NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

(By

“Emsworth.”)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs McGavin lias returned from a visit to Taupo. Mrs Harcourt Turner has returned from her visit to Christchurch. Miss Evelyn Drummond (Carterton) is a guest of Mrs A. M. Johnston, at St. Raul's Vicarage, Wellington. Mrs Tripe (senior) is visiting Christchurch.

Mrs Dick, of Dunedin, with her daughters, Misses Gladys and Irma Dick,, are expected in Wellington today.

Sir and Mrs Alex, Mutrie, of Masteirton, celebrated their golden weding on Thursday. They were the recipients of numerous messages of congratulation on the occasion. Mr and Mrs Mutrie are among the oldest resident* of Masterton. Over 1200 immigrants are to arrive in the Dominion within the next three weeks.

Miss Mary Ruddock, who left New Zealand recently for the purpose of continuing the study of the violin in England, arrived at Penzance, Cornwall, about the middle of last month. She intends to study in London.

Mrs R. H. Davies (widow of the late Brigadier-General Davies, C. 8.) and her daughter. Miss Eileen Davies, are leaving for New Zealand by the Wiltshire, at the end of the month, and Miss Elsie Gray (Wellington) has booked by the same steamer. Following on her V.A.D. work at Mount Felix Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Miss Davie 9 has trained as a masseuse, and she intends pursuing ter profession in Wellington. En route to New Zealand Mrs Davies will stop at Capetown to Bee her sister, Mrs Potte, and her brother, Captain N. de la C'our Cornwall, R.N.R., who went out to South Africa last year.

The first born of Captain the Hon. Alexander and Lady Patricia Ramsay was christened at the Chapel Royal on February 23rd, and given the names or Alexander Arthur Alfonso David, his sponsors having been Princess Mary, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Christian. Princess Helena Victoria, the King of Spain, and Commander B. Eyres Monsell. The monthly meeting of the committee of the Alexandra Home was held on the 14th inst. Mr Gill presided. Mesdames Buxton, Pattie, Corrigan, Hardwick Smith, and Tripe were also present. Apologies were received from Mrs Corkill, Mrs Hall, and Mrs Porter. Accounts amounting to £B7 2s lid were passed for payment. The matron reported that there were 19 adults and 24 infants in the home this month, and that nine district cases had been attended. Donations to the home amounting to £lB 6s were gratefully acknowledged, also the following further subscriptions to the Greenwood memorial: Mrs R. Brewster £1 Is, Arthur Martin £lO, and Mrs Hj. Hall £5. The matron wishes to acknowledge with thanks the following gifts to the home: —Mrs Hardwick-Smith, blackberries; anonymous, baby clothes and old linen; Mrs Luke, Red Cross needlecases; Mrs Owen, case of plums; and Dr Robertson a sum of money to provide an electric light to be placed over the front steps. The wedding of Miss Lillian Bates, daughter of Mr and Mrs E. Bates, Fisher street, Beckenham, to\ Mr Cyril Owen Gibson, of Hamilton, took place in St. Saviour’s Church, Sydenham, last week. The wedding was fully choral. The bride, who was given away by her father, was gowned in an ivory crepe de chine frock, beautifully embroidered with seed pearls, and ac-cordion-pleated. The long court train hanging from the shoulders was lined with shell pink georgette, one corner being embroidered with a true lovers’ knot. The tulle veil arranged in mob cap style was encircled with a light wreath of orange blossoms, the corners worked in pale pink horseshoes. To complete this most pleasing effect, the bride carried a shower bouguet of begonias and roses. She was attended by her sisters as bridesmaids. Miss Mabel Bates, as chief bridesmaid, wore a crepe de chine frock in a delicate heliotrope shade, made with accordionpleated skirt, the corsage being worked in colours to tone, and a large hat to match. Miss Grace Bates chose a pale lemon shade in crepe de chine, made after the same style, with hat to match. Miss Connie Bates wore pale pink crepe de chine, with trimmings of georgette to match. Each bridesmaid carried a bouquet to harmonise with her frock. Miss Beryl Wilson, niece of the bride, looked very sweet as a flower girl, her frock being trimmed with tiny frills. The bridegroom was attended by Mr H. Wilson as best man, Mr F. Gresser and Mr C. Woodbury acting as groomsmen. The Rev. W. P. Hughes performed the ceremony, Mrs Hughes presiding at the organ. A reception was afterwards held in the Beckenham Hall, Mrs Bates receiving her guests in a smart black crepe de chine costume. In the evening a dance was much enjoyed by frientte of the bride and bridegroom, Mr C. Wells’s orchestra supplying the music. Mr and Mrs Gibson left by motor-car for the south, where the honeymoon is being spent, the latter wearing a checked costume in black and white, and a smart velour hat. No rain has fallen in Algeria for twelve months, and M. Abel, the Gov-ernor-General; has arrived in France to take part in a debate in the Chamber on tho threatened famine. To be able to have all the things we want—that is riches; but to be able to do without them—that is power. Mrs Norman Abbott has returned to Auckland fr.om a visit to Wellington.

A dance organised by the choir of St. Mary of the Angels is to he held in the Abel Smith street hall on Saturday night in aid of the forthcoming bazaar. Mr and Mrs E. H. Moore and family, of Wanganui are staying with Mr and Mrs H. R. Kirk, Petone. That gifted singer, Madame Strathearn, and Sister Kathleen (a worker in the slums of East London), hai e arrived at Wellington, and are staying at the Hotel Windsor. Headed by Dr. Mary Booth, a deputation waited upon Sir Joseph Cook on February 22nd, and asked that Anzac Day should not he kept as a publio holiday, but as a day of remembrance (states the “Australasian”). The Soldiers’ Wives, Mothers, and Widows’ Association really began the annual commemoration of Anzac Day with services and the wearing of a sprig of rosemary. “We feel,” Dr. Booth said, “that 60,000 Australians did not lay down their lives just to make another holiday.” Sill Joseph Cook’s reply, though non-committal, was sympathetic, and the general feeling is that Anzao Day should be held sacred to tho memory of our fallen soldiers, and not be turned into a gala day. News of Miss Freda Sternberg, who was here last December doing the publicity work for Sir A. Conan Doyle, is to tho effect that she is likely to be in the Dominion again before long, in a similar capacity with regard tp the Alexander \Vatson tour. Since being in New Zealand Miss Sternberg has been up to Queensland, and is at present domiciled in a flat in Sydney.

Members of committees in connection with the Pioneer Club, president® and vice-presidents of circles, entertained Mrs Tosswill (vice-president of the Canterbury Women’s Club) to afternoon tea yesterday afternoon in the club’s rooms, before her return home by Monday’s ferry boat.

At the last meeting of the Women’s National Reserve executive Mrs Tripp, president of the Wellington district, was granted leave of absence pn account of her approaching visit to England.

The hostess (Miss Mary Anderson) successfully imparted the holiday spirit into her programme given to a crowded audience at the Sailors’ Friend Society on Thursday. The performers were Misses Hodkinson, Anderson, London and Messrs Farrell, Holt, Frank Andrews, Whaler, Manning, Miss Hadkinson being at the piano.. Competitions of a tailing nature were entered into with zest by the men. Prizes came from the hostess, and went to the Pakeha, Porirua and Amokura. Mr Moore, ch ah man. announced that matters-were well in hand for Good Friday and Easter work. He asked for any suitable gift.

The engagement is announced in the "New Zealand Herald” of Miss Esme Ifwerson, third daughter of Mrs M. M. If we r.son, of Glasgow terrace, Grafton, to Mr Brian Stannus J.ones, of Tokomaru Bay, only son of Mrs Charles Jones, of St. John’s Hill, Wanganui.

The wives of prominent Bulgarian politicians and generals are being called to account by the Bulgarian Goi ernment whenever it is proved that their influence over their husbands has caused a political or military disaster to the State. According to the “Atre,” Sofia, the Bulgarian Government has already made responsible the wives of several public men and generals for the disastrous results of the war owing to the influence they exerted over their husbands. It is believed in Sofia that the sentiments of a number of Bulgarian women caused a movement for a ■renter Bulgaria at a time when the Government did not know whether she would enter the war, and if eo, on which side.

At the Church of Christ, Petone, on Wednesday, the wedding to.ok placo of Mi3s Margaret Fox, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs B. Fox, of Petone, to Mr T. W. M. Ashby, eldest son of Mr and Mrs T. Ashby, of Petone. The Rev. Long, of Newtown, performed the ceremony. The bride, wlio was given away by her father, wore a dress of ivory georgette over silk, and veil and orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet. The bridesmaids were Miss H. Ashby (sister of the bridegroom), who wore a frock of shell pink crepe de chine, with black picture hat; and Miss Muriel Smith, who was in mau\e crepe de chine with hat to match. The little flower girls were Misses Ella Pliilp and Jean Millford. Mr J. Styles, of Kawhia, and Mr B. Ashwin, of Wellington, were respectively best man and groomsman. A reception was afterwards held at Do Lissa’s Hall, after which Mr and Mrs Ashby left by motor for the north, the bride travelling in a navy tailored costume, and toque to match. Miss Elizabeth Irving, granddaughter of Sir Henry Irving, and daughter of H. B. Irving, made her stage debut as “Titania” in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Court Theatre, London. Mies Irving, who is only sixteen, tall, and a beautiful dark girl, scored an instantaneous success.

WOMEN CANDIDATES. ADDRESSES LAST NIGHT. Last night at the Y.W.C.A. rooms, Herbert street, the two candidates— Mrs Preston and Miss Coad, M.A.— who have been nominated by the Women’s National Council for election to the City Council, addressed the electors. Colonel Mitchell, M.P., was in the chair. Mrs Preston spoke very much on the same lines as at her previous meeting as to the housing problem. She said she was horrified on seeing the conditions under which in a new country ; many people were living, and that this state of things must not be allowed to continue for tho sake of the children. Houses must he built outside the city area, with cheaper fares on long distances, arid we must have more women sanitary or health inspectors, who would give advice and smooth out » great many of the troubles that women are up against, particularly in big business places. Mrs Preston briefly spoke of having more rest rooms for women, playgrounds for children, and the approaches to the city, particularly by rail, beautified. Miss Co-ad then spoke, and mentioned that the candidates were non-party, and did not believe ’in party politics, “as they are becoming a hit of an obsession.” Improvements to educational institutions, like a. library, and social reforms, such as housing, depended upon the taxable capacity of the people, and this depended upon the popularity of taxation, and the commercial prosperity of the town. When the City Council undertakes expensive enterprises such as municipal milk supply, tram, and electric light service and other extensile improvements, these absorb all the loans and taxes, consequently the council had to economise oh the library and such like social reforms. That explained why the library and housing were left out of the last loan proposals, and why on previous occasions expenditure on the library was turned down by the voters. Miss Coad pointed out subscriptions were £IOOO, and rates £4OOO, out of which £BOO went for rent and £232 for interest, and as there was no local Carnegie the council should organise a carnival and help improve the library. The children’s room held ten comfortably, the news roo mwas not nearly big enough; in fact, it was built to suit the needs of the people 25 years ago. Both were apeorded a hearty vote of thanks for their addresses. WANGANUI NOTES. (By “Eileen.”) March 18. Mrs C, F. Day, Wilson street, has returned from her visit to Palmerston North. Mrs Pattie Izett leaves early next month for England. Mr and Mrs Denniston-Cuthberteon, of Ashburton, spent a week in town to say good-bye to Mrs Pattle.lzett. Mr and Mrs Richard, of Staffordshire, England, arrived in Wanganui last week. They intend settling. here, and are at present staying with Mrs Richards’s sister, Mre Eric Hardy, Campbell street. A deputation of business men waited on Mr Oakley Browne on Tuesday afternoon, and asked him to stand as Mayor at the forthcoming election. Mr Browne thanked,, the deputation, and said he would allow himself to he nominated. A committee was formed, Mr C. H. Burnett (councillor) being elected secretary for MiBrown.

Another deputation of business men waited on Councillor Sigley on Thursday afternoon and asked him to allow himself to be nominated for the Mayoralty. Mr Sigley has promised to give his answer on Friday or Saturday. . . , . A meeting of ladies interested in the Queen Alexandra Band and Returned Soldiers’ Club was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the Council Chamber, to arrange for a big function to raise funds for the hand and the R.S'.A. The Mayoress, .Mrs T. B. Williams, occupied the chair. Others present were: Mesdames R- Hughes, Balfour, Heleditch, Buckley, Izett, Comyns, Charles, Humphrey, Sigley, Suieted, and Misses Ruscoe and Ballintyne. These ladies were formed into a central committee. Mr L. Sigley and Mr O. Cardston were also present. The latter went very fully into matters, and promised the ladies any help he could. Mr Cardston’s name is well known in Wanganui, and the enthusiasm he puts into everything is a certainty for whatever he nndertakes to be a success. Gonville has a very strong committee working, and on Thunsday evening they opened the campaign with a dance. The Queen Alexandra Band did yeoman service during the war, and Wanganui people are not likely to forget it. It is suggested that 50 per cent, of the big function to be put on for six nights be given to Queen Alexandra’s Band, and the same to the R.S.A. Mrs Hornsby, of the Wairaxapa, is the gueet of Mrs Balfour, St. John’s Hill. ...

A very largely-signed petition is to be presented to Mr T. B. Williams, the present Mayor, asking him to allow himself to be again nominated for the position.