WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Miss G. Shaw returns from Hawke’s Bay on Monday. Mrs. Gordon Fraser returned last night from a visit to Auckland. Mrs. L. B. Webster leaves next week for Hawke’s Bay. Mrs. Oliver Samuel arrived from Wellington on Thursday night. Airs. R. F. Cornwall has returned from a visit to Hawera. Mrs. Hugh Fraser has returned from Auckland. Mrs-. J. Winfield (Inglewood) is the guest of Mies Helen Raweon. * * * * Mrs. Hamerton has returned to Inglewood.

Mrs. J. C. Kenny has returned from Wellington. •Miss Moana Cholmeley returns from Dannevirke on Monday. ♦ * * ♦ Miss- E. J. Harris returns to Rotorua on Tuesday. Mrs. Hill, of Wanganui, is visting New Plymouth. Dr. Janet Morgan returns to Wairarapa this week. Miss Lucy Howarth ((Onehunga) is the guest of her aunt, Miss F. Wood. Mrs. S. W. Shaw and Miss Glivia Shaw leave for a holiday in Auckland next week. Miss Gilkinston, wno has been the guest of Mre. Rollo, returned to Wellington on Thursday. Mrs. McCormick (Hawera) has been the guest of Mrs. Home for a day or two. Mrs. J. Brown (Mangorei) has returned from Wellington, and is at present staying with Mrs. J. McKellar. Mrs. Fairfax Cholmeley was hostess at a fox-trot party for young people last Tuesday. Mrs. Courtney leaves next week to visit her daughter, Mrs. Preston Thomas (Havelock North). Mrs. Ernest Falconer, of Auckland, is spending a month or two with ‘her relations here. Mrs. C. H. Barnitt. of Uruti, returned from Wanganui by the mail train last a!ght - . . . . \ Mrs. J. Barthorp and Miss Beryl Barthorp leave in the early part of the week for Auckland. * The engagement is announced of Miss Myra Livingstone, of Takapau, to Mr. Alan Cameron, of Hawke’s Bay. ■Miss Annis B. Wilson, of New Plymouth. lias been successful in passing her terms examination at the Auckland Univerity. * Mr. and Mrs. Rainbow have returned to Hawke’s Bay after visiting Mrs. Balfour Mabin at Onaero. The engagement is announced of Miss ' Miri Oswin, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Oswin. of Claudelands, Hamilton, to Mr. Wilson Williams, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Williams, of Hastings.

DRESS AND MORALS. CENSURE IN SYDNEY. Censure of -the dress and morals ol the women of to-day was included in the inaugural address of the president at the annual convention of . the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. “We deplore many of the new customs and habits that have crept intc women’s lives,” the president (Mrs Grant Forsythe) said, referring to the changes that had occurred since the poipeering days. “The too free man ner and careless, immodest dress, tin inelegant, slangy language, the ciga rette-smoking, and wine-dnnking, tin betting and gambling that are as mea and drink to many, if not to the major ity of women and girls, are all sign: of the times. We dare not leave then unchallenged. Some of the evils couli be rectified by legislation, some onv ■be example and teaching. Women’, place still begins in the home, and ther we must look for the remedy. Mrs Forsythe looked forward to th time when the Legislature would giv the people an opportunity to expres their opinion on the drink traffic, an. when our intelligent men and wome; would study the question of prolubi tion with unbiassed minds. They wer glad that some of their legislators wer awake to the danger of the wine saloon as regards women and girls. She re ferred to the Gun Alley murder in Mel bourne, and said eyes were opened b. such happenings; while recently th Svdnev Town Hall revelation regardm the menace of alcohol at such socia functions as the Artists Ball woul still further enlighten the public.