THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 255, 1 December 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mr and Mrs A. B. Weekes (Wellington) are staying at the Clarendon. Mrs Hugh Ensor and her children are in town, and are staying at Warner's.

Dr and Mrs M. Larkin arrived in Christchurch from the north this morning. Mr and Mrs Freeborn Parsons have returned to Ben More, Kaikoura, from their visit to Wellington. Rev. A. C. Standage and Mrs Standoge returned to Wellington from a trip 'south by the Monowai last evening. Mr and Mrs George (Wellington), who are at Warner's at present, will leave for the north to-night. Mr and Mrs G. L. Rutherford (Macdonald Downs) returned home yesterday, after a brief visit to Christchurch. Sir Ernest and Lady Rutherford and Miss Rutherford are leaving Auckland by the Niagara." to-day on their return to Canada.

Colonel and Miss Eveline , Collins . (Wellington), who have been visiting the West Coast, are expected to arrive in Christchurch to-night. Mr and Mrs Cunningham (Invercargill), who came in to Christchurch from Hainmer Springs on Saturday, left this Morning for a trip to Akaroa. Mrs W. Fosberg Handyside, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs Miles (Wellington), passed through Christchurch on Saturday on her return to Invereargill. A meetiiig, ; of members of the Ghristehurch Women's Reform League is to be held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms to-mor-row afternoon at "3 o'clock, when addresses will be given by the local Reform candidates. Supporters of the Reform Party are asked to make a special «£- fort to bepresent. The Misses Raehel and Nora Gorrie, who came dbwn from Auckland for the recent golf tournament at Dunedin, have been paying a number of visits ■ to other southern centres since, and .returned to Warner's a day or two ago from Tipapa, where they were the guests of Mrs Acton-Adams. They leave to-night on their return to the Korth Island. The children's carnival "Phyllis and the Fairies," which proved so successful last week, will be repeated on Friday and., Saturday evening, to give an ■ itfpptirtuiiity of seeing this pretty play to the many people who were unable to gain, admission, to the two first performances. The proceeds will be devoted to the Belgian Relief Fund, and »e equally good response from the public is anticipated. The following Kaikoura engagements are announced: —Mr E. Tooley, of Nelson, to Miss Jeanne Lawson, second daughter of Mi* and Mrs - W. Lawson, Kaikoura Suburban; Mr J. A.,Robinsoiij recently of London, to Miss Amy Boyd/thii-d daagliter of Mr and Mrs Alexander Boyp, Kaikoura Suburban; Mr JD. Ji Parsons, eldest son of-Mr and Mrs Freeborn Parsons, Ben More, to Miss; Bessie McLauehlan, youngest ; daughter . of Mrs Angus MeLaiuchlan, Kaikoiira. '

Mrs Gordon Wood (Timaru) (who was recently staying with Mrs Mansell, Christchurch), was the guest of honour at a small but enjoyable afternoon tea in Wellington Last week, the hostess being Mrs "Stewart Wickstead, Manly Terrace. Amongst those present were: Mrs J. Strauchori, Mrs G. Wright, Mrs M. White, Mrs Mackay, Mrs J. Rennie, Mrs Digby Tree, Mrs Mazengarb,Mrs Dutliie (Dunedin), Mrs Harvey, Mrs Hunter Straachon (Hutt), the Misses Evans (2), Anderson, St»auchon, Rennie, Edmondson, and others.

Quite a ,crowd vyent along to be amused by the "Humpty Dumpty" pantomime last evening, and found it very entertaining, if one might judge by the sounds of hilarity that constantly Hsued from every part o,f the house. There are no gowns to speak of in a pantomime, but the creations :'m which the widow Buttereup appeared towards the end of the play were fearful, wonderful; -and quite indescribable. Their, litter absurdity made the audience fairly shriek before a. word livas- uttered to aid the effect. Lolita, the daughter of Tiddly Wink the; Barber, wears an Eastern-looking garb and long, flowing veilin the first half, but when she becomes a Royal ward she affects sweet simplicity in her attire, and looks very dainty and charming in her little pale pink gown. The transformation tableaux, '< Dreamland,'' are quite gopd, by the way, and very well arranged and carried out. A fashionable wedding took place in

Wanganui last week, the contracting parties being t)r Maurice Mason Earle, second son of Dr and Mrs R. C. Earle (Wellington), and Miss Dorothy Christie, third daughter of Mr and Mrs 11. F. Christie, of St. John's Hill, Wanganui. The bride made a pretty picture in her gown of white eharmeuse, with deep j flounce and tunic of Limerick lace. The corsage, cut low at the neck, was prettily arranged with the lace, and finished with j high swathed belt of silver tissue, and cluster of orange blossoms. Her court train was of white ninon richly embroidered with silver roses and lined with palest pink ninon. Her veil was of Brussels lace caught with narrow wreath of bridal flowers, and she carried a beautiful shower bouquet of pale pink, carnations and white roses, shaded with delicate maidenhair and asparagus fern, and tied with wide, knotted moire ribbon. There Avere three bridesmaids; the three elder ones (Misses Gladys Christie, Biith Fan-burn, and Ida Stevenson) wore mirror blue satin and black tulle hats with golden roses, and the three little maids (Earle Cowper, Marjorie Saunders, and Shirley Medhurst) wearing frocks of white muslin and insertion, with Dutch caps of white lace. Dr Douglas Wilson acted as best man and Messrs C. E. Brown and G. Moore as groomsmen. Mr 11. F. Christie gave his daughter away.

Of Rheims Cathedral, which now stands shattered—all but utterly destroyed—the '' Athenaeum'' says: '' The*' traveller coming into Rheims on the Roman road crosses the heights from which the bombardment was made, and his first sight of it shows him the great mass of the cathedfal brooding, as it were, over the city. Those who have spent an Easter there have seen it at its best. On Holy Saturday it stood open till far into the evening for confession, and the solemn blackness of the night filled its vast'"spaces with mystery. At earliest dawn the great bell—now, alas! silent —poured out its summons to praise, and as the first mass of Easter drew to its end the. sunrise filled the apse lights of the church with a riotous gladness of colour which we shall see no more. , Those shattered windows are being given away as souvenirs, and the broken fragments of Our Lady of Rheims serve for mascots to automobiles."

Crystal is a great asset in the jewellery effects of to-day, and its beauty is so refined as to make it very precious to the fastidious.. There are crystal medallions engraved with classical figures, and in the heart of a cut crystal disc is §nshrined a large and very precious diamond, whieh looks lovely when slung upon a cord threaded through crystal tubes.. Amber is, of course, very fashionable, and long ; strings of amber beads are worn with all sorts of costumes; generally, they are strung upon an amber silk cord, which does not in any way detract from the beauty of the beads. We beg to draw your, attention to Mrs Owen's-tea advertisement which appears on this page. It is an extraordinary opportunity for ladies ft to procure the finest tea ever\ imported direct from Ceylon to the Dominion. .330