Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16941, 16 January 1923, Page 10

Women Folk

By

“ STELLA "

Mr and Mrs S. T. Silver arrived j from Wellington this morning. Mr and Mrs J. McDonald, who ha.e ! noon staying at the United Service j hare gone to Dunedin. Mr and Mrs Edgar Shand will return ! to Timaru to-day. Mrs M’Car thy, the West Coast representative at the tennis tournament, will arrive this evening. Muss Sparrow, one of the South Island tennis players, will stay with Mrs L. V. Comerford. Leinster Hoad. j Miss M’Laren, who arrives from Otago to-morrow to play in tho tennis tournament, will stay with Miss Xoeline Knight, Winchester Street. Miss Green, of the South Island tennis team, will arrive this evening. She will stay wilfc Mrs Charles Wood. Leinster Road. Miss Kdie. one of the South Island tennis players, is staying wfth Mrs W. N. Seay, Gloucester Street West. j Miss Anita Howe, of Wellington, a member of the North Island tennis team, is staying with Miss Livingstone, Gloucester Street West. Miss Doris Fenwick, of Hawke's Bay, a member of the North Island tennis team, is the guest of Miss Anderson. Armagh Street West. Miss Snow Clark, of Hawke’s Bay, who is taking part in the tennis tourna- • ment, is the guest of Mrs Wilding, . *• Fawnhope,” St Martins. Miss Marjorie Mncfarlaite, of A nek- ! land, who has come to Christchurch to 1 take part in the tennis tournament, 1 is the guest- of Mrs George Aitken. ■ Miss Doris Cracroft Wilson, who took t the Cashmere Girl .Scouts on n camping expedition to Longbeack, has returned to town. Mr and Mrs R. S. Hellabv have hooked passages for New Zcmaua bv the January sailing of the Oorinthio. It is a good many years since Mr Hei laby was in the Dominion. He and his wife are both well-known artists, the. ! latter, perhaps, being better recognised j under her maiden name of Ruth Hoi- j lingsworth. While Mr and Mrs Hel- 1 laby arc in New Zealand they intend to hold some exhibitions of their pictures, and they are thinking of taking a sketching tour in the South Sea Islands. The difficulties of flat hunting *n ! Paris are as great or even greater i than they are in London, and the fact i h*u= been brought out recently by iragi-comic adventure that is narrated : in the “ Figaro.” A friend of tho writer, wishing to change his flat. ■. announced his requirements to all and sundry. His friends published his needs broadcast, end eventually through half-a dozen intermediaries the information was received that t*e flat • had been found. The proprietor, no : vac informed, however, insisted that he should take over the carpets at 3000 francs and a piano at the same I figure. Aa regards the carpet he had j no grievance, but he resented the j piano, as he was himself trying to get. j rid of one. It was decided that ho j should visit the flat, the address <>f j which was kept rigorously secret. A l taxicab was requisitioned, and to the would-be tenant's amazement drew up outside his own flat, which was sub mitted to him for his approval. in the whole affair there was one element nm mystery. The price he was asking for his carpets wag a thousand franc*, and for his piano 1-500. His concierge, however, who was the friend of the r.haffeur who had notified the nddrens of the flat to his employer, explained to him that there had been a little misunderstanding in the price, and ! that no one stood to make anything out of it. The would-be tenant is still fiat-hunting. One of tho difficulties facing the j modern woman, who, after succeeding in public life, decides to get married, i is the choice of a name by which she shall be known. Some continue to < rail themselves by their maiden names ! in public, and by their married 'fames m private, states a writer in p.n Eng | lish exchange. Others adopt their i new married name, adding their own to it as h prefix. The latest devic-o is indicated in an advertisement: “Mrs Helena Normanton announc.es that the above is her legal and only narup vi public and private life, and that sh hereby formally denies nil statements j to other effects.** "Mrs Normanton has I .inst been called to the Bar. She was I married about twelve months ago. huh j has never used her husband's name. I *'lf a woman choosey after marriage m> i go on signing documents in her own 1 name,” said Miss Florence Under- • wood, of the Women’s Freedom League * ; there is nothing to stop her. But, she must stick to one thing: it is obvious that she cannot change and change about. It is a natural desire to avoid losing the reputation of the name under which a woman has made her mark in public life.” Miss Ellen 'Perry is one of the mast striking raws. She has been married three times, and of the thousands of people who know the famous actress very few could give the names of any of heir husbands. JANE, LTD.. 733. COLOMBO STREET. Madame Jane’s showroom its rich in attractive garments for present wear. Not only is the quality of everything offered unimpeachable, but the value is unsurpassed. Take a nary gabardine ooat frock. most originally trimmed with steel nail heads —banded low on the figure—a youthful and tnodjgh garment, attractively priced at 9 guineas. For wear with this delectable gown, «. choice of rhio navy hats, small or large, each carrying its own particular appeal—an appeal enhanced by the price, 4s». 1682

“ Stella " will be glad to receive items of interest and value to Women for publication or reference in this column.

Mrs Deans, “ Kirkstylc,” is in town. Dr and Mrs Bradshaw will spend a few weeks at Peel Forest. Major and Mrs Dixon arrived from "Wellington to-day. Mr and Mrs Berkeley Clark, of Wellington, are staying at the Clarendon. Miss W. Doig was amongst the arrivals from Wellington this morning. Mrs H. Cook, Opawa. returned from Wellington this morning. Mrs A. de B Brandon, of Wellington, is visiting Christchurch. Mr and Mrs M. L. Reading returned from the north this morning. Mr and Mrs L. C. Ballantyne, of London, came up from the south last night. Mrs and Miss Walls arrived from Wellington this morning and are staying at Warner’s. Guests at Warner’s fnclude Mrs and Miss Speedy, of Lower Hutt. Mrs Murray and Miss Dot Murray, Christchurch, are at tho Hydro Grand, Timaru. Mr and Mrs G. E. M’Ca skill, who have been spending a few days in town, went north again last night. Recent arrivals at the Clarendon include Mr and Mrs J. H. Holdgate, of Timaru. Mrs Nisbot, of Dunedin, and Mrs CVouch. of Brisbane, who have been visiting on the Peninsula, are at present at Warner’s. Mr and Mrs P. J. Gray, of Sydney, who were staying at the United Service. returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr and Mrs C. R. Hawker, who have been spending a holiday at Timaru, staying at- the Dominion Hotel, returned to Christchurch by Saturday night’s express. Mi-s Viola Duncan left for Oamaru on Saturday, where she will spend a fortnight’s holiday' with her sister, Miss Ettie Duncan, musical directress of the Opera House. Mrs Oakes, wife of Major J. P. Oakes, accompanied bv her son. Lieutenant J. W. R. Oakes, has returned from Auckland, after a month's holiday with relatives. Miss M’Kenzie, Christchurch, arrived in Timaru from Dunedin yesterday, on a visit to Mr and Mrs M’Kensie. Church Street. 100 FACE POWDERS. What a mingled wealth of perfume of choice and lovely fiowers would steal across the Square if the window of One Hundred Varieties of Face Powders at E. Cameron Smith’s, Cathedral Square were to arc its contents strewn in one glorious heap. This window gives ladies an idea of the wide selection in Face Powder which they can secure at E. Cameron Smith’s Pharmacy, Roval Exchange Buildings ' 1890.'