EVERYDAY TOPICS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 3

EVERYDAY TOPICS.

MELBA AT 'HOME!

Tho most interesting and exciting Melbourne entertainments at the present monont are those private parties' where Sa J5 a guest. Tho Australian diva is i> mod bncge-player, and has so much^conoon?™ird,l*« • ICMn "'■'""ninß-Saine-and inclulgo in .- conversation , simultaneously Women seldom play well enough'for her, and h. preim men-for.her partners aiid opponent* . Sho looks 'slighter' than , on her professional visit to Australia- five'years arid is in remarkably good health and spirHs! ne tall son and his petite an 1 youthful bride accompany ' her everywhere a,d «S s r 'T l ?' f! V ,!,I - V Par - ty - Mell,a 's foe for "ligi.ig at London parties is uOO -Suinea's Airoftgat her Melbourne friends she S without money and without price 'she ns TLT Qy at thft « one small P1 y g»ing tho guests tho'pleasure'of heaiw her orjital vojoo which' : suggests .„, ou ? ™ tccl Sll >g'"g Ot dawn in a drawin"as it was live years since, and tho daVn W-" froshncw enchants the hearers. To t i'X qi;ilestivife. Md,,OnrnO tho . AN INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY.' There was an iromenso r/nflm,.,,™' 'i' , in.tho Melbourne Town HaM ti W °"! e " of the 20th anniversary if fbnW CeaS: "" Christian only camo into, ox stonco in A n ,„,! ■ 1873, and now there arc Ca '" th u "whito man's burden" s f -0,, f' % W first Australasian union J, „ >L 'n J 'f Wale,. :Thb association is ' a fcf°, i powerful band in America, whore the obliVa tory inclusion of tho ehiments of S physiology in tho time-tables of th! p rim""7 Rchools is. duo to tho .efforts of the wo 01 tho union. The effects of excess in "ho" use of alcohol and narcotics are .improved upon tho..minds of tho American Sol childrmi by lessons and charts. The Aus tralasian 'Union holds temperance oxamiin tions every two yoars, with tho vie\y of civ" ing the rising generation instruction in the scientific .reasons for total abstinence l< 1 anens■ W1 Hard clubs for girls are a flourishing part -of tho union's work. Those aim at helping working girls and providing wholoBomo amassment for them. Mothers' mcotings aro regularly hold in connection with tho union, whereat doctors and nurses often convoy invaluable instruction iu a pleasant way.