NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 19 February 1927, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Archer Hosking left for Sydney yesterday en route to England.

Miss Nina Boddington has returned homo after an extended visit to Auckland.

Mrs. A. S. C. Roberston, who has been visiting Dunedin, ha? returned home.

Mrs. Calder, Wanganui, is Staying with her daughter, Mrs. Haise, Lansdowne.

Mrs. Gray, Glencoe Station, Pongaroa, is the guest of Mrs. Robertson, Essex Street.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perry and their son left Masterton yesterday on a visit to England.

Miss Jessie McLaren has returned from Lyall Bay, where she has been staying for some weeks. •

Mrs. and Miss Wesney returned to Wellington yesterday after spending nearly three weeks in Masterton.

The friends of Mrs. Newman Shaw will be pleased to learn that she has sufficiently recovered from, her recent operation to return home.

Miss Rita Saunders, of Palmerston North, is paying a visit to Masterton, and is staying with her cousins, the Misses Saunders, Fleet Street.

Miss Bunting, who has been staying at Auckland with her sister, Mrs. Lu ccna, has returned to Masterton.

A naval wedding took place at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, on January 4, the parties being PaymasterLieutenant Charles Herbert Law, R.N., and Miss Maude Elizabeth (Lal.) Duthie, elder daughter of the late Mr. John Duthie, of Wellington, and Mrs. Duthie, and grand-daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs J. Duthie, who were former well-known residents in the New Zealand Capital. The bridegroom, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Law (who reside in Warwickshire), is superintendent at Portsmouth, to Commodore G. O. Stephenson, C.M.G., R.N.

On her voyage to Australia and New Zealand the Duchess of York occupies a cabin ordinarily used by an officer. The little brass bedstead in only 2ft. wide, the mirrored wardrobe is the only piece of furniture which is not a service fitting, and the two chests of drawers are such as one might find in a tiny London flat. The Duke sleeps in the cabin formerly occupied by the commander of the ship,. The Duchess had asked that r;o special furniture should be bought for her, but had expressed a wish to choose the carpets and chintzes for her rooms. Silk bed valances and curtains in a dull blue silk have been chosen by the Duchess for her sleeping cabin, and chintzes in gay colours for the day rooms. The Duchess’ boudoir is plainly furnished with armchairs, small tables and a writing desk.

“Smimpy skirts, short clothes and bobbed hair are far more suit-able-than the baggy trousers and the- flappy coats of men,” declared Dr. Jane Walker, defending present-day women’s clothes in an address to members of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. Dr. Walker also contended that women aie more stalwart than men, they have greater vitality, and live/ longer. Year by year women tended to get stronger, and it was extremely rare to find a woman suffering from the pld, complaint—anaemia. She wanted to know why women working in the factory should be made to do fire drill while men were exempted. Could it be that the men ware more intelligent? -Fire drill was an ’ excellent thing if men and women alike were made to do it. Women must make up their minds to stand together upon their feet. “Do not let us,” she said, “be hypnotised into thinking our place is always the second place, and that men’s place must always be the first place.”