WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16206, 8 May 1918, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of s cia. or personal ncsvs. Such items should he fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. .Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, w^men.

Mr and Mrs A. Poison (Opawa) are staying at New Brighton.

Dr. Doris Gordon arrived in Christchurch from the North yestorday.

Mrs Chudleigh (Morrinsville, Waikato), "who has been staying with her mother, Mrs Potts, in Victoria street, returned North on Tuesday.

Mr and Mrs Trevor Foster (Riccarton) have taken Mrs Cook's house at New Brighton.

Mrs Michael Campbell (Avonside) is the guest of Mrs Johnstone at Mt. Torlesse.

Mr and Mrs G. C. Harris and their family are spending a month at Scarborough.

Miss Knight (Racecourse Hill) staying at the Hydro, in Timaru.

Mrs Crosley Nancarrow is tho guest of Mrs Johnstone, Mt. Torlesse.

Mrs Barrett and the Misses Barrett (Brown's road) left yesterday for a fortnight in Akaroa.

Mr and Sirs McLean (Invercargill) are staying at the United Service.

Mrs Algar Williams is visiting Wellington.

Mr and Mrs A. \Y. Rutherford (Mendip Hills) are in town.

Mr and Mrs T. C. Robinson (Spotswood), who have been visiting the North Island, are making a short stay in Christchurch on their way home.

Mr and Mrs Greenfield (Dunedin) are staying at Warner's.

Mr and Mrs A. Trevor Coleman (Kaikouivi) are amongst tho guests at the Clarendon.

Mrs Alister Deans and Miss Knight, who have been staying at tho Hydro Grand in Timaru, have returned to Racecourse Hill.

Mrs Bloxam and Miss Holmes are spending a fortnight at "Tho Lodge," Hanmer Springs.

Mr and Mrs ltoyds, of this city, motored to Timaru on Saturday. They arc staying at the Hydro.

The engagement is announced of Miss Daphne Kiljtour, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Kilgour, Colo street, Masterton, to Lance-Corporal W. Green, 37th Specialists (machine-guns), the only son of Mr E. H. Green, Greenmeadows, Jacksons, West Coast.

Dr. Gladys Montgomery, of Papatoetoe, who has been absent from the Dominion for nine years, will return to Auckland shortly. She has been on the medical staff of the Third Scottish Hospital in Glasgow for somo time past.

l\farrij>Ke is not always a thiug of bridal veils, confetti, and a formal eercmony to the music of the Wedding March. Just a few days ago, when the rain was coming down with _ unsympathetic violence, a quiet-looking youug woman walked up to the Featherston Camp with a friend. They wcro mot by a, corporal, and the three turned to enter the camp. The military police— ever watchful and attentive to duty — accosted tbe party and pointed out that people could not wander at will past the gates, but the corporal gently volunteered the fact that he wanted to be married. Within quite a short wliilo the wedding party entered one of tho institutes, where the padre mado them "one," and without .any superfluous ceremony they walked out of tho camp well wrapped in raincoats, etc., and looking very unlike tho happy participators in a marriage. A taxi was hailed, and' they travelled away along the country road with a kerosene tin rattling along behind them. Some "wag" had added .it loast one trno wedding touch to tho event.

Colonel Cossgrove, Y.D., Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts, left .for the South, yesterday, on his annual tour of inspection. He is accompanied by Mrs Cossgrove, who, their many friends will be pleased to know, has recovered from her late serious illness. FALLING HAIR. The following oro the main causes for thinning of the hair, premature greyness, end baldness:— 1. Local causes, which interfere wiih 'he nutrition of the hair, euch aa inflammation cf the ekiti and oil glands, of which eeborrhcea, a form of dandruff, whioh is responsible lor great irritation of the ecalp, is most common. 2. Genoral causes, which lead to debility cf constitution and so indirectly weaken the nutrition of tho hair, convalescence after fevar or various other illnesses, and prolonged worry. 3. Purely nervous causoe. The epecial. implication of the nerves is evidenced in various ways, euch as neuralgic pains cf tho scalp, from which loss of hair is both local and very often absolute. I'ho remedy is a special course of treatment (one guinea), including clipping and singeing, massage with scalp food, shampooing, massage with stimulating lotion, and Vitro cr electrical massage. MRS KOLLESTON, Dominion .Uuildings, Cathedral square. 1 A DANCE. A choery little dance was given lust night at her residence, Linwood House, Avonside, by Mrs l'\ ]. Cowlishaw. lne chilly night made dancing ail tiie more enjoyable, and the affair was voted a complete success. Dancing took place in the drawing-room, while the verandahs, canvasscd in, made delightful places for sitting out. Supper was served in tho dining-room, tho decorations here, as elsewhere in the house, being charmingly carried out in chrysanthemums and autumn berries and leaves. The guests included Mrs J. M. Turnbull, Mrs Marshall Mrs B.ck, Miss Cowiishaw, Misses Sylvia Fox, Xan Rich, Dorothy Cowlishaw, Judy Beckett, Jessie Blanch, Ella Helmore, Ursula Tothill Sylvia Westenra, Pratt (2) Krtty Lane, M. MacDoucall P. Webb, H. Hill, Helen Rich, Alex. Kirk, D. Buckley, and B. Marshall, and Messrs Derrick Gould, Wynne Cowlishaw J Hargrcaves, George Burden, T. Tothill, IK Dalgety Colin Marshall, G. Turnbull, G. Cottenll, C. Gibbs, HIS te- S * P r orOdf^0 r Odf^ M * Macbeth,' f. Williams, L L T. Bush. H. Helmore, t. Harris, G. Musgrave, and J IT M Edmond.