SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20162, 24 January 1929, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. J. H. Frater is visiting Feilding.

Mrs. C. Keeble has returned from a visit to Rotorua.

Mrs. Yourens, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland.

Mrs. R. Buttle returned yesterday from a visit to Titirangi.

Miss A. Holland is (he guest, of Mrs Armstrong, of Dihvorlh Avenue.

Mrs. YV. C. W. McDowell, of Mac Murray Road, Rcmuera, is at Titirangi

Dr. Ada Pnterson, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland and is staying at Braeburn.

Mrs. H. B. Douslin, of Rotorua, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at tlie Hotel Careen

Mrs. A. Grierson. of Penrvn Avenue Mount Eden, lias left, for the Hermitage Mount Cook.

Mrs and Mu.s Gale, of Christchureh, are visitors to Auckland, and are staying at Braebnri.

Miss S. Parker, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland, and is staying at tho Hotel Cargo.i.

Miss Gladys de Havilland, of London, is a visitor to Auckland, and is staying at tho Grand Hotel.

Miss Salek and Miss M. Salek leave to-day for Rotorua, where they intend staying until after Easter.

Lady Teters of England, arrived in Auckland from Taupo yesterday and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Dr. Askew, of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, Mr. 11. Field, Timam, and Mr. Doak, of Nelson, are staying at Braeburn.

Miss McLeod, Miss Henderson, the Misses Kennedy, and Mrs. and Miss Bracey, all o) Sydney, aro staying at tho Hotel Cargo*

Mr. and Mrs. Lusk, of Palmerston North, who have been the guests of Mrs. Latimer, of Mount Eden, left last evening on their return to the South.

Miss Macfarlane and Miss M. Macfarlane, of Gillies Avenue, motored through to the Wairarapa this week to take part in the tennis tournament in Masterton.

Miss Keesing has returned to Radnor after a tour which included a visit to the Waitomo Caves and a trip dovvn the Wangauu; River, as well as a visit to New Plymouth and a return journey over Mount Messenger.

Sir John Hewett, Bailiff of Eagle, and his daughter, Mrs. St. John Atkinson, Damo of Grace of the Order of St. John Overseas, will be guests at a reception to bo given at the Lyceum Club in the second week of February.

A woman, Dr. Varia Kipiani-Eristavi. who holds a professorship at Brussels University, has recently completed an authoritative work on ambidexterity, which is quoted by experts as a standard reference on the subject. She is a native of Georgia (Transcaucasia).

The Queen of Spain smokes some of the most expensive cigarettes in the world. A London firm makes these spe-cially-blended cigarettes for her, and on each is the royal monogram and crown. But the cost of the Queen's cigarettes pales before those specially made for certain American millionaires, some of whom pay as mifrh as £25 and £3O a thousand.

Mrs. Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has announced that she intends to devote the entire Nobel Prize, which amounts this year to about £9OOO, to charity. She has already given nearly half of the amount to provide financial assistance to parents who are obliged to maintain mentally deficient children in their homes. Mrs. Undset lives in Lillehammer Valley, Norway, in an old timber house built in 1590. Her days are spent in taking caro of her house and garden and her children.

Among the guests at the luncheon party given at Trentham by the president of the Wellington Racing Club on Tuesday, Cup Day, were:—Lord and Lady Hampden, the Hon. Barbara Brand, Miss Martin Smith, Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, Hon. P. de la Perelle, Hon. A. J. and Mrs. Slallworthy. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowrv, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. E. Russell, Mr. E. A. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. G. Gould, Mr. G. X. McLean, Mr. J. S. Barrett, Mr. W. L. Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Sellers. Mr. Bernard Gotlieb, Major-General and Mrs. Young. Mr. R. S. Abraham, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bidwill, Mr. F. 0. Hamilton, Captain Boyle, Colonel J. Philpot Curran, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lowrio, Mr. and Mrs. Day.

A flannel dance, arranged by the North Shore Troop of Girl Guides in aid of the camp funds, was held in the Devonport Parish Hall last evening. The decorations were 'carried out in red and white, the troop's colours, with clumps of bamboo upon the stage, and the Kit Kat Orchestra played inspiriting music. Miss Norah Clarke, assisted by the troop leaders and Guides, was responsible for the evening's arrangements. Among those who were present were:—Miss N. Wynyard, Miss P. Wynyard, Miss B. Gooding, Miss G. Gooding, Miss J. Roberts, Miss B. Atkinson, Miss R. Gurr. Miss J. Lee, Miss G. Percival, Miss J. Best, Miss M. Percival, Miss M. McDougall, Miss 11. Charlton, Miss P. Beaumont, Miss J. Smith, Miss IT. Schmidt, Miss M. Ehvorth, Miss N. Robins, Miss M. Spicer, Miss E. Bush, Miss S. and Miss B. Burnley.

Mrs. Hoover, wife of the President of the United Stales, is ex-president (now vice-president) of the Girl Scouts of America, and carries on many social, educational and philanthropic duties. She has a corps of secretaries, all of whom are graduates from Leland Stanford. Ihree of her husband's nieces, although married, are now there as students. It was due to Mrs. Hoover that the little house, known as " Home, Sweet, Home," in Washington, which was built in the park, patterned after the home of James Howard Payne, famous of the old song, was saved to the nation. When the Federal Government needed the land for an extension of the park, she bought it, and had it moved to the corner of Eighteenth and New York Avenues, opposite the Department of the Interior, and it is now the national headquarters of the Girl Scouts.