THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 162, 14 August 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

NOTES AND NEWS.

Mr and Mrs Duncan were passengers for the north last evening. Mrs Bartlett arrived in Christchurch from Wellington yesterday. The Mayoress of Oamaru, Mrs Firth, is on a visit to Christclmrch. Miss Watson, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs Bernard Wood, Fendalton. Miss Litchfield (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs Nanearrow, of this town. Miss Muriel Gray returned to New Zealand by the Ulimaroa this week, after an extended holiday in Sydney. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Stead are the guests of Mrs Stead, Strowan, Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Dan Eiddiford and Miss Nancy Johnson are amongst the visitors to Christclmrch. Mrs Alan Strang and Miss Strang (Palmerston North) are the guests of Mrs J. Hall, Christclmrch. The engagement is announced of Mr • Arthur C, Cameron (who is at present in England), of Wellington, to Miss E. M. Parrett, of Tai Tapu, Canterbury. The engagement is announced of Miss E-.ith Anderson, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Anderson, St. Martins, Christchurch, to Mr E. Guy Foster, of Nysore Province, South In lia, eldest s-on of Dr and Mrs Foster, oi Somersetshire, England.

» The executive of the Lady Liverpool .Fund will be glad to hear of any ladies who will undertake collecting duties on Saturday. Those willing to assist in this way can communicate with the Mayoress, or any other member of the .executive'at their depot, 121 Lichfield Street.

The marriage of Mr George Alfred Cooke, Assistant : Paymaster, R.N., of H.M.S. Latona, younger son of Mr George Cooke, late of Timaru, to Miss Eileen Beresford Knowles, youngest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, Bart., of Moreton Road, Oxford, will take place quietly this month (August) at Knockainy, Co. Limerick. Last night, in the Druids' Hall, Woolston, Mr. and Mrs H. G. Day entertained a large party of guests at an ante-nup-tial social in honour of their daughter. Olive, whose marriage takes place next Tuesday. Dancing, music, and cards made the time pass pleasantly, and a thoroughly enjoyable time was spent by all who attended. A dainty supper was served during the evening, and the company dispersed at about midnight. Miss Day was the recipient of many beautiful gifts. ,

Miss Mary R. Barkas, M.Sc, who left Timaru last year to pursue the study of Domestic Economy and Home Science at King's College far Women University in London, has just gained the Diploma of Household and Social Science with distinction. Miss Barkas (who was awarded the Gilchrist Trust Scholarship for 1913-1914) took firsts in almost all her subjects in the diploma examination, and has now entered her name at the London School of Medicine for Women with the intention of qualifying for a doctor's degree.

As showing the good that women can do in municipal work, evidence has been brought through a committee of women in Scotland, as to the smoke nuisance. Dr Peter Fyfe, chief sanitary inspector in Glasgow, showed that smoke tended to bring fogs, and fogs ran up the pulmonary death rate alarmingly. Each adult inhaled 600 cubic inches of air per minute, so that if it were true that there were 475,000 dust particles in each cubic inch, as a recent analysis showed, then the breather of such air drew into his respiratory passages 285 millions of these particles per minute. This surely emphasised the necessity of keeping the city air cleaner.

"Her Majesty the Cook," with her retinue, the housemaids, housekeepers, and governesses, can now spend her leisure at her club if she lives in New York. It is a real club, with a whole building for a home, and it is exceedingly popular. The annual dues are five dollars, payable in instalments of one dollar each.

To prove that there is no such thing as racial inferiority, that in the scale of intelligence all races can grow equally, a Chicago 4 woman, Mrs T. Brackett Bishop, is going to adopt fifteen babies, each of a different race, and give them all a good education. It will certainly be the oddest family in the world.

An American woman inventor who is socially prominent was awarded a silver medal at the recent Exposition of Safety and Sanitation. She is Mrs French E. Chadwick, wife of BearAdmiral Chadwick, U.S.N., retired, and the award was for a stretcher that will "be valuable in first aid emergencies. Wood latches upon doors are among the last conceits of the collector in England. In several of the restored houses, the old-fashioned ''hasp" has been recovered, or, at least, faithfully imitated. They are not bad fastenings cither.

A practical demonstration of the accessories of education that now supplement the text book and the blackboard as a means of creating a vivid impression iu the minds of children was afforded by the Exhibition and Conference on History Teaching held last month in London. The possibilities of moving pictures as instruments of instruction are being developed by the recently constituted Educational Cinematograph Association, which aims at historical representations accurate in design and sufficiently dramatic to appeal to the imagination. Trading firms of film makers are co-operating in the movement. What has already been done was shown at the exhibition in pictures of incidents in Queen Elizabeth's reign and of the siege of Calais. In fact, the possibilities of the cinematograph in this direction seem to be great.