SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. Christian and their family are leaving iu the Moana to live in Mangaia, Cook Islands. Mrs. Climie, of Tanranga; is tho guest of Mrs. M'Nair, Central Terrace, lielburn. . Miss Kennedy and Miss S. Kennedy are visiting Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. Siinm are spending' a short holiday in Akaroa. Mr. and Mrs. Austin' Can , , , of Auckland, who have been staying iu Christchurch, liavo gone on to Akaroa. Mrs. Mathow Holmes and her children' purpose visiting tho South Island. Mr. and Mrs. J.- E. .Fulton are visiting Napier. . , Mr. and Mrs; T. Gibson and Mr. and Mrs. A. Doig (Wanganui) are.on a motoring tour through Nelsoii and the West Coast districts. Advices to hand state that Miss Dulcie Metz, of Chrietchurch, who is studying at the Melbourne Cohservatorium of Music, had the honour of singing to Dame Melba (says an exchange), who pronounced her voice exceptionally fiuei The* annual report of the Director of the Conservatorium, which. Miss Metz has attended only during the last term, says: "She can scarcely fail to have a brilliant career in front of her." ■. . Miss Amy A. Snelson has arrived in Sydney, haying gone to Australia to fill the positioii of national general secretary to tho Young Women's Christian Association of Australasia, as successor to Miss Helen ¥. Barned, M.A.. Miss Snelson has for three years, been connected with the work of the British National Board of the Young AVomon's Christian Association, as travelling and organising secretary in tho north of England, and for. a time investigating and inaugurating club work for business girls in the south of England. She also spent some weeks in tho United States of America, working as a member of the War Work- Council of tho National. Young Women's Christian Association. ,

The funeral of the late Mrs. Conway Matson took jilace at .tho Papanui Cemetery (says a Christchurch paper), the Eov. W. Hi."' Orholl officiating. Messrs. W. and T. Matson (sons), David Matson (nephew), D. Thomas, W. Watson, and. George Fisher were tho pall-hearers. Many wreaths were sent, and there was a large attendance at the graveside.

When I am among people who will liston to me, 1 never miss an opportunity to iterate and reiterate the statemenc that: Any mother who knows how to read and writo can, if she will, doublo the value of her child's education. And when lam contradicted,, as I usually am, says a writer in tho "Ladies' Home Journal," 1 press the point fervidly, because to mo it is the one great dominant fact in child training. She-can "if she will"; but she will not unless she has aii enthusiasm for the child, an enthusiasm for learning'and a true- conception of what education really is. l'iiero aro hosts of mothers .who love to have their children about thorn, who know that the only education that is worth anything is,to be measured by growth—the . develbp-. ment of faculties —and can he expressed only by. ability to , think and to do. These 1 aro the mothers who can doublo tho value of education for their children. Many 5,r0 doing it, and their children aro the "gifted ones," the prido and joy of'their teachers..

Miss Kathleen Burke, who during her visit to America travelled Over 120,000 miles and delivered hundreds of lectures about tho Scottish Women's Hospitals and Bed, Cross work, has been gazetted Colonel of the 138 th Field/ Artillery, American Expeditionary Force, says an exchange. Owing to her success in Englaad in getting contributions she was known as "the pound-a-minute girl." In America tho reporters called her "tho thousand-dollars-a-day girl:" When she visited Verdun, General Pefciin described her as "the knight of tenderness across tho world." Miss Burke has been decorated by four Allied ".Governments for nursing land organising service. Slio is tho daughter of one of the chief officers of the London and North-West-ern Railway Company. In appearance she is small And has a bright little face, full of humour. Boforo tho war sho led the life of an ordinary English girl, , and had no special training as iiurso or lecturer.

The-Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luko) acknowledges witli 'thanks the receipt of £10 11s. from tho staff of tho Base Eecords Office. For a very long while thoy have- contributed regularly _ to various patriotic funds, and this time have expressed a wish that tho money should be used for the children who are sufferers by the epidemic. As, however,' there is no' special fund for children now, it must nf necessity go into the general fund. Mrs. Luke has visited all those women . and children of whom she had information, and found that in most cases they are able to lilanage very comfortably upon tho Government grant. Any who through further sickness or unforeseen circumstances find' that thoy cannot aro asked to notify the Mayor ur Mayoress or any member of tho Epidemic Relief Committee. lAU help that may bo needed is offered in a, true spirit of brotherliness, and therefore no ono need hesitate to ask for it or to notify the committee of cases of which 'thoy may know.'

A. meeting of the Soldiers' Memorial Cemetery Committee (W.N.R.) took' plnce .at Mrs. Mathow Holmos's residence on Tuesday afternoon, when Mrs. Holmes was in tho chair. A number of permits were received from relatives of soldiers to allow, re-inter-ment in the ; iiew cometery ; nnd correspondence with the Public Health Department on the same subject was dealt with. The members of tho comr mittee -all expressed'dissatisfaction with tho manner in which 'the interments during tho epidemic had been made, and tho hon. secretary was appointed to interview the authorities on tho subject. It was agreed to write to the Mayor and ask him if he would endeavour to make arrangements, if tho proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to Now Zealand eventuated, to ask His ■ 'Royal Highness to nerform tho opening ceremony at the Memorial Cemetery. The Prince is tho chairman of the Jmncrinl Soldiers' Graves Committee in London, nnd has shown'much interest regarding tho proper arrangements concorniiin: the graves of the soldiers of the Kmpiro. An offer was received from -flin members of t'io AV.N.ft. OiHs' Club to decorate ths cravos in the Memorinl at Tvarnri with flowers regnlarlv, and also to plant fW-pre when tho bovdors are rendv. This offer was cratefullv ao.cepted, as most of tl'P ernvps are tlmpn of men whose vplnHvn<! li'-n pt, a distance, or ar" out «f Hip Dominio-i nlloirether. f*Mrs. Holmes nnd Mrs. Chntfiold v;prv nnpointod ns ioint lionorary treasurers to the committee.

Tho Jtev. Stanley Jenkin and Jlrs. Jenkin are spending a. holiday in Nelson. The arrival of twins to couplee named in the peerages is not uncommon—Sir Abe and Lady Bailey have' a twin boy and girl; Lord Linlithgow's. heir lias a twin brother, so lias Lord Durham; Lord Howard do Walden's boy possessos a twin sister; Lord and Lady Dudley's family was completed by twin boys: one of his brothers lias twin daughters; Lady Haig and Queen Alexandra's favourite Maid of Honour, MisE Violet Vivian, are- twins, and so are their kinswomen, tile two youngest halfsisters of Lord Swansea.

According to a southern paper, Ivhilo in Ghristchurch (general Pan had an opportunity of. becoming acquainted with the book written by Mrs.■ Helen© Gross for the 'use bf British and American soldiers in France. The General was naturally very much interested in the hook, and complimented the authoress warmly on her useful contribution'to the war hooks-of tho last few years.