WOMEN'S REALM.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 33, 21 January 1911, Page 11

WOMEN'S REALM.

NOTES BY THE WAY. The death has taken place at Eastbourne of Lady Couper, who was one of the English ladies who endured and survived the perils of the Siege of Lucknow. A sister of Sir Henry Flower Every ol Egginton. she married in 185'2 Mr. • afterwards Sir) George Couper, a young Indian civilian, who. after the annexation of Oudh. was appointed secretary to the Chief Commissioner. A small room it the Residency was assigned to his wife and two children, and here Mrs. Couper gave birth to a daughter, who. however, did not live till Havelock's force brought uiecour to the garrison. Herlius band. Sir George, died in 1908. ; Two little girls, aged six and J five years respectively. the daughters of English parents, residim lin Strathcona. Alberta, travelled I recently all the way from England: I unattended, the Cauailian Govern j rnent Emigration Office says. They j .vere put on the train at Sheffield ■vith a broad leather belt stir rounding the waist of each, with printed letters reading. ”To Mr. M. H.. Strathcona. Alberta, pei s.s. Empress of Britain, care ol | 'aeadian Pacific Railway.” Th< Little pilgrims arrived safely with. | -ar t load of toys given to them by pile passengers. j Writ ing on the disint rogation oi I family life. .Mary’ E. Sumner j foundress of the Mothers' Union. • says: Instead of looking upor I children as a blessing, tin y an | treated by certain modern parents tas necessary encumli: a n- cs. ? checks to vo-.i’ig gay mothers i? | their career of frivolity and ! amnsemeiit. an additional r.vpema ; in their lives of luxury. ;-n ad'lcc ; bu-'den to be borne as lightly' am I irt : »>!;,' as is ;n>( ; one !■• He shifted on to ni.m . ! goverije--.s<-:s, and schools from i: • farcy to manhood. Modern r»-t , h ’-sness. seif-indiiigence. the pt: ■ • suit of pleasure and case, and if. I neglect of relig’on arc makim : home duties barren anil distasteful, j Mothers are giving tip tl.t it | mighty ]>ov er as < tiara< l er-t ramer: (of the nation, and in too many cases they are despising a splieri of influence which is acknowledged |to be the most powerful in th< ■ world. Old proverbs remind us ■ that A man is what a womai makes him.’ that ’ What is learnt 'in the cradle is carried to tin 'grave.’ and that ‘ Every home is a I mint for coining character.'” • Personal. Mrs. George Ebbett is still an in valid, we regret to say. This very i trying weather retards her recov i e, - v - j Dr. and Airs. Macdonnell ar: . visiting Wellington on a holiday I trip ' I Mrs. Nairn and familv are visit I ing Nor.-ewood for a few weeks. j Miss S. Capel is staying at Glen i ross. j The engagement of Miss Newall. youngest daughter of Colonel Newall, C. 8.. to Professor Picken of Victoria College, is announced. | Mrs. Scannell went to Norsewood ion Monday with her family. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Rissing ; ton. leave for England by the : Kaipara. • Mrs. Newbiggen is in Wellington.