WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1920, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

t, PERSONAL. The Hon. and Mrs. Oliver Samuel have returned from Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford, and Miss Eileen Clifford, of Wellington, were'visitors here this week. • * # # Miss Nora Dempsey, who has been holiday making here, has returned to Dunedin. * • « « • Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fraser return from a trip to .the South Island- on Monday. • # • • Mrs. E. C. Griffiths leaves early next week for Wellington, where she will join the Ruapehu for England. • * * • Mrs. H. Collier is visiting Wanganui. • • • • Mrs. Ellerm is on a visit to Hawera. • • • • ■ Visitors at "Chatsworth" this week include:—Mrs. McCorniack, Miss Poulter (Wellington), Mrs. Anderson (Auckland), Mrs. Taylor, Miss Smith (Wanganui). • • • • Mrs M. Fraser leaves on Tuesday for a trip to Auckland. • « » • Miss' B. Hirst, who has heen staying with Mrs. Jack Glenn, Mangaweka, is now in Auckland, and will be the guest of Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Cyril Williams. • • • ♦ Miss Deveriish left this week for Bulls, where she will spend a few days before proceeding to Dunedin. • .» * • Mr. and Mrs. Carey Hill (Christchurch), who have been the guests of Mrs. W. H. Skinner, are now staying at the Mountain House. • • • • • Mrs. K. and Mrs. Jack Mowat, who have been staying at Mokau, spent a few days here this week on their way back to Blenheim. • • • p Mrs. Matthews and Mrs. Mortimer Jones leave next week for Wellington to meet Captain and Mrs. Harry Davies, who are arriving by the Athenic. • * • « Mrs. Daniels, of Waverley, is the guest of Mrs. R. Reid. « » • • Mrs. and Miss Farley, who have been the guests of Mrs. J. S. Medley, have returned to Hastings. • » • • Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Colson are spending a month's holiday touring the South Island. , * • ♦ » Miss Alice Brewster is spending a few days with Mrs. R. McLean, Hawera, and will; motor to the Wanganui races today. • * • • Visitors at the Mountain House this week include:—Mr. and Mrs. Gruar (Wellington), Miss Gruar (Auckland;, Mr. and Mrs. Carey Hili (Christchurch), Mrs. and Miss Short (New Plymouth), Mr. and Mrs. Winson (Wellington), Mr. •Johnson (New Plymouth), Mr. Mackay (Auckland). ••• • • Mrs. L. C. Sladden gave a delightful afternoon tea party on Thursday for Mrs. E. C. Griffiths, who leaves shortly for England. The guests brought their thimbles and needles, and offered their services to Mrs Griffiths. The guessing competition was won by Miss McKellar, and although the weather was so wet, a very jolly time was spent.

LIBRARY DAL Library Day will be held next Saturday, March 6th, and arrangements are well in hand. The Mayoress, Mrs. James Clarke, is conducting a mart, and appeals to the country folk as well as the townspeople for their support in supplying the necessary articles for sale. The idea is to improve the Library, and particularly to make a free magazine room, a portion of which will be devoted to special magazines for ladies.

WEDDINGS. CHADWICK-JENKINSOff. j A very pretty wedding took place at St. Mary's Church on Tuesday, February 10th, when Miss Madge Jenkinson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jenkinson, of New Plymouth, was married to Mr. Hector G. Chadwick, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Chadwick, of Hawera. Archdeacon Evans performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked very charming in a frock of ivory charmeuse with overdress of georgette beautifully embroidered with bunches of grapes. Her veil of soft tulle edged-with narrow satin ribbon was fastened to the head with clusters of orange blossoms, and sho carried a shower bouquet of white roses and maiden-hair ferns. Miss Claribel Pellew, cousin of the bride, acted as bridesmaid, and wore a. pretty frock of blue crepe-de-chine and georgette, and a leghorn hat trimmed with butterflies and ribbons to match. Miss Florence Jenkinson, sister of the bride, and Miss Dorothy Wann, niece of the bridegroom, were the flower girls, and wore frocks of pink crepe-de-chine with black sashes and hats, and carried bouquets of pink sweet-peas and maiden-hair ferns. Mr. Harry Chadwick, brother of the bridge - groom, fulfilled the duties of best man. After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkinson entertained the numerous relatives and friends of the bride and bridegroom at the Kawaroa Park pavilion. • r HICKEY-LAWSOK. A pretty wedding took place last week at St. Benedict's Cliurch (Auckland), when Miss Josephine May Lawson, youngest daughter of Mrs. J. Lawson, of Kingsland Terrace, and the late Mr. J. T. Lawson, of the N.Z. Railways, was married to Mr. L. V. Hickey, returned soldier son of Mr. J. C. Hickey, of Opunake. Tht bride was given away by her brother, Mr. J. S. Lawson, and wore a dress of white ninon trimmed with wide guipure lace over satin, and the usual wreath and veil. She carried a shower bouquet of white flowers, and was attended by Miss A. Lawson as bridesmaid, who wore a dress of champagne crepe de chine with black tulle hat, and carried a bouquet of heliotrope and white flowers. A little Dorothy Wiseman, also attended, wearing an embroidered frock of fugi #ttk, with white mob cap and fink str«am«r», Mr. J. S, Gail s«t«d as

best man. A reception was held by the bride's mother, and was attended by about forty guests. .. STOCKER—THOMSON. The wedding took place in St. Mary's Church, Merivale (Christchurch), on Wednesday morning of Mr. Archibald Stocker, son of the \"en. Archdeacon Stoeker, to Miss Ina Thomson, of Invercargill. MEANING OF WILLARD DAY. Who is Frances Willard? The question has often been asked since the Women's Christian Temperance Union set aside a day in memory of her. The American people have affectionately spoken of her as their uncrowned queen. She 'was blessed with parents who instilled into the minds of their children the highest ideals of life. Endowed with a grand intellect, she was given 'a splendid education. When a testing time came for her to make a choice between a highly lucrative position in a women's college and a poorly paid one as the leader of the W.C.T.U., she took the latter. Her great intellectual powers influenced such as Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Hunt never to cease their efforts until scientific temperance was placed on the school syllabus of the United States, the primary cause of thenbeing "dry" to-day. Lady Henry Somerset, the founder of Duxhurst Home for Inebriate Women, got her inspiration from her friend, Miss Willard, for the work. The statue of Frances Willard is the only one of a woman in the Capitol, Washington, placed there in recognition of her services as a citizen. She died in 1897.

I . ■ NOTES. Fifteen million pairs of "silk" stockings, the product of American forests, were sent out of the United States last vear to compete with the product of the Oriental silk worm, says a Centra! News New York message. The process by I which the forests are turned' into silkstockings is a comparatively simple one. | Wood pulp is treated with caustic soda to form a sodium cellulose, and then dissolved in carbon disulphide. The artificial product lias a greater brilliancy [ than natural silk, but is somewhat harsher to the touch. It is now used, not only for hosiery, but for dress trimI roings, upholsteries and rugs, for insulating electric wire, and making durable mantles for incandescent lights. The artificial silks exported by the States go to all parts of the worlld, and actually invade the counties in which natural silk is produced, including China, Japan, and Italy, the chief silk producing countries of the worldWe shall probably have something to interest us in that French Cardinal's denunciation of extreme styles of dress, says "Marguerite." He spoke of the low cut neck and the not low enough cut skirt, and refused to marry a bride who had offended him in these particulars. Now. it appears, be has printed a proclamation—low cut neck and not low enough cut skirt, and no admission to the church. So far everything is quits sedate, but hear the fair one who objects to such interferences: "In these circumstances we shall have to evolve a new department, dress styles for church, morning, and evening." The idea only needs to ..ateh on in a country like France for everyone to go wild about it And it is quite possible that tlioy ft'ili I venture to picture the advertisements in advance—Morning frocks and afternoon gowns a' specialty. Evening frocks and dinner gowns a double specialty. It is by the decree of niogress that the departments have been evolved, anyway. t)i<l they wear morning and afternoon styles in ancient Greece? Boudoir and evening modes in classic Rome? We have indeed advanced far if we desire to say that we are in the forefront—morning dress for indoors, and then again for outside; afternon dress generally for outside: and evening for dinner, the theatre, and so forth. We have city styles, country styles, travelling styles, reclining styles, and knockabout style'sAnd we have sports styles, and seaside styles, not forgetting bathing. If France is going to evolve a church style it will have at least this result—it will test the piety of many of those who would wear dresses at any time calling for censure. Miss Kathleen Curtis, MA (NX), M.Se. (Lond.), who has been appointed mycologist, or plant patholigist to the Cathron Institute, Nelson, bad a distinguished career, and the trusts of the institute arc stated to have been much pleased at being able to score her services. Miss Curtis, who is a New Zealander, took first-class honor? in botany in 1915, was exhibition sciinoe scholar in botany, took the diploma of. the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and was aw.rMed the Huxley Memorial gold medal for research. She has published a work on the wart disease in potatoes, an! has a long paper on the subject in the "Annals of Botany" for January. Mis'; Curtis was returning to London, wix-re work was offered her by the British Bqard o"f Agriculture, who are an!.\or.s to carry on further research into the diseases of potatoes.

Effective dresses for 'bridesmaids mentioned in the Queen were of pule maize charmeuse, the skirts draped at thesides; straight corsages to the hips were finished on one side with large clusters; of dark clove carnations, while the long flowing sleeves were softened with inner draperies of chiffon the same shade. The head dress consisted of long tulle veils, maize colored, and fastened round the forehead witli ft single row of carnation petals, and the girls carried tall gold shepherds' crooks, mounted with a large bunch of clove carnations tied with gold ribbon streamers. The bride, on this occasion, was in a classical gown of rich silver brocade, the hip-sash drapery terminating with pearl and silver tassels, while her veil was extended to form the train, and was fastened with a bandeau of orange blossoms. Her bouquet was of pale yellow tea roses. Other charming I>ride»maids' frocks described are of powder-blue georgette, with sashes, and shoes of silver, while the wide hats were of silver with soft black [velvet crowns. The bouquets carried were of pink carnations. Some little bridesmaids wore pretty-frilled frocks }of crepe-de-chine, with role-colored ribIbon felts and ends, and they also had wreaths of tiny pink roses, white socks and sandalled shoes, a page in attendance being in a pale 'blue Knte Greenaway costume. The little posies carried were of pink heather.