WOMEN'S CORNER

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20273, 26 June 1931, Page 3

WOMEN'S CORNER

LONDON PERSONALS. WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS. (TOOK OTO OWX coebsspohdest.) ' LONDON, May 15. The engagement is announced of the Honourable Thomas W. Coke, Scots Guards, eldest son of Viscount and Viscountess Coke, and Elizabeth, only child of the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke. The engagement is announced between Lieutenant-Commander Harry L. Howden, of the Australian Navy, eon of the late Mr Patrick Howden, of Edinburgh, and Furneaux, Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, and Vanda Mary, only daughter of Mr W. Saunders Fiske, and of the late Mrs Fiske, of 35a Hyde Park Gate, London. The wedding will take place shortly at Hankow, China. A. New Zealand Bride. At the Parish Church, Croydoa, on May 2nd, the wedding took place of William Edward Valder, only son of Mr and Mrs W. Valder, of "Meadow Way," Woldingham, Surrey, and Lena Allin Mill, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Bobert Mill, of Dunedin. Mr Mill iu manager In London of the Bank of New Zealand. The choral servioe was performed by the Bishop of Croydon, and the ehnrcb was beautifully decorated with palms and hydrangeas. The musical portion of the service was in the hands of Mr Leslie-Smith, organist of the Parish Church. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a beautiful dress of parchment satin, with a short train, and a veil of Brussels net held by a wreath of orange blossom. She carried a sheaf of lilies. The four bridesmaids were Miss Katherine Mill, Miss Margaret Valder, Miss Molly Docking, and Miss Joan Reed, who wore dresses of green lace, with small hats of green ribbon to tone, and green necklaces (the gift of the bridegroom). .Each carried a bouquet of crimson roses. Mr Edward Wagstaff was best man. At the conclusion of the ceremony Mr and Mrs Mill entertained about seventy guests at the reception held at Selsdon Park Hotel, Sanderstead. Mrs Mill wore an effective dress of black laee, with turquoise front, with a small hat. She carried a bouquet of pink roses. The bridegroom's mother was in grey, with a blue hat, and hei bouquet was of blue irises. The bride and bridegroom are spending their honeymoon in Italy, the former going away in an ensemble of green and fawn, the coat having a c6l- - of fox fur. A becoming hat toned with the costume. Mr and Mrs Valder will live at Woldingham, Surrey. Mr T. A. Stuait-Monteath and Mrs A. Taylor. On April 80th, the wedding took place at St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, of Mr Thomas Alexander Stuart-Monteath, only surviving son of the late Mr Andrew Agnew Stuart-Monteath and Mrs

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Stuart-Monteath, of Wellington, New Zealand, and Mrs Kathleen Frances (Kitty) Taylor, widow of Captain Arthur Taylor, of Cruckton Hall, Shrewsbury, and daughter of Mr and Mrs F. J. Constable Curtis. The Rev. E. K. Talbot officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gowa of flowered georgette with a black hat. She was attended by her niece, Miss Pamela Boyle, and Major A. StuartMonteath was best man. NEW FREEDOM. THE YOUTH OF TO-DAT. (nox on omr cosazsroxoxn.) I LONDON, May 18. "Hiking" is to be very much the fashion this summer in England, and certain business concern# are making arrangements for the cheap accommodation of young people in various parts of England. The ( i4ea has come from Germany. In the new freedom of young people, however, Father F. Woodlock, of the Jesuit ChurciSt, Farm street. West London, sees a serious danger. Preaching on Sunday last, he gave a warning as to what he described as the tions" of a "hiking" holiday spent together by young unmarried couples. "The survival of Christian morality is in jeopardy," he said, "and it is youth that will decide the issue for humanity. The contempt of the young for their elders to-day has killed the authority of those who alona could speak with a wisdom born of the experience of life "Religion used to ba a restraint. But, for the first time in human hiatory, a generation has grown up of which can say with much truth that it has nd religion. The new freedom in the mutual relation of the youth of both inevitably brings grave dangers with it. "Must a parent be dubbed » Puritan," Father Woodlock asked, "if he feels some misgiving aboiA the temptations involved, say in the new erase for young unmarried couples taking Inking' holidays, together, and not confining their attention to the improvement in physical health derived from such open-air excursions? OlrZs of To-day. "In the new conditions of modern life everything depends on the girl of to-day ; and she, alas! is as much emancipated from religion as are her bov friends. Freed from all the old restraints, her morals depend solely on her own inner ideals of modesty and self-respect. "One cannot but bet anxious about the future, for the vouth of to-day h&s been taught, during its adolescence, by films and plays, by novels and Sunday papers. hardly anything except the pathology of sex. Marital fidelitv has been displayed before its eves as either deadly dull or quaintlv comic, and in the name of the new psychology charlatans preach to youth the danger of | self-repression, instead of the healthy discipline of self-denial."