WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 11 October 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

•(Conducted by "Eileen"). | l A LETTER FKOM HAWERA \\ I J A social was given by Mrs. E. Young , on Wednesday evening in the .Methodist ( schoolroom. There were about SO guests . . present, each of whom took a handkerchief (not for a tangi), but to furnish a handkerchief stall at the approaching bazaar. Songs were contributed by the following: —Miss ■ Xeilson ("Down the Vale"), Miss Young (•■Arcadian Lullai by"), Mr. Morshead ("The Young Brigade"), duet, Miss Young and Miss Grace | ("Wandering Breezes"). iMr. Will Hutchins gave a lovely violin solo and Mr. Rushton a cornet solo. Miss B. Ogilvie has returned from Nelson. .Miss E. Ogilvie has gone to Auckland, where she is visiting friends. Miss Shirley has returned to Hawera after three months' absence. Miss Brett has' returned to Auckland. ! 'Mr. T. 11. i'lxley is recovering from his I recent accident. He was removed from !the private hospital on Thursday to his | hop;.' at J'nalui. Mr. Tied Purser is also | improving. A LETTER FROM MIDHIRST. Last Thursday evening a Cindarella evening was held as a wind-up to the children's dancing class. The Oddfellows' Hal! was prettily decorated with spring llowers, one end of the hall being tasteful! y arranged as a drawing room. The children were in fancy dress, and among those present were: Milly Shotter, Geisha girl: Lisa -Shotter, "Pansy"; Dot Instone, dancing girl; Ruby Anikrson, fairy; Edie Huse, sailor lass; Celia. Copestake, Ruth Youngman, May Youngman and fiwen Instone, white evening frocks; Hob Hogg, clown; Charlie Copestake, .sailor boy; John Copes ;ake, lieutenant. The ladies pin.sent were: .Mrs. Hogg, champagne voile; Mrs. Richmond, pale blue silk; Mrs. Mai!, prune velvet Empire gown; Mrs. AnJeiscri, black merv; Mrs. Huse, black glace, with jet trimmings; Mrs. Horn, white silk; Mrs. S'hotter, # eream frock; 'Mrs. Youngman, pale grey silk; Miss Hutcheson, very pretty white embroidered and tucked muslin frock; Miss Hall, ivhite Empire frock; Miss Hu.se, cream delaine; Miss Hart (Stratford), white silk; Miss Parkinson, lilac silk; Miss Steckle, pretty muslin frock; Miss Vickers, muslin frock and blue ribbons; Miss Rogers, white embroidered frock; Miss Wade, white silk. Among the gentlemen were: Messrs Hall, Cameron, Wilkie, King and 'Walsh (Stratford), Hogg, Richmond, O'Dea, Whittington, Huse (2), Andersen (3), McMahon, Ralph, Lilley and Barry. The supper which was provided by the ladies was "recherche." The floor and the music were all that could be desired. Mr. Fred Huse made a very efficient 'M.C. Mrs. Richmond returned from Marton last Saturday. Mrs. Mail has returned from a visit to Aicfcknd. Mrs. Hogg left for Wellington on Monday. ANGLO-NEW ZEALAND WEDDING. Miss Belle Spence, third daughter of the late iMr. James Spence, of "Lemanacre," Garmouith), Morayshire, N. 8., was married on August 17 to Mr. James Peddie Whitelaw, of the New Zealand Press Agency, London, youngest son of the late Mr. G. Whitelaw, of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mrs. Whitelaw, of "Rosenheim," Auckland. The wedding, which was celebrated at "Lemanacre," the home of the Spence family, was a very quiet one, only relatives being present. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Major Hugh Spence, wore ivory crepe-de-chine silk, with hand-embroider-ed net veil, and carried a bouquet of white heather. Her bridesmaids were her two sisters, Miss Polly and Miss Jean Spence, and Miss A. Whitelaw, the bridegroom's sister, who is now head of the famous Wycombe Abbey School for girls. The best man was Mr. George Spence, and the Rev. George Birnie, of Speymouth, tied the nuptial knot. The Spence I family are very popular in Garniouth—' a quaint old-world village at the mouth of the %ey—and the whole of the popu-1 lation turned out to give the happy couple a send-off at the railway station on their departure for Cornwall, where the honeymoon is being spent. Mr. and Mrs. | Whitelaw were the recipients of a very large number of wedding presents, and! numberless telegrams and cables of congratulations, including some from New Zealand and one from that world-forgot-ten paradise, Cocos Island. THE WOMEN OF SUBURBIA. THEIR VIEWS ON SIGHT-SEEING AND VALUE OF TTME. (By a New Zealand Woman). London, October 19. To me, as a New Zealander, there is ] no more amazing statement than that! oft-repeated announcement among the! women of Suburbia that they "have no I time" for the thousand and one plea--1 sures which are to be had at the expense ■ of a little exertion. It struck me, first, | with regard to outings. Those delightful 5 tramps, picnics, bicycle rides, etc., that form as important a part of a New Zealand woman's life as, generally, the choosing of her winter costame are considered absolute "waste of time" by the young maiden, and I've even heard picnics, while at the seaside or in the country, voted "beastly bores" by an ablebodied young Englishman in the utmost earnestness. Sport, generally speaking, is out of the question, beyond tennis and croquet, save for the fortunate few; horse-riding, golf, motoring—all are expensive enjoyments where there is a large family; though swimming and boating are easily indulged in by many who care for water sports. Sight-seeing the' woman of Suburbia will have none of, and by that somewhat clumsy word I don't mean a frenzied rush from one catalogued wonder to another because it might happen to be considered "the thing," but, rather, a knowledge of the many, many treasure-houses that exist

in London, and that are rightly considered to contain within their walls some of ' the most beautiful things in the world. - There stands in the very midst of Lou- • don, St. Paul's the Cathedral of London, an .edifice as rich in beauty, in historic glory, as full of reminders of what Englishmen have done in the world for England as any one building could contain, with tattered flags and banners telling in eloquent silence of heroic gallantry; statues and panels to keep in memory men who have helped to make the world what it is, exquisite loveliness of stained glass, and carving, mosaic and marble—that when all is silence within, and added beauty when the great organ is filling ■the air with harmony, -and finely-trained voices are singing glorious chants and anthems. There can'be no doubt, surely, that this mass of beaut;.', seen, heard and felt in the very di ptlis of one's soul, must have the effect of broadening and enriching those who avail themselves of it; of giving them., as Mr. A. B. Walkley said of Maeterlinck's "Treasure of the I Humble," a larger idea of beauty, and a better apprehension of its inward and ; spiritual grace. WONDERS GRATIS. Never do I <ro into the -British Museum, with its inexhaustible stoi-.s of beautiful exhibits, and with the world's lnstorv from earliest times to to-day, spread out in the most alluring fashion., before one's very eve?, oi' into a few of \, the many 'city churches, with their re- > cords of celebrated worshippers, and me- ' men-toes of them, or into the fine galr lerics that are si easily reached from - any part of London, the old streets teemj ing with history, or even shops, without I the thought- rushing on me with overi whelming conviction, "What a perfectly , educated nation the English should be!" ; Dops one love music? He-re it is always l to be had for the price of an extra pair i of gloves, if one is determined enough to , hear it. But there is this difference be- ; tween music and the other beauties of s which I have spoken: they are free. As i for the parks and the lesser historical ; buildings, those also are there for the ; asking. Yet never, and I've been in En<r- , land for sixteen months, have I been ail- . vised by any suburban dweller—and I've i lived all the time in a prosperous, beauti- ; fill suburb with people of angelic kind- - n-ess—to take advantage of the things 3 within my reach. When I've suggested , a visit to any of them everyone has been , "much too busy" to accompany me. > CITY VERSUS SUBURBS. There's a feeling abroad, too, with re- ! ga-rd to going up to London to church ' perhaps one Sunday morning in the year that it tends to show disloyalty to one's own church in the suburb, no matter how dreary and commonplace that is, so | that a deeper impression of the value of such a service as one finds in any of the , large cities than the emotion of the hour . is evidently non-existent. The expense, ' also, is an oft-quoted obstacle, and that, undoubtedly, must be a consideration, t but whether a self-denial that would provide the necessary shilling or eightecn- , pence would not be more than worth while one is inclined to doubt. To hark back to the invariable "no-t : ine" contention, one finds that here the conditions of life are very different from those in the colonies. Our day, for instance, begins much earlier, and while worx is not . arty more methodical than ou» English cousin's —for the Englishwoman's house is particularly well ordered, I think—it ' is more practical, and time is certainly valued to the full by the New Zealand J housewife. Then, also, in social life, one \ finds that the English hostess is inclined, in the middle and upper-middle classes, to put herself out much more for her 1 guests than we have any opportunity of ; doing, and hospitality is, generally speak- [ ing, on a more conventional basis than ■ with us. Very few suburban maidens, \ one finds, make their own clothes, and as a common thing two to fiev servants are '. kept, so that fundamental housework, ; no cooking, washing-up, or drudgery falls to a girl's share. Yet to the end of time ' there will be the same cry, without a l doubt, and the last person to be convinced of it will be the lady who doesn't un- ' derstand what it means to "make time."