WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Miss Millar, daughter of tho Hon. J. A. Millar, arrives from Auckland today. She has been camping out with a party at Taupo. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie and Mrs. M'Kenzie are back from Blenheim. They have gone into their house in Hobson-street. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kennedy, of Napier, who are coming to Wellington for Miss Kennedy's wedding, arrived to-day. Mr. and Mrs. I. Wood, of Christchurch, and Dr. and Mrs. Andrews, of Nekon, are also expected for the same event. Mrs. Hugh Beetham, of Brancepeth, is staying a-t the Royal Oak. An interesting feature, states the Feilding Star, of the marriage of Miss Frederica Friberg (sister of the Rev. N. Friberg (formerly -assistant master at tho College-street School, Palmerston), was that it was in the style of the old German fashion, the bride being married standing on a carpet square made by her great-great-great-grandmother. Ail female members of the family have been married standing on this carpet for the last six or seven generations. A social meeting of the "Our Girls'" branch of the Victoria League took place at the Pioneer club last evening, when charades and music, and' an amusing competition, followed by supper,' were much enjoyed by the members. ■ The next meeting will be on the Bth of May, when Mrs. Malcolm Robs will read a paper on Hampton Courfc. A cable has been received from Port Said from Mrs. Seddon, announcing that all are well. Miss Haslam, , mistress of Muritai School, was specially mentioned at the householders' meeting last evening, and on the proposal of Mr. S. G. Ross it was decided to make her a presentation at an early dai-e. I Mi,* Emily Sheldon, eldest daughter of Mrs. Sheldon, Nelson, was married on Easter Monday to Mr. Bernard Osborne, second son of Mr. Osborne, Canterbury, Melbourne. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. J. Carr, in St. Barnabas's Chu.rch, Stoke. The bride, who was given away by Mr. Cameron, wore a very pretty cream costume with a black picture hat lined with delicate rose-pink silk, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet. The bridesmaid, Miss Ethel Sheldon, sister of the bride, wore a cream costume faced with blue silk, and large black velvet hat with black and white plumes, and carried a bouquet of pink flowers. Mr. A. Best attended the bridegroom as best man. The presents were very numerous and handsome, and included several cheques. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne will make their future home in Wellington. A large gathering of settlers assembled at the Kohiwai homestead, Whareama, on Friday, for the purpose of bidding good-bye, to Mr. and Mrs. Toogood, who are leaving on a pleasure trip to the Old Country. Mr. Toogood was presented, on behalf of the East Coast settlers, with a handsome dressing-caee. Mr. Buchanan, M.P., remarked that Mr. and Mrs. Toogood wero ideal settlers. The Brisbane Courier recounts the following instance of childish devotion: — Mr. A. T. Clerk, whose love for little children is well known, has received from Paterson, near Maitland, New South Wales, a full account of the sad death on Friday evening, 10th March, in a paddock, of Mrs. Heinhardt, and the intensely pathetic love and devotion shown to her by a dear little girl of only 5 years old through a whole night of rain. The report says that 'Mrs. lleinhardt, who was 64 years of age, had been on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Martin. About 5 o'clock she left her daughter's place to return home, being accompanied by her little granddaughter, Lorna Martin, aged '5 years, and while crossing through a large paddock, some distance from her home, she apparently became ill, sat down beside a logjand expired from heart failure, being found in a sitting position. Her little granddaughter remained beside her afl night, which was a wet one z holding an umbrella over her grandmotCer to keep off the rain. About 6 o'clock on Saturday morning the little girl was seen by a neighbour walking about in the paddock, and when going over to her and speaking to her &nti pathetically looked up and asked for a cup of 'tea for grandma, "who was sick and would not speak to her all night." Mr. Clerk, speaking at a large gathering on one occasion, said, "Little children and flowers appeal to me most, for they are the simplest, the purest," and the sweetest of all oarthly things. 1 ' Mr. Clerk had sent little Lorna a fitting keepsake in memory of her grandmother. Every day someone comes along to spoil some of our most cherished illusions. A Canadian writer is the latest iconoclast, and he breaks down our old ideas of gay Paris. '"It is not a happy city," he says. " but a very divided, very distracted, and on the whole a very poor city; and that last circumstance makes against happiness. People have not the time nor the heart to be happy and helpful and sociable like the average Canadian, and like host* of Americans and Britishers. Life is too hard for people to be as obliging as they are here (Canada). You do not see smiling faces in the street cars, you do not meet obliging people there. If you are a young girl and preccy, ef course, it is another question ; but otherw^e there is a perpetual wrangle in the cars for one's righte, and a, perpetual wrangle for the seats ; and the logic and system of the • Frenchman insist that all kinds of regulations and red tape be devised for tho scientific solution of these wranglinge, and this makes Paris seem a very fussy place to people accustomed to \he optimism of America, to the go-as-you-please of Canada. . . I should like the city better if it retained more local rolour, if it were more French and less American and cosmopolitan. . . . One wishes one could have seen Paris half a century earlier, when it was really Paris, when it was truly French." The King has lent to the Victoria, and Albert Museum from Windsor Castle a finely preserved English embroidered coverlet, dating from about 1700, with a design in the Oriental style. The coverlet is of linen, quilted in yellow silk with zig-zag and intersecting diagonal lines, and embroidered with coloured silks and silver gilt thread. Parts of the gold work are raised by padding. A large medallion in the middle is filled w.ith two flying phoenixes. The surrounding space has stems of flowers, and in each corner is a grotesquely designed rampant monster. With the winter approaching, we all think of comfort* to make the long wild nights more pleasant. Lovers of music will "be pleased to know an unusual opportunity to secure a Chappell, Erard, Knake, or Spaethe piano will be offered during April only. Our annual sale for one month has started, this being the end of our financial year. Slaughter prices for organs, and big discounts on pianos. Our sales are genuine, and ane one thinking of buying a piano 'or organ should . think, and save several pounds by coming during the sale. F. J. Pinny, Ltd., 53, Cuba-etreet, Wellingtofi.—JLdafe >