Notes for Women.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19615, 20 October 1925, Page 14

Notes for Women.

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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Miss Finlayson is visiting Waimate.

Miss Leslie Laidlaw left on Saturday for a visit to Mrs Bell at Shag Vallpy.

Miss Ensor returned on Saturday last from a visit to South Africa.

• « « Dr Freda Bathgate is visiting Waimate.

» ♦ • Mrs Guthrie and Miss Guthrie are guests at “To Kiteroa.” Waimate.

* * * Mrs F. Pyle, of “Havvkdun,” Otmohua, is visiting Dunedin.

Miss Adams is staying at “Te Kiteroa,” Waimate, for a brief holiday.

* • * Miss Ora Dow is on a holiday visit to Queenstown. , , *

Miss Doris M'Connochie, of Bt. Bathans, is at present staying in Dunedin.

* * * Miss Perry is absent from Dunedin on a short holiday at Waimate.

Mrs Falconer is spending a holiday at Waimate.

Mrs E. H. Williams, who has been visiting Mrs Holderness at Christchurch, has returned to Dunedin.

Mrs Charles Nathan, of Auckland, who has been visiting Dunedin, has returned north

* # * Miss Doris Russell, of Invercargill, is visiting Dunedin.

• * * Miss Cull is making a short holiday at Waimate.

Mr and Mrs D. E. Theomin are on a visit to Waimate.

Miss Gwen Gallaway, who has been staying at Hanmer for a few weeks, returned to town last evening.

Miss Bulalfe Roberts returned to her home at Littlebourne last evening after a few weeks spent at Hanmer.

The engagement is announced of Mary Elisabeth (“Mollie”). third daughter of Mrs J M'Queen, Invercargill, •to Mr C. J. M‘Naught, of the staff of Wellington College * » <

Miss Greta Finch gave a bridge party at her parents’ residence, Royal terrace, last, evening in honour of Miss Gwenyth Fulton. The guests were Misses O’Neill, Oram, Johnstone, Reid, Halstcd (2), Stephenson, Holmes, and Hartmann (2).

Mrs W. Vivian gave a bridge party at her residence, Cumberland street, on Friday afternoon last, when the guests were Mesdames J. White, S. Holmes. Fulton, G. Gallaway, Lo Cren, D. Stuart. Vallange, Sinclair, Dunlop, and Armstrong and Mis s W T hite.

Mrs Leslie Mills gave a supper party at her residence, “Piccadilly,” on Saturday evening last, when the guests were Mrs Dreshfeld, Misses Stock, Le Cren, Maunaoll. Crane, and Sargood. Messrs Dreshfeld. Vallange, Wright. Tapley, Reynolds, Holland, Edmond, Laidlaw, and Dr Maimeell.

The Mornington ladies had an ideal day for the opening of their bowling club on Wednesday last. 'There was a large num!be> of visitors and members from other clubs. The president (Miss Briley) welcomed the visitors and Mr Cunningham, president of the men’s club, also spoke a few words. Afternoon tea was dispensed, and everyone present seemed to spend a very enjoyable afternoon. * * ♦ ♦

Mrs Urquhnrt gave a bridge party at her residence. Pacific street, on Friday afternoon last, when the guests were Mesdames Park, Hutchison, Glendinning, Lough, M'Queen, Greenfield. Calvert, Ibbotson, Begg, Allan, Bett, Elliot, Hill, Brewer. Cameron, and Durant, Misses Hutchison, Callander, and Cameron.

Miss Olive Mercer was the guest of honour at an informal luncheon given on Friday last at the rooms of the League of Now Zealand Peuwomen, Auckland. Miss Mercer has achieved literary success with two booklets published recently in London —“The Wings of Life” and “Life Transcendent” —and is now at work on a third volume, “The New Vision,” which is to bo published in England shortly. Miss Mercer took greetings from the Dunedin branch of the League of New Zealand Penwomen, of which she is a member.

The wedding of Miss Ferpusson, daughter- of their Excellencies the General and Lady Alice Fergusson, to Major Havilnnd, will lie solemnised at Wellington to-day. Among those who are visiting Wellington for the ceremony are Mrs Peters (wife of Commander Peters, of H.M.S. Dunedin) and Miss Peters, from Auckland: Mr Algar Williams, the Hon. R. and Mrs Moore, Miss Hoyle and Commander D. Boyle, from Christchurch; and Mr and Mrs J. J. Clark and Miss Eva Wilkinson, from Dunedin.

The John M’Olashan College Sports were held on Wednesday afternoon last, when many parents and friends interested were present, some of them being Mr and Mrs Gilray, Sir John and Lady Ross. Sir John Sinclair, Dr an 1 Mrs M'Kellar, Dr and Mrs Riley, Dr and Mrs Stuart, Moore, Dr and Mrs Drenuan, Dr and Mrs Hector, Dr Elder, Rev. A. C. and Mrs Standage, Mr rtnd Mrs Gilkison, Mr and Mrs T. C. Ross, Mr and Mrs J. S. Ross, Mr and |Mrs A. M. Sidey, Mr and Mrs Galbraith, Mr and Mrs Gray, Mr Glendinning, Mrs A. C. Begg, Mrs F. Z. Moore, Mrs Burt, Mrs M'George, Mr and Mrs J. Begg, Misses Blomfleld, Begg, M’George, Fraser, Glendinning, and Ross (2).

The Misses Rutherford, of Royal terrace, gave a tea party for Miss Gwenyth Fulton on Thursday afternoon last. Miss Rutherford wore a gown of black velvet. Miss R. Rutherford champagne-coloured morocain, and Miss Fulton a tailored coat and skirt in tan cloth with a small straw hat to match. The whole colour scheme was daintily carried out in pale pink. The tea service, lamp shades, and dainties were all of pink, while from a centre piece of the same hue pink streamers carried to each guest, a hon-bon and a silver swallow. During the afternoon music and a competition were enjoyed, Miss Fulton and Miss Halford being equal winners of the game. The guests were Mesdames Fulton, Cur-zon-Siggers, Jennings, and R. M’Kenzie, Sister Elizabeth ,and Misses Fulton, Hertslet, Davidson, Haggitt, Halford, and Lowe.

Mrs Arthur Hudson gave a delightful garden party at her residence, Musselburgh Rise, on Saturday afternoon last. It was a beautiful afternoon, and the grounds looked so pretty witli their blaze of spring flowers. Tea was served in the dining room and on the verandah, while an orchestra played selections. The function was in aid of the funds of the St. Hilda Free Kindergarten, and there were stalls of sweets, ices, flowers, produce, and dainty goods suitable for Christinas gifts, those in charge being;—Produce, Mesdames Laney and Dove; fancy goods, Mesdames Darkness and Kirk; sweets and ices, Misses Betty Harris, Ray Taylor, and Molly Hudson; and balloons, Miss ■ Nancy Patrick. Over £4O will be added to the Kindergarten funds as a result. Mrs Hudson, who wore a beautiful black French robe, received her guests on the lawn. They included Mesdames Hudson, sen., Pryde, Phillips, Evans, W. Evans, Hutchison, !i. W. (ileiuliiining, Dutton, Wright, T. K. Sidey, Shepherd, Robertson, Park, Hudson, Dove, Crawford, Stevenson, Harris,"Patrick Benzoin, Grubb, Fitchett, Curiinc, Morlcy, Wilson, Reynolds, Shepherd, Randeli, Martin, Gard’ner, Kprosen, White, Thompson, Taylor, Watt, and Foster; Misses Kelsey, Dutton, Park, Glendinning, Scott. Hancock, Malcolm, Hudson, Cirliic. ’• le, Martin, Gard’ner (2), M’P<-.i„ .1 Donncvon. • • » Pc- ;iti.c w'o a meeting of interested ladi ■■ --'a- hold at Lady' Ferguson’s residence to consider some practical ■ way of assisting patients at tlio Dunedin Hospital. This loti to the formation by the Otago

WEDDING.

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Women's Club of a motor circle, the members of which assist in the conveying to and from their homes patients, to whom the service of a car might mean a very great deal. Although the motor car has grown so common, to many it must of necessity remain a luxury. Then came the suggestion that it might be possible to extend this service in the direction of afternoon runs for patients able to participate, and from this small beginning has grown a service little known to the public at large, but one which during the twelve months it has been in operation has been of incalculable benefit to the many patients who have had their days of pain and suffering brightened and (heir healing quickened by this practical evidence of outside interest and thoughtfulness. Every afternoon that weather permits a car is available for patients whose condition allows a run. Mostly a lady member of the circle brings her car herself, calls at the Hospital, picks up her dolighed car-load, and takes it wherever her fancy has planned—Waitati, Peninsula, Henley, Brighton, or_ round about town. Very often the plan includes afternoon tea at the. hostess’s own home. Very little imagination is needed to picture just what it means to convalescent patients, some of them after years, most of them after weeks or months of suffering, to leave the atmosphere of a hospital behind, to go out into the fresh air and sunshine, and to coni© baok refreshed and uplifted with the sun and' air, and above all with the human touch which means so much. Sometimes it has happened that a patient absent from home for a long time has been able to pay an unexpected visit during the drive. Members who have no car of their own have assisted the good work by providing a taxi, and altogether the scheme has proved highly successful and of the greatest assistance in the work arriong the very large family of sick and suffering folks to bq found in one public hospital. It is not possible to make mention of all who have given of their time and effort to make this scheme a success. But the hospital hostess feels that the credit in very large measure is dvie to Mrs R. S. Brown. She it was who originally suggested this service and has worked untiringly to make it the success it undoubtedly is.

There teas a fairlv large audience at the Barth Studio on Thursday evening last, when Miss A. Blackie, M.Sc., lectured to the members of the Society of Women Musicians on “Acoustics.” To those whose knowledge of that subject was but elementary, the speaker promised interesting results if the study was pursued further. One noticed on entering tns studio that on the patform were different objects winch recalled a physics lesson of one’s schooldays. These Miss Backie used freely in demonstrating her various points, and they helped considerably to increase her hearers’ interest. Beginning with the definition of sound—a wave-motion travelling through the air—Miss Blackie went on to speak of the air-waves which on© sees passing over a field of grass, and remarked on the two movements involved—the one where the heads of grass are crowded together (condensation), and the other when the wav© of air has passed, and the heads of grass are all spread out. again (rarefaction). She then spoke of the cause of this vibration, She next treated of the production of pitch. The stronger the vibration the higher the resulting note, and vice versa. No sound that came to one’s ear was a simple one. The lowest tone indicated the pitch, but the sound iffself was composed of a great number of over tones all following so closely upon each other that, they conveyed but one impression Miss Blackie s lecture was specially interesting from a musical standpoint, referring as she did to the sounds produced by different instruments, those belonging to th° string order, pe.cussion instruments, the woodwind. and the organ. As far as the violin and ’cello were concerned, Miss Blackie explained the way in which their shape helped m determining the sound produced. In conclusion, she told the singers how the nose and mouth cavities decided the characteristic quality of the voie, and how it was that, one person was a soprano while another was a contralto. At the close of the lecture Miss Meda Paine proposed a hcsrtv vote of thanks to -Miss Blackie. Following this songs wore sung by Miss Baxter (“Silent Moon”. Vaughan Williams) and Miss I>. Skinner ( The Unforeseen,” Cvril Scott). The president (Miss Torsten) incidentally mentioned that the number enrolled in the society bad now reached the gratifying total of 100. She announced that the next meemg would take the form of a discussion by members on any subject or question sent in.

The Allen Hall presented a very gay appearance on Friday night, when the students of Selwyn College held their annual dance. 'lhe decorations were carried out in the college colours—with maroon and gold streamers and balloons—while a string of coloured lights arranged around the stage amongst the greenery added much to the brightness of the scene. The guests were received by the warden (the Kev. L. G. Whitehead), Miss Whitehead, and Mr Brownlee. Amongst the guests who danced to the excellent music dispensed by Gordon Flint’s band were:—Dr Fitchett and Mrs Fitchett (black and gold), Dr Russell Ritchie and Mrs Ritchie (rose brocade), Mr and Mrs Fenwick (black georgette with Oriental wrap), Dr Batchelor, Dr Rose (green velvet). Dr Carmalt Jones, Miss Fairbairn (black and silver), Miss June Batchelor (white and silver), Miss Nome Fenwick (orchid beaded frock), Miss Josephine O’Neill (cyclamen georgette). Miss Joan Louissoii (Auckland, green and silver). Miss Helen O’Neill (blue georgette), Miss Letty Williams (salmon-beaded frock). Miss Ethel Chisholm (Auckland, green chiffon), Miss Greta Finch (rose georgette), Miss Margery Gibson (Timaru, green velvet), Miss Holmes (elephant grey), Mis Rua Milne (gold tissue), Miss Barbara Milne (point lace), Miss Doris Russell (Invercargill, silver tissue and Spanish shawl), Miss Joan Halsted (pink and gold), Miss Hartmann (cream lace), Miss Nancy Hartmann (apricot brocade), Miss Patricia Stionach (green taffeta), Miss Monica Vipan (black, with green- shawl) Miss Betty Fitzgerald) (orange taffet), Miss Nancy Barr (black and scarlet), Miss Marjorie Blomfield (blue velvet trimmed with fur), Miss Stevenson (black satin), Miss Johns flowered chiffon). Miss Ruth Humphries (black and white). Miss Audrey Bissett (black georgette). Miss Witherow (fringed crepe-de-chiiie), Miss Debenham (cream and brown), Miss D. Debenham (blue taffeta.), Miss Mama Service (green lace), Miss Browne (blue taffet), Miss Heycock (cream silk). Miss Stringer (flame georgette and white fur), Miss Gilchrist (rose taffeta), Miss Storey (blue crepe-de-chino), Miss Maxwell (salmon and black shawl). Miss Rutherford (flowered georgette), Miss M’Leod (green georgette), Miss Norrie (blue taffeta), Miss Ncwcombe (rose taffeta), and others, Messrs Brownlee, Cook, M’Lean, Kinnear, Hodge, Lewis, Porritt, Dickson, Shield, Colbcck, Stewart Chisholm, H. Russell, Marsack, Volckmann, Reid, Hunter, Talbot, Bibby, Leonard, Russell, Haycock. Clegg, Rich, Bevan-Brown, Haggitt, Evans, Campbell, Butler, Riley. Batchelor. Williams, Crawshaw, Halsted, Wilson, De Castro, Nicholson, and others. During the course of the evening the warden, in a short speech, thanked all those ladies who had so generouslv contributed to the success of the evening by providing the excellent supper that was so much appreciated.

Ladies who %oek something different in Klectrio Lamp Shades should see the striking window display of Liberty Silk Electric Lamp Shades at C. and W. Hayward’s, I'll George street. —Advt.

“Marie-Louise,’’ French Lingerie Specialist, of 27 Cargill street, Dunedin, is enrolling pupils for day and evening classes in trousseau, lingerie, embroidery, baby linen, homo decorations includes cushions, humpies, colour scheme, lamp shades, etc. — Advt.

. A very pretty wedding was celebrated on Wednesday evening last at St. Matthew s Church by the Rev. W. A. Hamblett, the parties being Myrtle, second daughter of Mr and the late Mrs U. Hill, of Dunedin, and Robert Munro Ferguson, eldest son of Mr and Mrs R. M. Ferguson, also of Dunedin. The Wedding March was played as the bride entered the church on the arm of her father. She wore a charming frock of satin morocain beaded in chaystal. Her veil was hold in place with a pearl hoad-deess ,and she carried a shower bouquet. The bridesmaid, Miss Margaret Summorvoll, wore a pink satin frock and a black hat and carried a pink and lavender bouquet. Mr J. Hill acted as best man. Mrs Marshall, sister of the bride, and Mrs Ferguson, mother of the bridegroom, received the guoets at the entrance of the

hall. After the wedding cake had been cut the guests were entertained at dancing till near midnight. The happy couple loft by the express for Christchurch amid showers of confetti. The bride’s travelling outfit was a cinnamon coat frock with hat and shoes to match. ALWAYS THE MOTHER. I have just heal’d a delightful old lady of 70 telling her son to be sure and put his overcoat on when he goes out at night!

Now that son is nearly 50. and as capable ami sensible as one could wish for. Yet he assures me that, to this day, his mother “mothers” him just as if his tender years and lack of experience rightly brought him within the pale of maternal ministrations. Of course, he would be the last one to resent such “motherings,” ae would anyone with love and respect for silver hairs and waning yours. But this curious habit must not be misconstrued, even though one may be permitted a quiet smile at its incongruity. It must not be imagined that this undying habit of supervising, or “mothering”—for there is no other word—arises from a petty, fault-finding criticism born of long periods of enforced rest and reflection.

More than that, it is the revelation of the eternal essence of womanhood, the fundamental maternal instinct that lives and lights up a woman's very soul. Because that is so, you see it latent in the heart of each female child, it stands revealed in every real woman, and it burns with a never-failing brightness through life. Witness its premature exposition when the “little mother” of only five or six summers shepherds her tiny brothers and supervises the babies with an inborn instinct that is wonderful to watch. How much more, then, is it natural that a woman, hallowed by years and experience, should still retain that wonderful instinct which makes her essentially the eternal mother? So there is a reason, other than respect, why wo should bear with this trait, even though at times it is apt to rub us the wrong way by the very fact that it is unnecessary. Inconsistent though it may seem, remember the art of “mothering” ie a precious relic, a reminder of nil that stood for “Mother” in the days Vhen we really needed and yearned for her care and her caresses. Do not resent the suggestion that you have never grown up beyond the need of her guidance. Yon haven’t. The world without the “eternal mother” in each and every phase of our existence would bo unbearable.—Glasgow Weekly Herald. FRESH AIR. That there Is no better tonic than fresh air is a fact recognised by competent authorities. Hence the providing of openair schools for delicate children, and the plea of health specialists that all schools should be constructed on the same principle, so that already healthy children may he kept healthy. The beautifying effects of sun and fresh air “baths” upon our tresses is undeniable, and I, who remember the times when little girls wore chenille hairnets and ponderous healgenr all the year round, can only wonder that headaches wore not even more plentiful and “commanding,” and that hair attained to any beauty at all. “You mustn’t go out without your hat,” was an iron, inflexible law in all weathers. Nowadays, particularly in the time of roses, when milder breezes blow, young heads may go uncovered -without fear and without reproach, subject, of course, to laws of common sense, which forbid a child to go bareheaded in a storm or in great heat. In fact, it is unwise to allow’ youngsters to romp too freely under a hot sun at all, and attention to such details does not. mean coddling, but simple precautions against feverishness, undue fatigue, exhaustion, etc.

Our variable climate does not permit of our taking meals uninterrupted out-of-doors all summer; our clerk of the weather has a way of suddenly turning on the cold water tap, often selecting the day of a picnic or garden party for that operation, and driving us indoors to an unseasonable fireside. But it is possible to take advantage of fine days and gladden the hearts of children with an impromptu picnic, making no formal pre-arrangements, nor, indeed, saying much about it beforehand for fear of weather failures and consequent disappointment. On a sunny morning pack a basket with sandwiches, biscuits, fruit, a sufficiency of that good, not over-rich cake thoughtful mothers keep in stock, milk or home-made lemonade, cups or tumblers, and set forth to banquet in garden, field, wood, or on the sands. It is far less trouble than a setdown meal indoors, and an infinitely greater joy to' children, who love pleasant surprises, and whose later years may not hold, many. The little impromptu festivities due to loving forethought remain as happy landmarks in the memory, roseleaves of sweet remembrance falling softly on the snows of age.—Mary Aughton in the Weekly Scotsman. ON FURNISHING. In the realm of dress all manner of accessories that are not actually dress aro included in the decorative scheme of the toilette, and so in the house, and particularly in .rooms used specially by women, the colour scheme craze is now pushed to its farthest possible lengths (says a writer in an English periodical). ' Such articles as work-bags, tea-cosies, waste paper baskets, blotters and letter racks share the honours of beautiful design and material with the actual furnishings. Not in the memory of living woman have furnishings been so highly decorative as they are at the present time. Take, for instance, the floral mirrors, either round or oblong, that aro now made for the bedroom or sitting room of a person whom we feel wo must call “my lady.” These are of Pompadour period inspiration, and are very pretty trifles, oven if they may seem superfluous to those of us who possess a more austere taste. The flowers which surround the mirror aro of taffeta and chiffon and galon; sometimes they are made of embroidery work; Roses, fashioned in silk, often achieve the effect of Dresden china. The woman who likes to have floral nfrrers on her wall will have handkerchief boxes and powder bowls and other small necessities or luxuries made to match. I saw a handkerchief box the other day that, was covered with rose pink taffeta and gold lace and surmounted by a doll dressed as a ballet dancer, all in gold lace and pink roses. The dressing table runner was of rose pink marquisette, and at each end roses and fruit were grouped. The same delicate material, arranged to give a fluted effect between gilt cane, went to the making of the waste-paper basket, which was finished with gold lace. Gold and pink appeared also in a workbag and in a little opera bag, which was turned back with four narrow leaf-like points, all handworked with tiny silk roses. ATTRACTIVE OLD MAIDS. This is the day of the pretty and charming old maid. Middle-age lias become so attractive that no woman is any longer afraid of it. With her experience of life, her broad and sympathetic outlook, her intelligent conversation, her non-slungy speech and soft-toned voice, her indoponce, her keen interest in current events, and her up-to-dateness in general, her smart clothes, and her pretty silvery shingle, the present-day old maid has neither the intention nor the need to retire meekly to a dusty corner “on the shelf.” The shingle has certainly had a great deal to do with bringing about this happy state of affairs. Many middle-aged women had become accustomed during the last 10 or 20 years to bundling up their hair anyhow. Thou the shingle appeared and middleaged women began to consider its possibilities for themselves. They observed that many quite plain young girls had suddenly blossomed info pretty ones by means of the new fashion. Why, then, should not middlo-age become more attractive, too, and enjoy the obvious comfort, convenience, and delight of s -ort and wavy locks? A few of the bravest began to experiment; and though these first bold pioneers had to bear a considerable amount of criticism—mainly from those of their own age and sex—others gradually followed their sensible example. And now,- wherever one goes, one sees fewer and fewer of the one-time depressing old-maidish coiffures dating from the 'nineties and more of the charming grey hohs and shingles—nearly all of them beautifully marcelled or permanently waved into cunning little silvery curls and dints, making such a soft and kindly framework to even the plainest middle-aged woman’s face that one frequently forgets she is middle-aged at all 1 G. D., in the Daily Mail.