SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 278, 20 August 1919, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A baU will be given by tho members of tho Wangauui Collegiate School Old Boys' Association ou Tuesday, August .26, at tho school.

Mrs. Wilson (president of tlio Auckland Woinen'6 Club) is visiting Wellington;- '•:

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walkoe, who had been visitiiig Cliristchm'cli, left nt the 6iul of lilre week on their return to Wel\ lington,

News lids beoli received by frieatda in Wellington that Dr, Wood, husband of Mrs; Wood (iieo Miss llubi Scddon), has received an important position .witfli the Navy at Plymouth, England, ''and they will be taking up their residence there.

Colonel and Mrs. Herbert ha ro returned to Bketahuna from Napier. Miss Dawo is their gnest for a short time before leaving ou her return to England.

The Thirteenth Club (p. Wellington- College Old Boys' organisation) have arranged a dance, whlch i is to be held at the elld of the month in tho Town HnMi Conccl'l Chamber, The committee comprises t Mioses G. Gully, M. Gtf.ly, Gordon, Ossipolf, Donne'.ly, Corioh, Messrs. Cfcegwidden, Binnio (hen. secretary), Coleman, Iveegan, Loe, Harper, Dawson, and Lattoy.'

The marriage was solemnised at St. Matthew's-Church, Surbiton, recently, of Miss Louie lledington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.'A. Codington,' Draycott Lodge, Tolworth, Surbiton, and Sergeant-Major Herbert Raymond M'Carthy, of Auckland, son of Mr, S, E. M'Carthy, Stipendiary Magistrate, of Christchurch, Now JSeatand (states a London correspondent). Sergeant M'Carthy, at the timo of his onlistpient, was 011 the Auckland staff of the New ZenCand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. Ho went nway with the Main Bcxly, and is, with hie bride, returning in the Aflienic, expected at Wellington on August 23. The Auckland Women's Club. Mi's. Wilson, president of the Auckland Women's Club, who was one at' the speakers at the Pioneer Club's reception lor Mrs. Massey and Lady Ward yesterday, in speaking of the Auckland Club, of which her hearers were anxious to learn a little, avid that already there were 7CO members belonging to it. Debentures had been taken up by women, and club bad acting for it a woman solicitor and various other ollices were carried out by women. It had been fu.t by a number of women in Auckland that tho feeling of comradeship bstwoen women, tho sharing of common interests, and of work for common causes which had. been brought about by tho war should not be lofjt nor should they allow tho foeling of caste to grow among them again. And so tho club had conw into existence. Yet another reason was that women should bo encouraged to take a keenor interest in civic and public life, and should study the problems which would meet them there. If women wero to enter Portiamentary or. oivic life then it wa6 desirable; that they shouM train themselvoe for that life. As a 'beginning, at the next meeting of their civic circle the Hon. G. I'owlds was to give a lecture upon "Chairmanship." Every woman, oven the young mother at home, who often was not able to go out as other women perhaps could, could read and study and obsorve what was goiug on around her, and use her inliuenco to get better conditions. It was intended that tho Auckland Club should affiliate with the southern clubs and so bccome an active forco in women's intorcsts. They had several circle?—an art, a dramatic, a musical', a literary, and others, and the life of the c£ub promised ,to be varied, and, she hoped, useful. '

inter-Allied Women's Conference In Paris.

.' The Inter-Allied Women's Conference in Paris, culled by tho French 'Woman •Suffrage Societies, was a marked success (states an .English correspondent). A neries or most interesting meetings, attendsd 'by delegates from, iielgiiuii, Italy, iir;t:uu, the British Dominions, and United' States of America, was interspersed by even moro interesting interviews with all tho chief representatives af tho towers assembled for tho Peace Conference. President Wilson, in particular, gave a warm welcome to tho women, and strongly supported their claim that a committee of representative women should bo appointed to sit in Paris during the Peace Conference, in yrder that their advice might be sought in matters specially related to women and children. Such a committee lias now actually been chosen, and at the time of writing was sating in Paris. Though it is merely an advisory body and its recommendations have no force or claim to be heard beyond that of courtesy, yet it is a step in advance for women to have secured evan so small a share .in tho momentous decisions on 1 which tho fate of the world depends. Tho following resolutions were carried unanimously at the Women's Conference:—"That in every one of the Allied countries—(u) Women ,ini\U be granted tho vote on the same terms as it is, or may lie, granted to men. (bj Married women shall not be deprived of their nationality against their will, (c) All existing inequalities ;n the law as betrecn mon and women shall be removed, all offices and employments shall be open to men and women equally, and payment for work shall be independent of sex. (d) The moral standard shall be equal for both-sexes." These resolutions wore sent ' bv tb.a British Dominions Women CitiI 1 sens' Union, and were moved by tho delegate of that union, ,'<liss ltuth Atkinson, of New Zealand, by the request of tho French president, Madame Solilumj berger. They form, as it were, a eont'ess'un of faitli, a programme upon which the leaders in tja©' Allied countries are agreed without discussion.

1914 "SALES" AND NOW AMAZING PRICE CONTRASTS AT . HOME., The "salts"' are here—thoso glorious 'days -vvrteii a woman can replenish her wardrobe, bay lengths of materials, to bo made up in tho summer ami autumn fov horself and children, and sot the linen cupboard ill order. But at what ..price compared with 1914! (remarks the London. "Daily Mail" qf. Jiuie 20). Tie "Daily Mail" has had the curiosity to tool: up tho sale bairgaW of June aj:d J-aly, 1911, and compare thorn with the prices now naked for similar articles in the great London shop.?. It should be remembered' that sale prices of 1914 were in most instances 25 per cent. below cuiTent prices for that year. Comparing advertised ''sale" prices of 1914 with present prices, and restricting the comparison to the same articlo bought at tho same shop, wo havo tho following;— £s. d. £ b. d. Muslin collars, oaoh ... 0 0 G 0 10 Real Panama hats ... 012 9 110 Dainty river frocks in zephyr and cropon... 015 11 110 Cotton and linen sheets, pair 0 8 lli 0 1111 Cretonnes 0 0 6 0 1 0J Blankets, single bed... 0 811 019 11 Blankote, doublo bed 10 0 115 0 Down quilts 012 9 15 9 Bedspreads, single ... 0 2Hi 0 5 115 Circular capo iu 6oft black satin with moire collar 1 811 717 5 Coat and skirt in black and vfhito striped cords, tailored and coat lined ... 019 11 ClO G Three-quarter length shantung coat 1 1 0 2 2 0 Walking skirt in wihito and black check 0 411 017 G Crepe do chine shirt, hemstitched mu6liu collar 0 11 9 1 !■') 9 Womon know too woil tho present price of good quality silk stockings and lisle hoso, which were offorcd as salo bargains in 1911 Jit £s. Bil. and Is. Gd. Will the day return whon a blanket olotii coat can bo offerod for 15s. lid. without creating a'riot in Oxford Street, or a washing House in wliito cotton cropo ot os. 9d.f