SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. St. John Clark is leaving town on a visit to Kawau. Mrs. Mervyn Thomas has returned from a visit to Christchurch. Mrs. Preston Chambers and her family are staying at Glenalvon. Mrs. Alister Beal is visiting friends in Canterbury before returning to Auckland. Mrs. Florence Williams, of Auckland, has been appointed matron of St. Saviour's Baby Home, Sumner. Mrs. James Taylor and family, of Bardowie, Cambridge, who took up their residence in Auckland during the winter j months, returned home last week. Miss Ethel G. Peacocke, of Auckland, j who recently returned to London from an enjoyable tour in Scotland and Ireland, has "left England for New Zealand, via Suez. Mrs. R. Kingi, of Okere, Rotorua, who is in England with her three sons, will spend most of her time with her parents near Manchester. The travellers have been staying at Chertsey for a short time with Mr. and Mrs. J. R- Te Kiri. The Queen has never lost her love of dolls and has quite a collection which are sometimes taken out and dressed. Prmcess Mary's dolls are tenderly preserved by tho Queen, too. for the Princess, as befits the only sister of many brothers, preferred rompish games to nursing doLs. It is hoped that one day they will appear at a loan exhibition. The Hon. Emily Kinnaird, whoso work for the Y.W.C.A. is so well known, has latelv been busy writing her memoirs. She "is fond of saying that she grew up with the association, which was born in the same year as herself. The name of her brother, the late Lord Kinnaird, will always be remembered in connection with his great work for the kindred organisation, the Red Triangle movement, especially during the busy and difficult years of the war. Although the women of France have not yet got the vote, they are making great progress. There is a suggestion that tradition should be set aside and a woman elected to the French Academy. The name put forward is that of Mrne. Anna de Noailles, the poetess. An attempt is also being made just now to _ form a women's automobile club in Paris. The Duchesse d'Uzes is supporting the movement. Already this year 4000 women have obtained driving licenses in Paris. Two or three days before the close of the Wembley exhibition General Sir Alexander Godley and Lady Godley paid a visit to the New Zealand pavilion. They were on their way from Salisbury to the Newmarket races. This was the first opportunity they had had this year of seeing the exhibition and they expressed their high appreciation of the New Zealand section. Sir Alexander and Lady Godley were the guests of Mr. Roberts (the Commissioner), and lunched with him in the New Zealand restaurant. Is the nation producing fewer great men and women ? "We have practically ceased to grow great individuals," said the Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Temple). "Our age is suffering from restlessness and dissipation. We are not sufficiently quiet at any period of our life, or for any length of "time, to strike deep roots. The average level may be higher than formerly, but we are sadly lacking to-day in people who have struck their own roots and are drawing out of themselves their own mental, spiritual and moral nourishment." A fashion parade and a dinner is the latest innovation. It caused almost a sensation at Wembley, when 220 of the latest and most striking creations of the Bradford world of fabrics were effectively displayed. The occasion was a dinner of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce. The 200 diners, many of whom were members of the Drapers' Chamber of Trade, who met in conferenec recently in London, divided their attention between the meal and the parade of a dozen manequins who appeared and reappeared in a bewildering variety of beautiful garments. Professor Hill, who recently began some tests on women athletes to ascertain how they compared with men in games, has issued the following report:—" So far as we have gone.—and it is only a little wav as yet—experiments seem to indicate what I expected: that even the most athletic women cannot exert the same amount of 'horse-power' as comparatively ordinary men. Women will become accomplished athletes, not by trying to become like their brothers in muscular development, not by employing brute force, but by learning the art of carrying out their movements with skill and speed, economy and grace."