WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS.

Airs. K. G. Smith (Noradene) has returned from a short visit to Christchurch.

Mrs. Roy Jackson, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. H. Mace, returned to Auckland on Tuesday.

Miss Brewster has returned from Wanganui. Mrs. Percy Webster is the guest of Miss Connolly, Bushy Park.

Mrs. C. Denny-Brown is on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs. Arden and Miss Joan Arden leave on Monday for a trip to the Old Country.

Mrs. Cecil Wright has returned to Stratford after spending a few days in New Plymouth.

Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Wallace have returned to Waverley.

Miss M. Livingstone (Takapau) is the guest of Mrs. G. Home. Mrs. Tobin and Miss Earpe have left this week for a visit to Tauranga.

Mrs. R. Anderson (Stratford) is spending a short holiday at Ngamotu beach.

Mrs. E. Falconer has returned from Wellington.

Mrs. Nicholas and Mrs. Barton, of Bell Block, are visiting Wanganui. Mrs. A. Bennett returned last night from a trip to Wellington.

M»s. 0. Samuel has returned from Wellington. Mrs. C. H. Wyatt left for a visit to Wellington by the mail train yesterday.

Mrs. Russell, who has been the guest of Mr. McAulley, left this morning for Wanganui. Miss Mary Stephenson, who has been staying with Mr. J. P. Harrison, returns to-day to Manaia.

Mrs. R. J. Matthews (Hamilton), who has been spending some months with her relations here, left on Thursday en route for Hamilton. Mrs. James Wilson accompanies her as far as Wanganui.

MARRIAGE.

FALWASSER—HADDON. On Wednesday, September 6, at the residence of Mr. R. T. P. Haddon. Normanby. Mr. Edward George Falwasser was united in marriage to Miss Ranga Ruth Haddon, fourth daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Haddon, of Normanby. The Revs. A. Leversedge and C. H. Olds, B.A , were the officiating ministers. The bride was attired in a dainty frock of white silk (embroidered by Mrs. Robinson, elder sister of the -bride), bridal veil ari l wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a spray of fresias and violets. Miss Emma Haddon attended her sister as bridesmaid, and was becomingly attired in a pretty frock of shell-pink net over pale blue, with mob caj> to match, and carried a bouquet of spring bowers. Mr. Robinson acted as groomsman. The bride was given away by her father. The service, which was in English, opened with the singing of a hymn in the Native language. At the close of the ceremony the guests were hospitably entertained by the parents of the bride, and th • usual toasts were honored, appropriate’ speeches being made by the ministers, the chief, and Mrs. L. J. Williams, and responded to by the bridegroom. Mr. M. Robinson, Mr. Falwasser, senr., and Rev. R. Haddon.

The bride’s travelling dress was a nyivy costume with pretty hat to match. The happy couple left for their honeymoon in Wellington and Wanganui, amid showers of greetings. Their future home will be in New Plymouth.

Y.W.C.A.

MEETING OF THE BOARD. *A meeting of the Y.W.C.A. Board was held on Thursday at the Clarke Memorial Hostel. Present: Mrs. E. A. Walker (president), Mesdames A. Ambury, O. Blundell, List, Mac Diarmid. Mills, Skinner and Weston, and Misses Harrison and Hodder. Apologies were received from Mesdames Alexander and W. Ambury.

Miss Roughton, in her report, stated that the hostel had started very well, and there were .applications for more permanent boarders, who would be coming in a week or so. Sil more beds were needed to complete the rooms, six bedroom chairs, six mirrors, also more mops for dusting. Permission was granted to purchase these necessities for the complete equipment of the. hostel.

A formal opening of the hostel on the return of Miss Birch (the national field secretary) from Sydney, after September 14. was discussed, and suggestions were made which are to be for warned to the national field headquarters for approval. The hand basins are quite inadequate for the number of girls at the hostel. It was proposed that estimates should be obtained for the installation of extra washing basins, also for an electric kettle.

The secretary was requested, by the board to write a letter of appreciative thanks to Mrs. Howell, and express their warm gratitude to her for her generosity. Chatsworth House ,was handed over in the most perfect order, the inventoried linen has practically doubled in quantity, and many other gifts were, presented by Mrs. Howell to the hostel. The board found it difficult to suitably express their thanks. At the conclusion of tttv meeting Mrs. Walker, on behalf of the Y.W.C.A. Board, extended a very cordial and sincere welcome to Miss Roughton, who was assured that the board would be behind her and anxious to help in every way, and that she would always have their loyal support. Miss Roughton replied, stating that she looked forward to her work, and meant to do her best to make the hostel a success. She asked that the board would always come directly to her if any criticisms .were directed to the ,workiag

hostel, so that she might be able to explain or correct wrong impressions, and that she might have a fair run.

WOMAN OF 1000 DRESSES.

London, July 8. A woman who went to Paris for a holiday and wore a different gown every day for 49 days has just returned.

She is Mrs. Smith Wilkinson, of the Bungalow, Nottingham. She came back in a blizzard of frills and feathers to find herself the talk of the world of fashion.

When seen by the Daily News to-day Mrs. Wilkinson was wearing a peignoir of dimsy saffron charmeuse, over which she had thrown a cloak of shimmering Persian blue, with a boudoir cap of white lace and little pink roses. She looked the picture of health and happiness.

She is a little woman with rosy cheeks-, and she took great pleasure in bringing out a display of her latest gowns and hats. She has some hundreds of creations. One is a Russian gown of dull grey trimmed with grey Persian lamb’s wool, with which she wears a hat and muff of the same color and Russian top boots. “When I wore this dress in Paris,” she said, “all the Russians came up close to me and they seemed dazed.”

PARADISE BIRDS’ FATE.

Another of her gowns was of canarycolored charmeuse, with three rows of deep fringe brought up to form a Spanish shawl. With she wears a large tortoiseshell comb a foot square and a hat of the same hue, with a yellow lace mantilla and a rope of 75 pearls.

Her bats are amazing. She has a poodle hat, all of feathers, and another of geranium-colored ostrich feathers caught down to form leaves. Another contains 12 birds of Paradise, with the complete heads of these birds. This is said to have cost 10,000 dollars. Mr. Lewis, of the famous Maison Lewis, once said, “In 50 years I have never encountered such a liberal woman.”

Mrs. Wilkinson has had a life crowded with romance. She made a fortune as the proprietress of hotels and hydros including the well-known publichouse of Nottingham, called “The Poultry.” As Margaret Dunk she received in Augest, 1901, the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for saving the life of Mr. J. W. Forman, who was washed off the beach at Mablethorpe and nearly drowned.

HUSBAND’S HOBBY.

Her present husband is her third. He is 24 years of age (she herself is 46), and when serving in the Guards he was so popular as a female impersonator that he was known as “Phyllis of the Guards.” Ho embroiders Dorothy bags as a hobby and designs dresses. Her only son died tragically. He was suffering from consumption, and Mrs. Wilkinson built a special sanatorium for him on -the roof of a Mat lock hydro, from whicli ho fell, being killed before her eyes.

woman of a thousand dresses is the envy of the women of Paris. She Jias a tooth crowned with a diamond, and bathes herself in a golden bath. She argues that each dress she buys keeps hundreds of women in employment. and that her hats and gowns afford happiness to thousands. GENERAL. The Y.W.C.A. headed the procession of women’s organisations in the recent League of Nations demonstration in Hyde Park. London. There was also a massed drill display by the Y.W.C.A. London clubs in the Park.

Much interest is being taken in music circles in the work of a gifted young New Zealander, Miss Doreen M. Walsh, who writes under the pseudonym of Martelle D’oreen. Though she has composed many tuneful songs, her special afforts have been devoted to the musical setting of Maori myths and legends. The mythopoetic traditions and personifications of the Maori race are a rich storehouse for an imaginative temper.” ment to draw upon, and Marcelle D’oreen is one of the first to wed them to appropriate music. She has been greatly encouraged and assisted in her researches by Mr. Eldon Best and the jstaff of the Wellington Museum. Mr. J. C. Anderson, the well-known authority on Maori lore, has collaborated with her in a series of songs, and she has also to set to music some of the descriptive Maori verse of Miss Jessie Mackay. A recital of some of her compositions. both vocal and instrumental music, will be given in Wellington next month.

The new season’s bathing costumes in England are said to be most elaborate creations, far removed from the trim Canadian costumes we are so used to here, resembling more the up-to-date dance frock, which sounds as Cnougn 'they are rather like the dainty batnmg attire at fashionable French seaside resorts of years gone by. Silk merv embroidered with rose, the tunic rather in the style of a man’s morning coat, but with a three-tiered flounce, is a description given of one model. Another striking type described was a two-piece, cherry-colored costume of stoekingette, having on the upper part of the bodice a daring futuristic pattern in black printed, which, in the distance, was said to recall the spots of a leopard. Such costumes sound fantastic, and one wonders if they stand a chance of displacing the more practical garb of the average bather of the past few years. They might be quite pretty and effective, and attractive to bathers of the type that sit at the water’s edge or sprawl about beaches, but for swimmers—well, most folk, one imagines, will stick to the Canadians, in this part of the world, anyhow.