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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 9

Blessed Is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.-Carlyle.

Mrs. David Nathan and her little daughter left to-day for some weeks in lToxton. Mr. and Mrs. Shirtcliffe have returned from their motor trip to Taupo. Miss Anßon, who has been stayihg with her sister, Mrs. Estcourt, left, for Christchurch last night. Miss Davison was a passenger South by the Maori last night. Mrs. Alfred Nathan, and two children, Miss Nathan, and Miss G. Nathahhave left London by the P. and O. Marmora, which sailed oh the 27th December. Mrs. and Miss Dormer, who have many friends in Gisborne, are also returning to New Zealand by the Mar mora,. . ... Mrs. C. S. Igglesden, of Kelburne, is on a visit to Napier. . ' ' The engagement is announced of Mr. George R. Ritchie, Dunedih, manager of the National' Mortgage and Agency Company,' to Miss Greta Mills, daugiiter of Mr. David Mills, Sydhey, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company. Miss Mills is niece to Sir James Mills. 'Mr. and Mrs. Knox Gilmer are back from Muritai. Miss Gertrude Hunt has returned from Auckland. ' ' Mr. J. M. Clark and the Misses Clark, of Kelburne, came tack yeatet<day after some weeks in Auckland.' - '*'- Dr. and Mrs. Hasselt have been' staying at the Mftttnt Egmont Hoetel. • • , -Mrs. Henry Hall and Miss Log'an, who have been at Muritai, have returned to town. t • ' . ' Miss E. 'Mjters' is back- Worn Moawhango, where she was visiting Mrs. Batley. ' --- Entries 'aYe pouring in- for "the ''baby chow in connection with the garden fete of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children to be held next Saturday in the gfounds ' of the Prime Minister's residence. "Tt is td be opened by Her Excellency Lady Liverpool. Tnere are five «las«sS'-boys' and giris separately—sunder three, monthsy i ander six, nine, twelve, and eighteen months.' There are first and second prizes foe twins, and a handsome prize tot the' champion baby. If. mothers de« siroits of ' competing would ■ enter their bfcbies at the Pluftket Rooftft; 86, Vivian* I street, before the day, it would Make I arrangements simpler for those in 'charge. If that is inconvenient, the babies may be entered .the day of the fete, on the 'ground, competing mothers ? paying one. shilling, which »will *admit them also to the grounds.' It ie expected >that the entertainment' will prove, given, 1 fine weather, a very great success. - Mrs. Godber presided at a meeting of the ' ladies'' committee formed in connection with Hospital Saturday and Sun* day (15th and 16th February) held at the* Town ,Hall yesterday. SatWfactory afrangetnenis are in train fot the collections which are to made on those ' days. The secretary, Mr. .Coyle, will be pleased > to receive the. names of mo£e ladies willing to- act a« collectors. *• -A further meeting will be held, on W«to*e- ' day -tfeek, ;,; X } '^-^ ••' ""^ J; -•; ,-•' ' An enjoyable euchre party was held in ;. St. Patrick's Halt on- Monday evening by I St. Mary'i Branch, No. 3, of the Hibernian Society.' • There was- a large attendance of members and Mends, and 'the -games were keenly contested. The' lady's priae> was won by Miss M,. Curtis; and the gentleman's by- Mr.'P.' M'Maß6n, while 1 the "booby" prizes were r 'presented "to Miss Polkington and Mr. S. Simon. The committee, with Sister G., O'Flaherty as secretary ahd Sister D. M'Grath as president, is to be congratulated on the success achieved. The engagement is announced of Miss May Boden, "elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Boden, Wellington, to Mr. Dugald Stewart, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. D. Stewart, of GlasgdW, Scotland. '\' ' A delightful children's party, ih ideal weather, was given yesterday by Mrs. Knox at Kelburne. The garden 13 most picturesque, and the tennis lawn at the loot of the hill 'made a fascinating playground for the children, who romped to their heart's content on the grass, the elder boys getting, huge ehjoyment out of a football, while the little ones, with some- grown-ups, who' renewed their youth and rebaljed childish amusements, played the *ii»e-hotfOured game's of the nursery: li is possible, even when grown-up,* to feel a thrill when' striving to gain a < distant goal by running the ' gauntlet of a row- of very spry small boys. The baby, of the partyv who had not so long ago' discovered her feet were made for something mote than to kick and' play with, was utterly charming, and ' toddled venturously abroad, from ■ her hutse'B shelter, • even - 1 trespassing oh to the football .reserve, with the- utmost sang f roid ana enjoyment. The children • had a lovely time, fim'shing off with a delicious ' tea and presents .all roundi | Mrs. Long (Wellington) has -reached London again, after mote than a year spent s in Australia (writes our London correspondent). She is now, staying ih Kensington. Her daughter. Miss Nor&h D'Argel, who has achieved such a success on the? operatic stage, is now touring with a Quinlan. Company, and is re,ceivihg very flattering notices, , particq* ; larlylfor Mimi in "La Bohenie." ,*.Mme. Sjebinov has been laying dqwn the jaw as regards hands. She is aRussian palmist with ah immense vogue: in Paris, and everybody is much amused' at her dicta some pf which hay.c the merit of being, obviously true as well as interesting. She says the French women and Russians have hands that are. too small, and, further, that they nfalce the. mistake of covering them with rings. Spanish women' have hands of true, beaUty. Their movement is wonderful; with long, supple, white fingers they express every emotion. Hands laugh,' she says, are greedy,' impulsive, coward,ly — in short, express emotion better, and are more true to their ' owners, than lips or eyes. The Chinese have the most beautiful hands ih the world — velvety without being flabby— but Mme. Sjebinov does hot want the West to copy them, because their narls ate too fong. ' A correspondent^ signing herself "A Widow in 'Revolt' 1 * writesHo the London Standard ; — "May I call the attention of your readers to the very awkward position in which a' widow may be placed through the way in which her money hns been left her by her husband? I must admit that the matter is a personal one, but hundreds of others are in' the same boat as myself. I don't know much about business matters, • but I do know that hitherto'! have' enjoyed 'an income of nearly £1200 a year from money left on a strict trust by my husband. Now, I want to marry again, .'and if I do so lose £1000 a year, at once. Only £800 remains to me ; the rest will go to * ■if .< -uL . ,

doubtless d^sel-^iftg but not Very interesting fehia?e~ cousin of my kte hug' baud. Tt does seem petfectly monstrous that my liberty should hts interfered with in this way. If tiiere wefe any children one might understand it, but in my case there is no such excuse, and just because tny husband — the kindest and hiost generous of men in his lifetime— held th«* old-fashioned sentimental notion that a widow should remain faithful to the memory of her first . husband I must either remain single or start life again ! in comparative poverty on a joint income of £400 11 year. Why anyone should ■ wish to make such aii exhibition of posthumous 1 selfishness I cannot imagine. No sane person could object to the husband tying up his money in such a way as to protect his widow against the mere scoundrelly advehfcurer and spendthrift, or to ensure that it should not eventually pass out of his own family r but I resent very strongly being treated as an individual whose personal wishes are of ho account, or a feeble-minded idiot incapable of managing my own affairs. There are lots of others in the same predicament. B'uxtOn, Bath, Cheltenham, and other places swarm with them. What is the result? Some prefer money to matrimony 5 one or two have been kno,wn to sacrifice wealth for affection t but the i'est, t and they 'are the majority, spend their lives indulging in a rather unpleasant type of flirtation. If a father leaves money to his children coh« ditionally on their remaining single the will can, be upset. The widow in a similar position' has no redcess,- It is positively humiliating." Miss Helen Gould, America's philanthropic spinster millionairess, who is engaged to be married to Mr. Finley J. Shepherd, of St. Louis, a rising railway manager, ■ inherited' • about £2^00,000 from her 1 father. Slib has by judicious investment nearly doubled that sum. She give's away .£300,000 in public charity, and no one knows the sum she disposes of privately. Curing the late Spanish-American .war she expended £30,000 '.on . the soldiers 1 and sailors of her country, by whom she is universally beloved. The colonel of an Austrian regiment recently issued an order that no officer of that corps shall walk out leaning on his wife's' arm. Several reasons- are given for the new decree, the most effective being that A man who takes a lady's arm destroys his erectt gait, beclause he is compelled to bend down. A correspondent to the Neve Freio Rresse takes the matter up, and offers gomo ideas on the subject. He' refers back to the days when it was considered necessary for husbands and wives to have their photographs taken arm-in-arm in proof of their affection. Not in Austria , alone did that custom preyaijl. „ Most English families have pictures of grand .mothers and grandfathers immortalised in that significent attitude. The lady used to "hang on" her male partner, ahd it was quite usuaj for any gentleman to offer hiVarm, to any lady ; it' was a mere conventional act of politeness, tn these latter days, it appears, it is^CUs-tc-mary for 1 a gentleman to take the" 'arm of a lady and to walk through crowded thoroughfares, in parks, along fashiojiable streets; indeed, 1 ahywhere antf everywhere: in a curved attitude. Some tJeople behold in it . a triumph of. feminism. . ."£.' Without investigating the reasons' for' lliis alteration in outward form too minuter}^ 'the ideas- .of— the writer on the aubjeet'tnay be quoted 5 they are significant. When a lady hangs on tho arm of her partner it is a very difficult matter for. hint to ' disentangle himself in cases when 'it ie Imperative tb do so, On a promenade, for Instance, It fve« quently. happens that a civilian mecta' some acquaintance .to wjiom •he must show the civility of taking off his. hat. The gentleman who has to. greet ah aoqnaintahce is compelled to gej> rid of the lady 'politely and as expedUiously as possible. , She jhas her muff in her hand j In the .muff there }s often a purse» a collection of vanity trifles, a lace hanrl* kerchief,, and under. one of her arms; if she is* really- fashionable, a dog is on-> folded. Something' ie certain to fallout; it must be picked v"p. Hence complications ensue. Difficulties are encountered in crossihg streets. ' It is unbluehingty enforced that if the man sees a motor or a. '.bus a|ld tiries to pull to the right, his companion is certain to drag' him to the left. She gets out of, the way of an. automobile and impels him right .in front of a horse thai is making leisurely progress. As ebon as she is safely rescued from, the perils that impend she grows tearful ; She protests that he ift doing it all intentionally, declaring that she does not want to go to the other side of that pattieutat street 'or td round that special corneh • On -the other hand, when the "man has the lady's arm he make* a point 'of talking 1 and distracting her attentloh, ' so that he 4 merely, impels her gently, g&lding her in the direction he wants to go. When he meets someone he knows he 'just takes his arm away from his companion's for. the space of .a second, bows^ and raises his hat: Shop windows are a snare and a temptation to every woman, according to this writer. When' the old fashioned method is adopted the man who follows the dictates o( politeness and gives his arm to a, lady prfofce. takes tho consequences. If lie is not her husband he hag- to stop J ftnd look at every hat, every feather, I every hit of jewellery, every fur she:] likes. He .cannot possibly .get out of it; he must listen, , compare j and express an Opinion. With his a^m. h) hers it is a simple matter for him to steer her past all those rocl<s of friendship. A gentle touch, a few-words, of admiration of.helself; -a lightly-turned complimeht, and she has been diverted from the dangerous, route without even having tim? lo realise ' the fact. GET A GOOD PIANO. 1 There are "no better or more reliable instruments made than The Broadwood,. The Lipp, The Ronisch, The Steinway. We are constantly receiving big new shipments of these superb pianos ; prices ana styles to meet all requirements. We will make terms to suit any purse. Our name alone is sufficient guarantee of quality. Call upon us, or, on request, we will gladly call upon you. We keep a staff of expert tuners and repairers, and can attend to any of' your piano needs. 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