WOMEN'S WORLD

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16818, 9 June 1926, Page 5

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mr and Mrs J. C. Taylor arc "staying in Wanganui.

Mr anil Mrs Bishop, of Tlmaru, arc on a visit lo Cambridge.

Mrs D. N. Mao Diarmid is the guest of Mrs G. L. MacDiarmld.

Mrs Colin Campbell is spending a short holiday in Hamilton.

Mrs J. Willis, of Hawcra, is spending a short holiday with her sister, Mrs Cutter, al Franklon.

Mrs .T. Banks, of Cambridge, is staying with Mrs ,\V. Brander, Hemucra Road, Auckland. Mrs P. Slack, of Cambridge, is staying at the Hotel Cargen, Auckland. Miss Marshall' will return to New Plymouth this week. Miss Murphy, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs M, Wells, "Oakleigh," Cambridge. Mrs D. McNicol is spending some weeks at the Coast Road, Thames. Miss Willis, of Cambridge, is a visitor at New Plymouth.

Mr and Mrs W. Moore, of Milton, are in Hamilton, visiting their daughter, Mrs W. Adam.

Miss Molly Nathan, of Auckland, daughter of Mr Alfred Nathan, is engaged lo Mr Lumley Frank, of London, states a cablegram from London. The engagement is announced of Phyllis May, third daughter of Miami Mrs E. A. East, Armadale Road, Remuera, to Eric Grecnwell, third son of the Rev. and Mrs Carr, Raglan.

The engagement is announced of Marjorie, daughter of the Hon. H. F. Bollard (Minister of Internal Affairs ) and Mrs Bollard, Wellington, to Major Aldridge, son of Mrs Aldridgc and the late Mr Aldridge, Epsom, Auckland.

It seems to have become quite a tradition that the British Prime Minister's personal private secretary must be a woman. Both Mr Lloyd George and Mr Ramsay Mac Donald had energetic young women to attend to their correspondence in Downing Street, and at the House Mr Baldwin has also followed the rule, and his Miss Watson is by now quite a familiar figure in the lobby. Unlike the last two Premiers' secretaries, however, Miss Watson has not claimed her right to a seat under the gallery among the male officials. Instead, whenever i( is necessary for her lo listen lo a debate she is Lo be found high up in the little ladies' gallery, which was once the only place from which women could listen to debates. Now, although the railing which once veiled it from the rest of the Chamber has been removed, it is still reserved for women. Mr and Mrs Peter L. Harold, of Ardmoro Hoad, Heme Bay, celebrated their golden wedding on June a. They were married in St. Francis' Church, Thames, in IS7G, and resided there for nearly •19 years, after which they removed to Hcruc Bay. On the happy occasion of their golden wedding a family reunion was held at their residence, when most of their sons and daughters were present. The breakfast room was gaily decorated for Ihe occasion with'yellow streamers, I ; which was suspended a gold v. ...big bell, and the usual toasts were honoured. There are at present six sons and three daughters living in different parts of New Zealand and there are 31 grandchildren. Mr and -Mrs Harold have received many telegrams of congratulations from their numerous friends all over New- Zealand. Of Miss Marie Ney (Fix), who has become engaged to the All Black footballer, Mr Maurice Brownlie, of Hawke's Bay, a London correspondent writes: "It is always a pleasure lo follow the work of Miss Marie Ney, the young Wellington actress, who is destined to make a name for herself in London and to brink credit to her home country. Many of our Dominion actors mid actresses who have sought fame on the stage have found their own '-personality" the chief obstacle to their success. They fail to subdue themselves to the part they play, and, like the canary of the song, the cock sparrow's bristles will persist in coming through the dye. Hence, though they may have a limited success in the Dominions or in London, it is chiefly gained by lilting Ihem into parts where they can be themselves without spoiling the play. Miss Marie Ney is one of the few from the southern Dominions who will never be handicapped in this way. She plays her parts with perfect conviction, and she ceases to be Marie Ney. This, of course, is a sine qua non in the best plays slagcd in the West End."

It is a wonderful thing to know that the first woman's club has been established in India, and Ihe motto which appears over the door of this club is, perhaps, the mosL pathetic and vet eloquent expression of all that the women of India have suffered. Tlies.e words appear over the door of lie first woman's club in India: Ihe world is made for women, too. America might well be proud that her women have been the pioneers m this great undertaking; American women might well claim pride of place m llus expression of internationalism in Ihe women movement. These schools and colleges mean much more lo Ihe world than we can now see. They are bridges over which the women of Ihe Orient will pass to the Occident. They are pathways by which mind will meet mind, heart will meet heart, ideals will met ideals, and understanding will meet understanding. Ml Inesc pulsating human elements will, and can, only make for progress.^ The only woman member of any Parliamentary Press Gallery in the Empire i.s -Mrs ficnovicve LipseltSkinner, LL.I?., who represents the Vancouver Sun at Ottawa. Although a certain amount of prejudice amongst Hie pressmen of the gallery greeted her. it was not aggressively apparent; Indeed, her treatment by all was most courteous, if, at first, a little cold. She began lo earn her living as a Icnclicr, but feeling a leaning lo journalism she entered tin; office of the Winnipeg Telegram. She look a lisen 'Jllerest in politics, and in clubs which exert so much influence on Cnnuiian life. She praclised public speaking, and was appointed special lecturer for Ihe Dominion Government in |.he British Isles in 1912. Two years later she began Ihe study of law. and graduated with honours in 1017. The power of the Press always attracted her, particularly Ihe Par-

liamcntary gallery. She is now only 35 years of age. and what she has accomplished should bo an inspiration to her sex the world over.