WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19141, 6 October 1925, Page 14

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL NEWS. Mr and Mrs. C. M. Grey, of Samoa,, arrived by the Tofua yesterday. Mrs Gerald "Maling, of Cashmere, Christchureh, is paying a visit to Auckland. Mrs, Douglas Russell, Cashmere Hills, Christchur-ch, is staying with her mother, Sirs. E. A. Laery, Remuera. ISTiss S. Austin, who has been on an extensive holiday trip to Singapore and Switzerland, has returned to Auckland. Lady Rutherford, accompanied by her brother, Dr. C. T..- Newton, and Mrs. Newton, have returned to Christchureh from a visit to Mount Cook. A pair of silver scissors was handed to the Queen when Her Majesty went recently to open a new ward at the Hospital for Women in Soho Square. There was a cord before the door, and the Queen, who had been received at the entrance of the hospital by the Princess Helpna Victoria and the Duchess of Atholl, walked up to the ward, and there, cutting the string, went on into the new ward. Miss Olive Mercer, of Dunedin, was the guest of honour at an informal luncheon given on Friday at the rooms of the League of New Zealand Penwomen, Swanson Street. Miss Mercer has achieved literary success with two booklets published "recently in London, "The Wings of Life" and "Life Transcendent," and is now at work on a third volume, "The New Vision," which is to be published in England shortly. Miss Mercer brought greetings from the Dunedin branch of the League of New Zealand Penwomen, of which she is a member. The steff of Smith and Smith, Ltd., held their annual "At- Home" in the Masonic Hall, Belgium Street, on Thursday evening. The hall was very tastefully decorated with long graceful festoons of blue and lemon streamers, and large box ferns and greenery. The supper room was strung with balloons of red and gold. Miss Lela Bo wen received the guests on behalf of the staff, in a charming frock of mauve satin and ostrich feather trimming. Mrs. A. M. Smith and Mrs. Barry acted as ehaperones. Over 100 guests were present and an altogether enjoyable evening was spent. Musical and elocutionary items were rendered at intervals during the dancing by Misses Grayson and Summcrhayes, and Messrs. Carter, Sandler and Johnston. The appetite can be trained to moderation or stimulated to excess. Hunger and the desire to eat should recur at natural intervals without artificial aid. The finest aperitif is outdoor exercise. The Prince of Wales sets an excellent example in persQnal hygiene. He finds time in an exceptionally busy life for daily exercise, and eats only one full meal a day. The great majority of the hard-working, healthy and long-lived men and women have trained their appetites to moderate indulgence ii? nutritional pleasure, says Walter M. Gailichan. The ancient philosophers who lived simply experienced more "euphoria," or a sense of wellbeing, than their luxurious neighbours who sought pleasure by exegss at banquets. The holiday appetite is healthy because it is induced by natural stimuli. Another Vanderbilt heiress is to lie married next January. She is Consuelo, sister of Muriel Vanderbilt, who a short time .ago became Mrs. Frederick Church, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, the wealthiest mem hers of the family (states an overseas exchange). This niece of the former Duchess of Marlborough, now Mrs. Balkan, will be married according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, unlike lier sister, whose husband persistently refused to embrace that faithu Her husband will be Mr. Earl Smith, a Yale student, son of Sydney J. Smith, and nephew of Cora., Countess of Stafford. The young couple have been friends since childhood. There were rumours a few months igo that their romance had been shattered on the rock of religious differences. Apparently these have now been composed. Tiie Sykes family, to whom the King and Queen recently paid a visit, were eminent merchants of Leeds as far back as the sixteenth century, and Richard Sykes, who bought the manor of Leeds from the Crown in 1625, left, besides vast estates to his sons, £IO,OOO apiece to his daughters, from whom four knights and baronets' families are descended. Early in the seventeenth century a younger son was Mayor of Hull and from him descended the baronets, the first of whom was a clergyman. It was Tatton Sykes, the fifth baronet, of whom so many good stories are told, who made Sledmere famous. Tie present Sir Mark Tatton Sykes is the seventh baronet and comes of age next August, a great event in the family history. His mother, whose gifted husband died untimely in 1919, was a daughter. of that clever but unlucky politician, Sir John Gorst. The election of Miss Tweedie to a seat among the directors of the World Federation of Education Associations, writes a correspondent, is a welcome sign that women of Scottish tradition and ideals, bred up in the unfeminme atmosphere of Scottish education, have power to find the g.dminstrative posts. She has had h career, not the least interesting part of which is that it has centred in her own town. After a brilliant university course she desired to find her life work in journalism, but circumstances arose which sent her into the scholastic profession. The teaching of modern languages in Scotland occupied at that time a very subsidiary place in the secondary school. She developed a department that has sent out some of the most brilliant scholars in the country, bringing to her work the wide interests aecom panied by genius for detail which showed a real vocation. Her ideal of real education was best- stated by herself wjien she defined scholarship as "a thorough, steady, careful mastering of the spirit and detail of one's work, whether thai work be university learning, domestic science, Sir the power to conduct a business.