WOMEN'S WORLD

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17078, 16 April 1927, Page 15 (Supplement)

WOMEN'S WORLD

Mrs Hunter, of Wellington, is visiting Cambridge. * * * * • The Misses Madeline and Freda Dowd are spending Easter at Rotorua. I •_*■•* Miss Marie Hopkins, x)f Hamilton, was a recent caller at the High Commissioner's Office, London. Mrs Harold Caro is visiting her sister at Christchurch. * V * * Mrs A. Smith is spending a holiday at Napier. » * « * Mrs G. S. -Crimp is spending Easter with her parents in New Plymouth. * • » Mrs H. C. Ross and family are at ' Raglan. Miss Helen Taylor, of Cambridge, is •at Auckland for the races. * * /* * : Miss Tui Ring is the guest of her sister, Mrs A. J. Bond. , Mrs A. L. Tompkins has gone to Auckland for the Easter races. * * * * Miss T. Monckton is, visiting Auckland. - Mrs Hubert Hammond is spending a few days at Rotorua. Mrs Kelly and Miss Kelly, of Napier, through Hamilton on Wednesday. • . * * * * Misses C. Becche, P. Wallace, and M. Wilson are spending the Easter vacation at National Park. * » * « The Miisses N. Lawson and G. Marshall are the guests of Mrs M. Simmonds. * * * * Mrs T. G. Hinton and family, of Eureka, accompanied by Miss Guinness, are spending the holidays at Raglan. # ,Mrs W. Geddis, Mrs C. Geddis, and Miss K. Geddis, of Napier, who arrived in Auckland on Monday by the Niagara, passed through Hamilton this week on their way to Taupo. .•♦ . * Mrs J. D. Sievwright, of Wellington, and the Misses McCallum, of'Dunedin, are the guests of Mrs A. Meldrum for Easter. »•,•... » ■ * ■ . * Miss Dakin, Peria Road, Matamata, left on Tuesday for a trip to England. Miss Dakin expects to be away for about six months. * • » • Miss Jessie Mclvin, fomerly of Hamilton and now of Auckland, was a visitor to Hamilton this week. Miss Melvin will be remembered as one of our leading amateur actresses. * * * * •A pleasing function took place on Wednesday afternoon in Mr F. J. Ferrell's offce, when Mr Farrell presented Miss D. Thomas" with a solid leather suitcase. Miss Thomas is severing her connection with the firm, after three years' sen-ice, and is going to Auckland. / • WW" Feminists in France have won another victory—this time over the traditions of the Comedie Francaise —the one theatre in- France where tradition governs everything. Hitherto women, even without their hats and with an Eton crop, have been barred from the parterre. No woman has ever set foot jin it at a performance. Now M. Ilerriot, \vho, in his capacity as Minister of Fine Arts, has control of the ancient

“Maison de Moilicre," has decreed that the parterre must be open to both men and women alike.

I A girl nurse’s heroism when her clothes were set alight was described at an inquest on Miss Mabel Griffin, aged twenty-eight, a pupil midwife at a nursing institution in Bath. A verdict of “Death from accidental burns”

was recorded. Miss Griflin, a Ponty- ' pridd girl, was sitting up late reading when the gas fire set her apron alight. As the flames shot up she tried to tear off her clothes, but did not scream for fear of waking the patients. The girl rushed into the bathroom and tried to put out the flames, but failed, and was heard by the night sister, who subdued the fire with an extinguisher. For three weeks she lingered in hospital, and the coroner, in recording his verdict, paid a tribute to her courage and her thoughtfulness for the patients. • * • • r The Duchesse of York is not beautiful in the accepted sense of the word, but she is lovely, with that tender wistful charm and appeal of character which go right to the heart (says the Sydney “Sun”). The big blue eyes arc set wide apart, and have a witchery of their own. A small girl, her golden hair glinting in the sun like a halo, spoke truer than she knew when she caught her first glimpse of the Duchess of York at the landing. “Why, she’s just like that picture of Princess Hyacinth!” she said, in an awed whisper, as some fairy-tale illustration seemed to come to life beside the sparkling blue water of the harbour. When the Duke had finished reading his speech at the landing she turned to him and gave him an affectionate l.ook and a, smile , which said, quite plainly, “Splendid!" V Brave men have died for less.

(By “Gipty”)