WOMEN'S WORLD,

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1926, Page 19

WOMEN'S WORLD,

■ • I SOCIAL JOTTINGS, ! Mrs. Charles Louisson. is the guest. of her -'ii, Mr. Cecil Louisson, Napier.' Mr*. R. X. Moody retwrned from j Sydney by the Marama this morning. ', Mrs. L. Coulan returned to Auckland this morning by the Marama after a j holiday in Sydney. I Mrs. H. B. Harper, of Christchurch, is visting Mnrrinsville, and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mallet. .Mrs. T. K. Taylor and Miss C, lien- \ der-oii. IS.A., i.f Christchurch. are visit- 1 in-i Wellington to attend the Xew Zen-! land Alliance convention. ; Miss rhyllis Peterson, of Auckland, is j spending a short holiday in Christ-: church, and is the guest of Mrs. Oscar j l'/terson, "Te Whare Roa," Sprcydon. j Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jones left Christ- 1 church last week for Rotorua, near which town they have both been np-,' ipointed teachers under the Auckland '■ Education Board. j Miss Edith Lyttleton (G. B. Lancas-| ter). is now back in London after spending the winter in Guernsey. She is leaving for Xew Zealand at the end of July, after which she hopes to make a long stay in Australia. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ludbrook i are visiting England for the fir-it time. They came by the Panama route, landing at Southampton on March 22 and were thus in time to go to the north to see the Grand Xational run. The Misses I. and A. Rutherford, who are well known in the hunting field in the Dominion, went with them to the | famous race and saw what was a sensa- i tional finish. Mr. and Mrs. Ludbrook j will, of course, see all they can of in-1 terest during their stay and Mr. Lud- j brook intends to visit everything he can I of agricultural interest. I Mrs. Arthur Atkin, of Auckland, who | has been in England for some time, is | at present staying in Clifton, Bristol. She is still enjoying the Old Country and has been to Scotland and Devon- . shire, getting through the winter very | nicely. She is going on the Continent j for alwttt a month in the middle of May T j and hopes to visit some of the battle-j fields. She has done most of the Cache-' dral cities in England and enjoyed, them very much. I An enjoyable evening was spent on Saturday last by the Auckland Welsh ! Society. The absence of Professor Shaw was regretted. Mr. J. R. Jones Quoted reminiscences of the life of David Livingstone. After some musical items by Miss Ivy Thomas. "Pal of My Dreams" and "Absent;" Mrs. Darby, j "June Music" and "A Little Twilight , Song;" Mr. Hum gave "Clothes Props." j which took very well, also "Vale"; Mr. I Morgan rendered "Old Fashioned House" j and for a final a Welsh song. The even- j ing closed with supper, cards and dancing. Mrs. Mollie Xetcher Xewbury. a citizen ' of Chicago. U.S.A., at present visiting, Christchurch, enjoys the unique distinc- j tion of having a heavier life insurance '. policy than any other woman in the world. Even in America, land of superlatives, an insurance policy of 3.200,000 doTTaw, the value of Mrs. Newbury's policy, has never been exceeded by a womia. Thi9 in\ resting visitor, who, ■with _er husband. Is just completing a comprehensive tour of Xew Zealand, is the fortunate owner of a. huge departmental emporium, known ag Boston House, situated at the corner cf State and Maddison Street, Chicago. At this busy point in the big city, in the fine store which covers an acre of ground, | and is twenty storeys high, 4000 employees attend to the requirements of the public, and so satisfactory arc the foods and the service that the annual turnover of the business amounts to £7.000,000 —not dollars—all conducted strictly on cash line 9. Though the business has grown from small beginnings, its expansion has been remarkably rapid. It was established by the late Mr. Xetcher, who died twenty years ago. A year or two later, his far-seeing and courageous widow, recognising the tide In her affairs that would lead on to: fortune, took it at the flood, borrowing , 1,000,000 dollars, which at that time was the. largest loan granted to a woman in Chicago, and was commented on by the local newspapers, and set about the remodelling and extension of her business, j Her pluck and her faith in her owu judg- \ ment have been richly rewarded. To-day she is one of the wealthiest women in the United States. Thirteen years ago Mrs. Xetcher married Mr. S. Newbury, of Chicago. She and her husband have, of later.years, travelled extensively; in fact, with the exception of India, there | are few parts of the -world with which they are not familiar. Last year they included in their itinerary the frozen land of Spitsbergen, the land of the midnight sun, and this year opened with ■ a tour of New Zealand, where they have ! visited the principal' tourist resorts, including Rotorua, Mount Cook, and the Southern Lakes. To ensure comfort and privacy on their travels by rail in New Zealand Mr. and Mra. Newbury resort to the simple, if costly, expedient of buying six tickets for each journey, thereby securing for themselves the Tight to reserve a bird-cage carriage. Their motor tours have been made in special cars. RECEPTION AND WELCOME. X reception in honour of the wellknown writer, Ethel Turner (Mrs. Curlewis) was held yesterday afternoon by the Auckland branch of the Xew Zealand League of Penwomen. There was a large attendance of members, and the | lounge looked very pretty with its new j fittings and flowers. In welcoming Mrs. | Curlewis, the president, Mrs. Stuart Boyd, said they were honoured to have the distinguished authoress with them. I She had delighted the world for three decades, and they had expected a lady who, well, might be of mature years, but they had met a writer so young, as to be i nearly a girl in appearance and heart. |' The "speaker had inquired from her | young friends what was the leading "characteristics that attracted them 1" • the guest's books, and found that it was their sincerity. The children in them spoke and acted like the children of to-day. To the speaker their charm lay in their sympathy; England claims her as a daughter, for she was born there, but it is in the sunshine and warm j hearts of Australia that she grew up ■, and came to make her books. It was their great delight to welcome her to j Auckland. In replying, Mrs. Curlewis explained that she was not a public j speaker, and thus would read her im-: pressions. Her hours in Xew Zealand \ had been astonishingly sunny, she said,! and Ehe had ncser needed an umbrella,

; till she ::yy'\ ■<] in AinUniul. Hit.- -h- : was shouu the lnnismr*. , with ■•viiidi j Auckland made its line frardrr.s. She | could not speak highly enough of the beauty of New Zealand. It was lier first ! visit, and. the eyes that looked on our i landscape were not entirely untravelled : eyes. Th<\v had soon the beauty of the Swiss Lake?, the Italian valleys, Scottish ' rivers and lakes, and tin , mountain I peaks of an older world. But in New , ! Zealand she had felt that nature was a' ■ kind of cinema film, always passing now 1 scones before the travellers" eyes, and the i superabundance of water whioli was I hero, and was missed in Australia, had ! 'harmed her. One of tli«> things that interested her was the amount of verse slie had received since reaching Xew Zea- • land, much of it from Young New Zoa- ; landers. It was pathetic, she thought. ! New Zealand had its embryo poets, but Jit had not its publishers. Editors of the I big newspapers should open a column, ' and encourage these young writers, who i would in the future sing the country's J glory and make it world famous. At the ; conclusion of the address, a musical ] programme was rendered by Miss Olive i Lloyd, Mr. Norman 'Watson and Mrs. ' Gordon Robertson, who gave as a trio, i 1 Moskowski's "Serenade," Mrs. Nello i Porter sang "By the Waters of Minne- : tonka" and Schubert's '-Lullaby." Miss 'Griffiths recited "Bobolink." At the conclusion, afternoon tea was served. ! ROTORUA NOTES. An interesting visitor to Ttotorua for a few days was Mrs. IF. R. Curlewis I (Ethel Turner, the well-known authoress) of Sydney, who was deeply interested in the Maoris and the thermal regions, and particularly in the children patients at King George V. Hospital, when she paid an official visit and was shown over the hospital by Sister Stanton in the absence, of the matron, Miss Searell. i Mrs. Curlewis was so impressed with I the happiness and contentment of the i children that the next day she paid ! another visit to the hospital with the j president of the Rotorua Red Cross i Society. Mrs. E. Robertson, and presented each little patient with a toy. I Mr. M. Hampson and family, Ranoif I Street, who have been staying at Milford, have returned to Rotorua. Ur. J. A. Armstrong, late medical superintendant at .Samoa, has bought I Mrs. E. Robertson's residence at Taupo, I and, with Mrs. Armstrong and family, I will reside there permanently, owing to i health reasons. He will practice his proj fession there. Mrs. A. V. Merriman is 'visiting Waverly, Taranaki. Miss Wil- ; liamson, of nursing staff at King George A". Hospital, has resigned and left for her home in Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. Mr. and I Mrs. J. Stewart, of Epsom, are staying at Brent's Bathgatc House. Mrs. E. T. Harris and the Misses Harris are spending a holiday in Auckland. The Rev. \Y. G. 11. Wcadon and Mrs. Weadon have returned from Mount Maunganui. I Mr. R. King and Miss King have returned Ito Te Puke. Miss C. M. Stewart, Owens ; Road, Epsom, is on a visit to Rotorua j and is staying at Brent's Bathgate ! House. Miss A. Holland, who has been jon an extended visit to Rotorua, has j returned to Auckland. Miss \V. Mc- ! Hardic. Hinemoa Street, is visiting Hamilton and Auckland. Mrs. Robertsoji, of Tauhara, Taranaki, who has been on a visit to Rotorua, is now staying :in Auckland. Miss Allen, Hinemoa I Street, is visiting her parents, Mr. and ; Mrs. J. Allen, Sentinel Road, Heme Bay. j Mrs. E. C. Knowles and family, who have ! been staying in Auckland, returned to J Rotorua on Thursday? Miss Lenauze, of ! Auckland, is visiting Rotorua. >lis3 I. Edmonds is visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Falloona, of Waiwera House, who have been visiting the Dunedin Exhibition and motoring in. the South, have returned to Rotoma.