SUCCESSFUL DANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 2

SUCCESSFUL DANCE

ST. JOHN'S TENNIS CLUB. Following on a successful opening of the courts for the new season, the St. John’s Tennis Club held a jolly dance in the Victoria Hall on Saturday evening when there was a large attendance of dancers. The members of the social committee were Aliases E. Gillies (convener), M. Stansleld, M. Glover, O. Glover, 1. Alaule, Margaret and Alary Purcell, Messrs. Beadle (2), L. Smaller, V. Fennell, G. Laing, J. Finlayson and G. Harris. Supper, served on tea wagons, was an enjoyable item of the evening and the musical numbers played by the orchestra were appreciated by the dancers. Air. G. Pownall, president of the Wanganui Tennis Association, was pre-

Among those present were: —Mrs. J. Coull, wearing coral matalasse with posy of blue Howers; Airs. AL B. Hirst, chevron striped black cotcle with touches of red; Airs. W. Ralph Brown, black lace and georgette; Airs. I’. a Stott, gold matalasse; W. Stodart, pink check organdie; Airs. E. Quinn (Dun- 1 edin), black satin; Airs. 1. J. Howell, l orange pebbled crepe; Airs. Fennell, floral crepe de chine; Airs. A. D. Mur- i nane, orange crepe do chine; Airs. R. t Cook, burgundy red crepe de chine; Misses E. Gillies, pink organdie with J touches of blue black ring velvet wrap; i E. Beadle, cherry ottoman with touches t of green; K. Harris, green georgette, L apple green velvet coatee; 1. Alaule, 1 daffodil velvet; Pat Gallaher, ivory s crepe and lace, sequin scarf; I. Glover, v blue floral georgette; V. Piper, lemon A sprigged taffeta; Al. Benefield, cherry s velvet; AL Henderson, primrose taffeta; s J. Penberthy, flame ring velvet; K. Wilson, delphinium blue lace and vol- c vet coatee; A. Reynolds, ivory lace and i georgette; Alargarct Purcell, cherry c and white organdie; E. Miuehan, black ( crepe de chine; Alary Purcell, pink and } white organdie; W. Freeman, rose pink j matalasse; E. Wilkie ( Wellington), t parchment lace, red velvet coatee; | Paynter (Wellington), evening ensem- ( ble in plum crepe de chine; AL Alac- j donald, black rippled crepe; F. McKin- , non ivory taffeta, green velvet jacket; < P. Ryan, pale pink novelty patterned < faconne velvet; J. Stroud, cherry red net with sequin trimming, sequin cape; ; Q. Ansley, floral dimity voile; I. Gray, j pale pink matalasse; F. Henry, rose ; pink satin; Alolly Robson, cherry and ( white, check taffeta, with butterfly bow; Shirley Kilner, amber gold satin; G. Parsons (Palmerston North), lemon ] floral organdie; B. Alcßrearty. carnation windswept satin; Al. Hedditch, green crinkled satin with sequin trimming; G. Pepper, blush pink chenille georgette; I. Siddall, pastel patterned satin lustre; D. Winter, deep blue floral taffeta; A. Waters, primrose sprigged ( taffeta; E. Pepper, tartan taffeta; K. AlcGrail, deep rose-pink cire lace; D. Cox, plaid taffeta; A. Pepper, pink 1 floral organdie; D. Barnes, lilac taffeta; K. W«atcrs, pale pink embossed velvet; ■ N. Waters, green lace; E. Alurch, floral ninon in autumn tones; Al. Stansfield, 1 moss green inarocain; L. Goldsmith, pink windswept satin trimmed with sequins; G. Allpress, pink satin, black 1 satin coatee; H. Trainor, caraniel cire 1 lace; Alorda Peek, arcadian green gcor- 2 gette with narrow ruched panels. Alessrs. H. Cox, G. and C. Beadle, 1 Rogers (3), E. Brown, A. Ross, W. - Stodart, Af. B. Hirst, K. Hounsell, P. Aliller, J. Washer (Hawcra), F. Purcell, < L. Farmer, T. J. Howell, Fronde (Dun- 1 ediu), B. Poole (Palmerston North), W. Ralph Brown, F, Stott, E. Quinn 1 (Dunedin), J. E. ATarshall, Howes, R. i

Cook, A. D. Murnane, 8. Hanton, Sievewright, Carlton, C. Elliot, H. Stevens, I. McNeil, R. Nelson, Merrington, K. Smith, D. Jannings, B. Bern, H. Earles, W. Caldwell, Gunderson, H. Bain, W. Mitchell, H. Smith, P. Crawford, J. Gordon, Tovey. NEW IDEAS ALL HAVE THEIR PAST. There is nothing new under the sun, and things and iueas only appear new after being forgotten for a space of time and rediscovered. And, because these rediscoveries are made by a generation which has only the essemialb in common with the one which made the last discovery, they naturally assume a different personality, says an English writer. Life becomes a iar more amusing and interesting adventure when we can read in the picturebooks of the past of the same old problems that we are facing to-day, slightly changed because the people who coped with them had not the same standards that we have. But, as they surmounted most of their difficulties, so shall we. History repeats itself. Banks may fail, countries may come off or go on gold standards, thv amazing system of stocks and shares may die and be reborn like the Phoenix, but even financial run does not in the long run make much difference to the root of human nature. Finance is like the froth on the sea, and beneath it is the real thing—the desire to live and to create something which make life pleasant. And the funny part about it is that we are always making the same things, and going back to the same old ideas’ It is not very long since the most delightful birds and beasts made of rubber, capable of being inflated, appeared in the shop window, and were considered entirely new and a splendid means of teaching children to swim. The rather pampered modern child goes into the sea to-day on the back of a fantastic scarlet duck, and battles with the waves, learning to dominate his own fear by trusting something which he canot understand, and modern parents think this a new as well a good way of teaching swimming and self-reliance. Vet Shakespeare speaks of ‘‘little wanton boys wbo swam on bladders,” and on certain stone carvings in the British Museum, executed many hundreds of years before Christ, we sec man crossing a river on the air-filled skins of sheep. When we have brought things to perfection, we appear to get a little tired of them and we go back to the old ones. It took the Saxons hundreds of years to think of removing the hearthstone from the cefltre of the room to the side and making an open fireplace. By degrees the fireplace became the most important thing in palace and cottage, and the grate was raised from the ground in order to give more heat. Now*, in modern houses, we are going back to the flat hearthstone and doing away altogether with the grate; and

they are burned on one aide anl frozen on the other, gas and electric fires which can be moved about to any part of the room have been invented. But the Greeks and Romans had movable fires; the brazier is a very old means of heating. The Romans had hot-water radiators, too.

So-called new thought is perhaps the I oldest of all. People have said, and made, the same things since the begin- ' ning of civilisation, but whereas in the 1 past only a few people profited by I these wonderful discoveries, they are ! now within the reach of almost every- I body. Family instinct combined with personal virtue and talent keep the world balanced—not the value of the franc or the