WOMAN'S REALM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 2

WOMAN'S REALM.

SOCIAL NEWS AND FASHIONS.

(By "Marguerite.")

[Social Items for this Page would be gladly received by "Marguerite," care of "Age" Office, but to ensure their publication, must be aceompanied by the name and address of the Bender.]

Mr and Mrs Maunsell, "Erid'ge," are making a short visit to Wellington.

Miss O'Donovan, who is spending a holiday on the East Coast, is at present the guest of Mrs Morrison, Blairlogie.

Mr and Mrs ,Mawley, "Ditton," who have been spending a few days in Wellington, return to Masterton this; evening.

■' Mrs: V. E. Donald gave a most enjoyable children's party on Tuesday, it being her eldest daughter Margaret's birthday. The day being all one could wish, the children were able to play all manner of games out in the garden, and two bran-tubs proved a great attraction to ones. Among those invited were: Mary and Joan Beetham, Cicely Francis, Claire Smith, Shiela Hutchinson, Elva Cook, Nancy and Allister Williams, Elizabeth Coftvie, Garthowen and Mauvern Williams, Norman and Huia Robieson, Maurice Bennett, Jack Holmwood, Jack and Billy Logan. v

form character than to unmake it? And do you think a woman with a sneer at all gentleness, all tenderness, all emotion, is the highest type of womanhood? Do you think her the kind of woman a man takes as his ideal, or that she is likely to have any influence for good among those with whom her lot in life- is cast? Does a flippant girl earn the confidence, admiration, and interest of those with whom she comes in contact, or does she, as a sister, or wife, or mother, satisfy the ideal of amiable and gracious womanhood which every man living holds in his heart of. hearts? If her influence, and all that it brings with it in the way of responsibility, is nothing to her, if. it does not concern her in the least whether she leaves the world, when she goes out of it, the worse or the better for her stay there, then ehe may go on being as flippant as she chooses to the end of the chapter, and destroy as entirely as she sees fit those best qualities of womanhood of which she has so lightly thought.