WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 199, 23 July 1926, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

By notice published in the Gazette, Mrs Annie McVicar lias been appointed an official visitor under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the Provincial District of Wellington.

The engagement is announced of Olive May, second daughter of Mr and Mrs W. I. Hunt, of Rongotea, to Gordon Edward, second son of Mr and Mrs D. Collis, Kairanga.

Mr and Mrs C. H. Burgess, of Now Plymouth, returned to New Zealand by the Aorangi on Sunday, after a tour of the world lasting two years and four months.

The friends of Miss Eileen Warren, of Fitzherbert street, who has been in hospital for several wnekst will be pleased to learn that her condition is much improved. W W »■

A residence of 86 years in New Plymouth is the record of Mrs AValter Bishop, who died on Wednesday, aged 90. She arrived at New Plymouth from Dorsetshire in the ship Timandra in 1842. Her husband, who predeceased her, arrived in New Plymouth in the Oriental in 1841.

The wedding took place this week at St. Mary’s Church, Addington (Christchurch), of Miss May Bean, a granddaughter of the late Richard John Seddon, to Mr Douglas Macfarlane, of Parnassus. Canon W. S. Bean, the bride’s father, performed the marriage ceremony.

Miss Edith Lyttelton, “G. B. Lancaster,” the well-known New Zealand writer, who is returning from abroad by the Remeura, is expected to reach Wellington on July 30. Miss Lyttelton, who was brought on the Roheby sheep station near Kakaia, is a member of the family from which the Port of Lyttelton takes its name.

Mrs A. W. Gray, who is leaving Dannevirke for Kimbolton, where her husband lias been appointed manager of the Bank of New Zealand branch there was entertained by the Dannevirke Ladies’ Golf Club at the links on Monday afternoon and was presented with a cut crystal salad bowl in happy memory of her popularity with club members.

A London cable states that the Plymouth carnival revealed the curious fact that the wives and sweethearts of seamen are usually longhaired, sailors objecting to Eton crops. The Plymouth sailor, indeed, often calls his wife “my long-haired chum.” The beauty competition at the carnival included a number of women with hair to their ankles. The long-haired candidates scored all the prizes at the expense of the bobbed, shingled, and cropped competitors.

PALMERSTON NORTH SOCIAL CLUB. On Wednesday evening last in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Cuba street, the Social Club held another of its popular euchre tourneys, whou there were 116 players present. The winners in the various sections were as follow:

Ladies, Mrs Zimmerman, pair white double blankets; Mrs O’Connell, 701 b bag of sugar; Mrs Franklin, bag of coal. Gentlemen, Mr Jones, pair of double white blankets; Mr Mathews, quarter-ton of coal; Mr Parker, 251 b bag of flour. Three players (Mrs Zimmerman, Mrs O'Connell and Mr McGilvray) tied for the special prize of a 401 b case of apples (donated by Mr Ryan) and decided to donate same to All Saints’ Children’s Home. The gold wristlet watch will, bo competed tor at the next function, as the highest score registered was 19 games out of 24. The partaking of supper and the presentation of the prizes terminated another pleasant evening.

Nicknames have always been popular in the British House of Commons, and three out of the four women now entitled to put M.P. after their names are in the prevailing fashion, the exception being the Duchess of Atholl, who is usually addressed with the proper formality. Lady Astor is “Nancy” to nearly everybody, and it was with a cry of. “Nancy” that a male member hailed .her one day. when he was at one end of the corridor and she was at the other, states an overseas writer. Mrs Hilton Philipson, similarly, is known to everybody as Mabel, in commemoration of the fact that it was as Mabel Russell that she made her name on the stage. Miss Wilkinson, too, is Ellen to nine persons out of ten — though the Clydeside group always call her “Wee” Ellen. The Duchess of Atholl, by the way, is not altogether without her “petit nom,” for at Geneva she was known among her League of Natioas colleagues as “Madame laDucheisso do Not-at-all.”

COMING WEDDING. [By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.] WELLINGTON, July 22. A wireless message from the Surprise (Royal Yacht Squadron), received in Wellington to-night, states that a marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Charles Percy Philips, 6on of Mrs A. Carr, Claremont House, Alexandra road, South Hampstead, and of the late Henry Philips. of London, and Myfanwy Josephine Williams, daughter of the Hon. Mrs Williams, of 12a. Great Stanhope street, London, and Godfrey Williams, of Aberpergwma, and the yacht Surprise. SPORT* AND DRESS. BATHING SUITS FOR TENNIS. LONDON, July 13. People ought to play tennis in bathing costumes, declares Major Randall, a well-known physical instructor. Athletes in ancient Greece, he said, dispensed with unnecessary clothing, and consequently spectators had a much better idea of their exact movements.

DON’T. WANT TO MARRY. A DISAPPOINTED SISTERHOOD. CURIOUS CLUB IN LONDON. MENTION Of"mAN TABOO. Never to marry. Never to fall in love. To shun the society of men on all possiblo occasions. Never to ask a man for a favour. - These are the sworn objects of a remarkable club for women which has recently been formed in London. All the members are women who have been disappointed in love or who, for other reasons, have no desire to marry or have any dealings with men. Some are young girls whose hopes of happiness have been shattered by broken engagements; others are married women whose husbands have deserted them; a few are natural “man-haters” sworn to life-long enmity of the male. i Every prospective member, _ before sue can be accepted, must satisfy the committee that she has been wronged or disappointed by a man. Her case is then considered on its merits, and if tlio committee decides that she lias cause for hatred she is admitted into the sisterhood. , MADE HER SHUDDER. Premises have been acquired in the centro of the city with a lounge, smoke room, writing room and dining room. Any topic under the sun may be discussed but one—man. A member guilty of mentioning the name —even though it be only to condemn —is liable to a fine ranging from Is to ss, according to the enormity of her offence. I found several of the members of the disappointed sisterhood taking afternoon tea in their blue and gold lounge (writes a woman who visited the club). There wero two elderly women and four or five girls, but I could not get any one of them to talk about men. When attempted to introduce the subject one of the elder women smilingly pointed to a printed list of rules hanging on the wall. Another member actually shuddered, as though 6he felt a draught. From a member of the committee, Miss Gertrude Grage, however, I was able to get the story of the club’s foundation, and learn something of the tragic stories which almost every member can tell. HOW IT STARTED. “The idea was really started,” said Miss Grage, “by a woman who had been engaged for seven years only to see her lover marry another woman. “She had spent pounds on her trousseau; her father had given her a furnished house, and the date of the marriage had been arranged. Then suddenly her lover cried off, and she discovered that for some time he had been paying attention to another girl. “When the facts became known she found that few people had any sympathy for a jilted woman. So she resolved to get into touch, if possible, with women in a similar position, and with this object inserted an advertisement in the agony columns. The result was a shoal of letters; a meeting was arranged, and the club is the outcome.

DESERTED AFTER 25 YEARS. “You may call us the 'disappointed sisterhood’ if you like,” said Miss Grage, laughingly, “but we manage to console ourselves fairly well with each other’s society. At any rate, we are never lonely now; wo can always come down to the club when wo feel blue and dumpy. “Already we have over 60 members; and fresh applications are being received every day; But for the existence of the club we should probably all be sitting at home thinking what brutes men are.” One of the members, Miss Grage said, was a married woman,whose husband deserted her after years. He left the house one morning apparently to go to business as usual, and never returned. She afterwards learnt that he had eloped with his typiste. This woman" is now a member of the committee, and it is one of her duties to decide whether a prospective member who has been harshly treated should be admitted. Another member is a girl of 22 who was actually waiting at the., church on what was to have been liet wedding day when the news was brought that her bridegroom-to-be had already been married an hour before to someone else. BIGAMIST’S VICTIM. One of the club’s most confirmed man-haters is a woman of 33, who has been engaged to be married three times, and has been disappointed on each occasion. Twelve months ago she was induced by a man friend to invest her savings in an oil company, and lost everything. Now she never speaks to a member of the opposite sex except when compelled. Still another member is a victim of the notorious super-bigamist, Leslie, whose exploits startled the country some months ago. She also entrusted him with her savings to invest, and has not had a penny hack.

MEN WHO ARE SPOILED. BLAME LAID ON MOTHERS. LONDON, July 9. “Sons of over-isdulgent mothers make self-centred husbands, because they are thoroughly spoilt, and will not lift a finger to help in the home,” said Miss Hodgson at the Sanitary Congress.