SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 669, 20 November 1909, Page 10

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

(Notices of Engagements and Weddings Wiien reports of weddings mid announre. ments of engagements mo sant to "Dominica" forl'publication, the naino and address of tli» sender elionld bo enclosed, not for publication,, bill as an evidence of good faith. Otherwise the announcements cannot bo published.! Fete at Awarua. It is hoped that all the rnombens and friends of. the Girls' Realm Guild will ba at tho fete ' which is to be held at Lady Wnrd's residence this afternoon. iliss Phillips, tho blind girl who acts as librarian in Wellington for tho Braille books lent out by the Auckland Blind Institute, has consented to give demonstrations of Braillo v.rihng, and sho will haro on exhibition some specimens of books printed m Braille, This should provo exceedingly interesting, though it is noi to bo supposed thalj many people present will bo able to read tho books. If it should be too wet for an outdoor foto, 4 concert mil be 5% en. in St. Andrew's School, room, Wellington Terrace, in the evening, nkoa. all the gifts and Hovers for tho stalls will b> .sold;

Tho Night Nurses' Trials. , • . ''Jft is not always easy to tnako tho family of a patient understand what bctne a nureoon, night duty moan 6," said Mrs. Atkinson at'tho nurses' dinner on Thursday,' "and when, the , nureo comes on duty just as tho family is j>oing otf to bed, she will be told cheerfully, 'Wβ ha\o piit* everything ready for you to make yourself a onp of tea during tho meht.' Pooplo forget 4hat their night is really tho tmrso'a iky, and that if they havo required threo jneab in the day to keep them .going, tho nurse w.ill not bo sufficiently fed with tho light repast a oup of tea provided, nor do they realise that tbo cannot do her work properly without food. In tho feanio way they aro apt to forget that, though 6ho takes her root JU tho daylight,, eh* requires as much sleep oe, thongh she went to bed by oaadle-liglrt.

Dance at Victoria"College, y ■; .•'. j.Tho .Victoria Collet,stndchts arc very, happy V ■';; all tho year round, but.thcy: reach tHpelimax- . of thoir, jbyt on the. day (that the. last oiamina- J.\% tiott . finishes, *an that, can only ibe i'i fittingly;,celebrated', by , ' a'vdanco. .■ • Yesterday :.-.;v; saw, ; the.■'■■ end .of the, annual intpiisitioh, i , and' {• therefore.the new.gynmasiuni ..was. lust anight ■' the:scene .of ./a,-, .dance, given-by: the! Students' < '•'': Association. : Several'.' of; tho-i .professors.t;and : ; ■'"■;. their wives wore ■present, as , well as a. large '■■■-';'■ number of students.-, This was, the first otthV *■ lovger..,daiiccs ,to.be; hold ; ib the; gymnasium; ; u ,:, whiqb, i,with its .wide verandah and balcony, \'- .. looting ;far over the' harbpnr,' is much , bettor J" fitted for;:srieh festivities,; than ! ; is tUe : 'coUege'; v ;.' building itself, and" oh a mild, moonlit nifitj ..ij no ; morb ■ charming place, could be , desirftiL " The: miisip. was- supplied by Mr.'Fleming. C S ': '■

Tho Nurses' Conference. Last night most of tho delegate? who have attended the Nurses' Conference returned to their homes, and the rest ore leaving Wellington to-day for the north. They aro \cry woll satisfied with the result of thoir discussions, for though their work has been rather too technii cil to be of much interest to tho general public, it has been of importance to nurses, and , ■nill prove very useful. ' \ Tho Babies' Aid >Socie f y. , Members of thp committee of tlio Society for the Health of Women and Children were entertained yesterday altornoon by )<or Excellency lady Flunkett at a pleasant little tea at tho Ministonal residonoo m Molesnorth Street. Lady Plunket wore a Wouso of croam Ineh crochet laoo o\er whito satin with grey corslet ekirt. Tea at Silverstrcam. Yesterday afternoon Mrs Young gave a delightful tea at her house at Silvcr6trco.ni, which was attended by tho delegates to the Nurses' Conference, with 3' party of friends. They went out by (ho early train, and spent a long afternoon in the bsat-hfnl valley, visiting tho hnls, and admirnii? tho charming mo* of mountains and nioadowland. Among those sresent5 resent were Miss Hester Madean, Mrs KenMl, Dr. 1 Agnes Bennett, Mrs. Crosbj, Mis. Gibbs, Mrs Mrs. Irving, Mw Turnor, Miss Payne, Mies Beck, Mass Joflce, 1 Mre Poiter, Mis Baglcy, Miss Kldd, and Dr. Will ■ ; i Jli<s 13 giving a "china tea" on Tuc«-\ day for llia> Troaducll, uhteo marriage is to ta\o place ehorlly . Mihs Claire Butts, *Ho has been visitins friends in Hawke's Bay and tho Wairarapa, ro-,urned to tottn last night. Professor and Mrs Kankmo Blown have lot tlnnr houso on Aurora Ton .ire to Colonel Tu'on < Jlies Barker, from Caatorbury, is tho Rnesfc of Mrs Algor Williams. Mies Jones, of iucUand, who has been ono of the dolegatcs to Nurse*.' Association Confere-nee, to Neleon to-ddy. Mrs. D. G. lliddiford is \lsltulg Wellington.