NOTES AND NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 137, 16 July 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND NEWS.

Mr and Mrs Archer (Christchurch) are in Wellington at present. Mrs Bernard Wood is in Wellington for the races, and is staying at the Royal Oak with her parents, Sir Joseph and Lady Ward. Mrs Stratham and Miss Stratham, of Dunedin, are at present in Wellington. Mr and Mrs Elworthy (Timaru) are in Wellington for the festivities this week. Mrs Haslam (Christchurch) is visiting Wellington for the Reform League Conference. Mrs W. D. Stewart, "The Grays," Riccarton, is visiting Wellington for the Reform League Conference, and is the guest of Mrs Ernest Hadfield. Mr and Mrs F. Starkey left for Gisborne last evening by the Victoria. Miss Lewis-Bishop left for Wellington last night on a visit. Miss Townsend (Wellington), who has been visiting friends in Christchurch, f left for the North last night. Mrs Nosworthy and Mrs Wright (Ashburton) are giving a large bridge party on Friday (to-morrow). On Thursday morning Mr Edward John Beresford, of Napier, was married to Miss Fl<fw?nce Blanche Rouclier, of Christchurch. Mr . and Mrs Beresford subsequently left for Palmerston North. The members of the Presbyterian Bible Class at Lyttelton. presented Miss D. S. Williams with-a clock last evening, on the occasion of lier approaching marriage. The presentation was made by Miss B. Stenson, secretary of the Ladies' Bible Class. A wedding of Christchurch interest was celebrated at Tauranga recently, when the Rev. Bjtic Dudley Rice, vicar of Tauranga, and formerly curate in St. Luke's parish, Christchurch, was married to Miss Adelaide Maude •Samuel, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs Edward Samuel, of the Cliff, Tauranga. Though the hour of the ceremony was fixed at halfpast eight, the church and grounds were thronged with frieuds and parishioners. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. John Hobfts, vicar of IV Puke, and the service was fully choraL, Some really beautiful gowns were ■worn in the play "Preserving Mr Panmure," which was staged before a large and fashionable audience last night, j Mrs Panmure (Mi^^- , .-: : Hiy'-- : Bollestori) makes her first appearance in a lovely gown of nattier crepe, beautifully draped, and Miss Joseph Quarrender (Mrs W. H. Montgomery) years a Parisian confection of silver grey crepe de chine, the bodice cut with a deep draped fichu, and a delightful note of colour introduced in the long sash of the new shade of and green shoes and Blockings. Mrs Hebblethwaite (Mrs H. E. Marsh) had a lovely . gown of heliotrope crepe and satin over which she wore a long coat of flowered ninon. Besides the goVn mentioned above, Mrs Montgomery, as Josepha Quarrenden, displayed some other extremely charming gowns, all made in, the heaven of good dressers, Paris, including a heavy soft crepe de chine in daffodil yellow, sheathed to the figure as a daffodil petal clings to the half-opened bud. A border of ermine completed this elegant and graceful gown. Another was an afternoon frock of royal blue crepe of a new kind, soft as velvet. It was made with a slightly draped pannier, clinging to the figure, and had a girdle cf -it-sew shade of rose colour, between a tomato and a strawberry. A white hat, with a long feather —also from Paris —was worn. Mention must also be- made of the extremely smart coat, in the new Hussar shape, in biscuit cloth, lined with apple satin, which Mrs Montgomery donned with the last-mentioned toilette. Miss Ngaio Marsh, as Dulcie Anstice, appeared in the second act in a dainty frock of pale blue brocade, with a cunningly-arranged black sash. In the last act Mrs Montgomery appeared ii. a smart powder-blue tailor made costume with a checked t nic. Altogether the mounting of the play was exceptionally good, and the dressing, considering that almost every frock worn was from Paris, beyond criticism. Lady Isabel Gathorne-Hardy, who has just been appointed Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen, is the Earl of Derby's only sister; her husband, who is on the General Staff of the War Office, is brother to the Earl of Wanbrook. Princess Alexander of Teck, who is to go to Canada with her husband, the newly-appointed Governor-General, was Princess Alice of Albany, sister of the i present Duke of Saxe-Coburg and! Gotha, and a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. Her brother, the present Duke of Albany, succeeded to the SaxeCoburg dukedom ill 3900, after it. had been renounced by the Duke of Con naught and his heirs, upon whom it would have devolved. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha are two of the minor States of the German Empire and their duke is a reigning Sovereign. Hats are still nearly all small, but picture and sailor shapes are begiuning to edge their way in again (says the •'British-Australasian's" London letter). Silk, satin, and other materials still share an equal popularity with straw. Last year we saw a good <ical of the hat with a transparent crown of tulle. This year in one or two stage hats this negligible kind of crown lias disappeared, and given place to nothing more than a very elaborately done hair. The light brim looks like a fashionable lialo. A pretty French hat that promises to be popular is of the picture kind, of white straw on top and black ©r dark blue velvet beneath.

If any woman wishes to know if she is a perfect specimen of her sex she has only to apply to the rules laid down for ascertaining the fact, and figure out the results. First as to height; tastes differ, but the Medicean Venus is sft oin in height, and this is held by many sculptors and artists to be the most admirable stature. For a woman of sft sin, 13$lb is the proper weight, and if she be well formed she can stand another 101b without greatly showing it. When the arms are extended she should measure from tip of middle finger to tip of middle finger just sft Sin, exactly her own height. The length of her hand should be just a tenth of that, of her foot just a seventh, and the diameter of her chest a fifth. From the thighs to the ground she should measure just what she measures from the thighs to the top of her head. The knee should come exactly midway between the thigh and the heel. The distance from the elbow to the middle finger should be the same as the distance from the elbow to the middle of the chest. From the top of the head to the chin should be just the same as the length of the foot, and there should be the same distance between- the chin and the armpits. A woman of this height should measure 24in about the waist, and 34in about the bust if measured under the arms, and 43in if over them. The upper arm should be 13in round and the wrist Gin. The calf of the leg should be 14£ in, round the thigh 25in, and the ankle Bin. There is another system of measurements which says that the distance twice round the thumb should go once round the wrist; twice round the throat, once round the waist, and so on; but the first are the standards used by sculptors, who have gained them by measurements of the Green statues.