WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Miss Phyllis Boon, of Wellington, is spending her vacation in Palmerston North.

Mrs A. Grigor left on Monday for a holiday to be spent at Oamaru.

•Mrs G. Forrest and her sons are at Paraparaumu Beach for the term holidays.

Mrs D. S. Wylie left yesterday on a trip to Sydney where Mr Wylie will attend the Medical Conference.

Her friends will be pleased to hear that Mrs Malcolm Brodie is so far recovered from her recent operation that she will soon be able to return to her home in Hawke’s Bay.

Miss Gwen Gibbs left to-day for Hawera where she is adjudicating at the competitions.

“In days gone by it was considered very unladylike for girls to play games, but fortunately things have now changed,” said Miss E. Wagner, president of the Auckland Girls’ Interhouse Sports Association, at the opening of the new club for girls on Saturday afternoon. She urged the girls to make the club a place for clean, wholesome sport, and in which case, she said, the sympathy and interest of the public would be with them. Miss Jean Muir’s artistically-decora-ted studio attracts many of the younger set on Mondays and Tuesdays during the dancing season, and to the accompaniment of delightful music are the movements now so popular in the smart cabarets overseas. Miss Muir and partner gave special demonstrations of the “Blues,” and music for extra dances' was played by Miss Lampard. Miss Muir will hold her fortnightly dance this evening. The first of the series was a most enjoyable affair.

The death occurred at Nelson after a brief illness of Mrs H. E. Ladley, who was a very well-known resident of the district, having been born at Wakefield 78 years ago. The daughter of the late Mr Edward Baigent, who at the time of the provincial governments was M.H.R. for Waimea, Mrs Ladley was the wife of the late Mr Walter Ladley, inspector of schools, who predeceased her some 25 years ago. There is a family of six daughters and two sons—Mrs F. Haselden, of South Africa; Mrs W. A. Heather, of Nelson; Mrs J. Fulton, Auckland; Mrs C. Lash, Te Aroha; Mrs Stanley Jenkin, Dunedin; Miss Ladley, Nelson; Mr Walter Ladley, Christchurch; and Mr Maurice Ladley, Nelson. HOCKEY FOR GIRLS. LADY PRINCIPAL’S ATTITUDE. MENTS AND DEMENTS. “I really think he doesn’t knon much about it,” said Miss Maud Digby, principal of the well-known commercfal school in Christchurch, when commenting to a Star reporter on a report presented to the Hamilton High School Board by the principal (Mr Eben Wilson) to the effect that hockey was undesirable as a game for girls, and that basketball was better as it was less straining. “Basketball is less bother,” continued Miss Digby. A much smaller ground was required for playing it, and the players did not need so much equipment in the way of sticks. Hockey was not a strenuous game if girls were playing other girls, said Miss Digby. It might be if they were playing men. Some girls played in the basketball competitions during the week and in the hockey competitions on Saturdays. All the time she had been connected with hockey—that was ever since it was an organised game in Christchurch —there had been no more accidents than in basketball.

Emphasising the point that hockey was a more troublesome and expensive game to organise, Miss Digby said that it was becoming extinct in the primary schools for that reason. With boys it was different, for the Men's Hockey Association had some arrangement to supply them with sticks. Hockey grounds were very scarce on Saturdays, and the distances to be travelled in to the grounds for practices were too "reat for many of the primary school girls to manage. Basketball could be practised anywhere on grass or on asphalt. _ _ “Hockey can be rough, but it is not so as plaved by the secondary school girls,” said a woman who is connected

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with the organisation of hockey in one of the principal secondary schools. There could be a good deal of pushing and shouldering in basketball, but it did not lend itself to rough play more than did hockey. “I don’t think tliat hockey is a game for the delicate girl,” she continued. “There is more thrill in it—it is faster than basketball. “There is quite as big a danger of overstraining in basketball, as the girls are reaching up all the time. They can stretch too farr and come down too hard on their feet. Hockey looks rougher, but there are very few accidents. Basketball would not be much of an aid to deportment. I would not be surprised to see hockey die out as a girl’s game. Basektbau is cheaper and easier to organise, and most of the primary schools are sending to the secondary schools girls who have never played hockey,” she concluded.

MRS INNES’S TROPHIES,

The conditions were perfect at the Hokowhitu links yesterday, when the ladies’ golf matches for trophies presented by Mrs J. P. Innes were decided. The best scores returned were as follow :

A Grade. —Mrs Gaisford, 95—19—76; Miss N. Innes, 96—20—76; Mrs Trevor, 94—14—80 ; Mrs MapMillan, 99—19 80; Miss Scott, 92—12—80; Mrs Brooker, 98—18—80. B Grade.—Mrs J. W. Rutherfurd, 112—34—78 ; Miss Wood, 100—21—79 ; Mrs Field, 115—34—81; Mrs Grant, H5_33_82. . . The junior competition, over 14 holes, was won by Mrs W. Rutherfurd, 97 10—87.

WONDER PEARL FOR THE POPE.

English Roman Catholics recently started a movement to purchase the Southern Cross pearl—a natural Roman cross of pearls, which has been described as the eighth wonder of the world—for presentation to the Pope in celebration of Iris jubilee this year as priest. It is proposed to purchase it for the Vatican by a shilling subscription running to 200,000 shillings. The pearl was on view at the NorthEast Coast Exhibition, and is in the possession of the National Jewellers Association. The Southern Cross Is probably the most remarkable phenomenon of .its kind that Nature has ever produced. So far as is known it occupies an absolutely unique position in the histor- of pearls. It contains a group of nine pearls naturally grown together in so regular a manner as to form an almost perfect- Latin Cross. Seven pearls compose the shaft, which measures one inch and a half in length, while the two arms of the cross i re formed of a pearl on each side. The pearls are of fine orient, and would be of good shape were it not that by mutual compression they have become slightly flattened where they join. PRINCESS ELIZABETH’S BOUDOIR SET. The Duchess of York did quite a lot of shopping in Princes Street while in Edinburgh and she also visited the Royal Repository for the sale of gentlewomen’s work and bought a bunny dressing gown for Princess Elizabeth. It is pink and there is a hot water 'bottle with a cover to mutch, a pair of nursery slippers, in bunny shape, a pink woolly bed cover and a coloured silk ball—a complete baby’s boudoir set. ARISTOCRATIC GLOVES. Not since the days of the Gay Cavalier have gloves been so decoratively frivolous. The Parisians -are putting all their money on the Hack kid beauties stitched with silver thread and fastened at the wrist with bracelets of silver thread placed between the actual gloves and their frilled and embroidered cuffs. We may take it, therefore, that bracelets outside the glove will be permissible this year.

‘‘Arts and Crafts” in Coleman Place specialise in wedding and invite inepection of a varied selection of attractive and useful goods. Showroom upstairs Lewis Studio entrance.—Advt.