SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 190, 13 August 1931, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs H. B. Willis was hostess at a de-! ightful bridge party on Tuesday, , j Miss Pamela Kiddiford, of Welling-i v on, returned from Honolulu by the; v Niagara on Monday. ! J Miss Freda Cleary is spending a few | lays with Mrs K. Campion, “ Okirae. ”i - Mrs C. .Robinson, oi London, who ar- a ived from .Sydney by the Sonoma, in-; \ ends touring the North and South Is-j t a nds. : 1 Rabbi S. Katz, who arrived by the ;] Niagara from Vancouver on Monday; o take up work in Wellington, will be' ( bllowed by Mrs Katz six months hence.! ( Mr W. J. Polson, M.P.. anil Miss ‘ Dorothy Polson (Stratford) are visiting / Jhristchurch. It was announced last month in Lou I lon that the marriage arranged be- I ween Lieutenant Walter Raymond < •’enton, R.N.R. (retd.), and Miss Cecily > ’’itzHerbert, would not take place. > ■ . . . - . ( Mrs H. W. Austin, Misses Izard, B. . A ilson, Messrs D. W. Earle, E. Handley, ?itts-Brown, and N. Meuli will repre- i >ent Wanganui at the annual badmin- t ;on tournament to be held at Welling- ( son in September. Mrs T. 11. Bavin, wife of the Leader i i if the Opposition in the New South Wales State Assembly, and Miss Bavin, I , arrived in Auckland by the Monowail 3n Tuesday to join the Port Fremantle: < for a nine months’ tour of England. |j Enjoyable Dance. Many people attended and thoroughly enjoyed the dance held last evening in < the Victoria League Rooms, the pro seeds of which were for the St. John ] Ambulance and the Castlecliff candi- . date in the Y.M.C.A. “popular boy’’ j contest. The Aotea Orchestra supplied the dance music. r Putiki Dance. A dance will be held in the Aotea , Hull, Putiki, this evening, in honour of the visiting Canterbury Rugby team. . Victoria League. Many of the younger set had great pleasure last winter in the charming', evenings arranged by the junior mem- ' jers of the Victoria League. The even- I ngs held during the last few months lave been equally enjoyable. An ‘open” night will be held to-morrow jvening (Friday), when the reading ■ •Linda,” by A. A. Milne, will be i laken. Members ami non members arc ; nvited to attend. Dance at Fordell. Invitations have been issued by the fordell branch of the Women's Divi- . don of the Farmers’ Union for a dance j to be held in the Fordell Hall on Tueslay, August 18. Collecting Playing Cards. J A Londoner has a quaint hobby. He collects complete packs of playing :ards, and his collection, which is beloved to be the finest i# the world, in- ' .dudes packs of all ages, shapes, and j lesigns. buifie oi them are extraurdin-| ( ?.rily beautiful, la place of the usual j icarto, clubs, spades and diamonds, one;, •ack of curly German origin has hearts, i jells, leaves, a.id acorns (states a Lon- | lon writer;. An Italian pack bears , 'pip- 1 im Miape of swords, batons, % .op-, and money, borne of the packs I , lave cuncme edges; others have lound- ! >1 ends. There are uls 0 a few examples j i»i tm? !:;otlc: u circular packs which j , owing p/.marily to the diHi’ A New Bathing Bag buck a useful leather bathing bag hn>. 1 made its appearance. It is lined'with j' i-roofed cotton, so that a wet bathingi ipp ;ci ix ie lamag • g the leather, .the inside of the flap,, which folds over to close the bag, is fitted tfith ordinary Handbag sections to hold powder, comb and money .and sheet of the cotton is pulled over it to protect it from the “Cheer Up” Ballet. Dance enthusiasts will no doubt be I pleased io learn that in response to numerous requests the Wright School of Dancing has decided to repeat at the ] Llrick this Friday evening the popular j ■•Cheer Up” ballet.—P.B.A. Women on Juries. Many otherwise intelligent women, who consider no service too great to perform in the interest of their homes, stubbornly refuse to serve their Government, which is home on a gargantuan scale, remarks f» New’ York writer. Justice Peyton Gordon, of the Supreme Court of the district of Columbia, reply ing to a request from the National Women’s Party that more women be used as jurors, says that a majority of women called to jury duty baulk at such service. .Refusal or evasion of duty which is the business of citizens to perform should be penalised by imprisonment or fine or both. Unless there is a valid reason justly excusing a woman from jury duty in communities which provide for women jurors the slackers . and evaders should be made to pav as iny other civil offender.