SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 211, 30 May 1908, Page 11

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

An "At Home," attended by a largo number of guests., was given yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Kano at her homo in Halswell Street! Tho dainty whito and rose drawingroom was charmingly decorated with autumn leaves, and in the pretty green dining-room the table was adorned with violots and trailing lycopodium. A string band was stationed at the staircase, and played throughout the afternoon. Mrs. Kano received her guests wearing a pretty frock, of black and whito striped silk, trimmed with black and whito lace, and with front and full sleeves of cream lace. • Miss Kane wore a very protty niaize-coloured frock with touchcs of brown. Among the guests were Lady Ward and Miss Ward, Mrs. and Miss Chapman, Mrs. and Miss Seaton, Mesdamos Samuel, Butts, Wallis, Macarthy, . Holmes, Dean, Goro, Litchfield, Miles, W. Young, Salmond, Fulton, H. Gore, Nelson, R. Robertson, and L. Blundell, and Misses Coates, Partridge, Hardinge-Maltby, Fancourt, Seddon, and Fancourt. ' Mr! and Mrs. Ogle Moore are returning to Adelaide, after a fivo or six months' visit to Now Zealand, much of it having been spont with relatives in Masterton. , Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson returned to Masterton on Friday after a short visit to Wellington. / • . Dr. and Mrs!' Palmer, of Featherston, woro in Wellington this week. • The engagement is announced of Miss M. Walton, of Lower Hutt, to Mr. Alex. Sutherland, of Ngaipu Station, Wairarapa. A number of ladies who, are interested in the work: of tho different guilds belonging to St.: Paul's parish were entertained at (afternoon tea in Sydney Street Schoolroom yesterday afternoon' by Mrs. • Sprott, who wished to discuss with'them the conditions of their present work and plans for, the future. Tho most important point dealt with was tho nccossity of raising a fund gradually for re-building St. Paul's Church. The work of rebuilding may not haVn. to bo done for some years, [but Mrs. Sprott hopes that more workers will join tho guilds, and that arrangements may _be mado for holding cach year a bazaar in aid of the re-building fund. Among, those present wore Mesdames Richardson, Leckie, Johnston, Dean, Edwin, Quick, Geo. Campbell, Warren, and'F. C. Waters,, and Misses Coates, Greenwood, - and Mosloyor. , Mrs. J. B. MacEwan gave a small bridge party yesterday afternoon, when tho following were.among ]the guests:—Mesdames Fitchett, Birkett, and Pike, and Misses Gibb, ■Ward, Nathan (2), Beauchamp (2), Menteath, Dean, Fulton, Ewen, Watson, Simpson, and Stafford. Miss Stafford won tlw first prize, and Miss Elsie Simpson the second.. A social v was given by tho ;Roseneath members of St. Mark's parish in the Roseneatli School on Thursday night, which served both as . a welcome to the Rev. A. M. Johnson; the vicar of St. Mark's, and as a farewell to .Mr. and Mrs. Booth, who have for, long been connected with the active work of tho parish, Mr. Booth having for years been a churchwarden. Mr. and Mrs. Booth are going to live at Kliandallah for-tho sako of Mrs.' Booth's health, and their fellow-parishioners presented them with an illuminated address, and Mrs. Booth -with a writing case. Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Fletcher, . and -Mr. Ahearno' - contributed songs during the earlier part of tho evening, and Mr. 'Booth's young son gavo a recitation. : The evening finished with a dance. ; Thero was a meeting <)f r \ tho Victoria League Committee yesterday morning at the homo of tho' president;'''(Lady Ward), when a ; good deal of ; business was done. A .considerable ' amount of . correspondence was received'and dealt with, and it was arranged that' the' Committee should meet' on June 15, when, at the .residence of Mrs. RankineBrown, Miss Richmond, will give, an account of her association with the Victoria Leaguo in England and, America. Miss .Talbot, the secretary, of the League, has sent Lady Ward a handsome badgo mounted as a brooch. This shows tho Union Jack enamelled in colours, surmounted by a filigree gold cro,wn. ' ; Mrs. Knox Gilmer gave a small afternoon tea on Thursday afternoon ■ for Miss , 01a Humphrey, of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" Company, who is her guest. 'Miss Kitty, Mackenzie left by tho Sydney boat yesterday for a long visit to Australia.

INFLAMMABLE HEADGEAR. The, filmy, gossamers that . lend enchant- 1 mont to woman's headgear just now are i exceedingly" beautiful (says an Australian i paper), and their beauty is only exceeded ] by their danger. A Surrey Hills girl re- ] cently opened a letter, and commenced to ; read it by candle-light without waiting to i ;romove her bat. The trimmings.caught''fire, ( and, before she could rip the pins out; her i head was a mass of flame, from which it i was impossible to" wrench; the burning lmt. ] When the flame was extinguished, the girl j had received mortal injuries; she died in-'a : few hours. The filmy headgear is just about/ ; as dangerous as the flannelette underskirt,' ; and both are abominations. . One might as well wear . clothing saturated with nitroglycerine. When Hordern's Emporium was burning a girl's hat was set. on firo by a drifting 'cinder that, descended amid the feathers. .Fortunately a rude stranger threw his coat over it and smothered .it before any .harm was,done. - . THE WOMAN IN THE CASE. Many different theoriesMiavo been put forward to account for the German Emperor's objection .to receive the scholarly Mr. Hill as American Ambassador in place of the Towers, who had so distinguished themselves socially. Now comes a story from Berlin that it was to Mts. Hill, wifo of the United States Ambassador-designate to that capital, that tho Kaiser chiefly objected. In her love of the simple life she is a true daughter of democratic America. The story runs that after tho tacit acceptance by tho Gorman Government of Mr. Hill's nomination to the post of Ambassador, some malicious talebearer reported to the German Foreign Office that the wife of the Ambassador-eltjct, during her residence in The Hague, was in the habit of going to market on a bicycle. Tho report reached the ears of tho. Kaiser himself, and he was horrified. THE SKIRTS OF CHANCE, Chance, aftor all, is only another name for Opportunity. The Skirts of Chance are the flying combinations of opportunities that peer and pass. • To seize the skirts adroitly is to grasp a full half of the secret of life's success. Any woman: content to look worse than her best is wasteful of her dearest chances. There is a boauty to which all women can attain —a beauty which no wise woman can afford to despise or neglect. That is the beauty of health made manifest in suavity of curve and the charm of a good complexion. If you,live, at a, distance, or prefer to treat | yoursolf, all the ' famous and incomparable Valaze remedies are at your disposal. If you .prefer skilled treatment—or if your defects are such as call for special care and caution—, communicate at once with the Valaze Massage Institute, Brandon Street, Wellington. Wliatover the trouble, you can trust yourself to tho Institute. Your complexion can be purified and made beautiful, your wrinkles and crowsfeet can be removed, all sorts of minor blemishes can bo toned down or done away with. Is it worth while? You ought to know. . Tho thing to remember is that these things only become ineradicable or permanently disfiguring as a result of noglect. If you want Ito catch tho skirts of chance, every minuto you wait adds to your handicap. In offering yourself for skilled treatment, you risk no- ■ thing, and tho certain gain is ontiroly to your r own advantage. Well, what in tho namo of J wonderment aro you waiting for ? \ 94G-1

Miss Beatrice Harradcn is busy travelling from plnco to place in England, giving readings from "Ships That Pass in the Night," and her other books, to raiso money to help the suffrage cause-