NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Hostesses for the Community Club this week will be ;—Monday, Mrs W. D. Robinson; Tuesday, Mrs Toogood;/ Wednesday, Mrs David Bews; Thursday, Mrs C. Cooper; Friday, Mrs Easspn; Saturday, Mrs F. T. Clarke; Sunday, Mrs A. Henderson; Monday, Mrs Mclntyre. Miss Gretchen Bryce (Nelson). is the guest of Mrs J. E. Brewster, in New Plymouth. Miss Noonan, of Wellington, has been visiting New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs J. Harlem, of Wellington, are visiting Christchurch. Mrs Geach is the guest of Mrs Herbert, of The Terrace. Mr and Mrs Joseph Liggins, well known pioneers of the Tokomaru district, celebrated their golden wedding on Saturday. Having been married at Hulland, in the county of Derby, England, the couple came to New Zealand in 1884 by the British King. After five years as manager of the cheese factory at Longburn, Mr Liggins relinquished the position to take up dairying on his own account in Tokomaru. Mr Liggins is chairman of the Makerua Drainage Board, director of the Tokomaru cheese factory, and a former director of the Rangiotu combined factories. The marriage of Miss Kathleen O’Haliahan, second daughter of Mrs E. O'Hallahan, of Greymouth, to Mr L. F. McDonald, of Wellington, will take place next month. After exactly seven years J service in the Greymouth telephone exchange Miss O'Hallahan, who has been popular with both the subscribers afld the staff, doffed her head-set for the last time, and left with the best wishes of the staff, says the "Grey Star/' Mrs Kenworthy and Mrs S. Brown, of Wellington, are visitors to Napier. At the residence of the bride’s parents, "The Pines," Raukapuka, Geraldine, the wedding took place of Mr Eknest Bolitho, youngest son of Mrs and the late Mr James Bolitho, of Black Point, Reefton, and Miss Gladys Clara, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Coombes. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Featherston. Miss D. Bunbury, of Dunedin, is in Wellington. Mrs Roskrujje has returned to Wellington from New Plymouth. The marriage took place on Saturday in St. Mark’s Church of Miss Jean Rapley, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Y?. Rapley, of BUice street, to Mr George Vincent Cornwall, of Melbourne. The Rev. Mr Fry officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore ivory panne velvet, embossed in silver, the skirt finished with a chou and ends of satin ribbon. Her veil was of old Brussels lace, worn with Russian coronet of orange blossom, and she carried a bouquet of cream roses, carnations and lilies of the valley. Miss Meta Rapley was bridesmaid, and wore a frock of rose and silver shot taffetas in Victorian style, with net fichu, end hat of heliotrope with pink flowers. She carried a pink and heliotrope bouquet. Mr Barker was best man. Mrs Rapley wore black and white taffetas and tngel hat, with lace I and ospreys, and carried a posy of pink and red flowers; Miss Rapley wore rose and gold; and a black hat; Mrs Skelley (sister of the bride), wore grey marocain fringed and embroidered and grey tagel hat. After the < eremony the wedding guests wer© entertained by Mr and Mrs Ripley at their home in Ellice 6trect, where beautiful flowers ‘ decorated the rooms. When the bride and bridegroom left for their honeymoon, the bride wore navy marocain, finished with Oriental embroidery, panne hat with cooue feathers and a fur wrap, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr and Mrs Roth well and Mr and Mrs Holmes, of Wellington, are in Christchurch. N

Mr and Mrs Hugh Morrison, of Master f° n ™ ar f *® avin sr January on a visit to England, yia America. Speaking of the "Children's Charter" so called, recently issued, Seri Shirley writes in an Auckland exchange:— “i cannot help, however, musing over the long array of women in the past who would have been placed as mental defectives for life if Mr Beck's hill had then ;been the rule. Cleopatra, Aspasia, Phryne, £finon de I/Enclos, Catherine of Russia, Queen Elizabeth, Ann Bbleyn, etc., and to come to modern times, one famous English novelist, forty years | dead, of whom London tradition tells a i little more even than her biographer j All these would have had to appear before an embarrassed Director of .Educa- ! fcion (but 'always the gentleman/ vre hope) to be exhorted before incarceration. Of course some of these ladies were not perfect but at least when they were threatened with imprisonment, as was sometimes the case, it j was distinctly for what they were, not j for what they weren't." j

We have had the telephone bride and the aeroplane marriage, and surely when the first bride went away in the first railway carriage it was an occasion for much interest. The broadcast bride has now made her appearance, at least in the realms of humour. Thus the newest fiancee is made to exclaim, “Oh, I am going to have a lovely, lovely wedding. We are going to prut on the radio amplifiers are being placed in the house you know. We are going to hare Ltv hengrin from JOX and our Mendelssohn music frwrn the ICR, a male quartette trom PYT, and other music from elsewhere. My father, who is on a business trip, will give me away from POQ, while the minister from AGP will pronounce us man and wife." “And the bridegroom r it was asked. “Oh, Edgar will certainly do his best to be present," answered the bride, “but if not he’ll speak the 'will' from RRR.” Nothing is more striking than the vogue tor head trimming, and now one may see coat-frocks of gaberdine and serge trimmed with beads, also the new liopsacks that are so fashionable just now-. One of the prettiest models was made of fawn gaberdine with a black and white key pattern design, carried out in small chalk beads trimming the waist, tile hem and the sleeves alike. For holiday frocks for smart places, lace is still a great favourite. To include a beige lace frock in one’s luggage is to feel confident that one will be suitably attired for dinner or any other special occasion. A lace frock which was specially dainty was cut quite straight, with a slight side drapery beginning well below the low waist-line. Its only trimming was a large bow of absinthe green moire ribbon, tying iust at the torp of the drapery, and having ends reaching to the hem.

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An exceptionally pretty wedding was held at St. Stephen’s Church, Lincoln, Canterbury, on Wednesday afternoon, when Miss Ethel iSedman Watson, daughter of Air and the late Mrs H. Watson, of Ladbrooks, was married to Mr Thomas Aledlin, son of Air and th© late Mrs Aledlin, of Beechworth, Melbourne. The Rev. Mr Wilson performed the ceremony and Miss Gray presided at the organ

There are fashions in foods as in clothes. Fresh fruit is in favour today, and it can be made into delicious salads -with crisp lettuce. Cherries, for example, can be easily stoned, mixed with a few quarters of peeled tomatoes, arranged between crisp lettuce leaves, covered with mayonnaise, and decorated with the heart of the lettuce in which a cherry is placed. Plums, greengages, raspberries, currants, cherries, melons, peaches, etc., can all be stoned, hulled, or stringed, as the case may be, put uncooked into a flan pastry case, covered with nearly cold liquid jelly, and, when set, served with cream or creamy custard. A delicious desert can be made by cutting the top off a round melon, scooping out the pulp, which is to be cut in cubes, mixed with other fresh fruit, some blanched almonds, or fruit kernels, replaced in the melon bowl, and 6et on ice till required. The same idea can be applied to small oranges, the pulp of which can then be made into icecream, put into the orange skin cups, which can then be covered with the cutoff tops and s©t on ice. , Pretty gymnastic exercises of every description performed with ease, precision and grace will furnish agreeable entertainment for people of all ages and tastes. Costumes neat, and not gaudy, the absence of frill and, furbelow, the clear cut movements, give an air of business and briskness to the proceedings. The export physical culturist, it is clear, can improve the mind as well as the physique, for the performers are alert and very much "all there/* Besides gymnastic exercises, elocutionary items will be given by Mary Cooley, Edna Purdie, Zelma Carroll and Beryl Atkinson. The displav will be given in the Opera House in the presence of His Exoellency the Governor-General, on Wednesday, October 24th, at 8 p.m. ICELAND The women's rights movement has really grown strong here, and the best proof of this is the fact that the woman candidate, on an independent list, supported by women, was elected, this summer as one of the three candidates that were elected then as members of our Upper House, says a correspondent to the “Vote/' The women did very little for this list—they did not go to country meetings, bxcept in the neighbourhood of Reykjavik; they had little money, and no motor-cars on the polling day. So the old members of the Women's Rights Association felt that the good result of the elections was really the fruit of their work through many years. . . . The women here are beginning to use their vote, and hardly a single voice is to be heard from a woman who does not appreciate it, and they would ! not lose it for anything. We also feel that our dear men are never quite loyal to the women of their party; there aTe always some honoured men leaders to be found, who are nearer, to get the best seats on the list than a woman. The hopeless seats they are always willing to give us 1 The women are beginning to understand this. The Women's Rights Association is just now sending invitations to women aIL over the country to come to a meeting in Reikjavik in June. It should be a kind of ‘'congress," with discussions, lectures, and social gatherings, and sight-seeing. We also offered hospitality to those that require it. We are hoping through this to strengthen our movement. THE HOME OF DICKENS NO ONE WANTS GADSHIEL. Nobody cared enough fox* Gadshill, near Rochester in England, the last home of Charles Dickens, to buy the estate when it was put up at auction. The place is said to have cost Dickens when he had improved the property, Which he had admired from boyhood, but possessed only during- the latter years of his life. , Dickens gave readings from his works [in America and in England to pay for Gadshill, which he improved until it so completely corresponded to his ideas ot what a houee should be that he dwelt in c-ntirs contentment in the little "grave red brick house." Here some of his most famous novels wore written, such as "Great Expectations/* "Our Mutual Friend,"' ahd "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Nothing has been said as to the character of the few bidders for the house or what their intentions were. There has, however, been no intimation of any purpose to preserve it as a museum or as a public memorial to its author.

It has been well said that Dickens, loss than any othor great English writer, requires a single shrine to keep his memory fresh in th© minds of his countrymen. In 1904 the house in Mile End terrace, Portsea, in which the novelist was born, wa3 converted into a Dickens museum. One of the efforts of the Dickens Fellowship was to secure the house in Dduglity street as a monument to the author. Non© of these rerves, however, as such as vital and varied reminder of his glorious part in English literary history as does his continuing influence in the daily life of his country. What Dickcnsians regard as the original of the Old Curiosity Shop passes out of existence and a narrative of the fact travels over the English-speaking world. His marriage license is put up at an auction of famous books ana documents, and another mention of him flashes over the .cables to the countries that love his work. A stuffed raven, once his property and kept by the novelist in his studio while ho wrote "Bar&aby Radge/* comes to the auctioneer’s stand, and tho world boars much of tho bird aTtd its historl-j importance. Day and Martin pass out of existence and tho most salient fact about their famous shoe polish seems to have been that Sam Weller used it at the Whitehart Inn. Some historic building in England is destroyed and the nations learn of th© J ,ar l it played in this or that romance by England’s great author. New books about the scenes of his novels are printed every year. So he lias a monument more enduring than Gadshill -or the house in Doughty street or. the Portsea Museum. The constant interest of a world out of which he passed more than half a century ago is the sort of memorial to which few men can lay claim. His characters can be mentioned with as much certainty of recognition as if they were contemporaneous figures in life to-day. Even if nobody *ared enough about Gadshill to pay its price, Dickens never needed it as a reminder of his work.

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ORIENTAL BALL There was quite a holiday crowd at thn Town Hall lust night, when an Oriental ball was held in aid of t'ho funds of the Residential Nursery run by the Women's National Reserve. The hall was quite full, and it looked as though not another couple- could have found room, mfd everyone was in holiday humour and enjoyed every minute of the dances provided. The decorations were very gay, consisting of fringes of paper ribbon run- : ning from the centre to the sides of the galleries, Which themselves were well filled with onlookers. ! A trellis partitioned off the space under the gallery, and was twined with gieenery and pink and red) flowers. Supper was set behind this and was well patronised all the evening. More greenery was banked on the stage, where Braund's Orchestra was stationed and provided excellent music, and nothing seemed wanting to make the dance thoroughly enjoyable. Fancy dress worn in many cases, and a number of prizes were given, and some most elaborate headdresses. One with the tail of a lyre bird at the back of a turban much jewelled and worn with an Arab's robe, was most effective and won a prize; brilliant feathers and a jewelled tiara won its wearer a prize also; and there were other elaborate styles, most of Eastern variety, as the name of the ball suggested. Among the fancy dresses was a genuine Early Victorian one of sprigged muslin, with deep floifnces worn with a poke bonnet and tiny sunshade so old that the silk hardly seemed to- hold together. This had belonged to an old lady now 104 j and still alive, and was worn by her when, she was eighteen. Its wearer would have taken a* prize anywhere, but tho Oriental nature of the ball made the judges lean to an “Eastern Girl” in. prstty pink costume, with short wired tunic. Several paper dresses were also worn and some were very good, notably a ‘‘Black Butterfly 0 with very wide ■wings, a "Witch” and a "Chinaman.” The judges for the costumes were Mrs Albert Russell, Mrs Culford Bell, and Mrs Chatfield. and their awards went to:—-Best headdress: "Persian Prince,” Miss Lilian Gray, and Smith's Miss Gaipsford, h.c., Mrs Stone, "grape trellis”; best paper dress: Men, Mr Stone, “Chinaman''; ladies, Miss Eva Bragg, "Witch”; best fancy dress, Mr Hunter, “Pierrot/ * Miss Clara Collins "harem dress,” and h.c. Miss Owen, "Early Victorian." The prizes were presented during the evening by the Mayoress, Mrs It. A, Wright, while His Worship the Mayor was also present, and Sir John and Lady Luke, and Councillor Mrs McVicar were also among the patrons of the ball. The organisers weie Miss Freeman and Mrs Staples, the latter being secretary for the occasion, while the whole of the arrangements were carried out under the direction of Mrs Albert Russell. During the evening a graceful Eastern dance was given by Miss Marjorie Buckeridge, who wore a handsome frock of green and silver, with vivid red sash, he*’ headdress having strings of beads, and two large red cabochons over either ear. Pupils of Miss O'Brien also danced in Eastern costume. Supper was entirely donated for the evening table, having been provided by Mesdames Tripp, Spear, Porter, Morris, Findlay, Hope Gibbons, Staples, Miss Freeman, and by branches of. the reserve. Mrs W. A. Parion and Mrs E. T. Taylor were in c&arge. Caps were sold at the door, and many effective ones were donned. Mrs Stone was in charge of this stall, and Mrs Horner of a stall for balloons. Mrs Murphy, M.8.E., had a stall for soft drinks, and Mr W. A. Parton was m charge of a gentlemen's committee, who manned tho doors and looked after the ticket boxes. Generous donations of caps, balloons, and trophies were made by several business firms, and the committee are very grateful for the assistance willingly given by everyone towards the dance, which assisted greatly In the euccesa of the function. CHARLEY’S AUNT CLUB The last night of the Charley's Aunt Club was held on Thursday last at the ‘Masonic Hail, Boulcott street, and proved a most successful finish to a record season. Long before the time to start every seat in the hall was occupied, and although a large number of extra chairs were pressed into service many of the audience were content to stand all the evening. Mr Matt Carr was installed as chairman by Mr Myers, who performed the ceremony with 6ome very clever and original remarks. After the supper adjournment tho chairman presented to Mr Norman E Aitken, on behalf of the club, a handsome silver fruit and flower stand and a cheque. In making the presentation, in his usual happy and witty manner, Mr Carr reminded the members that not only was Norman Aitken the original Charley's Aunt who toured New Zealand ten years ago, but he was tho founder of the club, the mother and tho father of it, that he had worked hard and ungrudgingly and without remuneration »to foster its interests in every possible way, and the executive of the club considered it was time Mr Aitkeu should have some small token of appreciation and esteem from the members of the club.

On rising to return thanks, Air Aitken received a tremendous ovation, and aftei a few very suitable words of thunks gave a humorous item from the stage, the last two verses of which wer© composed for the occasion and were most appropriate.

The following excellent programme was then contributed :—Overture, the club’s orchestra; baritone solo, Mr J. H. Hunt, solo dance, Aliss Joan Carter; song. Miss rauline Bhortlander; humorous sketch, Mr H. Tollerton; baritone solo, Mr Hamilton Hodges; one-act play, "The Threshold," played by Miss Linda AleInt.yr© and Mr Lou Power; song, Miss Eileen Searle; humorous song, Air Jack Wilkinson; tenor solo, Mr P. Martin; instrumental trio.

At the conclusion of the musical itoma the hall was cleared, and the members and visitors finished a most successful season with an al fresco dance till 1 o’clock, the music for which was provided by Mr Mat Dixon and his associates.

The death occurred recently at the re* eidonce of her daughter, Latham street, after a brief illness, of an old resident of tho Dominion in th© person of Mrs Mary Cooley. The late Airs Cooley, who possessed ;i fine disposition and was loved by /ill with whom she came in contact, arrived in Auckland over 60 years ago from the Old Country. She subsequently removed' to Wellington, where, with her husband, who predeceased her twelvo years ago., she settled in the ATaungaroa Valley, remaining in that locality for 40 years. On the death of her husband deceased removed to Napier, where she had been a resident ever since. The late Airs Cooley is survived hy two sons, Messrs I. E. Cooley, Lower Hutt, and A. Co°ley. Wellington, and one daughter, Mrs E. Cartel-, Napier. The interment will take place at "Wellington.

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