SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19050, 22 June 1925, Page 13

SOCIAL NEWS.

Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs. Sitwell are visiting Christchurcli and the South. Miss Lillas Grieve will sail for Sydney by the Abrangi to-day. Mrs. Eichclbaum, of Wellington, has returned from Helensville and is staying at tho Grand Hotel. Mrs. R. Burns and Miss Ailsa Burns, who Lave been on a visit t-o Honolulu, returned by the Aorangi. Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Bloomfield, who have spent the last year visiting England and the Continent, will return by the Maunganui on Tuesday. Mr. 0. S. Swinnock, accompanied by Mrs. Swinnock, left by tho Tofua for the Islands. They expect to return in about three months' time. Mrs. Oliver Samuel, Mrs. Brewster and Miss Brewster, of New Plymouth, arrived by the Aorangi yesterday from a visit to Honolulu, and aro staying at the Hotel Cargen, Club day ab the Auckland Lyceum Club on Thursday, June 25, will take the form of a social afternoon, when Mesdames Napier, Mackay Grant and Keeble will be hostesses. Mrs. Ferner will give a short address. Mrs. Coontz, wifo of Admiral R. E. Coontz who will command the American fleet which is to visit New Zealand, was a passenger on the Aorangi from Vancouver yesterday. Accompanied by her daughter she will leave to-day for Sydney. The Misses A. S., M. J., and F. Gardner, of Auckland, havo been for nine weeks on the Continent visiting Switzerland, Italy and tho Riviera; returning to London via Belgium and Holland. After a few weeks in London the Misses Gardner will go to Devonshire. Mrs. W. J. Edwards and her daughters (Birkenhead, Auckland), are about to bring to a close a very pleasant stay in the Mother Country and on the Continent, says our London correspondent. They havo been hero about 18 months, and are expecting to arrive in New Zealand at tho end of June. Mrs. C. H. Blyth and her daughter have been on tho Continent for several months, says our London correspondent. In July they will mako a tour of Norway, and in August they will ieave on their return journey via Singapore. New Zealanders will remember that Mrs. Blyth is a niece of Sir Frederick Chapman and a grand-daughter of Mr. Justice Chapman, who was a Judge in Dunedin for so many years. Mrs. T. Copeland Savage,, of Rcmuera, has been on a visit to Great Britain to see her son, Mr. W. Copeland Savage, who is at Cambridge. She was accompanied from New Zealand by her daughter. They will be mainly in London for several months, but will go to Cambridge for the May Week. At the end of September they will leave for Malay, where tho marriage will take place of Miss Copeland Savage. ,Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moody, of Auckland, who have been living near Horsham, in Sussex, for the last two years, have given up their tenancy of tho house which they have been occupying, and until the end of the year they ■will spend most of their time motoring in the Mother Country, says our London correspondent. The exact date of their return to New Zealand has not been decided upon, but they may be in Auckland about Christmas time. They will go out by way of Vancouver. The Victoria League gave a very pleasant reception at 22, Eccleston Square recently, in honour of overseas visitors. The reception committee included the Duchess of Buckingham and Ghandes, Mrs. Amery, Lady Emmett, Lady Dorothy Wood, Mrs. Anstruther, and Lady Ware. New Zealanders who were present included Mr. and Mrs. Lyndham Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Dunn,'Mrs. Burgess, Miss Ward, Miss Gray and Miss King, The Victoria League aims at putting overseas visitors in personal touch with people at home, and just now its members are particularly busy arranging , trips to places of interest and arranging hospitality. Oxford was visited last week, and other trips are being' planned. The oft-repeated adage that women, after marriage, drop their professions or coase to ride their favourite hobbies, can no longer be applied to the modern wife. Very evident proof of this is given in the number of married women who are exhibiting' pictures at the Auckland Society of Arts exhibition this year. Particularly worthy of note is the fact that, so many of them are wives of artists who themselves are exhibiting. Wo find Mrs. Page Rowe, Mrs. Spencer Mackay, Sirs. Cameron Johnstone, Mrs. A. J. Brown, Mrs. Ronald McKenzie andf Mrs. C. F. Kelly all doing successful work in which a high standard of merit is maintained. Scores of women all over the world are proving themselves equal to tho double role of wifehood and that of carving for themselves a niche in the artistic or professional world, and it is not to be wondered at; A woman gifted in some particular lino naturally seeks expression. Tho day is past when the blessings of a husband, children and a homo are regarded as tho all-absorbing interests of her lifeShe has her claim to individuality which cannot bo denied. The pathos of the situation is that mothers in New Zealand, and no doubt elsewhere, have their gifts somewhat cramped or even crushed by the domestic problem for which there seems to be no solution except that of being equal to this occasion by doing one's work oneself.