WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mrs. Newton King has returned from Christchurch. Mrs. P. B. Fitzherbert is visiting Auckland Mrs. Cyril Williams (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. M. Cray.

Miss Brewster is spending the week end in Hawera.

* ♦ * • Mrs. Papps is visiting Feilding. * ♦ ♦ • Mrs. B. Horner has returned to Strat ford.

Miss Eileen Davies, who has been the guest of Mrs. L. C. Sladden, left yesterday for Hamilton. * * * * Miss Norah Li vesey (Christchurch) leaves for Feilding this morning. Mrs. J. Barthorp has returned from a short trip to Wanganui. Mrs. Moyes left yesterday for a holiday in Christchurch.

Mrs. Percival (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. J. R. Cruickshank. Miss Mavis Rockel is visiting friends in Feilding.

Miss Peach, has returned from Christ church.

Mrs. Frank Blundell was hostess at : delightful bridge party for Mrs. Mat thews on Wednesday.

Mrs. A. A. Bennett is on a visit to Wellington. Miss Sybil Thomson returned from Australia. * * » •

Mrs. D. G. Morgan lias returned from a visit to Hawke’s Bay.

Mrs. S. Alleman and Miss M.‘Alleman left by the Rar&wa laat night for Auckland. TECHNICAL COLLEGE DANCE. The East End pavilion presented a very bright and attractive appearance on Thursday night, the occasion being the annuel re-union dance of the New Plymouth Technical College Old Pupils’ Association. The interior of the hall was decorated with greenery and the college colors, while the room at the end of the hall was converted into a lounge. The supper tables were a picture, their deco-, rations being carried out in daffodils violets and freezias, and one and .oil did justice to the delicious edibles provided The committee—Miss M. Jones. L. Reed, and Laura Jensen, and Messrs. A. L. Moore. D. George. 11. H. Skelton, and G. S. Crimp—deserve great praise for the success of the function. THE VICTORIA LEAGUE. The president and council of the New Plymouth Victoria League wish to thank donors of flowers and cakes and other articles, and especially those members who helped io make the daffodil fair such a success. Many members who could not attend generously sent donations, which swelled the fund very considerably. The council are extremely gratified at the result and have been able to pay a substantial amount off the furniture fund.

During the la«,t fortnight six cases of books and magazines have been packed by the Victoria League and forwarded to the back-blocks. As there are still a few weeks before the hard busy sea-, son begins with the farmers, the book committee wish to send one more consignment of books while the folk have stiff a little leisure in which to read, and so asks all league, members to bijing at leaat one book to the literary evening on Monday, or as soon afterwards as is convenient.

The evening gatherings at the Victoria. League are.as popular as .ever and on Monday nigh. Mr. Etherington will read a paper on “Parody.” ,

OLD GIRLS’ MART. Preparations for the Old Girls’ mart, to be held in the Coronation Hall on October 1, are proceeding steadily. The committee are specialising in clothing of all kinds for children and in underclothing for adults. The doffs and sweets stalls are in the hands of the High School girls, whilst food and produce stalls will be largely helped by countryresidents. Old girls and others who have promised gifts for the sewing stalls are reminded of the date, just six weeks hence. WEDDING. BURROWS—HO DG SON. A quiet wedding was celebrated at St. Andrew’s Church, New Plymouth, on Friday evening, August 19. The contracting parties being Mr. Pierre Finch Burrows, Government architect, and nephew of the late Dr. James Martieau. the great moralist and theologian, to Florence May, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hodgson, New Plymouth, and niece of the Rev. Featherstone. After the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. Oscar Blundell, the happy couple left by boat for Auckland. A RECENT WEDDING. Sir, —Kindly allow me to correct an error through your columns which appeared last Saturday, of “A Frontiersman’s Wedding,” which states that “the numerous guests were entertained by the bride and bridegroom.” The facts are that they were all entertained by Mrs. H. N. Chapman and myself (sister and brother-in-law of the bride). —I am, H. N. CHAPMAN. SOCIETY WEDDING. DUCHESS IS BRIDE AGAIN. The Duchess of Marlborough who recently received a divorce, was married in London early in July, to Lieut.-Col. Louis Jacques Balsan. Louis Jacques Balsan describes himself as a lieutenant-colonel in the French army, retired, and gives his age as 52, while the age of the bride is .give* M U -

Colonel Balson is well-known in London, where he was a member of the French aeronautical mission during the war. He is possessed of considerable wealth and is a member of a firm which manufactures uniforms and blankets for the French army.

The Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, was reported last January j;o be planning her marriage to the French sportsman, Jacques Balsan, when she purchased a magnificent estate at Eze, near Monte Carlo. Rumors of her approaching marriage to Balsan were revived when her divorced husband, the' Duke, married Miss Gladys Deacon, formerly of Boston, in Paris on June 23. The Duchess and Balsan were seen almost daily at tennis* in Paris at the same time that th® duke and Miss Deacon were seen continually at dances.

The Duchess of Marlborough is the daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and the present Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont. Her marriage to the Duke of Marlborough took place in 1895. They had two children, the Marquis of Blandford, heir to his father’s title, and Lord Ivor Churchill. The estrangement of the Duke and Duchess became known in 1907 when they decided to live apart for two years. Temporary reconciliations were effected largely through the intercession of the King in 1919, and the Duke and Duchess took up their residence again at Crowhurst until February 1920, when they separated for the last time.

The following March the Duchess started a suit to re-establish conjugal rights and in May she obtained a final divorce.

GENERAL. Mr. and Mrs. M. d’Oisry are looking forward very keenly to their New Zealand tour next year. Their engagementlist is always a heavy one, and they returned from Italy just the night before they appeared at the Crystal Palace, at the big Handel Fastival concert. An innovation at a benefit ball held in Sydney recently was the bread-and-butter supper. The ball, which was appropriately named the bread-and-but-ter ball, was in aid of the funds for the blind, and it proved a big success. The supper novelty has since been copied by many other committees -seeking also attractive schemes. A Wellington lady, writing from London, remarks on the ready attention and civility with which prospective buyers are treated in the shops. So ready are (.he assistants to show goods and so persuasive and obliging are they that she remarks that it is quite difficult not to buy even if the goods are not exactly suitable. As for % prices, she bought a charming embroidered coat frock for a little less than £6. while a smart hat tn match was 14s lid. During the past sunjmer odd little tubelike frocks were worn, which slip on like a jumper and boast no fastenings. Some were sleeveless and others still remarkably short in the skirt. Beautiful weather prevailed, and the flowers in the parks and gardens were a joy to the New Zealanders.

Miss Edith Inkster, the first lady piper in Christchurch, made her debut at the Scottish Society's ceilidh last week. Miss Inkster has had a set of pipes, somewhat smaller than the usual sets, specially made for her in Scotland.

FOOTBALL FOR GIRLS. DEVELOPING THE PHYSIQUE. Dr. Maud Fere gave an interesting address on the benefits Of football in improving physigue and building up character at a meeting of ihe Ladies’ Association Club at Christchurch the other evening. "We want you to be good women, morally, mentally, and physically.” said Dr. Fere. “You cannot be good physically if you arc not fully developed along the linos the good God meant you to bo. Football caffs into play sets of jbusclos that no other game does. No game is bettor calculated to develop young women along desirable physical lines than Association fontball, if—and it is a big ‘if’—she is suitably garbed. T heartily concur with my fellow-medicals who have spoken against football if they have had in their mind’s eye the image of a girl playing football in ordinary attire. Nothing could be fraught with more disaster io them. The essentials in the football garb from a medical point of view are: —(!) That there shall be no constricting bands around the waist, as in the ordinary skirt bands; (2) there must be no pressure on the soft abdominal muscles, as is always induced by a corset busk (short ones worse than long ones). All weight and pressure must he taken by the shoulders or hips alone. The present dress of the average civilised woman is a national curse. It causes atrophy and wasting of women’s most vital muscles, and too often bad internal displacements. If the public could only be awakened to the disastrous results of wearing this garb much would be accomplished. The agony of pain that many a young girl knows all too well, unfit wives and mothers, and their increasing physical deterioration, and many of the feeble and deformed children are some of the fruits of the injurious class of dress worn.

“Now I know of no game more calculated to restore the wasted vital muscles than Association football, provided. of course, the player is properly garbed. T consider the fact of women taking up football one of the most hopeful signs of the times; indeed, it is the greatest national blessing in this docade, and promises blessing for the future. If only the Government were awake, they might help us with a subsidy. But we can live in hope.”