SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 141, 10 March 1920, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

• Lady Stout, has returned to Wellington from, the south. Dr. and Mrs. Yalintino have taken a house for the present in Tinakori lioad. A quiet wedding was celebrated by Archdeacon. Jacobs at St. Maiy's Church,' Timarii, on Saturday, when Mrs. Shan-, only ,dnußhtt*r of Mrs. Hayhurst., nnd the late Colonel Hayhurst, Teniuka, was married to' Mr. A. C. Fall, of Wellington'. The 'bride, who was given away by-her mother, wore a blue Milanese "frock, embroidered in silver, and a black velvet hat with paradise pluuiej, and carried a bouquet of pink roses and houvardia. She was attended by Mrs. Stanhopo, of . Wellington, as matron of 'honour, wearing a charming dress of roso pink georgette, with hands of spotted foulard in thfl same shade, and a black hat. Mr. .Arthur MacShaue acted as best man. After the ceremony the guests were entertained at the Grosvenor Hotel by Mrs. Hayhurst, wlio wore a handsome frock of gunmctal crepe ds rhine, embroidered in steel and blue beads, and. a hlnck satin and .royal blue hat.- Mrs. Dyniock and Mrs. Dillon, sisters of the: bridegroom, were' also present, the former -wearing a' navy blue find white spotted foulard and a black tulle lint,while the.latter had. a 'frock of black"" and white georgette and a black tullo hat trimmed with flowers. The Australian Club held a most enjoyable garden party on Saturday lifternoon Inst on the grounds of Mr. C. .T. Lockwood; "Wandoo," Island Bay. In the unavoidable absence of the president, one of the vice-presidents (His Rev. G. B. Hale) declared the function opeft.' The grounds, which arc charm ingly situated, with a profusion of roses, .flowors, and Australian native trees, were most suitable for the occasion. Afternoon tea and ices were served in the billiard room. The afternoon was pleasantly spent in various competitions, -tennis, etc., whilo Braud's Elite Orchestra played popular airs.

Mrs. Porter,, wife of Commander K. Potter. R.N.lJ.;with■ Iter two-year-old daughter, returned to the Dominion by tho Athenicj as did also Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Bower and their son and daughter. Mrs. -Bower is .a Well-known New Zealand artist, and has 'been working at Bournemouth for sevoral years. The marriage of Dr. Cecil John Wood, till recently Bishop of Melanesia, to Miss Marjorie Allan Bell, younger daughter ef Canon and Mrs. Allan Bell, took place in Norwich Cathedral recently, when tho Bishop, of Norwich officiated. Mrs. Baume (Auckland) came to Wellington to meet her sister, Miss levy, who arrived last week from America.. Mrs. E. Scudamore Stanhopo is visiting Christchurch and Toinuka. Dr. Fitt, M.A., Ph.D., with Mrs; Fitt and family, is. visiting Palmerston North after an absence from the Dominion of nino years;' Dr. Fitt has carried out research work ou the Continent, and has held posts in tho South' African mid Melbourne Universities. Mrs. W. Eolieston, who arrived in Wellington by' the • Athenic, left for Christchurch last week. ( Mrs. Scllar (Masterton) has returned from a visit to Hunterville. Mr. and Mrs. C. Wi Rutherford (Masterton) are visiting Christchurch. Mrs. Walker (Gisborne) has come lo Wellington to attend the W.C.T.U Convention, which opens to-day. We hear (says an English exohange) much of the sentimental and the astronomical aspects of Leap Year, but it has also an economic side; The inclusion of the extra day .will mean a difference of some millions in our total foreign trade; and even in domestic finance the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to take account of February 23 in his Budget. It is even possible to found a grievance upon its existence, for, while weekly wage-earners suffer no lass, those who are paid by the month or the quarter give (as compared with normal years) the day's work for nothing.

, On Tuesday evening an enjoyable social gathering took place in Ward 7 of the. Trcnthanl Military Hospital on tho occasion of the departure of Miss le Y.A.1)., who is shortly to be married. • Several much appreciated items wero contributed by the staff and .patients/and before the evening closed Miss letievro was the recipient of-a number of gifts from the nursing staff, massago staff, and patients, who expressed their congratulation and best wishes for a happy future. Mr..and Mrs. A. P. Matthew^have returned to Carterton from a visit to Pangiora. \ .. How to Chock Profits. / Apropos of the unanimous protests' ngainst the high cost of living (states the Feilding "Star"), the Government is now publishing the names of thi men who have been selected in our cities' to net with the Board of Trade as tribunals' under tho. anti-profiteering legislation. Not ono woman has been appointed to any of these tribunals!' What does mere man know anout the cost of living? It. is the home-keeper who has all the worty If the Prime Minister had-set up tribunals composed of women—instead, of many. of the iiion that have been appointed—then the butcher' and the baker' and the bootmaker and the grocer and the draper would have had such a scart thrown into them that "profiteer" would quickly have become the most unpopular word in our vocabulary. Here is another tip to tho Government: It is penalising the hoarding of petrol. How Mil it discover the hoards? Set up tribunals of women. They know more secrets than the police or tho 'Board of Trade. Neither the profiteer ?ior the hoarder would have a hope against a jury or a tribunal of womon, Victorian Versus Modern Housewives, Discussing the, controversial question as to who wore the hardest worked housewives, those of the Victorian «ra or those of to-day, Mrs. Will Crooks gave a representative of a London exchange her views of the matter. ■ "The modern woman," she said, "has nothing like the amount of work to do which x the housewife of 10 or 50 years ago had, but I doubt whether if' tho Victorian housewife had lived under present conditions she would have done the work she did. The worst worry of Ihe wife to-day is undoubtedly the high cost' of living. Is my experience, the wives' would prefer low wages and low prices to high wages and 'high prices. Apart from this, tho modern woman ought to he fairly satisfied. She has more" leisure to go out into the world and to enjoy herself. She has greater opportunities of pleasure in every way, and she is infinitely better educated to take advau- . tage of those opportunities. In tho old .times a. day's excursion into the country was enough; now a fortnight's holiday by the sea is found essential. "Everything is different to-day," continued Mrs. Crooks. "The conditions of life have altered so completely, In 'those days people bud larger families, and looked after them almost singlehanded. ■ A woman was content fn stay at homo and lonic after her children. X .admit that work of any kind is very difficult to get to-day.. Thirty years agri, however, if a wife couldn't find a man ■to clean the windows she'd five tliem a wino over herself, and. think nothing .about it. Odd-jobs men, are now ;is iinficult to find as needles in a haystack. ;T think on the wliolr- (he tild-tinie'linnsi'-wife worked far harder. If she had had modem conditions to worli 'under, lunvBfer, sho probably would have grumbled." . . . .

vy.c.T.u, To-day the delegates attending the an<nual convention of the Womcn;3 Christian Temperance. Union, -meeting, this year in Wellington, wi'l be given a .civic reception in the-Concert Chnmber Town Hall, by the Deputy-Mayor. Addresses of welcome will also be delivered by representative snenkers from other organisations. Musical and elocutionary items will be given. On Friday evening, at Wesley Hall,. Taranaki Street, addresses in educational subjects will bo given by Mr 11 '\. P'irkinson, M.A., and by Mis* C. C A, Aitcheson. On. Thursday afternoon the Rev. -J. Dawson, will address the convention en .The Plan ot Work for the Next Three Years.". The New Spirit in Art, .... At. Burlington House, in Piccadilly, the home of tha Royal Academy, which lor many years has stood for all that is conventional in' the painter's art, and has closed' its doors tc every new development, until the new school had established itself so successfully that to continue to ignore it would have hastened the Academy's owh doom, there Is now on exhibition' the most remarkable collection* of-paintings that has ever been gathered together in the history of Great Britain, states the London correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus." It consists' of a selection of 900 pictures out of the 3000 that have been acquired for the nation by.the Imperial War Must-urn as . a record of the war. Whnt makes the exhibition remarkable is that to a* largo extent the pictures aro the' work of,, young men, whose work would not have been admitted to any. of the Bixteen. spacious galleries of Burlington House in any exhibition controlled solely by ' the Koyal Academy. It is true that, the war has chastened, the revolutionary spirit ,of these youiig painters, and that'in theiiwar pictures they seem less interested in outraging the old conventions of art,than in reproducing war as .they saw it.(of themselves.... But the fact ...that their work has received official approval and encouragement represents t great' step forward in the progress of British art. Almost asremnrkable as the exhibition itself is tho- unaccustomed harmony;in the' views expressed by the art -critics. On all sides thero is expressed the conviction that the exhibition..represents the.dawn of a new era in British art.

"Before the way new ways, of expression and of .representation were being sought, or were happening everywhere, even'in England,"'states the/art critic of tho "Times." "But in that world of things a);' they long had 'been'these' ways seemed Co tho. public to bo freaks, tho bluff of incompetence, or the yawn ofennui. The painters with their view ways had nothing momentous enough to paint. It was tho ordinary World of landscapes and sitters; there' was a. temptation to play violent tricks upon'' those without conviction. But the war, like Christianity long ago, has supplied, a momentous theme, while-it is in i'.self an event so. large, and so shattering of continuity, /that even tho 'dullest' of us expect ail things to be different after it. And this exhibition of war pictures is wildly different from anything . that any official body could ■ conceivably ■ have, countenanced before, the'.;war. 'Art,' too.' thev seem to havo snid,'>'shall have a fresh start. These young .men who have fought.for.lis; now they shall paint for us what they have seen, as they have felt it. ,Wo' shall not impose on them our old. examination standards; wo shall not ask the questions wo are accustomed to ask about pictures—as whether that left foot is not out of drawing, or whether that is our idea of a bursting shell; we will let them gi\;e us tfie ideiij and nerve ourselyes to face tlio : .y.esiilt.' '- The critic concludes his articlc'with the following sentence •.—"What we would in : sis't upon in 'the exhibition is' its'promise of something much richer; more interesting, more spiritual, than has been in English painting since v tho Middle Ages; and aii"ounce of such promise is worth a\ton of jrided performance.", i