WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 199, 22 August 1919, Page 7

WOMEN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS. • Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Baggott, of Wanganui, are ou a short holiday in Auckland. Miss Foster, of Wilson Street, Wanganui. is spending a month with her sister, Mrs. Gunn, in Auckland. Miss Edith Howes, the well-known New Zealand writer for children, is leaving on Wednesday for Australia, her destination being Adelaide. Sister Elsie P. Grey, of Auckland, who recently returned from the front, has been spending a few days with Miss Van Staveren, Wellington Terrace, Wellington. The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Reed, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Reed, of Merivah; Lane, Christchurch, to Major A. C. Macdonald, M.C, fourth son oi Mr. Angus Macdonald, of Invercargill. I The engagement is announced of Miss 'Marjorie Helen Bain, youngest daughter of the late Mr. A. W. Bain and Mrs. Bain, of Christchureh, to Mr. W. F. Tracy, eldest son of Mr. J. Tracy, of Dunedin. Mr. W. V. Tracy is 'an M.A. of Canterbury College. He left | Xew Zealand with the Main Body, ati tamed the rank of majpr, and gained the j M.C. in France. During 1918 he was a 1 member of the special mission which operated in Persia and Southern Russia. | The powder and patches nail arranged (for the winter carnival in Christchureh | was evidently very pretty, as each guest I was in the period. The local paper says: (To wear powdered hair and beauty spots fin the modern ballroom may seem inc-on-I gruous, but the effect is perfectly charming. The dresses worn last evening gave I ample opportunity for a wonderful 'amount of individuality; floral 6atins, j shimmering silver tissues, gold brocades [and diaphanous ninon, georgettes and [net frilled and flounced. In the days | when crinolines were de rigeur ourgrand•mothers wore layer upon layer of tulle, 'and the result was charminc. Maiw of

(the young girls present last night woro 1 ethereal frocks of ninon and tulle muchly (.flounced, and with the powder and patches the result was most picturesque. The ballroom was well in keeping with , the quaintness of the frocking. Large I old-fashioned mirrors with gilt frames, jwere on the walls, and to further enhance the effect the walls had narrow | vertical strips of yellow on a white backI ground resembling as near as possible [the conventional pattern of the Early I Victorian wallpaper. From the ceiling ! were suspended long-handled white bas[kets massed with palms and early spring (blossom—japonica and the flowering iplum. The supper room was a picture. The big table for his Excellency tha Governor-General and others who danced in the official set was artistically arranged .with silver candlesticks with bright golden yellow shades, violets, j irises and daffodils. Their Excellencies f the Governor-General and the Countess lof Liverpool were present, and danced ;tl.e first set of lancers. Lady Liverpool jwas gowned in a hyacinth-blue char* Imeuse frock, with a" panelled overdress lof white and pink floral ninon. An (Aueklander present was Miss Dobie, in | a charming pale rose pink satin frock I'with hip paniers and pleats.