THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 195, 22 September 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Miss Lewis (Hawkc's Bay) is staying at Warner's. Mr and Mrs H. Acton-Adams (Tipapa) are at Warner's. Mr and Mrs George Hamilton, Orari, are in Christchurch, and are staying at Warner's.

Sir George McLean and Lady McLean ■were passengers for Wellington by the ferry steamer last night. Miss Rita Roach (Christchurch) is spending a few weeks' holiday with friends in Wellington.

Miss Ruth Anderson, of this city, left Wellington by the Manuka last week for Sydney, route for Ceylon,

Dr and Mrs Beresford Maunsell (Rotherliam) came into town yesterday, and are at the Clarendon. Miss Turton, who has been spending the last few weeks with Wellington friends, arrived in Timaru on Saturday. Mrs Alex. Macfarlane (Achray) and Mrs Walter Macfarlane (Kaiwara) ar3 in Christchurch, and are staying at Warner's.

Miss Poppy Simson, Auckland, who has been the guest of Dr. Jessie Maddison, Christchurch, returned to the North by last night's ferry steamer. Mr and Mrs Macfarlane, late of 111vercargill, who have been staying at the Clarendon for the last few days, left last night for Wellington, en route to their new home at Nelson.

Mrs L. F. Ellis, of London, late of the Gordon Downs Estate, Nelson, arrived in New Zealand by the Remuera, and is at present staying with her sister, Mrs T A. Aldridge, in Auckland. Mrs Ellis intends to visit the Dominion's scenic resorts before returning to London some months hence. Our Akaroa correspondent writes:— Mrs and Miss Seth-Smith have returned to Christchurch, after a holiday in Akaroa.' Mrs Howard Jacobson has( returned to Akaroa, after visiting friends in the North Island. Miss Westenra has returned to AkaToa, after spending a long holiday in Otago and South Canterbury. -

Miss E. Westenra returned home on Saturday, after a short holiday in Christchurch with friends.

Miss-Passmore, the Dunedin artist, who has just returned after a nine months' trip to Britain and the Continent, where she visited all the principal galleries and salons, left the Homeland on July 24, early enough to avert the upsetting of her sailing arrangements, but not early enough to avoid an anxious trip. Travelling on the P. and O.' steamer Maloja, states a Dunedin exchange, she and her fellowpassengers heard the first: news of the war at Marseilles. A wireless message called the Maloja into Brindisi, and while the vessel was in the vicinity of Brindisi the fugitive German cruisers Goeben and Breslaiu passed bv a quarter of a mile away. For twelve nights the passengers spent the night with lights out, and Miss Passmore states that it was positively eerie on going on deck after the first night of "lights out" to find the lifeboats swung out ready for launching at a moment's notice. Not until they reached Perth did the passengers breathe freely. A very favourite mode this season is the wearing of a narrow velvet ribbon tied closely around the base of the throat—which so many women wear in the fallacious conviction that the narrow circle of ribbon keeps their throat more protected from a sudden chill!— and this narrow necklet is adorned either with a tiny hanging jewel or with a single blossom of soriie flower fashioned from taffetas, says an English exchange. Some of these flowers »are so exquisitely made that they themselves look like line jewels, and only very expert eyes can'detect the difference between the silken flowers and those formed of precious stones. Sometimes, again, the entire necklet is formed of these tiny blossoms —mostly in this case fashioned from such blossoms as forget-me-nots, single lilac flowers, and such diminutive blooms made from very narrow "baby" ribbon. The ingenuity of the makers of such trifles is amazing. It is truly most difficult to avoid mistaking them for very delicate and intricate jewellery. But it is as if Dame Fashion were making fun of us all, for those same blossoms that were so fashionable worn upon hats some seasons ago are now entirely eschewed by the great milliners, and are not even now seen upon the headgear of infants — which was the use to which they had been put when they were first invented.

A Paris correspondent, writing just before the declaration of war, says: — "People you meet are chary about

making too many plans for the immediate future, ami when you talk about the country they have a knack of saying: 'Yes, I shall stay there till ,' or 'Yes, we shall go down there unless .' But these things are said with a little smile, and though the doctors are working very hard, most of the certificates they are being bothered to give are to the effect that Darand and Dubois have" nothing really serious the matter with them. I see 110 signs of shirking. Business men are telling their clerks that 'their places will be kept open for them if .' Men are arranging that tlieir wives and children had better go in case . But all these things are done quite quietly and in order; there is no excitement, there are no wild arguments, and when a friend introduces you to a friend-of his as 'Mr So-and-So, an Englishman,' they smile, and the handgrip of your new acquaintance is particularly warm."