WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griffiths arrive I by the Auckland express to-morrow. 1 Miss Grierson, the fiancee of Captain Tuckey. accompanies them to Wellington, where she will be a guest of the Rev. Mr. Tuckey and Mrs. Tuckey. Mrs. Henry Blundell and Miss Aileen Blundcll and the two Messrs. Blundell leave on Friday week for Colombo, where Miss Blundell's marriage to Mr. Lavington takes place. Her residence will be for some months in Kandy, and in eight months Mr. Lavington will get a holiday, and they will take a trip to New Zealand. Mrs. Green and Miss Green, of Christchurch, and Mr. and Mrs. Case, of Lon- r don, are staying at the Grand Hotel. The Rev. Canon and Mrs. D. J. Garland are now residing at "Coo-ec," Up-land-road, Kelburne. At the monthly meeting of the Moral and Physical Plealth Society, held in the council room, Museum, on*l3th September. Dr. Platts-Mills will give a lecture on the "Separation of the Sexes and Teaching Sex-Hygiene in Schools." Mr. and Mrs. M'Laren, who came down for their son's wedding, returned to Auckland to-day. Mr. and Mrs. W. Peat (Wanganui), Miss Tilson (Wanganui), Miss O'Sullivan (Manutahj, Taranaki), Miss Hilda ' Whitford (Htmterville), and Mr and Mrs. Eobinson (Mailawatu) are staying at the Hotel Windsor. ' Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson will arrive from Patea to-night, and will stay at the Empire Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. Harold Moore, who have been stopping at the Empire Hotel, returned to Timaru last night. Staying at the Empire are : — Rev and Mrs. Drinkwater (Marton), Mr. and Mrh. W. Cox (Sydney), and Miss Irene West (Los Angeles). Mrs. Louis Whitcombe and her son went South last night on a short holiday. Mrs. J. Earle, Mrs. Duncan M'Kay, and Miss M'Kay have returned from a visit to Greytown. Miss Hilda Jensen, on the occasion of her 21st birthday on Monday, gave an evening party to all her young friends at her father's residence. Rowan Bank, Upper Dixon-street. An enjoyable evening was spent with progressive euchre, dancing, and singing. Miss Hilda Jensen and her mother, Mrs. V. Jensen, leave on Friday for Sydney on an Australian holiday trip. At tbe Primitive Methodist Church, Webb-street, the Carriage took place of Miss Mabel Willuma, daughter of Mrs. A. E. Lake, of Watson -street, to Mr. H. R. Thompson, bOn of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of Forest Gate, London. The bride, who was given away by her father (Mr. Lake), wore a pretty gown of white paillette silk, the fichu being finished with a white satin rose, the gift of a friend ., She wore the usual veil and orange blossoms, and carried a lovely American shower bouquet. Tbe bridesmaids were Miss Williams, sister of the bride, and Miss 0. Henderson, who wore dresses of cream silk crystalline, and large cream hats with floral crowns, and carried bouquets of pale pink azaleas. Miss Grace Lake, another sister, wlkk wore a pretty little cream silk Empire frock and peavl Juliet cap, was a third bridesmaid. She also carried a bouquet of pale pink azaleas. The bridegroom was attonded by Mr. Brabin, as best man, and Mr. J. Raine, as groomsman. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Potter and the Rev. Dawson. A reception was afterwards held at Godber's Rooms, Cuba-street, where the bride's mother received her guests, wearing a gown of brown paillette silk and hat to match, and carrying a bouquet of wallflowers. The honeymoon is being spent in the Nelson district. A wedding was solemnised ' at St. Mary's Church, Boulcott-street, on Wednesday last, 4th September, between Mr. John James Power, of Tauramunui, second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Power, of Taranaki, and Miss Catherine Mary Meager, second daughter of Mrs. A. Meager, of 77 Ghuznee-street. The Rev. father Herring officiated. The bride, who was given away by her brother, wore a pretty dress of ivory satin charmeuse, with tunic edged with pearl bugle fringe, and caught up at left side with large satin rose. The court train was trimmed with pearl embroideries and ruchings of silk, the bodice being draped with ivory tosca net, and pearl trimming. She also wore the orthodox wreath and Veil, and carried a large shower bouquet of azaleas, maidenhair fern, and freesias. She was attended by Miss S. Power, sister of the bridegroom, who wore a dainty frock of cream radianta, trimmed with siJk insertion, and a cream satin straw hat. Her bouquet was of cerise flowers and maiden,hair fern. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr. R. Power, as best man. The bride's mother wore a navy blue tailormade costume, and a black hat with large ostrich plumes, her bouquet being made of white flowers and maidenhair fern. After the ceremony a reception was held at the resi- j dence of the bride's mother, where a number of guests were entertained, the usual toasts being made. The happy couple left by the Palmerston train, en route for Auckland and Rotovua, where tlio honeymoon is being spent. The bridegroom's gift to tbe bride was a handsome gold bangle set with sapphires and diamonds, and to the bridesmaid a pretty spray bioocti of pearls and amethysts. The bride's gift to the bridegroom* was a gold albert chain. Mrs. IT. B. Mason held her pupils' dance last evening in her private hall in Glniznee-street, and.it was most successful. The supper tables were prettily decorated with violets and jonquils. Alter the marriage ' cernrtony at the ' wedding of Miss Doris Marks and Mr. Thomas M'Laren at St. Mark's yesterday. Mr. Marks and Miss Marks entertained a very large number of guests at Godber's Rooms. The I large apartment was set out with small tables, laid with refreshments, one long tabe at the upper end being centred by the handsome wedding-cake. Flowers were set everywhere. Sir Joseph Ward proposed the health, of the bridn and bridegroom, and Mr. M'Laren responded, Sir Arthur Guinness that of the bridesmaids, Mr. Edward M'Laren replying, and Mr. Arthur Myers that of the parents' of the bride and bridegroom, Mr. M'Laren, sen., and Mr. Marks making, in return, interesting speeches. At one of the tables was seated a little girl of fourteen, who, but for the bridegroom, would have drowned four years ago. Miss Marks's frock was of silver grey charmeuse, the apron tunic bordered with the new old-fashion-ed quillings of the satin. The hat. too, was of gtey satin. <*nd lovely touches of colour woie givon by the crimson ihyxsxi, i& tiifi kit ml jji Jjii jg|ifi«et. (

Mrs. M'Laren wore black silk, and a handsome, black and white crinoline toque, with black and white plumes. She carried a violet bouquet. Lady Ward wore black velvet and a beautiful white hat lined with black and massed with y/hite feathers. Lady Guinness was in a handsome shot blue and grey taffetas, with a black feathered hat. Mw. Seddon wore a long satin coat and a toque with plumes, and Mrs. Arthur Myers was in blue, k with a hat with blue plumes and lovely ermines. The bride's pretty travelling-gown was of saxe-blue cloth, and her blue hat had blue tulle and tiny pink roses. The present^ were numerous. A very handsome silver tea and coffee service was presented to the bridegroom by his colleagues in the . Bank of New Zealand, a silver entree dish from the Swifts Football Club, while the bride received, from her father's colleagues in the Government Printing Office, an artistic enamel and pewter rose-bow^ and from his fellow-officers in the House, a very luxurious travelling rug. Mi' 6. John Blttndell was hostess yesterday at a farewell tea to Mrs. Henry Blundell and Miss Blundell. Tho rooms were gay with flowers, the dining-table being specially beautiful with tall creamwhite double daffodils, and low glasses with white camellias and maiden-hair— giving an appropriate bridal touch to the decorations, in honour of Miss BlundeU'e approaching marriage. Refreshments were served, a number of Miss Blundell's girl friends assisting the hostess. Some delightful music was enjoyed— Mise Dall, Mies Helen Anderson, and Mice Nola Haybittle being listened to with pleasure, while Miss Blundoll's songs were much appreciated. Mrs. Blundell wore a handsome gown of black panne velvet, with fichu of beautiful lace. Mrs. Henry Blundell was in bkek, with a black hat and grey plumee. Miss Blundell wore a blue coat and skirt, and a becoming white felt hat, with a black aigrette. Mre. Beece wore blue, with a deep white eilk fringed collar. The Island Bay bachelors are giving a plain and fancy dress ball at the Island Bay, Town Hall on Friday, 20th September. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Strand, Lower Hntt, was celebrated on 6th September, about 36 guests being present as well as children and grandchildren. The Bey. Mr. M'Caw proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom in a congratulatory speech. Mr. Strand responded feelingly. Tea was served on pre^ily decorated tables. Mr. and Mrs. Strand received many gifts and telegrams. At Lyons a certain doctor claimed to have discovered, if not the elixir of youth, at least a method of restoring by subcutaneous injections the down and the dimples of youth to withered cheeks (v\ rites a Paris correspondent). It was not very long, of course, before ho found himself in tho Courta, sued for a thousand pounds by a lady of Lyons, in whose case his treatment had been only partially successful. Better that it had failed altogether, urged the lady, who found herself, co to speak, with, one cheek, in the sunshine of the thirties', and the othor in the ehade of her authentic fifty years. There was a mustoring of tho expert*, medical, of course, who decided that their colleague's treatment had produced no unfortunate results, either from the aesthe tic or the medical point of view. The Magistrate agreed with them, and the lady lost her case. She will bo wise henceforward to go through life turning .the other cheek— the successful one, of course.