NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Hon. Mrs Taho Rhodes returned to Christchurch on Saturday night after visiting Wellington foT race week. Miss C. Tipler (Wellington) is staying with Miss Stephenson-Smith in New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs A. Gellatly and their children are visiting Christchurch. Mrs J. Bond Grove, of Wellington, is a visitor to Christchurch. Mrs George Currie, of Wanganui, is visiting Wellington. •Mrs Moore, wife of the Hon. .Richard Moore, Cashmere Hills, is leaving, New Zealand by the Buahine early, in May to visit her relatives in England. Mrs A. A. Bennett has returned to New Plymouth from Wellington. Miss It. Powles and Miss CromptonSmith (Wellington) are the guests of Miss Percy Smith in New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs J. C. Webb are visiting Christchurch. Mrs Jack Lough, who has been on holiday for several weeks in Merivalo, Christchurch, has returned to Wellington. Miss Mary Strouts, of Christchurch, who is at present on a holiday visit to Wellington, ‘is the guest of Mrs Prank Twiss, at Lyall Bay. Miss P. Meyers and Miss E. Meyers, of Wellington, are wintering in Brussels. Miss Holmes, who has been visiting Miss M'Lean, Ardgour, Timaru, came back to Wellington on Tuesday to meet the Hon. T. M. and Mrs Wilford on their arrival from Japan. Mr and Mrs T. H. Lowry have returned to the south of France after a brief visit to London. New Zealand friends will be interested to learn that Mr T. C. Lowry has taken his B.A. degree at Cambridge, his subject being history. The marriage took place in London on January 5 of Captain R. C. R. Stevenson, Royal Engineers, pon of Mr and Mrs James Stevenson, of Fort James, County Derry, grandson of Mrs J. B. Russell, of Auckland, and Margery, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Bentley Auley, of Cheltenham. Miss Hamlon, of Wellington, is visitink friends at Christchurch. Miss Grace Mouatt, of New Plymouth, is leaving for Rarotonga by the Maunganui on Tuesday. She is accompanied as far as Wellington by her sisters, Misses M. and E. Mouatt. Mrs J. Page and Miss Isabel Glenn (Hawera) left for England by the Ruapehu on Thursday, Mrs F. J. Nancarrow and Mrs W. Glenn (Wanganui) accompanying them as far as Wellington. The matron of the Wellington Hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks the following gifts : —Tobacco and cigarettes, I Red Cross Society; books, Mr Cummins, i Dr Kemp; flowers, Mrs Hills (weekly), St. Thomas's Sunday School; papers, Mr Murphy, Miss Kinchella, Mrs Hills; toys, Presbyterian Girls’ Home, Junior Red Cross, Lvall Bay School; Father Christmas with toys, Empire Masonic Lodge; doll, Mr Hart (Willis Street); treat for soldiers, Red Cross per Lady Luke; old linen, Mrs Whitwell, Eva Jones. The matron also desires to thank the pupils of Miss Carwell-Cooke and the St Joseph’s Concert Party for very -enjoyable entertainments given to the patients of the Ewart Ward. Mrs A. Longmore is visiting the South island. Mrs Marsden is visiting Christchurch with Dr Marsden. Mr and Mrs H. M. Campbell, of Hastings, are in Wellington. Mr and Mrs Clare and Mr and Mrs Swinnerton, of Wellington, are visiting Hawke’s Bay. Lady Constance Butler, daughter* of the late and niece of the present Marquess of Ormonde, is probably the only titled woman to he in charge of the X-ray department of a hospital. She attends daily at St Andrew’s Hospital, Dollis Hill, London. Lady Constance took up X-ray work very early in the war, first at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and later at Ascot and at the Ellerman Hospital, Regent's Park. The Countess of Cassillins, who is visiting New Zealand with her sister, is a Lady of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, to which society she told a Sydney newspaper representative she v/culd rather belong than fo any other, because “it is t|ie oldest nursing order in the world. The countess, who is president of the Scottish Red Cross, and holds'four long-service stripes, was one of the first ladies to offer her own home during the war for the reception of Australian and New Zealnder officers, who were later taken so freely and kindly into the country homes of England. She has done a great deal in many avenues of service for the soldiers, and is interested in eugenics and philanthropy. Lady Cassillis represents a county in Scotland, on the executive of the National Council o: Women, belongs to the committee of the Victoria League, and is connected with the Girl Guides, of whom she hopes tj see something in this part of the world. Instead of a diary, Lady Cassillis keeps illustrated scrap-book records of her travels. One of these volumes, devoted to chronicles of her experiences ahd work in war time, is a treasured possession of great interest. The wedding of the daughter of their Mayor, Mr W. H. Nicholson, on Wednesday morning, ocaseioned residents of Sumner much interest, although the event was to have been quietly celebrated. Florence, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W H. Nicholson, was the bride, and her groom, Frederick Stanley Hodson, youngest son of Mr and the late Mrs W H Hobson, of Wellington. The little church of All Saints was decorated with white roses, lilies, and sweet peas. The Rev. B. C. W. Powell conducted the service, Mr A. H. Tutill officiated at the organ, nnd Mr Nicholson gave his daughter away. She was in a toilette of ivory and silver. A hand-embroidered veil of finest net was clasped with a chaplet of orange blossoms, and. the bouquet was of palest pink roses and carnations and maidenhair fern. A string of pearls, the gift of the bridegroom, was worn round the throat. The bridesmaid was Miss C. Congreve, who wore a smart little frock of almond green jersey-silk, I relieved with silver tissue, and a silvergrey tissue hat trimmed with copper-gold roses and lace. Her bouquet was of rosos to tone. The reception was hold at the Cadena Tea Rooms, in Sumner, where the tables were artistically arranged with roses and sweet peas. The bride’s mother, Mrs Nicholson, was in ] silver-grey marocain, trimmed with black jet, and a hat and scarf of black and silver. When the bride left on the weding trip to the north she wore a marocain frock of raven blue trimmed with Paisley silk, and shoeß, hose, and hat of French grey.

Mrs lan Duncan, o£ Wellington, and her daughter, Ida, are on t'he Continent, en route for New Zealand, says the “British Australasian** of December 18th. Mr and Mrs <l. Kebbell, of Wellington, who have been spending the summer in Aberdeen, have now gone to Bournemouth, England. Miss Dora Qhlfsen, ,the Australian *sculptrexss, lias finished a fine statue, “Sacrifice. * which is to be used as a war memorial for Formia, Italy. The statuo is a striking figure of an Italian soldier, pimple and arresting. Miss Ghlfsen was commissioned to execute the work by the Duke Tosti-di-Valminuta. Italy has been Miss Ohlffeen's home for many years, and she has done a number of statues for war memorials there. During the war she served as a nurse in the Italian Bed Cross. Her work for Australia >has included a beautiful medallion, replicas of which were sold in aid of permanently disabled Australians and New Zealanders. A baby week celebration is to be held throughout India this January. It is being organised by a council of which Sir Frederick Whyte, President of the Indian Legislative Assembly, is the chairman. In India the infant mortality is enormous, the death-rate of infants under one year of age reaching 200 or more per 1000. The promoters or tlie effort ainj at educating the Indian i w in attention to hygiene and the ca.e of infants. In Madras, Lady Willingdon, wife of Lord Willingdon, Governor of Madras Presidency, is actively proclaiming both baby welfare institutions and also homd employment, for women of the pcor classes, and ie procuring a market tor their work. Miss Maude Royden, the well-known preacher and cliurchwoman, addressing a University extension summer meeting at Oxford, said that very few women between 20 and 30 realised the quiet' revolution "which had been brought about by women in medicine and in other professions in the last century. In law the entry of women would probably effect I similar changes. To-day the offences I which it was considered needed only a light punishment were offences against life, cruelty to animals and children, and offence© against women. The offences against proeprty, on the other hand—poaching, forgery, arson, and theft—were the ones against which it was considered necessary to provide punishment of appalling savagery. Was it not likely that in the realm of theology the coming o? the trained theologian, who was a woman, would profoundly affect the general outlook?

SATURDAY’S RACES

Saturday was an ideal day for the races, bright and sunny, the only drawback -being too great a supply of that sunshine tor which we usually pine. The absence of shelter on the as yet Uncovered stand caused many ourat necks and arms among the ladies patronising the course. It also provided an opportunity for the display of sunshades, and nearly everyone had one—some of vivid colours, some • dull shot silk, a few displaying broad stripes or large squares, while there were a great many J apanese paper sunshades, whose vivid colourings considerably brightened the general effect, for, in 6pit© of the warm weather, there ■ were not a great many light dreses to be ; seen, the number of black being quite I remarkable for a summer meeting, and during a really hot summer besides. | Miss Harcourt, on this occasion, wore | all black in marocain, with a wide hat | trimmed with a panache of coque*s feathj ers; Mrs W. Turnbull was also in black, ! with ermine furs; Mrs Adams wore [ black, with a purple flower in her hat; I Mrs W. Barton, of Featherston, was in ; black satin marocain and lace hat; Mrs I W. Hume wore black, with panels of I black and white-patterned foulard; Mrs G. Hume was in white and black jersey silk, her black hat encircled with ermine, with ermine tails laid on the brim; Mrs Mcßvedy also wore all black, in with shirred skirt and black hat; Mrs ! W. G. Reid had black relieved with some I bright embroidery, the panels lined with ; fuclisia-toned silk, and a black hat with I paradise plume 6; Lady Ward wore a three-piece costume of beige colour, with Sitterned silk bodice, and black hat; [rs Elgar wore soft beige georgette, beautifully draped to the figure and caught at one hip with a bronze buckle, her brown hat having a drooping beige feather; Mrs Knox Gilmer wore a grey costume and black hat; Mrs G. D. Greenwood (Canterbury) was in dark blue jerj eey silk, heavily beaded in steel, and a i blank hat; Mrs Tringham wore a black patterned white georgette with coloured flowers in her hat; Miss Peggy Tringham was in floral voile, rose and black on a white ground, and a black and white hat, and carried a Japanese parasol; Mrs Clay wore a smart frock of black silk E attorned in lines of white, and black at; Mrs E. Blundell wore geraniumcoloured voile, and black hat with flat rosette and shot ribbon; Mrs E. J. Riddiford was in black, with vest and collar of tan-coloured silk, and black liat; Mrs Vivian Riddiford wore cinnamon georgette, and a very long drooping ostrich feather of the same shade in her brown hat; Mrs Hodson was in grey, her small hat having red and dull green ribbons; Mj.es Marchbanks wore a pretty blue and white floral voile; Mrs D*Oyley was wearing black and white; also Mrs Fordham, a lightly-patternecl foulard; Mrs W Hislop wore navy blue, with touches of white, and large white rosette in her hat; Miss "Betty Hislop was in a navy blue pleated frock; Miss Bell was in navy blue, with steel headings and small hat; Mrs Arthur Duncan wore a coffeecoloured costume, the short coat of brocaded material, ana hat to match; her sister, the Hon. Mrs Gathorne Hardy, wore whjte silk and net with lines of black; Mrs lan Mcßae wore white, lightly embroidered in vivid tones, and small black hat with coloured flowers flat on the' crown; Mrs Tilly wore mole silk worked in gold thread, nnd blue in her hat; Mrs W. Bidwill ypas- wearing black, with glycerined feathers, draping over the brim of her hat; Mies Alys Duncan was in white, and wore a black panne hat with long tassel of coloured silks» Mrs Percy Blundell was in all brown; Mrs Arndt chose a soft champagne colour, with Oriental, embroideries on the bodice; Miss Barton was in fawn, with a blue hat; Miss Elaine Barton, in grey, finely touched, and pleated frills; and Miss M. Barton was in green. Green, with a black hat, was also worn by Miss Agnes Duncan; Miss Kebbell I Wore a grey coat and skirt; Mrs H. D. Crawford wore grey georgette, with panels beaded in long lines in silver, and a wide hat; Miss Medley wore grey crepon; Miss Williams, a tissue costume; Mrs John Duncan had a frock of black silk striped with flowers, alternating fith lines of white, her cloche hat was in two shades of red; Mrs (Dr) Gilmer wore grey, with grey and silver hat. and carried a rose-pink parasol; Mrs Alec Young was in henna georgette, embroidered in eelf-colour, and a .black hat; Miss Stott wore shrimp pink voile embroidered in hroderie Anglaise, and black hat; Mrs T. W. Hislop wore a cinnamon

costume, with coat of matellassee, and hat of Oriental tapestry; Miss Martin wore white and black patterned voile; Mrs Digges-Smith was in black and white; Mrs Brodie wore black satin, relieved with white; Miss Claridge was in brown; Mrs G. Tnorne George wore navy, with red embroidery: Miss M. Joseph wore navy, with a brown hat; Miss Zita Chapman was in yellow voile, with grapes in her hat; Mrs Lees was another wearer of black and white; Mrs Tripp wore a pretty grey embroidered georgette, and hat of green; Mrs Reed wore black beaded in steel; Mrs Magnus, a black-beaded sown, and hat with ospreys; Mrs Buckleton was in navy, with a black hat; Miss Buckleton, deep pink, with a white hat; Mrs Sharp wore beige colour and patterned silk in vivid colouring; Miss White was in fawn, with brown hat; Mrs O’Shea wore white, and a black hat; Mrs Harold Johnstone, grey lace; Mrs Stanton Harcourt, white muslin, with touches of coloured embroidery, and light hat; Mrs G. Harcourt, black silk, and hat with red roses and blue ribbon: Mrc 1')- W. Kane was in dark brown, beaded in bronze; Mrs Aitken wore white marocain, and black ; hat with flowers; Mrs Robertson, a black and white costume; Mrs Hadfield, navy blue; Mrs Stewart, black, with white stripes; Mrs G. Fearce, grey costume; Mrs Duncan Baucnop, grey geor?ette, with pleated panels, and small oque of green and gold; Mi6s SomerI T'iUo wore navy, and. a flowered hat; Mrs | Hebb was in grey, with a black hat; Mrs •D. W. Duthie wore all lack; Mrs j Donguet was Jn green, and a brown hat; !Miss CY Moriee, black marocain, with coloured beading; Miss Spear, black taffetas, with coloured band; alis6 Adams, royal blue silk and lace.