SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 23 September 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wedding at Palmerstqn North, At the Congregational Church, Palinerston North, on September 18» a wedding was solemnised , between Sergt.Major Sinclair Bradneld, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bradiieid, i'itzliorbort Streot, and Miss I'ansy Grace Itonald, youngest daughter of Mrs. C. Uouald, 315 Ji'orguson Street, Palmerston North. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Heighway, minister of the abovo church. The church Was effectively decorated with spring flowers nud foliage by friends of the brido. Miss Mawlins presided ,at the organ. The bride who was given away by her brother, Mr. Raymond Donald, wore a frock of deep cream crepe do chine, tho wedding veil being arranged mobcap fashion, with a wreath of orange blossoms. Siie carried a shower bouquet composed of cream freesias, brown polyanthus, bronze and fine maidenhair tern. She was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Daisy Donald, sister of .tho bride, wearing u white crepe de chine frock and black'picture hat, and Miss Joan Bradtield, sister of tho bridegroom, who wore a orepo de chine frock aud hat to match. Tlioir shower bouquets were of pale pink Japaneso and double pink Japanese flowering cherry, with maidenhair fern and rose ribbons. Mr. 'William llandall supported Sergt.-Major Bradiieid as best man, in the absence of the bridegroom's ■brother, Gunner W. L. Bradiieid, on active' service. Mrs. Don'ald, mother of the bride, wore a gown of black taffeta ailk, made with touches of heliotrope and gold, hat to match, bouquet of violets, anemones, lavender, fi'fctsias, bronze maidenhair fern; with lavender and bronze tulle. Mrs. Bradfield, mother of the bridegroom, wore a- violet-tinted silk eosUime, with hat of similar ehude, .mixed with winecoloured velvet, and black furs. After the coremony breakfast was partaken of, when tho usual toasts wero proposed and replied to. Mr, and Mrs. Bradiieid left in the afternoon train for Wellington, their future home. Morality and tho Training of Youth. A strong indictment of conditions existent among boys and girls of the' community and of a groat defect in tho Dominion's criminal Taw was voiced by several speiiker's at the St. Mary's Home annual meeting (Auckland), stutce the "Herald." The subject-was introduced in the annual report, in which Archdeacon Mac Murray stated that the .niimbor of applications from girls for admission aud the youth of those applying were .very alarming symptoms of the time. There -had. beeu cases wherd children of thirteenhad como -to the home as expectant mothers. Speaking upon this pojnt Miss HancocJ:, superintendent,' said: ''Again I wish to draw attention to Hint iniquitous) clause in our criminal law, under which a man guilty of an pft'ence against a "ill under sixteen escapes scot frco unless prosecuted within six months after hie offence. Often the'crime is liiddei? until, after that, the unfortunate child boing impelled by shniuo from telling even her parents what has happened. 'Within the last ton years no fewer than thirty girls under'sixteen years-of ago have become mothers nt, the home, and in only one <!3!;e have wo been able to secure a conviction , against the man!" At 'present, the speaker continued, there were thirty-six girls in tho homo, nearly all. between fifteen and twenty ynnrs of age, and quite half of them below tho average of, ordinary intelligence and capability. ' "That means that then , , lire thirty-six hoys responsible for all this shfimn a.nd degradation, who have been just as (foolish, who stand just as much in need of education and guid■pjico' as these- poor girls, but they go untouched by tho fires of shame and rebuke. Wo badly noed a man's committee to tako up work among tlio toys, and teach them tho lessons of purity aud chastity we are trying to teach the girls." "It is ignorance 'and utter thoughtlessness -that havo brought about this condition among our young people," said Mrs. Kennoth Mackenzie, ''and, above all, tho failure of mothers to train''growing girls and boys as they should be trained. Most of these erring children.! simply have not been taught the firet thing about the essential facts of life; mothers either cannot or will not instruct them. Prudery, is no fit preparation for tho temptations of the life of to-day, and its dangers and pitfalls must be pointed out u> be- recognised.".

Miss Margaret Wjcherly, who is the lead in "Tho Thirteenth Chair" Company, is the wife of Mr. Bayard Veiller, the author of '"Within the . Law" and tho play in which she is to appear to-inprrow evening.

Mrs. Willoughby and Mrs. Magill, of Seatoun, will be in charge of tho Woodward Street- lied Cross Shop on Wednesday, and they will havo a good supply of oakes, flowers, and sweeis.

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The "Sports" is the ideal boys' and youths' suit. See our good quality Colonial Tweeds, 30s. to 355., 435. Geo. Towlds, Ltd.-Advt.

That stiffness which marred your last Costume* will be entirely absent" if you have your Spring Costume mado at Coleman's, 117 Customhouse Quay.—Advt?