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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11620, 10 September 1923, Page 8

Tim KtigliAiw-omnn seenis. like her French sisters, to have cleverly realis'd that for ibe daytime there is nothing smarter ami more miited to the Amrh'mxon t’!H> than black. Among the more remarknVe tr.iletlo« t(* be observed at A seot (-avs an English napmi was an extremely plain black coat, trimmed with monkey fur. ami eminently adapted to n u > neat, shinv panama hat selected tv Hie wearer. A black eloak. uitb a broad niece of Tai-lcy. imprinted <n th«» material at (he verge of the cloak arid round the eoFnr. looked ''cry well ait h ■» bhu k lin t adorned with * Hob sprinkling of o-pvey-. A <uri.ms jumper ieeket had a blank background with white rbine-e embroideries and a large green dragon in the centre. Another well-dressed woman had a long georgette coat, caught up a.t one side, with o deep band of black fur round the hem. A brown crepe de chine dress with long pleats and a knot at the side, m.d with a small shoulder cape, looked ehnrming, with a large hat of deep winecoloured straw, sewn with of sm nil cherries. A ’‘first*’ woman is Dr Roll Tlughos (in private life Mrs IVilson), who is sLited to be the first woman shirt' councillor in Queensland. She is master of surgery of the Melbourne University, and also bachelor of mediciqe, and was iiLn formerly m charge of the Brisbane Ghildron’s Hospital. Medical women doubtless find it bc--t to keep j>rotes.>»ionnllv to the maiden names in which Usually they make their success. In any case doctors, having ft professional prefix, are spared the too-yonng-sourid-ing title of Miss, which formerly mature spinsters resented. Nowadays Englishspeaking women seem reconciled to thi* appellation, hut it is amu&ing to see that French and German women are quite seriously agitating for the legal right to tlie prefix madame or frau whatever their marital conditiott-