WOMEN IN PRINT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 13

WOMEN IN PRINT

Mr. aiid Mrs.. G. Anyon, Wellington, who have been visiting Rotorua, are leaving there for North Auckland. Miss Lorna Millar, Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington. Mrs. J. Came BidwiJl has returned to the Wairarapa, after spending some weeks in. Wellington. Mrs. M. Macdonald, Hill street, has left for a visit to tho South. Mrs. G. Roberts, J.P., who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Douglas Whyte, Karori, has returned to Dunedin. . ~ . „ ... Mrs.: E. Harding, Wopdvillc, is a visitor to Auckland. ' Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson, who is warden .of.the Auckland Lyceum Club, is to be entertained there on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Harold Bell, Auckland', is leaving the Northern city next month to take up :her residence in Wellington. Miss M'Fie, of the League of Women Helpers (Toe H), left Auckland by the Maunganui-for Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. J. Myers and the Misses Myers and Scott, Wellington, are visitors to Christchureh. Mrs. C. C. Jackson, of Kopuaranga, Wairarapa, Dominion president of the Women's Division of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union, will leave. Christchureh to-morrow. Mrs. Jackson will address the meeting of women on Wednesday in the V.M.C.A. Building. While the : women now sitting in the British House of Commons represent only 1 per cent, of its total membership, they are given 33 per cent, of the allotted-places in the. national delegation to Geneva, at the head of which is Dame Rachel Crowdy. Mothers' Union; The members of St. Paul's Mothers' Union held the last meeting for the year recently at the Sydney street schoolroom, when there was a large attendance. An address was giyen by the Key. Mr. Ljng," the new. general secretary of the Board of Missions, who recently returned from India. Mr. Long gave greetings from the Mothers' Union at Karachi, and stated that the Union is growing steadily in India. Ho spoke chiefly of -the early marriages, which he condemned thoroughly after residence in the country and seeing the effects. The usual age, ho said, is twelve years, which has since been raised by Btatute to thirteen, and he is in hopes of it being still further raised. Over a hundred million women have been married at the age of twelve, and this may be followed by an early widowhood, when the unfortunate little girls have to have their heads shaved, and are not allowed to wear any jewellery among other disabilities. This last is a great deprivation, as the wearing of ornaments is a sign of womanhood, loved by all, and pauses great regret when it has to be given up. Mr. Long told many-things which were interesting, and he was aecordeda Vote'of thanks with much heartiness. Afternoon tea was served and a social time was passed pleasantly, making tho members look fonward to the beginning of the meetings next. year. ■Nursing; Diyisioh. Au interesting competition took place at the meeting of the Wellington South Nursing Division, when the contest for the Atalanta Cup, given by Mrs. Huggins, was held. The test was a motor accident case with two persons injured —the work has to be done by' a "First Aider" with the assistance of a bystander allowed.' The judge was Dr. Sylvia Chapman, who made helpful remarks on the various points of the competition. The cup, which was won by Mrs. Miller, was presented to her by the donor, Mrs. Huggins, and is to be held for a year. The winner also received a silver medal. Arrangements were made for the annual meeting and inspection^ which will close the year's;work. Tho resignation of Miss Hankins. (divisional storekeeper) was accepted with regret, and Miss Gaby recommended to fill the position. Doing Without Sleep? Lady George Cholmondeley is fairhaired and attractive, elegant and witty, and altogether an unusually interesting person, reports a London paper.". She-has,-for example, solved the problem of doing without sleep. Rosy-fingered dawn never peeps into her bedroom to find her asleep. She has .by then already finished her housekeeping and started work on behalf of her many charities. By nine she is at her office; at 6 p.m. sho will probbaby be presiding over some meeting; at.8.30 she is the life and soul of the smartest party which happens to-be on; at midnight she is almost sure to be seen dancing at the fashionable Buppor. club 'of the moment. Women Bowers. According'to a correspondent in tho London "Morning Post," every women's college in London has its rowing eights, and: such ,is tho enthusiasm of some of them that they are to be seen during the winter breaking the ice on the Regent's Park Lake at a shudderingly early hour of the morning. As a sport for women, rowing has been gradually growing in popularity, and to-day it is one of the chosen branches of sport, calling.interstate competitors together, throughout Australia. Nevertheless, it is a form, of exercise which sometimes proves too vigorous for those who take part in it, and in Sydney there have been instances of women competitors .fainting, after being subjected to tho strain of a rowing match. Bowing, in particular, perhaps, may be termed tbo most unselfish of sports, for it calls for the sinking of individualism for the good of the crew, and for the practice, not of "all for each,'/ but of "each for all." Perhapß tho most significant sign of woman's increasing ardour for rowing is the fact that the first actual Oxford and Cambridge ladies' race took placo in 1927. The third of these fixtures was rowed in March of this year. Berliampore W.N.R. Mrs. Beales presided at the annual mooting of the branch of the W.N.R., there being a good attendance of members and friends. The meeting was held at tho homo of tho hon. secretary (Mrs. Sutherland), and after the business had been transacted tho committee, entertained all present to afternoon tea. Mrs. Beales and Mrs. Porter were'presented' with bouquets of flowers, artistically mado by Mrs.. Collyer.; ,Tho secretary stated that the sum of £47 7s lid had been raised during the year. The following officers wore elected:—President, Mrs. Beales (re-elected); vice-presidents, Mesdairies Chatfield, Moore, Williamson, and Watt; secretary, Mrs. Collyer: treasurer, Mrs. W. Chatfield; auditor, Mr. J. W. Salmon; committee, Mesdames M'Mahon, Chatfield, Hill, Williamson--. •Marshall,'. Beales, Collyer, Bennett, Janson, Swanson, and Sutherland. The resignation of the treasurer (Mm Sutherland) was received with regret, and appreciation was expressed for the usoof her room for meetings. Mrs. Porter commented on tho excellence of the work of the branch, and mentioned', also that. Mrs. Beales was president of .the Girls' Branch of the W.N.R., which had given generous donations to. the Christmas tree for the children at P.orirua. ' Special votes of thanks were passed to Messrs. Chatfield, Collver, and Hnch for assistance given. ..-._■'

Flying for Women. "We, so far away, do uot readily grasp how much flying as a means of progression and as an amusement has progressed in the older lauds (says an Australian writer). We hear, with very little interest, I fear, 'how Lady So and So has established another record, bu^ this does not explain to our minds that the aeroplane is likely to supplant the motor-car within a few more years, as a pleasurable means of going from one place to another. How near this is will be grasped when it is noticed that the whole front page of 'The Queen' is devoted to advertising the new flying kit for a woman, and. very charming she looks. It is composed of a scarlet leather coat, with a belt and cap to-match, accompanied by neat breeches and boots something like long riding boots. The whole outfit is not costly, as clothes go amongst the more gilded of the women of the world. The leather coat" costs eight guineas, and the breeches seven guineas, while the helmet and gloves will cost £3 10s for the pair. Flying is very near as a popular pastime when it becomes translated into fashions output for the season." . An Exception. Madame de Koshena, the famous singer, is one of the few Russians who were permitted to remain unmolested in their country when the Bolsheviks came into power. Some years before the war her Italian singing master in Moscow insisted that she should make singing hor profession, and to her voice she owes her freedom from persecution. She now lives at Manchester, where she conducts a singing school,.but twice a year she visits London-to give recitals. A Clever Canadian. Miss Agnes M'Phail, who is the oiily woman member of the Canadian House °* V° mmons > 'made a great impression at tno international, congress of the \Vomen's International -League- "for Peace and Freedom, states an English writer. An interviewer described her as young,- alert, and enthusiastic—a model member. " -' ■ '•- ' ■ .■ '