Woman’s World

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2123, 15 May 1922, Page 3

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Mrs W. Gilmour lias been appointed official accompanist at the Manawatu Competitions Society’s festival in July.

The R.S.A. fortnightly dances continue in popularity. On Saturday evening the club room was filled with dancers, and the music of Smith’s Jazz Band was irresistible. Mr E. Riggs was M.C.

An old colonist, in the person of Mrs Ellen Fitzpatrick, died at Palmerston North on. Saturday at the age of 85 years.

The death occurred in the Greytown hospital last week of Mrs Annie Elizabeth Dent, wife of the vicar of St. Luke’s Church, after an operation. She was 44 years of age.

The engagement is announced of Miss DorciJiy Abraham, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs R. S. Abraham, of “Risby,” Palmerston North, to Mr Laurence Sherriff, youngest son of Mr and Mrs A. A. Sherriff, of Wanganui.

The death took place last week, after a long illness, of Mrs. Lawrence, wife of Mr. E. Lawrence, of Feilding. Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence came to New Zealand 30 years ago from England, and had resided at Taonui, Rewa, and Feilding. To mourn the loss of their mother there are five sons and two daughters. The sons are: Messrs Stanley (Wanganui), Gilbert (Levin), Ralph (Waituna), Victor and Roy (Feilding), and the daughters Mrs Shirley (Palmerston North) and Mabel (Feilding).

On January 28th the Chapel Royal, Savoy, was filled with guests who had assembled for the wedding of Dr, Cecil Lucas Donne, elder son of Captain T. E. Donne, (secretary in London to the New Zealand Government, and Mrs. Donne, to Miss Margery Nicholls Ward, daughter (f Mrs. M. E. Ward, of Fitzjames avenue, South Kensington. The Rev. Dudley Ward, cousin of the bride, officiated at the choral service, which was beautifully sung. The bride was a strenuous worker at several hospitals during the war, including the New Zealand Hospital at Salisbury. Dr. Donne, too, had a medical commission at the time. He has since resumed his very successful practice in Park crescent, as a specialist. The bride wore a very becoming dress of pale grey, and a rose-pink hat. She was attended by Miss Joyce Ward, one of her seven .sisters, all of whom were present. Captain Lester Donne was best man, After the service the guests, most of them being relatives and friends ot the bride, went to a reception held by Mrs Ward at her residence. Those present included Captain and Mrs. Donne, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hamer, and Mrs. Lester Donne.

If you get married, just have one wife and be true to her. Take, this advice from a veteran who has loked over the marriage license counter thirteen tints —Isaiah Moore —the modern Colomon, who languishes in gaol In Indianapolis while a grand jury investigates his career. When Isaiah gets out of gaol, if he does, he is going to be a lifeguard in the sea of matrimony, he said in an interview. The 32-year-old Lothario, who won the hearts and hands of thirteen women in various parts of the country during the last five years, desires to be an evangelist. He wants to warn American youth to watch its step. “My one desire is to lead a Christian life,’’ he, said, through the cell bars. “I always wished to enter the ministry, but I fear they won’t have me. So I’ll be an evangelist when I get out. I’m going to warn other boys.” Moore knows a lot about churches, he said. He has been in many of them and sang in choirs. In fact, he met most of his wives at choir practice. Isaiah went forth and married another woman every time he longed for affection. Now he is lonesome. FRIGHTENED CHILDREN. Parents who fail to recognise the disastrous influence of strong fear upon young children are responsible for great mental suffering, often leading to nervous illness in later life. I know a medical man whose frequent nightmares and disturbed sleep are associated with stories of bogies in the dark told to him by his governess at the age of six. The night terrors endured by Charles Lamb throughout his life probably contributed to the attack of mental disease which caused his temporary confinement in the Hoxton asylum. “I was dreadfully alive to nervous terrors,” he writes. “I never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth year of my life —so far as memory serves in things so long ago—-without an assurance which realised its own prophecy of seeing some frightful spectre.* 9 Pavor nocturnus or, night fear, Is very common among imaginative, nervously constituted children. Some degree of fear is entirely natural and wholesome. Fear is the protective instinct that urges us to flight from danger. But there is a constant risk that fear may become morbid and excessive. The victim of phobias is at least handicapped in the battle of life, and his dreads may produce positive Insanity. Acute emotional pain is endured by many children who are subjected to overlseverity in punishment. The record of juvenile suicides through an exaggerated sense of guilt for misdoing and the terror of penalties illustrates the torture that a considerable number of children suffer. The aim of the parent and teacher should be to foster confidence _ and courage in the child. This training is quite compatible with the instilling of respect, consideration, and obedience. The results of terrorism are a development of deceitfulness and cunning in the child of the tough-minded type, or morbid timidity and neurotic ailments in the tender minded. Ruling by love is always more effective than intimidation and harshness. The normal attitude of the child to

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