WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18354, 21 March 1923, Page 14

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL NEWS. -"«

Professor Algie and Mrs. Algie have returned to their home in Remuera Road.

Mrs E R. Beckett, from Raetihi, is at present staying with Mrs. John Reid, Alden Road.

Miss L. Liddle, of Auckland, sailed by the Makura last week on a visit to Sydney.

Mrs. Noel Nelson, of Wanganm, who has been staying at the Grand Hotel has returned home.

Captain and Mrs. Lewis who have recently arrived from England have taken Mrs. Austin Carr's house in Dilwertn Avenue.

Mrs Sydney Nathan with her mother, Mrs. Baume, is living at Corgen until her new home in Dilworth Avenue la completed.

Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hellaby, who recently arrived from England, are staying with 'Mrs. R. Hellaby, Bramcote, Remuera Road.

Mrs. St. John Clarke is going south at the end of the week and will spend some time in Wellington and Palmorston North.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blundell, of Wellington, sailed last week by the Makura for Sydney, en routo to England by the Narkunda.

Mrs. Edward Burgess, accompanied by her grand-daughter, has ai rived from England to visit her daughter, Mrs. F. Ward, of Takapuna.

Mrs. Cook, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Auckland during the past few weeks, has returned to her home in Masterton.

Mrs. Romer is at present in Australia and will remain there during the visit, to Sydney and Melbourne of the Hi M.S. Chatham, on which her husband is lieutenant.

Mrs. H. 0. Nolan, who has been living at Manurcwa in Mr. David Nathan's homo, is coming into town at the beginning of the month, having taken Mrs. Ware's house in Portland Road.

At a recent, meeting of the Query Club, Miss Margaret Forte was elected president of the club in Miss Jackson's place. Miss Jackson left New Zealand last month for an extended trip to England and the Continent.

Mrs. Scott Carnavan and family, who have been at Milford for the summer months, have returned to town and have taken a house in Orakei Road. Her niece, Miss Dorothy Booth, of Otaki, who has been visiting her, has returned South.

Mrs. Pankhurst is now in Toronto, where she holds a public position as teacher of hygiene. Her daughter Christabel, also is in Toronto where she is an Evangelical lecturer, giving addresses on the inspiration of the Bible and the interpretation of prophecy.

Among the visitors at present staying at Cargen are Mrs. A, Johns, Mies Johns, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Allen, Gisborne, Mr. and Mrs. R. M, McCullock, California, Mr and Mrs. H. Spooner, Wairarapa, Mr. and Mrs. A. E Olden, Miss Tingey and Miss Jansen of Wellington.

Nurse Jones, who for the last two years has been working with the Plunket Society, was last week the recipient of a presentation from the committee of the society on the eve of- her marriage. Lady Lockhart, acting president, made the presentation, which took the form of a pair of silver candlesticks, and spoke of the high esteem in which Nurse Jones was held, especially as regards her excellent services in connection with Plunket work.

Lady Evelyn Herbert is perhaps one of the most envied girls in society at the moment. She had the distinction of being with her father, Lord Carnarvon, at the discovery of the tomb of Tutenkhamon. Lady Evelyn, who is just 21, was a debutante of 1918, and is a very pretty girl, keen on all kinds of sport.. Her very uncommon third Christian name, Almina, comes from her mother, who was a Miss Wombwell, a connection of Sir Henry Wombwell. Like 1 most of her family, Lady Evelyn is fond of reading and rather more studious in her tastes than the majority of modern girls.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling was in the habit of selling his old school books to a dame «who kept a curiosity shop at Bideford. In recent years many people have visited the shop, hoping to pick up a volume with an early composition of the great man scrawled in the margin. They have been disgusted to hear that the old dame had nibbed out everything of the kind. "No," she said, on one occasion, "Master Kipling woe always fair to me, and he may have written things not sp good as those he has sold sicca, I wasn't going to have them poking fun at him." Which shows the popularity Mr. Kipling enjoyed in his schooldays.

The simplest of Indian Royal titles is that of "rajah," which is literally "king," but is applied even to a petty princeling. A maharajah is a " great king"— a ruler who retains some degree of actual sovereignity and to not compelled to look to the British official resident at his Court for authority ,to act. The • feminine of rajah is rani, 'better known in the AngloIndian form; of ranneo, and this is the proper designation of a reigning Hindoo princess or quern. A begum is any princess or other lady of rank and wealth— word being the Anglo-Indian term for the Hindoostanee begun, a "princess." Nawab la oar familiar "nabob," which has its origin in the same Hindoostanee word. Officially a nawab is a deputy-Governor or Viceroy.

On Thursday night Miss Warner,, Sun-day-school expert and demonstrator, was presented with an ebony brash and mirror by the Primary and Junior Associations of the Auckland Sunday-school Union. For over tWo years Miss Warner has been doing extentuve organising and demonstration work for the Sunday-school Union. During that time the Primary and Junior Associations of Sunday-schools have been formed, the work in many of our schools has been m<.. -i fully organised, an improved system of grading has been introduced, and the standard of work x brought to a higher level. Last year Miss Warner visited Wellington, Palmerston North, Levin, Dunedin and Christchurch, and has this year been asked to do further work in Dunedin. It is to take up this work that she leaves Auckland now. Miss Warner was thanked for what she had done for the association, and was assured that her work in the South Island would be watched with great interest by her northern friends.

Hunting has not been a field of sport ' in which our Royalty have shon* until the present generation, when the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York have : brilliantly retrieved the position. King ] Edward, of course, never cared for hunting, and was rarely seen in the field. His ' father, the Prince Consort, could never understand the passionate love of the gentry for riding to hounds. The King has hunted very little, although when , Duke of York he was seen occasionally j with the Dukn of Beaufort's hounds. When he became Prince of Wales he i occasionally went out with the Belvoir, ' but since he ascended the throne he has practically given up riding to hound':. This is, perhaps, surprising as His Majesty is an exceptionally fine horseman, and always when possible rides early in the park at Windsor, while he may often bo seen in saddle in Rotten Row by seven a.m., when in residence at Buckinghnv-i ' Palace. The Prince of Wales is, on th» ! other hand, an enthusiastic follower ci ! the hounds. While at Easton Grey House, \ near Malmesbury, he will hunt with the j Duke of Beaufort's pack. He is a daring ' rider and often in at the death.

Essex Agricultural Society, which is to hold its' 61st annual show irt June next, has elected Mrs. Louisa Mary Calverley, of Down Hall, Harlow, this year's president. The society had a "woman _ president eleven years ago in Mrs. David Mcintosh, of Haverling Park, Romford, a noted exhibitor of Jersey cattle. Mrs. Calverley, who is a daughter of the late Sir Brydges Henniker, Bart., of Dunmow, was born in Essex, and has lived in the country all her life. She keeps a herd of Jerseys on her home farm, and during the last-few years has won several prizes with Jersey butter. Whenever possible, Mrs. Calverley hunts with the Essex hounds three days a week. During the war she had a hospital of 60 beds for men in Harlow, and one of 20 beds for convalescents in her own house for four years.

The first woman to be admitted a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Miss Aleen Cust, is a sister of Sir Charles Cust, Equerry to the King. Miss Cust passed through the four-years' course at the Edinburgh Veterinary College with distinction, but the R.C.V.S. refused to admit her to its examinations. After gaining further practical experience as an assistant in Scotland, Miss Cust went to Ireland, where she established an extensive practice, and for ten years held the post of veterinary inspector under the Gal way County Council and the Department "of Agriculture in Ireland. She volunteered for service during the war, and was appointed by the War Office to a responsible position in a bacteriological laboratory attached to a veterinary hospital in "France. It has taken her 18 years to get the R.C.V.S. diploma!

The " best man" is an essential feature in all our marriages, and can be traced back to the days of marriage by capture," when the " best man" was the comrade called upon by the bridqgroom to assist in the catching of his bride. The " honeymoon" was not always a pleasure trip as'it is now; originally it was a rapid flight of the newly-married couple to escape the wrath of an outraged father. There is no doubt that the bride and bridegroom deemed it advisable to keep out of his way for at least a month, to allow time for his vows of vengeance to cool down. The custom of giving presents to bridesmaids originated in a form of toll. The bride's girl friends went through the form of preventing the bridegroom and his friends from taking her from her home, a mock battle ensued, each party pelting the other with sweetmeats, and this was finally settled by the bridegroom making presents to all the girls.

"Women of 1923," the newest American year book, reveals that driving lorries, "cleaning streets, and plumbing have become, during and since the war, " as much feminine occupations as playing the piano and sewing fine seams were generations ago." Surveying the occupations of women throughout the world, the year book finds that overalls, grease, and heavy manual labour no longer have any terrors for them, but that there may now be seen women " stevedores, dock labourers, sailors and deck hands." Women, the year book notes, " are now successfully doing the work of blacksmiths, machinists, carpenters, brickmakers, tinsmiths, wood choppers, and goods clerks on railways. They are also driving delivery lorries, keeping livery stables, cobbling shoes, and washing out boilers." Side by side with this increase in the physical labours of women is chronicled the feminine invasion of the higher professions. There are now 1738 women lawyers, judges and magistrates; 1787 clergy women, 14,617 women artists, 7219 women physicians, 1829 women dentists, 1117 women architects, and 41 women engineers. No fewer than 8,549,511 women are employed and paid in the United States, and of the '678 occupations under review only 33 do not yet boast of women recruits.

I At St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, on January 30, the wedding took place of Captain H. F. E. Smith, D.5.0., 60th Rifles, son of the late Mr. F. E. Smith, of Oxwick Hall, Fakenham, Norfolk, and of the late Mrs. Smith, of Manor House, Ryburgh, Norfolk, and the Hon. Moyra Plunket, third daughter of the late Lord Plunket, of Old Connaught House, Bray, Co. WicklaW, and of The Lady Victoria Braithwaite, wife of Lieut-Col. F. P. Braithwaite, C.8.E., D.5.0., M.C. The bride, who was given away by her stepfather, Colonel Braithwaite, wore a dress of cream chiffon velvet, made with longwaisted tight bodice and puffed hips. The square decollfttage was edged with a berthe of old lace, and the silver train was draped with an over-train of lace lent by the Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, grandmother of the bride. i The long tulle veil reached the hem of the skirt, and the bridal bouquet was a Goodyear sheaf of lilies of the valley tied with silver tissue. The bridal retinue consisted of eight bridesmaids— Hon. Eileen Plnnket (sister of the bride), Lady Ursula Blackwood (cousin of the j bride), Miss Aileen Guinness, Miss Honor Pepys, the Hon. Ivy Somerset, Miss Olga Eyre, Miss Doris Fox and Miss Eileen [T'orr. They were all dressed alike in j cream crepe, draped to one side and [ finished with a silver and diamante ornament. Their bouquets were of yellow i tulips tied with silver tissue, and they wore bandeaux of soft green velvet, twisted with green pearls. Lieut.Col. F. G. Willan, C.M.G., D.5.0., a brother officer of the bridegroom, was best man. The service was choral and I the church was decorated with masses of j white and yellow ' flowers, chiefly chrysanthemums and tulips.

Londoners see many attractive weddings of interesting people, but none could possibly eclipse in picturesque charm the special function of January 31 in the beautiful church of St. Margaret's, Westminster. The wedding was that of Lieut.-Col. Sir Edward Grigg, K.C.V.0., C.M.G., D.5.0., M.C., M.P. for to the Hon. Joan Dickson-Poynder, only child of Lord and Lady Islington. The Prince of Wales came to town especially from Easton Gray to be present, attended by Admiral Sir L. Halaey. The decorations were simple and very effective, the . scheme having been left to Captain Douglas Hope, the blind officer, who is now one of London's leading florists. On the Altar were vases of white - harissi lilies. On guard at the chancel approach were giant orange trees gay with ripe fruit, and another pair stood at the* west end laden with white buds and fruit. The approach to the church was lined by a detachment of girl guides from Islington, of which the bride has long been commander. With a long-sleeved, draped gown cf rich ivory chiffon velvet, supplemented by a silver tissue train on which were embossed velvet roses, the bride wore to church strikingly handsome silver cloak which was lined with white fur for warmth. A long veil of the finest tulle was fastened to a deep bandeau of silver and crystal with a spray of large orange flowers at one side. Her chief ornament was a magnificient cross of sapphires and [diamonds, a gift from the bridegroom and a cluster of real English-grown orange blossom was carried. The train was borne by tiny pages—there were four of them—clad in brilliant crimson and E#yal purple shorts and doublets. They were the Hon. Peter Cecil, son of Lord Cranborne, the Hon. John Jacob , Astor, son of Viscountess Astor, M.P., the Hon. David St. Clair Erskino, son of the Countess of Rosslyn 1 and Master Julian Asquith, son of Mrs' Raymond Asquith. The retinue of ten included six little bridesmaids, daintv ! little girls dressed after the manner of ;the Balbi children in Vandyck's picture in the National Gallery. All the I picture frocks were in velvet, but no two were alike in colour. One was old rose j another was golden yellow; another amethyst; another French blue'; another paler turquoise; and the sixth 'was i willow green. Mr. Arthur Penn was the I best man. Those who went to the vestry included the Prince of Wales and Mr. i Austen Chamberlain. I

ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced by cable from London, of Mrs. Kohn, youngest daughter of the Hon. Charles and Mrs, Louisson, Christehurch, to Mr. Kenneth Bartlett, a well-known English barrister.