NOTES AND NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 105, 9 June 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND NEWS.

Lady Ward is at present the guest of her daughter, Mrs B. B. Wood, of Fei&alton.

Turner (Timaru) is visiting fritoads in North Canterbury. ifeiss Laidlaw, who has been visiting ji£rs Cordner, Mansfield Avenue, has returned to Timaru. l£r and Mrs Herbert Perkins (Christehfflrch) are staying with Mr and Mrs Perkins, Grey mouth. ISr. Eleanor Baker went on to Ashbuiton yesterday. and Mrs A. re Courey Brown their family leave on Thursday for Atiitralia, where they will spend a

holiday. Hr and Mrs W. H. Nelson (Hawke's Baj), who have been visiting Christehnrch, have gone to Wellington, and are at-present staying at the Royal Oak. |&£rs Bean, Christchurch, is in Welliqjgton, and is staying, with her mother, Mi| Seddon. and Mrs George Paxil, who have feels visiting Christchurch and Wellinghave returned to their home at Aj&mutu. -

Miss May Palmer, who has been' away ' h soiio years, during which she had some extraordinary experiences while -nursing in; the war, is paying New Zealand a visit. She is at present a guest of the Misses Smythe, Hill Street, Wellington, Mrs Palmer is in London, and Clara Palmer is living in Rome. 1 An engagement is announced between Miss Eileen O'Hea, youngest daughter of Mrs O'Hea, " Inglecroft," Gisborne Street, Elsternwiek, and Mr Ernest John Denny, of Dunedin, New Zealand. —-Melbourne '' Punch.'' Mr and Mrs Maitland Congreve church) were amongst the New Zealanders shortly expected to arrive in London when the mail left. Others ■were liev. C. Mortimer »Jones, vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge; Mr and Mrs B. Chambers, _of Hastings; Mia, and the Misses Dobson, Nelson; Mrs and Miss Ritchie, Dunedin; Mr and-.* Mrs-and the Misses Lever, Wei-, ingtoti; Dr Walshe, of Thames Hos- , pital, and Mr» Walshe; Mr and Mrs Hazards and Miss K. Sherrat, Gisfeorae; Mr, Mrs aird the Misses Levett, Kitwitea; Mr, Mrs and Missr Woollams, Miss Maud Reynolds, of', Ofitgo; Mrs 0. Reid; Mr arid Mrs Pod--<Jie, and Miss, Winnie Miller, and Mrs M'Jost, of New Plymouth. Miss Sadie Broad, daughter of Mr Allan Broad, of I>unedin, is a young •vocalist of such it is proposed t6 arrange for her departure

for Europe to qualify for opera work. concert in her honour is mooted for next month. Miss Broad commenced her studies in music and , voice production under Miss Ray Jackson, and became a concert ?singer of considerable promise. From there went to Wanganui, sind; 'received tuition from Mr H. G. Hiornis, of London, who happened to be visiting

friends, in the North Island. A Dunedin ' paper states that, according to Mr Hiorns, Miss Broad has developed ' a phenomenal dramatic soprano voice, described by Mr Paul Dufault as one of the fcost he has heard. Yesterday the wedding was celebrated, at St. Michael's Church, of Mr .Lancelot LeCren Miles, son of the late Mr Cihayter Miles, of Timaru, and Miss Maud Beatrice Bruce, daughter of , the late Mr J. Stanley Bruce, of Palmer- ' ston North. The ceremony, which was •witnessed only by a few immediate friends, was pel-formed by Archdeacon Stacker. Mr Wright, of Oamaru, gave his niece away, and the maids of honour were Miss Florence Bruce (sister), and Miss A. C. Murray (cousin of the bride). Miss Nora Pemberton filled the role of flower girl in a dainty white ... dress, with pink sash and mob cap.-The kride looked extremely pretty in ivory erepe de shine, with the usual coronet of orange blossoms and long-tulle veil, and a shower bouquet of choice white ilflrwers. The maids of honour were in / pale pink crepe de chine arid smart black velvet hats, each carrying a bouquet of pale pink chrysanthemums. she bridegroom was accompanied by

Mr H. Hay hurst, of Temuka, as best * : njan, and- Mr Claud S. Bruce (brother the bride) as groomsman. After a reception in honour of the event Mr find Mrs Miles left for their honeymoon, the bride travelling in a cigarbrown costume with . saxe blue hat. 3he added a set of handsome black fox furs to her travelling outfit. .j . • '

"They lured her witlx chocolates and fell/' was the amusing explanation ol' the failure of Miss Beckey Edelson to maintain a hunger strike, says the New York correspondent of an English paper. Miss Edelson was a prominent in a recent demonstration of unemployed. She was arrested for making slighting remarks about the United States flag after the seizure of Vera jjETraz. The prison authorities placed in fier 'cells two boxes of the finest bonbons Slid a bottle of ice-cold milk. She nibibled at the bonbons and expressed surprise at their quality. The aroma of t>eef steak, toast, and soup in her cell Completed her surrender. She was released on bail pending her trial. She •ays that the hunger-strike, though very Inconvenient, will be adopted in future |>y all women Labour agitators. This month there are to be great festivities at VVelbeck Abbey, the home the Duke and Duchess of Portland, 'in celebration of their silver Avedding. Everybody connected with the estate 'ore to,share in the festivities, and it.is quite likely that the house party will hi elude their Majesties the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales and Princess '-Mary. Last Ai ril the p.on and heir of

the Duke and Duclxess of Portland, the Marquess of Titcheld, attained his majority and oue thousand guests were entertained at a ball. In commemoration of the silver wedding and as a tliankoffering for his son's coming of age, the duke has made inany benefactions in which every town and village in any way associated with Welbeck has shared. In the far-off times when stories first Vegan to charm the hearts of men, some wise seer, knowing more of life and its mysteries than his fellows, saw <,' re strange isolation of a soul, and, seeing, •veaved his observations into a sto-y, knowing well that wisdom will be che accepted of-all in that guise. And his wisdom is as fresh for us to-day as it was for the people who heard it ne.vsprung from his living lips. There are among us—and you must know them as I know them —fellow beings whose lives are set alone and apart, for that they j tie slow of communication, slow to set| | into the permanence of words the | thoughts which surge in their heuvs. Such a one may be a poet ill his thoughts, may possess a mind 'which is a storehouse of. lovely and gracious fancies—but, from his lips will issue duly the commonplaces of everyday utterance. In his eyes the understanding will see the shadow which the perpetual struggle leaves behind] the wistful wish to give life to the surging thoughts which are confined behind the impassible barrier of the lips.

% Some fine woods on Lord Seafield's Strathspey estate have been burnt, a tract about a mile long and half a mile broad, a part of the immense area planter: by the seventh earl, having been destroyed, says the "British-Austral-asian." The late earl planted in his lifetime more than six million trees, and the great pine forests of the Spey valley are a most valuable part of the estate. Lord Seafield's woodland possessions extend over sixty thousand seres, which are known to arboriculturists all over, the world. Lady Seafield is a New Zealander, formerly Miss Nina Townend, daughter of Dr J. T. Townend. She is a keen angler, and at Castle Grant has every opportunity ! to indulge in the sport, for Lord Seafield owns about seven miles of good water on the Spey, where Lady Seafield has recently been having some excellent fishing. Castle Grant is a wonderful old place. It is a real example of the •ancient Scottish stronghold, having I outer walls twelve feet thick. Inside there are curtains and hangings of the Grant tartan, in proper Highland fashion, and a ceiling decoratien of the Strathspey Fencibles, the regiment raised by the Grants, in Jaeobean times. Also the hall contains a fine collection of old armour. Last year Castle Grant was taiten for the shooting season by Lord; and Lady Portarlington. The latter is an Australian.

"Fashion freaks (according to an authority on the subject), are wrongly named; they should be called ' 'Bus fashions.' Every fashion is beautiful when it leaves the designer's hands. He spends months perfecting his design, and then he realises it on a beautiful woman, getting the particular effect he wants. This woman lunches at the Gafe de Paris in company with two of the smartest men in Paris, then drives off to the racecourse. She arrives when a crowd has gathered, looking like a queen—a queen of as she is. She parades for an hour, in which she is the cynosure of all eyesj and -by that time she has probably created the fashion. The new design is copied by .the world of dressmakers; but—and this is the beginning of the freak—it is seen in other countries on the basi3 of the repeated story; it is not the same as the beautiful model. Those who are out for notoriety, ami who have no reputation in fashion to lose, accentuate the lines until they become freaks. Then come the cheese coat, the muffin toque, or the tuppeny tube blouse, and each is called the fashion. But one swallow does not make a summer, and if a woman chooses to wear a paper basket for a hat, that does not make it a fashion. Then arrives the ' 'Bus fashion.' After looking at /these freakish pictures, fashion artists find it difficult to draw anything in which the business girl can alight from the 'bus which takes her to and from the daily toil. 'Let us make a 'bus fashion,' is flashed from some burning and shining light, and, behold, it is done. The slit skirt is a grand example. JFhe slit was the natural consequence of the tight skirt, and was introduced by some of the head coutouriers of Paris in order to give women room to walk, at the same time keeping the line at which they aimed. But when these skirts were slit there was no suggestion that tliey should be open. Underneath was either a layer of lace or two layers of chiffon, so as to give just a suggestion of the leg. It was the point, however, where the fast woman saw her opportunity and took it, while the cheap copyist, on the look-out for a saving in material, did without the frills. Instead of even having a sensible box pleat in the skirt, two or three inches of silk stocking are shown with cotton up above and below.''