HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 97, 27 April 1939, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Pre-Wedding Parties. • The ladies’ of Westmere district arranged a very pleasant “kitchen” party recently, which was taken to the home of Miss Clara Dawes, whose wedding takes place to-day. The guests were entertained with competitions, and the bride-to-be showed the I quaint curios she had brought from • Suva. Mrs. Wishart and Miss Michie were also joint hostesses at a “500” and pantry party for Miss Dawes. A Wit on Grey Hair. It is quite certain that fewer women than men go grey. That the . expression “go grey” signifies the hair ? without further explanation is evi- • device that the affliction—if it may be so called is so common that it is taken as a matter of course. It is on record ) I that at a private party in London, a . lady—who, though in the autumn of - life, had not lost all dreams of spring - —said to Douglas Jerrold: “I cannot imagine what, has made my hair go grey. It is so rare with our sex; I i sometimes fancy it must be the es- ■> sence of rosemary which my maid ? uses on it when she brushes it'.” ? “I am rather afraid, madam,” • replied the dramatist, “that it is the essence of thyme.” But, as someone wittily observed: they are better off than the “Jords of I creation,” so many of whom go bald. ■ But, as someone wittinly observed: “An empty barn needs no thatch.” Women In Lithuania. A very interesting series of articles : on her native land, Lithuania, by . Madame Ethel E. Rabinavicius, has [been running through “The Country- • woman,” which is the journal of the J Associated Countrywomen of the ■| World. Lithuania is essentially an ! agricultural country, and it is inter- | esting to learn that England is J Lithuania's biggest market for the bulk of her produce, particularly for • her dairy products. There is uni- ■ versal suffrage in Lithuania, and the i women take their political responsibilities seriously. Women are prominent i nthe professions of medicine and dentistry, both as general practitioners, and in the administrative . field, holding important posts in the i central and provincial branches of the Department of Health. There are also a number of women in the legal profession. The nucleus of a woman's branch of the police force was formed recently in the capital, and the head 1 of the information department, in the Lithuanian Foreign Office is a woman, who assisted in organising the Lithuanian pavilion for the World Exhibition in New York.