CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24285, 16 June 1944, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Betty Lorimer, and Flying Officer John Willcox Were guests of honour at a Travel Club reception yesterday. Miss Lorimer. daughter of Mr and Mrs J Lorimer, Edgeware road, has been serving under her aunt Miss Jean Begg, with the British Y.W.C.A. in the Middle East. Flying Officer Willcox has been on active service in the Bougainville area. Interesting letters from Flight Lieutenant R Hesselyn, D.F.M. and bar. D.F.C.. describing some of his experiences at Malta, were read at the last meeting of the wives and mothers. Riccarton branch of the Returned Services' Association, held at the home of the president, Mrs H. G. Livingstone. Riccarton road.

The lunch-time recital, sponsored by the music department of Canterbury University College, and held yesterday in the college hall, was of a high music standard The programme comprised recitative and aria (from "Jeptha") t Handel; “Ye Sacred Priests.” “Farewell, Le Limpit Springs," and "Lo. the Heaven-descended Prophet,” by C. H. Graun (from “The Passion of Our Lord”) sung by Miss Doreen Udell, and Trio in E Flat Major (Mozart), Allegro. Adagio Menuetto-Allegretto, Allegro, played by Mrs Kenneth Ballantyne (violin). Mr Ronald Moon (viola), and Miss Nancy Estall (’cello).

The changing of the club name from Crippled to Incapacitated was discussed at the weekly meeting of the Crippled Young Women’s Club, held on Tuesday evening in the Automobile Association rooms. It was finally decided that the club should in future be known as the Incapacitated Young Women’s Club.

Representatives from sister unions and guilds attended the twenty-second birthday party held by the Riccarton Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Mrs Griffiths presided, and read a paper on the abiding virtues of faith, hope, and love. Mesdames Olds. Harris Crowley, and Gee gave musical items, and a one-act play was presented by the Berwick Street Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild. Mrs B. J James presented Mrs Barrell with a hand-bag on her retirement from the presidential chair.

Professor I. L. G. Sutherland, of Canterbury University College, has initiated at the college a scheme with the twofold object of stimulating art and brightening the appearance of the staff common room. He has assembled a small loan collection of five portraits, all of men who have been or are prominent in the life of the college, and these are hung on the walls of the common room. Later, they will be replaced by a collection of landscapes and these, in turn, will be succeeded by prints. The portraits at present hung in the staff room are those of the late Professor J. Macmillan Brown, painted by Archibald Nicoll. of Dr James Right by Elizabeth Kelly, of Mr A. E. Flower by Elizabeth Wallwork. of Dr. Vernon Griffiths by Roy Dickison, and of Professor J. B. Condliffe by Elizabeth Kelly. The portrait of Dr Condliffe. which was painted some years ago, will soon be forwarded to him at Yale.

“ 'The thing in the kitchen’ is the name by which a Korean man refers to his wife.” said Brigadier W. Smith, of the Salvation Army, yhen he addressed the Travel Club yesterday. Brigadier Smith and his wife have spent 15 years as missionaries in Korea and experienced difficult times during the last four or five years, since the Japanese invasion. “The man,” he said, “claps his hands and the wife comes from the kitchen and receives her orders.” He had, he said, often had a meal with the husband and sons in one room and knew that the wife and daughters would eat anything that was left in the kitchen. In Korea a bride and bridegroom did not see each other until after they were married. Marriages seldom took place between persons in the same village and the marriages were generally arranged by the parents through the agency of an old woman who travelled between villages and arranged details. Boys and girls, sometimes bnly about 14 years old. would be married; during the ceremony, the bride's eyelids were pasted down, so that she did not see the bridegroom until she was married “There are no lovers’ lanes in Korea,” said Brigadier Smith, “and yet it is surprising how few of the marriages break down. The bride is taken to her mother-in-law’s home where she lives, and the mother-in-law leaves all the work to her. Rich and envied is the mother with several sons, for she will have several daughters-in-law to work for her.”

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