SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, 29 October 1948, Page 7

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. A. McPhail St. John’s Hill, left yesterday for a visit to Rotorua. Mrs. J. Mackenzie. 1' Khankallah, is visitmg her mother. Mrs E. B. Cooke, Oakfand Terrace, St. John's Hill. To-Day’s Jumble Sale. A reminder is given of the jumble sale to be held to day in Trinity Church Sunday School Room from 19.30 to 2.30. There will be produce, fancy goods and used clothing. Carnival Concert and Dance. A good night’s entertainment is assured for tomorrow when a grand carnival concert with dance to follow will be held in the Upokongaro Hall. Under the auspices of the Scots Memorial Hall, the entertainment is being sponsored by the Upokongaro residents to help this very worthy cause. Everything possible is planned lor the pleasure of patrons and the concert and dance should attract a large crowd. The programme is in the hands of Mrs. A. G. Chesswas, Okoia. Triumph Over Disability. Although she had both hands blown off above the wrists and one eye blinded in a laboratory explosion, Frau Marguerite Rose, of Hamburg, who visited Britain recently lor a six weeks’ course on democracy and the British way of life, has mastered her disability so completely that she can write neatly, use a complicated camera, ride a horse, and swim. Hetskill in adapting herself has been studied with interest by doctors and may help them in aiding British armless cases. Frau Rose had a Kruckenberg operation, which, by splitting the forearm, and complicated skin grafting, gave her two very thick fingers on each hand to which she can lit a number of ingenious adaptors. With these she can wash and dress herself, comb her hair, and darn stockings. She hopes shortly to learn to drive a car. She said she was given the choice of having this operation or artificial hands, but she chose the operation because, although the fingers look ugly, they are of more use for work.