WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 14

WOMAN'S WORLD.

—— ■»» ;• '~ SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs George Binney -went South on Friday on a visit to Tauranga. Miss Hogg, of Invercargill, is staying with Mrs. Freidlander, Otahuhu. Mrs T Duncan, of Auckland, is spending several months in Wellington. Miss Black, of Adelaide, arrived by the Manuka on Monday and is staying at Cargeu.

Mrs. Seymour Thorne George and Mrs. F. Waller have returned from a short stay in Rotorua.

Miss K. Bagnal.'l, who has been staying with Mrs. Cellam Gorrie, Paeroa, has returned to town.

Mrs. Hope Lewis and Mrs. Guy Williams, of Masterton, are at present staying at Cargen.

Mrs. Baigent, of Tauranga, who has been the guest of Mrs- Hartland, Remuera, has returned home.

Mrs, R. 0. Young and Miss Bertha Young returned by the Saramac last week from a visit to England.

Miss MacCrae. of Palmerston North, who has been visiting in New Plymouth, is staying with Mrs. A. E. M. Rhind, Epsom.

Mrs. D. Cook, who has been visiting relatives, in New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland, and has taken up her residence in Remuera Road.

Miss Pauline Tulloch, who for the past four years has hern secretary to the Adelaide* Young Women's Christian Association. and who has for the past tnree months b"en attending the Y.W.C.A. National Training School at Sydney, arrived by the Manuka on Monday to lake up the position of senior and industrial pec-rotary in the Auckland Young Women's Christian Association.

The influence of the fox trot on the appearance of women's feet is more noticeable everv dav. even with the gradually lengthening skirt (says, an ex-change). Anyone "who has an eye for a- neat ankle has set-n that the younger women are walking as if about to dance. They put their feet down with the sliding moton of the favourite step, and have lost the tapping; movement that was the smart, walk iii quick waltz days. Feet seem to have lengthened and grown more pointed to suit the new dances.

Mr. S. N. Ziman, Auckland's first Rhodes scholar, whose engagement to Miss Nellie Caster, daughter of Dr. Gaster. of London, was recently announced by cable, was employed on special work in connection with educational, hospital, and muiiciipal administration for the Government of Bombay nrior to his departure for London on short leave. Miss Gasster is a graduate of Cambridge University, • and her father is one of the leading physicians in London. As Mr. Ziman was due back in India shortly, the marriage was to take place at an early.date.

The Ladies' Committee of the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen held its usual monthly meeting last week. Miss H. Bent was in the chair. To assist the Victoria Leae-ue on Daffodil Day, Friday, August 25, the committee will have a stall in Queen Street; near the railway station. It is to be hoped quantities of flower's will come forward. The committee is organising a jumble sale to be held in St. Thomas' Parish Hall, Union Street, Freeman's Bay on Tuesday, September 19. From past experience "ft has been proved that these sales serve a twofold purpose, namely, to help the friends of the mission and to enable the poorer classes to purchase clean and useful garments, produce, etc., at a very reasonable price.

For a number of years there have been two women Governors in the South Seas, but we had to wait to hear of them until Mi.'Jj Beatrice Grimshaw, the novelist, returned from her long sojourn there. She went out in the first iinstance to collect firsthand materiaPfor a book, and was so enamoured of that part of the world that fhe spent .fifteen years there in all. She has returned to England, and the first-fruit_ of her travels is seen in her "Conn of the Coral Seas," into which she has introduced Mrs. Mahoney, the woman Governor of Sudest Island" south-east of Papua. This clever and intrepid woman has spent more than' eighteen years in governing the 17.000 natives on Sudest Island. . She now spends the greater part of her time in Sydney, but as she lived for thirty-three years on the island as trader, farmer, prospector, and finally as Governor, she may be said to have given it her life-long service. The other woman Governor ; Mrs. Ta-bel, has governed Babn Island, in the Torres Straits, for nine years-

Full details of the will of Miss Alice C. de Rothschild "were made known recently and show that the value of the personal estate has been provisionally declared for probate at £1,500,000. When the various valuations are completed the death duties will, it is believed, amount to about £750,000. Miss Rothschild left e large number of legacies and annuities to old friends, servants, and employees, fast and present, both in England and ranee, among them being her head gardener, who receives £3000 and an annuity of £52; her butler, £2000 and an annuity of £52. To all servants and employees a.t Waddesdon Manor, Eythorpe, and 142, Piccadilly, not specifically mentioned in the will" a year's wages is left, *nd £2500 is bequeathed to Bucks County Hospital, Aylesbury. >aiss Rothschild left to her old friend and companion, Miss Clarisse Watkin, £15,000 and an annuity of £500, also her private papers, pet dogs, and jewellery, and the contents of her London house, 142, Piccadilly. She left her villa at Grasse and the furniture and contents, and the residue of her real and personal property in France to her cousin, Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The Waddesdon and Eythorpe Estate and contents of Waddesdon Manor, including the works of art there, which she inherited from her brother, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, are bequeathed to her grand-nephew, Mr. James de Rothschild, of 34, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, whom she also appointed executor and residuary legatee.

Stories from England'n history were told at Princess Mary's ball in aid of the • hospitals at the Albert Hall, London, recently, says a correspondent. From a box decorated with carnations, the Queen looked down to the great shining floor where noted men and women of other days lived again. The dance, which began conventionally with the essentially modern one-step, slowly drifted into the i perfection of ceremonial which belonged to Victorian days. After th« pageantry of modern dress, after the short skirts, the pierrots, the art students, after cardinals had danced with ballet girls and Napoleonic soldiers bad fox-trotted with fcurteenth-century ladies, how delightful it was to have the grace and orderly arrangement of these processions from the past! Queen Mary arrived at 10 minutes to 11. She wore a gown of turquoise that shimmered with silver like a blue night shot with starlight. With her was the Prince of Wales. The Princess Royal, Princess Maud, Princess Christian, Princess Helena Victoria. Princess Marie Louise, and Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone, and Lady Mary Cambridge were the guests of the Queen and shared her box. After the National Anthem and" '* God Bless the Prince of Wales" had been sung the first procesaion began. The dancers of a moment ago made way, circling the floor in a ring of flaming colour, while men and women of the early nineteenth century waltzed with the infinite leisure* of those days, from the stage, down a wide stairway, to the great space which had suddenly become a Victorian ballroom. There was the ?almerston procession. First that historic figure of William Pitt, made real by Lord Torrington; Lady Hamilton, the Duchess of Wellington; Amelia Sedley, and a company of 1816 characters, who made a delightful prelude to the Victorian pageant to come. Then came men and women who were present at Queen Vic- ■ feotu'v Coronation an 1830> and the Ben-

timental sighed for the grace of those placid days, the bewitching ringlets, the frills and fichus, the crinounes and curtseys. A little' later, and there came the 1542 procession arranged by Lady Newnes. Here the descendants of the guests at Queen Victoria's ball given in 1842 at Buckingham Palace arranged themselves in bewildering and beautiful clothes.

The usual' monthly meeting of the Royal New Zealand. Society for the Health of Women and Children was held in the office, Strand Arcade, on August 3. The president, Mrs. J. L. R. Bloomfield, was in the chair, and Lady Lockhart, Mesdames Beattie, Hodgson, Hodgson, jun., Wilkinson, Alexander, Fowlds, inn., Apted, Hudson, McLachlan, Culpan, Benjamin, Martin, Coleman, Sydney Allen, Carr Rollett, A. Ferguson, Fitchett, H. Richmond, E. Roberton, Warwick Wilson, Richardson, Misses Salek, BagnaiJ, and Sister Hannah attended. Miss Paltrick, director of Plunket nurses, was present, and was introduced to the members of the committee. Miss Paltn<* gave a very interesting report of tne Auckland branch's work, and its amazing growth in the last six months, tone also Ipoke of some of the remits that had been passed at the conference held in Wellington on July 25 of this year. Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Partridge then gave, an account of the business done at the conference. Dr. Truby King hadadvised postponing the campaign for fundsJor * Karitane Harris Hospital in Auckland until some time later, but it was decided to hold a campaign towards end of the year for funis to « carry onto present work in Auckland. The nurse report read as follows: -Visits to New cases, 277; old cases, 675 , \ Hits W office: Adults, 1423; babies, 1172. Out Nations- Visits to homes—Old cases, f 6O i"ew cases, 43. Owing to the expansion of the work the society has now removed to new rooms at the top ot Esmonds Street.

I Nearlv 2000 delegates ara &\*™f™& matters'of mutual interest at the nlty- < 'fourth annual : l>einc: held at Brighton, England, says our London correspondent. The gathering.is unique in that for the first time _n the history of co-operation the congress has a woman for its president, Misa BlatjP« 'f Llewelyn Davies, the late general secretarv of the Women's Co-operative build In'her presidential address Mm Davies made a strong appeal for coalition between co-operative and Labour movements. She said co-operations were better Utiea than most others to meet the present, economic crisis. The automatic co-opera-tive savings had been a bulwark against poor relief, and the co-operative credits and loans given to miners, amounting to £605 719. had again shown, as in the railway strike, the interpendenco of cooperation and trade unionism. Co-opera-tion was far more than a reformist movement. They were working for no patchwork modifications, no '« reconciliation ot Capital and Labour," no " infusion of a better spirit" into old industrial forms. They were lavinjr the foundations of si new industrial civilisation. Their programme transferred the power of capitalism into the hands of the people organised democratically as consumers, made Capital the servant of Labour, allowed tor a partnership with the workers, abolished profit, socialised rent, and would ultimalelv get rid of the present -wag«s system. If they desired to socialise the national economic system either througu co-operation or any other fonn of nationalisation, thev must not only get rid of profitmaking and autocracy in factories and workshops, in coalmines and on railways, but they must carry on international trade without profit-making and on democratic lines. The magnificent growth of co-opera-tion in countries throughout the world rom-ided the machinery which made international co-operative trade a. practical pronosition. Through the co-operative movements jof different countries they would graduallv be able to build .up an international' co-operative wholesale society where the surpluses of international trade would be pooled and divided among the nations, and where the Government would be democratically in the hands of the representatives of the national movements. International commerce would thus become not a, light between nations to overreach each other, but a harmony in which national sifts would be used in the interests of all. T.M.C.A. NOTES. The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Young Women's Christian Association was-held on Friday. The president, Mrs. G.'H. Wilson, was in the chair and welcomed new members to the board for the forthcoming year :—Mesdames Kinder, Wright, Bush, and Crookes. Officers for the ensuing year were appointed as follows: —Vice-presidents, Mesdames J. McKail Geddes, W. Todd Smith, J. C. Dickson, C. W. Garrard, J. W. Wiseman, and M. McLeod; Mrs. C. A. Whitney, elected special board'member on the executive ; Mrs. Joseph Stanton, re-elected as treasmrer, and Mrs. Buchanan as secretary to the board. The following ladies were appointed as chairmen of the various committees : —Mrs. McLeod, religious work; Mrs. Wilson, finance; Mrs. Todd Smith, senior and educational; Mrs Dickson, health and recreation: Mrs. Winstone, membership and social; Mrs. Snowdcm, housing and immigration; Mrs. Garrard, house and cafeteria; Mrs. Wiseman, hostel (Mrs. Charles Smith, acting); Miss Geddes, girl's department; Miss Statham, president and Mise V. Page, secretary business girls' club, Customs Street; the Misses Currie and "Laird, thrift club. Plans for the forthcoming finance campaign were completed, dates being fixed at September 4 and 15. 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