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WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL. , I Miss L. Pike is on a visit to Nelson. Mrs. W. Churchward (Blenheim) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. W. Skinner. Mrs. A, C. Collins is on a visit to Auckland. Miss Yates (Wellington) is at present in New Plymouth. Mrs. C. Williams (Auckland) is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Murdock Fraser. Miss M. Young was the guest of Mrs. Tom Fookes for the Christmas races. Mrs. and Miss Liardet (Wellington) are the guests of Mrs. W. Penn. Mrs J. Glenn (Waverley) and Mrs. F. Nancarrow (Hawera) were up for the New Plymouth races during the week. ****** Mrs. L. T. Watkins and Mrs. Hunt (Wellington), with their families, are on a motor trip through Taranaki, they spent in New Plymouth and at the mountain.

Mrs. C. Crofts (New Plymouth) leaves, early next week on a visit to the Hawke’s Bay district. Miss Curtis is the guest of Mrs. Loftus Rea. She intends returning to Stratford on Sunday.

Miss Dora Bedford is visiting Miss Livesey, Feilding.

Miss M. Rocket is on a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. Foyster and family (Hawera) are spending the holidays in New Plymouth, having taken a furnished house. # * * * Mrs. A. L. Mooye is visiting Christchurch.

Miss Devenish returns to New Plymouth to-night after spending a few days in Palmerston.

Mrs. A. Grant (Palmerston North) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Bean. # * * • Miss Marnu Porritt (Stratford) during her short stay in New Plymouth was the guest of Mrs. F. Mackay. Misses Stephenson, Campbell, Greatbatch, Hutchen and Lovall are visiting the Mountain House.

Miss Medley (Wellington) is the guest of Miss Read, South Road.

Miss L. Greatbatch returns from Auckland on Tuesday next. ****** Miss I. Dempsey has returned to Wellington, after spending her Xmas holiday here.

Miss Testar is the guest of the Misses Good (Hawera).

Mrs. G. H. ifbtton was hostess to a delightful “jazz” party last Tuesday even-

Miss Irene Hirst (Hastings) is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Hugh Fraser. Miss Aitcheson (Wanganui) is at present in New Plymouth.

Miss Margaret Good (Hawera) is visiting here.

Mrs. O’Callaghan and Mrs. C. Tonks, who have been spending Christmas in New Plymouth, return to Hawera to-morrow by motor.

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Skelton and son, of New Plymouth, are spending the holidays at Wellington.

Miss D. Condon, of Koru, is on a visit to Kaupokonui where she is the guest of Mrs. J. D. Bashford.

Miss Annie Kelleher and Miss Aileen McAloon, of Stratford, are at present spending a holiday in Auckland and Rotorua. it * » • ■Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Allen, Auckland, are spending Christmati with Mrs. Thorby, Kaimata, Inglewood. Miss McLean, principal of the Wellington Girls’ College, is on a visit to the North Egmont Mountain House. She is accompanied by her sister. WEDDINGS. ANTHONY-EWING. A quiet but pretty wedding took place at St. Andrew’s Church, New Plymouth, on Friday, December 22nd, at 11 a.m.. when Miss Agnes Kathleen Anthony, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Anthony, of Mere Mere, Hawera, was married to Mr. G. H. Willard Ewing, second son of Mr. and Mrs W. N. Ewing, of New Plymouth. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a smart costume of pearl grey garbardine with a pretty hat of kingfisher blue, trimmed with lemon roses. She carried a shower bouquet, of Christmas lilies, water-lilies and Canterbury bells. The bridesmaid (Miss Ida Anthony) wore a lovely frock of blue and gold shot taffeta, with a big black picture hat trimmed with gold ribbon. Her bouquet was of golden flowers. Mr. Anthony, brother of the bride, acted as best man. After the ceremony Mrs. Anthony received the guests at May’s tea rooms. BRAMALD—MORGAN. A quiet but pretty wedding £o°k place at St. Mary’s Church on December 27, at 2 p.m., when Miss Alice Marjorie Bramald, second daughter of Mrs. I’. Dixon-Braiiiald, of Frankley Road, was married to Mr. Dan. Le Cren Morgan, second son of Mr. J. Randall Morgan, of Wellington. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. E. H. Strong, and Mr. R. N. Renaud presided at the organ. The bride looked charming in a simple dress of pearl satin charmeuse, worked in angel flude, and bead trimming in the design of a spider web. She also wore the u£ual veil and orange blossom, part of the latter being her mother’s, and carried a beautiful bouquet of Christmas lillies and other very choice flowers, with a touch of color in pink water-lilies and heath. Mr. Alfred H. Featherstone (brother-in-law) gave the bride away, and sb« was attended

by two bridesmaids, Miss Clara Bramald (sister) and Miss Joe Featherstone (niece). The former looked very becoming in a creation of salmon pink satin charmeuse with georgette panels. She wore a black pinch model hat and carried a beautiful bouquet. The latter looked sweet in a dress of heliotrope trimmed with silver beads; she also wore a wreath of pale mauve and pink buds and carried a basket decorated with streamers and flowers. The bridegroom was attended by his brother (Mr. J. Morgan) as best man. The wedding party, which consisted only of the very oldest friends of the family, 'adjourned to the home of the bride’s mother, where the wedding breakfast took place and, after the usual toasts were honored and responded to, the happy couple left on a motor tour. The bride looked charming in her travelling costume of oyster gaberdine and hat of the pinch model. The bride’s mother was attired in a beautiful dress of mauve taffeta, trimmed with old gold beads and thread. The presents were very numerous and were all of a useful nature. Through circumstances which were unavoidable, a little niece and nephew (Shirley and Max Brama Id >. who were to have been in attendance on the bride as flower girl and page, were unable to be present. MRS. WINTRINGHAM, M.P. “Lady Astor is the centre forward, and I am the back,” said Mrs. Wintringham the other day, (when howled down at her own meeting, as the cables inform us, the former must have felt more like the referee.) Both ladies have fortunately a sense of humour. “Lady Astor will never be a real lady,” said her fellow M.P., at a meeting when the former was present, “she is far too much interested in real things.” Lady Astor smiled at the accusation. Mrs. Wintringham is herself a career of real things. A Yorkshire woman, ruddy complexioned with a pleasant smile, she has a good record behind her. She has acted as magistrate, and helped in putting girls on the land; while in the disastrous flood at Louth in 1920 she organised a large relief camp. She also 'fought hard for the retention of the women police. When the Safeguarding tf Industries Act was before the House, she was amused to notice how the men members tried to keep her to the articles of feminine use such as dress, studs, hooks, and eyes, elastic and so forth. She is said to be rather deficient as a speaker in the ability to drive a point home. Her manner which lacks confidence conceals from opposing members the fact that she is determined to hold her own, and to stick to her guns. The same paper, which records Mrs. Wintringham’s career, including her magistary has an allusion to New Zealand when the legislators “trotted out all the dear old arguments opposing Mr. Wilford’s bill to enable women to sit as J.P.s:” However, we may show soon that this country is not yet a museum of ancient ideas.

WOMEN’S WEEK IN MELBOURNE Women’s Week in Melbourne was organised by Mrs. James Booth, who has been appointed president of the new Women Citizens’ Movement. The week has just been concluded, each day being given to a special subject. On Monday the discussion was upon Woman in the Home, (which a frivolous man critic declared suggested washing day.) Tuesday was giver up to Woman of Politics, then followed the Arts and Crafts. Saturday was devoted to politics again, and on Sunday the debate dealt with Woman in Church, alluding to the clerical privileges either given women of late or at least proposed. The \seek must have had a pleasant and bracing effect, especially upon the women who came from outside the town to attend some of the meetings. THE LATEST FASHIONS. London, Pec. 12. “Unless she has a girlish figure, a woman must tight-lace, or be out of fashion next season,” say West End modistes. “Tight bodices, with long full skirts, are the latest style for gowns. Everybody is tired of the long waist and shapeless silhouette “The new style demands the smallest possible waist, but modern women refuse to tight-lace. Paris and London tried to introduce a waisted corset in vain, so we are obliged surreptitiously to pinch the bodices and wire the slender has a perfect figure for the new fashion.” MEN LIKE HAPPY WOMEN. (By Barbara Dane.) Which is the best ingredient a woman can provide towards the making of a happy marriage? “Clever housekeeping,” one woman remarked. Another joined in the discussion with the opinion that common sense was the most necessary ingredient. “A sweet temper,” “an understanding of men,” “femininity” 'were suggested. Then the one man present gave his verdict. ‘What men like best in women is happiness,” he said. There is a profound truth behind these words, casually uttered at a tea-table discussion.

Unhappiness in marriage rarely comes to a happy woman. The high spirits, the merry smile, the alert contentment of the happy woman are far removed from the superficial vivacity of the sparkling woman with no inner reserves of strength. To be happy is to imply a certain selfreliance, and it is this quality of independent happiness, which men defight to hav.i in their wives, that makes beyond all other things, for happiness in marriage.

It is the woman who knows how to be happy without a husband who is going to be most happy with a husband. It is the woman who knows how to be irritable, full of grievances and exacting demands without a husband who is going to be exactly the same woman after marriage as she was before.

Men dislike scenes. They are frightened of hysteria. It is immense relief to any man to know that in his wife he has a happy-hearted woman who will not become sunk in melancholy if his business takes him away for several weeks, who will not tell him that her evening has been spoiled because he comes home late fro.n. his work.

Beauty, intellect, personality, youth itself are nothing beside this rare and beautiful gift of simply being happy. The “interesting” woman, with her moods, her emotional demands, her insistence that she must be all in all to the man she loves, often brings disaster to marriage. But the happv woman gives of her own happiness. It is infectious.

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Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 6

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WOMAN’S WORLD. Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD. Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 6

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