WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD.

There are no wabout 750,000 women ] Civil Servants in Britain. j Mr ancl Mrs Bailey, who were born . at Cheriton, near Folkestone, 90 years I ago, are still Jiving in their native j town. Divorces in England ancl Wales aver- j age roughly one in every hundred mar- , riagcs. In the United States one marriage in every ten ends in the Divorce. Court. The many friends of Mrs F. W. J Christian will be pleased to learn i that she is showing a marked improve- j ment toward recovery from her rather serious illness. Mrs Fergus Camming, of Manson Street, who has been seriously ill in a private hospital ■ for | some little time past, is now making I favourable progress towards recovery. Her many friends will wish her a speedy return to her normal state of health. The death has occurred in Auckland of Miss Lavinia Coates, daughter of Mr James Coates, who arrived in | Auckland in 1811 as private secretary I to Governor Hobson, and was subse-, quently clerk of the Legislative Council. Her only surviving brother is: Sir James C-cates.' She was 86 years | of age. I There was at least one lady in Auck- I land who remembered that Friday was the 13th day of the month (says the Herald). Several days ago she booked: a sleeping berth on the Limited express ! for Wellington and tha-berth allocated: to her was No 12A. It was only on 1 Friday that she realised that, in spite of departmental bowing to superstition, j the real number of her berth was 13. j It was bad enough to have to travel, at all on such an ill-omened day, she told the railway booking clerk, but to travel in that berth would be to court disaster. Luckily enough, the booking was not very heavy and she was able to change her berth.

Mr and Mrs L. Laurenson, of College Screet, gave an enjoyable “bathroom” party, on Saturday evening, for Miss Maisie Bennett. Mrs Laurenson received her guests in an ivory satin frock, the skirt of which was composed of graduated frills of black ring velvet. Miss Bennett’s frock was of white georgette lightly beaded in silver. Others present were Mcsdames G. H. Bennett, IJ. E. Pacey, E. C. Barnett, T. R. Hodder, Watson, Tregurtha, Chin, 11. B. Bennett, Misses Amos, Jean Pacey, Marjorie Bennett, Georgina Laurenson, Mavis Cameron, Kathleen and Nancy Nash, Lilian Teale, Joan Barnett, >S. Collins, Marian Stiles and M. Cunninghame. BUSINESS GIRLS’ CLUB. ADDRESS BY MRS G. T. BROWN. At the fortnightly luncheon of the Business Girls’ Club, yesterday, the speaker was Mrs G. T. Brown who gave an address on pictures and why she liked them. Mrs Cooksley was welcomed ns a visitor. Mrs Brown explained at the outset that she laid no claim to being an authority, but she know when she lik-

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ed a picture. The * way to cultivate good taste in pictures was to surround oneself with good ones. Some people admired the pictures for what they were worth and not for their beauty. Others liked to be in tho fashion rather than depending upon their own taste. They would pretend to like pictures because they were afraid of displaying poor taste. One could never expect to be an expert judge of paintings _ as i that required a great deal of training. Airs Brown had brought along a colI lection of pictures, which she showed ! her audience, explaining to them at the | same time why they appealed to her. Reasons that she mentioned were dramatic interest, form, warmth of colour, atmosphere, etc. She liked a picture I round which one could weave a story, j Airs Brown was thanked for her address. AVEDDING. YORK—HOAIIE. A Salvation Army wedding was I solemnised at tho local citadel on I Wednesday, September 4, 1929, when I Adjutant Fraser, of Wanganui, officiated, the contracting parties being ! Dorothy Annie, elder daughter ot I Bandsman and Airs R. Hoare, of Fitzherbert Avenue, and Dcputy-Band-I master Les William, eldest son of Bandsman and Airs T. York, of College Street. Tho bride, who was given : away by her father, was attired in a ! navy costume and wore a coronet of : orange blossom and carried a beautiful bouquet of freosias, daffodils, azaleas and maidenhair fern. Aliss • Audrey Allison and Aliss Phyllis Alc|Lcan, cousins of the bride, attended , her, the former acting as chief bridesmaid. Both wore navy blue crepe-de-cliine frocks, putty coloured stockings and black satin shoes. They carried bouquets of spring flowers which completed their toilette. Bandman Danzil Hoare, brother of the bride, acted as best man and Bandsman Cliff York, brother of the bridegroom, was groomsman; Bandsman Sinclair Sime held the Salvation Army flag throughout the ceremony. The platform decorations gave prominence to the sphere of work in which the bridegroom is engaged in the Army, and immediately in front of the platform was his own euphonium and on either side a trombone. After tho ceremony the band formed a guard of honour with their instruments upraised and prior to the happy couple leaving the citadel a junior bandsman presented the bride with a beautiful bouquet of violets. Tho wedding breakfast was held in the Orange Flail when nearly 100 guests were present. Alany congratulatory messages were received and the happy couple were the recipients of a large number of valuable presents. Mr and Airs York left later for tho north on their honeymoon.

Included among Eastern brass trays on folding blackwood stands to hund at “Arts and Crafts” in Coleman Place, m an especially attractivo design that is quite out of the ordinary. Tho prices of these useful tables range from two to eight guineas. Showroom upstairs. Lewis Studio entrance. —Advt.