WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Miss Good (Hawera) is the guest of Mrs. F. G. Evans. Mr. and Mrs. R. Wilson (Makuri) are staying with Miss Agnes Wilson. Miss Willis returns to Cambridge on Monday. Dr. and Mrs. Campbell are visiting Wellington. Mrs. Haseler was hostess at a bridge party on Thursday, Miss K. Humphries winning the prize. Mrs. A. Grant and Mrs. A. B. Fookes gave bridge parties this week in aid of the Croquet Club. Mrs. Courtney was hostess at an afternoon this week. Miss Gwen Bayly returned from Auckland yesterday. Miss Myra Livingstone is the guest of Mrs. Home. Mrs. R. McAlley is on a visit to Palmerston North. Mrs. R. Jackson (Auckland) is staying with her mother, Mrs. H. Mace. Mrs. C. H. Bamitt, of Uruti, leaves by the mail train this morning on a visit to Patea and Wanganui. • • • • A London cable says that Lady Wilson, widow of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, has declined nomination as a candidate for her late husband’s seat in the House of Commons. ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced of Gwendolin, fifth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Westen, late of Waitara, to William, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Murray, of Uruti. VICTORIA LEAGUE. The next community ising will Be held in the Victoria League Rooms on Monday, and opportunity will be given to contribute to the unemployment fund. Dr. J. R. Purdy, of Wellington, has promised to assist with a Shakespeare recital during the evening, and a cordial invitation is extended to the general public, as well as to members of the league. Mrs. Burgess, president of the league. will be at home to members at the league rooms on Wednesday, July 12, at 8 p.m. A CANADIAN TEACHER. FAREWELLED AT WEST END. An interesting ceremony took place at the West End School yesterday, when Miss Helen Tracy, a Canadian teacher, who has been visiting New Zealand under the exchange system, was farewelled by the staff and pupils of the school. Miss Tracy has been teaching at West End for the past six months and has endeared herself to all the pupils. On behalf of the school, Mr. Garcia (chairman of the committee) presented Miss Tracy with a handsome travelling rug, suitably inscribed, a typical New Zealand present, as a memento of her stay in the Dominion. Miss Mynott, the senior lady teacher, expressed the regret of the staff at the departure of Miss Tracy, whilst ?.Ir. D. P. Evans (headmaster) and Mr. J. Hoskin (a member of the committee) also spoke in eulogistic terms of Miss Tracy. Miss Tracy, who was enthusiastically cheered by the children, in acknowledging, spoke feelingly of the hospitality and kindness that she had received everywhere in New Zealand, and remarked that her only regret at the visit was in having to leave so many friends. She then spoke a few words to the children. All the speakers wished her bon voyage and future success. Afternoon tqa was afterwards provided. Miss Tracy'deaves New Plymouth on Monday for Wellington, en route to Australia, where sihe will spend a year studying the educational system there before returning to Canada.

Miss Nora Heald has recently been appointed dramatic critic of the Daily Mail. This is the first time that a woman has held such a position on the staff of a London daily newspaper. Miss Heald is one of the two clever sisters of the late Ivan Heald, a humorist with a whimsical genius, who was killed during the war. Interesting experiences of nursing life in Florida, U.S.A., are recounted by Miss Grace Bruce, formerly of New Plymouth, in a recent letter to her parents. Writing of the graduation ceremony, she says: “We had all day off and one of our old millionaire patients took us to the beach and the seaside hotel, in which is a beautiful dance hall, to show us the decorations for the dance to be held in our honor that night- At four in the afternoon our graduation ceremony was held in the Nurses’ Home, which was beautifully decorated for the occasion by the Indies’ Auxilliary (the most prominent ladies in town). We were presented with our diplomas by Dr. Anderson, a wonderful old man of eighty, and a true friend of the nurses. Dr. Anderson gave us our Nurses’ Home and hundreds of other favors; he is a millionaire, but a real Christian and helps everyone he can who is in trouble.

“I* have been in three millionaire’s’ homes now in St. Augustine; they are very beautiful with oriental rugs, centuries old, carved and upholstered furnishings, beautiful curtains of lace-plush and tapestry, with tapesty also hanging over the barristers, beautiful silver, cut glass, mirrors, wonderful libraries — everything magnificent. I cannot describe how beautiful it all is.” A Sydney girl in London writes — “Princess Mary's lovely wedding gown ia (at the King’s special request) to be preserved in order to show tlfe world how perfect is British craftsmanship in this line- The dress will probably be put in one of the museums. South Kin•ifigton i« suggested this.niuseum

contains specimens of wearing apparel, ancient and modern, and has often had loan exhibits from the Queen.” English papers to hand are still touching on x the subject of the Royal wedding, and the latest deals with the return to England of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles from their stay at Fiesole, where the inhabitants gave them a great welcome. It is not generally known that the Countess of Bradford, at one of whose country homes the earlier days of the honeymoon were spent, is a sister of Lady Digby, wife of the Governor-Gen-eral of Australia’s aide-de-camp —Lady Bradford is the eldest, and Lady Digby the youngest of Lord Aberdare’s three daughters. The second, the Hon. Eva Bruce, married Lord Belper in 1911. The eldest brother, Captain the Hon. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, who was killed in action in 1914. was the husband of the beautiful Camille Clifford-