WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 47, 24 January 1936, Page 15

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs C. L. Mowlem and family, of Palmerston North, are the guests or Mrs T. S. Kingston, Hamilton. Mrs C. L. Matthews, of Palmerston North, is visiting Hamilton. .Mr and Mrs G. H. Humphreys, of 13 Russell Street, returned on Tuesday from a motor tour of the South Island.

Mrs Houlihan and Miss It. Bolland, of Palmerston North, are visiting Auckland. After a trip up the East Coast, Miami Mrs G. Corbridge and Mr Baxter have returned to Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs A. Boss, of Palmerston North, have had as their guests their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs L. Whiteman, who sailed from Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday evening. Miss Ivasi Rhodes, sr.Sc., of WoodMile, sailed from Auckland to-day by the Monterey en route for Australia and England, on a lengthy tour. After her trip sliss Rhodes may seek teaching experience abroad.

Visitors to Palmerston North for the croquet tournament include Air and Mrs H. P. Stratton, of Hastings, and Airs G. sleikle, president and delegate of the South Auckland Croquet Association.

As a result of the reopening of the Wellington Teachers’ Training College, the following students, all old girls of the Palmerston North High School, have been transferred from Auckland to Wellington for the completion of their training:-—Misses B. Macpherson, J. Cruttcnden, B. AlcDonakl, 31. Reid, 1). Hausmann, M. Stewart, J\ Rough, N. Louisson, It. Walker, and E. Sinclair.

A lady whose interests lay chiefly with the Otaki Maori Alission and the Makogai lepers passed away recently at Wellington in the person of Mrs Bolton, widow of Mr E. G. Bolton. Mrs Bolton, who was formerly Aliss Alargaret Hutchinson, of Auckland, resided in Wellington for many years. Her husband, wiio was a legal practioner, was for some time -Mayor of Eastbourne. Mrs Bolton was associated with many social and charitable activities, including the Home of Compassion, and the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

As a tribute to her mother (.the late Mrs George Roberts), 3lrs Douglas Whyte, Wellington, has made a gift of a dormitory with provision for a playroom for wet days, as a permanent addition to the health camp premises at Waikouaiti, which will be ready for next year.

Nurses employed bv the Marlborough Hospital Board hope to have a swimming bath of their own soon. At a recent meeting of the board it was decided that the bath should be 15 yards long by 10 yards wide, and the engineer was instructed to prepare a detailed plan. It was reported that the nurses had raised about £176 towards the cost. _ Homeward bound by the Orontes on six months’ holiday leave is Dr Dorothea Norman-Jones, daughter of Dr and 3lrs A. Norman-Jones, of Lower Hutt, Wellington. 3liss Norman-Jones has for the past year been a house surgeon at King’s College Hospital, London, having gained the Cambridge Tripos with first-class honours, also the 31.8. and B.Sc. degrees. She is an ex-pupil of the Wellington Girls’ College.

3frs J. Danks was entertained at a farewell bridge party this week by Mrs H. Griggs at her horn© in Queen Street, in view of Mrs Danks’s departure, with her family, for Auckland. The drawing-room was gaily decorated with blue hydrangeas and scarlet geraniums. The opportunity was taken to hand Mrs Dunks a beautiful scent bottle, the gift of the members of the Ladies’ Bridge Club, 31rs Danks having been a very popular member since its inception. She briefly expressed thanks. The following ladies were present: Alesdames Danks, 3ladden, Forsythe, Alitcliell, Monldey, Patton, Bayliss, Tipling, Bicrre, Sinclair, Pointon, Davison, Boniface and Griggs, and 31isses Reid and gladden. To a' young Jewess, who is conducting archaeological research work in Palestine, has fallen the honour of a

remarkable discovery, states a writer in The Queen. In the Canaanite city of Ai, Aliss Judith Krause Marquet has unearthed a temple which was built a thousand years before Abraham’s day. She has also unearthed a complete system of fortifications with a massive gate. In the Book of Joshua is given a stirring account of the taking of Ai by Joshua and his hosts by the aid of a cunning military stratagem.

AIARRI AG E CONTEAIPLATED. I 'understand (writes a New York correspondent) that a marriage is con- , templated between Prince Serge Aldivani, one of the famous .“marrying Mdivani’s,” and Miss Louise A 7 an Aleip the New York' heiress. Aliss Van Alen was formerly married to his brother, Prince Alexis Aldivani, who was killed last summer in a motoring accident in Spain. Prince Serge Aldivani was formerly married to Miss Pola Negri, the film star, and Aliss Alary McCormie, the singer. The Van Alen-Aldivani marriage ended in a divorce at The Hague in 1932, and soon afterwards Prince Alexis Aldivani married Aliss Barbara Hutton, the .Wool worth heiress. She obtained a divorce at Reno, married Count Haugwitz Reventlow and is now in London. I am also informed that the third Aldivani brother, Prince David, is unofficially engaged to Aliss Rose Davies, sister of Aliss Marion Davies, the screen star. Society in general is much surprised at tho possibility of a match between Aliss Van Alen and tho brother of her former husband. She is a great-granddaughter of John Jacob Astor,. and her grandfather was Ambassador in Rome.

(By “Nanette.”)