WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 36, 11 February 1920, Page 10

WOMEN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Mr. and Mrs. R. ■Burns intend to pay n visit to Chriirtchurch this week. Mrs. Bettagh, accompanied V,- her son. returned to Wanganui yesterday- ■ 'Major and Mrs. Kiddi.-k left yesterday for a trip through the iXorth. i 'Miss Olive Arthur is visiting Mi--Wrav, Remuera, Auckland. I Mr. anil Mr*. Sidney ".Vain, of Auckland, are visiting Ohristclmrch. Mrs. IBroadfoot, ot" Te Kuiti. is visiting X'hri-tchurcii. : Miss Fol.jambe. daughter of Colonel land Mrs. IFoljambe, is the guest of Lord; .Liverpool anil the Countess of LiverpoolMr. anel Mrs. A. M. <iill.es. nf llamil ton. have returned from Waiwcra. Audi iare staying at the Granil. j .Mrs. Stringer left to-ilay fnc her son"-| .farm at Ptiturn, aceompnnied by Dr. ■Bruce and Mrs. Bruce. The Misses M. and •!. Oliphant have ■left for a visit to Honolulu, and w 11 bj 'away for some weeks. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hyde, and Lieutenant Hyde, of Hamilton, and iMr. ami •Mrs. Julian, of Te Kuiti. are visiting Christchurch. .Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Col-beck, of .(Auckland, who have been in Christchurch for some time, have gone to Timaru for a few da vs. Mr. and Mts. H. C. V 'ckley and their ifamily, of Sydney, have come to Wellington r to .live. . Mrs. ~ Pockley is a 6istcr of Mrs. Curlew is (Ethel Turner). Captain and Mrs. Dean have arrived from England by the Ruapehu. They expect to spend some months in New Zealand, and to make their headquarters at Wellington. Mrs. C. Jinarnjadasa. wife of the eminent Indian theosophist, Mr. C. Jinaaajadasa, iM.A. (who is visiting Christichureh at present) gave a lecture to members of the Canterbury Women's Club. Her subject was "India." Miss Anderson, of Hastings, and Miss Mary Anderson, of Wellington, sailed from Auckland by the Makura for Vancouver. They intend to make a holiday tour of the Alberta province, making Calgary their headquarters. ! The marriage r>f Miss Ileene Green, ■only daughter of Mrs. J. F. Green, .Colombo Street, Christchurch. to Mr. Cyril Stringer, son of Mr. Justice and Mrs. Stringer, has been arranged to take place at St. Mary's Church, Merivale, on February 25th. f ' The engagement is announced of Miss Huia Bulkley, youngest daugher of the late Mr. R. C. Bulkley and Mrs. Bulkley, Wellington, to Mr. Cedrie Herman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman, of Auckland, and lately major in the New Zealand Divisional Headquarters Staff, i- Miss Adelaide van Staverjn, of Wilmington, -n-bb' lias sung at Covent Garden and.at important concerts tliara and in the provinces, is anxious to ccc New Zealand again,- from Which she has b_en absent eleven years, Her numerous inMgemenl;i^h'BWefe'r^^eS¥ , sng more than a flying visit of about a fortnight near the middle of the yetr ' Mrs.-Peiriber Reeves, who ha 3 taken the trouble to find out how tlie othe.lialf lives, and some years ago told the jworld of her discoveries in that excellent -little book, "Round About a Pound a Week," was recently interviewed. by the "Evening rXews" on co-operative or central cooking. She thinks it is a reform thafc must surely come, and suggests centres for school feeding might he used for' the children*, the parents paying l'eir tbsir food, and--t-here might be' central ■kitchens run by working women themselves. On December 10, at St. John's fresbyIterian Church, Northwood, England, by the Rev.'.J. ■__(. E. Ross, M.A., cousin of the bridegroom, Mr. Walter Alexander, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ross, of 'Dunedin, was married to Xorah, widow of Erie Campbell Xoble, and only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Browne, of Glendearn, Tomatin, Inverness-shire. ■On December 10, -reports our Leondon correspondent, at St. John the Baptist's Church, Holland Road, London, Mr. Ken:*neth Murray, second son of the late Mr, George Bertram Hutton, of Auckland, and of Mrs. Hutton, was married to Mis* Joan Millicent, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Debcnham, of 8, lAeddison Road, London. Miss Nancy Thompson, a \le : bourne artist, who made a protracted trip through Xew Zealand "making watercolour sketches of the principle to.vns. and who met many New Zealanl artists in thecourse of ber travels, is at present sketching in Loneion after a visit to Wales. Writing to a friend, in Auckland ehe speak 3 very highly of the assistance the Victoria League has bean to her in [London, and advises all to join it bcfoi . going Home. She says: "The Victoria [League is a fine thing to beieing to when you arrive in 'London. I have seen such . a lot under its guidance. I went to Hatfield House, the: home of the Cecils, ond it was wortli seeing, snow everywhere JHatffield is about an hour's run from (London. They had some very good pic■etures there, too, but only two baths. Then I saw Lambeth Palace, the home of ,itli,o _ Archbishop of Canterbury, under their'guidance. Jt is just'across the . river from Westminster \bbey. I was most interested in the old inns in London. Staple Inn ■was the first one, and I got such a surprise. You just go through an archway, and there you are ■in an old world; busy Holbora is outside, but the "buildings deaden the sound. 'It is just 'as it was in 1630 or so, rough or rather flattened stones for paving, and even a pump in working order, trees ■with scats round them. We next visited Grey's -Inn. That was lovely and much larger. A number of squar-M and gardens •with buildings all round, covern_r - ( «H .together 30 acres. It is. also just off Helbbrn. We went into Quality Court, ■rid iihen into Clement's Inn, where thei c are some very old houses. Plenty of bombs fell hereabout, as you can see by the new 'bricks. We finished up with Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop. I am sure at would fall down if you walked about Inside; it looked so quaint standing ;_eside all the modern.tmildings. Another Saturday we were taken over the river ■ •gain, and went all in and out of those .awful old courts and alleys that you ,read about where the poor live with no sun. Some of the passages are only about a yard wide close to the river. To-morrow I am going to a tea given by tbe Victoria League. They are opening their hew rooms, or house, or whatever it is, and on Saturday I am being taken overcome of the daily newspaper offices." This unsolicited testimonial! •from a stranger from the overseas^ in! •London shows that the work of the Victoria 'League is greatly appreciated by Vwomen who go to London without kno*,ying anyone in'the great city, and as it iba- 'become almost a duty for every woman who realises to strive to see the centre of our great Empire for which so many of our own 'boys have fought and died, it also behoves them to follow the 'Vdvice of our Australian .visitor.

The work of tlie Plunket Society goes steadily forward, and (hiring the month of Dee-ember the visits to the office of parents in search evf advice totalled 1277, while diirinj* the montli just closeil till* visits had increased to 1.112. Dui-inf*; tl.e> mon Hi of .Taiuiury the nurses |>aiel -1117 to tlie homes of babies. Two interestin._ visitors came to the ollice for information this month—Mr. Robert Woodbury, Director of Statistical Research, Washington, I'.S.A., and Dr. Margaret Harper. Sydney, X.S.W. The i latter has been sent by the N.S.W. Government to ini|iiire into the working of [he I'lunkel Society in New Zealand. On Wednesday last, at St. Luke* Church, liicyteiwn. the wedding, which was fully choral and military, took place of (Flora, youngest elaiierliter of 'Mrs. CM. T. McKinnon. e>f .'reyto.vn, and the late Captain Lindsay Sydney, to Victor (Aiiza.'i. son of Mr. au v l Mrs. Wisnisky,' of Ai.ckland. 'flic brieU'. who was given away by her niothrr-iu-la.v. 'Mrs. .1. K. Thomp-on. wore a puwn of white peor•ictte and >atiu with head and lace trim mi nir. lhe train being made of gold tissue and finis'icil with orange blossoms, some of whie-h were worn on the corsage. Tlie only ornaments worn were a pair of diamond earrings, the gift of the bridegroom, and a bouquet of pink and white carnations from her mother. The long tulle veil was arranged coronet style anel caught up with orange Tjlossoms. There were two brides-maids. Miss Vie. Dun" wore blue ninon finished with gold and (lowers to match: Miss Gladys Walilon. a very dainty frock of pink ninon lini-liC(| with pink and blue girdle, heavily beaded, and pink posey. The train-'bearrr. Mi.-s .lean Lindsay (Sydney), niece of the bride, was in net trimmed with French val lace and insertion with pale pink channelise underdress, their Eastern caps being quite new and being made of gold lact* and ribbon. Alter the reception Mr. and Mrs. Wisnisky left by car for Auckland, where they will reside.

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