NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10291, 28 May 1919, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs Currie, of Napier, is the guest of her parents, the Hon. G. W. and Mrs Russell, in Blolesworth street. The Countess of Liverpool Trill ; be present at the tea for mothers of soldiers and sailors, to be given by the Women’s National Reserve • (bon. division), at the Concert Chamber this afternoon. Mr R. A. Wright, 81. P., -will be the speaker. Airs E. Greatbatch, postmistress at Tainul, is visiting Wellington for the marriage of her sister, Miss Vida Sullivan. Mrs O, Samuel, of New Plymouth, arrived in Wellington on Monday for a visit. Mrs J. R. Cruickshank, of New Plymouth, came to Wellington this week en route to England. Miss Turton, who is taking charge of the boot sale which will be held in St. John’s schoolroom on Friday, will be glad of any old ballet shoes, especially children's, ns she has a purchaser for these. Tambourines can also be sold. The sale is in connection with the kindergarten appeal this week. Miss J. Kendall. who has been spending a holiday in Taranaki, has returned to Wellington. The engagement is, announced of Miss Gladys Davies, younest daughter of Mrs A. M. Davies, 19, Hawkestone crescent. Wellington, to Mr Rnpert J.

W. Hail, elder son of Mrs Hall, of Oamaru, and the late Mr Wilson Hall, of the Homestead estate, Southland (says an exchange). Airs Cowles, of Carterton, is on » visit" to Christchurch. She Is accompanying her husband, Lieutenant-Col-onel J. A. Cowles, who is attending the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association Conference. Miss Cole, formerly secretary of the Christchurch Red Cross Depot, is leaving for England by the Bhamo, sailing from Wellington this week.

Mrs Wills, matron of the John McGlaslian College, Dunedin, has been appointed matron of the Boys’ Institute, Wellington.

Mrs O. Muir, who has been on a visit to Hastings, returned to Wellington on Monday. Mr and Mrs S. Armstrong, of Hastings, are' in Wellington to meet their son, who is returning by the Rimutaka.

Mrs and Miss Nichol have returned from a visit to Napier. Mrs G. S. Millar, of Now Plymouth, is visiting Wellington. v Mrs Ragnar Jensen, of Dannevlrke, is on a visit ,to Wellington. Mr and Mrs Patrick, of Christchurch, who have been visiting Dannevirke, passed through Wellington on Monday on their return home. Some very dainty lingerie sets have been made by Miss Bolton, and these are to be raffled for the Catholic : Girls' Hostel entertainment,- . which takesplace in’’about T a’month;-,- Meantime* they will be shown on Friday and Saturday in the Bristol window., when the ladies promoting the raffles will sell tickets there.' These sets" are very charming, of pale coloured silk, with yokes of net and lace, embroidered in ribbon-work in soft colours. A pale blue, having embroideries of pale pink, green, and heliotrope, is finished with bows of ribbon to match. Another lovely one- is--Of- fine longoloth with yoke of hand-made .Irish crochet lace, a very desirable, article, and there are others equally charming. Doubtless tickets for these will be much in demand. •

One of Palmerston’s early settlers, Mrs Thomas Tory, died in Blenheim last week at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Adam Jackson. Mrs Tory, with her husband, came to New Zealand from London in 1875, and settled in Palmerston North 'in 1888, where she resided until three months ago. The deceased lady was in her' eightyfourth year. Mrs Tory’s' husband predeceased her about four years agoShe leaves three daughters—? Mrs Adam Jackson (Blenheim) Mrs Andrew Watson (Blenheim), and Mrs 'William, Park. (Palmerston North), and a large nnniber of grandchildren. . Mrs George Chandler (Newbury) is a sister ot the deceased' lady. Despite the severity of the winter." women’s dresses in Paris will show a tendency to diminish both in length and in height, a phenomenon . which has both the Church and the - medical profession (says a Paris fasmon writer). Dressmakers declare that the shrinkage is imposed on them by the famine in dress materials.' Plenty of cloth" could be obtained from Lngland and America, hut the ‘ Government is naturally unwilling to impede the reconstruction of France’s ruined'textile industries. Paris brides having shown a tendency recently to wear wedding dresses with low necks and short sleeves, Cardinal Ametto, Archbishop of Paris, has reminded his flock-that such fashions are out of harmony with a solemn religious ceremony. The Cardinal also takes the opportunity to censure “foreign danceS, which are contrary to good social usages ana modesty.’’ He does .not indicate whether he has fox-trots or tangoes or jazz band dances in his mind,.

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FLUEN2OL SHAREHOLDERS* MEET.

At the recent annua] meeting it was reported that the output of Fluerizol had doubled even prior to the epidemic. Owing, however, to the wan inoreasb lii cost of production, and the policy of not raising prices (Is 6d and 2s 6d) a dividend would not be declared, , • •

A STAGE REHEARSAL. With a few interested spectators scattered over the void of the Opera House auditorium, Mrs Hannah and Miss Campbell held a dress rehearsal of- the phantasy they will, produce tomorrow night in aid of the Free Kindergartens'.’ Everything is upside down at rehearsals, so it was not surprising to find the last act, which includes a scene from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” being put on first; It is a beautiful feast of colour and movement, embodying dances by many of the children, Irene Marsh, as the Red Leaf, dancing with Cobweb, moths and] beetles; and Hazel Hardwicke, as Fuck. The dresses are charming, soft fairy robes in a blending of colours, and gorgeous fairy wings on " Oberon (Miss'Millar), and Titanic (Miss Zita: Chapman), thrown up hy the dark backcloth. Most interest centred, however, in the beginning of the story, and very effective was the open door showing the ragged child, while Mr J. Clark recited Alfred Noye’s poem. Then with all tho attendant waits, recalls and changes incidental to a rehearsal, came the performance itself. Elsie Dick is very clever as the ragged child made clean and good by the spirit of the kindergarten, and it is pleasing to note that even after her metamorphosis, she retains just a spice of the devil in her. The ragged children are shown by means of ballets, soap and water, towels, milk and rusks and clean clothes. The milk jugs and rusks are a quaint conception, and the dresses, difficult to dance in. The towels are rather after tho stylo of tho fancy dress known as “Tho Order of., the Bath,” and dance With quaint round sponges. Water, of course, is impersonated by soft dresses of' blues -. and' greens, and then come clothes-horses: in a pretty step dance. Following these the child: is shown a number of kindergarten games, ( delightfully played in. l costume. “The Nut-tree,” “The Russian Teapot” and others ah appear, and some of the tiniest mites take part ■ and thoroughly enjoy themselves. -A, special chorus‘is singing -these little, songs behind - the' stage,- and the _ sdbne; is a very; pretty one; ' Among-other items is to he an “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” expressed in movement, and a production by Miss Campbell of the adventures of colbur, shape, and perfume, with the wind; frost and sun, with Miss Frances Muter a's’ the last. This will be very beautiful: The producers are working very hard, not sparing themselves at all in the effort; to make the production one of the-best things Wellington has seen.