THING OF THE PAST

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 2

THING OF THE PAST

There is a disposition (says the. "Pictorial") in modern matrimonial circles to rebel against the honeymoon. This has already been out dow.iv/ People absolutely refuse, to be sent away for a month or a fortnight, and thoyaro finding; even a, week irksome, tinle.ssit is spent in. a continual _whirl of new sightseeing. This is no indication whatever that modern brides and bridegrooms are •not in love with each other, nor does it augur that if they cannot endure each other's undiluted society in the roseate dawn of wedded life they must necessarily hato each other later. 'Hie fact is, the' "early period of matrimony is just the time" when the contracting parties need to bo distracted from themselves. If it is impossible for the newly wed to go to Paris. Jlonto Carlo, or somewhere else where they are flung into a perfect ttla'olstroni of gaiety, they should not go away for more than a couple of days, and then at once assemble their friends about them and entertain, and bo unlet* 'tained.

Tho second of Miss Borlase's scries of winter assemblies takes place in the Oaring Street Hail on Wednesday, May 13. The chaperenes arc: Miss Centos, Mestlaiiies Brneo, IJothamley, Clayton, lie Lautour, Osiiorne-Gibbes, Jordan, KalW, King, Matthews, Peat, Pope, Roskrngc, Renner, and Wallace. Miss J. Peat is tho secretary.

.The weekly meeting of tho Wellington Catholic "Club Literary and Debating Society was held in the chili's rooms last evening, when an interesting debate look place before ft good attendanpe-of members, on the question "Should Women Enter Polities?" The debate was very keenly contested, some very fine speeches being delivered on both sides.