THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 247, 21 November 1914, Page 7

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs Maunsell returned to Rothevham yesterday. Mrs E. B. Millton (Birch Hill) is staying at Warner's. Mrs J. M. Forrester went on to Oamaru from Christchurcli yesterday. Mr and Mrs. Hope Gibbon (Wellington) are amongst the guests at the Clarendon. i Mr aud Mrs Philip Snowden are the guests of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Birks, Jackson's Road. Mr and Mrs R. Jamieson and Miss ,Ta in ieson left on their return to Dunodin from Christchurcli this morning. ' Mrs P. Overton and Mrs DampierCiossley came into town from North Canterbury yesterday, and are at Warner 's. Mr and Mrs Begg (Gore), who were in Christc lunch for a couple of days early in the week, are staying at the Empire Hotel, Wei lino ton. Mr and Mrs C. Bennett, of Masterton, who have been staying at Goker's Hotel for the past few days, left for the West Coast this morning. Mr and Mrs Joseph Stud-holme, of Ruamii, who stayed with the Hon. H. F. and Mrs Wigram during Cup Week, are now in Wellington, as the guests of their Excellencies the .Governor and Countess of Liverpool. Their Excellencies attended the founda-tion-stone laying at the Boys' Institute in Wellington this week, the ceremony: itself being performed by, the Governor. The Countess of Liverpool wore black, with a velvet hat, and was presented with a bouquet of .mauve sweet-peas and spirea. The Earl, of Liverpool wore the top-hatted official regalia, sported also'by most of the men present in an official capacity. Mrs J. P. Luke, wearing grey and a rose-trimmed hat, received a bouquet of red loses; Miss Massey, who was in grey, with a hat of blue straw, was the recipient of a posy of blue peas ;/and Mrs Moorhouse received one of pink roses. The latter wore black, and a black and white hat. Mrs H, D. Bell was in grey -moire, and small flower-trimmed hat; Mrs F. M. B. Fisher, saxe-blue, with a wide blackJiat; Mrs Herdman, wedgewood blue figured cloth, and, hat with 'small blue flowers; Miss Luke wore light brown, and a hat of deep pink straw; Mrs Gibb was in dull sapphire blue, and hat to match with ostrich feathers; Mrs C. M. Luke, smoke blue Costume and hat with blue ros-es. Mrs J;r;St«dholnie"''(Ruanui) wore blue alsq, hat with vari-coloured /floweVs; After the ceremony and the .various speeches the visitors were given tea by the; Ladies' Auxiliary and a^njmber^ofhypers, who must have f^^i^^^H?^^^u^s?>*^^" i^oV " ing between the> ; S seats. Everyone, however, waV seivedf' cadets, who founed a guard of honour to their Excellencies were tiot forgotten. There were a \r\y large number of representative citizeus present.

A London woman recently "wrote to the Belgian Refuge Committee, offering to receive into her home one of the Belgian women who are refugees in London. She received a reply, thankiug, but informing her that references would be required, as .the committee feared the refugees might be exploited in some way. Though at first it seemed rather strange to the prospective hostess to be asked for references when she offered to take asa guest an unknown stranger, she concluded there was some good reason for it. Accordingly she wrote to an old friend occupying a responsible position, and he undortook to vouch for her respectability. The spirit of affection and gratitude shown by the women of Paris to the wounded English Tommies is said to be such as to have aroused jealousy in the heart of their own countrywomen. But then, as one of the wounded men put it, "we're English ourselves, and we know yer feel, if yer cannot show it. It's all right!" Quite a crowd of well-known people in Paris make it their business to -meet trains and cheer up the sick and wounded.

It is in Hyde Park on Sunday morning that one realises the change that has come over London, states a recent correspondent. .From Marble Arch to Hyde Park there is a constant church parade of foreigners. If it were not for the language spoken one could well imagine it was a Sunday in the season, for the women- are beautifully gowned and hatted, and apparently all are happy in the country which has given them a home. In the vicinity of Mai da 'Vale and St. John's Wooil there is a large French and Belgian colony already established, the wealthier refugees finding a home for the.present in the flats ami houses which were to let. The tricolour touch predominates everywhere; we are wearing little buttonholes in our coats of tricolours! everlasting flowers, or else fashioned of satin ribbon. Little bows for our lace jabots are selling

as fast as they can be made in the leading West End houses. The small red, white, and blue everlasting flowers are being largely used by the big florists, worked into very beautiful trophies. For instance, one window in Regent Street had an immense Dreadnought worked in these flowers, surmounted by a Union Jack and flanked by the French and Russian flags, all made from these shialLflowers.

To give employment to a class of workmen who will be the first to feel the pinch of retrenchment owing to the war, Queen Mary has expressed her desire that the commencement of extensive interior decorative work at Buckingham Palace should be hastened as much as possible. These alterations include a large quantity of parquet flooring, a class of work which has hitherto been very much in the hands of German makers.

Corners havealwaysbeen popular. The chimney corner, foj.- instance, is endeared to.the heart from the earliest to the latest hour of existence. The corner clipboard: l what stores of sweet, things lias.it contained for us in our youth — with what luxuries its shelves have groaned. In manhood, a snug corner iu a will. A corner in a woman's heart. Once get there, and.jou may soou command the entire domain,. A corner in the Temple of Fame; arrive at that end aud vou become immortal.