OTAGO WITNESS POPULAR PRIZE COMPETITIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 73

OTAGO WITNESS POPULAR PRIZE COMPETITIONS.

"EMMELINE'S" DEPARTMENT.

Each week during the progress of the competitions announced on page 51 of this issue Emmeline will give some subject for competition, and she hopes to find a keen interest taken in these weekly questions, as she has endeavoured to make a sufficiently varied list to suit all tastes : a "pretty big order," as her readers will admit. Cookery and poetry, the new woman and the old, the " superior sex " and the* "third sex" shall all receive attention, to say nothing of housekeeping and novel-reading. The lucky reader who send* in the largest number of successful answers wins the prize of £2 10s offered in this section. Final results to be given in Witness Christmas Annual. No. I Competition. Closed. No. II Competition. See Witness, May 22. Lists to be in by July 3.

No. 11l Competition. See Witness, May 29~ Lists to be in by June 26.

No. IV Competition. See Witness June 5. Lists to be in by July 3.

NO. V.

This week's competition is for " The best definition of the difference between

is, moreover, a sort of prestige attached, to this .colourless vesture, for no colour must be worn with such discrimination. A frill too many or a flounce too long is sufficient to destroy all the mystery and the wonder. The right combination" of simplicity with costly . grace is a supreme achievement, and the ideal wedding garment is 'seldom "seen. — Vanity Fair.

— Most of the examining authorities who now admit women have come to do so as the result of a deliberate and carefully considered decision. At no veryremote date no woman in this country could obtain a diploma or license to practise medicine. When the change was first proposed it called forth all those gloomy prophecies which invariably make their appearance on the suggestion of some new departure, and which have so often been falsified by the course of events. The admission of women to the profession, it may be allowed, was a considerable change, and one concerning which different opinions might reasonably be held. If doubts on this' point stilF exist, no one proposes to act upon them. — The Hospital.

— That it is difficult, for women -to believe that the women q£ any other .period than that *to which they themselves belong have possessed great beauty is certainly true. They believe in certainrecognised beauties like Helen and Cleopatra, but when they can see portraits oF other types of beauty they '.' hae their doots "• whether in these times . theses women would have stood a chance. Some of them, perhaps, would have fallen into the same error that we do — that is, they would not have made prominent their best features ; but we in our turn will

ater great people of the land are taking jkilead as entertainers. They are giving jweb.es, gardes parties, dinners, and 'At tomes' to the visiting colonial statesmen their wives and daughters. In a jfegree, but, of couree, on not quite so fcbborate a scale, the doings of the Uia- , momi Jubilee *nd of the Coronation year

in London are being repeated. The* publicity which surrounds them is not altogether relished by one or two of the visiting ladies. Some have grown inured to it by this time, as, for instance, Lady Ward and Hiss Ward. The latter, as her father's assistant in some of his clerical work, has met tbe übiquitous interviewer

before. Miss Lyne finds the experience quite a novel one. She does not quite see why she should be sought out by the ladies of the various journals, and she i& almost resentful when she reads paragraphs giving details of her shopping expeditions. On almost the first morning after her arrival in London Miss Lyne found a snapshot camera directed upon her as she stepped into a motor car at the Hotel Cecil. Her experience is, of course, only the same as that of the other visiting ladies.