SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21916, 27 September 1934, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

• ' -• 'P-v. '-'v Miss Bobbie McConnell, Epsom, has left for England. 0:. >.y

Mrs. A. B. Williams, Gisborne, is at the Grand Hotel.^,

Mrs. R. Carthy, of Wangsmui, is visiting Mrs. Fox, of Parnell.

Mrs. D. H. Hall, Taumarunui. is the guest of Mrs. A. McConnell, of Epsom.

Mrs. Gordon Reid, Welling;ton, is the guest of Mrs. J. H. Frafcer, City Road. , *

Mrs. S. H. Ward and Sirs. F. Reynolds, Whangarei, are at til® Central Hotel.

Mrs. Nelson Meuli, Hawera, who has been spending several weeks in Auckland, returned home yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Hastings, and Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Lowry, Fernhill, Hawke's Bay, are visiting' Rotorua.

Mi*, and Mrs. Percy Elworthy, Gordon'!! Valley, South Canterbury, are returning to New Zealand from their trip to England by the Remutxa, due in Wellington on Saturday.

Mi's. T. Reynolds, Hamilton; Miss G. Smith, Marton; Mrs. J. Robertson, Whangarei; Miss T. Openshaw, Marton; Mrs- E. \ T alintine, Hamilton; Mrs. G. Smith, Hamilton, are at the Station Hotel.

A well-known Parisian actress, Marjse Wendling, has deserted the etago* to a nun, states an exchange. She is the third successful French actress to enter a convent within the last two years. Yvonne Haptin, of the Comedie Francaise, and Susanne Delorrtie, of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, both joined the Benedictines, a contemplative ord«<r. Miss Wendling has been received as a novice at "he convent at Venissieus, near Lyons, and hopes to go in tho future to a distant land to devote her life to the :are of lepers.

The first woman in 400 years to be .elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, is Dr. Helen W. Macpherson Mackay. She is also a member of the Medical Research Council, a member, of the Royal College of SurgeoEs, and a Fellow of tho Royal Society of Medicine, and is an authority on diet and on rickets in children. After five years research work in East London, Dr. Mackay and her colleagues at the Queen's Hospital discovered that the addition of iron, together with ammonium, citrate, to a normal milk diet for infants prevented and cured anaemia, raised the resistance of infection, and improved the rate of growth.

One of the most interesting; of the pages in the historical record of woman pioneers, which is being compiled by the history sub-committee of the Women's Centenary Council, is that which has been contributed by Miss Eleanora Sophia La Trobe, who is the daughter of this State's first Governor, Charles La Trobe, states a Victorian writer. Miss La Trobe has filled in one of the forms which were sent to her hy Miss* M. G. Cuthbertson, the convener of the sub-committee, with the story of her mother's association with the colonv. In a letter to Miss Cuthbertson Miss La Trobe says she is now in her ninety-third year. She is living at Eastbourne.;

The American sculptress, Miss MaiTina Hoffman, is at present visiting Australia to model heads of Australian aborigines. A daughter of the late Richard Hoffman, the musician, she took up modelling at an early age, and it was a bust she did of her father that brought her Tmxler the notice of Rodin, whose pupil she became. Several yea™ ago she a trip round tbe world modelling, primitive types for anthropological Exhibitions at the Hall flan at *the Chicago Field Museum. After visiting . Ainote parte. of Japan, the Malayan lungles and the African forests, Miss Hoffman turned her eyes on Australia. She has completed the ereater number of her models, and fopes to finish the full hundred by the time she returns to America.

Can white women live and thrive in the Australian tropics? After twenty vears in the Northern Territory in Queensland and New Guinea Mrs..P. Conigrave answers an emphatic * e V. states a Melbourne writer. She painted a, blowing picture of Darwin and its environs for members of the Women Citizens' Movement Housfr keeping problems were simpMed, for the native servants were excellent, and food was good and cheap, she said. All the year round there were wonderful fruits and vegetables m season, and though beat was scarce, there was always plenty of fish poultry and game. "Sickly, delicate children come up from the south; clerks and typists come over from QoewaUod, thw grow plump and healthv in Darwin, Mrs- Conigrave declared. " It is a healthy, openair life there—and a very happy one.

Most of us regard Florence Nightingale as a character in ancient history, and yet there is living to-day in a little cottage at Potternewton, near Leeds. England, aMrs. Mary Budden, who was one of Miss- Nightingale s Personal maids,-and who after the Crimean campaign waited on her mistress'for three Tears When Mary left to marty William'Budden, Florence Nightingale s butler, the famous nurse found tne couple a coffee-tavern to manage, and never lost touch with them until her death in ,1910. Mrs, Budden a most cherished possessions are' some letters written to her by Miss Nightingale, and a picture which the latter presented to her old butler many years ago. "One of the kindest and women I have ever known," said MrsBudden, "Florence Nightingale was very firm. When she wsjs angry she whs severe, but' she was never angry without good cause."

Brides are becoming increasingly "old fashioned" in their atti;re, states a London writer. The Hon. Magdalene Fraser (who married Lord F.ldon) wqre her magnificent Pomt-de-Venise veil in most demure manner, fastened round her head and under her chin like a wimple, and arranged in nun-like manner around throat and shoulder's. Her 12 child attendants were like picture-book figures. The girls in rose pink organdie Kate Oreenaway frccks with bonnets, and the little "boys like miniature David Copperfields in pink linen with organdie - collars. The wedding gifts included three eternitv rings—one di.'imonds, one sapphires, and one in rubies. These' were the gifts of the bridegroom's brothers, Four huge pipe majors from the Scots Guards played the bride and bridegroom out of church, and gave great joy to the 12 "Email ' bovs and girls.