SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21926, 9 October 1934, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Miss Altliea Parker is the guest of Mrs. C. A. Pater son, Timaru. Mrs. Lance Stedmam is the guest of Mrs. H. F, Christie, St. John's Hill, Wanganui. Mrs. X. Osborne, Gtsbornc, and Mrs. P. F. Walker, Melbourne, are at the Hotel C'argen. Mrs. Jan MacEwan, Vincent Avenue, Pemuera, is the guest of Mrs. 10. M. Silk, Wanganui. ilrs- Donald Ogilvie and Miss Bcrnice Ogilvie, Pemuera, are spending a holiday in Potorua. iliss Agnes Miller will sail by tlie Wanganolla on Thursday 011 a visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. and Mrs. D. Moraghan, Ladies' Mile, Ellerslie, will leave by the Wanganella on Thursday for Melbourne. Mrs. A. H. Hodge and Miss M. Hodge, Patea, Miss Pauline Humphries, Nelson, and Miss M. Spencer, Potorua, arc at the Station Hotel. An address on Porstal systems in New Zealand and elsewhere was given to the associate branch of the National Council of Women by Mrs. F. McBride, J.P., Mrs. E. P. Turner presided. 1 There was a large attendance at the Hukerenui Bachelors' Ball held in the Hukerenui Hall. Visitors were present from all the surrounding districts and from Kawakawa, Kaikolie and Whnngarei. The official title and position of a "social worker" have been unknown in Denmark until now. iliss Manon Luttichau is the first Danish woman to be appointed to such a post, which has been created in connection with the Copenhagen Municipal Hospital's psychiatrical section. The ladies of Hikurangi held their fourth annual ball in the Criterion Theatre, Hikurangi, last Friday evening. The hall was attractively decorated, the colour scheme being carried out in pink and blue. Music was provided by a Whangarei orchestra and Miss D. Gomez contributed extras.

Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the famous dramatist, who formerly practised as a doctor, and possesses the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.I'., is the daughter of Dr. Barnardo, founder of homes for poor children. She and her husband live at Cap herrat, but have lately been visiting London, where they have been entertaining in honour ot their only daughter. The medal "Ingenio et Arti" lias been conferred upon Gyrithe Lemche, the well-known Danish writer who has for manv years taken a leading part in the woman's movement. Gyrithe Lemche is the first Danish writer of prose who has been thus honoured, the only two other Danish owners of the medal being the poets, Axel Juel and Seedorff Pedersen. The name of Eliza Tihbetts may not mean much in. New Zealand, bat in America she is a heroine, l'or she is the person who first introduced orances into the United States from Brazil She lived in California, and plan ed a few pips that had been sent her by a friend in Brazil. From this small beginning sprang the American orange industry. A monument has been erected on the spot where the pips were first planted, hut Eliza libbetts grave cannot be found, and the whole of the United States is at present heme combed by enthusiastic orange-growers who wish to commemorate the ladv. A twentieth century hairdresser has discovered that Mary Queen of Scots had naturally curly hair. Queen Mary was very interested to hear of this on a recent' visit to the Hon. Mrs. Ernest Guinnesses' house when a great treasure of the family, a lock of Marv Queen of Scots' hair, was on view. Of a light chestnut colour, this precious lock was recently taken to a London salon to be washed and arranged on the little yellowish scrap of paper on which its historv is written. Immediately after washing, the lock curled up naturally. The Woodhill Tennis Club, Waimauku, held a dance 011 Saturday evening to celebrate the opening of the tennis season. There was a very large attendance, visitors being present from Waikoukou Valley, Waimauku, Kunieu, Helcnsville and Kaukapakapa. Streamers in the club's colours (blue and white) decorated the hall. Jhe Gaiety Orchestra supplied the music and extras were played by Miss Joan Phillipps. Messrs. F. Hoist Phillipps were in charge of the floor arrangements. The October meeting of the Kohimarama - Mission Bay Progressive League, at which Mrs. Grant presided, was a particularly interesting one. The league's patron, Miss A. H. Basten, was present and spoke on her recent trip to Honolulu to attend the PanPacific Conference. Miss Rothwell, an Australian delegate to the conference, was also a visitor, and gave a brief account of her impressions of Honolulu. A travel talk was given by Mrs. H. Brown, and Miss Debenham, accompanied by Mrs. Cragg, played a violin solo. Miss Gwen Hughes, of Melbourne, whose skill in combining art with modern cooking secured for her a good business contract in England some months ago, recently won great praise at Bournemouth, where she has established her "theatrical kitchen." Her playlet "Let's Have a Party" was preceded by a tableau vivant called "King Alfred Burns the Cakes." Then Miss Hughes demonstrated to the audience how a wide range of supper delicacies could be cooked with a pennyworth of "■as! Miss Hughes, who learned domestic science in Melbourne, is now a playwright, an actress and an expert cook, and may claim to be the inventor of "dramatised cookery."