WOMAN’S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Hugh Williams (Masterton) hag been spending a few days in Wellington.

Mrs. J. B. Henry ha* returned to Wellington from a visit to Mastertan.

Mrs. A. B. Lawrence (Masterton) is visiting Wellington.

Alios Freda Mond, who is leaving for England very shortly, took a big share in arranging for ths comfort of New Zealand soldiers at Rouen. She arranged the finances of the Soldiers’ Club in that town, and also was prominent for her activities when the demobilisation camp was established at Rouen.

Mr. H. C. Pockley and Miss Pockley are visiting Christchurch.

Miss Ella Ilelinore has 'returned to Christchurch from a. visit to the North Island.

A. recent arrival in England from the Dominion is tho Hon. E. AV. Alison, M.L.C. /states a London correspondent). With Mrs. Alison and his daughter, Mrs. Mair, Mr. Alison will go north to Scotland, thence to Wales, and later to Franco. Belgium, and possibly to Switzerland and Italy. Altogether about three months will be spent in the Mother Country and three months on the Continent, and the return journey to New Zealand will be begun about the end of November.

A concert was held at Plimmerton on Saturday evening, in aid of tho school funds, and an excellent programme was presented by the Moera Pierrots and the Plimmerton Cheeros. Each item was warmly encored by the large audience. At the conclusion of the programme the chairman of the School Committee thanked the performers.

A monster suffrage petition, bearing 54,000 signatures, has been presented to tho Government of South Africa. General Smuts has announced that the Government is prepared to give every facility for any woman suffrage Bill introduced by a private member.

Tho friends of Miss Violet TolhamDawes, better known by her stage name, Miss Violet Yorke, will be interested to hear of her marriage to Mr. Taylor Temple Harrison, of Melbourne, which took place at Christ Church, St. Kilda, Melbourne, on June 15. Miss Violet Yorke has been in New Zealand with several Williamson productions. Mrs. Harrison's home is in Park Street, South Yarra, Melbourne. she having gjvcn up her stage career.

A London correspondent, writing on June 2, stated that at the conclusion of three months in England, Air. and Mrs. A. W. Gordon, _ Auckland, will go to Rhodesia to acquire land for farming. While in England Mrs. Gordon, who was Miss Buffer, of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, will visit the Midlands to stay , with her mother.

The annual dance of the Customs and Marine Department will take place next month. The committee, including Misses Brooks, Christie, Hawkey, Dalziel, Keogh, Belnsten, and Messrs. Furlong, Lawrence. Macnanghton,. Dineen, kaylor, Walsh,' Wallace, Carley, and Cotterill, the two last-named being joint secretaries for the occasion.

Mrs. Charlesworth (Napier) is visiting her parents, Sir John and Lady Luke.

Switzerland is less democratic than Southern India, which has enfranchised its women, and tho Canton of Vaud Las recently rejected a woman suffrage resolution on the ground that are not .yet ready for tho vole!”

The Ha taitai branch of the W.N.lt. held a "gift tea" on Thursday afternoon in aid of the furnishing of their stall for Violet Day. About 70 guests were present, and many useful gifts were received. Several competitions were held during tho earlier part of the afternoon followed by a musical programme, to which Mesdamee Fortune and Uolan contributed instrumental duets, and Mesdamos Hewitt, Flockton, Dentice, Brabin, and Gable, songs. The president, Mrs. Searle, thanked the Itidios for their help in making the afternoon so successful. Among the guests belonging to other branches of the reserve were:— Mrs. Florence Porter (organising secretary for the Dominion), Mrs. Archibald Hunt and Mrs. Spear. Gifts from those who were' unable to be present at tho tea- may Ire left at Mrs. Redstones Fancy Arcade.

Miss Marie Nilsson, a charming Scottish copra.no, who is to give r song recital a the Concert Chamber on Tuesday evening next, is a pupil of Jean de Reekc, the Polish operatic artist, for tome years resident in Paris. She has been a student since early in her 'teens, an on leaving her distinguished teacher, he prophesied for her a brilliant career. That has already been partly realised, as though she has only been five years in the operatic profession, Mira lls?n " hnt already played such rol “ ns Marguerite in “Faust' and Gilda in “Rigoletto” with the Carlo Rosa Opera Company. and Marguerite wrti th Peeoham forces in the provinces whilst che is well known on the concert platform all over the Kingdom. Miss Nilsson came to New Zealand to visit her relatives in chri ’ <c J n T*’ nml now "he intends to tour New Za land and Australia before returning to England.

The marriage took plaoe tn St. Paul B Methodist Church. Hamilton, recently, of Miss 'Marion Harris, eldest daughter of Mr. W. Harris, of Hamilton East, to Vr W A. Woodward, of Stratford son ; • Mr and Mrs. W. A. Woodward, SedgThe Rev E- O. Blamires officiated, assisted by the Rev. .. • Olds. Miss Jean Johnson, of Mnstir (on, was bridesmaid, and Mi. V. x>. Harris was best man. Mi's. C. Lepper has returned to New Plymouth fixmi a visit to Wellington. The South- Africans, who were entertained by Mr. Halcombe. at Urenui Inst week, were much impressed with the horsemanship <>f some of the huntsmen and huntswomen. Speaking of one ot the lady riders, a visitor, himself a capable ’rider with considerable experience as a mounted man w'th Genual Smuts’s army, said ho had seen nothing like her exhibition anywhere in Africa, England, or France. She seemed to form part of the horse so perieei was her seal and poise, and took ths obstacles, luirbwire and all, as to the manner born. It was a great day for the visitors, despite the rain, and an expeuenee which they will long remember.

Mrs Caroline Agnes Wheatley, who died on Monday last at Ponsonby, Auckland at the age of 67. was the third daughter of the late William laylor, one t of the oldest of the Canterbury pioneers- She was born in Suffolk. England, and arrived as an infant in the ship Caroline Agues at Lyttelton. A - an earlv age she married tho late Herbert Gladstone Whoatley, then a sergeant iu the North Canterbury Police Force Thirty years ago the family removed to the North Island, at first living at Woodville, and ter the past °4 rears at Ponsonby. She leaves a family of four-Mr. P. 0. Wheatley, roporiing staff, Dunedin “Evening Star ; Mr. J. AV. Wheatley, engineer, Southdown Freezing Works, Auckland; Mr. H. G. Wheatley, chief engineer, Mosgiel Woollen Mills: and Mrs. A. Archibald. Ponsonby, A tick land.

Ths W.C.T.U. A pleasant "at home" was held at the Y.M.C.A. on Friday last by the Wellington Central Union. The rooms were prettily decorated with wattle and spring flowers. Mrs. M'Donald (president) wel-. corned tho visitors. In spite of the severe weather conditions ths attendance was good. Musical items were given by Mrs. Burt’s instrumental party, and songß by Mrs. Bond, Miss Mueller, and Miss Gwen Evans. A hearty wclcoms was accorded to Sister Maude Coleman, who recently arrived by the Rimutaka. Sister Maude contrasted the condition of the drink traffic in England and NewZealand, and urged the necessity of looking after the women arriving in the Dominion and providing good conditions for them. Mrs. Evans, superintendent of home meetings, organised tho reception, and Mrs. J. Clark assisted Mrs. Evans in dispensing afternoon tea. Several members joined the union. Caledonian Social.

A very pleasant social and dance wae held bv the Caledonian Society in th® Concert Chamber on Saturday evening, at which Miss Marie Nillson, the Scottish soprano, was accorded a reception. Miss Nillson. on her arrival at the Town Hall, was received by the society's hostesses. Mesdames Dunean and M'Gregor, and was played to the stage by the Pipe Band. Chief D. Clark extended to the guest of the evening a Highland welcome, expressing the society's pleasure at seeing such a talented singer from the Old Land. He said that though Miss Nillson's stay in the Dominion would’ be short, he hoped that it would be a profitable and happy one. Miss Nillson thanked the Chief for his cordial reception. After a pleasant hour had been spent, the Chief on behalf of the directors of the society, that Miss Nillson had been elected a life-member, and presented her with the society’s badge.

Mrs. Lloyd George. So much is known and written about the Prime Minister and so little about his wife that perhaps a short appreciation by one who knows and loves her will not be out of place (states a writer in the "Observer"). Mrs. Lloyd George is a very remarkable woman. When she moved to 10 Downing Street shp succeeded a Prime Minister's wife who was her direct opposite, and therefore it was all the more difficult for her to create her own position. Always Unassuming and unselfconscious, she quietly set to work to do her duty in the best and highest sense of the word. Absolutely honest and straightforward, she soon became the centre of many good, works, and during the last two years of the war nobody worked harder or gave up more to help others ihnn Mrs. Lloyd George. She is one of the kindest-hearted people in the world, but very few know of her good deeds, and certainly no one ever heore of them from herself. She has remained true to her old friends while making many new ones. It is impossible to know Dame Margaret without loving and respecting her. There is a simple dignity about her which is very impressive in these days when such qualities are almost .extinct. Mrs. Lloyd George is a •shrewd judge of character, and seldom taken in by the flattery- with which Downing Street is inevitably surrounded. She dislikes vulgarity and publicity of any desaription, and goes about her daily work in the same quiet way in which she lives, and only those who come under her geutlo influence have any idea how much she does for others and how little for herself. It is always difficult to write about people in their lifetimes, especially when the person written of dislikes the limelight, and these few words are quite inadequate, for, as a very distinguished man said the other day: "It is only history that will Teves' the fact that Airs. Lloyd George was oi of the greatest assets of her husband's successful career."

* Mr. ami Mre. Goring Johnston (Palmerston North) returned to. New Zealand from a visit to England by the Ruahinc.