WOMEN'S. WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 160, 6 June 1940, Page 11

WOMEN'S. WORLD

Mr and Mrs L. Wilkinson are Palm erston North visitors to Wellington

Mrs J. H. Probyn, who visited Palmerston North in the course of a motor tour, has returned home to Wellington.

Mrs E. Davies, who celebrated her 89th birthday in Wellington recently, was born in Nelson in 1852. She takes a keen interest in all,current events and can relate many circumstances of early pioneering days. She has five daughters and two sons, one son having been killed in the Great War. There are also 23 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Another dance was, held recently by Cook’s Social Club, in aid of sports funds. There was a good attendance and 'an enjoyable , time was spent Prize-winnel's were Mr Collins and Miss McKay (lucky Gay Gqrdons) and Mr Mason and Miss Marriott (Monte Carlo). , v

Mrs Winston Churchill, wife of the Prime Minister of England, was married in 1908—her wedding being one of the season’s most fashionable events in London. She was Clementine Hozier, daughter of the widowed Lady Blanche Hosier, and granddaughter of the Earl of Airlie. It was a. case of love at first sight, and the match has proved an , ideal one, standing strong and firm through all the changes that 30 years of married life must bring. Mutual interests, singleness of purpose, and a definite regard for domestic and family life have made this possible. Mr. and Mrs Churchill have two daughters and a son married, one daughter died in childhood, and the youngest child, Mary, is iiqw nearly 18 years old. . ’ ■■

(By “Nanette.”)

Mr and Mrs G. H. Lusk, of Elmira Avenue, are visiting Auckland. Mrs F. N. Andrews, of Alan Street, has returned from , Wanganui, where she visited her sister, Mrs It. E. Cuthbertson. Miss Helena Keith, who died recently at the old Mission House, To Aute, was familiarly known as “Nurse” by hundreds of Maori and pakeha friends whom 6he helped to relieve in .illness or distress during her 51 years’ residence at Te Aute. Born in Edinburgh and brought up bv* the well-known philanthropists Misses Stuart, sisters of the late Bishop Stuart of Waiapu, she was trained for some time in a London hospital. Then she went ,to Napier with Miss Stuart and soon after her arrival nursed Miss Lydia Williams through a long and severe illness. Her lifelong devotion to Miss Williams, who was blind, was a remarkable example.