WOMAN’S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Darcy, of Wanganui, is spending a few days in New Plymouth. Miss E. Meldrum (Auckland) is visiting her father, General Meldrum. Miss B. Bayly has returned from a trjp to Auckland. Mrs. Morrison, who is the guest of Mrs. Henry Weston, returns to Auckland early next week. Mrs. McKellar has returned from Inglewood. • • « • Mrs. T. A. B. Bailey leaves early next week for Wanganui. Miss Angela Wright, who has been the guest of Mrs. D. Wilson, returned to Stratford yesterday. Miss Blair Mason, who has been visiting New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland. Mrs. James Wilson returned from Inglewood last night. Mrs. John Paton left on Tuesday for her future home in Auckland. e * • • Mrs. Stanley Smith arrived from Nelson last night. Miss Blennerhassett (Wanganui) is a visitor to New Plymouth. Miss Hall, who has been the guest of Mrs. McQuade, has returned to Auckland. e • * • Mrs. C. H. Weston, who is on a short visit to Auckland, returns next week. Mrs. W. C. Weston has been on a visit to Auckland. THE VICTORIA LEAGUE. On Friday, June 17, the second flower tea was held in the Victoria League club room. Musical items were rendered by Mesdames List and Humphries, and Misses Esse, Greig, Shaw, and Miss Millar (violiniste). A cake guessing competition was won by Mrs, Alleman. The third of these flower teas will be held ou the fourth Friday in July, when all members are asked to bring a small gift to help with the fancy or plain stalls at the daffodil fair in August. Under the auspices of the Victoria League an illustrated lecture, entitled “An Hour With the Microscope”, will be given by Mr. W. H. Moyes, M.A., on Monday evening, commencing at 7.30. The lecture should prove most interesting and informative. WEDDINGS. A NAVAL WEDDING. A naval wedding of considerable interest took place at St. Andrew’s Church, Epsom, on Wednesday, when Miss Nora Gorrie, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Gorrie, of Dunkerron, Buckland Road. Epsom, was married to SurgeonCommander Reginald Lewis .Jones, R.N.. of H.M.S. Philomel, by the Rev. Li one l Harvie Miss Rachel Gorrie was bridesmaid and Mies Peter Gorrie acted as train-bearer. Lieut.-Commander H. M , Cockren. R.N.. was best man, and Mr. Harold Barker. R.N.. was groomsman. Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe was among those present. At the conclusion of the ceremony the bridal couple left the precincts of the church beneath an ar hway of the* crossed cutlasses of a guard of honor of twelve sailors from the war ship.

WILLS—TIPPETT. At the Presbyterian Church, Hawera., a very pretty wedding took place on June 14th. when Miss Ivy Tippett, of Normanby. was married to Mr, Harold Wills, of Hawera. The bride, who was given away by her father, was gowned in a frock of white crepe de chine trimmed with pearls and bridal veil arranged mop cap style, with a circlet of orange blossoms. She also carried a beautiful shower bouquet of white chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern with streamers of white ribbon. She was attended by the bridegroom’s sister, Miss Grace Wills, who wore a dainty frock of lemon crepe de chine and black hat. and carried a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums. The little flower girl, Miss Sylvia Tippett, youngest sister of the bride, wore a sweet frock of white silk and carried a basket of choice white flowers. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. Horace Julian, who acted as best man. Mrs. King played the \\ adding March as die bride eijterd the church. The happy couple left for Christchurch amidst showers pf eopfetti and good wishes, the bride wearing a smart sea green costume and small black toque. —Star. UNEMPLOYED WOMEN. The 1,500,000 unemployed men and women are a tragic feature of the Old Country to-day. The figure is far more than the whole population of Victoria, writes the London correspondent of the Australasian. It can be imagined what distress a million and a-half unemployed people must entail. In connection with women workers, however, the trade slump seems likely to persuade many to return to domestic service. During the war hundreds of thousands of women who have been trained into good servants were tempted into factory life. When work failed they were content to draw unemployment doles, in the hope that more factory work woud be forth- , coming. Now the authorities have decided that young women who refuse suitable offers of domestic work must forfeit their unemployment benefits. For nmnths it has been a scandal to see women drawing 15s a week from the Government when mistresses were clamoring for their services. In many cases these women bad actually been domestic servants formerly. At the time tne wages offered in munition works seemed higher than those given to housemaids and cooks. But this has now been shown to be largely illusory. The cost of food and lodging expenses more than covered the difference. The domestic servant, whose board and lodging is paid by her mistress, is now belter off than the factory girl. She fares better, and has a ni a rgin for saving. The existing unemployment is bringing this truth home to many young women. Incidentally Australia should benefit. The same conditions which are making women realise the benefits of domestic service should tempt some of them to em:-a-rate to the sunny lands in the far south. The new Emigration Depart-

ment, under Mr. Percy Hunter, at Air tralia House, will see to this.

According to a. writer in The Hospital. recent experiments and investigations in England have brought to light the astounding fact that juvenile crime is practically non-existent among such city children as live close to large public parks. The revelation makes a strong additional link in support of the argument that the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the children in any city is enormously influenced by their environment, and incalculably benefited by the provision of spacious parks and large public playing grounds, where they can give vent to their surplus energies. The destructive element in a child is only awakened when its constructive instinct is thwarted and unsatisfied, and if it has no legitimate outlet for its super-abundant energy, its overflowing spirits, its eager desire to be moving and doing and making, it must inevitably seek refuge in mischief or wanton destruction. Reconstruction is the slogan of the hour; and if New Zealand, in common with other countries, does her best to train and develop the constructive instinct which is every normal child’s natural heritage, then she will have done something towards stamping out for ever that passion for destruction which is struggling at the present time to involve human beings in ruin.

Until quite recently women’s connection with the fur trade in Canada has been limited to the finished product—

“to adorn or to be adorned.” Mrs. William Chamberlain, the wife of a rancher, living in the northern part of British Columbia, has recently revolutionised the part of women in the fur industry, writes a London journalist. Last winter she introduced herself at the initial stages and proved herself a very capable trapper. Investing the sum of thirty dollars in traps, she obtained a license for a territory six miles in length along the bank of the Columbia River. Here she sets out her traps, some sixty in number, and made her solitary rounds daily, leaving the shack at break of day, lunching in the open, and retiring, after an exhausting day’s tramping, at night. She wqs eminently successful, and the arduous work gave most satisfactory results. Seven hundred muskrats were included in her season’s catch. In the spring she ceased her labors, and discovered that she had made 800 dollars. Many more women are now, I hear, devoting their energies to trapping, and are proving for themselves that Mrs. Chamberlain’s statement was certainly a true one when she said that “trapping was a very profitable occupation.” JEWEL FASHION CHANGES. Englishwomen have realised that, the once-coveted dog-collar necklace and small fender tiara of diamonds may be magnificent but are not becoming, with i the result that fewer diamonds are being worn at evening functions. Wealthy women have their diamonds reset in the lighter and more flexible settings of platinum now fashionable. Other women are selling or exchanging their jewels. The hostess at a great diplomatic reception recently wore her diamond necklace not round her neck but arranged across the front of her dress, thus achieving an - effect of splendor without detracting from the lustre of her own bright eyes. Colored stones are enjoying ft great vogue, and the semi-precious stones, such as cornelian and tourmaline, are eagerly bought at greatly increased prices. The choice of a stone depends chiefly on the wearer’s eyes and complexion. Pearls will always be worn by those fortunate enough to possess them, and nobody thinks it ineogruous, says The IVeekly Dispatch, that a fashionable woman should wear a string of pearls with her woollen jumper when she sets