NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 5 June 1919, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN

The monthly meeting -of the; Women.* Anti-German '■ "League was held ,at ■ .-the secretary's ; residence yesterday : aiternoon. -Miss- Holmes (president), was in the'chair. Letters of interest' were read from Madame Boeuive and- Miss. Beatrice Day, 'and. kindly . remembrances; to all co-workers were received; 'ln . tb» matter- of, unnuturalised Germans, a strong opinion -was, expressed ..that -no preference 1 , should•:be ; -shown',, hut • that all should be' repatriated.-' A discussion took place on' the. reported marriages of New iiealaud soldiers, with . Gefman women at Cologne,' and doubt -was expressed whether any jotticerwould give his consent to, such marriages/, in the present - state of .feeling..-. It -was decided that the league's : banner should be earned ami u.stayed at the Feae» Gelebration'a;'.' ■ ■■' ■<" ■'<• ■■• ''-•'

"Mr: and -Mrs -D." W. 'Duthie.-gave, -a dance last night at their'house in- Hobson street.- ; .-■■,:•'...'' ■■:•; ■-.!."' "

. *Eome possesses; something exclusively •Australian, says; a writer to the -"Britr-h Australasian." .It js to- be: found at No. 10, Via'. Tdscana street'. running' beftveen'the B&rghe.se Giirdebs aiid Via Boncohipagni;?. ~ where< -Queen. .'Margjierita'a Macav is, - situated),; the new and; peilaaheiitiheadquarters. of-, the. Italiaia Ued Cross, , diidv'tonßistisvof.-;a\b<)bk-iii.'>'wliicU are. entered "tHe iiames of the ; fallen A'us' tral j'an Soldiers Ccbrnmenlbrated:- in : j hat society. The president of the Italian dkd ■.CroJv ; ,has.-itranged-.'!to>li* , re-!.thi*-. ; al»uin .kept; in A i?iace-of..honou? 'ip tlie'Sala.del Cohsiglioii with-'an,Bhglish-s'peaking usher in. charge'of, it,'soithati Australian visitors ;to. ttie-' Etertial;. City will- .'have .bu difliculty *in findihg it :'Miss- Ohjfsen- ho» I p«sented~:la'rge';- easts;'6f' .her beautiful Ahiacmeda;l : tot,hang ■6n v the; wall, behind the table and fihs has illustrated', the,poem; which form* t its -frohtUpiece. \ Tie ; bifidiag' 6f this "LiVre'jid''or''.,'ha9.-''bee,ir:i.e , iltrueted ;"to'.; a ! Florence." firth".WnoS6- ; 6p,eciality ; . : i» leather work,' and\ altogether; this ■■■litfl.6-,.:bit'; of 'Australia i£T-E«me'.is.;artisticaUy'worthy I of .'ltaly, ,the-.-h6nie' -6t.-art,*;aad-of . th« I noble cause which .'brought.-iit*:into, .b*' | ing'.- ■:.-i-.::::. • ■ ,-.■"■', '-■:■ y '.,;"": ' ';;,.'.

Miss Genevieve-Ward celebrated k« eighty-second I birthday, .recently, by appearing, iii .her ■ famous. Jrole of'.Queen iiargaict,. and 'also". Volumniai at-, the •itratf'ord-on-Avoh-fcShakespejtrean' festival, in the course of an interview with, a London paper, she said:—"lt is always lovely to be young, it is rarely • loveiy to be middle-aged, and it is -sometimes lovely to bo old—therefore, : .l remain '-young. How.do 1 : spend my time -in : retirement? \Vell. 1 still do much knitting for charities, and -sometimes I amuse myself- by reckoning how. much I have worked and how have trotted"about,tais planet. The special /trip,, round the world ;ran ; to |35,533 miles; added' to, thi» are the 16 crossings. of.the Atlantic, without iaying a word about the fours 5 of th« British Isles. -:; There you have a total of 85,000. miles, all on business., - In.drama alone I. havfe! played in -77.pieces;"gr*at and* small,- but mainly- largo. Shakespeare, of /. course, has. contributed the most. I cannot 4 count' the, thousands •oi lines -V. have , learned letter-perfect-frand nearly all dffit -literature.: ...Why, the whole of .'the-* acting, profession ought-to be Able to. talk*, like a book .in,the choicest of.• phrase, and to- Set :;aaC example even in- the way of •; saying -.'Pass, the salt." As for and I ;hay« sampled : themr'all, from .a Ccourtshipl," to a deed -of blood;.- I am. .still.optimistic regarding the 'future of the-British stage, despite, the. fact; that,.it -has' sunk to « very low ••'level., during iheV war.;; ";The managers.have;sacrificed ai*t—to a certain extent -they-, have.- Ifed-to-i-to/satisfy the craie ; for' com?dy : arid" farces.{■ ;;But th? dramA .'will-' change, Ahat. you| can -safely, say',l but in,- **hat r -precise '"direction-it is tort, eariy, fo{ predict.!.;,lAam:'ao'prophet, l ■but^,)t-*. ; demand kfdr. fection, action,----action;'"' esthink the.kinema: will-.eyer-seriously - encroach -upoii, tjie. legitimate theatre. V The theatre-may."be iikehed to a great paintihg by,*a great master; cdm'paredi.with-'tho mere; chrom.o of-the - •picture •-palace, and that, just the, -differehce" in the two'.elasses'of,' appeal.",'."., -v ..... '- * '•. ;