WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17125, 2 April 1919, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL ITEMS. Dr. and Mrs. Webster (Wellington) are slaying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt spent a few daya in Auckland on their way to Rotorua. Mrs. Hope Lewis and Mr. T. Lewis are at present visiting Auckland, and are staying at Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. V. Riddiford, who have been visiting Auckland, returned to Wellington on Sunday night. Mrs. A. M. Myers, who is at present residing in Wellington, has been elected a vice-president of the W.N.R. National Mothers' Help Division. Dr . and Mrs. Zelie Napiur are visiting Auckland with Mr. and Mrs. Ewen Trout beck. Mr. and Mrs. Troutbeek are passen gers by the Niagara which sails this week Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Duthie are it Auckland for a short visit, and are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs Findlay c-: Wellington is also a guest at tlio Grand, The engagement is announced of Mis Millicent Todd, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs. Arthur Todd, Chratchurch, t< Mr. Sydney Goldsmith, of Christchuich. The engagement is announced of Mis Eileen Gray, only daughter of Mr. am Mrs. T. Gray, of Wanganui, to Mr. Ar thur Green, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. B Green, of Wanganui. The engagement is announced of Mis Jessie Sladen, daughter of Mr, F. Sladeri Christchurch, to Mr. J. Benwick, o Wanganui, son of Mr. J. Renwick, o Lower Hutt, Wellington. The wedding of Mr. Charts Ensell Mac kenzie, third son of Professor and Mrs Mackenzie, and Miss Margaret Ellen Wil eon, of Auckland, took place at Wellington l ist week, when the Rev. Mr. Kempthorni officiated. Colonel Logan, C.8., Administrator < Samoa, and Mrs Logan, who have bee paying a round of visits in the South have returned to Auckland, and are stay | ing at the Central Hotel until they retur to Samoa, sometime in April. Advice his been received that Si?te j Maud Atkirson, daughter "of Mrs. Atkin son. of St. Stephen's Avenue, Parneil Auckland, has been awarded the Roya Red Cross for valuable services rendere in connection with the war. Sister Atkin son has been in Samoa, Egypt, Englanc and France. She is expected to return fc New Zealand shortly. Ft is to be hoped that all the big schools both for boys and girls, will follow th example set by Ruyton, Kew, in grant in scholarships for the sons and daughter of soldiers who have laid down their live for their country, says a Melbourne ej change The holder of this Ruyton scholai ship (which is for three years as a boardei has already begun there this year, an even her books are provided. Lady Monas. has been interesting herself very much i thif matter of the scholarships, and th principal of Ruyton, Miss Hilda Danie has been most generous. Every secondary out lie, and church school ought to offe vheee scholarships. A laudatory article appears in an Enf lish exchange describing the work < I women street patrols, in which it says 1 " The first women to obtain recognitio j from their own military authorities ( ! street patrols were New Zealandera, wh ' would certainly desire to be nameless, bt | who have now become well-known figuri | in the n'ght world of London, and wl j have accomplished most remarkable work. ' The ladits in question are Mrs. Frase of Dunedin; Mrs. McHugh, of Aucklanc Miss Ballantyne. of Wanganui. Sir Douglas Mawson and Lady Maweo nee Miss Delprat, sailed from London 1 i the Euripides recently for Australia. 6 I Douglas, who achieved fame in the Ar I arctic, has been actively engaged in _ w. | work since the earlier part of ho'tilitie Another daughter of Mr. Delnrat, head Broken Hill Company, Victoria, D Mary Delprat, has been actively' engncri | combating the influenza epidemic at Oa leigh, where she has a practice. MANNERISMS. The pi-rl with the sonlfvil eyes stood b fore her mirror practising the latest p(v of her favourite magazine-cover girl. SI practised it conscientiously for half t nour PT© eallviriK forth to try its chain upon her male friends. But no luck attended her efforts. Tl men did not fall down before her like i many ninepins, nor did they acclaim hi irresistible. And, as the years passed b; th-? episode, in varying phases, was ri peated until the girl with the soulful ey< became what, is popularly known as a bac number. And in all that time she never found or what it was she lacked. But her friend could have told her. It was sincerity There can be no true charm without sii ceritv. , When a certain pose or a purticnla little movement is deliberately studied an acquired it is never natural, and n amount of repetition will make it s< Without naturalness there can be no pel sonal magnetism. To be natural means t be sincere, and sincerity " covers a mult tudc of sins." Personality is an inborn thing— come from the innermost ego. and must then fore be developed from within. Tim spent in cultivating little artificial mannei isms is a sheer waste. Nothing in all th: world is so quickly recognised by others. On the other hand, nothing is more tractive than some little mannerisi specially characteristic of an individual. ! mp.v be some quite unconscious but chfira< ♦.eristic movement of the head, a oarticula trick with the fingers, an expressive hftin of the eyebrows, or anything of the kmc however' trivial, which is always assoc a ted with that one person. To his or her friends Tl is lovable littl peculiarity subtly na-ociated with their ir timary, and often enough it will remaa in the memory long after other charactei istics. apparently much more important have been forgotten. WOMEN AND POST-WAR PROBLEM Speaking at the Y.W.C.A. conferem which was held in D'jnedin recently, M c. E. Slat-ham, M.P., in discussing pos war problems said th.it the first industri. principle to consider was that where bot men and women were employed wome shou'd get equal pay for equal work. At her Mice to that principle would help I sort out the occupations which each se should follow. It seemed that in th near future women would be eligible i members of Parliament, and they shoul take an interest in the pubVc _ quest lor of the day, because thev exercised gref influence which would be felt whetw thev voted or not. The country w > faced with the necessity of creating w wealth to replace what war destrovec and it must come from the land. Then fore, an increase in population was neede< and'we should encourage the right c.ai of immigrant from overseas Educatio was another pressing problem, and l that connection it should be remembere that every child had an equal right to t educated, on lb. right lines, bom J, kindergarten to the university. The quel lions of public health and the repaint £ of soldiers opened up avenues c service for women, and the great piobletr nf the relation between Capital and U Ixiur would not be solved until both side tan o,™ „ Christianity training becaus ceive a good thnsuan , nl ■ SHkV " w " idM character. :