THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 866, 18 November 1916, Page 6

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mr and Mrs lhuuish McLean intend returning to .Mount Ilutt to-day, after a stay of some, works at Sumner. Miss M. "Newton has returned to Christchurch, after a visit to Mrs B. Newton, Ashburton. Mrs Walter Macfarlane returned to Kaiwara today, after a few days in town. .Mrs Dickenson (St. Albans) is visitIn;; Wellington. The garden party to have been given on the 25th hist by Mr and Mrs A. F. Carey, Mcrivale •House, Papauui Road, lias been postponed on account of their bereavement, and will take place on December 1(5. The proceeds will be devoted to the Y.M.C.A. Hutments and Comfort Fund. Various stalls, side attractions, and a continuous concert, will be provided, and it is hoped that a good sum will be raised to help the Y.M.C.A. in their useful work. On Wednesday next the Ladies' Gardening Class, which has been in existence for some months, under the tuition of Mr James Young, will hold a sale of bedding-out plants in the Square. This is really a portion of the Rose Fete sales, but is being held earlier, as the plants will require to be transplanted before then. Mr Robertson, of Tonks, Norton, and Co., will conduct the sale at 12 noon. The promoters would be glad of further donations of bedding-out plants to be sold at the same time, and any Information required may bo obtained from the auctioneers. A floral fete in connection with St. Michael's Church will be held in the Parish Hall on Wednesday and Thursday next. Tho stalls, which will represent flowers, will include those for the sale of sweets, produce, plain work, varieties, cakes, handkerchiefs, kitchen articles, flowers, plants, carpentry, woodwork, etc., and the opening ceremony will be performed by Mrs Elworthy. There will be vocal and instrumental music at intervals throughout tho evening, and the St. Michael's Scouts will give an entertainment. The fete will be open from 2.30 to 5.30, and 7 to 10 both days. At last night's meeting of the City Council the Reserves Committee reported that, it had received a letter from tho Women's National Reserve of New Zealand (Wellington branch), offering to supply women for work in the city reserves (says yesterday's "New Zealand Times ''). The offer had been carefully considered, and the committee recommended that' the Women's reserve be informed that, there are ample men in the reserves department who are able to carry on the work at present, and who are ineligible for military service for some time to come. Tho report was adopted after Councillor Barber had expressed his dissent. lie pointed out that in Christchurch women had proved of the utmost utility in planting operations. The married men now employed in gardening might bo put on to other work. It was to bo noted that members of the Women's National Reserve had offered to give their services for a time voluntarily. Crs Frost and Wright explained that just at present there were no vacancies on the reserves staff, but it was not at all improbable that tho aid of tho women would be welcomed later on. New York women who are lawyers

have started a new monthly magazine which they will finance, manage, and edit for themselves. It is called "Oyez." Its object is to draw the attention of women to their legal status and to open an inquiry column in which they may be advised free of charge. The editor is Mrs Rose Falls Brees, who frankly admits that nothing will chrtnge the laws until women have tho vote, but who intends that in the meantime "Oyez" shall tell them how "almost absurdly" the laws of the various States treat them. The editors have no quarrel with the Magistrates or those carrying out the decree of the court, but their efforts are directed against the lettering of the law, which leaves its officers no choice. Mrs Mary Norcross, of Danville, 111., who is 00 years old, and whose sixteenth child was married last spring, is learning to read (says an American paper). "I've always wanted to read," she said over the top of a newspaper, as she rocked on the porch at her country hime, "but until now I've never had time. During her childhood she assisted with the farm work and after marriage helped her husband in making sufficient money to rear their large family. "I had no time when young to read the weekly papers because of my large family, but now, with plenty of time on my hands and the daily newspapers being delivered at my gate, I've just got to learn to read ami get the news while it. is fresh.