SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19149, 15 October 1925, Page 16

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss Farquhar, of Royal Court, has returned from a visit to Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. J, M. Gibson, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mrs. Wilfred Col beck, of Auckland, is aniong the visitors to Dunedin. Mrs. 35. Elder and Master Ross Elder, of York Place, Dunedin, aro visiting .Auckland. Ladv Ward and Mrs. Bernard Wood have returned from a visit of some months to Australia. Mrs F. E. N. Gaud in and Mrs. J. Endean returned by the Maunganm after a holiday spent in England, the Continent, America' and Sydney. Miss Ella Marshall, of Symonds Street, who has been oil an extended visit to Australia, (returned to Auckland from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. The engagement, is announced of the Well-known tenuis player, Mr. James North Lowry, second son of 'J.. H. Lovry, of Okawa, to Lucy hahuner, second daughter of Mr. J. I>. lalkiner, Bellevue, Sydney. Mrs. Peter Trousdale, of "Vancouver, arrived by the Aorangi and is staying with her son, Mr. A. Trousdale, at Court's Model Farm, Tamaki. She proposes to remain in New Zealand for about six months and will tour the .Dominion. Their Excellencies the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson and Lady Alice Fergnsson, have issued _ invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Helen Dorothea, to Major Leonard Proby Ilaviland, at St. Paul's proCathedral on Tuesday, October 20, and afterwards at Government House. In June, 1875, the Copenhagen University was opened to women, and four women passed the students' examination. To celebrate this event, a committee of university women. Miss Clara Black, Dr. Estrid Hein, and Dr. Phillis Jacobsen, are preparing a book witli contributions from university men and women, as well as a commemorative festival at the university. ' The Literary Circle of the Auckland Lyceum Club are holding their circle night on Friday. The works of G. B. Shaw, " Man and Superman " and " The Philanderers " will be under discussion. The Arts and Crafts Circle are holding an open evening, on Monday, when members are giving short _ speeches on articles of artistic and historic interest. A musical programme will be contributed. Queen Mary started at least one fashionin the collection of antiques, the craze for doll's house furnishings, and while in Edinburgh recently she added to her collection by buying a miniature tea and coffee service, which an antique dealer had put aside until she came. Now that it has become worth while a good many imitations of the old-time miniature furniture aro deposited in antique shops. In the realm of music women have their honoured place. The leadership of choirs they have left mostly in the hands of the other sex, but in the recent musical competitions in Dunedin Miss Meda Paine demonstrated that in this branch women may excel. The choir of ladies trained and conducted by her gained first prize with fine interpretations of part songs, beating by a substantial margin two choirs trained by male conductors of considerable experience. One o£ the most important figures at the meeting of the British Association, which opened recently, was a woman— Miss Lynda Grier, who is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and lecturer there on economics. She is president of the Economic Science and Statistics Section —the first time that a woman has held the position. Miss Grier took, a burning subject for her presidential address, "The Meaning of Wages," in which she considered all the factors that determine the earnings of various grades of society. The society girl of to-day is indefatigable. Miss Barbara Cartiand, who is a cousin of Lord Wavertree, having written a successful novel and an amateur revue which was quite bright in patches, is now joining the ranks -of the shopkeepers and opening a hat-shop. Between hatselling and other activities, she is finishing a new revue which is to be produced for the Middlesex Hospital. Miss Barbara Cartiand is pure Saxon in type and very proud of being able to trace her ancestry back to the thirteenth century. The Queen recently bought some black opals, but diamonds are her favourite gems. All her jewels are kept at Buckingham Palace in strong rooms specially designed by the late King Edward shortly after he came to the throne. Each yf the shelves is lined with white velvet End everything is so arranged that whole sets of jewels, orders, etc., can be kept together, making it easy for Her Majesty to obtain the precise jewels at the shortest notice. The keys remain in the Queen's possession and are only handed to the Lady-in-Waiting on duty when required.