NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8655, 13 February 1914, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. The marriage of Mr James Henderson Keddic, Grymouth, New Zealand. and Miss Elsie AVinuifred, youngest daughter of Mr and Airs Robert Hernpseed, Tonyburn, The Glebe. Hobart, was to be celebrated at Hobart on Friday, February 6tb.

Miss Dorothy Booth is on a visit to Wellington. Alias Floss. Hamlin, of Napier, who spent a day or two with friends here last week, is staying in Auckland, and is the guest of Airs John Reid; ( 1 The marriage of Aliss AA T inifred Mary Boylau, daughter of Mr and Airs John Boylau, Devonport, and Mr James. Paul Kavanagh, eon of Mr and Mrs H. Kavanagh, Ponsonby, took place recently at All Souls’ Church, Devonport, the Rev. Father Furlonge performing the ceremony. The bride looked charming in ivory charmeuse, with panels of pearl embroidery, softened with lace, and long bridal veil arranged in cap-fashion from the hair. The bridesmaids were Miss Dolly Boylan (sister), Aliss Agnes Segrief (Wellington), Miss Jessica O’Sullivan (Wellington), Aliss Doris AVilliamson and Miss Alarie Boylan (sister). The three former wore apricot charmeuso and the two latter heliotrope ; black velvet hats with' pleated brims of tulle and high feathers in the same shades as their frocks were also worn. The two little train-bearers (Belle Niccol and Ursula London) were in dainty white silk frocks, with overdresses of ninon, and wreaths of white daisies on their heads. Air Bowen Bell was best man, and Alessrs E. Kavanagh, Wynn Sheath, F. Bach and Vivian Kavanagh were groomsmen. After the ceremony a large reception was held at the residence of the bride’s parents. The bride went away in a. blue cloth tailored suit and white iagel straw hat with nattier blue feathers. Dr and Airs Bickerton Blackburn, of Sydney, have come oyer /or the Congress, and intend making a short visit to Rotorua afterwards as do most of the Australian medical men and their wives.

Mrs Welters. Carterton, is staying at the Grand Hotel for a few days. Guests at the Grand Hotel include Mr and Mrs Lashman (Melbourne), Mrs Cabbage (San Francisco), Mrs Babington (Oamaru), and Miss North (England), Mr, Mrs and Miss Marks and Miss Pauline Bindley. Mr and Mrs Barker, of Gisborne, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr and Mrs Watson and their daughters, who arrived by the Wairarapa train, are there also. The Misses Whiteman, of Sydney, who have been over here for some weeks, return by to-day’s boat. Mrs Price, s who was hero for a few days, left last night for Feilding.

Mr and Mrs McKenzie, of New York, who have been touring New Zealand in their car, have left for Australia.

Mr and Mrs Henry Mitchell, of Dunedin, are guests at the Empire Hotel.

Mr and Mrs James Allan, of Napier, are ■visiting Wellington. Mr and Mrs A. E. Gifford arrived from Auckland this week, and arp staying at the Empire Hotel.

: Mrs W. R. May, of Nelson; Mrs Moore, Marton; Mr and Miss Todd, Mr and Mrs Colt, Nelson, are all staying at the Empire Hotel.

Mr and Mrs F. H. Herrick leave today for Sydney, en route for England.

Australian Audiences cannot complain that they are not supplied with plenty of variety in their theatrical diet. The Tivoli alone will provide unlimited flavour; the latest in revues was a kissing competition. _The change of programme at the Tivoli tango tea, which includes many new features with alluring titles, packed the theatre to overflowing. Chief amongst the new items was the kissing competition,, which proved to be not quite as startling as the name suggested. A. number of the Australian tango girls demonstrated the “Soul Kiss” .on the shadowgraph, and then other members of the tango tea artists, who were easily recognised by the audience, illustrated their idea of this expression of sentiment. Miss Josie Davis and Mr Billie Geller gave a comical exhibition of the kiss, also Mr Gene Greene and some unknown lady. Each member of the audience was given a ballot card, and a prize of £lO was to be given to the competing pair who received the largest number of votes. This has not yet been decided. The first revue was a lingerie parade by the Maison Henrietta et Cie de Paris. The Australian tango girls paraded for the edification of the unsophisticated garbed in the daintiest and finest of garments, including princess coats and night-dresses. Like the name of the house they come from, these are quite ,thp “Frenchiest” confections that have ever been seen in Sydney. Another revue which caused a deal of laughter was the X-ray skirt parade. Judging by the hilarious manner in which''this exhibition was received, the men do not need protection from women so f owned, as was recently affirmed to o necessary by the Hobart National Council of Women.

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Mrs Dan Eiddiford, of Marten, is gohig to England in the lonic, and Mrs and Miss Willis, of Greatford, travel by the same boat. Mr and Mrs Wood, of Melbourne, who have been visiting Auckland, left here on their return to Australia yesterday.

Miss Thayer, of Napier, and Mr and Mrs E. Bibby, of Waipawa, are at the Hotel Windsor.

Mrs C. F. Vallance, of Masterton, is staying at the Empire Hotel

A party of New South Wales residents are touring New Zealand together, and are at present in Wellington. They are Mrs and Miss Ham, Mrs and Miss Luik. Misses Jones and Newbury, and Mr and Miss Strang. The Misses Collins, Ashburton; Mr and Mrs Asher, of Carterton; Misses Leahy, and A. Pearson, of Dunedin, are staying at the Hotel Windsor. It was with regret that the resignations of Nurses Whitta and W. Brook were-.accepted at yesterday’s meeting of thf Wellington hospital committee.

Mr and Mrs James Trewin, of Feilding are in town, having motored down from Feilding yesterday. They are accompanied by Mrs W. J. B. Irewm, and are staying at the Hotel W mdsor, where they will remain for some days. Mrs dement Kirk leaves on Friday for a short visit to Mrs Barnicoat, 1 almerston North.

Mrs M. J. O’Donnell and Mr W. E O’Donnell (Hawera), Mrs F. Aubell (New Plymouth), and Mias A. Casey (Wanganui), leflve on a holiday visit to Sydney by the Willochra today. Miss S. Persona is on a holiday visit to Auckland.

PROBLEMS 0 ( F LIFE. INCREASED EXPENSES. It is a big question, this increasing of housekeeping expenses, for, whatever is said to the contrary, it is an established fact that during the lasv ten years the cost of living has increased alarmingly compared with the increase, of salaries. It may be true that twenty years ago butter was Is fid per lb, and eggs a similar luxury, but such conditions would be transitory, and a few weeks later they '■would be obtained at one half the price, and again, twenty years ago, the cost of labour in every branch of household work was comparatively low, . and the return obtained for the money spent was infinitely better. HOUSEHOLD HELP. An important aspect of the situa- , tion is the fact that we pay considerably more for most things needed than our mothers did, but unfortunately get much inferior quality of goods in return. Commencing with the important point of household labour, a good general servant could be obtained without difficulty for from 10s to 15s weekly. She was usually fair at hey work and willing to learn, and above all content, and by taking pride in the appearance of the furniture, linen, and household articles greatly lengthened their life. Nowadays, wages ’ have increased quite fifty per cent., and the quality of the work obtained is in six cases out of a dozen not to be compared with that of former years. No one regrets the improved conditions for domestic helpers, but the swing of the pendulum in this direction has brought with it increased freedom, and this has not tended towards contentment of mind, and without that good work is impossible. Laundry work is another expense that was inconsiderable in bygone days. Ten years ago a woman would do a day’s wash for 4s; now similar work costs 6s to 7s, and laundry charges have likewise gone up to cope with the increased pay to their staff. As so many duties now fall to the busy mother, the household linen is, in - many i families, sent to a laundry to be “done up.’’ Our mother’s generation would probably have been horrified at the thought of their clothes being mixed with no one knows what types of garments from any kind of households, and then ironed and handled by women they did not know anything about. No amount of lavender in the cupboards would have made them happy on the subject, but with time old prejudices go, and the present day method of patronising laundries will probably increase—and the cost ! Not only is the laundry work expensive, but the wear and tear on one’s garments is increased tenfold, and added to this, the loss of missing articles must be added to “expenses”—but at all costs the work of the homo must be lessened 1 The fact, of course, that much available help in the way of daughters is monopolised by city offices as typistes adds considerably to the problem of keeping a home well organised and happy. And also, with the daughters going into the world earning salaries not always commensurate with their increased expenses in being »way from home, more help in the house must be paid for, and this results in another increase in the form of WASTE.

In many kitchens, if someone is not ready to plan and advise regarding meals there must be leakages which cost money. This does not necessarily imply that maids are dishonest I have known too many trustworthy servants to> suggest that all need watching—but many are not trained to be thrifty, and have not the remotest idea of the cost of soap, soda, gas, or coal, and so do not worry about the bills I The average child at school worries little about economy. Pencils are lost, books torn, slates broken, and their parents buy more—or the school provides them —and so they grow up, and it is not surprising that when they are older and entef a household of apparent plenty they are just as heedless of the waste of gas and the remains of loaves, milk, and cold food, soap, dusters, cinders, and such things, as they were of their hundred and one school necessities.

The average maid servant of to-day has to be trained in ways of economy from the moment she sets foot inside the house, and if the mistress is disinclined or has no time for this duty she must pay the penalty with increased bills. There is another ‘"leakage" pinch has arisen witli “order by telephone"’ habit. It is so simple to ring up for fruit and vegetables, meat and

fish that nowadays the choosing of one's own food is undertaken by no one. This method of buying is not the most economical, for prices are rarely asked and the condition of the market is not realised, as when the goods to he bought are before one. The leakage may he small, simply pence, each day, and it all adds to the cost of living, but then again one “saves time” by telephoning.

IN DRESS the increased expenditure is felt very keenly; firstly, because although the prices in woollen, cotton, and silk materials has increased, the quality in most cases has decreased, and not one half the wear is to be obtained from the present day garments that our parents had from theirs. And, of course, owing to the increase of wages, expenses in making up material have gone up in an extraordinary manner. THE REMEDY. There is a remedy for much of this expense, and it leads to a question much before the public at. present — the education of our girls. ‘Teach them to be capable, let them learn to regard housework not in the nature of a degrading necessity, but rather in the light of pleasant duty. If mothers (or teachers as girls spend so much time at schools) suggest that there is a dignity about an excellent housekeeper, who everyone respects and admires, and encourages the pupil to become efficient in cooking, economy, and dressmaking and laundry, they win find that housework, like most duties, is only “drudgery” to the incapable, but that the woman who knows how to do her work usually takes pleasure and pride in the doing, and one inexorable law of business-life holds good in the business of home-making as well, that is the head of affairs must give to the work in hand her personal supervision to avoid financial loss. If “home-making” and “house-keeping” were to come more prominently into the lives of girls, 1 many of the problems of now worrying women would in a few years disappear.

PAUL DUFAULT CONCERT. Paul Dufault’s singing roused the audience to great enthusiasm, and he responded most generously to recall after recall, and gave as a special favour one of his “little gems,” “Mignon,” sung as only Paul Dufault can sing it, and the charm of his rendering this sweet little love song cannot be told, but that one item alone is we]. 1 worth going far to hear. Miss Pauline Bindley. the charming and vivacious Australian who is also a member of the company, was beautifully Locked last night in crepe-de-chine, a deep apricot shade with lace inlet; in the corsage finished with folds of duck-egg blue, and, the draped skirt was finished with a tiny fishtail train. Miss Bindley is a Bendigo girl, only just out of he* ’teens, and “was leader of the Sacred Heart Choir in that city. The pretty necklace of diamonds and aquamarines ( which she wore, was her Christmas gift ifrom the members. Bendigo people And many others predict the brightest of futures for this girl of many attractions, and to further her studies, her ■ townspeople are sending her abroad immediately this tour has ended. In the large audience last night were Mrs and Miss Massey, Mrs • Herdman, Mrs Heard, Sir John and Lady Findlay, Mr and Mrs Robert Loughnan,, Mr and Mrs Stanton Harcourt, Mrs Hales, Mrs Dyer, Mrs Knox Gilmer, Mr and Mrs Grady and Miss Grady, Miss Macgregor, Miss Willis, Miss Lucas, Miss Macdonald, Mr and Miss Haybittle. - Mr and Mrs Jack Coyle, Miss Russell. Mrs Frederic Shipman, who was -present at the concert last evening, wore a gown of black net heavily beaded in pretty colours. WANGANUI NOTES. (By ‘'Eileen.”) February 12. Mr and Mrs W. L. Young have gone to Auckland for a fortnight, and then on to Taupo, for the fishing. Dr Hatherly and Dr Hutson aro among the medical visitors to Auckland for the Medical Congress. / Mr and Mrs Holloway (Eastbrook) are in Auckland for the band contest.

Mrs Comyns has returned bom© after an enjoyable month’s holiday spent in Auckland. Mr and Mrs Braik returned home on Monday. Mrs G. P. Brown returned from Wellington this week. Rev. Colville, of New Plymouth, who has been relieving at St. Matthew’s Auckland, returned to New Plymouth this week. Mrs. Colville accompanied him.

Mr and Mrs Palmer returned home by the Main Trunk express on Monday ajf-er an enjoyable holiday spent in Auckland.

Messrs Cohen, Atkinson, J. R. Foster, Harden, T. Nixon, Gower, Reg. Collins and Bemnifield left on Wednesday for Wellington to compete in the bowling match for the Duthie Cup. Mrs Hughes-Johnston,' accompanied Dr Hatherley to Auckland for the Medical Congress. Dr and Mrs A. Wilson leave shortly for England. Mr and Mrs Cecil Wray intend leaving shortly on an extended trip to England. Nominations for Queen of the Carnival (in connection with out beautifying society! closed on Tuesday evening. The" ladies nominated were Mrs H. A. Lomax, nominated by the Aramoho Burgesses, Beautifying Society and Boating Club. Miss Ina McDonald, nominated by the swimming clubs. ; Miss Cohen, nominated by the Wanganui bowlers. Miss Duff, nominated by the drapers and hockey clubs. Mrs H. V. Hammond, nominated by tho farmers.

Mrs Gregor McGregor, nominated by St. John’s Hill residents.

Mrs Kitchen, nominated by the Orchestral and Liedertafel societies and Garrison Band.

Miss Simmons, nominated by Gonvillo and Castlecliff.

Mrs Fisher, nominated by Wanganui East.

Miss Bethell, nominated by Wanganui Borough. Mrs Braik, nominated by the Civil Service • and Miss Kathleen Wood, nominated by the United Friendly Societies.