WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL. Mrs. T. A. Milroy is visiting Hawera. Miss Roughton is spending a holiday in Wellington. Miss Sheat returned on Tuesday from the Bay of Plenty. Dr. and Mrs. Noel Whitton left on Thursday for Christchurch. Mrs. Heard (Auckland) is the guest of Miss Lydia Shaw. Mrs. J. McKellar returns from Inglewood to-night. Miss K. Andrews, of Wellington, is staying with Mrs. Fairfax Cholmeley. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Nolan have returned from Wanganui. Mrs. R. Davies is the guesj of Mrs. L. C. Sladden. Mrs. Resell (Kaponga) is the guest of Mrs. C. H. Wyatt. Miss Tizard returned from Auckland on Tuesday. Mrs. Hamerton has returned to Inglewood. , • • • • Mrs. W. Williams and Miss D. Simpson left yesterday for Wanganui. * * * < Mrs. Hugh MacCallum is visiting Christchurch. The hostesses at the Community Club next week will foe Mrs. C. H. Burgess and Miss Sole. Miss Currie, who has been staying with Mrs. D. S. Millar, has returned to W anganui. Mrs. Robert Campbell (Santiago, South America) is the guest of Mrs. (Dr.) Campbell. Miss Gwen Rolls, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. F. J. Browning, “Leoma,” Vogeltown. * * * * Mrs. Austin Bewley was hostess at a bridge party on Thursday night. Mrs. A. C. H. Collins won the prize. Miss Leslie Stewart. B.A. has been appointed to the staff of the Palmerston | North Girls’ High School, in place of | Miss Billens. Mr. and Mrs. Barthorp and Miss Beryl Barthorp have returned from their motor trip to Hunterville, Palmerston and Wanganui. Mrs. J. C. Nicholson left yesterday for Wanganui to take part in the ladies’ golf championship. Mrs. Nicholson was appointed delegate of the New Plymouth Golf Club to act for them at the annual meeting of the N.Z.L.G.U. Mrs. G. Dobbin (Miss Gertrude Page), of Rhodesia, author of “Paddy i the Next Best Thing,” etc., who died at Salisbury. Rhodesia, has left estate of the gross value of £31.104. She leaves her journals, diaries, and letters, and all her property in Rhodesia to her husband. and the income from three-ninths of her estate, but not to exceed £6OO a year, for the benefit of poor literary or journalistic people resident in the United Kingdom, and particularly for providing a change of air and a help in | cases of sickness. A similar amount is i left to her husband for such* charitable, educational, or philanthropic purposes in Rhodesia as he may select. VICTORIA LEAGUE. At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Victoria League to be held on Mon- . day, Mr. Valentine (senior inspector of schools) will give an address on “Westland and its beauties.” Musical and | elocutionary items will be rendered by ! Mesdames Belcher and Kercher; also by ! Mr. Andrews. The Princess Mary is very busy with needlework at present, and the Queen is delighted to come over and assist her daughter in fashioning sundry small garments needed ere the year has run its course, savs the Glasgow Weekly Herald. Lovers of the mysterious will revel in the fact that it does seem as if the curious prophecy connected with Chesterfield House may some day be fulfilled—one. too, which a year ago seemed too fantastic to seriously consider. When i Lord Clanricarde came into possession of I this noble mansion an old Irish “witch [ woman” of Kildare told him that “there i .should into his family the daughter [ of a King, who should reverse the old I story that no little children should ever [ be seen in the mansion.” The miserly I Lord Clanricarde died, and Lord LasI celles became his heir, and his engageI* ment and marriage to the Princess brought the prophecy into the realm of fact. There is a legend associated with 1 Ch ester field House to the effect that no young child has ever been connected with | it. Well, we shall see. DANCES OF THE DAY. A REVISED TANGO. WALTZ MORE POPULAR. A revised version of the tango will be the rage of the dance halls in the coming London season. The intricacies which made the old tango a thing for experts only, and had the effect of turning the average ballroom into a temporarv home for wallflowers of both sexes, has been removed. I Anyone who can dance at all can tackle the revised version. “It is al- , most as simple as a waltz, and resembles that old favorite in that there i is a constant circulating and forward i movement,” said Mr. Charles d’Albert, ! secretary and vice-president of the Imi i perial Society of Dance Teachers. The new steps are quiet and graceful ]] There is no shoulder swinging. Beginning with a preliminary walking-sten. there are five movements —Argentina. El . Paseo, Vuelta, Media Vuelta, and Den--1 telles. Argentine is a forward movement, almost like the fox-trot, and El Paseo a moving side step. Vuelto is similar to

the reverse waltz movement, and the Media Vuelta is like the first three steps of the reverse. Dentelles is a sort of pivotting movement to get either half or wholly round the partner. The form of the dance is entirely left to the dancer’s discretion and ability. There is ample scope for brains. The dancer can evolve whatever figures he likes out of these different combinations. There is no fixed quantity, as in the case of the old quadrilles or lancers. “The waltz,” added Mr. d’Albert, “is again coming back to favor, and is now done with a kind of hesitation movement. “The fox trot has very little change in it, but the one step has quite fallen into disfavor. There was so very little variety about the latter that it could hardly be called a dance at all. It was merely walking about, and is happily very little seen now. “Paris is in the grip of the new tango. They will have nothing else there. They have the advantage over us for the moment, in that orchestras and bands have lots of music for it in their repertoires.”

NEWSY ITEMS. ROMANCE OF A WAR WEDDING. A romantic story lies behind the fortune of £25,000, which has just fallen to Mrs. Nicol, daughter of a farm worker, of Stoneykirk, Stranraer. While working at the Gretna .munition factory during the war she met David Nicol, then serving in the Canadian Forestry Corps, and they were married. It was not until she heard from a firm of Toronto solicitors that he was dead, and had left her a fortune that she learned he was a rich man and a son of the late Sir Thomas Nicol, of Toronto. WHAT CLEMENCEAU OVERHEARD. A story was told by Sir Murray Hys]ep about M. Clemenceau, who was walking in the Tuileries Gardens when he heard a French lady point him out to her daughter: —“Look. Lizette, that is the man who saved France.” “Who is he, maman?” “That is M. Clemenceau; he saved France like Jearine d’Arc.” “Well, when are they going to burn him, maman ?” “And/’ said M. Clemenceau. “I am waiting for my execution.”—The Daily Chronicle. PRINCESS YOLANDA. Princess Yolanda, of Italy, arrived recently in England on a private visit. She is “21, and is famous as one of the most beautiful Royal girls in Europe. She has dark hair’ and a perfect olive complexion, and is a fine horsewoman. Princess Yolanda was the first baby to be born in the Quirinal, the Italian Royal palace. It has been recorded in the chronicles of her young life that she was extremely disappointed when a Lord Mayor visited the Quirinal to discover that he was dressed in a frock coat and not in the robes she had seen in pictures. She travelled on her visit under the name of Marguerite di Polonozo.