WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18342, 7 March 1923, Page 14

WOMAN'S WORLD.

. I;' SOCIAL NEWS. ■| .- Miss Anita Welter has returned from a holiday visit to Rotorua- *"•; Mr. and Mrs. P. Mitchell, of Dunedin, £ are visiting Auckland, and are staying 'i at the Central Hotel. : Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Laurence, of Wellington, aro visiting Auckland before, going on to Rotorua and Taupo. '-■ Mrs. Gillam, Herns Bay, is spending ";*• a few weeks' holiday at Cambridge, and •*is staying at Mona Vale. Mr. and Mrs. W. Holmes, of Wellingi ton, who have been staying at Cargen, lmvo returned to their homo in Wellington. ": Mrs. P. Dyer and Miss L. Dyer, of Wellington, are at present on a visit to Auckland, and are staying at the Grand : Hotel. f Canon and Mrs. Percival James arrived . from Dunedin on Friday, and have taken • up their residence at St. Mary's Vicarage, : Parnell. I Miss A. M. English, who has been dis- : trict nurse at Patetonga, has resigned having accepted a position in North "Auckland. /„ Miss Olive Vincent, who has been stay- • ling at Arundel, will leave by the Niagara 'for a three .months' visit to Honolulu '.-and Los Angeles. Miss Q. Johnson, of Wellington, who has been staying with Mrs. Lawrence Taylor, Mount Eden, left for Hamilton pit the beginning of tho week. * Miss D. Gordon, who has been staying •with -Mrs. Caldwell in Cambridge, has returned to town. Miss R. Spencer is at present the guest of Mrs. Caldwell, j ; Miss Marjorie Bowen, the novelist, has been admitted a Fellow of the- Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain. She is,, one of three women writers who hold this" distinction. r During the recent call at San Remo of , an Italian submarine squadron, the j , Queen-Dowager of Italy, who has just j , * completed her seventy-first year, went , for an hour's trip under water. i ."' . _ : & Mrs. D. Willis, of Greatford, and Mrs. . Hewitt, of Palmerston North, are at present staying at Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Thompson, of Wellington, who | ere at present residing in Auckland, have i also taken a flat at Cargen. ( " Miss Rosina Bnckman, Mr. Maurice I D'Oislv, Miss Leon, and Mr. Percy Kahn, 1 "who have just finished a tour of New " "Zealand, sailed by the Niagara. After a* ' -short holiday in America they will pro- j ceed to London. ( ' 'H Miss Julia E. Fisher, who for the past j three years has been directress of the { I>hysical department of the Y.W.C.A., j ; eft on Saturday on a tour of New Zea- j i land, prior to her return to America. ' She is accompanied by her sister, Mrs, 1 , ; ySS. S. Apted. - . . ■ ' "* ——— i *~4jlr French magistrate has. jOst decided | • that husbands have a legal right to ad-1 minister corporal punishment to their j .'. ~-wU- wives as,a means of enforcing their do- " mestic authority, provided always that j such corporal punishment does not inflict , ,'r serious -bodily harm. -.' The dramatic circle of the Auckland ; • '"" Women's Club met on Monday evening J, ;:i with Mrs. C. C. Forsyth as convenor. i, '■■■"■ To-morrow the first of this season's ] ;;i luncheon talks will be given when Pro-1! $; feasor J. C. Johnson will speak on Folk . '■j$ Music;: The quarterly meeting of the i «»• club will take place on March 22. 1 «'.' .'»;;■' - : '"- - ■ .-..-. ' frt t" f '■•'' <'•'"'.' ' ■ "' '• ' , '■••'> Mrs.. A. W. Perkins has returned to her j | : home in Portland Road, Remuera. Mrs. , «V M.»Louisson, who was occupying it, is ( 1" now residing at Cargen. Other viai-' i ".",: tors staying at the same place are j j & Mr. -,*. and Mrs. St. Leger, Gisborne, I ] •pi M.\, and Mrs. Richardson, Gisborne, Mr. jj ■;.:]. and*ifrs. Baldshaw, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. < 4 Kinp. "London, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mason. 11 $ Misg-'-Baslet'c, Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. j 1 $ Phillips and Miss Phillips, Melbourne. Ji '!**' X3Z*t&» ' " '"■ >>■ ' ■ " " "' * £ j .-»*} .' ,V : ' ' ■ I . s "■•• A- league' v has been formed in Pekin j , '11 by those who belicva that women should I s ■'. : ,. be allowed to take part in political life. |i ■$* Amd'tiflC its members are some of the most ' 1 )% eminent women of China. The league } *</' calif for the i enfranchisement of women i t ♦>j on equal terms with men, equal rights in 11 '•"/. marriage and the furtherance of educa- i i£ tion."and social reform. f -v ? J'j-.l. : : ■ > '' ' l 5 The Bible, "The Arabian Nights," i - V 4 Shakespeare. Dante's "Divine Comedy," «»'•■ Horace, Homer, "Don Quixote," .',', "Grimm's Fairy Tales," and Plato's Re- *,',': public. These are the nine books which f jjj are regarded as the essential library by i £ a little old London woman. Over the \ ' '... door of her house is a signboard bear- i 'X, ing the. legend: "The House of the Nine c Books." "Everyone will find in those j £; nine books something to interest," she , V» says. This philosopher is an Irishwoman, «* whose name is Mme. d'Esterre. She has j. i' travelled in most parts, of the world and . ;:; has eight languages other than English ■ ,;; to her credit. , ' 1 ;*.. Lady Elizabeth Butler, the famous i V artist, whose "Scotland for Ever" and £ **] ether war pictures are so familiar, is the c {<| elder sister of the late Mrs. Alice Maynell, r, '•'• the poet and essayist. Her father, the r C! late Mr. T. J. Thompson, was a Cam- I •:" bridge graduate, who devoted his early s - life to the education of his two daughters, a with whom he spent many years in Italy, c Born in Lausanne, Lady Butler was reared n in Florence and Rome, where she imbibed c . a great love of classical art. She now x lives at Bansha Castle, County Tipperary, \ and will this year celebrate the jubilee of ;•; her first, Royal Academy success. It was in .1873 that she exhibited her famous battle picture "Missing." • "The Roll ..'- Call'' came the next year, followed by j ] .". "The 23th Regiment ft Quatre Bras," in L ",, 1875! and so, each succeeding year for many years she enriched the permanent ... art treasures of the nation with these " glorious records of British deeds on the . '•■■'. battlefield. In Lieutenant-General Sir ~ William Francis Butler, who died in 1910, ! she had a helpmate who was in full sympathy with ber ambitions. "''; Mrs. Rosita Forbes, the well-known ] explorer, is leaving London in a few days" time for Palestine, which is to be her 1 '<■' starling point for a further expedition i ■«' into the lesser-known parts of the Sahara '.'.' and . the Western Sudan, states I .. an exchange. Her destination, she > ', says, is entirely uncertain, aa her route will te dependent on circumstancesHer main object in making the '. is to obtain more material for a book on i the Arabs which she has been commis- 1 : sioncd to write by an African firm. When at home, Mrs. McGrath, as she became on her second marriage some months ago, is noted for ber beautiful clothes. A J man's disguise, as well as a woman's . ;;;, travelling garb, finds its place in her ■ desert wardrobe. She is taking also many , Y little bottles of stain, so that she can, if j , ■ti necessary, take on the complexion of any j < ■!• native,, in the Sahara. She proposes to i ,'; visit at Haifa, Nazek Elbed, the feminist \ leader in Syria, who came into promi- I '; nence during tho Arab movement of 1912, ' '■!> and ran orphan schools in Damascus. It in to this enterprising woman that Mrs. 1 Forbes has dedicated her new book, "The 1 Quest," now due for publication* L i

'■j: Several well-known Aucklanders ■ are leaving this week on a trip to England and an extended tour of the Continent. Among passengers by the Niagara are Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Vaile and Miss Vaile, also Mrs; M. W. Bidwell, and Miss Bidwell, Mrs. J. J. Craig and the Misses J. and M. Craig, -who will be joined by Miss Jessie Craig at Suva. Dr. Cecil Webb-Johnson's opinion---"I have found women axe greedier than men"— decidedly controversial. The substance of his "charge" is that women, besides taking the regular meals that men take, are always "nibbling" in between. On that, we think, the opposition will be fairly solid. If women, taking the day through, eat of toner than men, they certainly eat less; even the charge that they are given to nibbling between meals has quite a limited application. How many women sit down to a five-course dinner and eat the "square meal" that men seem to require.' In fact, the. present tendency is towards shorter and less substantial meals- We should say that the besetting trouble as regards women's diet is not that they eat too much, but that they do not always choose the right sort of "foods. Whatever danger there may ever have been that women might eat too much no longer exists to-day, when so many women live in • a constant dread of growing fat. A certain degree of corpulence at a certain age is no longer considered inevitable. Therefore, many women diet themselves consciously or' unconsciously. Whether wisely or* mistakenly is another matter It comes back to the right sorts of food in the right combination. A company, nine-tenths of whom were women, assembled in Caxton Hall, Westminster, recently, to hear a debate on the question whether women should be eligible for the priesthood. The excited interruptions of the speeches were reminiscent of the "Votes for Women" days. Tho antagonists wore the Rev. F. M. ' Green, rector of Abenhall, Gloucester- | shire, who took tho positive side, on b.»half of the League of the Church Militant, and Mr. R. K. Cowie, who stated what was described on the notice calling the meeting as the Anglo-Catholic objection to the proposition. Mr. Green argued that a priest was one to whom was entrusted a cure of souls. That was his raison d'etre; and unless he shared in the love of souls he was wholly inadequate for his task. That love for souls was displayed by women flay after day in the slums of the great cities. The Church had need of women as priests, because of the dearth of male candidates for holy orders. Today men and women were walking together in all walks of life—women doctors, women barristers, women journalists, women members of Parliament, even women theologians; yet there were no women priests. The exception was glaring. Mr Ccwie had a stormv passage in replying to Mr. Green. The whole of his contention, he said, was based in the fact that it had not pleased Almighty God to call woman to the priesthood. The Church was not a democracy, but a monarchy. Amonc all those who have been trying to obtain a second edition of youth through the grafting of some mysterious gland, I do not think that there has been one woman, and this in spite of the fact that old age is the classical bugbear of woman rather than man, says a writer in an exchange. She who is supposed to dread the coming of wrinkles and grey hairs more than any man ever did, yet holds back from the remedy— and why? Not from any fear or suffering, for she will submit cheerfully to the torture of having her face skinned and its contours "lifted" ; nor because she shrinks from any association with monkeys, since she festoons herself most contentedly with their fur: but rather because her craving for youth is not as a man's craving. Woman's longing to remain young becomes most acute when she finds her first white hairs, and sees for the first time that the mischievous crow has left his telltale footprints at the corners of her eyes; man's only begins when a round of golf takes it out of him unduly, and he notices that the young men call him "sir." She prizes' youth when she sees it first begin to slip away from her; he seldom misses it until it has gone. To a woman the loss of her youth means the loss of her looks. It does not worry her in the least if she cannot walk as far as she used to do, or play as strenuous a game of tennis; she is only concerned with the fact that her checks have lost their bloom and her hair its colour, the rest does not matter. And when the beauty specialists, and the masseuse, and the rest of the experts, have done their best; or their worst, she resigns herself, more or less, to the inevitable. Besides, she may have the consolation of being a grand-mother, and only a woman knows the joy of that. Being a grandfather is by no means the same thing; age brings far more compensations to a woman than to a man, in spite of popular belief to the contrary; when a man grows old he probably has to give up doing most, if not all, of the things which to him made life worth living, while to the normal woman the things which demand merely physical strength for their accomplishment will always take a secondary place. Loss of power, whether physical or mental, affects the average man more strongly than the average woman. You will not often find a woman who breaks her heart because she has to retire from business, yet it happens often enough in the caee of men. You cannot gainsay nature indefinitely, and the ordinary normal woman would never change a happy grandmotherhood for a second helping at the banquet of youththough probably gland doctors. WOMAN CATTLE EXPERT. The Republic of Armenia has the credit of having the first woman cattle expert Jsays an exchange). This is Madam Zonia Tsendorf, a Russian refugee, who has been appointed chief veterinarian and director of stock farming for the American Near Eeast Relief Organisation in Armenia. In her new post she will have control! of several of the most important ha fc gniohe ytoaai lkihrbscm cmf cmfm stock farms in Armenia. Madam Tsendorf was formerly the wife of one of the largest stock farmers in Russia. She lived in Moscow and assisted her huscand in the management of seven big estates in Southern Russia. She received the title of veterinary surgeon from the Government College in Moscow. During the revolution, she became a refugee in South Russia, and finally, when her last resources were gone, she found herself an applicant for refugee relief. It was discovered that she, was a cattle expert, and she was immediately employed on one of the farming projects in Northern Armenia, from which she rose rapidly to her position as director for the Republic. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Miss Louise Croucher, the well-known violiniste. of Richmond, to Mr. Daniel Hoare, of Wellington. The engagement is announced of Miss Lesley Sanderson, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson, Remuera, to Lieutenant St. John Hill, Aldershot, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hill, Auckland. The engagement is announced of Miss Isabel Douglas Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Wilson Smith, Vfciterloo Quadrant, Auckland, to Mr. Ernest Leonard Beacham, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Beacham, Richmond Road, Ponsonby. The engagement is announced of Miss Marjorie Isobel Bevins, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bevins, "Upland Road, Remuera, to Mr. Harold W. Collis, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Collis, of St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.