SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3720, 4 January 1913, Page 9

SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

The Poverty Bay Ladies’ Club intend increasing their membership. At present they occupy a room off the Tea Rooms, where from 9 n.m. to 8 p.m. members may meet their friends and rest and write letters. Formerly these advantages were only offered to friends of existing members, whose hemes were outside Gisborne. It has now been decided to send invitations to ladies residing in or near rhe town. The President is Mrs A. : H. "Wallis, the vice-president Mrs Jex-Blake, and the committee consist of Mesdames H. White, Henderson, Murray, Field, and Mrs Field, Hon. secretary.

The engagement is announced of Miss Bertha Miles, second daughter of Mr and Mrs A. H. Miles, of Wellington, to Dr. Hughes Steele, of London. Mr and Mrs Raymond "White, of 1 ukemokihi station, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, were staying at the Gisborne Hotel during the Christmas holidays. Miss Schumacher is the guest of Dr and Mrs Carlyle Wilson. During the Christmas holidays Mr. * manager of the Bank of cilusia, Auckland, was the guest of Mr and Mrs Xor man Symes, Te Jxaraka. Mr and Mrs George Stock left for .h aikaremoana on Thursday. , Miss Hilda Sherratt's wedding takes pjace at tiie end of the month. Her bridesmaids will be Miss Kate Slierratt and Miss Coupier, of Napier. A most dainty afternoon tea was dispensed at the Whatanpoke. Tennis Courts last Saturday The hostesses were Mrs Paris, .Mrs Fenwick, and Miss Booth. Great interest was centred in the East Coast Tennis Tournament, which took place at Christmas time. Mr. Reginald Ludbrook is to be congratulated on winning the singles, and also the mixed doubles along with Mrs Ken Williams . All the games were most keenly contested. Mesdames Field, Winter, and Murray gave a most delightful picnic at the Ormond Quarry on New Year’s Day. The weather was ideal for tlie outing. Miss Graham, of Queensland, is visiting Mrs Pascor, Stout Street. Mrs Stanley Reid, of Tuparoa, is the guest of Mr and Mrs C. P. Davies, ••Wairere,” Kaiti.

Mrs C. A. de Lautour had a most delightful Christmas party for children on the afternoon of December 25. Mrs Wallis on the following Friday also entertained a large number of children. Mrs "William Busby and Miss Busby of Tokomaru Bay, are' visiting Mrs Davis Canning, Hawke’s Bay. Mr T. S. Williams, of Tuparoa, entertained 40 people at dinner on New Year’s Day, and during the afternoon the guests took part in a tennis tournament. Mr and Mrs G. Palairet, of Harris Street, Kaiti, were the guests of Mr and Airs W. Branson, Fairfield, during the Christmas holidays. • : I thought it better to get you something useful,” said Mr Dobb to his wife, ‘‘"so I have bought you a couple of good brooms for vour Christmas present.” “That was very thoughtful of you, my dear,’’ replied Mrs Dobb. “I shai'e your ideas, and have bought a good, strong coal-scut-tle for you to carry up coals from the cellar in.” Mrs A. D. Winship, a student at the University of Wisconsin, can claim the distinction of being the oldest ■'college girl” in the world. She entered upon her college career two years ago at the age of 78, and looks forward to taking her degree in 1914. Almost as long as she can remember, her ambition was to go to college and “do things,” but her desire was thwarted time and again. At tlie present time she is deriving the greatest- pleasure fi'om her belated college days and enters into the life of the university with as keen a zest as that of any girl graduate.

TRUE CULTURE. The highest culture is to speak no ill, The best reformer is the man whose eyes Are quick to see all beauty and all worth; And by his own discreet, well-ordered life. Alone reproves the erring. When thy gaze Turns in on thine own soul, be most severe.' But when it falls upon a fellow-man Let- kindness control it; and refrain From that belittling censure that springs forth •From common lips like weeds from marshy soil. THE ORIGIN OF SCANDAL.—Anon Said Mrs A. To Mrs J. In quite a confidential way, ‘lt seems to me That Mrs B. Takes too much— something in her tea,’ And Mrs J. To Mrs K. '-Hint very night was heard to say She grieved to touch Upon it much, But ‘Mrs B. took—such and such! Then Mrs C. Went straight away

And told a friend the self-same day, ' Twas sad to think’— Here came a wink — ‘That Mrs B. was fond of drink.’ The friend’s disgust Was such she must Inform a lady ‘which she xnxssed,’ ‘That Mrs B. At half-past three, Was that far gone she couldn’t see.’ This lady we Have mentioned, she Gave needle-work to Mrs 8., And at such news Gould scarcely choose But future needle-work refuse. Then Mrs 8., As you’ll agree. Quite properly—she said, said she, That she would track The scandal back To those who made her look so .black. Through Mrs Iv And Mrs J. (She got at last to Mrs A. And asked, her why. With cruel lie. She painted her so deep a dye. Said Mrs A. _ In some dismay, ‘I no such thing could ever say: ( 1 said that you Much stouter grew On too much sugar—which you do !’