SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 5 March 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Richmond Free Kindergartens. The 100 th meeting of the Richmond Free Kindergarten: Counoil was held ill the' Taranaki Street School, recently. Mrs. Gill) president, was in the ohair, and present were: Mrs. D. C. Bates, Mrs. Burnett, .Mrs. M'Laron, Mrs. "H. Smith, Mrs. D. A. Ewen, Misses Newton, England, Helyer, and Hiscock. As April 5 is Easter Monday, it was decided to, hold the next .meeting on April 12. A demonstration of kindergarten work is to be held on "March 10,' in ' tho Palais do Dance, Vivian Street.' The council has issued invitations, and anyone wishing'to dome who has not received an invitation is welcome on payment of a shilling at the door.

,Miss Riley in her report stated that the Kindergarten opened with more children on the roll than in the Christmas quarter, and the fact that above >20 children wont on the State School from most of the kindergartens will prove that it is a. popular institution. The health of the children is good and the attendance much improved. The following have been received as pr<ftationers;—Misses Edna Scott. Grace Lake, Edna Morris, Marjorie Myers, Amy Constance Denton, and Ailsa Newton. The course for students is two fears, at the end of "which successful students receive a certificate. If they ho'd an intermediate certificate t'hey receive a certificate- signed by the Department, if not, they receive a local certificate. The students receive no salary during that time, but receive a training in practice and theory of kindergarten methods and prinoiples. Sub-scriptions-have been re-jeived from Mr J. Joseph, Mr. and Mrs. R. Fletcher! Mrs. Gill, Mrs. D. 0. Bates. Mrs. H. Smith, and Miss Helyer. Bills were passed to the amount of £51 13s, lOd. for the payment of salaries, etc.

Carterton Notes. Our Carterton correspondent writes that Mrs. S. G. Jones, a jecent arrival in the Dominion, with 24} years' English experience, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Belvedere State School, from seven applicants. . A. quiet wedding took place at the residence of Mr. J. Udy South Carterton, on Tuesday, when Miss Minnie Bubb, fifth daughter of Mr? Oliver Bubb, of Carterton, was married to Mr. Alexander M'Leod, of Canterbury. The ceremony wis performed by I the Rev. L.-Thompson, of St. Andrew's Church. ' '

A Nation's Nicknames, In one .of the most amusing tales which have been told in connection with the relations between English and German troops in the trenchcs the good feeling was inaugurated by one of the British privates shouting to the Germans "Good morning, Fritz." Does this , mean that Fritz has become the polite title of Germans in the language of British soldiers? queries a writer in ,the "Manchester Guardian." ' For.pur-poses-.of abuse wo know that "Sausage" is thc\eorrect form, to which the German rek>ly is ''Khaki" ; the French used to bq f'Hosbif," and the Boer wae 'Rooinek," but it is interesting to know tljiat Fritu seems to hare usurped the plaoe once occupied by Hans as a general /description of a German. Perhaps we can trace it to a pantomime song of u few years back, "Has Anyone Seen a'German BandP" with the refrain— / ■ , ■ lj|n looking-for Fritz. ' Who plays twiddly bits On the big trombone I.

It will be notioed, too, that although Johann is oommon enough in Germany it has never gained universal signi> iioance in the way that John stands for an Englishman, "Jacques," with the r addition of "Bonhomme, for a Frenchman, and Ivan Ivanovitch (John Johnson) for a Russian. France , has also a general name for her women—Marianne, the Slang title for the presiding deity of the Republique Francaise on coins and stamps. In Arraß, when an innkeeper who had had the unenviable honour of entertaining the German Staff for some . days in September presented his bill on their rather hurried departure he was told to "take it to Marianne." Nearly al! nations have this first-name significance, though one is not sure that;it holds good in Hungary, but there is the Scots Sandy ana the Irish Pat. Fritz in happier circumstances might have had a real title to express the German. If the peaceloving Emperor Frederick—Unser .Fritz —had reigned longer there might never have been a universal war. The United States, one supposes, must'be tied down to Sam, and Australians have been described as Tommy C!ornstalk. ;

The delegates who arrived in Wellington yesterday to attend the Y.W.C.A. Conference left for Day's/Bay in the I afternoon. The, conference opened last evening. On Saturday they will be entertained ' at a garden party by Mr. and Mrs. Kersley. Mr. andAfra. D. D. Birkett left yesterday on a visit to the \Vairarapa, where they are the guests of Mrs, Gi Hume. Mrs. D. Caselberg. who has been spending som« weeks in the south, arrived in Wellington by the Maori yesterday. Miss Phipps Williams and Miss Griffin, Bona Bay, left by the Main Trunk express for Auckland on. Wednesday evening. Mrs. Troutbeck, who has been spending soma time in Wellington, has returned to Napier. Colonel and Mrs. Harcourt Turner return to Wellington from Christchurcli on Sunday.

Tho Pluiiket Society has started a magazine specially designed to promote their work. It is called the "Plunket Magazine," and it includes articles by Dr. Truby King and Miss Wimperis, an English woman who is spending some time in New Zealand, and who is the daughter of the well-known: artist. Her article is entitled "Sport for Growing Girls," and is followed by remarks upon '"Hockey for Girls." _ The expenses due to the production of the magazine over and above returns for advertisements are borne by it few contributors specially interested in this side of the society's work.'

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