THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 242, 16 November 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mr ami Mrs Begg (Dunedin) are at present in Christchurch.. Mr and Mrs A. W. Rutherford have ■returned to Mendip Hills. Mr and Mrs Bennett (Dunedin) are staying at the Clarendon. Mr and Mrs Eric Eiddiford have rehirned to Wellington from Christchurch. Mrs E. B. Eoss and her daughter, Miss Mavis Ross (Woodville) are visiting .Wellington. Miss Harris .(Christchurch) is the guest of Mrs F. M. B. Fisher, Welling•ton., .......

■_'* Mr and Mrs E. 11. Rhodes and the 'Misses Ehodes motored back to Blue cliffs yesterday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Elworthy went 'down to Sumner on Saturday night, where they have taken a house. Mr and Mrs Woodward, who have been staying at Warner's, are returning to the north by to-night's boat. > Dr and Mrs Whitton, who been • among the guests at the Clarendon, f: went back to Oamaru this morning. ? The Eev. Wynne Thomas and Mrs i Thomas (Dunedin) were passengers by

the Whnmera en route for India and

England. ... Mr and Mrs Wilkinson, of Dunedin, who have been visiting Hanmcr, are at present in Christchurch, _,, and are staying at the United Service. ; Mr and Mrs Eichards and family, wild haVe been staying at the Clarendon for the past ten days r motored back to Waihao Downs this morning. . The Misses Nora and Rachel Gotrie, of Auckland, who have been staying at Warner's for tho past week, lave gone to Tipapa to be the guests of Mrs Acton-Adams. Mrs Ogilvie and her daughter, Mrs J.

Tenncnt, of Greymouth, who have been visiting England, left Liverpool by the 'White Star liner Runic on November 5, on their .return to New Zealand. ; A Dunedin engagement which is just announced is that of Miss Vivien Bur-

ton, eldest daughter of Mr E. W. Bui-

tun, S.M., to Mr Aubrey Elliott-White, t! solicitor, both of that town. The marriage is to take 'place early in De-

cember. Miss Stinson, who recently gave an Kiidress on foreign missions in Christehiwjh, is at present in Wellington, iJheie she gave a similar, address under the auspices of the Chiircli':Missionary Society yesterday afternoon.: The lady in question, who belongs family, has been engaged in missionary work in China for some years past, and is at present home on furlough. , The marriage took place in St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Wiinganui, *on Thursday,of Miss F. Duff, daugMer of Mr IT- Duff/ to Mr' Dustip,

Wanganui. The bride, who was given away by her father,, wtts attenc&p hy Miss Nellie' Duff, of as bridesmaid: Mr Claude Dustin, a member of the Expeditionary Force how

in camp at Trentham, was ,best^man. Other race visitors who left for their homes on Saturday and' yesterday include Mr and Mrs White (Wamtrapa),. Mr and Mrs Kidston (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Dan Riddiford (Featherston), Mr and Mrs Allen (Dunedin), Mr Jas. Bell, his son, and daughter (Napier), Mr and Mrs C. H. Knsor (White Rock), Mrs Greenwood (Amberley), Mr and Mrs Howard Booth (Carterton), Mr and Mrs Lowry (Hawke's Bay), Mrs Egerton -Beitl (Timaiu), and Mr and Mrs Seymour (Blenheim).

' lam told (writes, a London correspondent) that one of the great troubles • -which the nurses and doctors, who are "■ caring for the wounded soldiers in the British hospitals have, is that many of ■j- the men have gone mad. This is particularly the case With men who went : through the battle of' Mons and were " ander .shrapnel fire for two days. Modern artillery seems to be too much

■ for human endurance. Most of the men recover their mental balance after a *''■■•. few days of rest, but a great many are still unbalanced after a fortnight at home.

Among the illuminating passages in Miss Anne Topham's "Memories of the Kaiser's Court," is the following penportrait of the Crown Prince: — "He is, as everyone knows, a young man wfio has devoted much . time to sport, and, like his has many spheres of activity, having; written a book, visited India, and made some good and a few unwise speeches.- He is an ardent soldier, and a typical Hohenzollem, with a supreme confidence in the star of his family, and earnestly desires to live his life in his own way, to move with the times, to be a child of his cen-

tnry; and it is probable that with a little more experience of life, especially j perhaps of that discipline- of sorrow which initiates most men into a new sphere of thought, he will develop into the man the world hopes to sec in him — something steadfast and strong, and perhaps a little move silent. At present he is very good-natured, very kind, very crude in his ideas, very.young for his age, very self-confident,-'and rather

selfish, as the modem type of youngman is apt to be. He is popular in Potsdam, where he picks up little boys for rides on his charger as he comes home from drill, flings gold pieces abroad to poverty-stricken people, gh r es lifts in his motorcar to weary men on the road." -

Naturally enough the question is being raised whether the motto, '' Ich Dien,'' on the Prince of Wales's badge, should not now be translated from German into the English, "I serve." One literary journal observes: —"The difficulties in the way of making this ehauge are not so" great as may at first appear. The history of the badge is shrouded in mystery, and what historical details have been associated with it in the past are not considered to be above suspicion. The general theory is that the feathers were first assumed by Edward the Black Prince, who is supposed to have taken them in war from John of Luxembourg,* King of Bohemia, at Crecy, in 1346. (This applies to the feathers and motto only; the coronet was added by Edward VI.) Since that time the badge has been worn by the Heir-Apparent, and it is not, as many believe, the Eoyal badge of Wales. Up to 1901 it was used as a makeshift for that purpose, but in that year a special Welsh badge, taking the form of a red dragon, was added to the heraldry of the Prince. The 'Prince of Wales's Feathers' are vested in the Heir-Appar-ent whether he is created Prince of Wales or not."

Mine./. Caillaux, the French ex-pre-mier 's wife, who was lately acquitted of the charge of murdering M. Calmette, is finding in the war an opportunity of escape from a position which must have been, after all, very trying, even though the jury acquitted her of the murder charge. She. in command of a nursing corps in a little French village'which is just at the rear of the main French army. A friend who met her on his ijfay across France is full of admiration. '' She is full of courage," he says, "and, though she still bears tract's of her terrible trial, the happiness she is finding in helping France will rub them all away. , She. is at work before six in the morning. One of her nurses is a well-known baroness, and she,j with the rest of the corps, worships madam."