LARGE BRIDGE PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 14

LARGE BRIDGE PARTY

HELP FOR HARD OF HEARING

A very successful bridge parly was held by "the Wellington branch of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing yesterday afternoon in Kirkcaldie and Stains's Jacobean Room. As a result the league will benefit to the extent of about £23 which will go towards its fund for a grou;; hearing apparatus. A number of well-wishers who were unable to attend the party arranged tables in their own homes and forwarded contributions. The Jacobean room was very cosy and the tables comfortably arranged. At tea time the players adjourned to the lounge where buffet tables were set with excellent fare and decorated with masses of Iceland poppies. Mrs. J. Wimberley, convener of the committee, expressed pleasure at the presence of Mrs. Kurd-Wood, founder o£ the league in New Zealand. Mrs. Hurd-Wood, who is to broadcast an address from 2YA on Saturday, July 31, at 7.40 p.m., on "How the Hard of Hearing /are Helped Here and Abroad," gave a brief description of the group hearing apparatus. She also presented the prizes for the afternoon, which were won by Mrs. Moore Jones,/ Mrs. E. C. Hands, Mrs. E. Dennie, Mrs. Guthrie, Mrs. Waddell, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. Crammond, 'Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Dean, and Mrs. Gibson. Members of the committee who organised the party were Mrs. J. Wimberley (convener), Mrs. Raymond, Mrs. Logic, .■ Mrs. Fyfe, Mrs. Hurd-Wood, Mrs. Toomey. Mrs. Horrax, Miss R. Macalister, Miss M. Harris, Mrs. J. F. Nicholson (hon. secretary, Wellington branch). , Those who made up tables were Lady Norwood. Mrs. H. E. Gibbs, Mrs. D. Smith, Miss Atack, Mrs. D. A. K. Savage, Mrs. G. Stock, Miss M. Eggleton, Mrs. Pack, Mrs. Lohgeraden, Mrs. H. D. Bennett, Mrs. Hulbert, Mrs. E. Dinnie, Miss C. White, Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Edmonds, Mrs.' W. A. Simpson, ' Mrs. Macdonald Wilson, Mrs. Rickman. Mrs. H. Miller, Mrs. Columb, .Mrs. ,Welch, Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. Lister, Mrs. Hays, Mrs. Bel], Mrs. Gardiner, Mrs. Cameron, Miss Bull, Mrs. Norman, Mrs. Lattey, Mrs. Casey, Mrs. O'Brien, Miss Stevens, Mrs. Baxter, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. W. Macdonald, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Haughton, Mrs. Marsden. The following played in their homes and sent donations: —Lady Pomare, Lady Buckleton, Mrs. J. A. Doctor, Mrs. L. Blundell, Miss Re, Van Stayeren, Mrs. L. Levy, Mrs. Fownes, Mrs. D. Stout, Mrs. J. Zohrab, Mrs. Land, I Mrs. Eiby, Mrs. J. R. Boyd, Mrs. Nic- ; holson, Mrs. J. D. Sievwright, Mrs. E. j Litchfield, Mrs. G. Robertson, Mrs. C. Morice, Mrs. Horrax, Mrs. O. Richardson, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Bradley, Miss Ferguson, Mrs. Wicks, Mrs. Liddle, and Mrs. Newbigih. .. ~ ' ■

used your soap,"' and continuing with the lovely ladies who extol face creams and the possibly less lovely ladies who praise, pills, we now have the wellknown men who commend their new suits. But as one such letter costs n lot of money and can be used again and again', these efforts probably do hot contribute much' to the eight hundred millions.

The new element is. the enormous ir-crease in those private and personal letters which simple people now write to those they admire, called for some unknown reason "fan mail." Thousands and thousands of these letters are posted every day. It began with actors and actresses, sirigers, and other public entertainers, who have for years received letters- from their admirers, but as soon as the cinema became the chief medium of entertainment girls and boys, and principally girls, began to write to the film stars, and fan mail really began. Now it is not confined to film stars, but extends to Prime Ministers, as we heard from Mr. Baldwin. It extends to everyone who comes before the public eye, even to wrongdoers.

For perhaps a hundred years : . some people, have made a habit of "writing to -the papers," but this' habit has never become/as general as the fanmail habit, and is probably not more prevalent now than .formerly. The increase in the-number of letters comes from people who never-used to write! Now they write these countless letters and have found a new and inexpensive pastime. ■. ' : ;

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the people, so,sincere, so free from an.y element of showing-off, has come ■so quietly that1-one has not-yet enough information to arrive at ' any conclusions respecting it. ■