NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11664, 31 October 1923, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

80CIAL AND PERSONAL Dr. Agnes Bennett leaves by the Mamma on Friday for Sydney, and will attend the Medical Conference in Melbourne. Miss Jean Sellar, of the Ngaio school, has accepted an appointment as infant mistress at Te Horo. Miss Sellar is well known in educational circles in Masterton. Mr and Mrs C. Martin, of Martinborough, are in Wellington. Mias Phoebe Martin, Otaraia, Wavrarapa, is visiting Wellington. Mrs A. D. Waters left by the Tahiti on a visit to America. The ladies' auxiliary of the Y.M.O.A. are holding a big sale of work at the Donbank Hostel, Upper Dixon street, on Wednesday. The following ladies will be in charge of stalls: —Fanoy work, Mesdames Piper and Hall ; plain work, Mesdames Fossette, Hannah and Kelly ; produce, Mia Ilott and Miss Fraser: toffee. Misses Dawson and Findlay; flower, Mrs Ennis and Miss Aldous; afternoon tea, Miss Child and ’s McGowan. The sale will be opened by • Mrs C. J. Parr at 2.30 pm. All interested are invited to be present.

The Nurses’ Home at King George VT Hospital, Rotorua, last Monday evening was the scene of quite a memorable reunion. The occasion was an entertainment by the matron, nursing and massage sisters in honour of Miss Hester Maclean, R.R.C., director of the nursing division, who, after 23 years’ service, retires at the end of the year. Dr. Valintine. InspectorGeneral of Hospitals, Dr, Wallis, medical superintendent of King George V. Hospital Dr. Fisher, of the staff, and Mrs Fisher, Mesdames Kendall and Hesketli and Sirs McDonald, of Auckland, and Miss Margaret Mackenzie, of Rotorua, were among the guests. The wedding took place recently at St. Mary’s Church, Boulcott street, of Miss Phoebe Blandford, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Blandford, of Shannon, and Mr George Ludwig Frank, or Taranaki. The Rev. Father Murphy officiated. The bride was given away by her father. She wore a charming gown of cream crepe-de-chine and eilk lace. She also wore a veil and orange blossom, and the bridal bouquet was of cream roses, carnations, tulips, and maidenhair fern. Misa Gladys Blandford was chief bridesmaid, her frock being of powder-blue crepe-de-chine, and a hat of black straw, trimmed with powder-blue roses, and streamers of velvet ribbon. Her bouquet was of yellow tulips and maidenhair fern. Miss Thelma Jepsen, of Featherston, attended also in a frock of shell pink, with, a hat of bl-ack straw, trimmed with pink roses and streamers. She carried a bouquet of heliotrope, eweet peas, and maidenhair fern. Mr G. Peach, of Shannon, was best man, and Mr w. F. Pycroft, of Miramar, was groomsman. The bridegroom’s presents to the bridesmaids were fawn sunshine purses, with silver mountings. A pleasant afternoon was spent at Dustin’s, where the wedding breakfast took place. Dancing and musical items were much enjoyed by the guests. Latei Mr and Mrs Frank left for tho South. The bride’s travelling costume was of fawn braided gabardine and a brown lace hat.

Mies Irma Caron, whose father was so well known in Australia and New Zealand years ago as a musical director for Williamson’s, is singing in America for wireless broadcast. By microphones the voice is first carried to a powerful station two miles away, and there thrown out to the four winds. Miss Caron is singing Maori and nese songs, as well as French and English.

WEDDING AT ST. JOSEPH’S

A wedding of much interest was celebrated on the 17th inst., at St. Joseph's Church, Buckle street, when Miss Eileen ; Aitken, of Wellington, was married to Mr L. A. Chapman, also of Wellington. The Rev. Father Gilbert officiated, and appropriate music was played by Mr McLaughlin. During the ceremony Miss M. Fenton sans "Ave Maria." The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of ivory brocaded satin charmonte, hanging in simple folds over an underdress of surer lace. A train of the brocade, lined with rucked pale pink georgette, hung from the shoulders. The veil, falling softly over the train was worn with a Russian coronet of pearls. The bridal bouquet was of cream roses, lily of the valley, pale pink tulips and maidenhair fern, with tulle streaemrs. The bridesmaid were Miss M. Fitzgibbon and Miss Thelma Aitken, bot hcousins of the bride. The former wore a frock ;of apricot satin' marocain with silver trimmings, and the latter a frock of lavender and pale pink charmeuse trimmed with silver lace. Broth bridesmaids wore black crinoline hats trimmed in tone to match their frocks, and carried bouquets of pansies and pink and mauve with tulle streamers. The bridegroom’s gift to the bridesmaids was a gold wristlet watch and a gold armlet. Mr C\ P. McaNlly was best man, and Mr H. Ryan groomsman. The reception was held at the Empress Ballroom, Abel Smith street, where the bride's mother received the guests. The usual toasts were honoured, the Rev. Father Cullen proposing the toast of the bride and bridegroom. Musical and elocutionary items were given by the Misses McDavitt, Fenton, Aitken and Jeffery, and Messrs J. t S. Prentice and N. Aitken. Mrs Prentice was the accompanist. Later the happy couple left for Auckland and the Bay of Islands, the bride travelling in a costume of nigger gabardine smartly braided, and hat to match. Tho presents were numerous, among them being a silver tea service from the staff of the Public Trust Office, and a dinner and tea set from the staff of tho Government Life Insurance, with which departments the bride and bridegroom were associated.

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VICE-REGAL GARDEN PARTY L.AHGE GATHERING AT GOVERNMENT HOUSK There was a very large attendance at the garden party given by His Excellency the Governor-General at Government House yesterday afternoon, prior to his departure.for Christchurch and for Auckland, where he will go into residence for some time. Although the wind was & little cold tho weather kept fine, and the guests were able to raako use of the spacious lawns, where seats were arranged and a military band dispensed music. The guests were received by His Excellency at the foot of the verandah steps, and afterwards they went inside to afternoon tea, which was served from long buffets set in the ballroom, and also in the diningroom, while the drawingrooms were thrown open and many people preferred to remain indoors in the comfortable rooms rather than face the colder wind outside. The rooms were everywhere decorated with the most beautiful flowering plants from the greenhouses at Government House, as well as beautiful cut flowers, including stocks, carnations, roses, etc. Among the many present were Sir Francis Bell, Lady Bell, who was wearing black with a marocain cloak edged with deep fringe and black lace hat; Sir Heaton Rhodes; Mrs J. Pair, wearing dull blue georgette patterned in large squares with a design of deej> rose and black and a dark blue hat; Sir Edward and Lady Chaytor, the latter in navy blue coat frock and black lace hat; Aliss Chaytor,in blue organdie with pink broche ribbons; the Mayor and Airs R. A.Wright, the latter in navy blue charmeuse and small blue hat turned back with hrocad-

sma.i'. oiue 'nat turnea oacx wmi mocau ed tissue; Sir John and Lady Luke, lb latter in black coat, braided and feather ed hat; Sir John and Lady Findlay, tb latter in navy blue charmeuse and blacl hat. with blue cornflowers; Miss Bell ii grey marocain and long coat of navy blue blue black hat; Mrs Harold John stone in black with touches of Orienta trimming, and hat to match; Miss Dun can in black marocain, bordered with t design in black and red, and a black hat Mrs R. J. Seddon in black silk and blacl hat. Miss Susie Duncan in white or gandie. embroidered in pale pink, and * rustio hat; Mrs W. Hislop in black charmeuse, and hat with white osprey; Miss 801 l Hislop in Heavy cream wool lace, and small nat en suite; Mrs F. Dyer ir black lace, long coat, and hat with white ospieys; Mrs Bruges in tan coloured wool embossed net, and wide hat of tan and black; Mrs Rankine-Browi\. in black with lace sleeves, embroidered in gold, and hat with gold flowers; Mrs Sprott in black and white striped silk, and black feathered hat; Mrs Mitford in navy gaberdine coat-frock, beaded in steel and a black hat: Mrs McVilly in grey georgette, embroidered in grey and blue bead and a feathered hat; Mrs W. Young in black ninon, with toucheg of Oriental trimming; Mrs H. Hall, tabac brown lace and georgette, with hat to match; Mrs J. Henderson, brown gaberdine inlet with tucked georgette and brown hat; Miss Harcourt, black gaberdine inlet with lattice-like trimming of the same, and a picture hat; Mrs P. Blundell, brown crepe-de-chine. embroidered in. bronze byids and hat to match; Mrs Sbepperd, navy blue gaberdine over satin, the patels finished with embroidery in red, and black hat; Mrs Flanagan, grey velvet and black hat; Lady Beauchamp, fawn coat and skirt braided, and hat en suite. Miss Buckleton, nigger - brown costume, with tucked silk in the same tone and brown .hat; Mrs Corkill grey crepe - de - chine, and black hat; Hiss Corkill, beige coloured marocaiuo with deep accordeon pleated neck frill; Mrs Pow, black and white patterned chiffon over black satin ond black hat; Mrs Middleton, cream gaberdine frock and flowered hat; Mm J. Myers, navy blue cape inlet with grey laoo and black hat; Mrs A. Nowton, grey gaberdine costume and. black hat; Mrs Marsdeu, brown jersey cloth in two shades and brown hat; Mrs Sommerville, primrose- crepe -do chkc patterned in floral design and leghorn hat: Dr. Ada Paterson, grey costume and black hat; Dr. Agnes Bennett, beige coloured costume and black hnt; Mrs David Smith, cream gaberdine costume ond small hat; Mrs Waif*-' Johnston, grey foulard and black ha t ill long ermine coxt; Lady Ward, sn .iire blue georgette beaded in black, and black nat; Mrs Bernard Wood (Christchurch), apple green marocain, black feathered hoi; Miss I Fraser, black, with panels of black and white, and black hat; Mrs Bollard, black silk and hat en suite; Mrs Carmalt Jones (Dunedin), rnolo jersey silk and black nat, with mole fur stole; Miss Lulu Dyer wore heliotrope eilk, an-.l hat to match with smart bow; Mrs L. Tripp was in grey cliarmeuse and lace, with a black hat; Mrs Day was in navy blue taffetas, with lace cape and small blr.e and white liat; Miss Symo, navy blue, with grey lace, and navy blue hat; Airs Marshall (Dunedin), grey charmeuse, beaded, and grey hat; Mrs Alex. Young, brown patterned gown and small hat; Mrs R. St. John Beere, whlto silk patterned in blue, and a black bat; Mrs Tringham, brocaded silk in shades of blue, and black hat; Aliss Pe&£.y Tringham, pink organdie patterned in blue and bright pink hot; Aliss Rapley, shot rose taffetas and shady hat with roses; Mrs Adams, black frock and hat with pink roses; Miss Skerrett, black orepo de cbene and black hat; Mfr.s Adamscui, patterned foulard end black bot; Mrs Clayton, in saxe blue with checked skirt, and black hat; Mrs Frazer, almond green charmeuse and straw hat; Mrs Knox Gilmer, grey costume find hat with feather; Mrs W. Field, grey frock, and hat with shaded mauve feathers; Aliss Campbell, yellow organdie and white hat; Airs E. Hadifiold, black coat frock, beaded, and hat to match; Mrs Hamilton, beige' coloured georgette, and hat to match; Mrs Leckio, (block and white foulard; Miss T. Young, grey charmeuse and lace; Mrs C. Browne, black charmeuse, lace hat; Mrs Vivian Riddiford, three-piece costume of beige colour, with capo coat, and small black hat; Mrs G. H. Dixon, light brown costume and coloured hat; Aides Dixon, apple green silk; Mrs John Duncan, beige georgette, beaded in red, and rush hat with red flowers; Alro J. Hislop, blaok und white dress and flowered hat; Mr» Christie, dull brown costume, and hat to match; Mrs Mqrray Gard'ner, brown, trimmed with brodene Anglaiseu. and hat to match.

Also present were: Sir Joseph, Ward, Sir John Findlay, Miss Brandon, Mr and Mrg H. Fisher, Dr Platte-Mills, Col. R. St. J. Beere, Captain Hamilton, Captain and Mrs Post, Mrs Hempton, Air and Mrs Mafkman, Mr and Mrs Morpeth, Mr and Mrs Adams, Airs yine, Mrs and Aliss Aloore, Mrs and Miss Wallace, Dr and Mrs Hay, Misses liaise. Air and Airs de Bath Brandon, Mr and Mrs Troup, Aliss Beere, Mrs Campbell, Mr and Airs M. Myors, Mrs Eichelbaum, Air and Airs S Eichelbaum, Mr Vincent Ward, Mr and Mrs D. C. Bates, Mr G. H. Dixon, Mrs a.i'l Miss Butin, Ala* TringhanL Attisa llall-Jones, Mr and Mrs R. A. Holmes, Mrs Sinclair Thompson, Air and Airs O. M Luke, Air Gillingham, Bishop Sprott, Yen. Archdeacon Johnson, All* and Mrs J. Tripo, Professor Marsdcn, Air V. ltidcliford, Mr and Mrs E. W. Hunt, Mrs F K. Hunt and the Aliases Hunt. Hon. 1. W. and Airs Hislop, Mrs Burdekin, Airs Hare, Air and Mrs Gill, Col. Murray Gard’ner, Air and Mrs B. W. Kano, Airs Sydney Nathan (Auckland), Mrs Herbert Rawson, Mrs Davison, Dr and Mix Valintine, Mrs Hunter, Mr G. Mitchell. the Misses Shcpperd O’Brien, Air (•. P. SkerreU, Mrs Ldrerivr, Mr and Mrs Gerald Tolhnrst. Mr and Mrs O’Rourke (Miss Stella Power), Uio latter in tan coloured velour, embroidered in red and green, and small hat to match, Mr James and Mrs Gravestock, Airs TI Ooro and Aliss (hire. Mrs and the Misse- Stott. Mr and Mrs W. Prouse, Air and Airs Albert Rus6cU* etc.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN An "at home** was held last night by the president of tho Wellington Branch of the National Council of Women to meet the Dominion president, Mrs Carmalt Jone 9, of Dunedin, who is at present visiting Wellington. The function, which was held in the social room of the Pioneer Club, was attended by a large number of members of affiliated societies, who listened with interest to the remarks made by tho Dominion president. Mrs Carmalt Jones told her hearers of the work of the council, explaining that it was affiliated to the International Council, with Lady Aberdeen at its head, and how it worked in the different countries. She explained here the working of the council under a Dominion executive, each branch having its own president and officers, and doing its own work. She also gave a resume of the work done at the Tecent Conference in Auckland, when delegates from all the branches wiere Matters concerning the League of Nations, with which the council is in sympathy, were spoken of also, also of the International Suffrage Alliance and other kindred bodies. Much interest was displayed in the matter, and it is hoped the meeting will be productive of much good. The president announced that the local r branch intended holding a garden fete to raise funds for the work on November 24th, and invited co-operation of all present and of all members of affiliated societies to assist. It wa_s intended to raise a small 6um to start the year, when it is hoped much propaganda work can be done.

During the evening songs wore given by Mrs Clinton Hunt, Mrs Russell, Mrs Eastwood, and Miss Berry, and were much enjoyed, and supper brought the procedings to a close, all present having the opportunity of some conversation with Mrs Carmalt Jones before leaving. Among those present were —Lady Luke, Mrs C. Morice, Afrs Meadowcroft, Mrs A. Gray, Mrs P. Fraser, Mrs AlcKeen, Aliss Hind, Miss M. McLean, Miss Agnes AlcLean. Mrs Johnson Wright, Miss C. Kirk. Mrs J. Henderson, Mrs Binnie. Afr-i Adams, Mrs Jolly, Airs Morberley Porter, Miss H. McLean, Mrs McVicar, Aliss Kennedy, Mrs Takaberry, Mrs and Miss Taylor, Miss E. Ford, Airs Waters, Dr Ada Paterson, etc.

WOMEN AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The women delegates to tho Assembly of tho of Nations now meeting at Geneva are interesting personalities, writes a friend who is staying on Lac Leman, to an English writer, and not tho least interacting is the English delegate, Dame Edith Lyttelton, who has already spoken with much eloquence on the subject of Women Police-.

Mies Jessie Webb, who is attached to tho Australian Delegation, is the second woman from that country to sit in the Assembly, her predecessor, Mrs Dale, of Sydney, having attended! the Third Assembly in 1922. Miss Webb is a wellknown educationist, rnd is an M.A. of Melbourne University, to which she has been attached as history lecturer for the last twelve years. The cable informing her that she had been elected a merabor of the Australian Delegation reached her whilst on n two years* leave of absence from the university, and in tha midst of a tour in Greece and Crete.

She told nw had a really wonderful time thome, visiting many of tho classical sites, andl seeing something of the relics of pre-Greek civilisation as the results of the most recent excavations. A great part of the tour, especially in Crete, was made on foot, Miss Webb frequently sleeping in tho open. Though the Greek has a name for driving a hard bargain, Miss Webb found the people of tho country invariably kind and hospitable, and she says that, although she was a woman on her own, they never took advantage of her in such matters as hiring mules or settling for a night's lodging. An always interesting group are ffh® three Scandinavian women, who have sat in each Assembly from 1920 onwards. Scandinavian women are proverbially the freest and' most independent in tho world, so it is hardly surprising that the Governments of these oountrios included a woman in their delegations from the very first.

Hach of the three is a noted woman in (her own country. Fru Bugge Wicksell, of Sweden, ig probably harderworked than any oti *r woman in tbe Assembly. She has a passion for international law, and after roaring a family, and when long past her youth, 6he studied to become a Lawyer at Lund University. Dr. Kristine Bonnovie. of Norway, is a noted scientist, and' Professor of Zoology at the University of Kristiania. People who see her for the first time, and are ignorant of her identity, would never guees that this comely, pleasantfaced woman, with laughing eyes, spends her days in carrying out extensive research woj'c in heredity and allied science* t

Alice Forchhammer, of Denmark, who completes the trio, is probably the bestknown in England, for she is so often over here, and has not long com pelted an oxtomsive lecturing tour hero on behalf of the League of Nations. Tho sixth woman member of the Assembly, but by no moans tho [least important, is vivacious AUle. Helene Vocarosco, of Rumania, the friend of Carmen Sylvn, and herself a poet and author of considerable distinction.

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AN OLD ENGLISH HOUSE Bramall Hall, in Cheshire, is the finest example of an Elizabethan mansion in I this island, says an English exchange [ Built in a large E, its black-and-white- ■ ness is a veritable joy; it was considered j so unique that it was modelled in miniature, and the model presented to Queen Victoria on her last jubilee. Yet this wonderful house is to be sold, taken to pieces, and, rumour has it, will be reerected—in America. Many years ago the ancient owners of Bramall Hall had to leave it, whether by choice or necessity I do not know. There was no shooting and not much land, and it stands too near to the manufacturing town of Stockport to be the residence of a country squire. When I stayed there it belonged to a charming and cultured couple, cottonspinners of the north, who had go.t rid of all the rep curtains, "occasional" chairs, and Parian Psyches of the "old family/' and had furnished it with amazing knowledge and good taste in its own "period/* It is only in oldfashioned plays and novels that the commercial rich have bad taste in furniture and decorations. As a matter of fact, they can always go to the greatest experts on "period/' and often achieve wonderful effects. Inside, it was a congeries of rather low rooms and many passages and steps. There were Elizabethan four-post beds, beautiful tapestries, and carved oak cupboards, and, what struck my youthful fancy, with true Lancashire hospitality my hostess supplied her guests with sustenance for the night; there was at one's bedside a vast box of biscuits, a jug of milk and one of barley-water, which seemed somehow to mitigate the terrors of a probable visit of the ghost—for Bramall was, of course, haunted. If Bramall goes to America, the new owners will probably pay another 100,000 dollars to secure the ghost. If all our beautiful mansions are to be picked to pieces and put up again in the great Republic, pilgrims in quest of beautiful ancient buildings will have to taice steamer to New York. One has a vision of Haddon Hall re-erected near "Pigironville, Po./' and Tintern Abbey being "set up" on Coney Island for the delectation or polyglot New Yorkers. If most of our stately homes of England are destined to be turned into lunatic asylums, schools, and sanatoria, or even taken overseas, let us have a Yellowstone Park in England, which would enclose some of our beautiful houses, cathedrals, and several typical English villages, to show posterity what England was like before the Great War.

ORIGIN OF “CLEMENCE DANE”

Novel writers, too, find it wise to be careful in their choice of a pseudonym. The clover writer known to the reading public as Clemence Dane was convinced gho would never get her first novel accepted if she offered, it to a publisher under her baptismal and family name, which she considers somewhat commonplace and mawkish. So when "Regiment of Women" was completed—it took two years to write—she and a friend spent several days concocting a name for the author. Their method was certainly remarkablo. First of all they drew up a list of place-names and tried making a striking combination from that. Not satisfied with the result, they turned their attention to tho names of churches, and ultimately, in that of St. Clement Danes, Strand, found tho inspiration that brought about tho euphonious and provocative pseudonym which has come to stand for a writer of books making special appeal to tho modern •woman.

It is a name, too, that has created a stir in the play-going and play-reading world, as witness: "A Bill of Divorcement" and "Will Shakespeare/* Am other play bj Clemence Dane is to bo staged this autumn.