WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18498, 7 September 1923, Page 11

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL news;

i/fcliss Moya Kennedy, of Wellington, 'is J Ihe guest of Mrs. E. IX f Ashton, "Victoria i Avenue, Eemuera. . - •v ; jjr. and Mrs. M. Luckie, and Miss jkio, of Wellington, are on a visit to Auckland and are staying at Cargcn. :,'i Mrs. C. M. Eell, Takapuna, is leaving to-day by the Ulimavoa, for a three--1 months' holiday iii Australia. • Madame Bella Pevsner, who has tra- > veiled extensively in tho East in connection with the Zionist movement, and who is now making a two-ypars tour in the interests of the Jewish National Fund, arrived in Auckland, from Sydney, Iby iha Ulimaroa on Wednesday, and is staying at tho Central Hotel.

Mrs. Georgo Mackenzie, of Lake View, Queenstown, general New Zealand secretary of the late Pandita Ramabai's Mukti Mission for tho • Child Widows of India, and Mrs. W. R. " Don, of Dunedin, D.Diniifion 'president' of tio W.0.T.U., arrived in Auckland from the South on Tuesday mernir.g, ar.d are staying at Stonehursts Mrs. Don, who is also a member of the Mukti Council, is giving ' some lantern lectures illustrating the work of tho mission. Both Mrs. Mackenzie and Mrs. Don arts also making preliminary arrangements for the Indian and Oriental sale of work to ho held during the last week in September, in the concert chamber of the Town Hall, in aid of the memorial appeal for . Ramabai. The object of this appeal is to supply funds {or the free distribution of Ramabai's translation of the New Testament into the Marathi language. Mrs. Mackenzie has a large and varied assortment of Eastern goods arriving for tho sale.

OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT.

Hiss Gladys Pott, 0.8. E., ,is an interesting personality who will visit No* Zealand during the next few weeks. Miss Pott is a member of the Overseas Settlement Committee delegation, of which Sir William Windham, General Wanfhope, and Mr. J. Wigmore are also members. j They have been visitng Australia on busi- j ness" connected with various immigration schemes, and it is at the invitation 01 the New Zealand Government "that they are to tour through New Zealand for a few weeks before returning home. Miss Pott was one of the organisers of the. "Women's Land Army during the war, and has done a great deal of valuable work in developing schemes for the resettlement of women and families in different parts of the Empire. .... .. After the armistice the demobilisation of many thousands of women, who had served with the women 3 corps attached to the Armv, Navy, and Air Forces, besides all those of the nuraing service, threatened to produce a serious condition of unemployment, and it was decided that some outlet for this valuable surplus labour would undoubtedly be found in the overseas Dominions. A conference of the chief officials of the Women's Services and the many representative social _ organisations was called at the ■ Colonial Office, Downing Street, by the Secretary of State, Lord Milc.cr, and. it was ultimately decided to send _ & delegation to visit Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, to report upon the opportunities offered to women in those countries. ' This was looked upon as a notable derision in the women's world. Miss Gladys Pott, and Miss F. M. Girdler, Administrator of the Women's Royal Air Force, and now Lady Superintendent of St. diary's Homes, at Otahuhu, were chosen as representatives, and appointed as the first delegates. They" were despatched with official credentials to the Dyke of Devonshire, 1 Governor-General of' Canada, and toured for .eight months through the country, doing much valuable and constructive work, by means of which the foundations were laid for the .present immigration scheme. Sir William Windham, who is with the present mission. travelled with Miss Pott and Miss Girdler for a part of their journey. The delegates' report, which was placed before Parliament, is now used as the basis foxofficial . information to - Miss Pott has since visited South; Africa on a similar mission.

BEEP BREATHING*

A woman who suffers from laervousness whenever she has anything important '£o do declares that she finds deep breathing exercises of Immense benefit to her. To steady her mind and nerves, she takes twelve long, deep breaths, one after ano'Cher. When possible, she goes to an open window and takes fresh air into her lungs, breathing it in deeply. Then the breath should _be held for a few moments before being slowly expelled. ' Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth —that is the correct way. . . ■ . This is also a good thing to do when you find yourself unable to concentrate upon 'what you are doing. When your mind wanders away from the matter in hand in all sorts of irrelevant byways, and, especially • when your worries . will obCrude themselves out of season, breathe deep for several minutes. This should have the effect c{ clearing the mind and getting the brain, working again upon its proper business. . Public speakers, by the way, are taught to breathe deeply before embarking upon a speech (it can be done quife unostentatiously, while sitting, if necessary), and debutantes are taught to take long breaths before the ordeal of making a curtsey Co the King and Queen at one j of the Royal Courts. , i

IN MERRY MASQUERADE.

From her earliest years the child-girt loves to "dress up." Tired of her, dolls, fastening and unfastening garments which have lost all sense of novelty, she dresses herself. Of the boy-child, howler, history does not record 'proclivitifla in this direction. His thoughts are supposed to be fixed on sterner things. The «irl may aspire to play the part of Queen Elizabeth, while hex brother never has the smallest inclination to> pretend that he is the Earl of Leicester— far as dress goes. She gets into the habit of "dressing-up." It becon.es second nature to her. She ' changes her dress, her brother assures us iii a brotherly sort of way, sit least a • dozen times in the day. As a result, to see a woman in fancy dress arouses nothing of that little thrill of tho _ unexpected, tinctured with admiration, dismay, op even pity, varying with subject, with which we survey the masquerading male. It is so alien to. his nature, this dressingespecially when tho gentleman in question has arrived at, not. necessarily years, but at least a worldly status that demands discretion. We feel, all the time, that it has : been ! accomplished against his will, probably he has been wheedled into it by some Joan, who, naturally, could not emerge into publicity as such unless accompanied by a Darby; At first he looks half-ashamed of himself. hen he becomes complacent, conscious of his new-born importance. He may even end by enjoying himself —a position : attained by his. wife, with, feminine precocity, from the very outset. ' And, yet, he might more often safely lay , his qualms to rest. For in most cases ; he gains in distinction and personality by donning this unusual costume. Though naturally, not those whose choicei of a costume leads them in the direction of sweeps, , costennongers, or policemen. But in • harking back to the powdered J hair, and embroidered velvets and gold lace and gay 1! colours of his ancestors, there iii no doubt fof the gistiuctioo gamed:,: ; ■ ' ;•'