SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 236, 29 June 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The second of this season's Hutt Cinderella Dances was held on Friday evening, and it was if anything even moro enjoyable than thb ono which preceded it, So successful aro theso dances that the special train which takes tho guests back to town is quite crowded with visitors.. The decorations of the hall were very good. They wero of red and whito with draperies of red and white muslin, trails of lycopodium, and masses of greenery and holly. Tho back of the stage, which was as beforo arranged like a drawingroom; was adorned with bamboos and draped flags. - In the room adjoining tbo ballroom tho supper was laid on tables decorated with jonquils and narcissus, and lovely little howls of violets. The floor was in good order, and tho music, supplied by Butterworth's band, was excellent. The secretary, Miss Vernor Johnston, and her committee, the Misses E. Matthews, L. Leo, E. Allport, and M. Foster, with Messrs Strauchon, Russell, and Fulton, did everything in their power to make tho dance a. success. Thero wero about ninety couples present. Among tho number wero Mesdames Foster, Elliott, Bridge, Kingdon, Fulton, Adams, Allport, and Seaton. Mrs. Treadwell woro a handsomo rose pink taffetas trimnjed with cream lace, Mrs. Hayward, black silk; Mrs. G. Pearce, black silk with cream lace; Mrs. J. Rose, blue figured silk with jewelled trimming; Mrs. Alex. Mowat (Blenheim), whito silk trimmed with whito lace and opal trimming; Mrs. Home, palo grey silk with sequined lace; Mrs. H. Rose, pale blue silk; Mrs. Blundell,' pale _ pink flowered silk; Miss Foster blue silk; Miss M. Foster, white silk; Miss Clere, pale pink; Miss Elliott, primrose silk; Miss Lee, black with whito trimming; Miss L. Lee, pale blue; Miss Johnston, rose pink taffetas with cream lace and sequin trimming; Miss V. Johnston, pale pink, trimmed with P a l<? green, and pink and;green sash; Miss Matthews, heliotrope silk trimmed with darker, shade and creain lace; Miss Treadwell, pale pinlc chiffon; Miss I. Bodmin, pale pink: flowered silk-muslin trimmed with green;. Miss Allport, white silk; Miss Kingdon, white, Miss Hayward, white silk; Miss _6. Callender, white silk; Miss Beetham, white; Miss Mooro, pale blue; Miss E. Vallance, white;' Miss H. Morris, pink silk; Miss D'Oyley, -white; Miss Fulton, white; Miss Tregear, pale green silk. Amongst the men present were Messrs. Callendeis-Treadwell, Strauchon, Havward, Heaton,- Jackson. (2), Mirams (2), Rose (2), Prouse, Richter, Neave, Salmoncl, Wylic, Riddiford. (2), Bridge, Keeling, Kempthorne, Poyntcr, Grundy, Jacobs,' London, Alves, Alien, Blackmoro, Thompson, Tidey, and Dr. Pomare. . 1 -.

No social nows of the week will compare in interest with the announcement that the Wellington bakers' employees have gone out on strike. The head of the house will miss his toast at breakfast-time, the mistress will mourn for her delicately cut broad and buttqr at afternoon tea, and tho general will miss the cheerful "yawup" of tho baker's boy and his thunderous < hammerings on the back door. - For simple evening tea there shall be substituted the high-tea with merit dishes, and for the schoolboy's luncheon sandwiches of yore, he shall rejoice in chunks of cake and sausage rolls. In fact, that remedy of the little princess will be generally applied. The little French princess watching from a palace window as an angry mob of starving people marched and stormed arid threatened asked 1 why they were so angry, and when her governess said it was because they had no bread to eat, then said the child, "Why don't they eat cake?" Fortunately for the Wellington children, it is only the breadmakers who havo struck. There will still be a profuse supply of cake. As a matter of fact, nearly half the bakeries in Wellington will bo kept going, for in so' many the work ■:s ' done by .the - baker himself and members of the family,' though' there will bo a shortage of bread, there will not. bo a famine. ■

Last Friday evening Mrs. J. A. M'Gratli gave a delightful' littlo . party to celebrate the birthday of her daughter, Miss Eileen M'Gratli. The rooms were prettily decorated with ferns, evergreens, scarlet geraniums, and holly; and the supper table adorned with white and scarlet. During tho evening musical items were contributed by the Misses M'Gratli, Sweeney, Evensen, Lambert, and Dixon, and tho Messrs. Jennings, King, Fenncll, and Lambert. There were several amusiug competitions, one of them calling for a poem on the football match was won by Mr. Jennings,.of New Plymouth. The evening ended with a very jolly little dance.

• A- Cinderella dance was to have been given this evening in tho Goring Street Hall by Mrs. Wylie, but-.this has been put off owing to the,death of Mr. Wylie's brother, Mr. David Wylie, which occurred on Saturday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Reeves left on Saturday night for Lyttelton. , Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Johjison , are staying at the Grand Hotel.