idea, very striking but somewhat bizarre, was displayed in a cherry-coloured parasol on one side of which were fixed a pair of green parakeets in natural feathers. Birds are moat popular for tho handles of tho new parasols. Tho ferrule also must "belong" to the handle, and it either repeats the bird's head or else shows tho feet of the bird.

Countess Czack.i, member of ono of the oldest and noblest houses-in Poland, has founded a Catholic sisterhood exclusively; for ; blmd women.

Marriage in .China, according to an English writer, is not at all a happy stato for the woman. It is not merely arranged without the girl's consent; she never even sets eyes on the man until the. day of the wedding. , He may be a slant-eyed Adonis, or he may be a perfect horror with whom marriage would be, for a sensitive girl, almost unthinkable. The , average Chinese father, though fond of his children, is fonder still of gold; and no Chinese values girls much anyway. If a rich old merchant or a plundering swashbuckler from the provinces makes him an offer for his daughter, he is not likely to let sentiment stand in the way of business. And in other ways the Chinese bride is to be pitied. When she leaves her family and home on her wedding-day she leaves both for ever, and must say good-bye to all the amusements and social pleasures (hat the European girl holds dear. Nor has she the compensations which the ro-mantically-minded woman may find in the life of the harem —the love and admiration of her husband and the unfailing attention of slaves. The Chinese wife, far from being mistress of the household, is the lowest of all the bridegroom's family and must be prepared to obey not only her mother-in-law—a tremendous personage in China —but even her husband's younger sisters. She must endure sneers and slights without complaint, she must keep always in the background, and (in the middle classes, at least) she must do a great deal of hard work, waiting on the others like a servant.

Over the Tasman there is a woman who has the distinction of being the only feminine woolbroker in Australasia, Invading a territory hitherto sacred to men, Mrs. D. A. Skene, M.8.E., ■of Melbourne, has made her claim doubly sure by building up a successful business. Politics occupy her leisure time, and she has been appointed president of tho Federal Council of the National Council of Women for the third time in succession.

Buttercup yellow or bright orange is the right colour for the breakfast table when nerves are on edge and-the senses crave for sunshine, says a writer in an exchange. Breakfast is. the meal that really needs the most cars in preparation—though it seldom gets it—and lukewarm tea, bacon as brittle as glass, and flabby toast are too many people's portions. By lunch time most of us are feeling brisk and businesslike, and at dinner the lamps are lit and a pleasant evening looms ahead; but breakfast has none of these artificial aids, and must succeed or fail on its own merits. While the day is still untried, all one'swork and worries still to come, the mind is peculiarly open to impressions. More people than admit it feel a sense of dread or nervous apprehension in the morning which breakfast can do much to soothe or aggravate. Bright yellow is not only cheerful in itself, but has a mysterious ' Reassuring quality very grateful to the nervy temperament. A white breakfast cloth is cold_and cheerless in the,early morning, but a checked white and yellow or a plain orange linen is gay. A jar of marigolds adds a further touch of brightness to the table, and the breakfast service should harmonise.

Mrs. Tawse Jollie, M.L.A., of South Africa, who went with the Empire Delegation to Melbourne, is stated to be a very fascinating speaker, ready, interesting, and never boring for a moment. A Melbourne writer, alluding to Mrs. Jollies speech to club women, says:—lt is impossible to review Mrs. Jollies speech at all adequately, but a remark, made by a subsequent woman speaker forms an interesting commentary upon it. "I feel," she said, "that Mrs. Jollie knows as much about tariff problems'and Imperial finance as she does about a baby welfare scheme." This impression was further -strengthened by the speech which Mrs. Jollie made at a public meeting held under the auspices of the National Council of Women in the Athenaeum Hall on Saturday night. Many people, said Mrs. Jollie, were tinder the impression that tor make a good settler a man must be born and bred on the land. She believed that it was not a question of environment but of temperament, and, that the temperament most suited to. pioneering work in lonely lands was that of the adventurer. The men and women who had been the first colonists iv Australia and South Africa had been faced with the uncompromising but bracing alternative of sinking or swimming, but in these, humanitarian days there was a tendency to provide every young immigrant with a lifebelt to save him from his own improvidence. •A large family had been the early settler's greatest asset. He had attained success with the aid of his children. There was nowadays a fairly general impression that a largo family was a responsibility rather than an asset. Most children were swaddled in comfort and stifled by the "safety first" ideal ever held before them. All this tendod to destroy personal initiative and pioneering courage. In speaking of the opposition encountered by the Australian women who desired to enter public life, Mrs. Jollie made a very shrewd criticism of the whole position. She said that the men seemed incapable of realising that the energy and the wits of their womenfolk could be turned into a valualbo asset in the political field, and the impression was given that the interests- of the male and female population were vitally opposed.

The recent death of Mile. Jeanne Chauvin recalls the jubilation with which the first woman barrister was admitted to the Bar,' says the Paris correspondent of "Time and Tide." Last year Mile. Chauvin received the Legion of Honour to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the throwing open of the Bar to Frenchwomen!, an act of liberalism which promised very much more than was subsequently performed. Mile. Chauvin studied, law without very much hope of being.able to practice, but she was indefatigablo in her efforts to procure this right for women. It was not until she was 38 that she was admitted to tho Bar, where she at once made herself, felt. -Unlike her successors, she gave all her attention to the more sensational criminal law. But even she 'did not meet with very great success from the public point of view. The French do not really accept the woman barrister and very few of them secure enough briefs to make a living. Most of them take on work which is only connected with the law, and Mile. Chauvin herself taught law in a girls' lycee for a considerable time. Her death marks an epoch. It is an epoch, iv which the cart has been before the horse as far as Frenchwomen are concerned. The first barristers, they are still voteless —still, that is to " say, without the one means of making themselves felt from a public and civic" point of view in France.

Windows cleaned simply with methylated spirit are brighter and last clean far longer, , and mirrors and lookingglasses take on a new lease of life if rubbed with a soft cloth sprinkled with a few drops of the. spirit. Polished mahogany can be cleaned, if voyy dirty, by washing with warm water in which the .little methylated spirit has been added, and whito marks on French polish disappear, with a quick dab of spirit and a good rub with furniture cream. Brown shoes that are stained will look almost as new \Vhci_ the stains have been banished by a little methlyated spirit, and nothing is better for cleaning ornate or lacquered brass.

A wedding of interest to many Wellington people took place at Erdington Parish Church, Birmingham, ; on 30th August, when Barbara,' younger daughter Of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ri Howe, of Wellington, was; married to Captain Graham Beresford Parkinson, R.N.Z.A., elder son of Mr. H. A. Parkinsonj, of Wellington. The bride, who was given away by her cousin, Mr. Rutherford, wore a beautiful frock of silver-grey georgette, with a hat of pale pink and grey. Sho carried a pretty bouquet; of pale pink rosebuds. The bridesmaid was Miss Barbara Chamberlain, who wore a dainty frock of pink georgette with a hat to tone, and carried a bouquet of pink rosebuds. Captain Butter-worth-Cooke was best man. After a luncheon at Mr. R. H. Chamberlain s home, Captain and Mrs. Parkinson left for a motor tour in the Lake district, the bride travelling in a frock of navy blue and white suede marocain with hat to match and coat trimmed with grey fur.

Two children of Charles Dickens survive, and both live in the "Old Village of Chelsea." One is Sir Henry Dickens, K.C., the Common Serjeant, his. sixth son, who recently celebrated his golden wedding, and the other is his daughter, Mrs. Kate Perugini, who^has entered her eighty-eighth year. Born in 1839, in Doughty street, just before the removal of Dickens to Devonshire terrace, Regent's Park, she was christened Kate Macready, the great actor being her godfather. Sixth son of the novelist, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, K.C., is now in his seventy-eighth year. He was born in Dev-nshire terrace. At first his father meant to call him by Oliver Goldsmith's name, but changed his mind. Harrison Ainsworth was asked to be godfather. Sir Henry married a charming Frenchwoman, and they have Jiad s|_ children—three sons and three daughters.

The members and friends of the Aro Street Methodist Mission enjoyed a pleasant afternoon yesterday. Items were given by Miss Eva Tonks, followed by a helpful and encouraging talk by the Rev. C. Eaton. A warm welcome •was given to Mrs. Eaton by the members. Tea, which was kindly given by Mrs. Willis, of St. John street, was dispensed by Misses Freeman, Smith, Logan, and Tonks. Hearty; thanks were given to all concerned.