SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 12

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs C. E. Morris left by the Ulimaroa on a visit to Australia. Mrs Averill is the guest of Mrs if. VV. Fletcher, Oriental Bay. Miss Martin’s wedding to Mr Magnus takes place on March 11th. The girls’ branch of the Victoria League will begin their weekly meetings on March 17th. Lady Scott left for Sydney yesterday afternoon, with her brother. Lieutenant Bruce.

Miss Elaine Christie, of Sydney, is the guest of Mrs Blundell, at “Olontarf,” Willis street. Miss Newcomb and Miss Hodge will stay at the Y.W.C.A. Hostel during their visit to Wellington. Mrs G. Davis, of Ponsonby, Auckland, is visiting her relatives in the Hutt Valley. Miss Kitty Morris, of Christchurch, is visiting her aunt, Mrs H. A. Morris, of Hutt road, Petone. Mr and Mrs W. Jamieson, of Melbourne, are touring New Zealand, and intend spending some time at Tanpo for fishing. Miss Johnson, daughter of Captain and Mrs Johnson, of Church street, will be married to Mr Oram at St. John’s Church on Wednesday next. The Hon. Helen Plunket, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Plnnket, will, says a- London correspondent, be a debutante at one of tbis month’s Courts.

Misa K. Stewart, of the local Telephone Exchange, has received notice of transfer to the Christchurch Exchange. She leaves for South by the Mar area to-night.

Mrs A. Coles, of Hutt road, Petone, who has been seriously ill for some months past, is now sufficiently recovered to undertake a journey. Mr and Mrs Coles leave for Rotorua on Monday, ’ . The National Y.W.C.A, opened its annual conference for Australia yesterday, with Miss Helen F. Barnes as its leader. All the local associations will be present at Portarlington, Victoria, where the conference is to be held. ,0n the occasion of her severing her connection with the Brooklyn School, the teaching staff entertained Miss P. L. Carter at afternoon tea and presented her with a wedding present consisting of a solid silver cream jug and sugar basin, suitably engraved. The Pioneer Club will entertain Miss Hodge and Miss Harriet O. Newcomb, representing the International Women’s Franchise Club, London, on Tuesday evening. It will be an open meeting, and members are at liberty to invite their friends. Misa Mary Proctor, the well-known lecturer upon astronomy, intends returning to New Zealand on March sth, and under the auspices of the Philosophical Society will give a series of lectures with the object in view of helping to establish a solar observatory in tliig country. The first lecture will be given in Wellington.

Mr and Mrs, Moore, who came over to Wellington, with Mr A. Macintosh, left yesterday for Rotorua. They will return by way of the Wanganui river, before proceeding to Sydney. On their (way home they will spend a week at Colombo, and intend witnessing the Derby in England in June before going to Belfast, where they will reside.

A meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children was held on Friday afternoon, Mrs A. ItAtkinson presided v There were present Mesdames J. iiirkcaldio, G. Ponsonby, J. R. Glasson, D. McLaren, and G. Winder. Numerous, cases that had been investigated were reported upon. It was decided to render assistance ' where necessary. The following subscriptions were acknowledged with thanks: Mrs Sprott' £l, Lady Findlay ss. ■ An interesting programme has been circulated this week by the Young Women’s Christian Association, which includes, in addition to the Bible and mission study, a list of clubs, evening classes and lectures. The clubs embrace singing, literary circles, ramblers and sketching, while evening classes will bo held on Tuesdays and Fridays for English, spelling, arithmetic, elocution, dressmaking, millinery and art. A physical training class is being formed by the Y.W.C.A. to begin after Easter in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium. Special lectures will be given by lady speakers on the second Saturday in each month. Dr Platts-Mills takes the first next Saturday night, which will be open to all friends. Health talks for girls are also to be given by doctors. The first term begins next Tuesday for the evening classes.

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An unusual post is that occupied in! London by Mrs Shelley Gulick, who, onj exactly the same salary as a man, is. nispeefcor of agents in the Commercial Union Assurance Co.. Ltd.

A young Dutch girl. Miss Dora Rod- 1 riquos, only nineteen years of age, who I is expected to publish her experiences! at the end of her long task, has started to walk round the world, her only companion being a 38 calibre automatic revolver 1

It was in the United States that the full suffrage was first conferred upon] women. The first Legislative Council of Wyoming, after its organisation as a territory, passed in 1869 a BUI giving women the right to vote upon the same terms aa men, and making them eligible to all elective offices, and when Wyoming became a State, in 1890, equal was made a part of its Constitution.

There is to be opened at Earl’s Court next month a college for training working women in economics and industrial history and for all branches of public.life, tbat, if a success, should cause something of a revolution in the future. Correspondence classes will be a big feature of the institution, and for these a pnpU, who is a cotton operative in Lancashire, has already been enrolled. The last census must have proved a hard nut for the controversialists who will assert that women criminals outnumber men to crack, since it shows that, even with suffragettes to swell numbers by hundreds, statistics aver that men criminals outnumber women by nearly ten to one. The figures were noted recently after one member of the Law Society had voted against the admission of women to the society*on the ground that “women are more dishonest than men.” Alter a long struggle the New South Wales Ladies’ Swimming Association has opened its gates to mere man as a spectator and participator in its events. It has been a vexed question for a long time. The president. Miss Rose Scott, did not approve of so doing ; however, it was put to the vote, and after the count Miss Scott resigned. An argument in its favour was that Misses Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie had in Stockholm competed with men in the different events. • The Bavarian Minister of the Interior has issued a decree that no young Bavarian girls will,-in future, bo allowed to join variety troupes or theatrical companies intending to tour outside Bavaria without getting a police pass, which is to Tie a signed document from the parents or legal guardians, saying that the girls have their consent to the life. If such a pass appears to be faked or unsatisfactory, the authorities can refuse to allow the journey to continue, the girls then being considered wards in Chancery. In the Cantonal Assembly at St. Gall, in Switzerland, a measure has been introduced which not only proposes to extend the franchise to men on a more democratic basis, but also includes women on the same terms. The present day trend in nearly all the Swiss cantons is toward sex equality. The removal of the marriage ban on women teachers, the admission of women to the Church and Bar, their entiyr into men’s trades, and their improved position under the new Civil Code are all proofs of the levelling up of women’s status.