WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18016, 15 February 1922, Page 12

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. A. M. Gould, of Takapuna, is •pending a holiday at Titirangi.

Mr. and Mrs. Kinnear and family have returned from a holiday spent at Russell.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Wood, Epsom, have returned from a holiday visit to Russell.

Mrs. Barron, of Waihi, who has been visiting Manurcwa land Auckland, returned home last week.

Mrs. Sharland, who has been spending a. short holiday at the Waitakere ranges, has returned to town.

Miss Nancy Barker, of Napier, is the guest of Mrs. W. R. Wilson, St. Leonards, Takapuna.

Mrs. Price and Miss B. Price, of Wellington, who have been holiday making in Auckland, returned last Tuesday.

Miss K. McCaw, of Invercargill, is visiting Auckland and is the guest of Mr. and Mm. McCaw, Mount Eden.

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Humo and Mr. W. G. Humo have returned to Auckland after a visit to Rotorua and Taupo.

Mrs. C. E. Armstrong and Mrs. G. Rotrers and their children, of Hamilton, are staying at Mon Desir for a few weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Wilson, who have been on a visit to England and the Continent, return by the Vlimaroa to-day.

Ladv Jellicoe and her daughters have left fimaro for Dunedin, where they .wo the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Lindo FeTguson.

Baroness Furnivall, who was recently the guest of Lady Clifford, Christchurch, has now gone to Dunedin, accompanied by Miss L'Estrange Nolan.

Miss k E. Bevin and Miss M. A. Blackmore left for their home in Christchurch on Sundav, after spending a few days with Mrs. C. C Smithsc-n, Mount Albert.

Miss Kignaerts of Gheluvelt is the first woman mayor in Belgium. In the same country Mine. Jane Brigode has been chosen" as Magistrate of Public Instruction at Forest.

Miss Hilda Johnstone was recently appointed to the Chair of History at London Unjversitv, where she has held the Readership of History since 1912. Previously to this she was senior assistant lecturer in history at Manchester.

Mrs. David Nathan, who left at the end of the week for a three weeks' holiday in the South Island, intends staying for a few days at Wellington and Christchurch en route to Dunedin, where she will be the guest of Mrs. Lindo Ferguson. She will also visit Hastings on the return journey.

Latin countries are backward in ferai- . nine progress, but recently considerable ' activity over women's suffrage has been manifested in Spain. Lately all the suffrage societies held a conference at Valencia. Many prominent public men have announced themselves in favour of the suffrage for women.

Among the lovely heirlooms left to Viscount Lascelles by his uncle, Lord Clanricarde is a beautiful pendant by Benvenuto Cellini. Viscount Lascelles is himtelf a collector of early Italian pictures. He probably inherits the collector's inItincts from" his father, the Earl of Harewood, who possesses a wonderful collection of Sevres china.

1 London correspondent at Constantinople describes a Croesus-like wedding which took place at Stamboul recently. The bridegroom was an Albanian Turk; who had amassed a fortune by the postwar sale of food by-products when food was scarce. This gentleman hired 40 houses to accommodate the guests. A hundred motors and 300 open carriages followed the bride to a hall, where several thousand guests dined on the rarest Turkish delicacies. The festivities and entertainments lasted a week.

Queen Mary is known all over Europe for her remarkably fine taste in jewels. Her necklaces and tiaras with the upstanding diamonds and pearls are not often seen, nor the dog collars, of which she has some wonderful specimens. But earrings are her special favourites, and her diamond and sapphire ones are her greatest joy. Her most famous diamonds, the really historic ones, are kept in tho Tower of London, and there are special messengers to fetch them, and numerous ceremonies to be gone through to see that no unauthorised person receives them.

A Bill is before the German Reichstag for regularising the hours of work for domestic help. Servant* are to he called in the future "assistants.'' Tie Bill demands in rase of need, thirteen hours of work, during which time two hours for adults and three hours for minors shall be given to meals and rest. The Bill also provides for one free afternoon a week, for two Sunday afternoons, from 2 o'clock, in the month, a free afternoon in every official holiday, and the right of a full week's, holiday after nine months' service in the 6ame household. Under certain circumstances these rules may be altered.

At a ball which Queen Mary attended during a recent visit to Scotland, Her Majesty danced not only the waltz—old and new Etylc—but a gavotte, a reel, and a valeta (says an exchange). It ig said that even the Prince of Wales, good dancer though he is, was not so neat nor so well coachad as his Royal mother. Dur. ing her stav in Scotland, the Queen appeared at balls in evening dress with a tartan plaid—made of silk—worn over one shoulder and tied on the other hip.

Twenty thousand cigars, specially made for fashionable London women, recently reached England from Cuba. Smoking generally among women; declares a wellknown tobacco blender in the British Press, is decidedly on the increase, and, failing to find satisfaction in cigarettes, many women seek something stronger. The blender state s that the cigar manufactured for women is made from leaf which is the selection supreme of Havana's factories. Women smoke these cigars publicly in restaurants, but very few people who see them would know the difference between such a cigar and a cigarette.

It was agreed by the delegates who represented the various centres of New Zealand at the Y.W.C.A. Conference, held recently in Wellington, that the standard of girls comin? out under the present scheme crives evidence of the increasingly careful selection being made by the authorities in London, as a result of the successful efforts of the New Zealand Immisration Department. Almost without exception, the young women who are at present coming out are capable of quick adaptation to conditions in New Zealand, ami thev are already making good citizens. The exception might be fomid in the occasional girl who has been accustomed to a more highly specialised form of domestic work than' is found in (he various homes in NVw Zealand. This, and the fact that it takes a few months for adjustment to new conditions and climate would account for the exceptions PRINCESS MARY. The Council of the Royal Colonial Tn«»i tat* intend, to present aVdd J t " e , r Hi c hnc,s rv on behalf o the Follows and A sso( £ of the Institute resident In all Z , c the Empire. Auck'and FeWs IL° already contributed liberally to fe ftd It is considered that a i-ift from J a J rgZTmni?' and valued of Princess Mary's nmne OUs •weddinp presents. s A ball is be-in? arranged to celebrate the marriage o, Princess Mary, a nd win be held, if poss.ble, on the evening 0 f the wedd.ng day, at the Albert. Hall, London 6