NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 5

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Hostesses for the Community Club this week will be:—Tuesday, Mrs S. H. Rastall; Wednesday, Mrs J. O’Shea; 'Thursday, Mrs Norman; Friday, Mrs E. Muir; Monday, Mrs E. Vine. Mias Jessie Slimitl) has gone to Palmerston North to fulfil engagements there. Lord and Lady Jellicoe were giving a dance at St. Lawrence Hall, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, during Cowee week, fdr the debut of their second daughter. Mesdames G. and H. Mirams returned to Wellington from Sydney by the Tahiti yesterday. Mrs H. Stace, Marshlands, Blenheim, is the guest of Mrs E. Stace, at Seatoun. Sirs Mitfard and her son, Dr. Bertram Mitford, have returned from Dunedin. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Hastings, on Tuesday afternoon, when the Rev. J. A. Shaw united in holy matrimony Dorothy May, eldest daughter of Mr and Mra John Collinge, of Charlotte crescent, Hastings, to George, only son of Mr and Mrs George Wood, of Avenue road, Hastings, late of Scotland. On Sunday Mrs Jane Bradley, of Levin, celebrated her 100th birthday, and a number of her friends to mark the occasion made her a gift that will be useful and add to her comfort. She ie Levin’s first centenarian. Caroline Esther Herrick, widow of the late J. J. Herrick, of Tai Tapu, was married to Mr William John Humphreys, of Tai Tapu, on Wednesday morning at St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Sydenham, Christchurch, by the Rev. J. D. Webster. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr A. Tanner. The Hon. H. L. Michel, M.L.C., and Mrs Michel, have gone to Auckland on ncoouht of the serious illness of their married daughter. Miss Hilda Taylor, of Wellington, is visiting New Plymouth from August 30th to September 11th to give . special folk dancing lessons. The death is announced of Mrs James Awdry, who for many years resided iu Rangitikei, first at “Notton,” Makirikiri, and then in Queen street. Marten. Later she resided at Shannon, and subsequently at Papakura— at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Kirton. On August 3rd, at St. Aidan’s Church, Miramar, Wellington, Mary (Molly), youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Wasson, of Belfast, Ireland, was married to Harold, only son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Spencer, of Wellington, formerly of Avonside, Christchurch. The bride was given away by Mr C. R. Fudge. Her frock w'as fashioned of ivory georgette, heavily beaded in silver. A wreath of orange blossom and pearls banded to her head her hand-worked veil, and lilies and jonquils mingled in her shower-bou-quet. Miss Isa Finlayson and Miss Ivy Morgan (cousin of the bridegroom),-as bridesmaids, wore trucks of lavender georgette trimmed with gold lace and flowers' to tone, and carried bouquets of lavender sweet-peas. Two little girls, nieces of the bridegroom. Misses Margaret and, Patricia Hodder, as flower-girls, wore- pink silk beautifully hand-embroidered, and carried baskets of violets, tied with ribbon streamers lof pink and mauve. The bridegroom was attended by Mr .R. J. Harrison as best men. After the ceremony a reception was held at St. Aidan’s Hall, where the mother of the bridegroom received the guests. She wore a frock of black georgette trimmed with flame georgette and caught at. the side and shoulder with buckles to match. Her bouquet was of sweet-peas. The sister of the bridegroom, Mrs R. N. Hodder, of North Brighton, wore a dress of palo blue satin beaute, with gold lace. Mrs G. Morgan, aunt of the bridegroom, was in black satin and silver lace. Mr and Mrs Harold Spencer afterwards left by motor for the north, the bride wearing a model frock of nigger brown with Oriental trimmings, and a coat and Jiat to tone. There is a great revival of white both for day and evening wear; and sometimes at smart functions a notable feature is the contrast of the all-white and all-black toilette; a typically Parisienno note. Among the most favoured pastel tones are green, mauve, and a fascinating elusive shade of faded straw, last is frequently allied to /the übiquitous black. So, too, are French grey and the newest “stone” shade of the beige family. Miss Lydia Annesley Vachell, daughter of Mr Horace Annesley Vachell, tlia author, who is abroad, was married to her first cousin, Mr Arthur Annesley Vachell, at . St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, recently. The Von. C. E. Lambert, rector of St. James’s, officiated, and the bride was given away by Mr John Hunter Blair. With a wedding dress of rose pink chiffon and a large picture hat trimmed with roses, the bride carried pink carnations, and her only attendant was Miss Marion Jellicorse, dressed in cham-pagne-coloured georgette and lace with a poppy-red bat and bouquet of red roses. Mr Robin Bushman acted as best man.

British women are about to open a vigorous fight to do away with present suffrage laws, which exclude them from the right to vote until they are 30, says a London report. Many prominent men agreed to join a great mass meeting staged by 40 women societies In the interests of equal political Tights. Among them were Lord Balfour, Lord Cecil and' Mr Petliick Lawrence. M.P. Under the present suffrage laws in England. 5,000.000 women above the age of 21, but below the ago of 30, are unable to vote, while qualified men above the ago of 21 bare the ballot. All the old-time suffrage leaders and thousands of other prominent women resent this discrimination.

There were 608 applications for patents from women inventors during 1925, as compared with 493 in 1924 in England, says the report of the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks issued recently. The total number of applications for the year was 33,008. The marriage of Madeline, only daughter of Air and Mrs J. Barrett, Colombo street, Cashmere, to Ronald Edward, only son of Mr and Mrs J. A. Lloyd, of Westport, formerly of Hawke’s Bay, took place on Wednesday morning, at the Roman Uatliolic Cathedral, Barbadoes street, Christchurch.

According to a London' correspondent, Miss Sybil Clayton, who is wellknown in Wellington social circles, lias returned to London after a tour through Switzerland, France and Scotland. She is staying with her uncle, Dr. C. H. Clayton, and after a tour through Scotland is returning to New Zealand about the end of this month by the Ceramic. The late Mrs F. W. Krebs, who died at Feilding recently, aged 93 years, was an early pioneer of the Rangitikei district. With her husband and young family, the deceased lady arrived in the Upper Rangitikei over 52 years ago, and there took up a section of heavy hush land in what was then known as tlio Parakaretu Block. In later years the family moved to the then new settlement of Campbelltown, now known as Rongotea, at which place Mrs Krebs’s husband predeceased her in 1911, at the age of 76. She leaves one daughter (Airs A. Koberstein. Feilding), and three sons—Harry (Kimbolton), Charles (Peep-o’-Day, Feilding), and Robert (Paeroa). Mrs Krebs’s direct descendants include twenty grandchildren and ten great-grond-children, and three of her grandsons served in the Great War.

The monthly committee meeting of the Levin Alemorial Home was held on Tuesday last at the home, Berhampore. Aliss Archibald presided. There were also present Mesdames Orr, AleEldowney, Ateek, Barnett, Willoughby, Gillespie, and Miss Greenwood. Apologies were received from Mesdames Christie, Stace, and Miss Barry. The matron reported the general health of the children was good. There were three new admissions to the home during the month. A special resolution of thanks was passed to the AlcCarthy trustees for the substantial inorease in the money allotted to the home this year. Workers who assisted at the home during the month were Toe H. men, and Mr Brewin with five fellow workers. At the sewing bee which met on July 27th Mrs Griffiths was welcomed as a- new member of the auxiliary committee. Gifts were: Cakes from St. Thomas’s and St. Cuthbert’s parishes; donations, Aliases Young and Barry; case of apples, Airs Willoughby; clothes, Airs Christie and Mrs Oswin; bread, the Women’s National Reserve ; papers, Airs Orr; load! of turf, Mr Brewin; bread, Mrs Heindal. On August 10th Mr and Mrs Hughes, Wakefield avenue, Sumner, Christchurch, celebrated their golden wedding. Mr and Mrs Hughes were married in Ashburton on August 10th, 1876, and have since resided in various parts of Canterbnury. Air Huges arrived at Wellington on the vessel La Hogue in 1874; Mrs Hughes came to Lyttelton with her first husband, Air Harvey, in the sailing ship Hereford in 1874, Mr Harvey' being killed about nine months later. Air and Mrs Hughes have a family of three sons and one daughter, all married ; also eight grandchildren. About fifty guests sat down to the wedding breakfast in the dining-room, decorated with golden-shaded streamers and yellow spring flowers. Mrs Hughes was presented with a lovely bouquet of violets and maidenhair fern and. golden streamers. After the toasts were honoured, the remainder of the evening was devoted to various amusements, songs, elocutionary items, and dancing. Congratulatory telegrams were received from various parts of New Zealand, and many useful gifts were received, as well as the good wishes of all present. Aliss Vere Hutchinson, sister to the famous author of “If Winter Comes,” and herself a distinguished and virile writer of sea stories, is likely to join the colony of English novelists domiciled permanently or for part of the year in la belle France. Miss Hutchinson" has been very ill at her pretty home in Maid? Vale, and the doctor’s verdict is “Go South!” —summer os well as winter, since even at its bestthe English climate is too uncertain a quantity to take risks with. The convalescent will follow the flight of many other famous migrants across the Channel when she obeys doctor’s orders, W. J. Locke long ago found inspiration in the sunshine of Cannes; Miss Tennyson Jesse has bought a winter villa to escape the English fogs and cold; Gilbert Frankau is having a house built on some land he has lately acquired; Elinor Mordaunt. the American authoress with a big. English following, has retired to a little fortressed town in the mountains above Nice, and J. D. Beresford is one of a band of artist comrades at St. Jean de Luz.

“We are on the evo of a new golden ago of the English stage,” declared Miss Clenience Dane, the author-play-wriglit, at the Soroptiinist Club recently. “Never,” said Miss Dane, “since the timo of Elizabeth have things looked so bright.” It is almost impossible to discuss the theatre without discussing religion, she added. It is impossible to study history without realising that no nation possessed a great theatre at a time when it was not. in its widest sense, a religious nation. Only people with an awakened religions sense would listen to such plays as Bernard Shaw’s “St,. Joan.” Gaiwortliy’s “The Skin Game.” Noel Coward’s “The Vortex,” Barrie’s “The Will,” DTinkwnter’s “Abraham Lincoln,” and many others. Six women, out of a total of 107 students, were called to the Bar at the four Inns of Court recently. Among them were a law lard’s daughter, the Hon. Ruth Buckley, daughter of Lord Wreabury, who was called at Lincoln’s Inn; and Miss Beng Hong Lin, of Penang, the second Oriental woman to don the wig and gown of . the English Bar. The other new women barristers were Miss Muriel M. Wells, of Gray’s Inn; Miss Vera R,. M. Meiklejohn, daughter of Major M. F. M. Meiklejohn, V.C.; Miss Evelyn P. Hope, of Middle Temple; and Miss Mary B. E. Moclair, of Lincoln’s Inn. At Gray’s Inn the new barristers included Major Brett Mackay Cloutman, who won the V.C. in France in 1918 with the Royal Engineers.

WOMEN AND MIGRATION AN INTERESTING REPORT. Tlie report of the Conference on Empire Migration, which was held in Ivon don by the British Commonwealth League, has just been received in New Zealand, and the resolutions passed there are very interesting. The first resolution urges that in all schemes concerning migration and placing of wo, men there shall be an adequate number of well qualified women holding jxjsitions of responsibility, also that in any scheme agreed upon by the Imperial Conference for the further development of organised migration equal representation be alloted to men and women on the governing and subsiriary bodies dealing with the question Another resolution was to the effect that the league set up a sub-committee tq further inquire into the funds, assi’V anoe, and means o'c training for wo; men other than domestic eervants whig may desire to emigrate. j One representative at the oonferencoj j remarked that most of the overseas delegates stressed the need for domestic workers only, which seemed a pity as the Dominions needed all kinds of women, and the university women should be encouraged. Other resolutions passed dealt with the moral responsibility of the citizens of the British Commonwealth in regard to members of the less advanced races within its boundaries; also the responsibility for adequate social provision for the reception, accommodation, etc., for men ana women migrants to and from all parts of the Empire, and approved of care societies for girls on similar lines to that of the Big Brother movement. The conference once more pressed for women to be associated with the Imperial Conference, and in that qualified women should be attached to the staffs of the Ministers attending, and also once more urged that women substitute delegates to the League of Nations should be appointed, or at least one woman full delegate in each case. The vexed question of the nationality of married; women again came up, arid resolutions were passed urging the Imperial Conference to deal with the matter. The question of the loss of status imposed on enfranchised women of settling in those parts of the Empire where women are not enfranchised, while an important resolution passed dealt with affiliation orders, and asked for reciprocal legislation eo that an order made in one part of the British Dominions might be enforced in any other part. One of Auckland’s pioneers, Airs Henry Eimson, aged 89, died at her residence in Albert road, Devonport, Auckland, last Wednesday. AccomEanied by her husband Airs Emson :.nded in Auckland in 1861 and, with the exception of 13 years occupied in farming at Whangarei Heads, has resided there ever since. She was living in Auckland during the second Maori War, when Air Emson, ns a member ,of the militia, did defence duty at the Otahuliu blockhouses. The surviving members of a family of nine are Mr A. W. Emson, of Whangarei; Air S. Eriison, of Manaia; Airs H. L Jones, of Devonport; Airs L. Hill, of Eltliam; Mrs J. Scott, of Takapunn ; Mrs F. Harris, of Huntly; and Aliss Eriison. The monthly meeting of the Tippet Hutt Plunket Society was held on August _loth, Airs F. Leckie being in the chair. A full attendance of committee members were present. Nurse Ellis’s report for the month is as follows: Visits to homes 151, visits to rooms. Upper Hutt, adults 70, babies 68; Trentbajn, adults 15, babies 17; Silverstream, adults 8, babies 15; total for month 192. New babies 7, breast-fed 4, artificially 3. Plunket Emulsion used, 131 b. The committee are very grateful to the Atacartney Trust for a donation of £25. Voteof thanks were passed to Mr A. .1. AlcCurdy for placing the Record Hall at the disposal of the society for their annual meeting, also to Mr Coolev for providing firing for the Upper Hutt Plunket room*. A dance is to be held at Trentham in the near futnre in aid of funds.

A PORTABLE WARDROBE In these days of hygiene and the complete abolition of valances, it is strange to be recommended t<j adopt a wardrobe which will fit under the bed. Tliere is now on the market, however, a fitment which is frankly labelled “under bed wardrobe” It is a case, made of very light, strong wood; stained and polished mahogany, walnut, or oak; 47 inches long, 23 inches wide, and 10 inches deep; equipped with a tray, and having brass handles at the sides and front. It is mounted on patent ball castors. It is an ideal possession of anyone who is cramped for space, and costs only a moderate sum—very little more than a cabin trunk. Apart from its use as an everyday wardrobe, in which dresses can be laid full length, it is particularly useful for the storage of linen, furs, and similar articles. It is equipped with brass fittings to take a padlock, and can be regarded as a kind of little “safe” in emergencies; also as an extra trunk when travelling. SLEEVELESSWRAP Fashion is in a distinctly predatory mood this season, and one of ite latest annexations is the new sleeveless coat that is first cousin to the bishop’s stole, says a fashion writer. The foundation of dress is now so uncctmpromisingly simple in its straight, unbroken line that the dressmakers are inclined to experiment with ingenious additions in the wgy of accessories that can be dispensed with at will. The new sleeveless coats, borrower from that ancient and unchanging vestment of the ecclesiastical order, the stole, are a-n interesting case in point. These coats have lung straight, open fronts which hang down like those of the stole wlien worn by a bighop, and are attached under the arms to the plain back drapery, and so form a coat garment. The present vogue for patterned fabrics used in association with plain materials is demonstrated, effectively in these sleeveless wraps. A plain georgette or crepo-de-chine frock is entirely altered in cliaracter when a stole-like coat of floral patterned fabrio in brilliant colours is added. Some of the smartest morning gowns are trimmed with the new stamped leather fancy belt; quite a wide affair that girdles the. hips and supplies a colour note which is repeated and emphasised by fancy buttons down the centre front of the corsage. Often the note is further accentuated by a set of matching collar and cuffs in the same kid as the belt.