SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. A. L. Herdman is on a visit to Rotorua. Mrs. L. Gwynne, of Wellington, is among the visitors to Auckland. q Miss Jackson, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. A. W. Blair, Wellington. Mrs. and Miss Oliphant are leaving to-day on a short visit to Rotorna.' Mr. and Mrs. H. Bloomfield, of Auckland, are staying at Onslow House, Dunedin. Dr. and Mrs. de Boiserre have taken np their residence at Ely House, Remuera Road. Mrs. Guy Mace, of Masterton, Miss Harrison, of Whangarei, and Miss Murray, of Rotorua, are staying at the Hotel Braeburn. Miss Edith Sutherland, the scenic artist, will lectnre to the League of New Zealand Penwomen on Monday evening on "Mysticism in Modern Art." The serious illness of Lady Ward is causing very grave anxiety to her family and many friends. The latest bulletin shows a slight improvement in her condition, says a Wellington paper. Mrs. A. E. Herbert, of Christchurch, is on holiday in' Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. George Forrnan, Epsom. Mrs. Herbert is an associate member of the Children's (Jourt and a member of the Hospital Board. She i§ recovering from her recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. John Haggitt celebrated their silver wedding last week in Dunedin, when a large nnmber of relatives and friends gathered at their home in Highgate, and a very enjoyable evening was spent in c'ancing. The best man and bridesmaid were among the guests. A woman is to hold office in the Vatican for the first time in history. Signora Crostalossa Ocipioni has been appointed to the staff of the Vatican library. She holds a diploma from the Pontifical Keeper of Records. The present Pope is a noted savant and a collector of rare volumes. There is a eood deal to be said for the Eton crop and the knee-high skirt that go hand-in-hand with a downright frank and clean-minded personality, with a freedom from mincing affectations and false modesty and with a sturdy, striding selfreliance, said Lady Askwith when speaking at an exhibition of modern "signed" furniture at the Vassar Galleries, Kensington. "Furniture may, I think," she said, "be regarded as the feminine counterpart of archit«ctnre, and I think I shall not be far wrong if I attribute Mr. Dugald Stark's inspiration for these beautiful and original pieces we see around us to the young woman of to-day. She is a rnuch-criticised and much-abused young person, but I suppose her greatgrandmother was equally abused in her time. The young woman of every age is considered too rapid for her elders to keep pace with, though I must admit they are making a pretty good shot at it to-day." The published accounts of Virginia Dare, " the first child of English parents born in America," whose birthday was chosen for the commemoration of "Raleigh's Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island on August 18, leave her future career in doubt (says an English paper). The fact is that she had no future career, or oiily a very short one. Her grandfather, Governor White, sailed for England in the following week (Angust, 1587), and, owing to the Armada, it was two years before a relief expedition reached the island. They found 'the fort deserted, and it was learned later that "the colony had removed to Croatoan, a neighbouring island, whose inhabitants had been friendly to the English. There they had intermixed with the natives, but most of the party were eventually massacred. Only seven of them—four men, two boys and a young maid—had been preserved from slaughter by a Triendly chief. From these were descended, a tribe of Indians, fonnd in the vrcinitVof Roanoke in the early eighteenth century,' and known as the fiatteras Indians.,