WOMAN’S WORLD

Wairarapa Age, 22 August 1934, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs 11. Tliirtle, Wellington,' who are visiting Masterton, are stay-1 ing at “Braeburn.” Mr. and Mrs I. A. Hart, Essex •Street, are visiting Hawke’s Bay. Miss G/iblin, Wanganui, is the 'guest of Mrs Dodds, Gladstone. Miss Williams, Renall Street, is visiting Auckland, Mrs Cunningham Senr. and Miss J. Cunningham have gone to Auckland to stay with Dr. and Mrs Cunningham. Miss G. Langdon, Plimmerton, is spending a holiday at Tinui. Miss R. Messenger, Wellington, is staying with Mrs Rose, Upper Plain. Mr. and Mrs C. W. Rutherford, Tararua Street, are visiting Timaru. Miss Gladwyn Chapman, of Auckland, is visiting Mrs S. V. Gooding, Essex Street. The best way to give the effect of sunshine to a small, dark hall is to have the walls papered with a pale yellow paper, either plain or very narrow stripes in two shades of yellow. Paint the woodwork light brown in two shades. The lamp shade should be of straw or sun-gold colour. This will give a sunny appearance, and being left all in the tones of one colour will give as much an appearance of space as possible.

The ensemble idea, which originally did so much to improve the standard of women’s dress by making them choose everything to match, still persists, but in a very much wider sense, says an overseas Writer. Quite vivid contrasts are now introduced, but there is always a definite relationship between any two colours or materials that are introduced. There is a strong liking this season for navy blue shoes, bags and gloves with navy ensembles. In which case the colour relief will be given by the blouse or wide collar and bow, or jabot, with perhaps a hat to match. The shoemakers have achieved marvels of beauty with darkcoloured leather shoes. Many of them sell bags made of exactly the same leather as the shoes, and they are not expensive. Stockings remain medium in colour —neither very light nor very dark; but the best stockings have quite a dull finish, which gives them the appearance of heavy real silk hose. Quite a number of grey stockings are worn with grey ensembles, but black stockings still remain unpopular. WjOMEN OF TO-DAY. A NEW TYPE OF GIRL. In view of Miss Amy Snelson, of the London Y.W.C.A., who is at present in Australia, the modern girl is* an “independent thinker,” and her rebellion against tradition and dogma is due to “her desire fori reality and no pretence.” It is certainly true that the 20th. century has given us a new type of girl—independent, fearless, self-reliant. There was a time (and not so very long ago) when it was considered hardly the proper thing for a young woman to engage even in such an occupation as that of a “governess,” but now it is hard to find any department of life into which women have not entered.

Here is a passage from a recent book dealing with the “advance of women?’ “In 1861 it was unusual for ladies to work for money. The suffrage movement had,scarcely begun. It was not until 1918 that women ceased to be classed with l infants and imbeciles,’ and those over 30 were granted the vote. At the last debate on this subject in the House of Lords women were referred to as ‘irresponsible persons.’ ” It is all very different now—and the women of Australasia may justly claim to have led the way in the matter of woman suffrage and other important reforms.