WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 13

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL NEWS.

The engagement is announced of Mr. William Humby, eldest son of Mr. anr' Mrs. T. Humby, of Auckland, to Mis Ethel Dobbs, second daughter of |&] and Mrs. 0. B. Dobbs, of Eiaurimu.

The engagement is announced of Inez Ailsa, eldest daughter of Mr ; and Mrs. J. R. Hetherington, Wairiki Road. Mount Eden, to Robert, youngest son of Mrs. and the lato Mr. R. Greenwell, Dominion Road.

Miss M. Galloway and ' Miss Maisie D'Audney (Auckland) } who are travelling together, intend spending about sir months in London, and v will then visit Scotland and Paris. They expect to be away from. Now Zealand for about a year.

Miss Gwendolen Knight, sister of Dr. Prendergast Knight, of Wellington, ha. arrived in London on a visit from Italy where she has been dying art anc travelling with Miss Marguerite Janes, who is well known in England for he lithographic work. Miss Knight, who belongs to the Dominion, though she has lived for a good many years in Sydney, found a tremendous amount of material for her brush in Italy. Some of her Italian water-colour sketches may >e ex hibited in New Zealand, as a selection of them will be taken out by Mrs. Corliss when she sails about the end of December.

Mrs. W. H. Parkes, of Auckland, and her daughter have been enjoying a delightful round of visits to friends in various interesting centres in England, and have done a great deal of motoring. Mrs. Parkes went to Bournemouth to sec her brother, Mr. F. Ross, and his wife, and from this centre they made many interesting tours. From the South they went to Scotland, whero Mrs.. Parkes has many relatives and friends. They travelled as far north as Inverness, and made a very extended tour through Scotland by motor-car. Mrs. and Miss Parkes are on their way to London by easy stages, and expect to reach there about the middle of December. Being keenly interested in the Girl Guide movement, Mrs. Parkes is to meet Lady Baden Powell and learn something of the progress of this very useful organisation from the promoter herself.

The wedding of Miss Roi Mac Donald, daughter of tho late Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald and Mrs,' 'Mac Donald, oi Kelbrrn, Wellington, to Mr. Gordon Eric Sherson, son of Mrs. Sherson, of Auckland, took place at St. Peter's Church, Kelburn, Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. T. Fielden Taylor officiated. The bride, who was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr. H. A. Davison, of Singapore, wore a gown of silver lace over pale pink crepe de chine. The skirt was veiled in georgette, with accordeon-pleated panels bordered with fox fur, and the waist was finished with tiny pink rosebuds and white roses. The court train was of crepe de chine veiled in georgette, and trimmed with handmade rosebuds of ivory georgette, and tho tulle veil was fastened with orange blossoms and silver leaves. The bouquet was of pink and white roses and maidenhair fern. In attendance upon the bride were Miss Helen Hisfop and Miss Joy Sherson, bridesmaids, and two little train-bearers, Billy Davison and Flora Malcolm, nephew and niece of the bride. The bridesmaids were in lavender georgette, • the skirts frilled to tho waist with silver lace, and plain tucked bodices with pink and blue rosebud girdles. Silver tissue hats with lavender and pink flowers were worn. Tho best, man was Mr. R. Valentine, of Auckland, and the groomsman Mr. George Norman. After the ceremony a reception was held by Miss Mac Donald at tho Kelburn kiosk.

A native State where women are free, where they hold the family property, where literacy is exceptionally high, and where one-third of the population are members of the Syrian Christian Church, one of the oldest in the world! Such is the State of Travantore, whero women enjoy unusual privileges under tho rule of an enlightened prince and have greater educational advantages than anywhere else in India. These women, both Hindu and Christian, have welldeveloped business _ ability, a strong sense of responsibility, and latent powers of leadership very valuable to the future of India. It was the feeling of responsibility for their non-Christian sisters throughout India that led to the starting, five years ago, of the Y.W.C.A. in Trivandrum by a handful of Indian women. In rcsponso to tho urgent need of,the women students, for whom there is no housing accommodation and whom social custom forbids to Jive in private families, tho association opened a hostel for women students. The present hosiel is quite inadequate, and, moreover, the removal of the Women's College to a distant part of the town makes the need of building immediately urgent. The value of a Christian hostel cannot be over-estimated, for it is a time of national crisis in India. The women and girls of Australia and New Zealand - are therefore being given tho opportunity to assist India in this way. To help raise thenshare of the money needed. £100, the girls of the Auckland Y.W.C.A. are holding a cherry blossom fete at the Y.W.C.A. on Saturday in the afternoon anil evening, and they ask the help of all those interested in the welfare of women in India.