NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10812, 31 January 1921, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

(By

“Emsworth.”)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Hiss M. E., Blackerston (Lower Hutt) returned frpm Christchurch by the ferry boat on Saturday. Mrs H. R. Kirk, of Petone, is on a visit to Wanganui. Mr and Mrs A. I). Riley have returned to Wellington froln their trip to the Old Country. Miss Payton returned to Masterton from Lyall Bay on Thursday. The engagement is announced by nn exchange of Miss Marjorie MciTarlane, third daughter of Mr and Mrs David I McFarlane, of Wanganui, to Mr T. Herbert Henson, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. Henson, of Frankton Junction. Miss Yolande Jackson and her brother, Mr Garth Jackson, of Mastetton, are visiting Wellington. Miss Doris Russell has rethrned to Christchurch from a visit to Rotorua. Miss Dorothy Edwards, who is at present visiting Invercargill, holds the five years’ ‘“For £er\ice” badge of tho'British Bed Cross Society. Miss Cherrett, of the tnusio staff of the Wanganui College, has left for the south and Stewart Island. The Misses G. and M. Bussell, of Napier, who have been staying with Mrs Pytt-Jackson, have left .for Christchurch . Mrs Kerr* a lady who has died at Cheftsey at the age of 92, made clothes for Florehce* Nightingale’s hospital at Scutari in the Crimean Wat-, and saw the Lady with the Lamp at work there. As a girl Mrs Kerr travelled by rail trom Bristol to ;Y6tk when the first traifas were made up of rbofless carriages, and the passengers took umbrellas with them as si protection" from the .rain while they were in the train. At tha last meeting of the Wanganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Mrs Conjyns protested _ against the nurses at. the Public Hospital haying to undertake housemaids’ duties in the nurses’ home during hoilrg Which they should; bfe devoting to study* The Chairman promised to look into the matter. - On Wednesday last the marriage took place in Stl John’s Cathedral, Napier, of Miss Boreths Luci Hitehman, eldest daughter of Mr D. C. Hitehman,. to Mr AV. Anderson, third son of Mr D. Anderson, of Napier. The bride was beautifully gowned in a frock of shad-ow-Silk lace and silken tissue, with a shell-pink rtinon, and silver tissue underskirt. The corsage of silver tissue was embroidered with pearls, .and she also wore the customary veil and .orango blossoms. The two attendant maids were Misses Margery and Rubina Hitehman, the former wearing yellow georgette, with a black hat, and the latter lavender georgette, with a hat to match. Mr Hoa-uce Kerr was best man, and Mr Kenneth Dean groomsman. A reception was afterwards held at the residence of the bride’s parents* and later Mr and Mrs W. Anderson left t 6 tour the North. Island. The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Davenport, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs S..J. Devpnport, Te Kuiti, to Mr C. R. Kerr, second son of the late Mr and Mrs Jatnes Kerr, Dunkenhalgh, Accrington, England. Mr and Mrs S. P. Leith, of Dunedin, who had been in Wellington for the past fortnight, returned south at the end oflast.wcek. Mrs J. P. Maddren, of Spreydon, Christchurch, is visiting VVellington for the croquet tournament. Misses E. M. and D. Bennett, of Northland, are leaving shortly for Sydney, en route to England, by the Orient liner Ormonde, due to leave Sydney on February 12th. Mr arid Mrs S. G. Plant and son, of Northland, are shortly leaving for England, via, Sydney, where they join the Orient liner Ormonde, due to leave on February 12th. ECCENTRICITIES OF WOMEN’S . PRESS. Clerics of high and low degree, j and Of aH churches, have inveighed from time to tame, for centuries past, against the eccentricities of women’s dress, on the whole with little success. The task of a reformer of fashions i» difficult for anyone to undertake, and women seem generally to .pay as little attention to oritiioiame and denunciations uttered from the pulpit as they do to those of daring press writers and to more private remonstrances. It will therefore be interesting to see what success attends the decision of the Massachusetts Osteopathic Society to introduce into Congress a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or wear of heels more than an inch and Si half in height. In O paper read before the society, Dr. Kendrick Smith, who is to father the bill, declared that all women who wear, high heeds acquire a deformity Of the knees and sometimes flat; feet, and til at a number of diseases may be traced to high heels; for, he said, ‘it is absolutely impossible to put a prop of throe imdhes under the heels without vitally disturbing the relation of the internal organs ana creating serious and sometimes dangerous pressures or alterations oif gravitation.” He also remarked that high heels made o graceful carriage impossible, and led to the cultivation of ‘‘an awkward, Jer'ky, hobbling locomotion which is wearisome and dangerous.” AIT this, it is to he, feared, is mere beating of the wind. Women are not apt to take advice from doctors any more than from parsons oe to what they shall wear. Much of what ’ Dr. Smith says is, no doubt, quite j right; as for the ungainly gait induced by high heels, anyone coil notice it for himself. But there have been crazes for high heels generations aigo, which have .passed away, as the present one will when the novelty of the revival ban bbotno stole. New skin on old faces. "Cutene,” with its wonderful properties ’ casts off the old worn skin, feeds the muscles and tissues, and builds up a fresh healthy complexion. The action of “Cultene’’ on the skin is like a-miracle worked and tho effect is lasting. It removes all that tired drawn feeling- Use it to-day and watch the results,•'and you will use it for months and year 6,3 s and 5s 6d. Miss Milsom, Hair and fckin Specialist, 94, Willis street, ’Phone 814.—Advt. 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BALL AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE. THEIR EXCELLENCIES AT AUCKLAND. Their Excellencies the Governor-Gene-ral and Lady Jellicoe gave a ball at Government House last week. About 400 guests Were present,. among whom were the officers of H.M.S. Chatham. Tire scene Was oiie of great animation and gaiety-, and seldom has Government House appeared so attractive. The decorations were most effectively carried out in brilliant colour schemes. In the ballroom baskets of crimson, begonias were suspended and between the long mirrors on the wall trails of lycopodium were festooned, prettily shaded rose lights giving a Very charming effect. In the supper room the tables were prettily arranged in a colour scheme of pale heliotrope and in the variods sitting rooms beautiful hothouse blooms were massed. Tilt) grounds were most effectively lighted with coloured electric lights and on the terrace tables of light refreshments were lit with fairyliko lights. Excellent music was supplied ; by Adams’s jazz band, Tho official set j et lancers was as follows: His Excellency nnd Mrs Prickett; Her Excellency and Commodore A. G. Hotham; Colonel H. R. Potter and Miss MaSsey; Captain Williams and the Hon. Lucie Jellicoe; Colonel Stevenson and Lady Lockhart J Commander C. C. Prickett and Mrs Seymour Thoi-tte George j Ctommonder tiffwin and Miss Cooper; Lieutenant Marriott and Mrs Allen. NORTHERN CLUBS BALL, A BIULLIANT7FUNCTION. A ball was given by the president (Mr F. Duigan) and members of the Northern Club, Auckland, in honour of Their Excellencies the Governor-Gene-ral and Viscountess Jellicoe. Amongst the guests present were the officers of H.M.S. Chatham, the Prime Minister, and : the Hon.-Dr M. Pomare. The club had been handsomely decorated for the occasion. . A right-of-way had ' been built across the pavement, which was lined with nikau pttlrhs and lit with lairy lights, while the ballrooms Were festooned with streamers of lycopodium and pale pink roses. . The billiard-room Upstairs was used as one of the supper rooms, and was charming in a scheme of Ti£h gall&rdias and asparagus fern, with pale pink shaded lights- The lounge was decorated with scarlet gladioli, while the drawing-room had btowls of the lilium auratum, ‘‘the golden-ray-ed lily .of Japan.” Downstairs supper was spread for the vice-regnl partyin the reading-room, which was beautiful in mauve, a delicate compliment to Her Excellency, who was wearing this colour. The president of the club presided, while on his left ivas Viscountess 1 Jellicoe, and on his right His Excellency Lord Jellicoe. Commander Hotham, Mrs Seymour Thorne fieorge, Comman- 1 der Lewin, Airs R. C. Allen, Colonel Potter, Ml's Thomas, Colonel Allen, Mrs Nolan,'Mrs Prickett, Air E. Anderson, Mrs E. Russell,. .Commander Williams, Airs R. E. Isaacs, Commander Prickett, the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe, Mr Massey, and Mrs E. Anderson composed tho official supper party. ,