WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16882, 9 July 1920, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

j Mr and Mrs R. E-. Barker (Winchester) are staying at Warner's. Mrs George Helmore returned to ChristchurclC yesterday morning from Wellington. * 1 Mr and Mrs G. Ihtvies (Wellington} arrived from the North yesterday, and are staying at the Clarendon. Mrs Francis Davison (Lowry Peaks) is in town. Dr. al? d Mrs N. K. Cox have returned to Timaru. Mr and Mrs Duncan (Picton) are visiting' Christchureh. Mrs W Goodman, "Aorangi," St. Albans, invited a number of friends to a kitchen evening, in honour of Miss L. Lucas, who is shortly to be married. Each gnpst brought a- kitcncn iitpnsil. Mus-ic, competitions, and games were indulged in up to a late hour. Miss Connie Lodger, who has b'een. on a vi;jjt to relatives in Sydney and Melbourne, returned home this week. Mdllo. Irma Caron, a daughter of M. Leon Caron, who was conductor of the J C. Williamson Royal Comic Opera Companv for a number of years, is to visit New Zealand shortly, giving an entertainment v/hicli will embody oxcerpts from grand and comic opera m costume.

An eniovable coin afternoon toepk plnce at tho Women's Club rooms in Worcester street yesterday, in aid of the furnishing of the Church of. Twgland Girls' Hostel and Girls' I riendly Society Lodge, which is to be established in' Gloucester street in the building hitherto known as Aberdare House. The invitation of the committee was responded to by a large number ot women, amoll2 whom were Mrs \Vuliam Wood, Mrs Hugh Acland. Mrs Cracroft Wilson, Mr* Pyne, Mrs Gould, Mrs Evans, Mrs Wagstaff, and Mrs Pspplcr, and Missos Tabart, Stodaart, Sandston, Pratt, Buller, and Spence. A delightful concert programmo was provided by ]\ladnme Gower Burns £jnd two of her pupi's, while Miss Thorps and Miss Annesley also sang, and Mrs Just played a pianoforte Tho Lodge will be formally opened .on July 28th, and the need in Christchuvch for such an institution is proved, by the fact that already sufficient applications to almost fill the Lodge have bfeen received.

The first of the series of nursing lectures to members of the Harbour Lights Girls' Club was given by Nurse Pearce, and it proved most instructive and enjoyable. Mrs W. H. Simpson has promised to give the girls instruction at her own home iii domestic duties and cookery.

The annual hall of the staff cf Messrs T. Armstrong and Co. will be held in the Art Gallery on July 12th. The committee responsible for the arrangements comprises Mrs Ball, Misses O'Connor, Fisher, and Roiall, and Messrs Good, Brown, Lcngton, and Cook. Mr G. E. Jeffreys is ,hon. secretary.

Mrs Rattray and Miss Iliffe Lawrence (Sumner) are paying a short visitto Camp Bay.

The Avonside Nursing Division met on Thursday in the Brigade rooms, Mrs Watkins, lady superintendent, in charge. Twenty-two new members were enrolled, and a first-aid class was started.

A cable from Mombasa, British East Africa, announces tho marriage on July 3rd, 1920, of Lieutenant Gordon do Courcy Drury, M.C., Royal Soots 4Tusiliers, 2nd King's African Rifles, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Ernest de Courcy Drury, Merivale, Christchurch, to Grace Kathleen, elder daughter of the Rev. G. and Mrs Gmelin, Woolavington Vicarage, near Bridgwater, Somerset, England.

The annual fancy dress dance and masquerade in connexion witu t.ue iteturned >soidiers' Association teatumay dances, was Jieid in tiie Art Gadexy. iasD mght. Ine clause was an undoubted success, and a very enjoyable evening was spent by the large number or dancers present. JNeariy all were in fancy dress, and the scene in the dancing room was a very bright and animated one. The gailery was prettily decorated with red, winte, and black, and big baskets of greenery. Miss Macdonald's orchestra supplied excellent music. Prizes were awarded for the best costumes, as follows: —Best dressed lady, Miss 8., King (Harem) ; best dressed gentleman, Mr E. V. Colgan (Duke of Orleans); most original dress, Mr Jack Darby (Flower Girl); cheapest ladies' dress, Mrs E. V. Colgan (Cabbage Tree). Miss Thompson Miss Bloy (Bon Bon), Miss Leah Johnston (Joy Bells), Mr Thomas Chalklen (Coster), and Mr Felix Trogertham (Napoleon), "were highly commended. Tho judges were Mrs Holland, Mrs Tomlinson, Mrs Neville, and Messrs IJ. Holland and F. C. Raphael. • Mrs' Holland presented the prizes.