Notes Women

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 5

Notes Women

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Laura Scales is stayinu with Mrs Seaton at Wadestown. Mr and Mrs Hugh Lawry, Christchurch, are spending a short holiday in Wellington. Miss Chapman, of Wellington,' has gone south. Mr and Mrs Frank Bell returned to the Dominion by the Tainui, which arrived- at Wellington on' Sunday, and reached Port Chalmers on Tuesday . The many friends of Dr. Gladys Macalister, will be interested to learn of her engagement to Dr. Walton Bremner, of Dunedin (says \ the “Otago Daily Times.”) The wedding is to take place before Christmas, and then three years will be spent in London before the return to New Zealand. Miss Ann White, of .Paekakanki, motored to Wanganui an Monday to stay with her aunt, Mrs S. Williams, of Durie Hill. Mrs P. N. Jeffries (Wellington) and formerly a resident of Greymoutli, is visiting Mrs J. D. Gillies of Reefton. She will return accompanied by Mrs Gillies to-morrow. Mrs Tartakover leaves to-morrow for a short visit to Sydney. Mrs W. Sadler, who was staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs Luce, Christchurch, during Carnival Week, has returned to Wellington. Mrs and Miss Raw, of Wellington, who wgre visiting Christchurch, have returned to the north. Mrs Gould, Nelson, is visiting Wellington. Mrs Foote, of Auckland, is visiting her mother, Mrs Cattell, in Wellington. Mrs M. E. Tripe, the well-known New Zealand artist, will reach Auckland on Friday by the Main Trunk. She will act as the Wellington judge in the beauty contest. Miss Eva Oliver,' Auckland, is the guest of her sister; Mrs G. Russell, Aurora Terrace, Wellington. Miss Welsh, of Adelaide, who has been visiting the thermal district, has left for Wellington and the South Island. The Mothers' Union at Lower Hutt held the final meeting for this year on Tuesday night, when there was a good attendance. 'The Rev. C. G. Woodward, vicar of Karori. gave an Rddress on the “Influence of the Mother in the Home,” which was greatly enjoyed. Miss Brookes sang two songs very charmingly, and supper served by the members brought the evening to a close. Lady Fergusson and her daughters are the guests of her niece. Mrs C. Birch, Murphy street. They will leave shortly to visit Messrs H. and G. Williams. Lady Fergusson's brothers, in the Wairarapa, and will then go to Palmerston North to stay with Mrs Arthur Russell. The annual display of the work of the Arts and Crafts Circle of the Pioneer Club will be held in the club rooms this afternoon, and members and friends are invited to attend. The members of this circle exhibited a good deal of work at-the Dunedin Exhibition last December,, and carried off a number of prizes. Specimens of the same work will be seen at the exhibition to-day. Miss Montgomery, Wellington, is visiting her sister. Mrs Williamson, at Feilding. The engagement is announced of Myfanwy, elder daughter of Dr and Mrs Lloyd Clay, Wellington, to Hutton Peacock, of Waipukurau. Mrs L. O. H. Tripp, president of the Wellington Committee of the Women’s National Reserve, was the guest of honour at a tea held in the Tudor room at Eirkcaldie and Stains yesterday afternoon. The occasion was arranged by the executive of the reserve to enable offioera to say goodbye to Mrs Tripp, prior to her departure for a visit to England. Mrs Porter, organising secretary of the reserve, with Mrs Corliss. Dominion president, and Mrs Tripp received the guests in the outer room, and Mrs Mathew Holmes, on behalf of the reserve, presented her with a basket filled with the loveliest roses. Tea was served at long tables, which were decorated with magnificent gladiolii, and after tea Mrs Tripp thanked those present for their good wishes as expressed in the lovely flowers given her. On the conclusion of tea, everyone said good-bye personally to the guest of honour. Mrs Tripp leaves very shortly for England. Those .present yesterday were the presidents of the various branches of the reserve, and the different committees, graves, residential nursery, girls’ committees, etc., numbering about fifty. A large number of visitors went out from town yesterday afternoon to attend the Hutt rose show, the fine day making it a most delightful outing. Miss Skerrett, who accompanied her brother, was the recipient of a bouquet in bronze tints. Members of the committee served tea in the large . new room behind the theatre, and there was a stall for cut flowers, and one for sweets which were well patronised. Among those present were Lady .Luke, Mrs D. A. Ewen, Dr and Mrs Moriee, and Mrs Seddon, Mrs and Miss Norwood, Rev. and Mrs Hansel], Mrs J. B. McEwan, Mrs J. Myers, Miss Isaacs, Mrs H. Fisher, Mrs Langdon, Miss Cooper, Mrs Jervis, Mrs C. M. Luke, Mrs Riley, Mr and Mrs Hislop, Mrs Digges-Smith, Mrs Tilly, Miss Stuart-Forbes. Miss S. Nathan, Mrs Begg, Mrs E. J. 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One of the oldest residents of the Gisborne district, Mrs Rebecca Jarrett, wife of Mr Charles Jarrett, died at her residence, Leamington, aged 73 years. Born at Bedford, Warwickshire, England, Mrs Jarrett came to New Zealand with her husband in the ship Avona in 1881, and had resided in Leamington since,. She became ill a few days ago and died from heart failurei She leaves a husband, five daughters and four sons. A pleasant little function took place at the Returned Soldiers’ Hostel on the. Terrace on Tuesday evening, when a presentation was made from tile board of control- and staff- to Mr Harrison, who'has been at the hostel for the uast year, and is leaving, as lie is taking up housekeeping with liis mother at the Hutt. Mr Harrison, during his stay at the hostel, has been very helpful to the matron and staff, undertaking all kinds of little duties to relieve them at all times, and to mark their appreciation he was presented with an eight-day clock. Mrs Moore, president of the board, made the presentation, and Mrs Boden, the secretary, spoke of Mr Harrison’s thoughtfulness, and thanked him on behalf of the staff. He would be much missed. The presentation was made after dinner, at which Miss MacGregor and Mrs Radclyffe, members of the board, were also present, and afterwards there was’a musical evening, finishing with dancing. Mr Keenan, Mr Stewart, and others sang, and a string band from the Tamaroa went up and played for the men, which was much appreciated. The hostel is very full just now, 37 being in residence, and the band, whose members are known to some of the men at the hostel, intend going there on Monday night again before sailing, when no doubt there will again be dancing. The dinner-jacket mode for women started vigorously and Uncompromisingly enough, but the feminine touch will out. At a London supper party the ladies sported this freak fashion bravely. But to her silk shirt, collar, and tie, jacket and waistcoat, one of the girls had super-imposed a pair of giant earrings. Gradually the tie will become more flowing and the collar less aggressive, and the jacket and waistcoat will merge into the evening frock again. A well-known and esteemed Eltham resident passed away on Sunday in ihe person of Mrs Sophia Lewis, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs W. J. Phillips, Eltham. The deceased lady, celebrated her 90th birthday m May last. Hers had been a long and interesting life. She was born at Martin, Kent, on May 10th, 1830. She was married to the Rev. Scott, and sailed on the ship Mystery from London to Lyttelton, with her husband and infant child. In 1859 they landed at the Canterbury port after a five months’ voyage. Mrs Phillips, her daughter, was one year obi on the day of their arrival. The family then went to Wellington, where Mr Scott had been appointed the first minister of the Congregational Church to come to the Colony. The church, however, had been established in New Zealand for about twenty years before that. Mr Scott took ill, and to obtain treatment for him the family returned to England, where Mr Scott died. Mrs Scott and Miss Scott came out to New Zealand again in the ship Zealandia, and arrived in Port Cooper (Lyttelton) on December 23rd, 1870. They again took up their residence in Wellington, where Mrs Scott was married to Mr Lewis. Mr Lewis died 21 years ago. On November'3oth, 1916, Mr and Mrs Phillips and Mrs Lewis went to Eltham. Besides Mrs Phillips there are five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. When Miss Victoria Drummond, the only woman ship’s engineer, , visited the Blue Funnel liner Anchises in the Canada. Dock, at Liverpool, she was warmly congratulated by other ships’ engineers on her success in obtaining her second engineer’s certificate. Miss Drummond had been away from the ship for some time studying for the examination. Presently she will sit for the first engineer’s certificate, and will join the Anchises on her next trip to continue the necessary sea experience before the final examination, after which she will remain on shore as a. consultant marine engineer. She is a granddaughter of the first Lord Amherst, of Hackney, and a goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Nine years ago she entered the Lilyhank engine works of the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Ltd.), of Dundee, under the same conditions as those for boy apprentices without any favours or privileges. After passing her works test as a journeyman engineer two years ago, she joined the Holt liner Anchises ns junior engineer, and she has made six trips on this steamer to Australia and the East. LADIES PREFER AMERICANS “Ladies prefer Americans,” and Ethel Mannin, • author of “Sounding Brass.” “We hear so much about the American woman and her loveliness and charm, it is time just tribute was paid to the American man and his gallantry, which is his charm. 1 have yet to meet the Englishman who could order flowers for his lady without being self-conscious about it. But the American is like the Latin in his complete lack of self-consciousness. When an American gentleman admires a lady lie sees to it that she is paid tribute florally as well as verbally, and he does it as effortlessly and as naturally as he takes his hat off in the elevator. “Another charming point about the Americans is their punctiliousness over the small courtesies of life. In addition to’ being the most hospitable people in the world, 1 hereby wish to place it on record that they are also the most polite. The American man is always the gentleman.’ “It was a French dressmaker who said that it takes an American woman to wear a Paris model to perfection. Perhaps it is on tlje same principle that the really well-dressed American man is the last word in masculine distinctiveness. True, lie will generally insist on wearing a straw hat with it, but that is to an American what the English accent is to an Englishman—he jnst can’t help it. “And then, the American male lias remarkably good teeth. He takes trouble with himself. He knows what an orange stick is for and the sweet uses of peroxide, and he doesn’t go about smelling of whisky or cigars, although he drinks as much whisky probably—inspito of prohibition—and certainly smokes mare cigars than the average Englishman. He is essentially a hygienic creature.” Wrinkles banished in one week. Coman method—not massage. Call for particulars, or send stamped and addressed envelope: Mrs Hullen. next to Post Office. Courtenav place, Wellington (telephone) 22-070). 41so at Auckland.-*