SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs Triggs, of Wanganui, is on a short visit to Wellington, and is staying at tho Hotel Cecil. > Mrs Curtis left Wanganui at the beginning of last week for Wellington. Mrs Skipage, of Featherston, is visit* ing Wellington. Mr and Mrs Cresswell, of Wellington, are -visiting Queenstown. Mrs D. Wilson, Wellington, wife of Dr. Wilson, former house surgeon of the Southland Hospital, is the guest of Mrs A. tV. Rodger, in Invercargill. Mrs Jas. Blain has returned to Gisborne from an enjoyable holiday in Wellington and.Wanganui. - Mrs Barr, of Invercargill, is visiting Wellington. Mrs Wilson, of Wellington, and Mrs Adams, of Christchurch were guests of honour at the Auckland Lyceum - Club luncheon talk last week. Mrs Sydney Longuet, of Wellington, is in Auckland. Miss Joan Farrington left Wellington for New Plymouth on Saturday to stay with Mrs Faber Fookes. Mrs T. C. Ross, of Dunedin, is on a visit to Wellington. Mrs'R. McLennan, of Wellington, Is paying a visit to Auckland. Mr E. J. O’Connor, of the P. and T. Department, Wellington, is on holiday in Wairoa. The Hon. A. F. Hawke and Mrs Hawke, accompanied by the Misses Margaret and fiall.v Hawke, have left the South Island for Auckland, where they will spend a month. Mr and Mrs J. R. Raw and Miss Raw (Wellington) are visiting the south. Mr and Mrs Chadwick, of Wellington, are the guests of Mr and Mrs C. Hudson, Longbush, Wairarapa. Miss Winifred Hare, of is paying a short visit to her parents, Mr and Mrs John Hare, Khandallah, Wellington. Mr Draffin returned to Wanganui on Wednesday from a short visit to Wellington. Miss L. Murchie returned to Wanga* | nui from Wellington on Tuesday. Mr* Birch-Jolinston has returned lo New Plymouth from Wellington. Mrs A. L. Humphries has returned to New Plymouth from Wellington. Mr and Mrs F. Bredin, Kelburn parade, Wellington, are the guests of Mrs E. G. Eton, Cornwall street, Masterton. Mr and Mrs J. Moynhan, of Wellington, are in Auckland. Dr. and Mrs Fitchett are sailing from Auckland by tho Vlimaroa on a visit to Melbourne. After making bequests of nearly £19,000 to charities, the will of Mr Alfonso De Navarro, who died recently while visiting Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland, leaves more than £IOO,OOO to his brother. Mr Antonio De Navarro, of Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, England, the , Hus,baud of the actress, Miss Mary Anderson. The will creates trust-funds of. £20,000 and£lo,ooo respectively for his niece and nephew, and makes their mother (Miss Mary Anderson) a legacy of £IO,OOO. Of the 43 candidates who obtained the diploma of M.R.C.V.S. in the final examination of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, two only were women —who do not,, apparently, take so kindly to the healing of the brute creation as they ’do to the healings of their fellows. Of the 177 candidates upon whom tne Royal College of Physicians recently conferred licenses to practise, 39 were women; a proportion (roughly) of one in five, against the one in twenty-five of the vets. Is the shingle dying out? So many assertions and denials have been made •recently that the question was put to women passengers on the Otranto by a Melbourne woman reporter. They answered that its popularity was as high as ever, on the other side of the world, and that it would continue for another 10 years at least. Even Miss Bonnie Goldhill, one of the many pretty Australian girls returning on the Orient mail steamer, who has her hair Eton-cropped, admitted that the shingle was still triumphant in spite of the many campaigns against it, and the efforts to reintroduce long hair. “The shingle,” Miss Goldhill said, “is, if possible, gaining in popularity overseas. The Eton crop, its greatest competitor, will not displace it. The Eton crop will not die out, but it is so severe that it is not, suitable to every girl. I know plenty who would like to have their hair cut, but they know quite well it would not suit them. That is where the shingle succeeds. It suits practically everybody. Those whom the Eton crop suits will continue to have their hair cut in I that fashion.” One of our own New' Zealand women has been realising the true reason, when travelling in South Africa, as to the non-enfranchisement of its womenkind (writes Constance Clyde). Tho question is a colour one—were the white women freed, the .black women, like the black men, would need to have the vote also. Some of the natives already have the vote, and it shows perhaps how little true respect some men must have for us that they never seem to have argued that because the black men have the > vote, the white women also should have the privilege. Certainly the lives led by these natives I seem as yet far removed from civilisation. 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> Two' women contested seats in the Canadian elections. One was taken, and the other lett. Kiss Kathleen Bennett, who had held Toronto East, was .deprived of her seat, while Miss Agnes McPhail successfully contested an Ontario seat. She is a progressive candidate. In England, the bunderland Labour Party has adopted Dr. Marion Phillips, sue having been for •many years chief woman officer of the Labour Party. Dr. Phillips was formerly of Australia, but that was many years ago. Unfortunately slm is not conspicuously feminist. In England, says one critic, the Labour Party talks too much of trades unionists* wives, and not enough of women as workers on their ■ own. In all this, however, woman is herself most to blame. Says the “Women’s Leader”: “If a woman allows herself weakly to be tied to a tree by a dragon (by the way can a drftgon perform this feat?) she must not blame her position wholly upon the knight who takes it upon himself to cut her bonds if he substitutes alternative bonds of his own. Gifts received during the month were: Cakes and sandwiches. St. Cutbbert’s; small baths and water cans, Lady Luke; £1 Is, Mrs W. Young; toys school books and clothes. Bom a Taylor; 2doz eggs, Miss H. Park, Christchurch; cakes, Mrs Thompson; 2doz oranges, Mrs Sharp; concert invitation by St. Paul’s Rovers; frocks, Mrs Fossette; clothes. Mrs Patton; seed potatoes, Mr Roily; pictures invitation, Mr Tartakover; shoes, stockings and jumper. Miss Reeves; 3 doz oranges, Mrs Taylor; fireworks and farden roller, Mr Brewin; plants, Mrs hillips. The appellation “Jockey Club Ball’ has become synonymous with “brilliant function,' characterised by elaborate preparation and gorgeous dresses. Last night’s gathering' held in the Caledonian Hall, certainly displayed all the salient characteristics associated w jth this club’s splendid social functions, says the Christchurch “Press” of Friday. The decorative scheme was simple and particularly effective. Immediately inside the entrance was arranged a comfortable lounge decorated with large bowls of flag lilies and irises. Each window embrasure was brightened by a basket of artistically-arranged hydrangeas and roses, and the front of the stage was banked with azaleas, cinerarias, and beautifully-tinted begonias. In the supper-room vases of mixed flowers—lilies of the valley, rosebuds and daisies—added brightness and fragrance to the room. The members of the ball committee were Mrs Richard Allen, Mrs G. G. Aitken, Mrs J. F. Buchanan, Miss Phyllis Boyle, Miss Joan Fulton, Messrs Richard Alien, H. G. Helmore, L. D. Cotterill, L. E. Cooke, D. Gould, and D. E. WanklyThe death of Lady Stanley in London, on October sth, revives memories of the great explorer who made the historic journey from Zanzibar to hn<l David Livingstone in the heart Africa 55 years ago. Lady Stanley had a life history full of romance. She was the daughter of a Welsh squire, and, as Miss Dorothy Tennant, became known in London m. the later ’eighties as an artist of great promise. Her pictures, studies of the London street arab, were hung m the Academy, and her beautiful face was known to thousands. who k-u 1 • seen her as the heroine of Millais delightful picture, “Xes or No? Her marriage with the famous explorer l 1890, at Westminster Abbey, was tended by Mr Gladstone. Lord Balfour and Sir John Millais. Owing to Stanley’s sudden illness the bride was led to her carriage by Millais and, as the crowd cheered wildly, the great aitist shouted: “I’m not Stanley; ! wish I were. Lucky dog, lucky dog 1 Soon after the marriage she a “ d her mother (who died in ,1918. in her 9Jth year) accompanied Stanley on a,. - tfiring tour through the United States and Canada, and in the following October they also accompanied him on a second tour through Australia, N-w Zealand and Tasmania. Uad.vStan lov was a most devoted wife. Stanley died in 1904, and .three years later his widow married Dr. Henry Curtis, who survives her. She retained her title by • courtesy. She leaves no children, but she and Stanley adopted a son, Denzil Morton Stanley. 14th Hussars, who was at Eton and Sandhurst, and served in the Great War in Mesopotamia and India. ■ Miss Catherine Landreth. of Dunedin, has been appointed head of the house economics department at NorthCollege, Illinois, United States, for the coming year- Miss Landreth has been a graduate at .lowa-State College-for the past year, and she received her M.Sc. degree at the end of the summer session. Before going to the United States she was home economics teacher at Wanganui Girls’ College. Superfluous Hair destroyed by "Rusma." Results guaranteed. Call,'or send stamped and addressed envelope for particulars. Mrs Hnllen, next to Post Office, Courtenay place. Telephone 22-0,0 (near King's Theatre), Wellington, also St Auckland.’— AdvL