WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 10

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs Strickland, of Lower Hutt, is the guest of Mrs G. A. Forrest, Queen Street. Miss Dorothy Beero, Auckland, has returned to Ivor home from a visit to Mrs H. J. King, Elmira Avenue. Miss Phyllis Hearsey, of Takaro, who has been spending a holiday at Hawera., has returned to her home. Miss Helen Forrest is an Oamaru visitor to Palmerston North and is the guest of Sirs M. Spraggon, Stanley Avenue. Mrs Stanton Harcourt, of Hobson Street, Wellington, has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs Brian Keiller, of Palmerston North. The women’s organisations of AVellington are arranging a reception in honour of Mrs E. It. McCombs, M.P. The gathering is to be strictly nonpolitical. A woman’s inability to keep a' secret and her natural resentment after she had been beaten by her husband have led to the latter being sentened to' three years’ imprisonment for a crime committed in Paris two years ago. M. Poulain thrashed his wife in a fit of bad temper when the couple were staying at Nice. On the following morning madam went to police headquarters and, having complained of the assault, gave away the details of a theft her husband had committed before marriage. When the records were searched it was found that the details were perfectly accurate and that, as she had said, her husband had .stolen from, a certain dairy the sum of £250, which lie used in setting up a business. When the trial came on, lowever, the wife, repenting of her breach of secrecy, said that she had .nvented the whole story after having heard her husband talking in his sleep, “lit, unfortunately, what she had repealed had been proved accurate, and ler husband could not be saved from gaol.

WEDDING.

EDWARDS—STEPHENSON. A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnised on Wednesday, Septembes i 3, at tbe All Saints’ Church, Palmer' ston North, when Elsie Stephenson laughter of Mrs Anne Stephenson a.nc :he late John Stephenson, of Blytli England, and Alexander Stuart Edwards, sou of Mr and Mrs W. Edwards, of Church Street, Palmerston North, were united in matrimony. Rev. Canon G. Y. Woodward was the officiating minister. The bride, who entered the church escorted by her brother, Mr J. G. Stephenson, of Wellington, looked charming in an anlde-length frock of

white satin beaute made in the princess style. The long veil was worn with a circlet of orange blossom, and her bouquet was of spring flowers and maidenhair-fern. She was attended by Miss Daisie Edwards (sister of the bridegroom) -who was dressed in an ankle-length frock of blue georgette with daintily frilled skirt. Hat, shoes and silk lace mittens of buff shade were worn to complete the toilet, her bouquet was of blue hyacinths and fern. All the bouquets were kindly made by Mrs P. T. Griffin, a friend of the bride. The duties of best man were carried out by Mr Arthur Whiteman, of Newbury. After the ceremony a reception was . held at the Broadway Lounge, only I members of the family attending. The happy couple later left for their honeymoon, the bride travelling in a brown tailored costume with shoes and hat to match.

GOLF MATCH.

MANAWATU LADIES AT FEILDING Members of the Manawatu Ladies’ Golf Club visited Feilding yesterday to play a friendly match with members of the Feilding Club. The conditions were good and the fixture eventuated in a draw. Results were as follow, the Manawatu players being mentioned first in each instance:—Mrs Field lost to Mrs Harding, Miss Macmillan halved with Miss Bartholomew, Mrs Ekstedt heat Mrs McKirby, Mrs McKegg lost to Miss Mclvor, Mrs Speeehley lost to Miss L. Seifert, Miss Spring lost to Miss Curtis, Miss Wason beat Mrs Graham, Mrs McDowell beat Mrs Little, Mrs Williams lost to Mrs McGrner, Mrs L. Cooper beat Miss Phillips. Mrs Young lost to Miss Irwin, Mrs L. Seifert halved with Mrs Gorton, Mrs Gabriel beat Mrs Reedy, Miss Cunninghame beat Mrs Giesen, Mrs Reid beat Miss Cornfoot, Mrs J. Stevens lost to Mrs Broad.

DANCE AT AOKAUTERE.

One or the most enjoyable functions held in Aokautere was the dance which took place last Wednesday evening. Organised by the Aokautere Young Ladies’ Club, a strong committee of girls saw to it that no stone was left unturned in their endeavour to provide enjoyment. There was a splendid attendance and the hall was comfortably filled for dancing, visitors being present from a wide district. The hall was decorated on. an elaborate scale, the colours used being emerald green, black and gold (the club colours). Th'o whole of the ceiling was hidden from view by a trellis of gay festoons, which hung like a canopy over the heads of the dancers, and _ the walls were done with greenery, and window boxes of camclias. The effect was very pleasing and reflected great credit on the taste and ability of those responsible. The music by a professional orchestra left nothing to he desired and the splendid oldtime music impelled old and young to dance to its strains. With the floor in its usual perfect order, and a varied programme of modern and old-time dancing, Mr Kristonsen, who officiated as M.C., had no difficulty in keeping the dancers going till the early hours. A dainty supper was provided and handed round by the' girls. A soft drink and icc cream stall did good business, and the committeo is indebted to Mr W. Anderson who had charge o.f this part of the programme. The committeo responsible for the entertainment consisted of Misses Myra Reid (president of the club), in white sa.Hn; Clarice Lankshear (secretary), green lace; M. Anderson, boige angelskin lacc; Nancy Field, black georgette; Irie Anderson, apricot lace; Lucy Gough, black velvet; Chrissio Field, black net and satin, with cherry cape; Etty Anderson, white lace; Thelma Lankshear, salmon pink georgette; Grace Lawrence, flame satin; Dot Atkinson. scarlet satin and black cape; Enid Orr, scarlet crepe de chine; Nita Brill, white satin. Among others present were: Mrs Craven, apple green broderie anglais and black coatee; Miss Picrcey, green taffeta: Mrs Riddle, grey crope-de-chine; Mrs L. Field, white satin; Misses M. Cox, pale blue organdie; Joyce Vowel!, white satin; Tcasdaic, black satin; Rush, floral satin; L. Milner, mauve organdie; Joyce Cameron, white satin with capo; Mrs E. Wolfsbauor, white georgette, and Mrs L. Wolfsbauor, red taffeta.—Aokautere correspondent.

MIRROR POLISH.

Whitening and methylated spirits are excellent for cleaning mirrors. First well dust the frame and also the back of the mirror, and then, if the frame is wood, it must be polished with a little furniture cream. Then a paste must be made of whitening and methylated spirits. Rub this on to the glass and allow to dry, afterward polish with a chamois leather. Fly marks can easily be removed by rubbing with a blue-hag or damp newspaper.

LONDON CLUBS.

ADMISSION OF WOMEN. The Naval and Military Club in London (its familiar title is the “In and Out”) is preparing to spend about £IO,OOO in the reconstrucion of all its top floor as a ladies’ side. Ladies will Then be admitted as associate members—a plan which was adopted many years ago by the Guards’ Club, and has worked successfully from both the social and financial standpoints. Within the doors of the Naval and Military Club is coolness and calm, and it is said there is no place in London—certainly there is no club—the atmosphere of which is so peaceful ns that which pervades the garden tucked away from.all prying eyes at the back of Cambridge House. It is not difficult to picture the guests sitting or strolling round its little tinkling fountain after one of Lord Palmerston’s famous dinner parties there in the late ’fifies. More hospitality is also to lie accorded to women at the Royal Aero Club. In its new home in Piccadilly members have been able to give ladies tea in the club. But there is no facilities for luncheon or dinner. Now arrangements are being made to set apart one dining room for the use of members accompanied by ladies. During the past two or three years the club has steadily increased in membership. It is under no necessity to “solicit patronage,” hut in view of the very large part played by women in flying it lias been an anomaly that the social centre of British flying should be almost exclusively male.

SLIMMING AND SMOKING.

DOCTORS’ FEAR FOR FUTURE MOTHERS. The feminine fashion of plucking eyebrows was referred to regretfully by Dr. H. R. C. Rutherford in an address at Dublin in August last before the section of., neurology and psychological medicine of the British Medical Association.

Slimming, smoking, and alcohol were alluded to as factors playing their parts in mental disturbance, and emphasis was laid on the betotr health of married than of single people. Dr Rutherford, who is medical superendent of Farnham House, County Dublin, was discussing the causation of mental trouble, and he pointed out that formerly the disappearance of eyebrows was an important symptom of a gland deficiency producting- mental disorder. “It is,” lie said, “a matter for regret that this valuable eyebrow sign is no longer available in many of the younger women to-day, owing "to the development of the liabit of eyebrow plucking and its replacement by u thin black line. _ I have sometimes thought that the idea of this must have originated in the brain of some keen beauty expert, who did not fail to recognise the tendency for the irregular and early disappearance of the hair in this region, a somewhat difficult feature for liis art to overcome, and so ho called up the aid of Dame Fashion to decree its complete removal. “One contemplates with some alarm the future of a generation of yet unborn mothers harassed with a desire for slimness and excessive smoking. 1 have known excessive smoking to be the only apparent exciting cause of several cases, and, indeed, I regard it as being a fairly common contributory cause of mental illness. Its effects are not so obvious as those of alcohol, but the effects are insidious with the production of gastric disturbances, loss of appetite and generally lowered physical condition, which make mental attack likely to occur with little other Xiro vocation.” Dr. Robertson said that nothing but good could be said of marriage, for in the married the incidence of mental disease was low, but slightly among women as the result of the risk of child-bearing. “Tlie loss of a husband or wife,” he continued, “increases to a marked extent the liability, and, indeed, up to 55 years of age the prevalence of it is almost double that among married men and women: In the case of single men and women between 35 and 55 it is nearly three times as high as in the married. The expectation of life for a married man of 25 is nearly five years more than for a bachelor of the same age.”

Sir Henry Brackenbury, chairman of the Council, referring to sterilisation, said he thought it was a matter for tile family doctor rather than for legislation, since 95 per cent, of children in mental defective homes were not born of mental-defective parents. Therefore sterilisation could not forestall an increase of mental deficiency except in those cases where the family doctor knew the individual histories aiid where he might prevent disastrous marriages. Another speaker attributed the great amount of mental trouble in Ireland to the constant recourse to the pot of tea which was always stewing on the hob.