SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21646, 6 May 1940, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Alan Shand is staying with Mrs P. D. Laurie, Evans Street. Miss O'Brien, Orbell Street, returned yesterday from a visit to Wellington.

Miss Loo Cartwright, Orbell Street, has returned from a visit to Invercargill. Mrs R. A. Holdgate, Park Lane, is on a visit to her mother, Mrs D. B. Halliday, Christchurch. Mrs H. Hammond, Fairlie, has been staying with Mrs C. R. Hammond, Grehan Valley, Akaroa. Mr and Mrs N. Palmer. Geraldine, have returned from a visit to the North Island

Mrs Bruce Baxter, Evans Street, who has been staying with Mrs E. Thompson, Christchurch, returned home yesterday.

Mrs A. C. Elworthy, Gordons Valley, who has been spending some weeks in Christchurch, has returned to South Canterbury.

Mrs Sholto Douglas, who has been staying with Mrs W. H. Walton, Park Lane, returned on Saturday to Geraldine.

Mrs James Begg. Dominion president of the Plunket Society, who stayed in Christchurch on her way back from Wellington, returned on Saturday to Dunedin.

The engagement is announced of Stephanie Veronica, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs D. Roland, Craigie Avenue, and Colin David, second son of Mr and Mrs G. Griffiths, William Street. Mr Griffiths is to leave shortly for camp with the Third Echelon.

Mrs S. M. Strang, Tirnaru, who spent nine months in North Wales living near her son, Pilot Officer J. T. Strang, is now staying with Mrs Tanner (Dunedin), at Epsom, near London. She is assisting the New Zealand Women’s Association in making comforts for the troops.

When do you suppose the education of a child begins? At six months old it can answer smile with smile and impatience with impatience. It can observe, enjoy and suffer acutely, and, in a measure, intelligently. Do you suppose it makes no difference to it that the order of the house is perfect and quiet, the faces of its father and mother full of peace, their soft voices familiar to its ear, and even those of strangers, loving? Or that it is tossed from arm to arm among hard, or reckless, or vain-minded persons, in the gloom of a vicious household, or the confusion of a gay one? The moral disposition is, I doubt not, greatly determined in those first speechless years. I believe especially that quiet, and the withdrawal of objects likely to distract, by amusing the child, so as to let it fix its attention undisturbed on every visible least thing in its domain is essential to the formation of some of the best powers of thought—Ruskin.