SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 429, 21 November 1930, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs C. H. Clinkard. Rotorua, have been the guests of Mr and Mrs Clinkard, St. John’s Hill.

Mr and Mrs Bethel, of Wellington, are visiting their daughter, Mrs 8. E. Cooper. Wanganui East.

Misses Miller, of Suva, and Miss Gibson, of Hawcra, have been the guests of Mrs Hunger, St. John’s Hill.

Miss Joan Hawken. of Waverley, is visiting Wanganui as the guest of Miss Jarvie, St. John’s Hill.

An interesting address is to be given at the Jellicoc Club this evening to members of the literary circle and their friends.

Miss 0. Zeisler, of Gonville, who has been visiting Christchurch and Timaru has left on her return journey. The many friends of Mr and Mrs T. Rhodes (formerly of St. John’s Hill) will be interested to hear they are in town for a few days prior to taking up residence in Havelock North. Mrs Shewin, of College Street, is on a visit to Hastings.

Miss V. Fisher has joined the staff of the Wanganui Public Hospital.

Mrs G. R. Sykes, who has been visiting Mr and Mrs O. Sykes, Westmere, has returned to her home in Kelburn.

Mis Roland Wylie, One Tree Hill, Auckland, who has been the guest of Mrs 'l'. L. Sperring, has returned home.

Among the delegates to the annual conference of the Plunket Society are the following:—Mrs McDonald, Mrs Sigley (Raetihi), Mrs Currie (Waverley), Mrs Roberts, Mrs Honeyfield (Patea), Mrs Mansfield (Taihape), Mrs Guthrie. Dlrs F. West (Mangaweka, Miss L. Cook (Marton), Mrs A. J. Crawford, Dlrs T. Hine (Wanganui). Noticed among the large audience at the Male Choir Concert on Wednesday evening were:—Mrs Bassett Smith, Mrs Turnbull, Mrs Brookfield, Mrs Slater, Mrs Peter Lewis, Mrs .Spurdie, Mrs Greenwood. Mrs J. C. Richardson, Mrs Grant, Dlrs J. R. Walker, Mrs C. R. White, Mrs McKernan, Mrs and Miss Carrad, Mrs and Miss Hewitson, Mr and Airs F. C. Atkinson, Air and Airs 0. Kitson, Air and Aliss Hine, Air and Mrs W. B. Lawrie. Air and Mrs Roy Tilley, Air and Airs Upton. Mr and Airs W. Brown, Airs Willis, Alisses Aitken. Warnock, Crysell, Bringezu, Fleetwood. Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, president of the New Health Society, contributes the following in a London paper:—“Those of us -who have lived to see the immense advantage which woman has gained in appearance and grace by abandoning the whalebone corset look with horror on the restoration of a rigid constricting medium which rendered the natural form of the woman ridiculous in appearance, and so impaired the functioning of the organs of digestion and generation as to produce immense harm, great discomfort, and disease in many various and insiduous forms. Those of us who have had the supreme advantage of spending a holiday on the Cote d’Azur and watched graceful women clad in such a limited

costume that every movement of their bodies can be observed, recognise how much woman has gained by overcoming that hideous nightmare, Airs Grundy. Women now share with men their freedom of action and physical enjoyment. They can join in all those exercises and sports which were originally only advisable to men, and can regard with disgust and dred any attempt on the part of fashion ‘authorities’ to force them to wear Victorian abominations. Women have every right to their own intellectual standpoint; the same applies to their physical development. ‘Women never, never shall be slaves.’ Let that be their battle cry. The women of all nations are recognising this great movement. All those intciested in th-? health and happiness of ovr girls, and of our manhood, wish them every possible success. The effort to secure physical improvement in women is one of the greatest movements of the age.”