SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Pago, of Botorua-, are staying at the Star Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Roberts Hansen, Epsom, left on Friday on a visit to Rotorua.

Mr. Justice Herdman and Mrs. Herdman returned from Wellington on Sunday morning.

-Miss \ eronica Mansfield, of Western Australia, recently won the open scholarstiip_ for singing at the Royal College of Music, London, for which there were 300 entrants.

Mrs. S. Carter, Auckland, who has been making an extended stay with her mother, Mrs. Harris, Huranui, Pirinoa, and friends in the Wairarapa and Wellington, is now paying a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Carter, Rose Hill, Feilding;.

The National Reserve Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance held the fortnightly meeting last week, when the divisional surgeon gave the members an emergency evening to keep them efficient for the various duties they are called upon to perform.

Miss Monica Geikie Cobb, already distinguished as the first woman to hold a brief in England, has now been appointed deputy-chairman of the London Court of Referees, under tho Unemployment Insurance Act. Miss Cobb is the first woman to sit as chairman of this Court.

Princess Alexandrine Cantacuzene, of Rumania, is the forefront of the feminist movement of to-day. She is president •of the National Orthodox Society of Rumanian Women, president of the Women's National Council, vice-president of the International Council and vice-pre-sident of the Women's Petite Entente.

Mrs, Catherine Booth, whoso history is indissolubly connected with that of her husband, the Rev. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, may be said to have pioneered the female ministry. She first began preaching at Gateshead (England) in 1860, and valiantly defied the storm of criticism to which she was immediately subjected.

Miss Freda Bage, M.Sc., F.L.S., principal of the Queensland University Woman's College, who has been appointed substitute-delegate to the League of Nations, is a native of Victoria and has been taking honours and scholarships for years. Since 1904 she has been associated with tho National Council of Women and she represented Australia at the. gatherings of the International Council of Women at Stockholm and Copenhagen.

Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, with her sister, discovered in the old Convent of St. Catherine at Sinai, in 1892, the most ancient known copy of the Four Gospels. In addition to being a D.D. she had also the degree of Litt. D. bestowed upon her by the Dublin University, LL.D. by the University of St. Andrew's and Ph.D. by the Halle University. She was ono of tho greatest Arabic and Greek scholars of her time, and spoko many modern languages.

Vegetarians from 14 countries, who | went to London to help to spread the | gospel of "mankind's purest food," at their international congress, had what might almost be a Lord Mayor's banquet off the following menu:—Hors d'Oeuvres, Tomato Cream Puree, Brazil Nut Cutlets, new potatoes, peas, egg and mushroom vol-au-vent, Kussian salad, fruit and nut cream salad, dessert, ices, coffee, instant postum, lemonade, fruit cup. "It may seem amusing to have nuts a3 the piece de resistance," one of the greenbadged diners is reported to have remarked, "but if only from the point of view of the pleasures of the table, there is as much satisfaction in eating a meal of this sort as going through a dozen courses at a city company dinner."

Dr. Chudleigli Garvice, medical officer in charge of the Education Department at Cairo, is reputed to be the highest paid woman doctor in Europe or Africa. She will be recalled as Br. Isabel Ormiston, a graduate of Sydney University, who did distinguished service in Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro during the Great War. Dr. Garvice r s appointment was made by the British Government, but when Egypt was given a first-hand say in the administration of its own affairs the native Ministers asked her to stay on and direct the education of Egyptian girls in the matter of medicine. Dr Garvice pledged herself to the post until 1927. Her three months' furlough each year is usually spent in England visiting the peoplo of her late husband, who was a son of Charles Garvice, the novelist.

American women have brought about great reforms in French sports wear. In former seasons, all that the Parisian couturier offered for sports was too elegant and dainty for strenuous Americans.. They were for verandahs of country clubs and quiet beach wear, Now they spell re&l service. The bail was started rolling by one of the chic designers who recently visited America and saw how serious sport is on the other side. She came back to make sports wear more durable, but chic at the same time, striking the happy combination of stylo and outdoor suitability that fill a long-felt want. A new note is struck in the adaptation of the costumes of medieval men to a modern woman's outdoor game. There is a "Moyen Age " touch on some, a " Jearte D'Arc collar on others. There is a lavish use of tournament colours, and there are chainmail ornaments on the jumper-blouse of horizontal bands in two alternating fabrics.