PERSONAL NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 14 December 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES

Miss Eva Card is visiting Wellington. ?»fiss Maunsell (Mastorton) in at present staying at Son ton n, Wellington. Mrs D. K. Logan, of Masterton, and family are staying at the seaside at Rona Bay, Wellington. ■ ' a Lady Osborne (iihbos, of Wellington, leaves on Friday to pay a short, visit to her daughter, Mrs Thompson, of Pallia tua. I Misses R. L. Adams and R. Wadham, of Mastorton Technical School staff, arc spending term holidays in ' Christehureh. | j The engagement is announced of Miss Florence Luke, youngest daugh- . tor of Mr and Mrs S. Luke, of Wei-, lington, to Mr Douglas Smith, IV-] tone. Sheepskins are being used by (he Paris furriers this season to make warm winter capes, and furnished with a handsome collar they are both smart and cosy. One in soft pahs grey, the wool closely purled, was cut o:i wide and ample lines, falling below i the knee, and its lining was printed with big fuchsias and marigolds in vivid reds and yellows and blues. The collar was of fine white fox, which turned the cape into an aristocratic article. Owing to shortage of men, wealthy public and business men in Vienna are advertising daily on behalf of their daughters for eligible bachelors. The, following was inserted in a Vienna newspaper by a leading exporter:— Exporter, old-established, seeks man of character as husband for 18-year-old daughter, good looking, musical, blonde, intelligent; dowry oUO.OOO kronen. —Apply Box —. Nominally this dowry would be about L' 20,000 There are other advertisements asking for husbands from women with fortunes up to CIn.OGO.

At the funeral of the, Into Miss Florence Young in Melbourne, Canon Hughes recalled that she once taught a class in his Sunday School, and had a tremendous vogue with the nippers on account of her cheery tongue and generous disposition. Miss Floreine Young was a pretty good Scriptural scholar, but infant curiosity over mysterious Bible happenings of ion had her hunting for happy explanations One Sabbath the- clasn pondered over the tale of Jonah and the '-whale," and the smartest bahe wanted In know how a whale with its small gullet could get a hefty prohphei info its interior. "Well, children." said Florence brightly. "I suppose the whale was like one of use —it eoidd swallow anything."

The Congregational' Church, Napier, was the scene of a quiet but pretty wedding on Wednesday afternoon, the contracting parties being Wilhemina (Mona), youngest daughter of Mrs Bertha Wiig, Napier, and Wilfred voungest son of Mr and Mrs Haxton. Carterton. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr Ernest Wiig, was daintily attired in a I'ugi silk frock with old lace trimmings and black picture hat, to match, and carried a shower bouquet. She was atfended by Miss Lottie Do Friez. who wore white trope do chine ami smart black hat. Mr George Wiig carried out the duties of best man. After the ceremony the guests wore entertained by the bride's .mother. The happy couple left later for the south, whom the honeymoon is being spent.

The now women Magistrates in England are setting an excellent example i. > nun .J's.P. in regular attendance on the Bench (states the Daily Mail) Mr-: Ccrtrude Tuekwell, one of the first women Magistrates to he sworn in, nncl a mcml)er of the Advisory Committee which assisted the Lord Chancellor to appoint the first women Magistrates, has missed her weekly attendance on the Bench only twice, and then because she was keeping other official appointments. "It is rather early yet," she said to a Daily Mail reporter, "to state whether women have, fully justified their admittance to the .Bench, hut I can say that they have shown the greatest keenness. It is hoped that the Bill enabling women Magistrate* to take part at the children's Courts will become law next session. Here is an obvious sphere for the woman justice of the peace."

The death occurred at her late residence, f) Brougham street, Wellington, oil Friday night, after a very short illness, of Mrs Hutchen, wife of Mr •James Hutchen. Both the late Mrs Hutchen and her husband have been closely identified with. Wellington's progress, having lived there since 18fi| Born in Kirriemiur, Forfarshire, Scotland, Mrs liuiehen came out to New /calami with her husband in flic ship Sir William Eyre, and arrived at the Bluff on May i:>, 1803. They lived for a year in Invoreargill, and then came to Wellington, where, they have since resided. The late Mrs Hutchen, who was in her 80th year, leaves a husband and a family of six. The sons are: Mr David Hutehcti. solicitor, of \ew Plymouth; Colonel Hutchen C.M.C., C.8.E.. of Defence Headquarters, Wellington ; and Mr Ernest Hutchen, who is farming at Pihautea. Mrs Donald Wright, of Talavera Terrace, Wellington; Mrs Alee Morton, Palmeiston North, and Miss Jean Hutchen, of Wellington, are the daughters.

Miss L. Mortimer, of Wellington, and formerly of Sydney, is spendir.fi' a few days with Mrs. E. Stoltr, Villa Street, prior io leaving on an extended trip to Melbourne and Sydney. The annua! prize giving of St. Matthew's School for' Girls in Masterton will tn'ko place to-morrow at . r i 0 'clock. A method of stopping the spread of measles in a family in which one of 1 lie children has eaughl Ino illness is, , claimed to have been discovered by .\f. Nicolle, nirootor of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis, and M. f'onsoil. Their treatment is to inject under the skin of brothers and sisters a small quantity of the sick child's blood, taken when the patient is beginning to recover and when he has not been feverish for live or six days. This scrum, they stale, would contain defensive properties.

When distributing prizes and certificates lr> pupils of an English school, Lady Frances P.alfour, D.Ltt., pointed out the advantage of a thorough education al the beginning of life. "I was one of a. family of twelve," she said, "and was taught my proper place very soon in life. We had the aovanlage of never being seal away from our parents and their friends. Only the great things thai -were going on the world were ever discussed in the home." ("'out inning, Lady Balfour said that she did not think any man or -woman could stand among young women to-day and not feel how much the new world -was resting in their hands. "It is you women, coming after us, ,f said the speaker, "who have fo rebuild and reconstruct what M'e call society, ft is you who, in God's good pleasure, will marry and rear the race that will carry on the jL'mpire for which, our sons have fought and died. It is well known that every country where the •women •have not been regarded as the most valual.de asset has suffered. The greatest misfortune of America was when she held women in slavery, That is why wo fought so hard to make women responsible citizens.'-'