FOR WOMEN FOLK.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1915, Page 6

FOR WOMEN FOLK.

t'BY EILEEN."

*' Eileen " will b« flad to receive items of interest andi wise to women for pabHcatiea er referemoe ia this oolumn.

PERSONAL. Miss E. Rennell ia the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. Teed. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith have returned to Marton. Mrs. Truby King (Stratford) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. G. ICyngdon. Misses Dow and Levy (Wellington) are visiting New Plymouth, Mrs. Hugh Atkinson and family and Miss Erica Fell (Wellington) are on a visit to New Plymouth. Mrs. Daniell (Waverley) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Simpson. Mrs. Nieholl (Aahburton) is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. C. Feokes. * # • Mrs. D'Arcy Robertson ia on a visit to Wellington. * * • Mrs. E. S. Griffiths left last week for her future home in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Emeny, who have been holiday-making in New Plvmouth, have returned to Masterton. * # • Mr. Mrs. and Miss Tonks (Hawera), who have been on a short visit to Nevf "Plymouth, have returned. Mrs. and Miss Fabian, who have been on an extended visit to Australia, will return to New Plymouth this morning. Mesdames Simmons and I. Johnston and Miss M. Brewer (Patea), who arrived in New Plymouth to attend the Christmas races, have returned. The engagement is announced of Mr. Gerald D. Dawson, second son of Mr. W. B. Dawson, of Kahui Road, Rahotu, late of Stafford, England, to Miss Alice Hughson, second daughter of Mr. T. P. Hughson, J.P., of Rahotu. THE RACES. Though the weather was somewhat uncertain, the Taranaki Jockey Club's Christmas meeting was an unqualified success, probably because the gathering was a patriotic one, as there were more present than usual. Visitors again predominated on the lawns. During both days excellent music was rendered by the Citizens' Band. As summer made its appearance very late this year, the recent rains have kept the lawns in vivid greenness, while the flower beds were one blaze of color. Amongst those present I noticed — Mrs. Moyes, smart dark grey costume, black hat. Mrs. Cleniow, royal blue costume, black hat with lancer plume. Mrs. Dell, navy coat and skirt, black and white hat. Mrs. Buxton, smart navy costume, black crepe de chine hat. Miss Healy (Stratford), navy costume, hat to correspond. Mrs. Brboknian, black costume, hat relieved with roses. Miss Putt, royal blue crepe de chine costume, black and white hat. Miss E. Johnstone, navy blue and white-striped costume, white hat re-, lieved with pale pink roses. Miss F. Putt, white crepe de chine, hat to correspond. Miss Tiplady, tussore costume, hat en suite. . Miss Hawke, khaki cloth coat and skirt, hat trimmed with pale pink roses and black velvet ribbon. Mrs. Newton King, pale grey silk, black and grey hat, feather stole. Mrs. 0. Samuel, navy coat and skirt, flat trimmed with lancer plume. * Mrs. Brewster, black moire silk costume, faced with saxe blue crepe de chine, black hat relieved with blue. iMrs. E. Blundell, grey and fawn check coat and skirt, black feathered hat. Mrs. Dodgshun, navy costume, black feathered toque. , -Mrs. Percy Webster, tussore costume, hat trimmed with white lancer plume. Mrs. Heard, shot silk taffeta, hat to correspond. 1 •: Mss. Hueh -Good (Stratford), navy I hat. n (Waverley) French:y ninon hat deftly pink roses. ?atea), grey coat and :spond. Stratford), navy cosimraed with rose-pink tea), black and"white aite. yly, amethyst-colored t with lancer plume, a, dove-grey crepe de ge grey hat with two ' r crep# de chine, hat e pink roses, late-grey costume, rerope silk, hat to corfawn costume, black I. pale grey costume, rise-colored roses, navy costume with black liat with pale saxe blue costume, led with pale blue. , powder-grey garberan hat lined with pale issed with pale pink ,ser, mole-colored cordskirt. black tulle hat nk silk. ng (Stratford), saxe en suite, liases J. and 0. Macster, Miss Thomson, ok, mole-volored coat and white hat. black cloth coat and 1 hat trimmed witi , grey costume, blaek i, navy crepe de chine, i pale pink roses. iVaverley), navy coswith peacock-blue and n (Hastings), white >lack hat lined witli

MiSB Webster, cream costume, scarlet hat. Mrs. Bridge (Stratford) pale grey costume, vieux rose hat. Mrs. F. Blundell, royal blue cloth coat and skirt, black hat with lancer plume and shaded roses. Mrs. Barnett-Honeyficld, saxe green costume, black hat relieved with pink roses. Mrs. Tonks (Ilawera), black crepe de chine, smart hat to correspond. Miss Goldwater, purple costume, hat to match. Mrs. Collier, navy and white striped costume, hat deftly trimmed with pink roses. On the second day the races were favored with lovely weather, so woman's bright apparel was ever to the fore. Amongst those present were— Mrs. Booth (Patea); Miss Booth, cream costume, black and white hat. • Miss Simpson, white flounced voile, white tagel hat trimmed with pale pink roses and black velvet streamers. Mrs. Boblnson (Stratford) bluey-grey costume, tuscan hat lightened with pale pink roses. Mrs. Wilfred Perry, pastel shade of blue crepe de chine, black tagel hat with blue ostrich feathers. Misses Coutts and Daplin. Miss Brewer (Patea), fawn costume, black feathered hat. Miss Young, white coat and skirt, hat to correspond. Mrs. Newton King, mole-colored silk, black hat with shaded lancer plume. Mrs. Lan Johnston, black and white muslin, hat en suite. Mrs. Penn, tussore silk, brown silk hat trimmed with shaded roses. Mrs. H. Collier, navy crepe de chine, hat to correspond. Mrs. F. Honan, white pique costume, 'black and white hat. Miss J. Glvnes (Auckland), white muslin frock, black feathered hat. Miss Bullard, tussore coat and skirt, floral hat. Miss K. Bennett, tussore costuma, black tulle nat with shaded rosea. Mrs. Truby King, floral voile costume, saxe blue hat trimmed with pink roses. Miss Cholwell, white silk coat and skirt, hat to corerspond. Miss F. O'Brien, tussore silk, black tagel hat. Mrs. Paget, blue crepe dc chine costume, hat. Mrs. Skelton. maize-colored crepe de chine, deftly trimmed with black, hat in brown shades to correspond. Mrs. Fletcher, saxe blue silk, black hat with lancer plume. Mrs. Dell, tussore silk costulne, smart black and white hat. ' Mrs. Orbell, petunia-colored crepe de chine, black and white hat. Miss Read, white costume, black hat. Mrs. Simmons (Patea), saxe blue costume, hat trimmed with shaded roses. Mrs, Maclean, white coat and skirt, saxe blue hat lightened with pale pink roses. Mrs. Hooper, amethyst-colored silk, black tagel hat with lancer plume. Miss Hunter, wTilte pique costume, black and white hat. Mrs. Buxton, white coat and skirt, black and white hat. Mrs. C. McAllum, navy crepe de chine, hat en suite. Mrs. Moyes, black and white costume, black and white nat. Mrs. Nichol (Ashburton). mole-color-ed costume, black hat to correspond. Miss Goldwater, embroidered crepe, saxe blue and black hat. Mrs. Marriott, pale grey crepe de chine, bla<ck tagel hat with lancer plume. Mrs. Jenkins, tussore coat and skirt, black hat trimmed with pale pink roses. Mrs. Pellew, black silk costume, rosepink feathered hat. Miss Oliver, fawn costume, tagel hat trimmed with Oriental ribbon. Miss Laing, garberdine eostume, black hat massed with roses. Mrs. Rollo, black and white voile, hat to correspond. Miss S. Tonks (Hawera), pale blue crepe de chine, white silk hat lightened with pale pink roses. Miss Westenra (Christchureh), black silk, hat en suite. Miss Fookes, navy costume, tuscan hat relieved with pink roses. Mrs. Flower, floral voile, black silk hat. Miss Brewster, cream garberdine costume, white tagel hat lined with black. Mrs. Nancarrow (Hawera), fawn costume, saxe blue tagel hat lined with black. Mrs. J. Glenn, marine-colored tuscan hat trimmed with bunches of tiny roses. Miss Blundell, cream corded costume, black and pale pink hat. Miss Kirkby, white pique eostume, hat to correspond. Mrs. R. McLean (Hawera), white garberdine costume, navy hat with pale pink roses. Mrs. Percy Webster; white lace frock, lightened with pale blue, black and white hat. Mrs. R. Cock, navy coat and skirt, black plumed hat. Mrs. Alec. Williams (Palmerston), saxe blue costume, black velvet hat deftly trimmed with red roses. 'Mrs. Kebbell, cream garberdine costume, faced with black silk, black French sailor crepe de chine hat. Mrs. E. Davies, fawn coat and skirt, hat lightly trimmed with pale pink ro°os. ORANGE BLOSSOMS. A double wedding of a very dainty but quiet kind took place last Monday (Boxing Day) in St. Mary's church. The first was Miss Joyce Mary Hempton, daughter of the last Mr. and Mrs. James Hempton, and granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hempton, to Mr. W. Armstrong, eldest son of the late Mr. W. H. Armstrong, Commissioner of Crown Lands, New Plymouth. The bride, who was given away by her uncle, Mr. W. Newman, wore a very pretty costume of white crepe de chine, and a dainty white hat relieved with pale blue, and she carried a charming shower bouquet of white sweet pea and heath. She was attended by her niece, Miss Rita Hempton, who wore a pretty white silk and lace frock, white tagel hat, trimmed with ribbon bows, and carried a dainty bouquet of pale pink and white sweet peas. Mr. E, Armstrong (brother of the bj-idegToom) acted as best man, and the y«s, E v «ns Officiated, while

Mr. R. N. Renaud presided at the organ. After the ceremony the guests drove to Miss Hempton's residence (bride's aunt), where the wedding breakfast was held. During the afternoon the happy couple left by motor for the south, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The bride's travelling dress was a tussore coat and skirt and navy blue silk hat, lightened with pale blue and white. The second wedding was the marriage of Miss Gwen Hill, only daughter of the •late Mr. E. H. Hill (H.M. Customs, Christchurch), to Mr. Noel C. Harding, third son of the late Mr. J. A. Harding, New Plymouth. The bride, who was given away by Mr. W. C. Weston, was robed in a charming costume of white crepe de chine, white crepe de chine hat, swathed with large white lancer plume. Her bouquet was of white sweet peas and maidenhair fern. Mr. Roy Hill ■(bride's brother), acted as best man. (The wedding breakfast was held at the bride's mother's residence, after which the happy couple left by motor for Wellington, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The bride's travelling dress was a very pretty mole-colored garberdine coat and skirt, navy blue fiat, trimmed with cherry-coloured roses and ribbons. LADY PAGET, AN ENGLISH HEROINE All national crises are responsible for the introduction of a few indispensable personalities, who rise superior to circumstances, and thus display their unassailable supremacy . The present war has been responsible for bringing quite a number of the world's "actors" prominently before the public eye, and in this manner has Lady Paget (whose safety after she had been lost sight of for some time has just been reported) endeared herself to the English and Serbian nations.

Lady Paget is the wife of Sir Richard Paget (his Majesty's Minister at Belgrade from 1910-13, and now a permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office), and the only daughter of Sir Arthur Paget, a prominent commander of a section of our huge army. Thus by heredity and environment Lady Paget is the possessor of an indomitable majtial spirit. Being permeated with this spirit of martialsm, she naturally sought on outlet for her euthusastic patriotism. She first came Into prominence during the Balkan wars, and was a veritable Florence Nightingale to 'the Serbians. She organised and controlled the hospitals for active service men, and was so successful that at the termination of hostilities she was publicly thanked by the Serbian Parliament and likewise received the highest national decoratio nfor women from the hands of King Peter. At the commencement of the present hostilities Lady Paget and her husband were enjoying a well-earned holiday hi California, but upon receipt of the startling intelligence that war had commenced they Instantly terminated their trip and willingly offered their services to the Empire. Lady Paget went to Serbia and assumed command of the hospital arrangements. Here she was very much handicapped, as her band of helpers were numericaly insufficient, and hospital buildings and necessities were of the barest type. Again typhus had attacked a great number of the troops, and it looked as though the majority of them would be annihilated. With indomitable will, she worked with untiring energy in having hospitals remodelled, fumigated and prepared for occupation by the stricken "laddies." Her constitution was not sufficient for the great strain, however, Mid she herself was stricken by the dread fever. For many days little hope was given of her recovery, and many were the prayers that were offered throughout Serbia for her restoration to health and strength; Slowly increased vitality returned, and Lady Paget's life was mercifully spared. She then went on a trip to England to report to the Serbian Relief Fund on the work that had been done and the vast amount yet remaining to be performed. Returning to Serbia, she once again resumed her duties for the complete extermination of typhoid. She found, moreover, that there was evidence of a cholera outbreak, and had to turn her attention as to the best method of coping with the dread pestilence. Is it any wonder chat the Serbians love and reverence Lady Paget? Her irresistible vivacity and lovable personality are enshrined in all their hearts, and she represents to them the embodiment of the nobility, grace and charm of our true English lady. presßentsTride PLUM'P AND PLEASING. At any tijne the announcement of an engagement from White House would create a ;tir in America, but coming at such a time as the present the lurid press of that country has swooped down on the item like a flock of hawks, and each paper tears its share into as many bits as possible. They stop at nothing in that country, and the resident must have found the fearsome publicity even harder to bear than the insulting messages from Potsdam he has been swallowing lately. Mr. Wilson, who was a widower, is just; on sixty, and his bride Is about forty years of age. As an instance of what one lias to go through in the United States if one be the President may be quoted this slab from the New York Herald:— "Radiant with sparkling eyes and happy smiles, President Wilson and his fiancee, Mrs. Norman Gait, ended their short stay in New York yesterday morning, going with other members of their party to Philadelphia to see the second of the world series baseball games. "Mrs. Gait left New York with an engagement ring on the third finger of her left hand. It was purchased by the President trom the jewellery firm of Dreicer and Co., and was slipped on her finger on Friday night, it is said, just before she went to dinner with Mr. Wilson at the aparemtn of Colonel E. M. House. It was chosen by her from a tray sent to her apartments at the St. Regis Hotel. "There vtas much curiosity regarding whether or not this ring had been placed on Mrs. Gait's finger. The women, who craned their necks when Mrs. Gait waved a left hand in response to their applause and cheers as they stood about the Pennsylvania station, saw with regret that the hand was gloved in soft grey. "The President left Colonel E. M. House's apartment, where he had spent the night, soon after half-past 9 o'clock, and in an automobile was driven to the St. Regis Hotel. As his automobile whirled westward to Fifth Avenue on its journey half a hundred chilled, cramped figures, which were those of detectives from Police Headquarters, sighed from the roofs of adjoining buildings and started for the earth beneath, slapping their hands and arms. They had stood guard all night. UNDER CAMERA FIRE. "Mr. Wilson went to Mrs. Gait's apartments, on the twelfth floor, and after a few minutes came down again with Mrs. Gait and her mother, Mrs. W. H. Boiling, t

escorting them to an automobile in waiting, in which they went for a drive. At the doorway of the hotel, with a 'bright sun shining down upon them, they halted at the behest of eager photographers.

"They were plainly happy and pleased wit)i al lthings, even including the entrance into their scheme of things of clamorous takers of pictures. Mrs. Gait's black hair, on which the sun played, was dressed low, and she wore a black toque hat as on the day before. She also wore the same tailored suit, and in her corsage were orchids. Her face showed gentle embarrassment as she stood beside Mr. Wilson, who also smiled a bit uncertainly into the clicking cameras and whirring cinematographs." A HOMEMAKER. Mrs. Gait is about five feet four inches tall and a trifle plump. Her hair, which is abundant, is very dark brown, seeming black at first glance, and wavy. She wears it simply. Her large, well-set eyes are hazel. Another of Mrs. Gait's most fascinating features is her mouth, with its red lips and white, even, perfect shaped teeth. It does not take a seer to tell by her mouth that she is simple, sympathetic and sincere. Her face is rounded well and seems to ligt all over when she smiles, which she seems to be doing almost all the time. Summed up, Mrs. Gait's expressions are almost beyond description. Mrs. Gait is a descendant in the eighth generation of the famous Indian princess, Pocahontas. Mrs. Gait, who before her marriage was iMss Edith ©oiling, is very proud of the distinguished parentage. Mrs. Gait is about 40 years of age, although she might easily be taken for a young lady of 30 or even less. She is a daughter of the late Judge William 11. Boiling, of Wyethville, Va., famous throughout the State as a lawyer. She is one of nine children. Mrs. Gait was married in 1896 to Norman Gait, a son of the prominent Gait family of Washington, for more than 100 years proprietors of a large jewellery store in Pennsylvania Avenue FASHION NOT* It is said that the German women have been forbidden practically to follow the present fashion and indulge in a wider silhouette, as it is considered unpatriotic to take more material for dresses, every available inch being required for soldiers. An Australian writer discourses in an amusing fashion on German styles, as follows: Berlin modes! Have you seen them? The English papers have given several—"Made in Germany" with a vengeance. But why they were not left to Punch I cannot imagine. It seems a sinful thing to rob a journal of that class of such excellent material. Berlin wants to show the world that it, too, can design dresses; also hats. It may 'be that the Kaiser has had a hand. Well, if the pictures before me represent the possible with that city, all I can say (s that I no longer wonder at the dreadful number of insolvencies recorded among dressmakers throughout Teutondom. They are simply awful, reminding one very forcibly of "King Lear." If you can recall your Shakespeare you will remember how the king criticised the garments of a certain person in the same play. It amounted to this: "Who's your tailor? Tell me that I may avoid him." No, Germany cannot design clothes, nor hats either. She has no more idea than the child unborn, and if I am permitted I should like to say that if she continues peace may result through a revolt of her women. Only Paris seems to be able to strike a new idea to rivet the world's admiration. Of course, both London and New York vary things, but all have to go to fashion's centre for the mode. Why it should be so I cannot say. An eminent Frenchwoman once wrote that it was in the blood. Generations of application, combined with temperament, had resulted in developing a talent which no one could share. Even the most extravagant things that come from Paris have something in them. You can find faults, discard this feature and that. Arid yet you have to come back for the dominating note.

Another writer describes some Parisian 'blouses, the color schemes of which are worth considering, as most of the materials are obtainable here. The first of all was a shirt in rather uncommon palest grey muslin of a fairly stout order, a pretty pale pearly grey, having a muslin collar of the latest cut, the right kind of long sleeve and cuff, nice little smoked pearl buttons, a certain amount of' fine tucking—an excellent washing shirt in every way. The second was also of the morning order. A neatly cut and finished little blouse in black and white delaine, with steel buttons and really delightful inlettings at wrist, shoulder and bust of another delaine printed blurredly in several bright, but dark, colors —purple, green, cardinal, burnt orange—and really very smart. A useful garment; it -would go with so many suits, and play its part with propriety on various occasions; and, moreover, its simplicity was half its charm; it was just a little mousseline delaine shirt, with steel button et c'est tout! The third was a blouse of crepe de chine, just one step removed from pronounced mannishness owing to its severity of line. There was not a pleat or tuck to be seen. The model fastened down the front with a single row of pearl Buttons, and there were mannish cuffs and a plain turndown collar of checked tub silk. The last two blouses were twins. "Frankly, mere twins," said I to my friend; "but if there had been another I should have had it myself," I added. They were respectively of black and corbeau chiffon, a plain veiling lined with a printed muslin of stone color imprimce, with quaint festoons of fruit and foliage in dull autumnal colors,edged with black, and looking as if worked on a sampler; the other grey muslin with bunches of nattier and purple roses treated in the same way, and finished with neat little collars of tucked string colored net. NOTES. A romantic wedding was solemnised in the Perth V.A.D. Hospital recently when Corporal James Hinehcliffe, Bth West Riding Regiment, was married to Miss Mary Alice Booth, Manchester. The bridegroom is suffering fro.m a shrapnel wound on the leg sustained at the Dardanelels, and the ceremony, which took, place in the presence of a large number of his wounded comrades, had perforce to be performed while lie lay in bed. Miss Booth wac given away by Miss Mary Wilkinson, the matron of the hospital, while Lance-Corporal Shaw, of the 16th Lancashire Fusiliers, whose arm was in a sling as a result of a compound fracture of the left arm, acted as groomsman. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. J .McGlashan Scott, St. John's Middle Parish Church, Perth, the bride having been residing with the reverend gentleman and his wife during the previous ten days. Thu3 a London corresponaent:— "me Hon. Cecil Campbell, second son of Lord Stratheden, is a very gneat matcli for Miss Josephine Williams, only daughter of Richard Henry Williams, of New

York. To all intents and purposes he is the heir,to his father, who si eighty-six years old. It is terribly sad about the Hon. Cecil's elder brother, for they don't know what lias become of him since the early part of last year, when he was reported by the War Office as missing. His father has suffered agonies about him, and now the poor old gentleman has ceased to enquire, and takes it for granted that his heir has died ft hero's death. The Strathedens have a great deal of property in Roxburgshire, where they are immensely popular. For a long time past/the Hon. John Campbell had been his (father's agent on the Hartrigge estates, and the tenants used to say there was no one like 'Mr. John.' He was married to a daughter of the first Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, who is one of the most tragic figures of all the sad ones in this terrible war.'' I can't think how they managed it, fmt those devoted sisters, the Duchess of Croy and Mrs. James Ha/.en Hyde, have been making a flying visit to london, afraid that they would be recognised (writes a lady from London-). Now, however, as they are both bac kin their respective lands, Germany and France, it's no harm to let the cat out of the bag. They were the Misses I.ieshman, of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. The duchess married the Duke of Croy when her father was the American Ambassador to Berlin, and she is now nursing wounded in the land of her adoption, while her sister, who, before her second marriage, was Countess Gonstant-Biron, is one of the leading women in the French Red Cross Society, and is a splendid worker. She is frightfully rich, for . her second husband, James Hazen Hyde, is a millionaire I don't know how many times over, and has a dream of a house outside Paris. The two sisters did enjoy themselves here. They stayed at an hotel of which I won't tell you the name, and they trotted about everywhere on their own, sight-seeing and going to the theatres. y Shampooing, Hairdressir , and Twisting; Electrolysis for the permanent removal of superfluous hair. Switches, Toupees, etc. Ladies' comhings made up 1 to any design. MRS. BEADLE, Egmont Toilet Parlors, Griffiths' Buildings, New Plymouth, near Carnegie Library.