WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 13

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Sir Walter ana Lady Carncross arrives in town yesterday from Eltham, and will stay for a few days. Mrs. F. Freeman, Cashmere. Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. Featherstone, Trelissick crescent, Ngaio. Miss H. Spiro, Wellington, is thg guest of Mrs. H. Bobinson, Mount Eden. Mrs. W. A. Evans has left for a few days' visit to Christchurch, where she ■will attend the meeting of the League of Nations Union. Mrs. Doria Tonge and; Miss Claris Anderson are visiting Christchurch. Miss F. Hall-Jones is the guest of Mrs. St. J. Clark; Auckland. St. Paul's Belief and Dorcas Society expresses sincere thanks for a liberal supply of very useful clothing sent by the Two Garment Society. Mrs. Denton Leech (Dunedin), Dominion, secretary,. League of Nations Union, is the guest of Mrs. Fraer, The Vicarage, Phillipstown. "She is in Ohristchurch for-the -Dominion Conference of the League of Nations Union. ■ The matron of' the Home for Aged Needy acknowledged with thanks a quantity of good warm clothing, from the^Two Garment Society; Mrs. Thompson, Working Men 'a Club, magazines and papers; Miss Annie Morton,, mittens; the Vienna, confectionery. Mrs. G. Pearce, president of the Mothers' Club, has been elected as delegate to the National Council of Women for the ensuing year. The matron of the Anglican- Boys' Home, Lower Hutt, gratefully acknowledges two large sacks of good warm clothing from the Two Garment Society. These garments, of which many are new,' will be greatly appreciated. Among the arrivals by the Corinthie yesterday was Miss Pilling, from the Slade School of Art, who has come to the Dominion to take up the position of art instructress at the Technical College, Auckland. "Twelve American sculptors were commissioned recently by Mr. Marland, an. Oklahoma oil magnate, to submit models of a heroic figure, 'The Pioneer 'Woman, symbolising those maids and matrons, wives and sweethearts, who set out with their men to conquer the West in America's youth. The statute, which will be placed on a knoll rising from the plains of Oklahoma, is to rank next in size and majesty to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. Fifty feet in height, it will be visible for a great distance over the plains. Mr. .Marland expects to Bpend £70,000, on the realisation of his idea. The twelve models have been on view for three weeks in the Eeinhardt Galleries,- New York, so that the public might be able to appraise them. The 10,000 people who visited the exhibition in New York decided by a majority that the most artistic model of the twelve was that executed by Mr. Bryant Baker, who was the last to enter the contest arid had only a month in which to prepare his model and obtain a casting." It would be a fine thing if some memorial of the sort could be secured in memory of the pioneer women of New Zealand, who left homo, friends, and many comforts and privileges to venture on a six months' journey to a strange and hostile land. According to an exchange, the Berlin Fair has signed a contract with an English inventor for an artificial ski and toboggan course. The inventor has succeeded, by chemical means, in producing a powder which, from a sporting point of view, has all the properties of snow and is independent of the we/i----ther. A doctor was dispatched to London to ascertain whether the powder had any harmful properties, but all the opinions obtained confirm that the preparation is innocuous. The course being erected will include tow ski runs 350 f- long, terminating in a jump of 55ft. Two hundred tons of the artificial snow will be utilised in tho preparation of the course. The invention is hailed as the biggest thing in the sporting line that has bien produced for years. It enables winter sports to bo carried on right through the summer, and is particularly useful training ski-runners for international competitions. A new dish mentioned by nn exchange as being delicious is celery jelly salad. The writer says:—Celery jolly salad is very appetising. To make it you will jieed two cups of chopped celery, which should be simmered in two and a half cups of water with a slice of onion, a small piece of bay leef, a very little thyme, and a slice of carrot. Let this simmer for threequarters of an hour, add a littlo water from time to time so that when tho liquid is strained off you will have just a pint. Meantime soak a tablespoon of granulated; gelatine in cold water to cover, and add this to the hot liquid together with a tablespoon of lemon juice and a half 'teaspoon of sugar. Let set and when slightly hardened add a cup of diced celery. Put this into small individual moulds and set it away to harden completely. When ready to serve unmould the portions on littlo 1 nests of lettuce leaves. A little mayonnaise should be put on each mould and. more mayonnaise passed with it. Lady Cowdray received a very high honour on 3rd May, when she was given the freedom of the city of Aberdeen, having already been similarly honoured by the city of Colchester. Lady Cowdray has been a benefactress to the nursing profession, for several years ago she bought the house belonging to Lady Oxford, in Cavendish square, made extensive additions, so that it became a luxurious club for nurses. Last year, on .an adjoining site, she erected a college of nursing. It is estimated that the sum total lost to big storekeepers last year through the depredations of shoplifters was not less than £250,000, and as this kind of crime is decidedly on the increase, managements have banded together in a great effort to rid themi selves of the unwelcome attentions of these marauders, says an exchange. , Most large stores have employed an , army of detectives for years, but it has been found that as soon as a thief gets known at one shop he moves on to another, gradually working round and round, taking toll of every firm in turn with little risk of detection. Some of the large companies spend as much as £100,000 annually on their "secret service," but its small success has | hardly justified the huge expenditure. j Now, however, the shops hawe "got together" ,and devised a system that, it is hoped, will drive the shoplifter to fields where there'is less risk of detection. Interchanges of detective staffs are taking place, so that those who have been marked down as suspicious characters in one store will be recognised at once should they be seen in.a shop where the detectives of their late hunting ground are temporarily on | duty. This.system isalready in working order,' and it J:has met with a ■ gratifying amount of success. There !. is one: well-known; shop in the West . End of "London which has installed an '■ elaborate system' of electric-lighting signals'in. order -to.warn all members of the secret service staff that.thieves are at work. By pressing • a button, hidden from genera! view, the assistant summons a number of sleuths, who quietly'J and unbbstrusively watch the suspected "customer" as he or she passes from department to departL i-meni, _. '

A wedding which occasioned interest in Napier -was that of Maysie, younger ■laughter of Mr. and "Mrs. W. G. Russell, Ashton. Wold, Bluff Hill, to lan Gordon, youngest son of Mr. and. Mrs. J. E. Hart, of Burnell avenue, Wellington. The Rev. Dean Mayne officiated. The bride's tasteful frock was of cloth of silver, with a scalloped hem-of silver lace, a large silver bow being caught to the tight rucked bodice at one side. She also - wore a string of pearls, and a tulle veil held in place with a coronet of silver leaves and berries, her bouquet being of pastel tinted flowers. The four bridesmaids were Misses Gwendoline Eussell, Nancy Vautier, Ella Lopdell, and Cara Chapman. Their frocks were of ivory taffetas, with tightfitting bodices, the rucked skirts being edged with silver lace, and trimmed with a large bow of .taffetas at one side. Their hats were of silver lace, with a large rose at one side of the upturned brim. They also wore long strings of-pearls, and .carried bouquets of pale tinted flowers. Mr. Kenneth Mason (Wellington) was best man. Mr. George Hart (Eketahuna) and Mr.. T. Caulton (Wellington)' were groomsmen. A reception and dance was held a* the Napier Cabaret after the ceremony, where many guests were entertained. Mra. Eussell received, .wearing black georgette beaded in crystal, with a coat of black marocain, her ,hat being of delphinium blue, and her bouquet of autumn shaded flowers. Mrs. Hart (mother of the bridegroom) was in a draped gown of black panne velvet, with a hat to match with white ospreys, and a bouquet of autumn flowers. Later when the bride and bride left for a tour the former was in a frock of blue crepe de chine, with a small hat of the same shade, and a fur coat. The members of Mothers' Club, Tarauaki street Kindergarten, are very busy preparing for a bazaar to be held later in the year. A series of functions are being arranged to raise funds for this effort. A very successful gramophone evening was held recently. Special thanks are due to Mr. Ernest Dawson, Manners street, for the loan of some very fine records. A concert will be held at the end of the month in the schoolroom, when the programme will be in the capable hands of Mr. Claude Sander. The Madras Government is to be congratulated on nominating a lady to its new Legislative Council. The great honour has been conferred on Srimati Muthulakshmi Ammal, M.8., CM., and all the women are proud of her (says an exchange). Her career has throughout been very significant of the new spirit of Indian Womanhood. A busy private medical practitioner, her interest is equally active in all spheres of public work, especially where the welfare of women and children is concerned. She is, of course, a prominent member of the W.I.A. and was on the deputations to Lord Willingdon and the Law.Member asking the Legislative Council to be thrown open to women. She ably represented the W.I.A. at tho Paris International Congress of Women, and since her return has been constantly speaking and writing upon its lessons to India in various directions. Hers was one of the names that were suggested, along with three others, by tho ladies' deputation to H. E. Lord Goschen for nomination to the Legislative Council. We hope in other provinces also lady members will be nominated to the legislatures and notably to tho Assembly where important measures affecting the welfare of women and children are to be considered.