Of Interest to Women

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3269, 20 February 1937, Page 6

Of Interest to Women

(Bp Our Social Reporter)

PERSONAL

Miss Dixie Blain has returned from a holiday visit to Australia.

Mrs A. P. Robinson, who has been spending the holidays in Canterbury, has returned home.

Miss B. Buckland was a Cambridge visitor to Auckland this week.

Mrs H. Burge and Miss Elsie Burge have returned home after spending a fortnight's holiday at Raglan. AROUND THE PROVINCE Motorists travelling along the Hamilton-Te Aroha Road are attracted by a field of gladioli blooms not far from Newstead. Although partly hidden by a hedge, the flowers catch the eye of the passer-by owing to their brilliant colours.

The death took place last Thursday at her home, Te Kumi, of Miss Mildred Moerua, the granddaughter of Moerua Natauhira, a well-known chief of the Maniapoto tribe. A tangils being held at her grandfather's pa, Te Koraka. "

The supply of milk to schoolchildren in air classes up to standard four last year cost the Paeroa School Committee £3l 1174; Under the Government's new legislation milk will be available free to all children.

About 300 Maori people, including 20 visitors, were present at a wedding at the Rukumoana village, near Kiwitahi, on Sunday morning. The wedding took place in front of the meeting-house. The bridal party were attired in the orthodox pakeha wedding costumes. / '•' * „* *

Miss I. Campbell, of Morrinsville, won the Waikato ladies' 50 yards and 100 yards championships at the amateur athletic meeting at Thames. Her time'of 11 l-5s for the 100 yards equals the New Zealand record, and her time for the 50 yards was 5 4-ss. A remeasurenient of the track proved it to be 15 inches short of the 100 yards.

Social ( Doings, Feminine News ana Notes.

NEVER TOO LATE EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC Many women want to do tilings that they were not taught to do in early life. They are attracted by music, painting, wood-carving, high class cookery, and certain studies, etc. But anyhow, whatever it is—why not learn while there is the desire to do so.

We have recently heard of a happily married young woman who lamented the loss of music in her otherwise perfect home (says the Sydney Morning Herald). She had never been taught music, much as she loved it. Perhaps school-work

had crowded it out. She tried to console herself by deciding that her baby son should be taught music as soon as he could sit at the piano. By that means they would have home music in the years to come. A poor and doubtful consolation. The child might not be musical. Besides, it would take so long. Why should not the mother learn music without loss of time? Tsvo half-hour lessons a week and seme daily practice would soon bring some simple music into the home. Ii would also be a delightful diver-, sion for the budding musician. This woman's experience is not unusual; others are similarly placed. I know of three women who first learnt music between the ages of • 50 and 00. They got on well (we„ can generally do what we like doing), and they gained much happi-' ncss and satisfaction. . j An old lady once told me that in ! her early home her father never' allowed his daughters to learn painting, although one girl particularly wished to do so. Later the■ girl married a reasonable man. She i soon joined some art classes, and within a year a picture of hers was hung in the Paris Salon. This is, of course, unusual. I did not hear, however, that the artist's . home duties were neglected. It seems, indeed, that, while we are training one sense, such as seeing or hearing, i we are improving all our senses. and are bringing more usefulness and happiness into everyday life. Shyness or false shame sometimes hinders any serious attempt at learning when our schooi days are long over. It need not do that, how-

ever. Many noted persons: have learnt late in life, and Queen Victoria celebrated her seventieth birthday by taking her first lesson in Hindustani.