NOTES FOR WOMEN

Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1927, Page 7

NOTES FOR WOMEN

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Galwey (Auckland) who has been staying at Braeburn, leaves today for Hawke’s Bay.

Miss Freda Kummer, lienall Street, has gone to Wellington and Pieton on holiday.

Mrs. A. D. Low has returned from Wellington.

Mrs. A. Stewart, who has been visit ing Wellington, has returned to Master' ton.

Miss H. Saunders has returned home from a visit to Levin and Wellington.

Miss Molly Nee, a pupil o f St. Bride’s Convent, has received word from the University of New Zealand that she was successful in the matriculation examination which took place last December. Creditable percentages were secured in the following subjects: English, French, arithmetic, geography, home science, and musie, making an average of 50 per cent, on the whole examination.

In honour of the approaching marriage of Nurse Phoebo Ackerman, the matron of the Dannevirkc Hospital, on behalf of the staff, presented her with a handsome case of silver spoons, and ■wished her every success and happiness for the future.

A highly successful garden party was held at the homestead, “Hoebridge,” of Mr. D. Bennett, Ihuraua, on Thursday in aid of the Plunket Society baby carnival. The success of the gathering was beyond expectations, due in no small measure to the committee- of ladies, Mesdames L. Heckler, Brunton, G. H. Myers, T. Dunn, C. Hodgins, E' H. Dagg, and Misses Nola Bennett and D. Brunton, and particularly to the indefatigable efforts of Mr. L. T. Daniell. The attendance was large, and a go'od and varied assortment of stalls and competitions provided ready means of augmenting the funds in aid of the effort.

Though weddings in May and. on Fridays will never be popular, marriage superstitions are, to an extent, passing, lor instance, at weddings nowadays ’here is often a decided green colour scheme, a thing that never would have teen considered 20 years ago, and girls /arc not troubling about the old saying: “Three times a bridesmaid and never a bride.” Girls do not seem to mind how often they act as bridesmaid, but not so long ago few would have ventured thus to tempt fate. One of these modern girls with whom the old adage carries no weight is Lord and Lady Bath’s youngest daughter, Lady Mary Thynne. She has been a bridesmaid many times, and attended her friend, Lady Barbara Bingham, at her marrige to Mr. John Bevan, at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, recently. This was one of the great matrimonial events of the season, for the pretty, dark-haired bride is, through her father, Lord Lucan, a Lord-in-Waiting, related to half tho peerage nearly.

A novel contest was held recently among girl operators in the London Trunk Telephone Exchange, to discover those with the most prefect “telephone voices.” The “winners” will be employed on the new public London-New York wireless telephone service, which is to be inaugurated early next month at a charge of £l5 for a conversation of three minutes and £5 for each additional minute. Each of a number of chosen girls, during the test of her “articulation efficiency,” had the volume and quality qf her voice measured and recorded by the special voice-fre-quency galvanometer which will be employed in the regulation of ordinary subscribers’ voices when they speak to persons in New York. “Just tell us, in your normal tones and quite naturally, how you enjoyed your Christmas holidays,” suggested the wireless experts who acted as judges, and one after another the girls gave a little “talk” on the delights of dancing, the giving and receiving of presents, and Yuletide festivities generally.

, Women are getting out the big brightly-coloured silk handkerchief scarves which were so popular a year or so ago and are tying them about the hips of their new autumn house dresses. Provided that a woman is slenderly shaped, this little vagary of fashidn is a quite attractive one, but the scarf worn thus by tho wrong woman, speedily becomes an illustrated tragedy of fashion. The new position for the handkerchief scarf is partly consequent upon the efforts of certain leading designers again to revive the normal waist-line. Some autumn frocks in rep and gabardine are made very plainly, but with a distinct “shaping in” to the old pre-war feminine waist-line. Such a frock in soft green cloth was

finished with a big silk handkerchief scarf of shades of green and gold set well and tied just below tho waist. This scarf fashion is one which, while •demanding j • schalance of appearance, needs skill< i planning and fixing, and the “hip hankie” which looks to be tied most carelessly usually proves itself to be fixed by a master hand.

The loveliest evening frock I ever saw, writes a correspondent describing an oversea fashion, show, was of cream panne velvet. I can never understand why fair or auburn-haired woman do not more often wear this perfectly adorable colour and material. It has such richness and soft becomingness, without any of stuffiness or weight; it drapes beautifully, and does not have the rather forlorn look of chiffon on a cold night. Evening skirts are of all lengths, generally uneven—one cannot make any rule about them. But skirt-lengths for daytime are just the same. 1 have! heard people say they are ‘‘longer” because they do not show the knee to which I reply that on well-dressed women they never did! They have never been really smart unless they quite covered the knee-joint, withrnn. inch or two to spare, when the wearer stood still, at all events, and that is just what they do now. A well-known artist said to me, by the way, speaking of present-day skirts, that they were artistically much better than the half-way. ones between tho knee and the ankle. His reason was that in designing the lines of clothes one should if possible never cut across the lines of the body, except where there was naturally a joint; skirts, therefore, should reach either the'knee or the ankle; sleeves should either just cover the wrist or the elbow, or not exist at all.