WOMAN’S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD

PERSONAL. Mr. Chas. Webster is spending a few days in Wanganui. z Miss L. Greatbatch, who has been on, a visit to Wellington and Palmerston North, returned on Wednesday. Miss Pansy Whitton is spending the holidays in Auckland. Miss Haise (Wellington) is the guest of Miss L. Shaw. # • • * Miss S. Thompson is spending Easter at the mountain. Mrs. Ralph Palmer is on a visit to Wanganui. Miss Joan Esse is on a short visit to Auckland. Mrs. H. Stocker leaves for a visit to Wellington on Monday. Miss L Thomson is visiting her sister, Mrs. B, Horner, at Stratford. Mrs. K. Archer left by motor on Tuesday for a holiday in Wanganui. • * * * Mrs. L. B. Webster is on a visit to Wellington. t Miss A. Wilson left this Week for Rotorua and Auckland. Miss E. Baily, of the staff of the Wellington hospital, is staying with her mother, Mrs. Hugh Baily. Mrs. S. Shaw and Miss Olive Shaw leave to-day for a trip to Wanganui. i Miss Marshall leaves on Monday for Hamilton Mrs. Eliot King is visiting Wellington. Mrs. G. H. Bullard leaves thia morning for her future home in Christchurch. Mrs. W. Churchward (Blenheim) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. W. H. Skinner. •*i • • Mrs. Noel Fookes (Stratford) is staying with Mrs. Harry Fookes. Miss S. Lusk, who has been on a visit to her grandmother, Mrs. W. D. Webster, has returned to Auckland. ♦ • • • Miss M, Hamer ton (Inglewood) leaves on Monday for a visit to Hamilton. Mrs. Newton King, who has been spending a few days in Wellington, is now the guest of her daughter, Mrs. S. Allen (Auckland). Mrs. antf Mrs. Hains, of Featherston, are at present on a visit to Mrs. T. B. Wheeler, of Durham Road. Mr. and Mrs. David Walker, of Lawrence, Otago, are at present the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. Les. Anderson. • • • • Miss Barrow-Clough, who has recently arrived from England, will be the guest of Mrs. Allan Douglas next week.

FAREWELL PARTY. Last week a farewell croquet party was given by the members of the New Plymouth Croquet Club for Mrs. Bullard, who is leaving .shortly for Christchurch. A delicious afternoon tea was provided by the members, and Mrs. Bullard was presented a silver photoframe by her friends as a 'Bfemento of many happy days- spent on the lawns. Rather an uniusual canvass has been going on ‘in New Plymouth- during the last week or so. The High School Old Girls»are holding a sale of second-hand clothes on April 2, and have been soliciting support from the townspeople. The response has-been splendid, the novelty of being asked for “old do’ ” evidently appealing to Hie popular taste. It has not been possible to make ®o thorough a canvass as 4 the promoters wiisihed. and the committee would be glad to hear from any others desirous of getting rid of their cast-off clothing. Parcels may be forwarded by any High School girl. In conversation with a Mataura Ensign representative, Miss M. Jopp, who has been spending several weeks in Australia, gave a very interesting description of a notable monument which was erected at the Kew cemetery, Melbourne, by a well-known Melbourne doctor, in memory of his late wife. The structure is composed of a huge dome made of glass of various shades and supported by marble poles. Inside the dome another glass canopy is situated, and the floor is made of marble. The remains of the doctor’s wife are contained in a marble vault, on top of which there is a marble image. The statue is covered in with glass, and at the top of it an image of an tfngel is placed, the wings of which stretch the whole length of the statue. On the marble floor an account of the woman’s life is inscribed, and attention is drawn to the fact that she was horn on January 26, 1867, was married on January 26, 1887, and was buried on January 26, 1807. The statues were made in Italy, and the cost of the monument was in the vicinity of £20,000. Miss Qopp said that it was one of the first things a visitor to Melbourne was shown, and hundreds of people visited it every day.

NEW FUTURIST DANCING. EMOTION FROM BARE FEET. London, Jan. 21. A message from Paris states .that M. Marinetti, the leader of the French “Futurist” movement, has issued a mani-i festo condemning all dances from the' ancient to the jazz as sentimental or erotic, and urging the substitution of futuristic dances which, by “our innovating genius we know, conceive, and create.” “We have evolved a dance,’* says M. Marinetti, “in ‘geometrical shapes from Cubist research. It is to be an autonomous art independent of music, and imitating the 'movements of machinery, wheels and pistons. It will be accomplished by an orchestra of din producers, and will be inharmonious, ungraceful and dynamic.” M. Marinetti describes the “Shrapnel Dance,” in which the movements are accompanied by the exposure of cards reading “Short,” “To the right,” “Exposed to enemy’s fire,” “Wind up,” “In No man’s Land,” “Seeing red,” and “Peace.” He is lecturing to packed audiences of society Parisians on “Tactilism the Art of Touch.” Bfe argues that the other senses have provided arts, but touch has been left to the Futurists, and he is at nrewt ,cons.ult in « blind men regarding

their sensations, and preparing to weave £ carpet from which dancers will glean co-ordinated emotion by dancing barefoot. He contends that different touches indicate definite ideas. instance, something rough, spiky and hot would represent the Sahara. The sea is conjured up by a thing cold and smooth, and ‘Paris' by a mixture of silk and velvet. The lectures were interrupted by rival sects of Futurists, some of whom denounced the Marinetti heresy, while others showed lukewarmness. Feeling was running very high, and gendarmes entered to prevent violence to the Tactilists, eventually ejecting the critics, who loudly advised the apostle, in the Gallic’* equivalent, to “get work.” A fierce controversy is raging at present in France, Picabia accusing Marinetti of plagirism, and contending that Miss Clifford Williams, at New York in 1916, made sculpture intended for touch with-* out sight, and the literary Cubist Appollinaire brought the idea to Paris in 1918 as propaganda. Marinetti retorts that the Italian Boccioni first presented tactile statues in -1912. The publicity is making Marinetti the Hon of society. He is unable to accept all his invitations, but hopes to stage dances before his departure. Marinetti before the war fought a sword duel with D’Annunzio. As no death occurred, presumably it was a decißion on points. B ACHEIX)RS—BEWARE 1 Are you looking for a wife? If so:— Beware of girls who prefer to dress in purple or scarlet colors. There is usually something wrong with their characters. Beware of girls who are heavily scented. Beware of a girl who is too obviously modest and demure. She doth protest too much. Beware of the girl with low, slitoing forehead and dry, 'straight, coarse jntelike hair. Any experienced magistrate will tell you that this type of women frequently summon their husbands for assault and battery. Beware of the intensely* religious girl. She possesses an imbalanced, passionate temperament. Beware of the girl who drinks wine freely. She will make a poor wife and a worse mother. Beware of the girl who dresses in a slovenly, “artistic” manner. Such are the hints given by a pamphleteer who calls- himself “The Widowed Physician.” Girls are warned by Mr. Staekpool O’Dell, the phrenologist, against marrying a man whose head is flat at the back. Such a man has no fondness for home life, but flnds all his pleasures at his clubs and outside the hotne. The nyin whose head is rounded is the home-builder. He has all the domestic virtues, and will share his wife’s worries and take an interest in his children. Other types to be avoided are: The and easy young man. He is hail felltfw well met with everybody. He will talk more than work, and generally be short of money. The man who thinks only of making money. He will grudge his wife and children the barest necessities. The man who thinks he is a martyr to circumstances. Many women marry this type of man out of sympathy, and regret it all their lives.

MARANATHA! MARANATHA! \ SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING. THE CHURCH SIGN. “They found n'ot the body of the Lord Jesus.” St. Luke, who record’s •thia great fact of the Resurrection, also gives us the clearest evidence concerning the Incarnation; and it <i® noteworthy that he was the physician EvangleHst. The Empty Tomb is at the ven’ heart of the gospel. St. Paul makes that as pladn a® daylight, in his great argument to'the Corinthians. After that we understand why it is that the Apostles so persistently bore their testimony to the 1-iteriwl Resurrection, and so dinphaticailly declared it was ■without corruption’. Last year, in a public discussion on this subject, the late Bishop of Durham, Dr. Moule, told on unimipea'c'habie testimony a remarkable story of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst. “The great lawyer in his old age was led, under unlikely influences, tr humblest faith in Christ as Saviour and Lord.” Some of hi® legal circle, the Bishop went oir to explain, thought his brain was failing, and a carefully drawn law question was sent him as a. tesif, and brought a most reassuring answer. Then come® the point. “Onto day a devout friend was troubled by finding him at a table heaped with sceptical books, “I wanted exercise,” said Lyndhurst, “and I thought I would try the - ebse for the Resurrection; these are the adveree witnesses. Believe me, no Court would not accept the evidence for the Christian’s belief.” Another reader wroibe to confirm thi® testimony, on the evidence of his own grandfather, who was a friend of the lawyer, that Lord Lyndhurst “gave it as his deliberate opinion that no event in history had better evidence to support it than the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Let us make no mistake, as some would have us do. Wte will hold fast to the Gospel of the Empty Tomb. For if there had been no Empty Tomb, there would have 'been no Christian Church; there would have been no assured hope for this life or the next. The apostate conditions of Christiandom is in nothing so clearly revealed as in the fact that all the great world movements and latter-day religious systems deny the physical resurrection of our Lord. In view of all this, we may expect the soon coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. God cannot and will not tolerate apostasy for ever.