WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mrs. Kellow has returned to Feilding. Mrs. W. H. Moyes is visiting Christchurch. Mrs. F. T. Bellringer has returned from Auckland.

Miss F. Wood has returned from Auckland.

Mrs. Roy Jackson returned to Auckland on Wednesday. Miss Mclntosh has returned from Auckland.

Mrs. Preston Thomas returned to Havelock North this morning.

Mr?. Greatbatch returned from a holiday in Auckland this morning.

Miss Pratt (Auckland) is staying with Mrs. David Hutchen. Misses E. and K. Young have returned from Auckland.

Mrs. Johns, senr., has returned from Wanganui. * * •

Mrs. R. B. Lusk (Auckland) is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. Webster. Mrs. Frank Rochfort (Te Kuiti) is the guest of Mrs. McKellar.

Mrs. Jas. Paul was hostess at a bridge party in honor of Mrs. Hirst last Wednesday night. Mrs. H. J. Bedford, who has been spending a holiday in Wellington, returned this week.

Miss A. Cocker, M.A., on the staff of the secondary department of Wellington Girls’ College, has returned to Wellington.

Miss Una Greenwood, of Christchurch, who has recently returned from England, is the guest of Mrs. Roger Greenwood (Urenui).

Miss L. Shaw returned last night from Wellington, accompanied by Mrs. Burdekin and Miss E. Haise (Wellington), who will be her guests for some time.

Mrs. Keppel Archer returned from Auckland on Wednesday. Miss M. Foley and Miss N. O’Sullivan have returned to Stratford after spending a short holiday visit to New Plymouth.

Mrs. John Brown, who has been on a visit to her father, Mr. E. O’Sullivan, of “Island Holm”, Tariki, has returned to Cardiff.

The engagement is announced of Miss Rita Sanson, eldest daughter of Mrs. C. Sanson, Waitoitoi, to Mr. James Glenn. Mr. Glenn is now on a short visit to Southland.

Mrs. E. A. Walker gave a very jolly party on Tuesday evening for the younger set at her house in Powderham Street. Euchre was played, and the prizes were won by Misses Marjorie Sladden, Avis Grieg, Beatson Blundell and Ken Fookes. A most artistic supper-table, laden with all manner of good things, was decorated with crimson shades and with crimson flowers and maidenhair.

Mrs. Courtney, with her daughter (Mrs. Preston-Thomas), wds “at home” to some of her friends on Thursday afternoon to meet Mrs. Davies and Miss Eileen Davies, who have just returned from England; also Mrs. Geo. Pott, from South Africa. After a dainty tea, served in the drawingroom, an adjournment was made to the garden for a golf croquet tournament. • • • •

Mrs. George Home gave a very jolly party last Wednesday for several visitors who are staying in New Plymouth. During the evening some amusing card games were played, and after supper fox-trotting was indulged in in the hall. Those present were: Mrs. E. C. Griffiths, Mrs. R. Davies, Miss Eileen Davies, Miss E. Gray (Wellington), Mrg. Preston Thomas (Havelock North), Mrs. Balharry, Mrs. Reston, Miss Skinner, Miss McKellar, Miss Bedford, Miss Agnes Wilson, Mrs. Wade and Miss Whitton.

. “PASSING THINGS ON.’ 1 In writing of “passing things on,” an account is given of a real chain of benefits which arose from one piece of kindly thought. The little history is as fol-lows.-—“A wealthy family possessing an attractive home in beautiful surroundings was setting out on a trip to Europe, and during the time of their absence offered the use of their house and grounds to friends who lived much nearer the city with but a small house and garden, and to whom such a change would be an inestimable privilege. These people in their turn offered the use of their suburban home with its small garden to a couple who occupied a little 1 flat right in the city, and who, were enchanted at the opportunity of spending a month or two out of town with a garden, fresh air and quiet. But the spirit of kindly thoughtfulness was still active, for this couple bethought themselves of two girl clerks who shared a room in a large tenement house in a crowded part of the city, and to whom the little cheerful flat with its blooming window* boxes and tasteful appointments seemed a veritable paradise. And even there the chain was not broken. In the same crowded building with these girls lived a very hard-working seamstress with many children, in a couple of crowded rooms. To her the offer kjf their room for her own use for part or every day—a quiet place where she could take her sewing and spend a few peaceful hours away from the racket and chatter of the whole family—meant as much in its degree as did the European trip to the wealthy, or the suburban house and garden to the flat dwellers, or the pleasant little flat to the girk clerks; so that each in turn, by “passing on” what they themselves had, brought a blessing into other lives.