WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 162, 10 June 1929, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Mr and Mrs F. Haggitt, of Nelson, aro tho guests of Mr and Mrs G. Haggitt, for the wedding of Miss Ruth Putnam and Mr Ivan Johnston. Miss Gwen Gibbs has returned from Christchurch where she was adjudicating at the recent competitions held there.

The engagement was announced last month in Wellington of Winifred M., youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Denson (late of Palmerston North), to Frederick, second son of Mr and Mrs W. it. Kemball, 298 Oriental Bay, and late of Masterton.

On Saturday evening Mr and Mrs Cecil Moore gave a party in honour of Miss R. Putnam and Mr Ivan Johnston. Those present were Mr and Mrs Russell Moore, Mr and Mrs Henry Knight, Miss Beatrix Loughnan, Miss Loxie MacDonald, Miss Mildred Sim, Mrs D. G. Moore, Miss Margaret Guy, Mr D. Guy, Mr Honeyficld, Mr Hardy Moore, Miss G. McHardy (H. 8.), Miss Margaret Sim, Mr and Mrs Bob Burrell (Feilding). One of the questions to be filled in in the official notice of marriage form is “condition of bride,” requiring information as to whether the lady is a spinster, widow or divorced. The other day a prospective bridegroom, without, reading the explanatory bracket, wrote “Good.” A more amusing mistake was made in regard to the query entered as “length of residence in district.” Tho ardent fellow scratched his head reflectively and said with all solemnity, “Well, 1 don’t know the length of it, but it is a plain four-roomed house.”

Another of the okl New Zealand pioneers, Mrs Didsbury (relict of the late Mr George Didsbury, formerly Government Printer), passed away yesterday at her residence at Wellingt«i, in her eighty-eighth - year. The late Mrs Didsbury was born in Lewes, London, in 1841, and arrived in Auckland in 18-39. After residing there for a time, she went to New Plymouth, and when the Maoris became troublesome in that district she and others were sent to Nelson until conditions became more settled. Later,' she returned to Taranaki, and then to Auckland. In 1868 she married Mr Didsbury, and on the seat of Government being removed to Wellington Mr and Mrs Didsbury settled on The Terrace, and the deceased lady had resided in tho same house ever since. Mrs Didsbury leaves a family of four sons and one daughter. The sons are Messrs H. M. Didsbury (Auckland), P. G. Didsbury (engineer-draughtsman at the cinnebar mining works at Ivaikohe, Auckland), K. J. Didsbury (who is farming in the Eketahuna district), and 11. G. Didsbury (Wellington). Miss Eileen Didsbury, of Wellington, is the only daughter. LADIES’ GOLF. The following are drawn to play in the bogey competition to-morrow: Mrs Ekstedt and Mrs G. Dixon, Mrs G. Trevor and Miss E. Macmillan, Mrs H. Collinson and Miss N. Moore, Mrs J. S. Tingey and Mrs Gaisford, Miss E. Smith and Mrs Brooker, Miss W. Scott and Miss M. Guy, Mrs A. Seifert -and Mrs E. Short, Mrs 11. McMillan and Miss G. Bramwell, Mrs L. Seifert and Miss S. Baldwin, Miss B. Gaisford and Miss N. Lyons, Miss G. Seifert a bye; Miss Betty Crooke and Mrs A. Bendall, Miss Kearins and Miss Nell Innes, Miss B. McFarlane and Mrs W. J. Allen, Miss Dudding and Mrs B. Jacobs;- Mrs J. Fisher and Miss Wason, Mrs J. Stevenson and

(By “GERMAINE.”

“INCOMPATIBILITY.”

Miss Cunningbame, Mrs R-. Hooper and Mrs L. Cooper, Mrs J. W. Rutlierfurd and Mrs Oram, Mrs J. P. Innes and Mrs Raven, Miss M. Fitzherbert and Mrs D. Williams, Miss N. Wood and Mrs Wright. Mrs 'K. Glasgow and Mrs H. McDowell, Mrs F. Coombs and Mrs J. Grant, Mrs Wingate and Miss E. Parsons, Miss J. McFarlane and Miss Mildred Sim, Mrs J. Graham and Miss Goldingham, Mrs W. Rutherfurd and Mrs J. Justice. Mrs Ongley and Mrs J. Young, Mrs Billens and Mrs K. Innes, Mrs Reid and Miss D’Ath, Mrs D. Millar and Miss M. Parsons, Miss A. Thomson and Miss K. Nash, Miss M. Garner and Mrs A. M. Palmer, Mrs Whitehead a bye. Anyone unable to play is requested to ring Miss Nell Innes, ’phone 6168, before 11 a.m. ADDRESS TO SUNDAY SCHOOL SCHOLARS. Yesterday afternoon, St. Andrew’s Church was well filled when Miss Jennie Street addressed the combined Sunday school classes of the churches in the Palmerston North Sunday School Union. The children assembled at their own schools and marched to St. Andrew’s. Rev. Mr J. E. Parsons, president of the union, was in the chair. Rev. Mr G. H. Bycroft led in prayer, while appropriate hymns were sung by the large gathering. Mr A. J. Graham was at the organ. Miss Street greatly interested the children by exhibiting a Chinese idol, around the story of which she built her address. The idol had once been the property of a Chinese woman who had, one by one, cast aside all her idols but this, the last. With it she would not part, as it was hollow and contained a pebble that rattled when the idol was shaken. The woman thought that it was alive and this was its voice. Finally, however, she became converted to Christianity. Miss Street appealed to her young auditors to cast aside all that was false, and not to be deceived by empty sound or glitter. After the address the children were greatly interested in the image which was passed around for inspection.

'NO GROUND FOR SEPARATION COUNSEL’S POINT UPHELD.

HAWERA, June 8. Too much “mawkish sentimentality” entered into maintenance and separation cases, declared Mr L. A. Taylor, counsel, in a case heard before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M. The magistrate said he agreed. Counsel’s attack was directed to the point that when complainants alleged failure to maintain and persistent cruelty they should be required by the Courts to prove their allegations according to the Destitute Persons’ Act.

The fact was that the province of the Courts was invaded by witnesses testifying to the “incompatibility of temperament” of parties. That should not be. Complainants should be required to -allege and to prove specific acts of cruelty over a number of cases sufficient to make tho cruelty “persistent.” Failure to maintain should be proved by specific instances. The Courts, counsel said, often made orders of separation on the evidence, taken as a whole of incompatibility. Defendants might not bo cruel and might maintain, yet because of the incompatibility of the parties an order would be made that would involve the defendant, should divorce proceedings follow, as a guilty party, and prejudice him in the Supreme Court. The difference was, said Mr Taylor, that whereas in the Supreme Court a decision could be made based on the incompatibility or otherwise of the parties’ temperaments, in the Lower Court complainant had to prove the fault of defendant to secure a separation ’and come within the four corners of the Destitute Persons’ Act. Mr Salmon expressed his agreement with counsel on the points raised, and the case in question was dismissed, counsel for complainant electing to be non-suited.

EX-QUEEN SOURIYA. (Australian Press Association.) DELHI, June 8. Ex-Queen Souriya of Afghanistan gave birth to a daughter last night at the European Hospital at Bombay. Both mother and child are well. Cloissonno boxes, vases, Bmokors’ sets, pinger jars, etc., to hand at Arts and Crafts." Coleman Place. Also new goods suitable for wedding gifts. Inspection invited. -Showroom upstairs. Lewis Studio entrance. —Advt