NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN

WANGANUI NOTES. (By “Eileen.”) WANGANUI, May 29Mr and Mrs Harlord-Reid, of Invercargill, are visiting. Wanganui. iVii« McGabe, or w elling urn, who has been on a short visit- to her sister. (Mrs d. R. hosier), has returned home. The Sargent are gallery has been comple.ed, and it is intended to open the gallery beiore Mr and .Mi's Ncauie (neo Sargent) leave tor Kurope. , Mr and Mrs Atkinson, of “'llurwor.>h,” have returned to town. Air and Airs A. O. Hardy, hare gone to W-eliihgton to meet their youngest son. Rilieman Geoff.- Hardy, who is returning from'France. ' ‘ _ . Mr's h- Mouii, widow of the late Sergeant L. (Boil) Mouii, has arrived on a visit to Mr and Mrs Meuli, Carlton. The engagement, is ' announced of Miss Clare Geliatiy. only daughter of Mr and ..rrS D. Gellatly, of Sommo parade, Wanganui, to Air Martin ixioly, of,the local Boat and Telegraph Department. Miss Bum gave an'afternoon tea on Monday , for Miss Bates in the lounge room of .Messrs George and Korfcley s. The table looked very • pretty, arranged with quantities ot violets. Miss Bates wore black and white crepe ‘ do chine. Among the guests were: Mrs J. Moore, Mrs Orton, Airs Beauchamp, Mrs Gibbons, Mrs Calmer, Mrs Vi yvern-Moore, and the Misses Bates. Hurpoi, Brettagli, Bela, Vance, Hogg, Brookfield, Powdl, Bay'ey (k), Baddely, and Nixon ((5). _ Miss Brookhoid gave a very enjoyable at lernoon tea, on W ednesday, the guest of honour being again Miss Bates. The table decorations were carried out m uhudes of primrose. Among the guests were: Mesdames, Orton. Calmer, and Beauchamp, and Misses L. Bay ley, Keostag, P. Nixon, Harden, Kocu. Armstrong, M Nixon, Dymock. Burr, and Harper. , , ~ Mr K. M. Einlayson (retured soldier) has been appointed secretary ti, the local Patriotic Society, Mr M. Hogan having resigned, Mr B. V. Kerby, who has been acting secretary for "the Wanganui Hospital Sind Charitable Aid Board, was appointed secretary on Monday last. PREHISTORIC MAN. Man is more than two million years old. That is the latest verdict of modern science, according to Dr, T. J. Jehu, the famous Scottish scientist. Dr -Jehu says, that man, Tt is thought, first began to walk about two million years ago, and it is now believed that he was descended from an animal (unnamed) who. lived in a tiW. The following are the characteristics of palaeolithic man according: to ‘Dr J ehu:—

Average height, sft Sin in the male, the female shorter. The. backbone was considerably shorter.

His attitude was stooping, as be could not walk quite erect, and the thigh bone was not nearly so straight as in modern man.

H© had an enormous head on a short, thick-set trunk. The head and neck were habitually bent forward, and the arms short compared with the legs. The knee was habitually bent. The hantjs were extremely largo and with-

out . the delicate play between the thumb and fingers so characteristic of modern man. . V

He did not sit: he squatted.• There was an enormous development of the face. The skull, was Hat and had an anthropoid aspect. Charred human ■ bones which Had been found in an ed ; that he hadv cannibalistic . habits, but it was to be hoped that it was not true. : '

Early palaeolithic, man was able to live in. the open, and there were no traces of any burial' rites. _ He may have thrown the . bones of his dead to the hyenas, a custom which. is practised : in the -present day. by African tribes. V .. * His descendants had to live principally in caves, prpbably owing, to adverse climaliO conditions, and there was evidence that they buried their ■ At the close of the palaeolithic tunes, this typo of man became extinct and was succeeded .by the modern species but of a different variety. ; Traces of early palaeolithic man have, been found in the regions of the Alamo and the Somme. While lecturing to the troops in Franco Dr Jehu met soldiers who found specimens •_ of the stone implements used bv their ancestors. ■ THE AMERICAN FLAT. : There were a great number of Scottish and English girls sailing to , tne States every weea with new,iy-a_cquiicd American husbands. Tney will find wnon they aetule down to housekeeping m their adopted country that American architectcts and builders are, tar mere considerate of housewives than.. Uron}tects and builders are hero. ; ‘‘Whether the war bride is, the wu*i of . an officer or a s ‘do ugh boy,’ sin* mu discover that a servant is almost ofct ot the question,” said an Englishwoman who has just returned from America. ‘‘She will find, too, that food is: as.costly as the moss profiteering prices here have made it, but "she will -level in the completeness of her little home, whether it is a house of a ilqt; and ehe. will wonder why the British woman hasjso, long endured the unfinished house ’offered to ■ “The war bride’s soldier husband will havoto pa£' a higher rent for his little flat than he would here. Kay ho decides ■ to go way up-town in. N ew. T ork, which' would be about like being in Hampstead. He still may have to pay a rent which will astonish her, but she .will be quite as astonished when she sees how much • less she and her husband will have to spend on. furniture and fittings. - : ■■ ■ “She will find that the windows, all have blinds, that the electric fight, fittings, are already installed, that it there is a grate in a room it has a fender. “Shewill find that no wardrobes have to be purchased, for every room has a good-sized cupboard, with a linen cupboard, in the hall, ana a food, cupboard with a refrigerator in the- kitchen. “She need not buy basins; and jugs, for .every room ■ has a basin and running water. Slie need not worry about hot water, ft# all that comes from ■downstairs, as there; is central heating and hot water all day and all night. “In the kitchen will be a; gas cooker or probably an electric cooker. There will be a dresser * and extra shelves built in, and fit least two stationary tables; while in the dining room': she ■ can be sure of a. sideboard ns one piece of furniture, for that is built in also, and very, likely a service table which, pulls down from the wall: “She need not have carpets unless she wishes, for she will find that the floors are all stained or are jyardwootl (according to the grade of flat), so she can use cheap rugs, which require only shaking and brushing. “She, will see at once that the American Housewife has- her washing done at home or does it herself, for there are tubs in the kitchen with covers that pull down over them so they can bo nsed as a table when not for laundry work. She will find that her neigh- ’ hour who • does her own laundry work has a ‘dolly I 'or a machine placed in the water with the soap and the clothes, and this docs all the hard' work of cleansing the clothes by merely turn-

ing its handle^—or the handle can h* turned by electricity. . . ‘ . “Tho war bride need - not be puzzled as to how she is to dry. clothes, because when she takes her flat she as-told what days she may have for drying, and she will be shown the‘flat, .broad, roof, high up above the d of the- roads, with the sun beating down upon it and the * breeze blowing over it, and here her clothes can be .bleached and 1 ' dried as if in the country. ■ 1 v “She will find that the ironing is not

such an arduous affair when it is an electric iron .she uses, and the ironing, table can be adjusted to exactly the height most convenient for her. “She‘will find; too; that- for cleaning, scrubbing, and dish-wgshing, electricity is a wonderfully efficient servant, and that-plugs and. cords- fit into the various unobtrusive holes in the wall just above, the . floor. : “In fact, the war bride who goes, to the States will find that being a housewife in a’servantless flat is.’not .drudgery; it is really interesting work.” —■ Mill. . LONDON’S FASHIONS. / What is London’s share in the actual creation of new dress-ideas?; How far does the influence, of London dresa artists extend ? These ■ questions are raised by the showswhich have just been held in / exclusive London . house* of the model gowns on which the season’s fashions will be based.

“Certainly,’.’ said the head of one house to a London paper, “there is more dress designing dune in London, to-day than over before. But London is not the- creative centre 1 • the models made here are based on those evolved in Paris. Our buyers have just returned from Paris with gowns,-but those are not suited to English figures. The Frenchwoman is petite, ■ plump; smallboned, while tho Englishwoman of the leisured class is so tall and slender that she could not: successfully wear the gown designed for her, Parisian prototype. Here the English designer has hie place (or hor place, for. some of tho most successful are women) in creating' new: models, based, in essentials of-style on the Paris importation* but adapted to English wearers. ‘ -In America, where a strong effort . has been made during the war to , establish home’fashions, the same thing has happened, and the world of drew still revolves round Paris.

“There is, however, less sale for the frocks actually made in Paris. It ie now more usual for a house' to buy fewer Paris gown* and to use those mainly as a guide to its patrons in deciding what is the mode of the moment, The price of the original models is possibly; £BO, £IOO, or £125. It depends; of .course, on the materials used. But a copy of a model, or » gown .-.based on one, would be dess costly. : \ ■■ “Paris guards her models even more closely than we do, for entrance-to the flue de la Paix houses is by introduction, often accompanied by a guarantee .-'that;a certain amount will be spent, and that the gowns are not to be copied.. • “In tailored suits, however, London leads the world’s fashions, and the Paris buyers come hero for our street costumes. and.sporting clothes. English mackintoshes, too 1 , are bought to serve as models in. Paris.’ ’ : So the true creative centre is still Paris. What can account for it but that-miracle of civilisation. French taste; or that, as wo have .a genius for bridge-building or civilisation, 'so the French have a genius for clothes, and, in addition, the necessary business instinct which, has guarded and fostered this lucrative trade.

Mrs T Dole;, whoso death was announced recently, was an old'resident Lower Riccarton, .ChristchurcV Tho deceased lady was born in 'Wellington, , and spent some of > her childhood in Lyttelton, where her fatlSar, the late Mr R. Taylor, erected some of th« ' earliest dwellings. Mr and Mrs Doig celebrated their golden, wedding Uat December, .having been married at .tho Heathcote Anglican s Church by- U>«, Rov. G. J. Cholmoadclcy. f *' 1 , tM . „.