SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss.lv.v Hislop is leaving for Sydney on Friday •Week,;- and- it ;is probable that jMrs. Ilislop and her sister will follow, perhaps to mako theirihonio in Sydney/. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Hislop. gavo a farewell tea for her daughter at her homo in HobsOn .Street. Songs were sung by. Miss Ivy Hislop and Miss Gow. Mrs. Hislop woro a frock of black chiffon taffetas, Miss Lily Hislop was in ■brown silk, and.Miss'lvy in white. It was a girls' 'tea, and among those present, were the .Misses Hall-Jones, Hut-herford, Henderson, Cooper, . E. Btilkley, 'Wilson, Gill, Holmes,' D'OyJey, and Gow; and Sirs. Hamer. '

Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Miles gavo a very pretty tea at. her homo in Hobson Street. Tho teartable was ' charmingly : decorated with, daffodils and violets. The centre-piece was a large silver bowl filled with the yellow flowers, and vases filled with them were grouped around, whilo' thero were little low bowls filled with violets. Four silver candlesticks' bore dainty shades of palest green silk edged with gold fringo, .and .a shade of tho same colour-was over tho largo' lamp that hung above tho table. 'Mrs.' Miles wore an artistic, frock of painted chiffon, in shades of mauve, with touches of mauve Velvet on tho bodice. Miss Miles wore-a palo pink frock mado in semi-ompiro stylo; Miss Bertha Miles's frock was of palo blue, and ' Miss.. Hilda i Miles wore'a pale bluo frock .with gold trimming'. Among- tho 'guests wero Mesdames Duncan, Tweed, Heaton Rhodes; .Izard, Head, Fit-, chctt, S. Harcourt, W. Nathan;-R..'Robert-son;. Denniston, Wilford, J. Studholme, and Beauchamp, and the Misses Duncan, L. Brandon, F. Denniston, Simpson, Beauchamp, and Ileid. ■ .- : .Tho Young Women's Christian Association is moving out of its old rooms info now ones abovo Pringle's on Lambton. Quay. The room is a much; larger one, and well adapted for the social entertainments, given by tho girls* The move is to be mado at once so there, will bo fio meeting.of the Bazaar Sewing 1 . Committeo to-morrow;, and the Sunday Biblo Class and strangers'- tea will be held in tho now --rooms,' which •■will bo formally opened with'a concert'arid, supper on Monday evening. . ■ . . <. v Miss "Estolle:-,Beoro is: arranging .a grand ballet entitled " May Dayfor production in the Opera House shortly.. A largo number of little boys and girls nro to tako part, and' many , original and picturesque dances have been arranged for them by xMiss Beere, who lias'cleverly adapted . the - ; old-timo ".Morrisdauod; first stopped in tho days _of Robin Hood to quaint music and danced with staves and tho jingle 'of bells. .This will be danccd ■by some sixteen lads and lasses costumed as Arcadians. Folly-dance, a rustic dance, and .jolly hornpipes Will also bo given, and gipsies will tako part in the revels, whilo'the dance of the May fairies will culminato in a grand tableau, the crowning of tho Queen of tho May. ■ • ]',■ ;' - : '■

' Yesterday afternoon Miss Elsie Jensen, eldest,"daughter of Mr.'Jensen, of Wellington Terraco,-was : married to Mr., Downing,. of' Wallacdvilie.' ■; The 'bride'woro a -.'charming frock of whito-chiffon taffetas trimmed with Irish ;laco,"and : she carried a lovely shower bouquet! . ... Shd/was attended by six bridesmaids, Miss Jensen arid Miss Downing in pale pink' taffetas,-with v/hite plumed silk hats, arid tho four younger maids in white corduroy, ■velvet'.' 'Major Hughes'was b'estma'n. Sirs'. Jensen, mother of the bride,, wo.ro a brown shot , silk mado in Empiro stylo, arid hat' to match; Mrs: Downing, mother-of, tho bride--groom, black tailor-made and black hat. A reception was afterwards held at tho resi;dorice of the bride's in. Wellington ■Terraco. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Jensen gavo a daince in honour of tho occasion in the Masohic.iHall,'when,,among other guests, the following: 'worjpresent: ;Mrs. Zachariah, Misseo. Cohen,' Begg; Aldersori,; Abraham, Morris'.'(2), ■C. -Moore, Cavangi, ' and':Car- 'j michael. '. -'■ .-'