WOMAN’S WORLD

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3287, 5 March 1926, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

Miss A. Davidson, of tlio Palmerston Worth railway refreshment room) staff, has received notice of her trans-1 I fer to Taihape, and will leave tomorrow for her new station. ! j Mr. and Mrs. H. Seifert, Mrs. A. Seifert, and Alias E. Seifert left yes-| j terday on a motor tour of the North j I Island. A young- Cuban woman lawyer, Dr., i Alaria It. Kuz, has recently been ap-| pointed municipal judge. She is the J i first woman in her country to occupy j such a position. j Miss W. M. George, Auckland, who has been visiting Palmerston North, Aas returned to the Queen City. j The marriage will take place at All Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, j on Easter Alonday (April 5), of Irene Doris, daughter of Atr. and Mrs. Bert Pratt, of Palmerston North, to Air. David McDonald Alowat. Airs. L. E. Cockburn tendered a party to her daughter, Aleta, on the . occasion of her twenty-first birthday j at her home in Denbigh street, Podding, on Wednesday night. An enjoy-| | able evening was spent in dancing, cards and other games. A large attendance at the dance in - the Empire Hall last night rewarded the efforts of St. Patrick’s Carnival i committee. Fancy hats worn through- i out the evening were something of a novelty. The Balfour surname reminds me of 1 those two enthusiastic lady farmers, ; the Misses Balfour, daughters of Air. Gerald and Lady Betty Balfour, writes,! an English correspondent. They havej a delightful farm in Suffolk, wtyich i dates from the sixteenth century. It is now transformed into an up-to- i date establishment, and they take i pupils. ( Not many people know that ; Rudolph Valentino, the film star, has;l an attractive young sister in London, i ■ writes an English correspondent. She'l is handsome like her brother, though i not as tali as ho is. She has been in • London for three weeks now. busily at. work with Mrs. Dudley Coats in 1 her shop in Davies Street. Aliss Val- , entino is starting a modistes establish- | ment in Alonte Carlo next winter on i her own. t Days have passed since the modern t girl could only travel abroad accom- ; panied by her family, and this winter society girls seem more independent ? than ever, remarks an exchange cor- ( respondent. Lady Ravensdale is trav- ( elling out to India alone to visit her i sister, Lady Alexandra Aletcalf, and f Zita and Theresa Jungman, Airs. 1 GulnnesS’ pretty daughters, are paying i a flying visit to St. Moritz. The Ruthven twins, too, have travelled off to \ New York by themselves. j Reginald Mclntyre was sentenced j yesterday to 12 months’ reformative treatment at the. Napier Supremo , Court for an offence against a girl. The Chief Justice (the Hon. C. P. Skerrett) endorsed the jury’s rider ; calling attention to the laxity of con- , trol of young girls. , 1 A cable from Rome states: M. Worth, the Parisian dress designer, < and Madame Worth,, recently had an audience with the Pope, who gave them a little sermon on women’s dress. He said that women’s beauty ; should bo cherished as a precious flower. Her clothing should cover f beauty, not remove its veil of mystery , and poetry. ■ — 1 Mrs W. H. Duke, Mrs H. E. Pacey. Airs T. R. Plodder, and Airs West, re- i presenting the Atethodist Women’s > Missionary Auxiliary, were received by th e Methodist conference at Dun- , edin. Mrs Duke stated that the missionary income of the auxiliary totalled £2053. They maintained seven sisters in the foreign mission field, and two deaconesses in the . homo mission field, and were prepared to support a third. The conference expressed its gratitude at the great success attained by the Women’s Auxiliary. The newly-formed Business Girls’ Lunch Club holds its inaugural meeting at 12.30 to-day in Collinson and Cunninghamc’s rooms. Airs. AI. H. ' Oram, president, will preside and cxI plain the objects of the Club and a large number of new members will be added to the already largo roll. It was hoped to have the pleasure of a visit from Lady Parr, at present in Vlarton, but unfortunately the time oft her arrival in Palmepston North is' too indefinite for her to accept the; Club’s invitation. Speaking over the I; ’phone last evening to the secretary, Mrs. Christian, she regretted not be- i '.ng able to be present but wished tTie Club every success. “LEAVE IT TO JANE.” An uncommonly capable musical comedy organisation, .!.• C. Williamson’s now musical comedy company i will open at Palmerston North on ; Monday, March 15th with the lat- ; est light opera success, “Leave it to i Jane.” Aliss Dorothy Lena, an English comedienne, will make her first appearance. Other newcomers will he Alona Barlee, Elma Gibbs andi Borland Hodgson, leading man andi tenor. Old favourites include Jack | Cannot. Hugh Steyne, Reita Nugent I and Percy lo Fre. “Leave it to C Jane," which has proved phenornen- r ally successful in Sydney recently, ! 1 will be played for one nig it only c (and will be succeeded on Tuesday ' by “Whirled Into Happiness.”). The ,C pin y has a novel plot dealing- with rivalry between two men’s colleges, and is set off with several picturesque backgrounds. I