SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 96, 16 January 1908, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

• > Dominica went to the flower show yesterday, and sho looked first, of nil at thei gay, beautiful flowcrs ( then she looked at the many gay beautiful frocks, and backwards and forwards between them until her mind was in a whirl and sho only knew that the sweot peas looked very charming in the fashionable shades of perybnche,. saxe, or nattier blue; that the. gladioli wore the new sheath-liko Paquin skirts, and that the matrons and maids in the various vases were oxcellont. specimens, which, however : true, would not bo polite. The experiment of offering afternoon tea at a flower., show; as an inducement to bring visitors has 011 these two occasions been so successful that one feels sure it will become a hnbit, and long may the flower shows flourish. The ladies qf the committee and their helpers who served ten in th 6 spacious tea-room yesterday were kept busy all the afternoon; but their reward camo. in the satisfactory attendance. Thoy were so energotic that .one had hardly. Tim eto see who . tliciy wpre. Among them, however. I noticed..; Misses Dean, Ewcn, Prouse, Nathan, Perkins, Bonayne, Rceco, and Kennedy. It .is wcoks since so many Wellington ladies, :w;ero gathered togetlior, .and among thojo prese.nt wero many who had just returned, fj'om holiday trips. Lady Ward came 111 a grey tailor-made and p.rcen hat; Mrs. Hislop in black; Mrs. H. Crawford was in .black and croam, with black and whito plumedhat; Mrs. Duncan, navy blue taffetas frock,' cream lace, and bluo hat; Miss Duncan,,, green tailor-mado, and whito hat with pale i bluo wings: Mrs. Beauchnmp, pale blue shantung hat with shaded grey and wine-coloured plumes, whito boa ; Miss Skerrett,-navy, blue costume, with brown hat; Mrs.- Rotheram, dark blue satin, with Honiton lace; Mrs. Captain Bendall. black silk and whito lace scarf; W. levin, block frock, .and hat trimmed with dark holiotropo; Mrs. Kennody Macdonald, blue chiffon taffetas;; Mrs. Parker, palo blue costume trimmed;; with moss green; Miss Quicir, cream embroidered voile, heliotrope hat; Miss Wroughton, white frock and black boa; Miss ifarcourt, blue doth costume.