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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 139, 9 December 1912, Page 9

Amusement is a splendid antidote for work, and work'is the only antidote for pleasure.

Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, of Timaru, are at. the Grand Hotel. They are meeting their daughter, who is expected to arrive on Wednesday. Mrs. and Miss Sim are expected from England about the end of this week. ' My. and Mrs. Ledingham, of Melbourne, left for the Novth this morhiflg" — v Miss Gladys Webster, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington. Miss K. Redmond left for the South on Saturday. Mrs. Ctinmngton returns to Christ* church by the Maori to-night. Mrs. James Allen, wife of the Minister for Finance, will present the prizes at the Wellington Girls' College prizegiving on Thursday evening. On Friday quite a number 6f ladybowlera enjoyed games on the Kelburne greens, the competition for the Chubb's jewel-caso. presented by Mr. James Dykes, being started. Mr. Dykes has donated a set of Malthoid mats to the. club. It is hoped that the Greytown lady players will manage to visit Wellington during the holidays. A sale of work wad held last Saturday, in most appropriate weather, by the Sunshine Guild. Mrs. Barnard, of Daniel-street, had kindly placed her grounds at the disposal of the guild, and there stalls Were erected and various attractions set out._ A number of visitors attended, Miss Claire Butts was organiser and secretary of the fete. The Braille instrument, by means of which the Mnd write, was 6f great interest. The league expressed its gratitude to the Blue Bird Club for its donation. The following were stall-holders:-" Flowers and sweets, Mrs. Hollis and MisS Ida Smith; plain and fancy, Mrs. Sparrow and Misses N. Parkes and R. Dixon ; refreshments, Miss frestont, Miss Swain, and Misses J. and N. Marshall ; ice creams, Miss E. Jell. Mr. F. M. B. Fisher opened a sale of work on Saturday afternoon, organised by the Gleaners' Union for the Maori and Melanesian Missions. The stallholder's were:^-Fancy stall, Miss Greenwood and the 1 Misses Turner (2) ; Indian stall, Mrs. Cook ; produce, Miss Humphries' and Miss Walker j refreshments, members of the Girls' Friendly Society; toys. Miss Mestayer,c" A pleasaht function took place at Mrs. Gyles's residence, Abel Smith-street, on Thursday evening last, when the two winning squads in the recent St. John Ambulance inter-district competitions met, with their friends, and spent an enjoyable evening. Advantage was taken of this reunion to make a presentation to Dr, Platts-Mllls, in recognition of her untiring efforts on their behalf, and the great assistance she had rendered in improving their efficiency. Nurse Sexton, in a very neat and happy speech, made the presentation, which took the form of a handsome silver flower vase. Mr. Mills returned^ thanks on behalf of the recipient, and wished them every success in their noble work. During the evening sOngs, music, and recitations Were contributed by the Misses Redmond and M'Lellan, and Messrs. Traversi and Nicoh Mrs. Robert Hannah and her fout daughters are oh board the Oreova, due at Sydney 2nd Jaiiuaryj and will reach Wellington on the Bth "of January. ■ Mrs. Christie, who went to Christchurch for Miss Amuri Rutherford's wedding,, has gone on to Mendip Hills to stay* with Mr. and Mr*. A. W. Rutherford. A very early Nelson settler, Ml*. Houeell, haa jtisfc died at the age of 88. She arrived in 1842 by the Lord Auckland. Ten are living out of her 16 children. They are William (the eldest, at Seddon), John (Remvick), Arthur (Motueka), Robert (Wanganui); Alfred (Weilington). George (Nekon), ' Mrs. Otto Haase (Takaka), KVlrs. G. Mob* (Wanganui). Mrs. Kirk (Wanganui), Mrs. J. Williams (Nelson). There aTe 39 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. Miss Caj-a Denhard, of Wellington, who fiang at the Greymouth Orchestral I Society' 6 concert, received much praiso | for her contributions. The Grey River Argus states that she has a pure contralio voice of good quality, and possesses considerable brightness ' and artietic taste. She sang "The Pfomiae of Life," and, in answer to an enthusiastic recall, "I Hear You Calling Me." Later on she gave AHiteenV "A Song of Thanksgiving," and was again insistently encored, when she sang, most artistically, "Sleeping." Very satisfactory was the amount contributed on Ambulance Saturday. ' Perhaps the sunshine may have opened hearts and purses, but certainly the contributions were given with a cheerful readiness, . A feature of the day was the keenness and energy of the collectors, who worked together under the happteat auspices The Trained Nurees' Association ip giving a welcome to Mrs. Holgate on her return from her trip to England to-mor-row evening, at the Nurees' Home, Wiili&etreet. The aristocratic ladies of England, states the San* Francisco Argonaut, are turning their gossamer intelligences in the direction of cookery. Viscountess fisher is the pioneer in the new movement and her own kitchen is the schoolroom. If you should happen to see a long line of automobiles outside Viscountess Esher's house near GrosVenor-squave on any afternoon you may assume that Viscountess Falkland, Lady Helen Brassey, Lady Altamount, Lady Duckworth, and ever so many more of the bluest of blue blood are grouped around the kitchen range wrestling with the mysteries of fried fish, liver and bacon, and sausages and mashed potatoes. Whether this choice of viands is 'due to the new democracy or to' the comparative ease of cooking deponent sayeth not. Nor are we informed who eats these dishes after they are cooked. It would be interesting to know what these ladies suppose that they are doing. If this is a mere frolic, well and good, but cer* tainly it can have oio greater benefits than those that come from a frolic. A woman is not the better for knowing how to cook uniess cooking is a part of her necessary work. Cooking is not like saying your prayers. No one can say. your prayers for you, although a good many people are willing to try. But some one else can cook for you. When Tolstoy said that every man ought to work in the fields and make his own boots he was talking sublime nonsense. If Tolstoy had written more novels in the time that he spent in making bad boots that only a wooden Jndiati would wear the world would have been the,, richer for it. As it is, the world is the poorer to thp extent of those boots No man should do any work that he can pay another to do for him. He should do the work that only he can do so well, and ho should put in lots of overtime at it. Nothing is so .extraordinary ■as the tasks that people set themselves,