Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 204, 30 August 1943, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Lorraine Young is spending a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. R. N. Campbell is a Wanganui visitor to Rotorua. Mrs. L. Duigan and her daughter, Mrs. Barton, are Wellington visitors to Wanganui. Mrs. A. Walker has returned to Wanganui from Palmerston North. Mrs. G. Harold Hean, Lower Hutt, is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. T. Gilbertson, Wanganui East. Mrs. L. Guy and Miss R. Barnes, of Ngaio, Wellington, are visiting Wanganui and are staying at Foster’s Hotel. Mrs. Wallace Strachan and Miss Locheen Strachan are spending a lew weeks’ holiday in Rotorua and Auckland. Miss Betty Goldsbury left at the week-end to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Basketball Association in Wellington as the Wanganui Association’s delegate. Mrs. R. Kenneth Marley, Matai, Gisborne, has returned to Wanganui after visiting Waitara and Wellington, and is the guest ot her mother, Mrs. A. Pidgeon, Ingestre Street. Mrs. Marley is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Pamela Marley. Mrs. T. W. Satterthwaite, of Elizabeth Street, Timaru and Mrs. Eric Spain, of Auckland, are visiing Wanganui as the guests of Mrs. S. M. Satlerthwaite. Miss B. Spain, who was also Mrs. Satterthwaite s guest, was married on Saturday to Lieut. M. Davidson, 3rd. N.Z. Division, who recently arrived from the Pacific. HITHER AND THITHER. Aramoho Branch W.C.T.U. Mrs. Chesswas presided at the meeting of the Aramoho branch of the Women's Christian Temperance held in St. David’s Church on August 27. Mrs. Wellard led the devotions. Arrangements were made for the womens franchise jubilee celebrations to be held next month. Delegates to the district convention to be held in October will be appointed at next month’s meeting. Aramoho Union will be the hostess-es for the convention. A letter was read from a soldier who had received a parcel. Mrs. Suddaby served afternoon tea. AMERICA’S “FIRST LADY.” Though Mrs. Roosevelt holds the unofficial title of “First Lady” of the United States by virtue of being the wife of the President, she is, unlike the wives of most of the earlier Presidents, an outstanding public personality in her own name. When she first moved to the White House nearly 11 years ago, she was told that it was unseemly for the President’s wife to take an active part in public life. Her spirited reply was that every American woman was entitled to live her own life and engage in whatever activities she was capable of pursuing. She refused to be penalised by the accident of her husband’s position. And she won her point.

Mrs. Roosevelt was married to Franklin D. Rosevelt, her sixth cousin, in 1905, and spent the next 10 years raising a family of five children. She is a tireless traveller and thinks nothing of making half a dozen public appearances, including speecnes, each day. She writes her daily syndicated newspaper column wherever she happens to be. Her column is a simple, homely diary of her daily activitieswhom she met, what they said, what hooks she read and homely observa-

tions about the way the war is goin; and about other important events.

In October last year she visited Britain to sec how the women were standing up to the war and how they were helping in the nation’s effort. She visited bombed areas, munition factories, the poorer districts, welfare hostels, manufacuring centres and everywhere won great popularity. .LEAGUE CLUB PROJECT FOR EMPIRE OFFICERS The Duchess of Devonshire, chairman of the London executive committee of the Victoria League has written to the Wanganui branch of the league concerning a project for establishing a league club in London for Empire officers. Her letter was read to members at a recent meeting by the president, Mrs. N. R. Bain. The club could be converted into a residential league club for Empire visitors to London after the war, the writer said. It would specially be useful for young people and students who would go to England without connections in the country and who needed the right place in which to stay. It had been suggested that the Gertrude Drayton Memorial Fund might be put to this purpose. (Miss Drayton, the London secretary, was killed in a German bombing raid). The money in the fund was only a fraction of the amount that would be required. £15,000 being needed to establish and run the club during the war, but, the Duchess said, it should be self-sup-porting after the war. The London committee strongly that leagues overseas would like to have a personal share in such an undertaking.

The Wanganui league was thanked for its wonderful generosity to the headquarters league and its club for servicemen in Britain.