WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR

Mrs. Ebehurt, of Wellington, is staying iu Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Springhorn are Wellington visitors to Wanganui.

Mrs. W. E. Brook, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland.

Mrs. Charles, of Wanganui, is the guest of Miss Gower, Wellington.

Miss Laisltley is visiting the South Island.

Dr. Grace Peck has returned to Auck> land from Wellington.

Mrs. Paget (Wellington) is the gues< of Mrs. I<. Cock in New Plymouth.

Mrs. M. Hollingrake, of Wellington is on a short visit to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Balneavis, of Wellington, are at present in Auckland.

Mrs. A. E. Cork (Wellington) is visiting Wanganui.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Quinn, of Wellington, are at present in Auckland.

Miss Edith Leitch, of Christchurch, is paying a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. R. J. Firth, of Wellington, is spending a holiday in Auckland.

Miss Joan Coleman has returned to Wellington from Stratford.

Mrs. Pegg, of Stratford, is visiting Wellington.

Mrs. Le Cren has returned to Wellington front a visit to Auckland and Helensville.

Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Yoeman and Mr. and Mrs. A. Humphreys are Wellington visitors to Titnaru.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Moore have returned to Christchurch from a visit to Hawera and Wellington.

Mrs. E. Johnston, of Nelson, will leave for Sydney by the Tahiti to-day to join the Cathay for England.

The Hon. G. J. Smith and Mrs. Smith, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Sunday.

Mrs. Cachenialle, who has been vsiting friends in New Plymouth, returned to Wellington on Friday.

Mrs. G. A. Wynne, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Auckland.

Misses Seed (2), Wellington, have been tlie guests of Mrs. F. W. Sutton in Hawera.

Mrs. Schnauer, of Auckland, who is in Palmerston North, from there will come to Wellington.

Mrs. .Turrell (Wellington) is tlie guest of I\lrs. J. F. Buchanan, “Kinloch,” Little River, Canterbury.

Mrs. S. W. Kelly and Miss L. Kelly, of Wellington, are visitors to Christchurch.

Mrs. Prior Williams and Mrs. Buske, who have been spending a holiday in Wellington, have returned to Auckland.

Miss R. V. Callander has been appointed infant mistress at Tawa Flat School.

Madame Alwyn, of Christchurch, is staying in Wellington prior to a tour of Australia and America.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Little and Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins are about to leave for a visit to the Franz Josef Glacier.

Lady Fergusson, wife of Admiral Sir Janies Fergusson, brother of the Gov-ernor-General, and her party, have returned to Wellington from the north.

Mrs. Porter and Miss Sheppard, who have been away for a month in the South Island on a holiday trip, have returned to Wellington.

Mrs. F. Drayton Bamfield returned to Wellington after spending a few weeks at' Hamner Springs and Christchurch.

The engagement is announced of Hertha, eldest daughter of Mr. A. Martin and tbe late Mrs. Martin, Mangatimoka and Manganui, to Athol, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Morgan, Park vale Road, Karori.

Dr. and Mrs. Morice and Miss C. Morice will leave to-dav for Sydney, en route to England. The Misses L. and M. Morice will stay with Mrs. F. Hay, in Hill Street, while Dr. and Mrs. Morice are away.

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Miller, of Rodrigo Road, Kilbirnie, and tlieir daughter (Mrs. Mackay) will leave to-day for Sydney by the Tahiti, en route' for Europe. They will be absent for about nine months.

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Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Humphries, o Napier, are visiting Wellington.

Mrs: G. D. Warren, of Wellington is visiting Auckland and Rotorua.

Mrs. and Miss Dixon (Wellington are the guests of Mrs. A. Willis it Wanganui.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Baddeley (Runanga) who have been visiting Wellington, have returned to the south.

A young Englishwoman, Miss Elizabeth Scott, has beaten seventy-five British and American competitors with her design for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. She was the only woman to enter the competition, and is said to be the first woman architect in any country to have won so great a distinction.

Lady Iveagh, the newly-elected member of the House of Commons, was the only woman who took part in the recent memorable debate on the Prayer Book. She spoke, not on behalf of the Evangelical or Anglo-Catholic sections of the Church, but as the “mere representative of the woman in the pew.” Afterwards she stated that she had been so struck by the frequent references made by the men to the religion they had imbibed at their mothers’ knees that she felt a little of the same brand might not be out of place in the debate itself.

Nothing is sacred nowadays, and the breakfast consumed by a popular poet, or the complexion powder favoured by a queen, and all such interesting details are common knowledge (remarks a writer in an exchange). Her Royal Highness the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, had she been born a few centuries earlier, would doubtless have found herself, minus a- head, or spent her days repining in a convent, after her book, dealing intimately with courts and the people who frequent them, had dropped hot from the press. Since she was born in the nineteenth century, however, no such fate has overtaken her, and “Courts and Countries After tlie War” is continuing its illuminative passage through the literary circles of the world. The Infanta Eulalia, the aunt of the present King of Spain, is a vivid, piquant personality, as vivacious of manner as she is original of mind. She has travelled widely, and lived in many countries. Miss Maude Roydeti.

Miss Maude Royden, who is coming to New Zealand after a tour of the United States, is a remarkable woman who has shown her power in many fields. After a brilliant career as a student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she devoted herself to university settlement work. Miss Royden had’ a deep interest in religion. She showed her powers as a preacher first in a little country parish in Rutland, -where a mission was being held. Miss Royden had been acting as a sort of lay curate there, and during the mission her addresses alone evoked any response. She was, however, then secured for university extension lecture work, to which she gave her time for some years until in the ardour for enfranchisement she joined the Women’s Suffrage Movement, to which she added lustre on the constitutional side—being at one time editor of the “Common Cause”—but resigned from the executive in 1914. Once more she turned to religious activities. She preached in church wherever she found authorities enlightened enough to allow her, and has actually done so in a cathedral, she and Lady Barrett being the only women who have been so privileged. Her triumphant vindication of woman as a preacher happened in the cathedral at Geneva, where she preached by invitation and actually sat in the seat which was Calvin’s. Miss Royden’s unofficial work in Anglican churches was succeeded by a period of three years’ regular ministry in the Citv Temple, where she preached weekly from 1917-20. Then came the founding of fellowship services, in conjunction with Mr. Percy Dearmer, an Anglican clergyman. This fellowship growing, found permanent quarters in the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, which has ever since remained a centre of active religious and social work. SUMMER DRINKS Apple Water.—As apples are in season, it is well to know that apple water is a drink which purifies the complexion. To make it, take two cooking apples and bake them thoroughly, then mash. Put the pulp into a jug aud pour over it 1| pints of boiling water, then beat up well. Allow to cool, then strain through a fine sieve and sweeten to taste. Take one-half pint three times a dav. The apple water must be made fresh every day, and if taken daily for three or four weeks will have a most wonderful effect in clearing the complexion. Cider Cup.—To a large bottle of cider add a liqueur glass of brandy and a wine glass of sherry. Add half a lemon thinly sliced, a few slices of cucumber, and a few strawberries or cherries in season. Put in a handful of cracked ice and allow it to stand a few minutes before serving. Add a bottle of soda water at the last moment, and sweeten if desired. Iced Tea.—lced tea is a favourite American summertime beverage, and is often served instead of hot tea on very warm days. Make a pot of very strong tea, and in a separate jug an equal quantity of lemonade, allowing the juice of a lemon and a small cup of powdered sugar for every pint of boiling water. Combine ' the liquids while both are hot, and leave a sprig of mint in the tea for a few minutes, but not longer. Then set on ice. Children’s Lemonade.—Cut a lemon in half, squeeze the juice into a jug (using a lemon-squeezer), add caster sugar, and pour on nearly a pint of cold water. This makes a ieady-to-drink beverage which has the advantage of containing fresh, unheated lemon juice, and which also leaves the rind free to be used in puddings, custards, etc. A very small pinch of bicarbonate of soda, or a teaspoonful of fluid magnesia, will transform it into a “fizzy” drink, very delicious, and wholesome for children.

In their respective order, shoes for street wear are a little simpler. The smartness of the court shoe is still unchallenged, aud it looks remarkably well in lizard. Another prime favourite is the low Oxford shoe with three eyeholes only; while the wearer of the chic street suit is happily and ntodishly shod in a new mixture of black suede and patent There are well-dressed women, however, who remain convinced that the perfectly-cut court shoe oi soft polish tan calf, tn a lightish shade, remains unrivalled for beauty and correctness of street-wear style.

Miss Marie Hall, who played on her £3OOO “Strad” at Queen’s Hall, has had the most romantic career of any of England’s musicians, for, as a pathetic wisp of a child, she fiddled in the streets of Newcastle to the accompaniment of a harp. How she was taken up, won scholarships, went to study at Prague under the great Sevcik, and ultimately became world famous, reads like a fairy tale, and she herself can sometimes hardly believe it.

A fine harvest was garnered by juvenile fishermen at Ohawe beach the other day in the pools left by the receding tide (says the Hawera "Star’’). The youngsters enjoying the paddling found the pools to bo swarming with small fish .and they promptly set to work to organise “drives.” The fish were so numerous that they could bo easily gathered up in towels and oilier iniprifvtsed nets, and many small boys and girls were soou the proud possessors of catches, which made father’s fish stories pale into insignificance. Specimens of the catches were brought into the “Star” oilice, and they were declared to be sehiiapper and kawhai try, and the young of other fish unknown to the collectors, though one gentleman hazarded the opinion that some of them were sardines. He would not, however, go to the length of declaring that they had deserted their favourite haunts in the North Sea in order to sample the teed oil' the Taranaki coast.

Some idea of the spacious and stately building that will eventually adorn the site where the construction of the new Nelson Cathedral is going on can be gained by a visit to the works (says the "Mail”). Marble is a slow material to mould into ornamental shapes, and the new edifice seems to be rising almost imperceptibly. But suddenly one notices, ’s if it had happened overnight, that a *ug advance has oeen made. The walls have now risen some distance, and the builders can no longer work from the ground, but have built a scaffolding about, eight feet up. The walls are up to sill height, 'hat is, to the bottom “I the windows, end the pillars on the western side of the nave are of full stature. The two massive respond piers just Inside the main doorway are also full-grown ready for the weight of arches and spires that they will have io support. The doorway ami the beginning of what will be : tie gallery staircase are also built, and so too is the entrance to the crypt staircase. An electric lift has been erected to a height of GO feet "r the purpose of carrying up material, and when the busy stone masons have prepared yet more -vyj'ked stone, another steo in erection will take place.