PLACE AUX DAMES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 290, 12 November 1912, Page 6

PLACE AUX DAMES.

The Week. Somehow Hastings during the last s week has contrived to be almost : * gay ; and now that the weather has suddenly resumed a discouraging '■ effect of winter again, vve look back apologetically to the sunny days oner i.i ch we wore white muslin amf ‘ tennis shoes, linen suits or filmy voiles, wondering if perhaps we did L not appreciate them as we should 1 have done. Is this cold wind and E driving hail and wind a punishment 1 1 Whatever the cause, vve are clearly -* not intended to rely upon the ’ weather this spring. Which indica- ■ tion brings a tearful thought : What ‘ about the Havelock Bhakesperian Pageant. Only picture to yourself a ' day like Sunday and then transfer ’ your thoughts to the gallant knights and “faire ladyes” who will people that land next week. The costumes of the Elizabethan period were design- ( ed for—though probably not ia—fine weather. Knowing the extraordinN ary amount of trouble the people are going to over the affair, ( it behoves us, as good neighbours, to keep our own thoughts "set fair” for sunshine. , The Brondesbury Sports. On Friday the pupils of Brondes- . bury School held their annual sport; on the racecourse. At the invitatioi of the Misses Lee about SCO people came to watch the proceedings, and spent a thoroughly entertaining day. , There were twenty-eight events in all, thirteen taking p ace before lunch, and though some of the young . people competed in a good many ot • them, not one looked in the least . tired when the Consolation Rac< . was over. All the children shown excellent training, and Miss Ev; is to be congratulated upon the cvi- ■ dent results of her physical culture •isyntim. The prizes, among which ■ were many pretty and useful articles, ; were given awav bv Airs. G. N. E-1*..-:-..:. Woodford House Sports. The WoodtotYl House Sports, vviiicn toc'r'ton b..Lirday, iiil. ■■ " ■*: *; m ■;■•* ilat below mlracted f *.e usua. .4- ■* 1 -.1 j*t ‘i ii! Imsiastic |i:-’em.n. and ri.lations of tin pupils. lin -'.<i. ' . lc ".'vi'. ;*.n! ii ■ beaut) J I,d i. omubugc -weii.* a;. ! .ismO trie subject of much admiring I comment. In such environment, breath;ng daily the famous air oi the Havelock Hills, is it ary wondei i that the Woodford House pupils are | a jcy and a pleasure to behold I It j only a few authurative mothers with I an ev e to becoming rainment would j | :..igg*‘a ehunge in the mode ol . ■ lui’ics, the result, one cannot helj ■t thinking, might be worth some ■| trouble. Ine running and jumping ■ [were quite up to last year’s stand j ai; and besides the egg and spoor, j rt.ee, and the relay race, the driving (competition and the obstacles race | created much diversion. .Many I motor loads of people were taken j j up tlie hill and left at the school for j (afternoon tea which was served in! (: lie dining hall. The prizes, besides I > the junior and senior cups, were ( 11 r. sei’ti d by Mrs. Crosse, Mr. Crosse | I making a very happy speech before I Land. | , Bpe.nliig of the Tennis Courts. | If you had been away from Hastj Cigs for three years and had relumed just in time for the opening . i f th? Lawn Tennis Courts on Saturday afternoon, you would have found jit difficult to believe that you were not in a strange place. The influx of new people to our towns is nowhere so noticeable as at a gather-

- I ii'g of this sort, where everyone 11 knows everyone else, and where new • ■ and old residents meet upon the eom--1 | mon ground of devotion to a national ’ j sport. Cricket is dead, and can you ’j v. .aider? The men are playing ten-inis--dozens of them: so many that iyw wonder where they all come ; ;: <> h. It was not ever thus —at any | rate in Hastings—and the change is J cheering. The seven or eight courts, ! in perfect condition, were in use all th * afternoon, and twice the number , ci .ild have been kept going merrily. Tin* club’s tea was as much appreciated as its courts, and for the same I g.,-ud reason —it was perfect. King’s (st.ing band enlivened things and provided a sympathetic accompaniment for the laughter and talking, though it must have been disconcerting to players with a natural ear for music not to lie aide to volley in waltz time. The opr niiig of the tennis courts was indeed quite a function, worthy in every way of the honour which awaits the club at Christmas time. I Inconsistent Man.

Monsignor 8010, the Parisian -Father Bernard Vaughan, declares iiimself to be struck by "the power- ’ lessness of literature to discredit j woman. In spite of all. she has kept I lu ;■ prestige, and the more refined and intelligent the milieu, the more I she is still respected.” Having al- ‘ lowed so much, the fashionable ; pieacher proceeds (in "Femina”) ; to discredit tl;e modern woman very ; thoroughly. He even charges her wii h being responsible for the, decline of marriage. Young men will , not marry because young girls are I so ■extravagantly dressed. The young men take one look, and decide that 3 wife vvho followed such fashions would swallow up a fortune. Then wiih tlie wisdom of man. Monsignor appeals to French women to dress mere simply. “Simplicity in clothing has never prejudiced physical beauty.” No men, except'men who!,, are dressmakers, and only a few vvoinon, realise that the simplest and plainest garments are often the most expensive. Elaborateness in dress I covers a multitude of deficiencies.