NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10961, 25 July 1921, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. The many Wellington friends of Mrs Turtou will all regret to hear of the rather sudden death of her son, Mr Dourrlas Turton, whose death had never been very satisfactory aince hia return from active service. Mrs Turton, since leaving Wellington, had 1 been living with him at Havelock North, and is now seriously ill herself. Miss Freda Sternberg, publicity representative for the Alexander Watson tour, arrived from Sydney bv the Manuka yesterday, and is staying at the Hotel Windsor. Mrs W. Welling*, of Morham avenue, was hostess one afternoon last week to the members of the® Hataitai Croquet Club. Mr® Kerr nnct Mrs Gunderson, eang, their 'Contributions being much appreciated. Various competitions were th-> means of raising money to help the club funds. The next afternoon wiU be 'held at 54, Matai road. Miss Theodore Chatterton. of Rotorua, is at present visiting hire Morgan Laurenson, at Hay’s Bay. Mr and Mrs Cecil Kelly, of. Christchurch. have got a studio at last in. Holland street, Kensington, near St. Mary Abbott’s. Mrs Kelly is doing a number of portraits, among them one of Mrs Tabu Rhodes, which She hopes tv/ finish before leaving for the Cornish Riviera. . Mrs O. Hodges, of Hastings, is visiting Wellington. Domestic servants in, clubs;, boardinghouses, and residential houses in Melbourne are asking for a 48-hour week, and increased rates in pay, ranging from «£5 7a 6d for cooks to «£2 14s for housemaids, says a Melbourne paper. Mr R. 0. Jones,, late of Christchurch and Rotorua, is now settled in Wales, having returned to his native country during the war. Mr Jones was in London last week to meet the Ruahine, on which travelled Miss E. B. Strurhere, daughter of the late Mr J. B. Struthers, of Christchurch, to whom he is engaged and will shortly bo married. Miss Struthers at present is staying with some cousins in North London (say* a London cox respoud«*ut}. A valuable gift has been made to the Canterbury Museum by Miss J. N. Teape, a former resident of Christchurch, and formerly of the- New -Zealand Army Nursing Service.- It consists of two studies of New Zealand bird life, painted by Miss Teape. One, which is .vn water-colours, is *of the native bittern, and the other, in oils, is a study of the white heron. Miss Teape, who was one© well-known in Christchurch as a bird artist, possesses considerable talent as a painter ot birds, and the pictures which she has presented will prove an important addition to the collections at the Museum.

A former British private has married .the daughter of a French farmer near Pont de F Arche (near Rouen), and now farms the property, takes the produce to market, and drives hard bargains with other farmers in their local dialect. He has thoroughly settled down in his adopted country. Tfie many friends of Miss Violet Tol-ham-Dawes, better known by her stage name, Miss Violet Yorke, will be interested to hear of her marriage to Mr Taylor Temple Harrison, ot Melbourne, on June 15th. Miss Violet Yorke was in Wellington first with Mr Greig's company, and since then has been here with several Williamson productions. Mrs Harrison's home is in Park street, South* Yarra, Melbourne, she having given up her stage career. Those men who still refuse to admit that women possess a tense of humour have only to look around the modern stage to find themselves confuted. Not only are there women playwrights who conceive humorous characters, but there are women .players whose skill reveals their fun to us, and the first to appreciate them will certainly be the women members of the audience. FRENpH CLUB. The usual fortnightly meeting tookplace at the club rooms, Y.W.C.A., Herbert street, on Wednesday night, a very good attendance of member* being again noticed. Mademoiselle Tsc’heremisinoff read two ports of the love scenes between Cyrano and Roxanne, taken from the poem of Cyrano de Bergerac. The reading was well received by the audience. and a vote of thanks passed to the lecturer. After half-an-hour*e general conversation in French, a debate was arranged, in , which everv member present took part. The subject chosen, was as to -which city in the * North Island is the finer, Auckland or Wellington. MODERN DANCING. AND FASHIONABLE DRESS. SYDNEY, July 14. A controversy i$ raging at Bathurst between Mr Herbert Booth, son of the late General Booth, and some supporters of dancing. Mr Booth, a few days ago, attacked' modern dancing and fashionable dress. Some of the young women are replying to him. One of them invited him to attend one of the well-conducted dances, and suggested that the delight of it would leave him with little time to notice any shortcomings in the matter of dress. “What is the difference/' she asked, “between a well-shaped leg and a pretty white hand? God made them both/' Mr Booth, in the course of his reply, said he had not spoken against commonsense in dressing, but had criticised thinly-veiled nakedness—loud and unblushing. A scourge, he said, was overtaking modern society by the lustful craze for artistic nudity. BEDROOM DINNER PARTIES. Goal shortage ie responsible for some odd changes in domestic arrangements in England. Not a few flat-dwellers, whose facilities for storing coal are necessarily limited, have been compelled to convert a gas-heated bedroom into a temporary dining or sitting room to use in place of the usual room with its now empty coal grate. In arranging 'afternoon bridge parties a group of friends will be heard inquiring which of the circle still has coal or enjoys central heating before it is decided where the meeting will tako place. / Face Treatments—Delightful yet scientific methods. Exquisite Hair Treatments—preparations. Consultation Combs Hair Staining newest fashions. Appointment 'phone 814. All Hair Work —Miss Milsom, 94, Willis street. —Advt. MISS HILSON, . HYGEffA TOILET PARLt)URS, 1 132, Willis street. Permanent Hair Colouring is guaranteed at one sitting. Restores original colour, and is indetectahle. Personal service always. Violet Ray and Vibratory Treatment for Falling Hair and Dandruff, Shampooing, Hair Cutting, Hairwork and Manicuring. Tel. 2802.—-Advt. For all social occasions Dustin's Cater, ing i 6 best. Wedding Breakfasts. Dinners. Dances, etc., catered for on the shortest notice. Dustin's. Ltd., Confectioners. 171-178. Cuba street. Wellington, also Wanganui and Palmerston North.— Advt,*