Women In Print.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 9

Women In Print.

Blessed Is he who has found liis work; let him ask no other blessedness.—Cnrljle.

Miss Helen Mackenzie, daughter of the High Commissioner, leaves to^day by the Turakina. She has been staying for the last few days with Mrs. Seddon. Miss Coila Brown, of Dtmedin, accompanies her to England. Miss Hooper and Miss Tablionor, Pahiatua, and" Mrs. Ling, Mm. Cruickshank, and Mrs. Gillies, of Otaki, are at the New Occidental. Staying at the Grand are: Mr. and Mrs. Hector Smith, Napier ; Mr, and TMr«. Ar.thur Williams, Hawkes Bay ; Mrs. Winstone, Auckland ; Mr. and Mrs. Tringham. Pigeon Bush ; and Mr. and Mrs. Todd, Wanganui. The Hon. Mr. Prickett, American Consul, Auckland, and Mrs. Prickett are staying at the Grand Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Mackenzie, of Queensland, who have been Staying at the Grand, left for the sauth laet night. Colonel and Mrs. Jollie, from India, have been at the Grand, and left last night for Auckland. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Jackson, of Wanganui, returned from England yesterday via Sydney by the Warrimoo, and are at the Empire. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander also returned from England, and are staying at the Empire. Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Browne, Blenheim, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bunby, Auckland, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hargreaves, Christchurch, MiBS Pyke, ITokitika, Mr. and Mrs. Berger, Feilding, Mr. and Mrs. D. Buchanan, Masterton, Mrs. and Misses M'Laren, Maslertoii, Mrs. Cooper, Masterton, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith, Pahiatua, Mr. and Mrs. and Misses Partridge, Auckland, and Mrs. Archer, Maßterton, are at the Empire Hotel. Miss M'Gregor, of Dunedin, is a guest of Mrs. M'Vicar. Mrs. Chaytor and her children, who have been spending the holidays in Marlborough, have returned to Falmerstott North. Mrs. Alexander M'Dottgall " has returned, to Wellington after a visit to Mrs. F. Armstrong, at Akitea. Dr. and Mrs. Palmer and Mise Palmer, of Featherston, arrived back from their trip to England by the Warrimoo. The Hon. George Fowlds and Mrs. Fowlds have left Auckland for three weeks in the south. i Mrs. Baeyertz was a passenger from Dunedin by the Mararoa, which arrived here this morning. Mrs.- and Miss Holdsworth also came North by the same i steamer. Mrs. and Miss Ensor are passengers for Christchurch by the Wimmera from Gisborne. A reception is being given in honour of Mrs. Massey and Miss Massey, the wife and daughter of' the Prime Minister, by the members of the Pioneer Club on Thursday afternoon of next week. The Misses Cock are) staying with Mrs. J. D. Gray. Miss Cock leaves on Saturday for Auckland, where she takes up her duties at the Auckland Grammar School. The members of the Maranui LifeSaving Club held a very successful tennis dance last evening in the Lyall Bay Church Hall. There were about eighty couples present. The hall was jrettily decorated with flagjs, and the floor was in excellent conditions. Mr. Garland Morgan acted fta M.G., and the music was supplied by Timmins's orchestra. The Star Boating Club holds its annual swimming sports— always a most attractive feature of the summer-— on Saturday afternoon. There is promised an excellent programme, including some comic events, and music and refreshments will be included in the entertainment. On Tuesday, at the Catholic Church, Boulcott-street, Mr. George E. Dines, second son of Mrs. M. J. Dines, of Waipiro Bay, was married to Miss Louisa Maud, second daughter of Robert James O'Neill, of Wellington. The bride wore an exquisite gown of princess satin, trimmed with satin lace over chiffon, edged with satin balls. The veil was worked by a friend of the bride. She carried a bouquet of white roses and lily of the valley. The bridesmaids were Miss Alice O'Neill, sister of the bride, and Miss Mary Euddy. Both wore dainty frocks of crepe de chine, with mob caps wreathed with pale pink satin roses, and carried bouquets of pink sweet peas. The bridegroom's present to the bride was a handsome set of fox furs, and to the bridesmaids necklets of amethysts. t Mr. J. D. O'Neill gave away his sister, and the best man was Mr. Ernest E. Jolly. A reception was held at Godber's, and later, Mr. and Mrs. Dines left for their honeymoon in the North, the bride wearing a navy blue costume and' a tagel hat, with lancer plumes.' Bishop Grimes in his pastoral letter takes for his subject woman's mission. It is around the domestic hearth, says the Bishop, woman finds her greatest honours. There, woman is queen of the household, surrounded therein by her rights, prerogatives, and duties. The more she confines herself to the duties of home and the family the more she eeems to act in harmony with her sublime mission, the lofty position to which God has destined her. For her, the noise and tumult and bustle abroad are often as fruitless as fatal. For her the calm, peaceful silence of home is most favourable for the practices of piety for which woman is so remarkable. Her mission is to transmit this piety to her children. She shoflld be their first teacher, their first doctor in the law. From her lips the science of God must first flow upon them. Her knees should be the first pulpit whence they learn the truths of revelation. Sad indeed the fate of the ; children who find in their mother carelessness and lack of devotion ! Nothing 1 in the world can supply for them this formation of their infancy and childhood, whereof a pious mother is the holy instrument. Passengers by the Turakina to-day for Europe are Mrs. Berger, wife of Herr K. Berger, of Feilding, and their daughter, Miss Toski Berger, aged nine, who is about to study music ih Germany for several years. After leaving her daughter in Germany, Mrs. Berger will make a tour of France, Austria, and Russia. When the tendency for women and girls to take part in outdoor sporb first began to get a real root in Englandsay 30 to 35 years ago— there were distinguished obstetricians of the day who shook their heads over the innovation and propheoied dreadful things about the future fate of the athletic girl when the part of maternity should fall to her lot. Those prognostications (says a London paper) fell in so aptly with tho jrejui dices of the older generation of the

mothers and grandmothers of the day that the latter wero strongly fortified in their aversion to the "modern craze for sport" ; but they did not avail to deter healthy girlhood from participation in athletics, which, as we now see, are more popular and more widespread than ever. It is, however, time that some serious attempt should bo made to dc cide scientifically whether the function of maternity is helped or hindered in those who have indulged in outdoor athletic pastimes. Such an enquiry should distinguish, if possible, between the effects of moderate, reasonable indulgence and those of irrational excess.