WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1920, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

PERSONALS. Mrs. Sidney Allen has returned from a short visit to Auckland. t • • • Miss Muriel Turton is the guest of Miss Bead. Mrs. Wyborn, who has been spending a few days in New Plymouth, lias returned to Hamilton. Miss Hensplon and Mrs. Newman have returned from the Mountain House. » * • • •Mrs. J. W. Wilson, who has been visiting her relations in New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland. » # * » Mrs. Walter Weston is spending a holiday at Wairaki and Rotorua. * • * * Mrs. W. Douglas, who has been on a short visit to Auckland, returns tonight. • • • •

Miss D. Jordan leaves to-night for a visit to Auckland- "£* * * Miss B. Jlirst returns on Tuesday from a holiday in Auckland. ♦ * » • Mrs. Dunean ha 3 returned to Awakino. t*» • • Mrs. T. C. List returned from a trip to Wellington on Saturday eveningMiss Kirstie Monteath has returned to Dunedin. • » » • Mrs. Stanley Smith has returned from Nelson.

Mrs. and Miss Read (Wajigamii) and Miss Cameron (Tahurangi) are staying at "Chatsworth." Miss Syrae and Miss St. John Smith (England) *re visiting New Plymouth, and have been spending a day or two at the Mountain House. * * * • Miss Margaret Corkill, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Corkill, of NewPlymouth, lias become engaged to Mr. Oscar Empson, Nelson. * * * * Mrs. W. H. Skinner leaves for Dunedin on Monday. - * • • Miss Inez Kirkby leaves to-night for a holiday in Auckland. •» • » • Last night Miss F. Wood and Miss Tidy gave a most enjoyable "spinster" bridge party in honor of Miss Katli Hamerton. * • • • Miss M. Govett,,who has been the guest of Mrs. F. G- Evans, left this week for Wanganui. » * • • Mrs. Carey Hill, who has been the guest of Mrs. W. H. Skinner, has returned to Christehurch. * » • • Miss E. Whitcomhe is spending a holidav in Wellington and Cambridge. " * • .» • Mr 1 !. Standish, who has been spending some months in the South Island, returns on Monday. Mrs. F. S. Johns is visiting Dunedin. The engagement is announced of Miss Myrtle May Casey of Auckland, to MrArthur Cleland, Kaponga, Taranaki. * • » * Mrs. de la Mare (Auckland) is at present the guest of Mrs. Woodwood, Haivera, where she will remain for another month. ». • * •

Mrs. Sydney Burgess leaves for Wellington to-day to meet her mother, who is arriving from Melbourne nevt week. • « • * Mrs. Kirkby gave a most enjoyable impromptu dance last evening at, the Kia Ora Rooms for Mr. Wynne Kirkby, her eldest son, who has lately returned from England. The night was an ideal one, and the roof garden was much appreciated during the danees. The floor was perfeet. and the music excellent, being supplied by Mr. Boulton. Mibs Vera Brooks returned by the mail train last night, after visiting Nelson, where she was thV> guest of Mr and Mrs C. Craig, late of New Plymouth. • # * * Miss at Thurston, C.8.E., R.R.C., has taken up her duties as matron at the King George Hospital, Rotorua. Miss Thurston was formerly matron of the Walton -on-Thames Hospital in England, and afterwards matron-in-chief of the N.Z.E.F. in England. Charge-Sister L. E. Brandon, who has been for some time in charge of the massage branch of the King George Hospital at Rotorua, has been transferred to Wellington, and will be succeeded by Sister E. J. Harris. • * » »

Mrs. Alec. MacDiarmid entertained a number of her friends at bridge on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The prize winners were--on Monday, Mrs- Simpson and Mrs. Hutchen, and on Tuesday Mrs. Percy Webster and Mrs. W. R. Wade.

Visitors at Eahui this week include: Miss Lochran and Miss Vesper (Wellington), Misses Smith (Tauinarunui), Mrs. Dunbar (Auckland), Miss Hayward (Inglewood), Mrs. and Miss Sutherland (Wanganui), Mrs. and Miss Malone (Hawera), Mrs. Hacking (Palmerston North), Mrs. Welton (Hunterville).

Visitors at Mountain House this week include: Mrs. Sim (Wanganui), Mrs. Ballingall (Wanganui), Mrs- Latrone (Wellington), Mrs. Kirk (Manaia), Mr. and Mrs. Haires (Hamilton), Mr. Eraser and Rev. Blundell (New Plymouth).

News has come from England of the marriage of Major Wilfred Findlay to Miss Helen Blagden Rich, daughter of Mrs. Stratton, New tYork. Major Findlay is the eldest son of Sir John and I/ady Findlay. and his home was in Wellington until a feiv years ago.

Last TV.'.irsiify evening Miss Florence Witifield gave a jolly party at her home at Ngamotu, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Simpson. Various games were played. Miss Elsie Greatbateh and Mr. Wynyard won the guessing competition. Those present were:—Mesdames Barthorpe, Kirkhy, Hunter, T. .Simpson, E. Shaw. E. King. Misses I>. Simpson, E. Grcathatch, Wliitton (2), fireig; Messrs Kirkby (2), Shaw, King, Kyngdon, Wynyard, Barthorpe. # * * •'

A train who had known these two for years, writes to the Mur.ajftjtu Times:—Yesterday at a station £* this district came a tired, poorly l'ttln mother, and with tears oj?'js er Pathetic old cheeks, hade good-b«Ti to an impatient only child of 18, elaborate dress, powder, paint, atiti jeweller}', merely accentuated

her likeness to the brute who had deserted the mother within a year of the child's birth. When the train was moving the girl paid audibly to the passengers: "That poor old soul has been with our family for years!"

WEDDING. A pretty wedding took place at St. Mary's Church, on Wednesday, 2ntli February, the contracting parties hein» Miss Lilian Lavinia Modway, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.' Medwav Westown. and Mr- Henrv Handle/ Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs.' J. Brown, Fange Farm, Mangorei. The Rev. F.' G. Harvie officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a gown of ivory mousseline and georgette, embroidered in ivory and finished with tiny pearls. She also wore the usual bridal veil and orange blossoms, and carried a' shower boiVjuot nf white asters, roses, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids (Miss Nellie Mcdway and Miss Joy Brown) wore dainty frocks of white, voile and biscuit-colored hats. Mr. Doug. Simpson acted as befit man, and Mr. Jack Mcdway groomsman. After the ceremony a reception wns held, and later the happy couple left by motor for Hawera, on route for Turua, their future home, the bride travelling in a navy blue and fawn costume and black- hot relieved with emerald green. The bridal pair were the i Ireoipien'ts of many handsome gifts, I which showed the high esteem in which they were both held.

SYDNEY WOMEN SMOKERS, THE VOGUE OF THE CIGARETTE. The Sydney man who smokes hates to think of what- has happened to to-b-eco prices in the last three or four years; a 25 per cent, increase does not cover the average rise by any means. The difference is found, as in liquor bars, in the containers, as well as in price. There are now six or eight cigarettes in the packet in which formerly there were ten or twelve —and so on.

But the Sydney man has another burden. His wife, or his daughter, or his lady friend—has chosen these inauspicious years to devote herssjf to the cigarette habit. "The woman about town in Sydney now has her cigarette," says a recent writer. "Some smoke heavily; others lightly; but nearly all smoke. Wire or widow or maid or matron, they all more or less indulge in the weed. ' The war has encouraged them tremendously. Those who did not smoke before the war commenced by buying cigarettes for tile soldiers and finished by buying them for themselves. Sydney tobacconists state that since 1914 the sale of cigarettes to women has quadrupled, and since the war has finished it showed signs of increasing rather than diminishing. This is one reason—the increased demandwhy men have now to pay more for their tobacco."

Less than half-a-dozen years ago, one seldom saw women smoking, even in this careless city. To-day, the only places where women do not "light up" along with their men friends are public places, like the streets, the trains or tlie trams. Everywhere else—in tea rooms, restaurants, hotel lounges, and in their own homes—Madame and Mademoiselle join Monsieur in his post-prandial weed. It may he only a question of a little time before there will he smoking, open and unashamed, by the women in public places.

IF YOT.TK SHOES WANT MENDING. And here's a superstition you heard in your childhood, but have, maybe, forgotten. When you take your shoes to ho mended, remember that:— "Wear on the heel, spend a good_ deal; Wear op the toe, spend as yon go; Wear on the side, you'll be a rich man's bride" The rhyme doesn't tell you what will happen if you wear them all over! BABY WITHOUT A BIRTHDAY. It is possible for a baby horn this year never again to have a birthday. For this is leap year, and a baliy born on the right spot at the rigli't time will almost certainly have no birthdays to keep. This actually happened to «. baby who was born during the voyage from Yokohama to San Francisco on the last day of February, 1904. It, is well known that in order to make the actual number of sunrises and sunsets experienced during a voyage round the world correspond with the calendar an extra day must he isvternalisted or "thrown ./overboard." according to the direction travelled. This adjustment is made at the moment of crossing the 180 th meridian, which runs to the west of the midway point between Japan and California. ' And a baby born on February 5D must be content to do without birthdays, unless he or she should happen to be on a similar spot at the same time in some future lean year, which would be a rather wild improbability.