SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18708, 14 May 1924, Page 16

SOCIAL NEWS.

• r . Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Dadley were passengers for England by the Niagara yesterday^

Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Beale have taken s up residence at Mr. Spicer's bouse inOliver Road, Remuera. ■

■ Miss Eleanor F." Wells, of Colombia University, New York, has accepted the position of dietitian at Dunedin Hospital.

• Mrs. C.C. Davis, Christchurch, 13 on a visit to her mother, Airs. G. Smales, Hampton Park, Auckland, and expects-to stay several weeks. v jr

Mrs. and Miss Denby, of Lower Hutt, ■who have been touring the northern districts of Auckland for J some weeks, resumed home by last night's express.

. The engagement 'is.; announced of Miss Ivy Kendall, younger - daughter of Mr. and Mrs., J. Kendall, •Papatoetoe,' to Mr, • V ' Clapperton, ; Remuera, Auckland.

. Miss A - Vera Hay, B.Sc., ."London, was a passenger by the Niagara for Vanlouver yesterday. -Miss Hay intends devoting some of her time while in •England to studying botany at the London University. »

A P [®?? ant little gathering of parents «nd children was held in the Flat Bush school on Friday for ,the purpose of bidding _ farewell to the assistant teacher ;?° 13 resi f«- A varied programme of Bongs and recitations was given by the children, and later afternoon tea was dispose . During tho afternoon a prescria ion of a silver teapot and a set of salad feu* was mada to Miss Prescott on beaJt: of the parents and children.

Tegions. She accompanies her man on Ins various , expeditions, faring all the hardships of the rigorous Arctic climate, and, in tho face of difficulties, always maintains her . infallible pluck • and. good humour. When a sledge journey is undertaken she . usually goes before to break the way. While still a . baby, the •Eskimo girl is betrothed to a small hoy, who is a few months or years her senior. 5®,,™ usually ; marries between . the ages of 16 and 18. No wedding ceremony takes place among the Eskimos, and the partners of a marriage are free to separate from each other whenever they, like, hut it is the extreme exception that-such a separation ever ftakes place. One Eskimo woman who loft her husband did bo because he allowed, himself to be hen- j pecked. : , • . .

The craze of "women in Paris for carrying dolls has taken a hold in London, ; A writer .in a morning taper describes Ivo extraordinary dolls •which. he saw being ' .danced round an hotel ballroom by two women. '. The owner of the first was dressed completely in white, hut her doll, which was .of the kind she might have played with when, a child, was garbed in mourning of / black. velvet. A tiny veil of -vydow's '! weeds " fell over the flaxen hair, and the whole effect 1 against the white dress was ■ rather startling. The other doll was .frankly ugly.. Its face was long and pasty white, and the sunken eyes bad a vicious glint. '' It was dressed in . flame colour and silver (presumably to off-set her black dress), and the owner declared that the doll was a j copy of an African god. , Both women carried their dolls. in the „ crook of their left- arm throughout the. evening, leaving the other free for their partners. At sapper, the mourning doll, which was of considerable size end must have been rather heavy to carry ; for an evening, had -a chair to it-self at the table. At a little village near Liege, Brussels, the ceremony of marriage was per- . formed a - short - while ago by a womin. The - Burgomaster being absent, and no Alder man" being available, the couple applied for a councillor to unite them in •wedlock. Madame Magis, a councillor, happened to be the first on the list, and she united tha couple, impressing on the bride that she must obey her husband;