WOMEN'S CORNER

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER

The Lady Editor will be pleased to reeeire for publication in tie "Women'l Corner" items of sodal or pergonal new*. Sueb item* jhoald b« fully authenticated, and engagement notices moat bear the denatures of both parties. Correspondence is liiTlt«d on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

The Hon. Mrs Tahu Rhodes, Provincial Commissioner, will pay an official visit to-morrow to the Canterbury Pro-\-lncial Girl Guides' Camp at Orari. Mr and Mrs W. H. Price (Fendalton) hare returned from a visit to Hanroer Springs. Mr and Mrs H. Harrison <Nelson> are on a holiday visit to Christehurch. Mr and Mrs D. J. Shea (Colombo street, North), who hare been spending the holiday in Kaikoura, have returned to Christehurch. The Rev. X. A. Friberg, Mrs Friberg, and daughter hare left for Fairlie, -where they go into residence at the Vicarage. The Rev. R. De Lambert and family come to Shirley for the summer holidays. Sir Francis Bell and his daughter. Miss Enid Bell, left England for New Zealand on December 3rd. They are travelling by the Corinthic. The Misses Morkane (Cashmere Hills) have returned from a holiday visit to Kaikoura.

The Hon. Mrs Tahu Rhodes has been chosen as the Orphan.?' Queen at the forthcoming military pageant to be held shortly. Dr. and Mrs Arthur Thomson and their two daughters are leaving tomorrow for a holiday visit to Picton. Mrs F. W. Broughton ha* gone to Wellington to meet her daughter, Mrs Emrys Thomas, who leaves for England to-morrow.

Mrs David L. Nathan, of Auckland, has arrived at Telaviv, Palestine, on a tour of inspection of Plunket infant welfare centres.

Miss Dorothy Lynskey and Miss Mary Farrefl (Christehurch) are spending a holiday,at Timaru. Misses M. and N. Williams (New Plymouth), Mrs Brooks-Wood (England), Mr and Mrs N. Rutherford (Mendip Hills), Mr and Mrs H. A. Gamhel, Mr and Mrs J. H. Macdougall, and Miss* Cowan (Dannevirke) are staying at the United Service Hotel. Mrs J.'Nimmo (Tai Tapn) returned home yesterday from a week's holiday spent at Springfield. • Misses Ngaio and Daisy Turton (Riccarton) are spending a holiday in Auckland, where they will be guests at the Kingsland-Andrew wedding at Bemuera.

Mrs E. C. Bathurst and family (Allenton) are spending the school holidays in Christehurch. Miss Mavis Murphy spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs J. A. Manson (Qreenpark).

Mr and Mrs W. H. Marshall and Miss Buby Marshall (Papanui) left yesterday for a'motor tour in.the south. Mrs T.- Taylor (Bt. Andrew's square) and her little son are spending a holiday at Akaroa. Mr and Mrs W. W. Laing, Mr and Mrs G. Banfield, and families are spending 8 few days at Goose Bay, Kaikoura. Miss Avis "Ward (Christchurch) is spending a short holiday with Mrs Ernest Ward, of Metbven. Mrs T. Nash, Miss Nash, and Mr C. •Peacock (Hataitai) are spending a short holiday in Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs T. Scannall and Miss Scannall (Invercargill), Mr and Mrs Nixon (Bydney), Mr and Mrs J. P. McQuilkin and Miss McQuilkin (Eiffelton), Mr and Mrs A. Craig (Timaru), Miss Gordon (London), and Miss A. E. Hall (Adelaide) are staying at the Eoyal Hotel. The engagement is announced of Eva Marie, daughter of Mrs J. Leech, of "Thornbank," Bangiora, to Charles Herbert Mayne, of Hawera, Taranaki. The engagement is annonnced of William Arthur Dohson, youngest son of Mr and Mrs A. E. Dobson, Temuka, to Myrtle, only daughter of Mr and Mrs T. J. French, Christchurch.

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See "Newey's" for Travelling Goods —their own make. Newey was the sole New Zealand Exhibitors at Wembley and Toronto Exhibitions, See the large assortment at 679 Colombo, .street (next door ' Suckling's). Splendid selection. —6

Christmas and New Year goods at "Minerva" Salon include a wide range of exclusive models in dainty Summer Frocks and charming evening gowns—out sizes a specialty. Call or ring 'phone 3485 and discuss onr Christmas frock with us. Cashel street (over Jones, McCrostie).—F4B7o

Guests at Ozone Private Hotel ('New Brighton) include Mrs Sweet, Mr and Mrs Charles Were, Miss Sherwood, Mrs J. B. Clarkson, Mr and Mrs and Miss Betty McDonald, Mr and Mrs Hollobon, Miss E. Weere, and Mr and Mrs J. Dann,

Mrs. Booker (Sumner), who has been spending Christmas in Timaru, is now staying with Mrs W. Hall (Hororata).

Visitors at Victoria House, Geraldine, are: Mr and Mrs A. M. McDonald and Mis? McDonald (Invercargill), Mrs T. M. McDonald (Invercargill), Mr, Mrs. and Miss ~Ra.vrn.sleY (Dunedin), Miss Smyth (Dunedin), Mr Collins (Dunedin), Mrs Wright (Christehurch), Miss McDonald (Christehurch). Mrs Heney and two sons (Christehurch;.

During the holidays the visitors at the Hurunui Hotel included the following: Mr and Mrs H. L. Peany. Mr and Mrs W. Stewart Eobinson, Mr and Mrs S. Denton, Mrs Seaton, Mr and Mrs J. H. Reynolds, Mr and Mrs T. Dalton, Mr and Mrs J. Murphy, Misses >"esta and Olga Murphy, Mr and Mrs B. Hickson, Miss B. Hiekson. Mr and Mrs Hibbard, Miss Jones, Messrs V G Ferguson, TV. GUI, E. H. England," G. J. De la Cour, R. J. De la Cour, E. Tie la Cour, R. De la Cour, T. Walker, W. Hill, J. Thomson, E. Sunckell, and W." Towbridge. Visitors to Rakaia Huts include: Mr and Mrs P. TVynn Williams and family, Mrs Thomson, Miss G. Maling, Mr and Mrs Meredith Kaye and family, Mr and Mrs C. Sloman, Mrs William Day and family, Miss Virginia Cane, Mr and Mrs Guy Paseoe and family, Dr. and Mrs Molineaux, Mr and Mrs J. W. K. Lawrence and family, Mr and Mrs W. D. Lawrence, Mr and Mrs L. Lawrence and family, Mr and Mrs Burrowes, Mr and Mrs D. McFarlane and family, Mr and Mrs C. P. Agar and family, Miss Reynolds, Judge Alpers, Mrs Alters and family, Mr and Mrs G. Buchanan and family, Colonel Cooper, Mrs Cooper and family, Mr F. W. Hunt, Mr and Mrs G. F. Drury and family, Mr and Mrs C. Denby and family, Mr and Mrs W. Vaughan and family, Mr and Mrs- S. Lueaa and family, Mr and Mrs Theo Barker and family, Mr and Mrs Jones,. Mr and Mrs Knight, Mr J. B. Beckett, Mr and Mrs A. McKellar and family, Miss Hay, Mrs W. Palmer, Mr and Mrs Warren and family, Dr. and Mrs Scott and family, Mr and Mrs W. Godfrey and family, Mr and Mrs C. L. Milne, Mrs Mather and family, and Mr L. B. Hart.

Among those who spent the Christmas and New Year holidays at the Selwyn Hnts were: Mr and Mrs W. Harris, Mrs White, Mr and' Mrs P. Molloy and family, Mr Fred White, Mr and Mrs Baty, Mr I. Denton, Mr and Mrs W. Howell and family, Mr H. Webb, Mr and Mrs Steans, Mr and Mrs Sparrow, Mr and Mrs E. Ford, Mr and Mrs D. Robertson, Mr and Mrs Simpson, Mr and Mrs Hart, Mr and Mrs H. Anderson and family, Mr and Mrs F. Banks, Mr and Mrs G. Bennetts, Mr and Mrs A. Harris and family, Mr and Mrs L. Brunton, Mr C. D. Morris, Mr and Mrs J. Terapleman and Misses Templeman, Mr and Mrs W. T. Billens, Dr. Baxter, Mr and Mrs F. King and family, Mr and Mrs Nutt, Mr 3nd Mrs G. Morrison, Mr and Mrs C. Rendle and family (Sumner), Mr and Mrs D. Costello (Sydney), Mr and Mrs N. Gale, Mr and Mrs H Bullivant, Mr and Mrs H. Wilson, Mr and Mrs Smidt, Mr and Mrs S. Irwin and family, Mr and Mrs H. Thompson, Mr and Mrs G. Dixon, Mr and Mrs G. Boakes, Mr and Mrs F. Keetley.

WOMEN AND BETTING.

INDEPENDENT INCOMES. *(rxo¥ ott& owv coßseapoKDwr.) LONDON, November 16. Miss Oieely Hamilton, in the "Morning Post": "Bacing, to many women, is as much a daily interest and excitement as it is .to their husbands and brothers; they study 'form,' as expounded in the newspapers, they are primed with the lore of the stable and gossip thereon with their neighbours. There is nothing surprising or unnatural in the modern woman's taste for gambling — gambling has never been a-purely masculine vice. In times past it was predominantly masculine, for the simple reason that the male sex was the moneyed sex; men, as a rule, had money in their pockets to win or lose; women, as a rule, had not. In well-to-do spheres, where women had a purse to dip into, they were usually ready enough for a gamble; in the eighteenth century, when high play was fashionable, the powdered dames of the aristocracy risked their money at cards as a matter of course —often just as hotly as their menfolk. But on the whole, until a decade or two ago, the average woman had little opportunity to indulge her liking for a gamble; when she' worked for a wage, it was an exceedingly small one; and when she lived at home, she was dependent for her pocket money on the goodwill of husband or father.

betting cotild not flourish; but because most women abstained from backing horses it did not prove that their abstention was due to an exalted standard of morality. They did not risk their money on horses because they had no money to risk. Betting among women came in with modern industrialism—when the girl, no longer supported in the home, turned out to earn her wage in a factory; it was also encouraged by the passing of the Married Women's Property Act, which gave wives the right to their own earnings and belongings. It is not because she is essentially more vicious than her foremothers that the woman of to-day takes her pleasure in the chances of the racecourse; her independent wage and her independent income give opportunities, denied to her foremothers, of backing a winner (or loser!)."

"ONLY TWO PARTIES." MRS PANKHURST JOINS CONSERVATIVES. I (now on ow* coamsapoirwwr.) LONDON, November 16. Mrs Pankhurst, speaking at a luncheon at which Mrs Stanley Baldwin was the guest of honour, given by the members of the Workers' Committee of the ladies' Carlton Club, said thaU she had decided finally that what little influence she possessed, and that was chiefly among women, must be thrown on the side of the Conservative Party, even if through long tradition there were some tilings to which she could not give her full adherence ' "I joined the Conservative Party," said Mrs Pankhurst, "because I fully believe that to-day there aro only two parties in the country—the Constitutional Party represented by Mr Baldwin . and the Conservative Party, and the Revolutionary Party. I firmly believe that not only the material side of life embodies in the Constitutional Party,, but also the spiritual side js threatened by the Revolutionary Party. The women in this country number eight million voters. If-we can get these eight million voters on our side then we can save the situation.- If you can only convince the ordinary woman that her home is threatened, that her religion is threat- i ened, and that even her security in marriage is threatened, then we shall I have her support." I