SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1010, 28 December 1910, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wellington Weddings. On Monday afternoon, at St. James's Urnrch, Newtown, the wedding took P-aco of Miss Jean Francis and Mr. Percy, H. . Smith,,' the E«v. James Shirer performing the ceremony. The.service was ohornl,,and Mr. Morris presided at the organ, playing the Wedding March as the. bridal party left the church. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a handsome princess gown of whitesatin charnieuse 'with yoko and sleeves, ot embroidered chiffon, and the . usual wreath and veil. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet of lilies and roses. Miss Lily Francis and Miss Nellie Copeland attended her as bridesmaids, wear•ine frocks of champagne-tinted poplin with hats of tho same Shade, wreathed -with pmk roses, and carrying showerbouquets of pink sweet peas. Mr. Arthur C. Smith, brother-of the bridegroom, acted as best man,- and Mr. P..8.Crouch was groomsman. A reception was afterwards held by Hus bride's parents in bt. James's Hall, after which Mr. and Mrs. ( Smith.left for the south. The brides travelling frock was a costume of .terra cqtta cloth braided with black, and a. black hat with a . terra cotta osprey plume, lhe presents, which, woro many aud most desirable, included a handsome Sr o ":?, ck nnd a dinner service from Jur. hmiths fellow-employees (the staff of the chief accountant's office, New. Zealand railways)! •

Af ¥j ss Ractal Annie .Turness, daughter nea at bt. Peter's Church yesterdav afternoon to. Mr. G. N. Evans of W tramways staff,-,and son of the late Mr »?fi d -P by her sister - Mi *S Mav Illing. worth JTurness,-as bridesmaid. The best ™ n ;;•<¥ 'Mr.:Herbert Furness. The bride and bridegroom, ,who were members- of ~ond-off at the church, 'a- merry neal of Mis being, rung in their honour' { ■'? r S?. reception was,,held afterwards Lt .tho residence of the bride's mother, a o^^ The Children's Inheritance. hfiiTsi^n" ls -addtaWW given ford l«t 1 G ? v « rnor ' Lor( l Chelmslord, last week at the Teachers' Confer : - enra, says tho, Sydney "Telegraph:" In ■■& On /w°M, h, ' s remarks the Governor stated that there were two subjects to , which he attached,.the, greatest, importance, nature \ study: and- his ory ; muoh tn gave apply- just as fir!? th,s T ntrj : f 5 t0 Australia. In, the firs, place he would advocate nature s ; udy,onpubhe grounds because .'the fu-' ture of Australia , depradtd upon the rfA ,5 !, 1 ? 1 " 1 ' people on the land Wkv? t N ih H S:i i ¥ e *' «'«■>' there; trv dull ? Ti they had ,, ftm "d' the-coun-try dull, and, because ilk towns had so Houd-it not be something.Mf flnlv a small thing, if ther. coul<f train u P I ..generation which" would find.its delights in the, country, which 'would find its full ■ satisfaction ther;, and .which'..would; not. bo straining. alter town life ?■ I --In'regard to. tho study of history,' Lord I.LUolmsfprd •said:'.ho regarded it as -of I supreme importance that tho community should possess ,a. sound historical"knowIfdge. After all, they, could not , cut themselves "ndnft from the past, and in ,the evolution they had come out froiir the past, and therefore they ought to' know "how they had arrived where they, were, and las'a'corollary- it seamed desirable that teachers should be specially. vers-M in-history because they were the. educators of tho rising gen«Ntjqn.; .Thera-. was nothing :like- the stndy of .history to give the wide but-" lppkupon. the. affairs of. the world that they, should have as' a cominunity, and -for. tho children's, take there- wris no subject that , could' be made more en-' -thralling.. History should. H ■ the inheritanco. of childhood, and it should have the charm of a story to them which was not only interesting but true. The children/even as tho adults, took so; much for granted. They assumed the existence of railways aiid tho telegraphs,and...they assumed in towns that water by some magical means would always be flowing into their systems.. Was it not good that they should bring homo to their children the hardships that their forefathers , suffered "in." this country, and but for their suffering the children could not enjoy the blessings they had? All that was history just as much as the chronicles of kings and queens, and so th:y could point from that that something was due £rom the children in their turn, when they became men and women for those who would come after. If those things were to bo brought homo to the-children-this teachers'must - havo knowledge—must be soaked in. their subject. • • ■■■:...' ■:■■ •;: