WOMAN’S WORLD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19446, 4 November 1925, Page 5

WOMAN’S WORLD

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Wallbank (Auckland), who has been visiting Wanganui during the last three weeks, returned last Saturday. Dr. and Mrs Scott (Gisborne) * are visiting Wanganui and staying at the Rutland Hotel. Miss Annie McKenzie, who is to be married on December 15 to JMr C. Bull, the well-known accountant of Gisborne, i is visiting her sister, Mrs D. V. Malcolm. The Vicarage, Gonville. Sister Af. E. Watson, lately district 'nurse at Palmerston North, was enter- * tained last week by the members of | the District Nursing Guild and St. jJohn Ambulance Nursing Division, prior to her departure to Australia. Mr i 'I. A. Nash, M.P., on their behalf, made I a presentation. i Air and Airs and Miss Davidson, of Podding, are spending a holiday in Wanganui and staying at Braeburn. Afiss Ola Patterson was hostess at a small tennis party last Saturday. Afiss Sybil Graham, who has been the guest of Dr and Airs Robertson, return ed late last week to Wellington. Air and Mrs C. F. Alillward have returned to Wanganui after an enjoyable trip to England and the Continent.

JOTTINGS Quite half the audience that met Mr Coates last Wednesday were women. I wonder why they were there? Are they waking up, and realising that their votes carry the same weight as their mon folks do? Surely the Prime Alinister’s honest, straightforward talk impressed them. How many of them went home, and stuck to theif conviction, that he was the man to manage their little country successfully. If trouble comes, it is always the women and children who suffer most. Surely then, they can realise that it is better to elect a soldier like Air Coates than an unproved man. The days when women meekly said, X ‘l vote as my husband tells me,” are surely going. A woman should be ashamed to say such a thing; has she no brains? The household management surely isn’t such a tax that she can’t spare time for anything outside it. Men manage to think of politics as well as their business. Afost of last week was occupied with the big bazaar in the Drill Hall, and electioneering. The bazaar was wonderfully successful and netted about £450. One unusual feature was the absence of raffles. The fifth of November (Guy Fawkes’ Day) is here again. The interest small boys take in manufacturing and then burning the hideous images they make, is never-failing. The Seafield Ladies’ Golf Club held a ball last Alonday week as a wind-up to the season. About 200 were present who thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Decorations were very lavish, great baskets of roses and coloured ribbons hanging from the centre of the hall. A very nice supper was supplied by the management. The music was provided by AToon’s Orchestra. Some of the now ■lance numbers wore, 1 ‘ Afore,” ”Oriental Love Dreams,” and “Have a Look.” Among the dancers were Afrs Runnerstrum, peacock blue and black sequin frock; Airs England, black crepe-de-chine and gold lace; Airs Jacobs, black crepe-de-chine and royal blue; Airs P. McDonald, rose satin; Aliss K. Wood, figured rose satin niarocain; Aliss A. Wood, flame panne velvet. Amongst the guests present were: Afrs Steele, black panne velvet; Afrs Afarshall, black marocain; Afrs Doig, bronze sequin frock over blue; Airs R. Jackson, black sequin frock over blue; Afrs W. Peat, apricot georgette beaded in crystal; Airs Grummitt, petunia

fringed frock; Afrs Morrison blue panne velvet; Afrs Armitage, gold lace and tissue with rose panel; Airs J. Stone, shell pink satin marocain; Airs Lovegrove, white satin and emerald fringe; Afrs Russell, black; Aliss AfcDonald, gold taffeta; A’ ; ss Wallbank (Auckland), pink accordion-pleated georgette; Airs Irwin, yellow panne velvet; Aliss A. Holst, eggshell blue satin marocain; Aliss Chavannes, rust georgette over green; Aliss Peattie, rose crepe-de-chine; Aliss E. Swan, blue and silver figured tissue; Aliss L. Swan, scarlet and gold brocade; Aliss Al. Bird, rose satin; Aliss S. Wood, figured rose velvet; Miss Gilbert, black; Miss K. Aluir, rose crepe-de-chine; Aliss Learv, emerald and gold brocade; Aliss Ale Naught, deep rose sequined frock; Afiss Missen, daffodil taffeta; Afiss Tomkies, gold tissue; Miss C. Spriggens, blue satin and silver laec.

SWANKERS’ CLUB On Saturday night the Swankers’ Club hold a most successful ladies’ night in the R.S.A. Hall. The evening was spent in cards and dancing. Air Fred Cunningham presented the prizes to the euchre winners: Ladies, Airs Chrysell and Afrs Nelson; gentlemen, Messrs Bonner and Bowler. A dainty supper was provided by the Swanker ladies, the. club ’s colours, red and w’hite, being most prominent. Following are some of those present: Air and Airs Chrysell, Air and Afiss Bond, Air and Afrs Sharpe, Air and Afrs Christenson, Air and Airs Steele, Air and Airs Brass, Air and Airs Fallon, Air and Airs Bush, Air and Afrs Cooper, Air and Airs Fry, Air and Airs F. Cunningham, Air and Afrs Firth, Mr and Airs Dreyer, Air and Airs Pargeter, Air and Airs Bowler. Alesdames Avery (ATarton), Rhimes, Speed, Burns, Bonner, Feltham, Higgins.

KATERAU CLUB A fitting finale to the annual Kaierau dance and presentation of trophies was enacted on Alonday evening at. the president’s (Air J. Moye) residence, when Air A. Takarangi, patron of the club, presented each member of the Ladies’ Committee with a handsome box of chocolates. The tokens of appreciation were deservedly earned, remarked Mr Takarangi and reflected the greatest credit on all concerned. The Ladies’ Committee was composed of Alesdames Afoye, Morgan, James, Afolan, Dustin, Carmine, Aitcheson, Rixon and Alisses Whiteford and Garner.

A NEW PROFESSION

(By MARY LOVAT.) The state of the labour market matters very little to the woman who has the brains to invent a new profession. Hero is the story of one of the bestpaid women in the business world, whoso job simply didn’t exist until the idea of it occured to her. She went to the proprietor of a largo drapery store and asked him whether it ever occurred to him to compare, price for price, the goods offered his establishment with those stocked by his competitors. She proposed that he should send her on a series of shopping expeditions to see where she could get the best value, say, for £5. He agreed, and she brought back her purchases to be compared, it'-m by item, with his own goods. The result was so helpful that very shortly she was engaged in regular work of th,is kind, and eventually, other competent women were engaged to work under her. At intervals the ‘pioneer’ is sent to all the great capitals of Europe, where she studies the trend of fashion, visits wholesalers, secures novelties and invents now ‘gadgets.’ That her work is remunerative to her employer is amply proved by the statistics that are kept as rigorously as at any government department. Continual experience has made her very w r ise as to what will prove to be a ‘selling line/ and what will remain a drug in the market, and she has learnt to disregard her own taste at times for that which she knows to be the taste of buyers generally.

A BAG FROM JAPANESE MATS By FAITH FOSTER.) It had never occurred to me that a couple of sixpenny d’oyleys of Japanese embroidery would make an adorable evening handbag, until I actually saw some adapted for the purpose. This was the method of their fashioning. An inch wide galon of dull gold threads had been sewn all round the outer edge of each mat, and gathered on the inner edge to form a frame for the prettily embroidered centre design. A wider galon had then been used to join the two mats, a gap being left for a space of three inches at the top to form the opening. This gave a sort of flatfish pocket, and when a couple of lohg Chinese tassels had been addeft, the hand bag was achieved. The tassels matched in colour the banana yellow which was the predominating tint in the embroideries of the d ’oyleys. At the top, and connecting the two flat sides of the bag, came a plaited handle of narrow' ribbons repeating the shades of the embroidery silks. The whole cost of the bag could not have been more than three shillings, yet the effect was as good as if it had cost a guinea. An umbrella with split scams may bo made perfectly good by laying a piece of ribbon half an inch wide along the seams and stitching it along the two edges.