SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 179, 1 August 1932, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss V. Gibson, of New Plymouth, is visiting Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. J. P. Clark. Miss Betty Thced and Miss Helen Wood, of Marton, are visiting Ha worn. * * * * Mrs. Greenwood has been spe i Hug a week in town with her daughter, Mrs. A. D. Brodie. Miss D. Seed, of Khandallah, spent the week-end in Wanganui as the guest of Mrs, James, St. John’s Hill. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ashwell, of Stratforu, who have been visiting Wanganui aud Wellington, have returned to their home. Miss Beryl Lowrie.-of Marton, was the guest of Mrs. A. Coleman for the Stratford golf ball. » « * «• Mrs. Dabinett left Wanganui on Friday for Auckland, to meet her daugh* ter, Mrs. Porter, of Tasmania, who arrives on Tuesday on a holiday visit to New Zealand. * * « « Mrs. McLeod, Miss MacLeod and Messrs MacLeod (2), who motored to Wanganui for the MacLeod-Chapman wedeug, visited the Chateau, Tongariro, at the week-end, on their return to Whangarei. * * * » Miss Susan Tolhurst, the Australian lady golf champion, who spent a brief holiday in New Zealand on her way back to Australia from England, left by the Maunganui for Sydney on Friday. • ♦ » • • The death which has occurred at Taihoa of Mrs. Elizabeth Gould, at the age of 86 years, recalls the sinking of the steamer Wimmera, which struck a mine off the north-coast of New Zealand on the morning of June 25, 1918, when on route from Auckland to Sydney, 26 lives being lost. Mrs. Gould left the ship in the last boat, having insisted that the younger passengers should be given first chance. ENJOYABLE AFTERNOON A 4 ‘snowball” afternoon was given by Mrs. R. Tizard, at her home, Upper Aramoho on Friday, in aid of St. David’s Church. Bowls of violets, wattle and other spring flowers made charming decorations in the rooms. Much appreciated songs were given by Miss Elsa Hall and Mrs. Walker and a competition held during the afternoon was won by Mrs. C. R. White. Among those present were: Mesdames Simpson, Murdock, C. R. White, Marsh, Tizard (senr.). North. Morrow. Brailsford, Weir, Gregg, J. Smith, Thompson, Walker. Corps, Misses E. Hall and B. Stoddart. SCOTTISH SOCIETY DANCE Another very large attendance of dance was recorded at the Lyric Hall, when the Wanganui Scottish Society held their Saturday night dance. The floor was in splendid order and dancing was much enjoyed. Mr. Peter Bennett’s Orchestra played excellent dance music for the old-time and modern dancing, and special features were the novelty dances. Tables for euchre players were set out in the Jockey Club rooms where a large number of card enthusiasts assembled. MOTHERS OF TO-DAY Speaking in London recently, Mrs. Wintringham, of Louth, said the pre-sent-day mother was much more a companion to her daughter than formerly. “As for the present-day grandmothers,” she added—“well, in my young days our grandmothers used to sit knitting in a corner with a shawl over their shoulders, waiting for their end. To-day we hear of grandmothers flying Channel and playing golf and tennis with their daughters and granddaughters. ’ ’ THE FEMALE INTELLECT Following exhaustive researches into the mental powers of hundreds of ' school girls and their mothers, professors of the Department of Psychology ! of the University of Jena have reached the conclusion that women cannot calculate. When confronted with abstract ' mathematical problems, the female in- ' tellect, they assert broke down completely. On the other hand, in making 1 up accurate household budgets tPnd in other practical matters of everyday life-, women’s far surpassed mon.