WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

PERSONAL. Mrs. Watson, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Kelly, has returned to Bulls. Miss Moore has returned from Hawera. Mrs. Newton King has returned from Auckland. * * * Miss D. Bedford, who has been the guest of Miss Livesey at Feilding, is expected home to-night. \ < • « Sister Livesey has left for a holiday in Christchurch. Mrs. Devore has returned to Auckland. Mrs. R. McLean, who has been the guest of Mrs. Brewster, ’Nsenr., has returned to Hawera. Miss Deen, Wanganui, is spending a few days in New Plymouth. • Mrs. ML C. Weston left last night for Auckland. Mrs. McKellar is the guest of Mrs. Henry Brown at Inglewood for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. W. Eyre-Kenny, who have been visiting New Plymouth, left last week for Sydney, en route for the Malay States. Mrs. Harle, Wellington, who has been staying with her father, Colonel Ellis, left last night for Auckland, where she joins the Niagara for America. Miss Elsie Greatbatch has returned from Mata Mata. Miss M. Rielly, who has been staying wiih Mrs. S. Burgess, has returned to Sydney. • • * ♦ Miss Constance Leatham returns from Auckland next week. Miss M. B. Johnston, of Dunedin, is spending her term holidays at Tataraimaka. z Mrs. Sole (Auckland) is staying with Mrs. S. Burgess. ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Miss Gertrude D. Bowers, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bowers, New Plymouth, to Mr. Morris I. Springer (Wellington), youngest son of Mr. W. Springer, Wanganui. “BRAN PIE” Great interest is being taken in the photographs displayed in various busi-, ncss windows in New Plymouth showing various costumes and dresses to be worn by the members of “Bran Pie.” The color scheme is very striking throughout, the black satin relieved with red, making an effective pierrot suit, whilst the lady members will wear some chic gowns. No expense has been spared in producing “Bran Pie." and the audience are assured'of a bright, refined and clean musical treat on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. THE VICTORIA LEAGUE.

The floral committee of the Victoria League have arranged for the second musicai tea to be held at the club room on Friday, June 17.

The council will be glad of donations of flowers from any member, and hope by the means of these afternoon functions to extend the social work of the league and to interest the members in other phases of the work. A musical programme has been arranged, flo&’ers will be on sale, and afternoon tea will be obtainable as usual. “Health and topics of the day” is the subject of the most practical value on which Mr. M. Fraser (a member of the Board of Health) will address the Victoria League on Monday evening, commencing at 7.30 p.m. GENERAL. You can buy fresh vegetables in New York at half-price—because a woman is trailing the profiteers (says the Springfield Republican). She is Mrs. Louis Reed Welzmiller, deputy-commissioner of markets, who came into office about a year ago. Since that time she has perfected a chain of “live and let live markets,” reducing the cost of living 50 per cent. Profiteers must come down to established levels with prices or lose their licenses. Each week Mrs. Welzmiller isues a fair price list for the stands under her direction. The prices vary according to location of the markets and the overhead charges against the proprietors for maintenance and inspection. During the war New York’s only woman commissioner organised an emergency food league, which supplies 300,000 families with fresh produce through direct dealing with farmers. She made such a success with that work that' Mayor Hylan asked her to assume control of the city’s market system. As market commissioner, Mrs. Welzmiller is responsible for 17 large market houses, several hundred curb markets, and supervises the issuing of permits •for more than 50,000 dealers. Potatoes that retail in the residential groceries at six pounds for 25 cents sell at 12 pounds for 25 cents in the “live and let live markets.”

Miss Genevieve Ward has just celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday, and the King has marked the occasion by conferring on her the Order of a Dame Commander of the British Empire. The veteran actress refuses to be old. At the same time, she has always taken care of herself. “Our modern women.” she said to a London Daily Express representative, “will never be long-lived or really young-spirited. How can they be? They persistently abuse the body designed by the Almighty by wearing scarcely any clothes and walking in high-heeled shoes. Women to-day have little modesty and few manners. I toll them so when T meet them. I heard myself in a London restaurant the other day the neatest rebuke imaginable to an up-to-date girl. She was sitting, halfdressed. dining with au elderly man, her uncle. Dessert was on the table, and he saidj ‘I shev l,l like you to take an apple ‘Whv if T don't want asked .he girl. ‘Ra-a-usc.’ the iinck< answered, ‘Eve did rfStXfcnow was

modest until she had eaten an apple.’ That is how I feel towards women today.” That woman is ruled by fashion has often been alleged to her discredit, writes a well-known Parisian authority. But at length the puppet has asserted herself and will accept nothing blindly. The emancipated slave accepts or rejects according to her pleasure. And thus fashion was never less tyrannical—or more elastic—than at present. She offers you such an immensely wide and varied field of choice as never has been known in her annals. Liberty—of choice, or expression—is the watchword. Never, indeed, was convention of any sort less binding than to-day, when what to do or what not to db seldom depends upon the exaction of any timeworn code, but. simply upon our inclination. Freedom indeed! Rigidity is gone—not only from our corsets, which are simply a piece of elastic; and our dresses, which consist of a skirt untrammelling alike in length and in width, and a. corsage with open neck, wide, comfortable arm-holes, and but the suggestion of a waist—but from every department of life has inflexibility disappeared. Too much so, is the general verdict, but changes always come in exaggerated form. Three things are assured us for the spring: The longer, fuller skirt, the loose waist, the long sleeve. The high neck will always be a disputed point, because it does not suit all women. Indeed, it entirely does away with all style in some cases, and in others it gives style.