SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19379, 14 July 1926, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. Sheldon Dudley has returned from a visit to Suva and is staying at Stonehurst. Lady Hosking returned from Australia yesterday by the Ulimaroa. She is at the Grand Hotel. - Mrs. H. Eames and Mrs. G. Cook, of Wellington, are at present staying at the Central Hotel. The Misses Pike, of Sydney, have returned from a visit to Rotorua and are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. R. Burns are on a short visit to Wellington. Miss A. Burns, who has been on a visit to Russell, is returning to-day. Mr. and Mrs. J. Studholme, who have been guests at Government House, Wellington, during race week, have returned to Christchurch. Included among the guests staying at the Hotel Careen are the Misses E. and B. Lackey, Sydney, Miss Pardee and Miss Ontjis, California. The Quebec Legislature has passed a bill giving municipal suffrage to married women owning property. The Act applies only to the cities of Montreal and Quebec. Miss Vera I. Curtis, of the Masterton Central School staff, has beeen chosen, under the, exchange of teachers' scheme, to go to Toronto, Canada. Miss Curtis will leavp by the Aorangi, which sails from Auckland on August 3.

Miss Lorimer, M.A., principal of the Nelson Girls' College since 1906, is retiring at the end of the year. It had been Miss Loriftier's intention to retire last year, but at the express wish of the 'Board of Governors the* resignation was withheld for 12 months.

Mrs. Valentine Clowe, well, known as a daughter of the late Mr. John Stevens, M.P., has taken up welfare work in New Zealand. Mrs. Valentine Clowe, who has been offered a seat on the National Council of "Women, has lately returned from England, where she had an opportunity of studying social questions.

One of the first women journalists. Frau Bettina Wirth, died in Vienna at the ago of 77 years. She was one of the first women called upon to co-ope rati; m the work of the " Neue Freie Presse," in which paper she distinguished herself by her graceful reports. She also wrote for English and American papers, in which countries her work was also appreciated.

More than eight and a-half million. Women in the U.S.A. are Working outside their homes for wages and salaries, according to a recent bulletin entitled "Facts About Working Women," published by the" United States Women's Bureau, in Washington. The number of women engaged in gainful occupations outside their own homes more than trebled between the census periods of 1880 and 1920.

A new and distinct white type of man, tall, sanguine, and less spare than the older stock, is developing in America, says Dr. Hrdlicka, the distinguished anthropologist, of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Dr. Hrdlicka's description of the new American, as developed so far, is that he is the tallest of the larger groups of the white people, has a medium between blond and black hair, mixed eyes or light ones, showing more or less brown admixture, arid an inclination to sinewy slenderhess. The main characteristics of this new type's behaviour are, in general, frankness, openness, yet shrewdness, energy and persistence, with, in general, but little .sentimentality or affection, and relatively few extremes, except, perhaps, industrial, 'financial, and occasionally religious endeavours. The type is not Nordic, and, like the British, is intermediate.

There was quite an interesting little ceremony at St. Mark's Schoolroom, Wellington, on Saturday morning, when Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson handed to St. Mark's Company of Girl Guides tho colours she had'herself .presented to them. Lady v Alice, who was accompanied by Mr. J. Studholme and Mr. Little, was wearing it broad gold shoulder sash signifying her position as president of the Girl Guides in New Zealand, She was received by the Rev. H. E..K, Fry, Mrs. Fry (district commissioner), and Mrs. Groves, captain of St. Mark's Company, while Gniders from other companies were also present in uniform. After Her Excel* lency had inspected the company she presented the flag which bears the Guide motto, and tho Rev. M*. Fry, in a few words, welcomed her to St. Mark a, and thanked her not only for donating the flag, bat coining in person to present it to the Guides.