WAIKATO NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 602, 2 March 1929, Page 20

WAIKATO NOTES

Lady Hillingdon was a visitor to Hamilton on Thursday, when slie was the guest of Mrs. o. R. Farrer. Her daughter, the Hon. Penelope Mills, has been staying with Mrs. Farrer for some days. Mrs. R. Boyd, (nee Miss Kathleen Wilson), of Hamilton, was a recent visitor at New Zealand House, London. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Rowe, of Whakatane, will motor through to Hamilton during the week-end to spend a few days with Mrs. R. English. Mrs. Annette, of Matangi, is spending some weeks in Nelson. Mrs. Campbell, of Wellington, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hockin, in Hamilton. Mrs. L. Chamberlain, of Hairini, is holidaying in Wanganui. CAMBRIDGE PARTIES. Mrs. Sawers, on Tuesday afternoon, gave a delightful farewell party for Mrs. S. Lewis, before her departure for England. Mrs. Sawers was in a dainty frock of powder blue georgette, and Mrs. Lewis wore a marocain frock of pearl grey and a wide-brimmed hat of black straw. The cool drawing room looked charming with zinnias and hydrangeas. Those present were: Mrs. Souter, Mrs. Grummitt, Mrs. H. Ferguson, Mrs. Boyce, Mrs. Porritt, Mrs. Calvert, Mrs. Bertelsen, Mrs. Cbitty, Mrs. A. Riohardson, Miss Swayne, Miss Calvert, and Miss G. Bertelsen. * * *f On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. and Miss Cox, of Cambridge, entertained some of their friends in their beautiful garden. Mrs. Cox was wearing a navy georgette frock, and small hat. Miss Cox was in floral georgette, with large crinoline hat to tone. The guests played clock golf and croquet. Mrs. Batchelor won the prize for the clock golf, and, Mrs. J. Cox and Mrs. Hawie the croquet. Among the guests were: Mrs. F. Swayne, Mrs. Neely, Mrs. Rowland, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. J. Cox. Mrs. Hawie, Mrs. Batchelor, Miss K. Brabant, Miss A. Nolan, Miss J. Caw. Miss M. Souter, Miss R. Souter, Miss G. Neely, Miss D. Cox, and Miss J. Cooper. PRESENTATION AT HOROTIU. Miss K. McLean, who has left Horotiu to take up. a position at New Lynn, was the guest of honour at an afternoon before she left. The chairman, Mr. J. M. Malcolm, expressed the regret they all felt at losing Miss McLean, and Miss Jean Malcolm, on behalf of the residents, asked Miss McLean to accept a handsome xylonite brush and mirror. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm, Mr. and Mrs. Bocock, Mr. and Mrs. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Speedy, Mr. and Mrs. Wyllie, Mr. and Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Aicken (Horsham Downs), Mrs. R. Holmes, Mrs. Washer, Miss C. Lloyd, Miss Malcolm, and Miss E. Hall.

CROQUET AT MORRINSVILLE. The honorary members of the Morrinsville Croquet Club were the guests of the club on Wednesday at an enjoyable afternoon on the lawns. Mrs. Clark, president of the club, was hostess, and about 40 guests spent a happy time with various competitions. The successful competitors were Mrs. Brunton (Matamata), who won the progressive croquet; Mrs. Findlater (Matamata), target croquet; Mrs. . Falton, clock golf and Mrs. Orr, the non-croquet competition. GARDEN PARTY AT TE AWAMUTU. Mrs. K. -N. Lord, of To Awamutu, gave a very bright garden party on Wednesday afternoon at her beautiful homo at JMgawera. Many competitions were enjoyed by the guests. Mrs. Lord was in an ashes of roses crepe de chine frock. Miss Rose Lord, who helped her mother in entertaining her guests, was in a pretty floral voile. The guests were: Mrs. H. T. Collins, Mrs. Raymond Jones, Mrs. Rickett, sen., Mrs. Greenfield (Sydney), Mrs. W. Jeffreys, Mrs. J. O. Sullivan, Mrs. C. Downes, Mrs. D. Williams, Mrs. Otway, Mrs. C. Blundel, Mrs. Layne, Mrs. Loughnan, Mrs. McCarrol, Mrs. A. J. McGovern, Mrs. F. McGovern, Mrs. Hannah (Auckland), Mrs. Montefiore, Mrs. R. Kay, Mrs. Walter. Mrs. McKenzie. Mrs. A. Pollard, Mrs. Civil, Mrs. H. Reese, Mrs. Potts, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. F. Quinn, Mrs. 'McWhannal, Mrs. Poole, Mrs. Empson, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Bowden, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. K. Ricket, Mrs. J. Olipliant, Mrs. Ashmore, Mrs. Q. T. Ricket, Miss K. Woolley, Miss M. Teasdale, Miss M. Storey, Miss S. Empso.n Miss E. Rickitt, Miss M. Quin, Miss L. Bray, Miss H. Civil, Miss M. Civil; Miss Lewis (Cambridge), Miss Irwin, Miss J. Elliott, and Miss K. McGovern. PEACE OR PRINCE CHARMING? (By EVELYN VIVIAN). Of all the fatuous stpidities circulated about matrimony nowadays, the perpetual contention that a loving wife can more easily forgive an occasional flagrant offence against the sacredness of marriage than the omission of little daily flatteries, is the one that must surely goad intelligent women to fury! During a fairly long lifetime I have happened to be the recipient of numerous confidences from unhappy wives. Not once have I been given any practical demonstration of the silly theory that infidelity or drunkenness at periodic intervals is more easily condoned than are those everyday lapses from the Prince Charming role of which so many excellent husbands are guilty. Women are not really the cry-baby children depicted in tli'e pages of so many of our feminine periodicals! They have as intelligent and worthwhile -a standard of matrimonial values as have the men who bring stability, security, and enduring 'affection, rather than meaningless frills of flattery, to the marriage contract. Rarely, very rarely, are the Prince Charming aud Rock-of-Gibraitar types embodied in one masculine entity. When they are, no doubt the result is one of those miraculous marriages that are made in heaven! But for the most part, a woman has to take her choice of one or the other. And no one is going to persuade me that the Prince Charming of infinitely subtle and extensively practised technique, whose wife gets the dubious benefit of his universal spellbinding arts, has a happier life partner than may be found beneath scores of humble roof-trees where reliability is the liegelord’s long suit. Life so soon teaches women that security and peace have their own priceless worth In the matrimonial scheme of things. They are neither mentally *>r spiritually so deficient as to prefer the proverbial bunch of violets or box of chocolates —so often delivered with cynical regularity as a sop to a Don Juan conscience—to the unswerving allegiance of a real man, who may forget the violets, but not his marriage vows.