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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 4

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Mrs. Churcher, of Wellington, is at present staying in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. X. W. Stevens, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. * * * Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Sheridan are Wellington visitors to Auckland. * * * Miss Adamson, of Wellington, is paying a holiday visit to Auckland. * * * Mrs. A. D. Stanley has returned to Auckland after a visit to Wellington. * * * Mr. and Mrs. E. Vincent, of Wellington, are spending a holiday in Auckland. * * * Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Fraser have returned to Auckland after a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. L. du Chateau, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. Frankham, has returned to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. Moses, who were in Wellington for the Dental Conference, have returned to Auckland.

Lady Marjorie Dairymple, of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, is at present staying at the Hotel Stonehurst.

Mrs. George Devore has returned to her home in Lochiel Road, Remuera, after spending several months with Mrs. A. E. Devore, St. Stephen’s Avenue, Parnell.

Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Davis have returned from a visit to England and are at the Hotel Cargen.

Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Fisher and Miss Fisher, of Manila, are among the guests at the Hotel Cargen.

Miss A. G. Scott, of London, is visiting Auckland and is at the Grand Hotel.

Miss M. Brewer is a Wanganui visitor to town, and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sykes, of Canada, are staying at the Grand Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Simpson, of Te Awamutu, are staying at the Central Hotel.

m * * Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ca f of Rotorua, are staying at the Star Hotel.

“At least one-half of the young people in our colleges are inspired by the same kind of social discontent that animated Karl Marx, and, if we think we can put the iron lid of suppression on their ideas we are working for revolution and shipwreck,” said Professor S. Leacock, of McGill University, in an address to the Professional Institute at Ottawa, on “Social Justice and Social Revolution.” After reviewing the Marxian plan of Socialism and its development in its later days, Professor Leacock said: “Socialism is slavery; that’s all there is to it. I would be a Socialist in a minute if only the unfairness of the present system were concerned. But the introduction of Socialism as a governing force would launch us into a mechanical world of authority and command, giving equal reward to the loafer and the worker. I think we shall move nearer to the Socialist conception, but the basis should be, and must be, every man for himself. No other motive will keep the world going.”

Lady Poynter, who has just returned from an interesting tour abroad, was the guest of the Feminist Club in Sydney, and told the members that Constantinople was an indolent land, it typified Eastern repose and its inhabitants displayed the most marked characteristics of any race of Eastern blood. Although they seemed to have unlimited time for contemplation, the Turks were, as a rule, a people of few words. Humorous, and sometimes cynical, yet never garrulous, they used stories merely for the purposes of illustrating their conversation. There were the professional story tellers, who sat cross-legged, with an air of wisdom, in the market place. The legends of their race, that they recounted so interestingly, vvere always eagerly listened to, particularly by women, who were not usually fond of adopting the role of story teller. Similar to the fables of Aesop, the tales which were recounted by Poynter combined both humour and wisdom. The poverbs, a more concentrated form of wisdom, had been culled from the literature of Persia, Arabia, Turkey and Macedonia. Many that were looked upon as Western were purely Eastern in origin, said Lady Poynter, though the most interesting were those that were unfamiliar.

“The one I consider the most profound is this,” said Lady Poynter. “ T asked Allah for something to ride, and h> gave me something to carry.’ Other clever specimens are ‘Clouds that thunder do not always bring rain,’ ‘The dog barks, but the caravan passes on,* ‘Kiss the hand you cannot bite,’ and ‘Strike the great that it. may be a warning to the small.’ ”

Two well-known Melbourne women have just returned after a tour through the Ea.st. Dr. Georgian Sweet has been away two years and Miss Greig about a year. Off the beaten, track went these two—French Cochin China, and the buried cities of Angkor were visited. Singapore, Malay, China, Burma, Rangoon and a wonderful river trip on the Irrawaddy were part of their wanderings. They told a little of the wonders of their trip at a luncheon given in their honour at the Lyceum Club, and very interesting it was, especially their impressions of China, conditions there, and its womenfolk. These two are cultured, clever women, who see with the “seeing eye” (says the “Western Mail”). Something of a surrpise was occasioned when it became known that Lord Cranbrook's brother, Mr. Ralph Gathorne-Hardy, l was working at a West End bookseller’s shop, but another well-born young man in the same business is Mr. Greville Worthington. who is soon to marry Lord Feversham’s sister, Lady Diana Duncombe, though in this case the bookseller owns his own shop in Birmingham. Lady Diana Duncombe is to be married in London, not in Yorkshire as was at first expected, and her wedding will be an important event. A feature will be the bride’s small attendants—little bridesmaids and small cavaliers. Mr. Greville Worthington is the eldest son of Mr. ancl Lady Muriel Worthington, of Maple Hayes, Lichfield.