SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 12

SOCIAL NEWS.

I V: Miss Edna Wylie, of Wellington, is *visiting her < sister, Mrs.. A. E. Mills, ■ Takapuna.' :•'./ '.■■ * „_,..■ •'

Dr and Mrs. Morice and Miss Morice aro l'ea,ving Wellington this week on a visit to Auckland, '

Mr and Mrs. F. White, of Whangarei, are on a visit to Auckland, and are staying at the. Grand Hotel.

Mr and Mrs. Barclay Farquhar (nee Miss'Vida Caldwell), are sailing by the Makura on Tuesday for Fiji. ,

Br. and Mrs. W. A. Anderson, of Queenstown. arrived in Wellington last week on their way through to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowrv and the Misses Lowry are arriving by the Makura to-dav after an extended visit to England and the Continent.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stoke and Mr. and Mrs. li. Biss, who have been on a motoring tour in the South Island, have returned to Auckland.

Mr and Mrs. Norman Green and Mrs. Hartgill and Miss Hartgill, who motored through irom Dannevirke, arrived in Auckland on Sunday and are staying at Cargen.

Mass Ethel White left on Friday for the South to visit her brothers before leaving Wellington next month by the Tainui to spend some years in England and Scotland.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mackiiow and Miss Nan«» Madklow, were passensrers by the Marama for Australia. Miss Macklow will continue her vocal studies at the Conservafcorium.

Mrs. Henry Wallace-Lawson and her son Bruce will leave for an extended trip to Europe by the Maheno on Friday. Mrs, Waliace-Lawson is taking the trip on account of ill-health, and will travel by the Mooltan via Sydney and Suez.

The major-domo of the Papal household has received instructions to exclude from the Vatican women who are perfumed. The reason given is that the Pope is susceptible to headaches, and perfumes have a deleterious effect upon him. In future, therefore, no women with.perfume about them will be admitted to the presence of the Pope. This is the latent of a series of Vatican dress regulations. Lownecked frocks, short sleeves and skirts, transparent materials, gloves, make-up, peroxide, hair' dye, and rings, except wedding and engagement, rings, are already banned, as are dresses that give undue prominence to the figure.

Mile. Co'lin, a French hospital nurse, undertook to demonstrate that parachutes are of practical use on aeroplanes. Although the experts had united in condemning the particular parachute she wished to test, proving that- by all the laws of mathematics it could not do the work expected of it, Mile. Collin dumbfounded tßflm by jumping from an aeroplane which had reached a height of 1000 ft. A cord -which was supposed, to open the para-chute automatically failed to do so, but with wonderful coolness Mile. Collin cut it as she was falling head first through.space. Then the parachute opened perfectly and. brought the intrepid woman safely to earth, no shock being felt. Mile. Collin has done much flying in her sp&ra time.

v Miss Edith Ingram, the first woman solicitor to practise in the City of Lon--3 don, interviewed recently, said thr.t the legal s profession offer* splendid scope for women. "Given ability and personality, * the average girt of tact and breeding should be able to make at least £500 a * year three or. four years after.- obtaining her final certificate. Miss Ingram's impression is that women make better barristers than solicitors. They have, ■ she - says, a keen lira agination, and & keen sense |of "atmosphere." "Male juries are very susceptible io a woman's pleading. The average counsel attempts to drive juries— a woman leads them." However, Miss Ingram confesses that legal work is <* "tremendous strain. To succeed one must be fundamentally —thoughts must be* pigeon-holed, and one must be able to concentrate at will."