ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1938, Page 18

ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION

SPECIAL AMERICAN GUESTS

The pleasant lounge of the Englishspeaking Union was well filled with guests yesterday afternoon when American members were special guests of honour. Mrs, E. D. Good, social chairman (wearing a black suit and small toque to match) and Mrs. Horace Miller, (in a clover wool tailleujr and black upturned small hat) received the guests and welcomed, them. ■

The speaker for the afternoon was Mr. Edgar Harper, who told many in-i teresting. things about his recent visit to America, and thought that the much newer country of New Zealand had a great deal to learn-from the older established America. The many comforts on, the railways, the ready and courteous attention in. the*shops and stores, and the wohderfuldifferences in the planning of the cemeteries, such as the famed "Forest Lawn," an exquisite park, with flowers and trees arid a beautiful chapel where the numbers and names of those buried are kept for any reference on the part of friends. Mr. Harper considered that the diffused lighting in America was a great advantage, and also the charming mural decorations in public buildings and homes. 'He remarked that he only saw two'drunken men while on his tour, and thought that somehow in America their systems-must be better than in this-part of the world. He spoke also of the mural decor outside the St. Francis of Assisi chapel which contains the names of all English-speaking soldiers'who were killed in the Great War. There is also a most interesting Mission Hall, provided for the nation by a Mr. Frank Miller and carried on since his death by his sister, Mrs. Richardson, where conferences for peace.and friendship are held. This also: is a very beautiful place, wonderfully designed. Mr. Harper said many other charming things about America, so much, so that when moving the vote of thanks to him, Mrs. Miller said how delightful it-was "to see ourselves as pthera-.see us"' when their view was so kindly and appreciative. ' ; Mrs. E-/.T. Spidy,, accompanied by Mrs; yicfeery, was heard in greatlyapt)reciated vocal items, and both were dainty shoulder posies. served by memb'S&fiff ;the/icommittee. . .