The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24260, 18 October 1940, Page 7

The Social Round

Miss Phyllis Taylor, Nelson street, is visiting Dunedin. Mrs R. Erasmussen, Spencer street, Bluff, is the guest of Mrs T. F. O’Byrne, Dalrymple street.

Miss P. Gray returned on Tuesdav evening from her annual holiday, which she spent in Blenheim and Christchurch.

Mrs C. White-Parsons, Lewis street, entertained a number of friends at her home yesterday afternoon in honour of Mrs L. W. Fulcher, who recently returned from England.

Mrs E. C. Tapley, Christchurch, who has been paying a brief visit to Mrs T. Wray Wilson, Avenal Flats, will go today to stay with Mrs H. J. Macalister, Duke street, before returning to the country.

The winner of the wool elephant, raffled at the patriotic bazaar at the Southland Women’s Club, was Mrs E. R. Smythe.

Members of the Southland Girls’ High School Old Girls’ Association are reminded of the annual general meeting to be held in the Southland Women s Club, Tay street, on Wednesday, October 23, at 7.45 p.m. A short programme will follow the meeting. All members and intending members are invited.

That the profession of housewife will be formally recognized in the 1950 census is the prophecy of Dr Helen Judy Bond, president of the American Home Economics Association. She asserts that in 10 years’ time American housewives will have achieved a status equal to that of doctors and lawyers. Dr Bond went on to say that home economics was an essential subject of study because 35 per cent, of America’s families lived on incomes less than £4OO a year. Home economics must therefore be taught in schools to help these families to learn'how to live on small incomes, and it is just as useful for this teaching to be made available to boys as to girls. Dr Bond said that she hoped to live long enough to see courses in home making incorporated in the syllabus of Yale University.