WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1918, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Austin Bewley, who Ims been on a .visit to Auckland, has returned. * » * » Miss D- Bedford has returned after spending her holidays iu.llotorua und Auckland. Mrs. Hugh Baily and Miss S. Baily are on a visit to Wellington Mrs. McNaugliton Christie, who' has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. fi. Bayley, has returned to Wellington. Mrs. Francis Carthew (Auckland) Is v tsiting her motliei, Mrs. J. L. Perry, Miss- E. Russell, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs L. Kirkby, has returned to Wellington. *** - • Miss K. i'amerton, who has been visiting Cardiff and lnglewood, has returned." • * * * • Mrs, R. George, who ha? been visiting Auckland, where she was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Devore, Parnell, has returned. • « • • • Miss F. Bedford is on a visit to Wellington. # # * » * Miss Axford, who has been the gueat of Mrs. R. J. Matthews, has returned to Auckland. * « # • Miss C. Hamerton lias returned to lnglewood. Miss L. Whitcombe leaves early next week ior Nelson. Miss Bertha Matthews is the guest of Mrs. Hamerton, lnglewood. « * # • Mr?. E Griffiths. who has been on ft visit to Hamilton and Auckland, has returned. „ Miss G. Laing has £one on a visit to Wellington. « • • « Mrs. and Miss Joan Arden are on a visit to Cliristchurch, Mrs. Wevergang is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Bryant, Turakina. • « • # Mrs. Somerset-Smith (Napier) is visitin'.' her father, Colonel Messenger. • * • • Mis* >Jace, who has been on a lengthy visit to Auckland, has returned to New Plvmoulh. » • • • Miss Price and Miss Sheen (Auckland) are at present in New Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs Jackson (Wanganui) are spending a short holiday here. Mrs. Hummer is visiting New Plymouth. **• - * Other visitors from Wellington are Miss Friend, Mr. and Mrs. Madge, Misses .Morrison, and Litchfield. * » • Mrs and Miss Corlinn have returned to Wellington. * * # • "Misses Thomson (Masterton) are visit.ll2 New Plvmouth. ® " . • • Miss A. Pope is the guest of Mrs J. E. Wilson. . „ • * • # Miss H. Rawson has returned from the Uuwson Falls House. « » « » Miss O ;ford has returned to Auckland. » ♦ » Mrs. and Miss Gibson, Miss Bundle and Miss Andrews (Wanganuii, are spending a short holiday in New Plymouth. * * * * Mrs. Hoilaud (Auckland) is a visitor here. • * • • Mrs. Wilson (Hastings) is staying in New Plymouth. Visitors 4t Cliatsworth House include Mrs. Hay ward 1 (Wellington), Miss M'Lean, Miss Gear (Marton), Mr. and Miss Thompson (Feilding), Miss Murray and Miss Johnstone (Auckland). Amongst the visitors at Niger House this week are: Mr. Kirk (Otaki), Mr, Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Keates, Mrs. Wood and daughter, Mr Constance, Mrs Drake (Auckland), Miss Roper, Misses Douglas (?) (Hamilton), Miss Murphy (Hawern), Mrs. and Miss Birling and Master Birring (Wanganui), Mrs. Dickens (Wanganui) * * # • The visitors staying tor this week at the Mountain House include: Mrs. and Miss Short (Hastings). Miss Redard (Wellington). Mr. and Mrs. Collip (New Plymouth), Mrs. and Miss Sinclair (Wellington), Miss Glaisby (Auckland), Mr. Keesing (Wanganui), Mrs. and Misses and Master Bennett (New Plymouth), Miss Dauby (Auckland), Miss Rothweli .Hamilton), Captain Johnston f (Palmer - ston North), Mrs. Douglas (Hamilton).

DRESSED LIKE DUCHESSES WORK GIRLS OF LONDON DESCRIBED AS "KNOCK OUTS." , London, -Oct. <i. People who visit offices speak in astonishment of the "boudoii ladies" who receive them. To-day two girls came out of an office in the city and walked along without hats to another office. They looked as if they were coming out of a theatre. One wore a big coat with a fill' collar over her transparent blouse, and the other a pale silk coat. Another ollice girl had a brown dress embroidered in gold, with transparent chiffon sleeves. Many employers do not care to show their disapproval of this flippant dress; others have forbidden blouses with necks below a certain length, and a third class have taken refuge in overalls. Several banks have instituted a uniform for their women clerks, or overalls. One insists upon all the girls" wearing navy blue. Overalls arc worn by most society women in their war work The business girl's dress is defended bv the secretary of the Women Clerks and Secretaries' Association. She said: ; 'I do not see why nirls should be condemned to wear navy blue, when possibly some of them look their worst in that color and their best in brown." Said a city man: "It is no,' merely the dress, but tlie style altogether, that the new girls has introduced into Government departments and city offices which makes the change so startling." SPORTS COATS IN ALL SHADES'. The pneumonia blouse is everywhere—made of eropc de ohint-, as a jule. .flieso blouses cost anything, say, between 80s and 80s. Then there are velor hats and sports eoai» of every color, all "running into mon'-y," though new. with iiie .Billing ef autumn, we are biddea t« look out for the fur eoat. The culinary business man who ealls »Ltii« i ta#Yanua«rt

or at some office in the city or the West End to-day. has a shock when there comes suddenly before liini a girl m a frock that would look more in place in the stalls, if not, indeed, on the stages of a West End theatre. But in fairness let it be said that, unless he is ot the .itraigiitest :.ed, the shoc-k is not unpleasant. The girl in the ninon blouse ngiiten.: U:e cure ct Dull-

ness. GARDEN P,my .STYLES. "* To see the uank girls. going lioi::e you would think the\' wck 1 on their way to a garden party. "I went into the city the other -.lay.'' said a business woman, "thinking I .vas Jairly smartly dressed.— blue serge skirt and crepe tie chine blouse —but when I reached tlie Mansion House just as the bank girls were turning out I wanted to lind a raid shelter Talk of feeling dowdy! "it isn't tii» -word for it!" In the banks area in the city one learns that the French girls ivho look after the French correspondence are what the mere wan calls "a fair knock out" in stylishness. One man told of a woman who lives 40 miles away telling her friend in the train that her daughter used to do V.A.D. work, but had given it up to take .i Government post at 35s a week and overtime. "We are giving up the maid," she said, "if my daughter would do thr housework; but she preferred to take the office work." - And father pays for the season ticket. Another girl of 10, inexperienced, was getting 35s a bonus. "What are two or three guineas for a sports coat to these girls?" was the comment. Everywhere there is a riot of silk and lace and hand embroidery, he-ribboned underwear in windows and show-cases. Tt is beautiful to look at, luxurious to wear, and most expensive to buy. "Some customers will buy anything vou set before them, as long as It is extravagant," said the manageress of a West End shop. "To these 1 have no difficulty in selling a shell-pink ninon nightdress, with its short sleeves and low neck edged with fitch, for 59s (id. or ninon and lave and riblwn underwear at three, four, and five guineas apiece. Some of these articles will not stand cleaning, to say nothing of washing. "The leally nice silk nightdresses and ur.der-garments are made of heavy washing crepe de chine, hemstitched and embroidered by hand, and generally pale pink and tied with varied-colored ribbons. These wash best at home, and many women send no personal clothing to the laundries at all now. From '29s fid to five guineas are the prices of erene de chine 'nighties.' Some women who go into mourning are very particular and for them we have pale grey silk wear." Parents buy silk underclothing for their daughters to take to school. What a school uniform prevents a doting mother from spending on her daughter's frocks she now spends on underwear. A girl of 14 or 15 will complain that her cabric clothes are "a sight" when she changes her gymnasium dress in the presence of silk-garbed companions. The management, of one public school for girls had to forbid such frivolous garments last term after the arrival <rf half a dozen verv elaborate nightdresses as a birthday present from a parent to his 15-year-old daughter.