CLICK CLACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 255, 28 October 1929, Page 9

CLICK CLACK.

The Click Clack enjoyed the excellent new orchestra on Saturday evening. Songs were rendered by Mr. Linton Eskrigge. Among those present were: Mrs. A. Webb, black lace over pink; Mrs. Laurie, blue taffeta; Mrs. L Aslvton, shaded green georgette; Mrs. J. Barry, floral georgette; Sirs. M. Morton, silver lame and black lace; Mrs. E. Best, flame charmcusej Mrs. M. Fanner, blonde lace over satin; Miss L. Davidson (Te Kuiti), apple green georgette; Miss A.- Laery, frilled pink ninon; Miss J. Campbell, cerise embossed georgette; Miss M. Jaggs, floral ninon and diamante; Miss Vera Cowie (Dargavillc), sage green taffeta; Miss Morrison, almond green satin, diamante girdle; Miss Lush, red crepe fleuri; Miss B. Myers, lemon taffeta and lace; Miss Elsie Griffiths (Suva), mastic crepe de chine; Miss Winnie Cook, ivory ninon and diamante; Miss E. Lury, black taffeta and gold lace; Miss B.Tancred, black souple satin and paste buckle; Miss Tomkins, pernwinkle blue ring velvet; Miss A. McNeil, beige lace and pink taffeta; Miss R. Lovell, orange satin and gold girdle; Miss M. Allen, powder blue beaded ninon; Miss E. Bailey, floral georgette over pink silk; Miss Bailey, old rose velvet and tulle ekirt; Miss Gray, floral chiffon.

WEDDINGS OF THE WEEK.

CALLAGHAN—FIRKIN.

There was a large attendance of friends at St. Mark's Church, Te Arolia, on. Wednesday, on the occasion of the marriage of Margaret Bell, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Firkin, to Alan, elder son of-Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Callaghan, of Te Aroha. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. L. Connolly. The bride was attired in a frock o'f ivory georgette over crepe de chine, with an embroidered veil. . The bridal bouquet comprised roses and azaleas. Miss Iris Tonks, cousin of the bride, and Miss Olive Brown, acted as bridesmaids. The former was attired in green crepe de chine with hat to tone, and Miss Brown's fi'ock was of similar material in a pale shade of lemon, with hat to match. The litle flower girls, Ethel Firkins, niece of the bride, and Dawn Tourell, her cousin, both carried dainty flower baskets. Mr. Cecil Bones, of Kopuha, acted as best man, and Mr. Louis Wicky as groomsman. The wedding reception was held at the Majestic Tea Rooms, a large number of guests attending. The bride's mother wore black merveilleux silk, and Mrs. Callaghan was attired in a fawn brocaded costuine, with black satin coat and hat to match.

TRIGG—WEBB. A picturesque wedding took place at the Baptist Church, Avondale, on Saturday evening, when Dorothy, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A, Webb, of New Lynn, became the wife of Eric Johnson, third son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A..Trigg, of Avondale. The Bev. Knowles Kenvpton officiated. The bride wore white satin beaute, draped on one side. The embroidered tulle veil was caught at the ears with clusters of orange blossom, and she carried a white shower bouquet. She was attended by a matron of honour, Mrs. W. H. Mardle, and her sister, Miss Phyllis Webb. Both frocks were fashioned alike in water lily green chiffon, with diamante waist bolts, and vandyke-edged felt hats of the same tonings. Pink and mauve shower bou-' quets of stocks, sweet pea and roses were carried. Two little train bearers were Iris and Joan Wheatley, in frocks of Primrose ninqn, ribbon trellised headdresses, and tulle mull's in shades of gold. A dainty little flower girl was Marjorie Trigg, in an apple green georgette, and wreath of rosebuds. Mr. 0. Thompson was best man, Mr. A. Webb groomsman. The reception was held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Avondale, the bride's mother wearing navy souple satin, blue hatj and shower bouquet of red roses. The bridegroom's mother wore navy silk crepe fleuri, brown hat, and autumn bouquet.

AROUND THE TEA TABLE.

MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST,

(By SHIRLEY.)

In Italy an actress has just come into fame in a new way; she lias been sentenced to a fine of four pounds for'smoking in public. The law used is one compiled lately, called "Rules for Women," and one hopes there is one among them forbidding our sex to paint and powder in public. Of the two I prefer the cigarette. Some years ago in Dunedin there was a reunion of "old girls," two of whom mentioned, quite separately, a remembrance of the rector stating the "putting on the gloves in public, i.e., outside one's own door, was the height of vulgarity"; but there were so many vulgar heights in those days, and one was so continually on them that one grew a little indifferent. Publicity then, as now, seems to be the real sin. An Australian writer tells of a new idea in christening parties (got from the famous fairy tale). The lady visitors were to come, not with a gift—anything material Avas forbidden—but each with a written wish. I am certain that more than one of the wishes was a desire that Miss Baby, in her adult years, should "never smoke in public.''

A local lawyer, in a lecture, informed us that we must not go into a legal office smiling, thinking we are doing the gentleman a good turn in getting him to draw up your will. You arc doing him a. bad turn. If you want to give him a little work, leave that business alone. But if you really desire to help on the members of this profession to do your hit towards keeping them clear of a poverty-stricken old age, then make your will yourself. At every convivial meeting where such gentlemen congregate, the first toast is always to "our best friend, the man who makes his own will." Anecdotes are told of learned judges who made their, own wills-r-and made them wrong—in,one case a very learned gentleman making a document about the length of short novelette, which was excellently done, not a flaw in it, all the whereases and whereunders in it exactly as they should be—and he was so pleased with it that ho forgot permanently to sign his name. Woman as a rule comes out better from this business than men do. She has come butcomparatively recently into -the right to make such a testament at all, and does not "trust in. her own common sense." She is inclined to think, however, that if she states Aunt really meant her to have the pearl necklace, it is very wrong of the lawyer not to give it up. The fact that she has no witnesses to Aunt's remark seems to her beside the matter, ami also a base aspersion on her own character, for which the only apology possible is the bestowal of the necklace in question.

Our competitions have attracted the usual number of competitors, and, as before, it is noticed that our sex fights shy somewhat of impromptu speaking. With all the reputation we have, perhaps exaggerated, for quick speech, we are slow to speak our own thoughts, though the thoughts of others we give forth i« recitations and songs without a qualm. One local amateur actress informs me that when she has to sing on the platform she is always on a quiver, hut when she sings when acting on the stage she has no nerves whatever. Pretending to bo someone else seems to make her someone else, and the audience ceases to be to her a hostile force. Such are the vagaries of our nature. Do we lack readiness of resource that wo shun the impromptu speech? An anecdote comes to me of another competitions some years ago, when, contestants had to road at sight a poena with the cheering subject of living persons meeting those of another plane in a churchyard until morning came, indicated in the line, "Now the quick march over the dead." Everyone took the second word for an adjective and the third for a substantive, and only one contestant, a woman, indicated by her tones that quick meant "alive," not having even the double meaning attached to those who get out of the way of motor cars, while march was a verb.

The "Edinburgh Review" is now to be no more. "Above the heads of the people" Avill be its obituary, but in the near past, not only stately, highbrow magazines, but those of a quite popular kind, have perished by the wayside. "The Idler" departed many years ago, and perhaps some of the older generation will recall, further back, journals such as "Tho Leisure Hour." How Victorian is the very title! If revived, it would now me "The Leisure Minute." "Belgravia" and "London Society" were considered very smart for the time, and were eagerly perused when placed in the public library Jadies' reading room, an apartment commoner then than now, when we do not blush to read our journals side by side with the male stranger. There was the "Family Herald" also, which always had an unchanging standard as to what wag suitable for girl readers. For instance, the "unwanted" child must not appear in its pages, although when grown up ho or she was permissible. Anyway, mothers 'always knew what they were giving their daughters when they brought home tho "Herald,'? and mothers then liked to know that. Some of the older generation again can remember when the first children's page appeared in our local newspapers.—uot long after they were introduced in England. Another generation has grown up accustomed to he thus catered for, and in the backblocks it is on this that thousands .of children rely for recognition in the literary world. One the other day was quite astonished at her first gift of a special children s book. She had not realised before that, outside the newspaper, there was anything for her in that line.

• Now that Palestine affairs are to_ the fore we may recall more dents than those given us * «" »™*S It is some years s.noe child welfare centres and mothercraft societies were established throughout Palestine, and we may recall that at the first conference of Zionist women held m *ew Zealand it was resolved that Sir Inifey King's name be inscribed in the Golden Book of the Jewish people (kept in Jerusalem) in recognition of his cooperation in establishing these PJunket mothercraft centres in that country, it is a 1 high honour to have one's name inscribed in this book, which commemorates those persons, whether of Hebrew origin or not, who have done service to the Jewish race. In other feminist matters there was considerable modernism. For instance, when tiro new Palestine constitution was formed, it made it possible for one, Mrs. Ginsberg,. to sit for her law examinations. Previous to this she had been refused by the Legal Board until her father, a well-known Hebrew poet, appealed to the new constitution. It is now nearly a year since it was , reported that many Jewish migrants, including girls, were arriving in Australia, and Dr. Fanny Beading, of Sydney, ' who formed the Council of Jewish Women in Australia, arranged in connection with this a big sister move' ment to'assist those young people, just as British boy migrants are adopted by the big brothers.

The New York infirmary for women and children is operated entirely by women. The hospital is said to he one of the best in the metropolis.