WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1919, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

NEW PLYMOUTH. Miss Speedy, who has been on a visit to New Plymouth, lias returned to Wellington. * • • » Mrs. Piuemore (Christchurch), who has been spending a few days here, left on Tuesday for Auckland. • • » . The Misajs Kensington (2) have returned to Marton. • • * • Mrs. J. Strang, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. Crawford, has returned to Tauinaranui. # * • • Mrs. Allan Waters is visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Nichol are spending a week or two in Otago. 1 Mrs. and Miss Milroy (Auckland), who ; have been the guests of Mrs. Gordon [ Fraser, left this week for Dunedin. • * » # Miss L. Berry, who has been spending ; a holiday in New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland. • • » • Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cooke are on a J visit to Auckland. • * « • Mrs. and Miss Paget left on Wednesday for Wanganui. • » * • Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Kirker return to Wellington to-day. Miss L. Lansley is on a short visit to Auckland. * • » • Mrs. W. J. Chaney was hostess at a ' small bridge party of two tables last ' Wednesday. '< * * * • Mrs. Dodgshun, who has been on a visit to Auckland, returned last week, bringing with her her daughter, Mrs. Atkey, who arrived in the Oxfordshire. # » « # Miss Deveniah has left for a visit to Blenheim and Nelson. # • • • Mrs. F. G. Evans is spending a few days in Hawera. « • * » Miss Wynne-Williams has returned from a trip to Auckland. • • • • , Miss C. Hamerton (Inglewood) is the guest of Mrs. James Wilson. Miss D. Baker has returned from Eltham. * * • • * Miss Clatworthy (Christchurch) has been appointed to the New Plymouth branch of the N.Z. Exxpress Co. Visitors at Niger House include: Miss Cole and Mrs. Holday (Balmerston N.), Mrs. Reynolds (Wanganui), Misses Beard, Banks, Mrs. and Miss Maconloy (Palmerston N.), Mr. and Mrs. Nichols (Wellington), MiBS P. Bailey (Feilding). Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Ivan Standish are the guests of Mrs. Standish, snr. # # * * Miss Percy-Smith is on a visit to Blenheim and Cheviot. * • • » Miss Tess Monteath leaves for a holiday in Auckland to-night. » «!• .j # Mrs. D. Teed has gone on a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Beaumont (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. Crooke. • * * » Mrs. J. Cutfield has returned to Wanganui. # * * • Mrs. Sharman, of Pahiatua, is the guest ol Mrs. Percy Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan and Miss Capel motored to Wanganui for the races. » # » * Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Nicholson, of Auckland, are spending a holiday here. Sister Gill, late sub-matron of the New Plymouth Hospital, had a very interesting thougli strenuous time during the period when, as a member of the New Zealand unit, she was in Fiji nursing epidemic patients. Upon arrival the party was split up and sent to various districts or individual cases, Miss Gill, in company with one of the doctors and four orderlies, being sent to the Navue district. After a week she proceeded to Lerua Island and later to Qaranigio. After a very trying experience, Miss Gill returned to Wellington, and is now among the nurses who ari! proceeding to Australia to help fight the epidemic there. Visitors staying at the Mountain House include: Misses Cooper (2) (Haveloci. North), Mrs. and Miss Hatrick, Miss liraik (Wanganui), Miss Smith (Wellington), Miss Cole and Miss Olde (Palmerston North), Dr. and Mrs. Young (Wellington), Miss Johnson, Miss Bagnail, Miss Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Whitlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Long (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Bagley, Mr. and Mrs. Newman, Miss Hempton, Mr. and Mrs. Nicoii (New Plymouth). # ■» • • Visitors at the White Hart include: Mrs. Leo. Horrocks (Feilding), Miss Horvocks (Auckland). Miss McGregor, Miss Burnett (Wanganui), Mrs. Hauna (Wellington), Mrs. Cowper (Hastings), Misses , t'owper (2), Miss Richards and Miss Hogg (Wanganui), Mrs. Wackrell (Wanganui), Mrs. M. Van Stuvern (Wellington), Mrs. Ireland (Oamaru), Mr. and Mrs. John Turnbull (Christchurch). Visitors at Chatsworth this week were Miss L. Reid (Aucklnad), Miss Nesbit Miss McPherson (Wellington), Misses Haultain (2) (Wanganui), Mrs, Jury, Miss Thompson (Levin), Miss Hurst (Nelson)', Miss Wilton (Te Kuiti), Mrs. Chearer (Wellington), Mrs. H. Aldridge (Auckland). » ». » • Miss Madoline Knight, of the "Dandies,'' is sister of Miss Daphns Knight, of Auckland, who was well known in New Plymouth as being ballet mistress of the New Plymouth Amateur Opera Society at the production of "The Country Girl" GARDEN PARTY. Quite a delightful afternoon was spent I on Thursday in the Vicarage garden, ! when St. Mary's Needlework Guild heli! ! a Garden Party and sale of work combined. The grounds were in excellent : order, and the stalls, which were arrimgI ed under the trees, presented a most | attractive appearance. The proceeds, ! which amounted to about £6O, are to be ! devoted to the peace memorial Sunday school building fund. Amongst those present I noticed Mrs. T. C. List, Mrs. F. Robertson, Mrs. Cecil Hill, Mrs. Bremer, Mrs. H. Russell, Miss Stanford, C. H. Weston, Mrs. R. J. Matthews, Mrs. Blundell, Mrs. Lewis Jackson, Mrs. H. Ms.tth.ews (Hamilton), Mrs. Mortimer Jones, Mrs. McKellar, Miss Percy Smith, Mrs. W. D. Webster, Mrs. Fred. Webster, Mrs. J. Curtis, Mrs Mills, Mrs. Haseler, Mrs. Alec. McDiarmid, Mrs. J»\ Pppj, Mrs, F. 0. Stmu.

Mrs. Sydney Allen, Mrs. C. E. Baker, Misses Cutfield (2), Mrs. Waring Saxton (Auckland), Mrs. Addenbrooke, Mrs. Courtenay, Mrs. Brewster, Miss B. Bayly, Mrs. J. Clarke, Miss Crawford, Miss Godfrey, Mrs. E. Griffiths, Mrs. Sladden, Mrs. P. Jackson, Mrs. Sharman (Hastings), Mrs. Bradbury, Mrs. G. Kyngdon, Miss Ahier, Miss Powell, Miss Curtis, Mrs. Robertshaw, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. E. B. Kyngdon, Miss Randolph-Smith, Miss ' George, Miss Moore, Mrs. Hobbs, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. F. Wilson, Mrs. Paton, Mrs. Chaney, Miss Mace, Mrs. Renaud. The stall holders were: Mesdames J. Wilson, Crawford, Hammond, Mason, Shaw, Russell, Crooke, A. E. Walker, Denny-Brown, Jackson, Stocker, James Wilson, Courtenay, Mackay, Misses Crooke (2), Winfield, Bradbury, Hammond, Webster and Blundell. THE DANDIES. The popularity of "The Dandies" is due to the fact that they have always brought with them a brightness that is appreciated by the New Zealand audiences, and that their witticisms and jokes are kept within proper limits. "The 1 'tics" programmes go with a swing ; .ii start to finish and patrons may look forward to an enjoyable evening's entertainment. "The Dandies" commence ' a three-night season at the "Empire" tonight. THE KISSING HABIT. ATTACKED IN AUSTRALIA. A MINISTER'S DENUNCIATION. Sydney, Feb. 8. Persons rise up from time to time in this country and denounce the practice of kisisng. They seem to have reason and commonsense on their side, but they arouse nothing more than a broad smile and a universal chuckle. If anyone wants to know if it is possible to stop the practice he ought to visit the Sydney parks and beaches on these soft summer evenings. Quite recently a conference of health inspectors in Sydney seriously discussed the proposal that kissing be made an offence under the law. At first there seemed a possibility that the proposal would be supported, but a growing chorus of jeers from all directions finally caused the conference to abandon the idea in disorder. But the outbreak of influenza and the adoption of masks and other methods of intercepting germs have brought the matter into prominence again, and a Presbyterian minister in Victoria has returned to the attack. Kissing, he saW, was not only extremely foolish, but wa9 decidedly unhealthy, and well merited the severest strictures of the highest medical authorities. It waß simply shocking that babies and children should be made the receptacles for all kinds of germs, by reason of the prevailing fashion. He confessed that when he saw people indulging in promiscuous kissing it produced in him a feeling almost akin to nausea. He felt that, for the welfare of the community, the practice should be rigorously suppressed. If young people of opposite sexes find it necessary to kiss each other, let thorn do it on sanitary lines, and use sterilised, germ-proof gau/.c. He urged his congregation to strictly pbstain from kissing in any circumstances, and thus minimise the risk of infection. The reverend gentleman caused a good deal of comment, not all hostile. But the average Australian wants to know —How would he proceed to stop kissing?