SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 5

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs J. A. Young, accompanied by her daughter Iris, left yesterday for Auckland.

Mrs H. Beeche and her daughter are visiting Auckland and Ilelensville.

Mrs J. Hooper and Miss M. Hooper returned to Hamilton yesterday after some weeks spent in Wellington.

Mrs Kembler, of Te Rapa, is spending a holiday at Milford.

Miss Wynn Manning returned to Auckland yesterday, after spending a few days in Hamilton.

Mrs Hurd-Wood Is a Hamilton visitor to Auckland.

Mrs Cavanagh, of Ngaruawahla, Is staying in Auckland.

Miss F. Balin, of Christchurch, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs H. Caro, River Road.

Miss Meg. Kissling arrived from Auckland to-day, and is the guest of Mrs Colin Taylor, River Road.

Mrs Clothier, of Claudelands, is spending a few weeks at Cheltenham.

Mrs E. R. Klingender, of Morrinsville, is staying at Beach House, Milford.

Mrs A. H. Tompkins leaves this week for a short visit to Palmerston North before going on to New Plymouth.

Mrs Runciman, who has been returned to the British House of Commons for St. Ives, was on the first list of women magistrates, was the first woman member of the Newcastle-on-Tyne School Board, and has always taken an active interest in politics, besides being the first woman to sit in the House at the same time as her husband.

The Queen of Afghanistan, who has been touring in Europe, pioneered the movement for women's emancipation and education in her own country. Despite bitter antagonism from Mohammedan subjects, she founded a school where girls are brought up on European principles. Girls numbering 800 attend the school, which is directed by the Queen’s mother.

Mr Michael Aden, a best-seller author, widely known in social circles of London, Paris and the Riviera, is about to marry. His bride is Mdlle. Atalania Mercati, daughter of Count Mercati, who was Chamberlain of the late King Constantine of Greece. The famous author of the “Green Hat” is an Armenian, his future wife a Greek, so boLh arc members of the Greek Church, and will be wedded according to its very picturesque rites. Mdlle. Mercati is an excellent sportswoman, and quite, lives up to the fair goddess, licet of foot, after whom she was named: She is an expert tennis player, dancer, and skater, small, dark, vivacious, fluent of tongue in no less than five languages.