ROMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1920, Page 6

ROMAN'S WORLD

PERSONAL, | Miss Je3sie Home leaves to-day on a month's tour. ft • « « Mrs. Taylor (Manaia) is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Cruickshank. Miss Wood has returned from a holiday spent in Auckland and Wellington. • * • • Miss Ruby Bates arrived from Auckland yesterday, and is spending the week-end here before going on to Stratford. • • * « Sliss Elsie McAllum and Miss Brown motored through from Feilding, and are spending a few days here. • • • • Dr. and Mrs. Wade return from Dawson Falls to-morrow. • • • • Miss D. Dive (Auckland) is the guest of Mrs. Arden. ' * • « • Miss Godfrey is visiting friends in Christchurch. • • • • Mra.Renaud and Miss Hilda Rollo are spending a holiday with Mrs. W. Kelly, of Awakino. ••• . » Mrs. Faber Fookes gave a most enjoyable party for young people last Monday.

Miss Ethel Hammond has-returned to Hamilton. # • * • Misß Kath Hamerton is spending < holiday in Inglewood. • • • • Miss D. Richmond, of Greymouth, is the guest of iher aunt, Miss Pike. • • * « Mrs. C.. Greenwood (Wanganui) is a visitor to New Plymouth. « • • • Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fraser leave on Monday for a trip to the South Island. • « » • Mrs. Bashman left this week for Eltham on her way home to Napier. # » • • Mrs. Bowen (Wanganui) and Miss Hickey (Opunake) are staying at Chatsworth. • < * • Mrs. Sam Wright, of Wanganui, is the guest of Mrs. W. H. Skinner. • # « • Mrs. Harry Fookes has returned from Auckland. „ •«« - * Mrs. Parkinson, of Te Kuiti, who has been on a visit hero, left on Tuesday for Hawera. • » • • Mr. and Mrs. S. Tingey return to Feilding by motor to-day. * * * • Mrs. Hare, who has been spending a holiday here, has returned to Napier. #.• * » Miss Kettle, who has been the guest of Mrs. Malcoimson, has returned to the South Island. 4 « » • Mrs. F. G. Harvie lias returned from Cambridge, where she lias been spending the holidays. &"* * * Nest Thursday the Mayotess (Mrs. James Clarke) is entertaining the delegates and members of the Women's | National Reserve at a musical evening at Kawaroa 'Park. » » • • Mrs. W. Shaw and her son, who have been on a motor tour from Auckland to Napier, spent a few days in New Plymouth this week before returning to Auckland.

Visitors at the Mountain House this week include: Mr. and Mrs. Bell (Wanganui), Mrs. Emberly (Wanganui), Miss Cherrett (Wanganui), Mrs. Hyder (Wanganui), Mr. and Mrs.' Jackson (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Meadows (Wellington), Miss Shaw (Sydney), Mr. McCulloch and Misses (2) McCulloch (Napier), Mrs. Darlow, Miss Esse and Miss. Nutting (Inglewood), Mrs. and Miss Gray (New Plymouth), Mrs. Sladden (New Plymouth).

The visitors at "Rahui" this*week include Mre- Low (Palmerston North), Miss Bennett (Palmerston North), Misses Penghy (Auckland), Mrs. Perless (Palmerston North), Miss Qualey (Wellington), Mrs. McGuillan (Wellington). • • . . * • SOCIAL MEWS. The inaugural meeting of the'Taranaki Trotting Club took place lfist Saturday* and quite a crowd wended its way to. the racecourse. Owing to the absence of. the totalisator it was quite amusing to see men that were usually classed as "heavy betters" feeling deep down in the pockets for an elusive half-crown or a shilling to make up a sweep. The weather was perfect and. great credit is due to the secretary and stewards for the way in which the meeting was conducted, and one hopes that now the initial steps have been taken, the interest created will not subside. f The weather being so inviting on Wednesday and Thursday, quite a number of people from New Plymouth journeyed.to the Hawera races.

Mme. Clemenceau Jacquie Maire, the daughter of M. Clemenceau, the late French Prime Minister, is to visit the United States on a lecture tour in the principal cities. She is not dealing with the war, except incidentally, when discoursing on her great subject, "The Soul of France," Many people,. apropos of this visit, are recalling the fact that the lady's father married-an American-girl when, as a young man, he was living in that country, the marriage being celebrated by a magistrate in New York City Hall. M. Clemenceau came to America after receiving his medical degree/ and for a while practised his profession. But, being a stranger in a Strang land, he did not have too many patients, so in order to increase his income he accepted an offer to give French and riding lessons iu a fashionable girls' finishing school at Stamford, Connecticut. It ended by his marrying one of his pupils, from whom he separated some years later. It would appear that M. Clemenceau has endowed his daughter with his own solid intellectual strength. She is said-to be a powerful writer, having already published one volume, "Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte," and another volume from her pen is now going through the press entitled "Les Hommes de Mauvaise Volonte." Madame, during the war, was a Red Cross nurse. * » * t The marriage of Miss Elaine Dickens, the granddaughter of Charles Dickens, excited a .great deal of interest in Engine II took plaw «o*ntlf r ***** -W '4* • <*

'at the Brompton Oratory, and was celebrated by Cardinal Bourne, who seldom officiates at marriage ceremonies. The bridegroom was Major Alec Waley, Mr. Henry Dickens, the Commons Sergeant, gave his daughter away.. She was in cream satin, finished with white and silver lace. Five great-granddaughters and three great-grandsons of Dickens figured in the bridal retinue, wearing correct Early Victorian garb. WEDDING BELLS, pff? A very pretty wedding was solemnised at the Catholic Church, Inglewood, on Wednesday, when Rev. Father Long united in the bonds of matrimony Paul Francis, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A, Uhlenberg, of Waipuku, to Adelaide Ann, the only daughter of Mrs. A. Stephens, of Durham road. Misses Lucy Uhlenberg and Lola Stephens were bridesmaids, while the duties of best man and groomsman were carried out by Mr, William Stephens and Mr. Michael Uhlenberg respectively. The "Wedding March" was played by Mr. Darrington, of Auckland. The breakfast was held at the house of Mr. John Stephens, brother of the bride. Rev. Dean McKenna and Rev. Father Long presided. The happy couple departed in the evening per motor. A quiet but very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. Andrew's Church, Marton, this week, the contracting parties being Leley, only daughter of Mr. C. H, Lucas, of "Wiletta," Papanui road, Christchurch, and Mr. W. J. McCormick, of Stratford. The Rev. L. Hunt was the officiating minister.

JAPANESE PROVERBS ON WOMEN. Salto-Man, a well known Japanese journalist, writes as follows in the London Daily Mail:— "Many foreigners have been pleased to call my country the land of proverbs. A large percentage of our porverbs, it is needless to say, concern women. "Most of the old well-known ones have been freely translated, or stolen, by foreign writers. But we are not worried. New and clever proverbs are fast being created by the new generation of men and women.

"I translate below some of the gems which have recently come under my notice. They do n'ot necessarily represent the opinion of the present day Japanese people, but they are at any rate a contribution to the abundant world wisdom of the immortal problem.": Tender and hard is a woman's heart. "New" women are created to replace good women.

If you want to love women begin by spending women. '

Women who remember shop signs and trade marks make good wives. Very jealous women are easy to control. Pride goes before a fall, especially in beautiful women. Women and mountains should be looked on at a. distance. Women fall in love with their pro'eetors, men with women. Men who can neither brag nor flatter need not fear being loved by women. ' Rather than make love in clumsy language bite your tongue out. Plain women bewail their misfortune in proportion to their learning. When marriage agents praise any woman for her virtues yon may be certain that it is another way of saying that she is ugly. Women who seek liberty too often lose it. A wife who does not know how to please her husband makes him commit no end of lilmulers. Men who like to take photos with their wives are henpecked. Thin-lipped: women tell lies, thick-lip-ped women are lazv and jealous. •'Tis women who know they are ugly that powder their fftces. Women admire women of -their own type. _ The Secret of winning the woman who jilts von is—perseverance. Women understand men; those who .understand women are also women. Poisonous flies carry shiny wings, bad women pretty faces. Men laugh with their hearts, women onlv with their mouths. Women who habitually bite their lips are jealous. War makes men strong and women lovely. Darn the heels and' toes of new stockings before you wear them. Then wash them, just as you would if they had been worn. Stockings that are worn before they are washed very soon go into holes. Try pouring a little paraffin down the scullery sink if it gets clogged. Leave for a little while, then pour down some boiling water, to which a little soda lias .been added.