Notes for Women

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12596, 5 November 1926, Page 5

Notes for Women

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss IC. Muir lias left for Palmerston North, en route to Auckland, whence she will leave by the Aorangi for a visit to Honolulu.

Mrs E. J. Righton has returned from a visit to Auckland.

Sir Heaton and Lady Rhodes and Miss Hynes, who have been visiting Melbourne, returned to Christchurch yesterday.

Mr and Mvk W. J. Jorgensen, Wellington, are staying in Christchurch.

Miss D. Matheson, Christchurch, arrived in Wellington yesterday.

Mr and Mrs E. Haywood, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Professor and Mrs F. P. Wilson, of Victoria College, Wellington, are in Auckland.

Mr and Mrs Mark Castle and family, of Chesterfield,, Pahiatua, are spending a holiday in Napier, and are staying at “Chequers,” Clyde road. Mrs Ziman, Mrs Castle’s mother, is also staying with them.

Mrs Dunville Thorpe, Waikato, left for Wellington on. Monday, after a short visit to Mrs A. L. Long in Timaru.

Miss O. Khouri has returned from the south.

Mr and Mrs W. B. Bennett and Master lan Bennett left Christchurch by Monday’s ferry steamer to join the Makura at Wellington for an extended tour in America, England, and Europe.

Mrs A. Laird Cook, of Auckland, has returned from Wellington, and will sail for Europe to-day. Mrs Hunter L. Hendry, who has been the guest of Mrs A. Randal Berry, “Wintonmere,” “ Holmwood avenue, Karori, Wellington, has left for a visit to Waitomo, Rotorua, and will join her husband at Auckland.

A very pretty wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church, Pleasant Pmnt, on October 27th when Alice Rita Emily, second daughter of Mr A. Dean, Rapuwai, was married to Henry Hugh, second son of Mrs H. F. Smith', “Belmcra,” Totara Valley. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. D. Madill, of Geraldine, and Miss Borrell presided at the organ. An evening wedding was solemnised at St. Luke’s Churoh, Little Akaroa, when Lavinia Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Herriott, Little Akaroa, was married to Thomas Stewart, youngest son of Mr and Mrs R. Craw, of Chorlton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. H. Thorpe, and Mrs Ertiest Waghorn prosided at tho organ. The church was tastefully decorated by friends of the bride. Miss Norris, matron of the Stewart Earitane Home in Wanganui, has resigned from that position, and will relinquish her duties at the end of the year. Her resignation was accepted with regret at a meeting of the Plunket Society in that. town. That most indispensable article, the pin, was invented in England in 1543. Miss Ethel H. Bailey, of Portland, Maine, is the only woman in tho United States to be recognised as an automotive engineer. The Christchurch branch of tho National Council of Women passed the following resolutions at the last meeting:—“That the Minister for Justice be asked to appoint women associates to magistrates in all the secondary towns where children’s courts are established”; and “That the Christchurch branch of thb National Council greatly regrets that a woman was not included in the three recent apjfointments to the Prisons Board, especially in view of the fact that the council, as well as independent women’s societies, has repeatedly urged that at least one woman he appointed.” “Miss Irene Vanbrugh will retire from the stage after taking part in the production of a new play by Alfred Sutro,” said a message from London. “You may take it from me,” said Mr Dion Boucicault, when the above message was shown to him in Sydney last week, “that the rumour of Miss Irene Vanbrugh’s retirement is not true. If the negotiations in hand are concluded, we shall both he in Australia next year. I made that perfectly clear last night at the closing performance of ‘Aren’t We All?’ ” Immediately on his return to London Mr Boucicault will begin rehearsing a company, headed by Miss Vanbrugh to produce for the first time Alfred Sutro’s play, “The Desperate Lovers.” It is quite "possible that a stained glass window may be put up shortly to Mrs Pankhurst, -the pioneer in Britain of the female franchise movement in the Ethical Church, at Bayswater, says a London paper. Saint Joan, with Bernard Shaw and Anatole France at her feet, and Florence Nightingale already occupy two windows in the church. A third window will he occupied next year by a figure of Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, whose statue is to be seen at the New Bailey. But there are seven windows on the other side which have no occupants. “And these,” said Dr. Stanton Coit, the pastor of the church, recently to a “Daily Chronicle” representative, “are to be devoted to the leaders of the seven great movements for the freeing of oppressed humanity. The scheme is not completed yet, but we shall certainly have a ‘Slavery Window,’ representing Wilberforce and Lincoln, and a ‘Woman Suffrage Window,’ in which will be represented the figures of two dead pioneers of feminism in America, Miss Anthony and Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton,'- both of whom were friends of my mother. Tho problem of the suffrage window, however, is whom shall we have among the living pioneers? Of course, we should not represent any of them without their permission. Another window of the seven will be to men and women who,have fought for the freedom of human' thought, and here I would like to see those two ur.canonical, but saintly champions of reason, Socrates and Voltaire. Then there are seven windows upstairs, which it is hoped to dedicate to the seven great religions of the world: Christianity, Judaism, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Zoroasterism. Confucianism, and the Vedantic philosophy.

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“WHAT THE EMPIRE MEANS TO ME”

Dam© Nellie Melba, in the ‘ ‘British Empire Review/’ writes:—* ""For all of us, I believe, the Empire means something different. For the young it calls up a vision of pomp and glory. They see the waving of flags in far countries, they hear the blowing of bugles on distant plains. For the old, maybe, it signifies security, a comfortable feeling of protection, no matter in what part of the world they may find themselves. To the merchant the Empire means trade—commerce far-flung, stretching golden tentacles into the remotest seas. To the priest it is a vast, unexplored field, waiting to be sown with the Word of God. And to the artist—how many things, how many emotions, does it not recall? It may mean the golden flash of wattle in the woods of my beloved Australia, flaming like a thoiisand torches which no darkness can extinguish. It may mean a sunset on the African veldt, or the echo of a swift Canadian river. It may mean the song of birds in the Cotswolds, dr the glitter oi fireflies in a Colombo dusk. For all -that there is of beauty in this world, we possess. There is no scent, no song, no colour that is not to be found in our vast domains. “But to me? Ah—that is a difficult question. Were I only an artist, I should tell you that the Empire meant t 6 me the sight of the blue mountains outside my Australian home—so serene, so vast, so majestic. Often, as the light faded, I. have ©at and watched those mountains, seen them turn from blue to deeper blue, seen them fade into the universal night, and piayed that when my time came those mountains would be the last of earth s beauties upon which my tired eyes should rest. , > ~ . T “But I am not only an artist. 1 am i a woman, too. and I value my womanhood more thanmy art. You may think it unpicturesque of me, but 1 think kind hearts are more than cadenzas, and I would rather lay down on my pillow at night with a clear conscience than sleep with the echo ot ten thousand cheers ringing in my head And the woman in me prompts me to say that the Empire means responsibility. I am sorry if this sounds ‘unco guid,’ but I cannot help it. It is the truth. Wherever I travel I find myself unconsciously sticking np tor my own country. I have fought Australia’s battles in many strange places in this world—over a dinner table in New York, on board ship in the southern Seas, in the conoert halls of Pans. I have tried to bring Australian singers to the fame which they deserved. I have tried to introduce Australian goods to those who had never known them. In a thousand ways, too large or too small to enumerate, I have carried on this WVrrk throughout my “I claim no credit for it. I do not do it for gain, nor fc* any theory—l do it for instinct. Yet—if I were to theorise about it I should probably say something like this: ‘Hera am I a woman whose life has been made possible by the blood and sweat .of my fellow countrymen. I can sail in any sea, unafraid, because the English flag is protecting me. I can fulfil my life’s purpose, without fear, can build my house on firm rock, sing my songs where I please —for the some reason. Is it not for me. therefore, to do my little part, to offer my own personal thanksgiving, which means service? “Responsibility! It is a beautiful word." Unhappy, are those who do not know its meaning.”

WEDDING IN PALMERSTON

A wedding of interest to Wellington was celebrated at All Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, on Wednesday afternoon, when Dulce, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs W. L. Fitzherbert, of Palmerston North, was married to Charles, younger son of Mr and Mrs James Marchbanks, of Wellington. The ceremony was performed by Canon Fancourt. The bride, who'was given away by her fatter, wore a becoming gown of cream georgette, the bodice, being embossed with chenille, while the skirt was of plain georgette flared with a deep hem of rich beading. AU tached to the shoulders and caught with orange blossoms w»6 a train of georgette, embossed with chenille and edged with a white hem of georgette, A tulle veil, which was held in place by a wreath of orange blossoms and a beautiful shower bouquet complete 4 her toilette. The bride was attended by three bridesmaids, Miss.Mariprie Fitzherbert, sister of the bride (chief), Miss Helen Marchbankß, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Molly Goldingham. All were attired in frocks of Paris shaded lace over georgette ot the same colour and crinoline straw hats trimmed with two shades of pink roses. Each carried a bouquet of shaded pink roses. The duties of best man and groomsmen were carried out by Mr O. Moore, Dannevirke, Mr N. Blackiston, Dannevirke, and Mr E. Gore, Wellington. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents. Mrs Fitzherbert. mother of the bride, wore a gown of blueflowered crepe de chine with touches of beige and a black crinoline straw htevt trimmed with blue and pink roses. The bridegroom’s mother wore black satin embroidered with emerald green and a gold and velvet hat to tone. Amongst the numerous guests at the reception were: Mrs J. H. Hankins; Mrs H. 8. Fitzherbert, Auckland; Mr Justice and Mrs Reed; Wellington; Mrs E. M. Hunt, Mifs Barbara Marchbanks, Wellington; Mr S. Fitzherbert, Wellington; Mrs H ; Gore, Wellington; Professor, Mrs and Miss Von Zedlitz, Wellington; Miss N. Colbeck, Auckland; Miss Katherine Walter, Wellington. Later the happy couple left for the. north by car amidst showers of confetti and good wishes, the bride wearing a boise de rose coat over a frock of paler pink crepe de chine with a hat en suite.

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FOR ROSE DAY

“Rose Day,” which has been such a success the past two years is to be held again on Armistice Day, November 11th, and it is hoped tiiat there will be a big response to the efforts of the rose sellers. The proceeds this year are for three objects, half going to the R.S.A. benevolent fund: a quarter to the Women’s National Reserve; and a quarter to the free kindergartens. A number of ladies have boon busy making roses and already 5000 have been made and boxed ready for selling, while 8000 were in hand from last year, so that there is already a good supply. The Mayoress, however. is hopeful of many more, and all tnose who have been making ruses at home arc asked to return them to the Town Hall as early as possible. The final meeting will be held at the Town Hall on Monday night, and on tho Uust arrangements

regarding stalls will be made. Sellers will be needed and any ladies willing to undertake that work are asked to attend on Monday evening. Mrs Norwood hopes that the response in tho form of roses, workers, and sellers, as well as from the general public, will be in accord with the goodness of the causes which will be represented on Rose Day.