Women In Print.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 9

Women In Print.

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone.—Curlyle.

A reception is being given this afternoon to Mrs. Massey, wife of the Prime Minister, by the Pioneer Club. Mrs. S. B. Gyles and daughter have returned from a holiday tiip to Nelson and West Coast. The engagement is announces of MUs Jane Dairdoon (Jean) Sargent, daughter i of Captain and Mrs. Sargent, Vogeltown, to Mr. A. R. W. Tate, King's Liverpool Regiment, eldest son of Mr. R. W. Tate, Greytown. A very pleasant afternoon was given yesterday by the Hon. A. L. Herdman and Mrs. Herdman to the members of Mr. Herdmali's committee at the Kelburne kiosk. The pleasure of the afternoon was enhanced by the fine views obtained from the kiosk windows 5 the tea tables were decorated with sweet peas and yellow tiger lilies, and altogether a bright and cheery afternoon was spent. Mrs. Herdman received her guests in a pretty gown of blue and white*n'gured silk, and hat trimmed with white ostrich feathers. Mrs. Massey, the wife of the Prime Minister, wore a black frock, black satin coat, and black hat with plume 3. Staying at Island Bay House are My. and Mrs. J. Nelson and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Tulloch (Pahiatua), Mrs. Arudt (Lower Hutt), Misses ftddis and Deane (London), and Misses Lang and Herbert (Dunedin). Mrs,H. B. Mason returned to Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui. Mi's. M'Laren, of Nelson, is the guest of Mrs. M'Villey. An interesting croquet rriatch will be played on Saturday afternoon by Mr. Keith Izard and Mr. Billon'Kelly, at the Karori croquet courts, after which if time permits, a double will be played. The Canterbury "Times announces the engagements of Miss Norah Danham, daughter of Mrs. F. C. Denham, Airnfeide, to Mr. H. Neville Eiby, son of Mr. P. W. Eiby, Timaruj and of Miss Ruby Podson, elder daughter of Mr. G. L. Dodson, Spring Creek, Blenheim, to Mr. M. J. O'Connor, third son of Mr. M. O'Connor, Hazelburn, South Canterbury. On Monday. Mr. Fred Holland, ol Braid wood, New South Wales, was married to Pearl, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bevendge, Martinborough, at St. Andrew's Church, Martinborough, the Rev. Mr. Bond performing the ceremony. Mr C. J. Beveridge, Wellington, acted as best man, and Miss Evelyn Kelly attended the bride. A reception was afterwards held at the residence 01 the bride's parents. Mn and Mrs. Holland subsequently left for the South. On the same day was also celebrated the silver wedding of the bride's parents, who are well-known and respected residents of Martinborough, It is interesting to learn that Miss Annette Kellernian's position as the modern Venus hasi been challenged by a young lady student of Cornell University, who measures, so it is claimed, a little better or nearer to the Venuses of statuary than Miss Kellerman, writes the Australasian. Miss Elsie Scheel, the lady in question, "keeps her perfect figure" on beef steak and turnips for preference, and for drink only water. She is also credited ' with eating but three meals in every two days, that is, one and a-half per day, but the record is silent a» to quantity. Tea and coffee, and of course alcohol, she does not touch, and does without breakfast, so it can be guessed that her one and a-half meal is divided between lunch and dinner only,, as the devastating supper would surely never be touched by so strict a dietisfc as Miss Scheel. Unfortunately Miss Kellernian's bill. of fare is not published. It would be vastly entertaining to know her choicest dish, the number of meals she takes, and those she omits, if any. Miss Scheel owns to twenty-five years, weighs 1711b, and is sft 7in high.' She is fair, with blue eyes, fond of walking and playing basket-ball, which at present is a favourite pastime in Sydney, and calls for a good deal of mild exertion. Miss Kellerman, as we know ? is fond of the sea, as is fit and proper in a Venus, for she rose frpm it, a fact that artists are not likely to let us forget. At some future date we may get portraits of these two living Vennses. and we shall then be able to judge of their appearance as compared to those of Milo and Canova. A meeting of the ladies' committee in connection with Hospital Saturday and Sunday collections, which are to be taken up on 15th and 16th February, was held in the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's office yesterday afternoon. Mrs. J, Oodber presided. A souvenir post-card will- be issued to those n-ho devote ono shilling arid upwards, instead of the usual badge for exemption being given after a contribution has been made. The- post-card is an artistic production, and is taken from a drawing by Mr. Archibald G. Anderson. The couvenir is entitled "It is an open heart to-day for tho Hospital." It is to be hoped thai Wellington will be in gener* nus moo- 1 on Ucepital Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Fairbairn (Occidental Hotel) and Godber's (Cuba-street, Lambtrin-quay, and Court enay -place) will supply refreshments to ladies col' locting in the vicinity of their establishmenta. Iho various Wellington brass bands sro aLsso assisting in the arrangements for collection. The Mission Band will assist on Saturday night; playing in various parts of the city. The Sal\alion Army Band plays in the Hospital grounds on Sunday afternoon, and the Wellington City Band, Jupp's Brass Band, and the Wellington City Tramways Band are to play a combined programme in Newtown Park the same afternoon, whon the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital will be the collectors. The Miramar Brass Band will play at Miramar, and the Waterside Workers' Band will play at Day's Bay on Sunday. Have you got " erenthophobia " ? It is not so horrible as it sounds. Erenthophobia merely means blushing, but a blushing unseasonable and unmotived. If your candid front be mantled iti season and out of it with a roseate hue then there's no doubt of it you are an ercnthophohist. So there the doctors have you labelled, writes the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Tele* | graph. A matter for mere^ jesting, this disease, you think? That is just where you are wrong. A misplaced blush may, as the worthy Dr. Chaumant teache9 Us, bring you dangerously Rear the gallows. Once- upon a time there was a young advocate who lived — poor celibate sinner — in a boarding house kept by an old lady. He was the only boarder. One evening he came in to find the landlady lying on the floor with her throat cut. He called in the police, who questioned him. Our young advocate stammered and blushed like a Turner sunset. The move he was questioned the more he blushed himself into the police station, and would, no doubt, have blushed himself into the dock had not the real criminal made confession in the meantime. Such are the dangers _of this desperate disease, ercnthopUobia. The

bother of it is that Dr. Chaumant prescribes no remedy. He really ought to blush for his negligence. Judge Lindley Garrison, whose wife enjoys the reputation of being the bestdressed woman in Jersey City, recently delivered in the Court of Chancery ft I sartorial verdict which has aroused widespread comment and heartfelt, approval on the part of thousands of harassed husbands (writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Mail). The case before him was that r>f Mrs. George Holton, who was lecently separated from her husband. She applied for an order increasing her alimony on the ground that on her present allowance she could not clothe herself becomingly. After hearing the applicant, the judge decreed that the following prides represented the utmost any husband could be asked to pay for his wife's clothing: — Walking dress, £4; cloak, £3 12s ; boots, 16s ; corsets. 4s. The applicant wanted a walking dress costing £? and a cloak costing £10 10s, and averred that her corsets must be specially made for her at a cost of 225. "I am well aware," said the judge, "that women commonly spend £15 to £20 for a dress in which to go to bridge parties and cause their sisters to turn green with envy, but it is no part of a husband's duty to provide means for causing unhappiness to other women. The dresses and cloaks I have seen advertised in shop windows at the prices I have named are amply becoming. Four shillings will buy corsets that will set off a woman's figure most engagingly. For eight shillings a truly magnificent pair can be obtained. The application is dismissed." News comes from the United States 6f a curious appeal made to the newspapers by the wife of a well-known millionaire. She has been giving a few little dinner parties, the alleged extravagance of which haa been used in the press in illustration of the untended needs of the poor and the wanton extravagance of the rich. The lady appeals to tho press to leave her domestic affairs in their native privacy, and if they must invale the region to "pan out" in disquisition on her husbands bequests to manifold charities. This retort is doubtless justifiable. Nevertheless, amongst ft- certain clique of wealthy Americans there certainly is disposition to launch into absurd extravagance at meal-times. Only the other dayi (writes Sir Henry Lucy in the Sydney Morning nerald) I had the pleasure of meeting a young gentleman whose claim to fame, as far as it has been established, rests on the fact that he has given one of the most expensive dinners of modern times. He is on his bridal toui?, and the extravagance was displayed in the way of a farewell dinner to his bachelor acquaintances. Including the host, ten gathered round the festive board, and the dinner cost £300. Thirty pounds per head for a meal is a not inadequate sum. The thing seems incredible, and as far as it is true one is glad to learn that an important item in the expense was the cost of flowers. These were the most expensive the market offered. Among them was a hiassive wreath of white violets and lilies of the valley, rare visitants to New York in early December. Ahother notable item in the bill was the china ware used for successive services. This was of the rarest kind, specially hired for the occasion. It is needless to say that meats and wines were of tho choicest descrijv i tion procurable in _.two hemispheres. Still, £30 a head for a dinner is pretty stiff, though we must not forget that a similar meal provided by the Duke of Westminster for subscribers to the sacred cause of tariff reform cost the guests £1000 each. Miss Rosalind Murray, novelist, says : •—"All women ought to come into contact with actual life, as independent personalities. So many women are all their lives long mere accessories of their rolations-^their fathers or husbands, as the case may be. They are welcomed and made much of largely because they are the daughters of somebody or the wives of somebody. Since I have come to London, I have discovered how very differently one is treated by strangers when all social supports are taken away. It is not a pleasant realisation, but it is an extromely interesting and instructive one. What has sometimes filled mo with a kind of horror is the number of women who seem to exist merely to "kill time.''. They grow old in aimlesenees. When I was quite- a little girl I used to see numbers of such women in, pensions and hotels in the South of France, and I used to firmly resolve that I should never allow myself to become like them. To settle down into a dull content with meaningless trivialities is terrible when, the world ie full of splendour and beauty. I think the great safeguard against such a state of mind is to keep alive and vital one's interest in things and one's sense of wonder at the aimpleat, things in life. So long as one can do this, life is worth living." GET A GOOD PIANO. There are no better or more reliable instruments made' than The Broadwood, The Lipp, Tho Ronisch, The Steinway. We are constantly receiving big new shipments of these superb pianos ; prices and styles to meet all requirements. We will make terms to suit any purse. Our name alone is sufficient guarantee of quality. Call upon na, 01', on request, we will gladly call upon you. We \teep a staff of expert tuners and repairers, and can attend to any of your piano needs. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellington. North Island Manager, M. J. Brookes. — Advt. The following programme of music will be played this week by Godber's Orchestra from 3 to 5 p.m. at Lambton-quay j— La Jois dv Matin, ReVeitse, Dawn, Sunshine Girl Valse, QuandL' Amour Meurt, Chant dv Repos, Jasmine, Simple Aveu, Kiss of Spring, Pandora, Moon Madrigal, Salut D'Amour. — Advt. Weddings, beautiful Shower Bouquets, Posies, Baskets, Empire Staffs, Crooks. etc., artistically designed and forwarded I to any part of the Dominion by Miss Murray, Vioe-Regal Florist. 36, Willis-at. Carlyle eaid "Clothes have made men of us." Of course he was referring to the smartly dressed class of men, who buy at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd.— Advt. Warner's Rust-proof Corsets. Style i 636 is specially designed for the tall, Well-developed figure. Fits perfectly and comfortably. Price, 16s 6d.— Advt. The Yorkshire Society's meeting last night was well attended. Mr. Mellow, who presided, read a letter from the editor of the Sheffield Weekly Independent giving a deal of interesting county news. The members spent a most enjoyable evening. A middle-aged man was brought befoie the Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of indecent assault on a girl six and a-half years of age. After hearing evidence, his Worship dismissed the case, there being, in his opinion, no evidence on which » jury woujd convict.