SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 4

SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

At the performance of “.Nobody’s Daughter” fn t-lie audience I noticed: Misses Nolan (2), Mr and Mrs Frank Barker, Mr and Mrs John Murphy, Mr and Mrs Harry do Lautour, Dr and Mrs Williams, Dr. and Mrs Scott, Mrs and Miss Hinc, Mr and Mrs Fenwick, Miss and Mrs H. Evans, Mr and Mrs Walter Barker, Mr and Mrs W. .H'. Smith, Mrs and Miss King, Mr and Mrs Buscke, Misses Cook (Christchurch), Davies, Williams, Black (2), Mr and Mrs E, H. Mann, Mr and ~_rS R. U. Burke, Mr and Mrs W. McCredie. Mrs Randall Sherratt is back from Hawke’s Bay. Mrs Fred Palairet has returned from a visit to Christchurch and Mastsiton. Mr and Mrs Harry de Lautour will shortly leave to take up their residence in Auckland. Miss F. Lewis is visiting her sister, Mrs Murray, New Plymouth. Miss Hilda Sherratt returned from Auckland this week. Mrs C. J- Bennett returns from her visit to Wellington on Wednesday. Mrs Buscke returned from Napier on Wednesday. Miss Freda Davies’s marriage takes place next week. Mrs Charles Scott returned on Wednesday from Hawke’s Bay, accompanied by her sister Mrs Carlson. Miss Elsie Taylor returned to Gisborne this week. The engagement is announced of Mass Flora Hannay, daughter of Mr and Mrs TV. M. Hannay, Wellington, and Dr. Gavin Forrest, of East Oxford, Canterbury, •Small wonder that golf is growing in popularity, especially with women. The official handbook issued in London says: —-Golf being a game for two or more, and playable by both sexes of ail (reasonable) ages, it obviously lends itself to flirtation, to serious courtship, and to matrimony. A woman in Philadelphia has burnt her house down in trying to rid it of a plague of mosquitoes. She was completely successful, at the first attempt.

A distinguished Swiss physician has come to the conclusion that too much sleep is just as had as too much food. More than eight hours for healthy people -who work with their brain is, generally speaking, too much, he says, although he, of course, admits that no rule as' to the amount of sleep necessary for adults can be laid down. People who work hard physically require much more sleep than mental workers. Many people look forward to a- holiday as a time when they can sleep as much as they like; but, according to this physician. the benefit of a holiday may be spoiled by sleeping too much. Five hours of good, refreshing sleep in holiday time, especially in high altitudes, is quite enough.

was weading an —aw —account of a woman being gored to death by a beastly cow. doncher know,’' remarked young Dudleigh. "AYoally, I can’t imagine a more howwible affair, can

you, Miss Caustique?” “No Mr. Dudleigh," replied Miss Caustiquc, with a mighty yawn, ! ’unless it is being bored to death by a calf!'’

In the Bahamas there is only one professional woman, Miss Mary Moseley, who is editor of the newspaper, ns well as Government Printer. She reports the debates in the local House of Parliament, and lias a recognised seat just behind the members. AH the printed documents, laws, etc., bear her name ‘‘Mary Moseley," as Government Printer.

When she could go home to live if she chose,-tlie home-maker finds that she has made her home in the great north-west, and that she no longer wants to leave it, says an English writer of.her countrywomen who emigrate to Canada, and the remarks apply to Australia, too.. If she goes back to England she finds it small and overcrowded, finds herself of no importance, and nobody greatly needing her. Tlie old conventions have grown irksome. In the air there is les* hope, as well as less ozone, and slw feels stifled, body and mind. She has made her home, and she has changed herself in tlie making.

For the first time in the history of the American Medical Association a woman was elected as vice-president of one of the sections at a recent congress in Atlantic City. Dr. Rosalie

Morton was the woman so honored, and she presided at the section on preventive medicine and.health.

One of tho most important posts in the New' York Bureau of Municipal Investigation and Statistics is at the present time held by a woman, Mrs Mathilda Coffin Ford. As examining inspector of the School Finance Department she has the sole control over the expenditure of £8,000,000 yearly. Not a dollar may be given out by the Board of Estimates until she has looked into the proposed expenditure and studied the possible educational results. Mrs Ford also chooses and buys the sites for new school buildings, fixes compensation for all employees of the Department of Education (excepting teachers), and keeps track of all funds and accounts. Backing her judicious administration of school finance she has years of experience in school work, having risen from an ordinary school teacher to this responsible position.

A League of Politeness has been formed in Paris by Madame d’Albert, a prominent member of the Peace Society. The five commandments of the league which has enlisted the sympathy of all classes, from duchesses to cabmen, are:

(1) Contribute your own share of politeness. (2) Become an apostle of politeness by being courteous in word and manner wherever you are l .

(3) Nourish nothing but good feeling for your neighbor. (4) Do not do unto others, etc. (5) Wear a badge wherever you can to show' that you are a member of the league.