WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 26 January 1933, Page 9

WOMEN’S WORLD.

Miss Gwen Bates, of Wanganui, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs A. l’rouse, at Makino.

•hliss Margaret Thomas, of New Plymouth, is staying with Miss Beth Parkes in Feilding. M:i3S' Sylvia Hanlon, of Hawke’s Bay, is visiting her sister, Mrs P. Redmayne, at Stanway.

Mrs N. McNair 'ihomson has returned to her home in Levin after a visit to Wellington. - Mrs W. 11. Boon and Miss Edna Boon, of. Palmerston North, are visitors to Seatoun.

Mrs E. . Jjoreen and family, of Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs H. Dforeen, Argyle Avenue, Palmierston North.

Mr and Mrs Mayne and family have arrived at Makino from the Wanganui district to take up their residence. Mr Mayne has been appointed headmaster of the Makino School.

Among those who were successful in gaining matricrilation and medical preliminary at the University examinations was Miss Dorothy N. Feakins, of Feilding.' Great praise is due to this young student who just attained her 14th birthday a few weeks before the examination. She gained her proficiency certificate at Manchester Street School, Feilding, when 11 years old and for the last three years has been a pupil of the Wanganui Girls’ College. __ The death is announced of Miss Jessie Lennox at the age of 102. She was a friend of David Livingstone, and travelled with Mrs Livingstone from Durban to the mouth of the Zambesi liiv'er, and witnessed the meeting between Mrs Livingstone and her husband. Miss Lennox entered £.lie Nightingale Training School for Nurses in London, and worked there for several years. She was one of the six nurses chosen by Miss Nightingale for work at Netley Hospital, the first hospital to be appointed by the War Office. ' For 18 years she was at the Sick Children’s Hospital at Belfast. She died at Edinburgh, where she had been residing. When the Scottish War Memorial was opened in Edinburgh in 1927, Miss Lennox was one of the most honoured guests. She was received by the King and Queen and the Prince of Wales. MONEY FOR KINDERGARTENS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 25. Lady Sidey, president of the Free Kindergarten Union of New Zealand, has received the following cablegram from the Carnegie Corporation, New York:—“Two thousand five hundred dollars available for second and final kindergarten fellowship.”

GARDEN PARTY. Conducted by members of the Tiritea Women’s Institute, a very enjoyable garden party was held at the residence of Mr and Mrs R. A. Noedl, of Aroha Street, yesterday afternoon, when the warm sunshine and attractive grounds were responsible for a large attendance. Stalls, tastefully arranged, were installed at suitable spots while every facility was provided for recreation. The lawns were marked out for games ayd teniquoits, clock golf, croquet, etc., while a shooting gallery and other games were also conducted. The list of helpers is as follows: Miss Ogier and Mrs Havelock, produce; Mrs Cunninghame and Mrs Fowry, refreshments; Miss Cunninghame and Miss Havelock, icecream and sweets; Mrs Andrews, treasure hunt; Mrs Milner and Mrs Smith, chainstepping; Mrs McCormack, throwing the sandbag; Mr L. Noedl, blindfold game; Mr Andrews, shooting gallery; Mrs Olliver, golf; Mrs Noedl,\ croquet. OBITUARY. * MRS L. IRELAND. The death occurred at her home at Woodlands Road, Woodville, yesterday morning, of Mrs Louisa Ireland, a well-known Woodville resident, in her 75th year. The late Mrs Ireland had been ailing for several weeks, but the end came suddenly. Mrs Ireland came to New Zealand as a young married woman, the couple settling at Ashley Clinton, Hawke’s Bay. They resided there for a number of years and reared a family of six. Later they removed to Rongotea and engaged in farming. It was some years later that the late Mrs Ireland went to Woodville. The five surviving members of the family are Mr William Ireland (Levin), John Ireland (Fordell, Frank Ireland (Levin), Mrs E. Berkalin (Fordell) and Fred Ireland (Woodville. WOMEN AND CAREERS. THE LADY AT WHITE HOUSE. For those who still believe that a wife’s interests should be submerged in those of her husband, Mrs Franklin Roosevelt will be a disappointment, writes Marion Ryan in the London Daily Telegraph. Even as the “First Lady in the Land” she is going to be not only the President’s wife, but part owner and occasional teacher at a very successful school in New York, editor of a paper called “Babies, Just Babies,” and a frequent visitor to the furniture shop she started in Poughkeepsie as a rural industry, all the articles being made by hand.

From the time she was ten years old and her parents died, she was brought up by her aunt, Mrs Douglas Robinson, sister of the late Theodore Roosevelt, who also took a hand in her education, and from them she learned to take an interest in.people and conditions of life. The fact that she married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and has three tall sons and a daughter, that her husband’s political career has

taken her from place to place, that she has always had two permanent homes to manage, the New York house and the country house at Hyde Park, near Poughkeepsie, with its enchanting garden on which she keeps a watchful eye, has never curbed her outside interests. CAN BE VERY REGAL.

She says, “Government homes run themselves. The servants have been there for ages. Everything is routine.” She feels the White House will be the same way, and, if she cannot come to New York every week to teach, she can at least visit the school and shop every now and then, edit the paper, and still manage State functions, and those everlasting receptions for the wives of Cabinet Ministers, Senators and Representatives. When you first meet the Presidentelect’s wife and encounter the heavy Roosevelt mouth, you think she is very plain, but when she talks you are charmed by the radiance of her expression, her fine eyes, her clear skin. She can be very regal and elegantly dressed when she wishes, but generally she .drapes her tall form in clothes out of the mode and hats of ancient vintage. AWAY WITH SNOBBERY. k

The subjects she teaches are history and current events, and she has probably persuaded more New York flappers that they have a mission in life other than to be attractive than any gukle or instructor. While her husband has been Governor of New York State she has taken her classes to political meetings in New York, to police headquarters, and so on. Her husband is interested in all her schemes. Her children adore her. She is Eleanor Roosevelt to half the aristocracy' of New York. Governor and Mrs Roosevelt, both having for ancestors the real aristocrats of the United States, having both had money all their lives, and been brought up in luxurious homes, have no trace of snobbery or even official dignity. The White House is going to be a simple home again, with friendly parties and a simple, friendly host and hostess.