SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 110, 3 February 1920, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss "Jlay Kane, who ha.-> been spending a holiday in C'orommidel, has returned to ■Wellington. Mrs. Roger Montgoiuerie and the Misses,.Winifred and Alex. Montgomerie, who-motored to Weliington last week to meet ' Lieutenants Oswald ■■ atut tieton Montgomerie,''of tlic ltoyal .Air Force, have returned to' Wangamii. . Mr. .and Jlr.s. Eoger Jlonfgpnierie, who have been living in England for sowc years, returned to New Zealand by. the Kuahine.

Mrs. l'onsonby and Mrs. Ward are at present staying in Cliristehurch, Mrs. p. I'earce, who has been visiting Greyniouth, has returned to Wellington-. '• Dr. and Mrs. Walls tire visiting Auckland. Dr. anil-Mrs. Wilson, of Suva; are spending some time in New Zealand. Mrs. M'Nair and her daughter have returned from Plimmerton. Mrs. Spencer Beard and Miss Beard, who have been staying with Miss Halse, Tinakori lioad, havo returned to Masterton. Mrs. T. M. Brownrigg and her two soils left 'by the Moeraki to join Dr. Brownrigg in Sydney. Captain and Mrs. D. i\ Duigan returned bv the liuapehu. Captain Duigan is a brother of Lieut-Colonel G.' Duigan, Chief Staff Officer, Auckland, and of Mrs. Ostler, all well known in Wellington.

"Now -tluit the holiday season is prac--1 ir- ;y -I- -n writ.es a correspondent,' "Upland," "and those publicBpirited women who find time to tako interest ,in the .welfare of their kind and of the nation are gathering up tho threads of their varied interests this seems an opportune moment to suggest, lo the National Council of Women that a committee be set up to inquire into the flourishing state of that .everreeurring monster, the cost, of living. One thing, there is a feeling abroad that an explanation, of the so-Slillcd sugar shortage may be that the present contract expires in, June, and the next ono mav fix the l retail price at an advanced figure. Then anyone who happened to have a few InmdieVt tons of the commodity, bought at the cheaper rate, would reap quitp a harvest. Jt. seems pre-eminently the business of har.rassed housewives to find out these things—and- -some- others." Miss Ngaire Eiddiford, who has been the guest of Mrs. Kettle, C'obden Eoad, Napier, has returned to Wellington.

"One day women will 'fnim the Empire," wrote Frederic Harrison to' Lady Dorothy Neviil. But he was a gloomy prophet, for ever giving that old lady the creeps, with his forecasts of the downfall of the Kmpire in 189!) and o'f sanguinary revolution in 1912 (says tho "Saturday AA T estminster," in writing of "The Life nnd Letters of Lady Dorothy Neviil"). AVe think he will be equally wrong about the women. The women of the future, whose political power he feared, -. will not be the same women— they are already'different. AVe shall never'-".look upon their like again, thoso ladies of the nineteenth century. They are gone, liko-the shows of yesteryear, before tho blistering sun of modernity. f)n Ihc rovr of M' 1 . book it is announced that his mother "knew her own mind and everybody worth knowing." She was a woman cerl-iinly with a very definite appreciation that certain thing:; in life are good, that she had got them, and-that they were being assailed. She knew and liked most of those of her class who were, in hei view, holding the fort against the invaders, whether Liberal politician or American millionaire. For. '-'Gladstone and his convicts" she had little but vituperation, more pointed than subtle, and we arc left with the feeling that the "Tory renegade and pillar of the Radical' Party" whom she told "in a decided voice before a. largo house-party" that she did not "like rude young men" was only prevented by her tex from 'being in posession of a most, devastating tu ciuoque. One or two of the paladins of Radicalism.'however, by sheer force of character, attained to the rank of those "worth knowing," notably Mr. John Bright and Lord Morley. But the perfectly impeccable, such as Disraeli and Lord Wolselcv, were the real friends.

• \'he gas-cooking demonstrations for this year will bo opened to-morrow by Miss Una Carter. 'Miss Frances Henry, daughter of Dr. Henry, The Terrace, had the privilege of playing the violin before Mr. Verbntggh'en. He said she had undoubted talent,, well worth cultivating. -Miss Frances Henry will go to Sydnpy in company with Miss Cullen (N.S.AV. State Orchestra) and will enter iho Conservatorium there to carry oil her studies. .Mrs. Don, notional president of the W.C.T.U., and Mrs. Lee Cotric arc leaving at the end of this week by Ihe Kuahine for London to attend the World Convention to be.held there in .April. Mrs. Don is. well known throughout the Dominion as being one of the most effective. platform speakers amongst the women of tho Temperance Party. Mrs. Lee Cowic also is ft speaker of repute. A farewell gathering will'take place in the .Constable Street rooms on Thursday afternoon, when all friends and lellirshers will have an opportunity of wishing.both ladies bon voyage

The round of entertainments for patients at Trentham 'Military Hospital last week was a noteworthy one. On Monday the New South AVales Slate Orchestra paid a visit to the camp and gave a wry enjoyable entertainment. On Tuesday there was an outing arranged by the Salvation Army, and a fishing parly of the Y.M.C.A. Red Cross drives look place on Tuesday, AVednesdav, Friday, and Saturday, whilst on Thursday a picnic and boating party to AYeilingtoii Harbour and -Somes Island,was arranged by the staffs of wards 9 and 10 and A. a lid Ji. Block, the R«1 Cross and Sal ration Army also taking part. In the evening the 'patients played billiards nnd cards in the Red Cross Room, where supper was provided. On Saturday the patients were taken for oiit.itfts in n car provided by Miss Adams. The Officer Commanding and the matron ucknowl.-'dgf with thanks Ihe following gifts:-l?ed Cros«. AYellijißton Branch -. Routine weekly issue of smokes, (lowers, fruit, cake, salads, and extra comforts, also vard visiting; Mr. J. Rc.dda. manager Horticultural Station, Havelock North: Four cases of fruit. Salvation Army: Literature. cake, fruit, g'fls, sweets, and also ward visiting. Mr. Kcbme: Golf clubs. Lady Liverpool: Magazines and papers.

A London uflrrespondent. fells a Southern paper that the activities of what may ho described as the pioneer elubroom for overseas soldiers iii London—the Anzac Club, in Victoria Street—have now ceased. .ft was established .by the London bnincli of the-Australian Natives' Association. bv whom it lias since been managed. ill ' rooms liiado available at a low rental bv tho Westminster Property Trust. From Ihe outset—prior to the (lavs when the dug-out was established in A'iclorin Street by the Williams family for New feilntid soldiers—our "Boys'" wore made welcome at the Anzac Club, and until it. was closed in.December New Zealanders have l'ref|iieii(cd it in large numbers. It,is estimated that nearly one. million and a half meals—all free of cost—were served at the buffet, funds for the upkeep of the club being received irmn all kinds of sources. Miss Ada Reeve, during her visit to Australia and New- Zealand, collected about iOS.flflO— subscriplions in New Zei.iuml coming in to her very liberally—and thus not only relieved the management of financial anxietv. but enabled it to extend ils acl.'ivities. Throughout it has been unite ouUido military control. A farewell entertainment for the men was held, and the staff of lndv workers met at a farewell tea and concert.

Tho death of Dr. Constance Frost occurred at her residence, Dominion lioad, Mount, iiden, on Thursday, says an Auckland paper. Dr. Frost was one of the old-est-established woman doctors of the Dominion, and a member of a family well, known and long settled at. Onehunga. Slio graduated in Duncdiu ninny years ago, .'■ixi iiu'i) took a post in the Adelaide Hospital. Since then she had practised in Auckland, • where her professional skill, kindly disposition, and capacity for selfsacriiice won her the esteem oh an extensive circle of trieiids. Dr. Frost was for many veavs bacteriologist at the Auckland' Hospital, and it was in the course of her duties there that she contracted the disease that resulted in her death. Conference of Y.W.C.A. A summer conference in connection with the Australian Toting Women's CitristViH Association will be held on the Y.M.C.A. camp grounds at Haywards. Between seventy and eighty delegates, coming .from all over Hie Dominion have registered up to the precpiit. time. The conference will last from Febiuary il to 12, and is under the leadership of Mifs Siielson, the Austrnlns'nn national general secretary, and J'-.iss Stevenson, the national industrial secretary. Mrs. A. Kftyc. of Chrktcliiirch, ivho is chairman of the Dominion Committee, will act as president of tlm conference. The sneakers and leaders of study groups at tho conference include: The Bev. E. E. AVecks, M.A., RD., LL.D., Dean of Nelson Cathedral, Rev. E. E. Tfarries,. of Chalmer's Church, Timaru, Mrs. A. R. Atkinson, Wellington, Mr. W, IT. George, Miss. Griffon. M.A., general secretary, Auckland .Y.W.C.A., Miss Gavin, Taranaki, representing the Student Christen Union, nnd others. Th? morning sessions, will 'be divided into sections. Group? will study the Bible and its relation to social problems, surrey of Iho needs and problems of other countries, ond our own civic life, study association policy and activities in their relation to reconttructl&n and. ;>dvance methods for the Dominion Y.W.C.A. Tho afternoons will bo planned for icereati'in and the various beauty spots in tli? neighbourhood w : U be visited _by delegates. The evenini! session will bo inspirational. and wili be in the imuds r>f Dean Weeks, February 3 to 5, and Eev. Harries February S to 11. Any visitors will be welcome lo these evening gatherings. The conference will have all the novelty of camp with' tents, mnr-yiises, and huts, .etc. Most of thi gatherings will lie held out-of-doors in tho beautiful refl.'ng of Silvcretrcain. The conference is unique in tbe following addition to the programme:— Mi o<i Stevenson, of Duncdiu. national industr'a! secretary of tho Y.W.C.A., who has gained considerable experience in nssociation and social work in America and Australia, will hoM n three weeks' training school for Y.W.C.A. .md social workers, dealing wit.li the following important subject?:—''The- Cl"'istia;i Woman. a World C ! ti»p," "TVinq'nles of "Techniiiue'ef Club AVorlt," "AYo'"en in Industry," "The Service of Ihc A'.AV.C.A. in fhe Afodern Community," "Psychology." "Community Service Among Men and AVomcn."