SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19235, 26 January 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. M. A. Nilsson, of Napier, is visiting Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. G.' B. Simpson, of Cambridge, are touring the South Island. Mrs. C. V. Birch, of Wellington, is in Auckland and is at the Grand. Lady Russell and Miss Russell, of Hastings, are at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. H. C. Tewsley, c* ~nd, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Oldham, Dunedm. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Aicken, who have been on a tour to Rotorua, leave to-day for Dunedia. Mrs. Lloyd Hill and Mrs. Burton, who motored through froni Wellington, are staying at the Grand. Mrs. H. Newcombe, of Auckland, has been spending a short holiday with Mrs. J. H. Hume, at Raglan. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, of Hastings, and the Misses Williams and McLean ara staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Browning, Wellington, and her niece, Miss Katherine Hay, are visiting Auckland and are at Cargen. Mr. and Mrs. Wyvern Wilson, who have been spending the holidays at Takapuna, have returned to Hamilton. Mrs. J. A. Young and her daughter, who have been spending a holiday at St. Heliers, have returned to Hamilton.

Miss Isabel Leak, of Hamilton, was a passenger by the Marama on Saturday for Sydney. She will also visit Melbourne and Adelaide.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Fox, of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, who have been holiday making in Auckland have returned. Mrs. Fox intends leaving in March on a visit to England. She will be v accompanied by her yon.

Misses Irene and Alix Rutherfurd, Alfrcdton, the well-known cross-country horsewomen, are leaving for England in the first week in February to meet their father, Mr. A. J. Rutherfurd, who has been touring America and the Continent for the last 12 months. This means that the two popular riders will not be competing in the ladies' events _ at the Masterton show. Some of their horses are lo be kept in training during their absence. It is hoped by Misses Rutherfurd to be in England for the latter part of the hunting season.

The New Zealand friends of Miss Esther Fisher will be interested to hear that she has been professionally busy for some time past, having had a number of public and private engagements. At Colchester recently she had a good reception. Miss Fisher will be giving a recital in Warwickshire before long and in February she will be playing at a concert to be given in Devizes. Her next London recital will take place an the spring. Today the New Zealand pianist' was to have appeared at a special matinee at His Majesty's Theatre, but, on account of Queen Alexandra's death, it has been postponed for a few months.

Three women whose names were renowned in their generation, and who won the love and admiration of their time, have recently died within a week. They were Miss Rose Kingsley, eldest daughter of Charles Kingsley, Miss Helen Gladstone, youngest daughter of Mr. Gladstone, and Mrs. Booker Washington, who, when she was a young and clever student, married Booker*Washington, the greatest son of the negro race in America. Each of these three women links the twentieth century to the great ideals which were the most valuable legacy that the nineteenth century had to leave for those who inherited what it thought and said and did.

It is probable, says an exchange writer, that the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden will pay a visit to America in May.' They have been invited to the States to unveil a statue of John Ericson, a famous Swede. It will be their first trip across the Atlantic, and they are looking forward to it immensely—all except the American interviewer. The first function to which the Crown Princess gave her patronage after her return to England was the bazaar in aid of the Friends of the Poor at Lady Gainford's house in Mansfield Street, Before her marriage tho Princess devoted a great deal of time to this charity, personally visiting many of the gentlewomen whom it assists. The Princess is the daughter of the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven.

Lord Bathurst has been giving some good advice to young girls who aspire to become young wives. They must refrain from the " vanity bag" habit, ! which, we suppose, says an exchange correspondent, means from all those feminine consolations comprised'in the art of making the best of one's appearance in all weather. Well, the vanity bag is "at least frank; there's no concealment about it. Further, Lord Bathurst would have young women acquainted with the facts about sport, so that they may discuss scores with their husbands and keep them at home, by talk, brighter than broadcasting, about golf or cricket or football. All this seems to be advice appropriate ,to a vanished generation of women. For the inodem wife doesn't regard the fireside chat as the typical scene in married bliss. And she would very likely say: "If I am to learn about sport in order to talk to him, let him leajn about all that the vanity bag includes and implies, in order to talk to me!"