SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 21 August 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A number of guests wero present at a very onjoyablo tea given by Mrs. Miles yestorday afternoon at her home in Hobson Street. Tho dining tea table was decorated with crimson and white anemones and violets, and crimson shaded lights! Mrs. Miles wore a very handsome dross of bluo velvet with trimming of cream lace; : Miss Miles pink Empiro frock; Miss Bertha Miles, cream with touches ot blue; and Miss Hilda Miles, cream frock. 'Among others present wore Mesdames Salmond, M'Ewen, Kennedy, Litchfield, Fisher, Samuel, Ward, Blundell, Prouso, Webster, and Watson, and Misses Wai'd, Prouso, Reid, Simpson, Earadeaux, Nathan, and Dean.

The committeo of, the Young Women's Christian Association at its last meeting decided that the rooms should be kept open every evening as well as during tho 'day, and an attractive programme for tho week has been drawn. up. On Monday evenings a reading circle will bo held, under tho direction of Miss Gillandcrs and Miss Dallaston,. B.A. On Tuesday ovonings tho Gleo Club will meet under tho direction of Miss Rash. Wednesday evening is devoted to what is called a home circle. On Thursdays tho socials/: which have hitherto proved so successful, will bo held, and on Friday tho Sewing Guild will -meet. A devotional meeting will bo hold on Saturday evenings, and a Biblo class on Sunday afternoons, followed by .a strangers' tea. Tho members and > friends of tho Association arc working diligently. for a sale of work which will take place shortly to augment the funds.

What strikes , one as being a particularly happy idea has been evolved probably by Miss Sybil Johnson, who has a talent in this direction. It is that a ; series of evenings shall be devoted, by tho girls of tho Y.W.C.A. to tho- study of the works of various artists, and tho first of these which is to take place in September, deals with tho pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. . The opening address will be given by Miss Sybil 'Johnson, and ihis will be followed by tableaux representing some of Rossotti's most beautiful pictures.

The riflo club ball, which is oagorly looked forward to, as it is considered the event of tho season,-took Dlaco in tho-King's Hall on Wednesday night (writes our Paraparaumu correspondent), and notwithstanding tho unfavourable weather, was largely attended. The hall was prettily decorated, and dancing was kept up until an early hour. The supper was supplied by Mr. and Mrs. Wise. B,y this week's English mail news was received of the engagement of Miss M., E. Warren, daughter of Sirs. Warren, of Wesley Road, ,to Mr.i,P. Braithwaite, of London. Dr. and Mrs. Bennett, of Blenheim, aro staying at'the Royal Oak, Hotel. ' Mrs. , Bean, of Christchurch, is staying in town. ' , ' , On Wednesday,. at tho residence of the bride's parents, ■ Moroa, writes our Wairarapa correspondent, Miss Lilian Jane Hawkins,: only daughter of Mr. "E. B. Hawkins, was married to Mr. Herbert Adamson, of Nireaha.- Miss Baillie, of Groytown, was bridesmaid. ~ Yesterday morning, at tho Royal Oak Hotel, Mrs. Rutherford gavo a very pleasant little morning tea in honour of her daughter, Mrs. Robinson, who is at present staying with her. Tea was served at many, littlo tables, which wero prettily arranged :With spring flowers. There was somo delight-ful-music, songs-being sung by Mrs. Fislior, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.- Anderson, and Miss Hislop, while: Mrs.-Malcolm Ross gavo a recitation. Among tho' guests' w'oro Mo'sdam'os A. Hislop, Wilson, Fisher, Dyer, Anderson, Bean, Christie, "Aylivin, Ross, and'Wvlio, Miss-Hall-Jones, Miss Massey, Mr.. Rutherford, and Mr. Bell.

On Wednesday afternoon at St. Peter's Church Mr. Claude Thomas Jupp, third son of Mr. W. Jupp, was married to Miss Mary Murphy,, daughter, of Mr. Murphy,, of Adolrtido Road. Tho brido wore a dress of cream crepe do Chine, with bridal wreath and veil, and she carried a beautiful shower bouquet. Tho bridesmaids' wero her threo sisters, Misses Lydia, Jane, Olive Murphy, with her niece, littlo Miss Maisio Smith. Tho two el,dor bridesmaids wore frocks of. pink silk, and carried shower bouquets, and the two younger, who carried shepherds' crooks, were in bluo sillc muslin. Mr. W. Jupp, brother of tho bridegroom,. acted as best man, and Mr. Walker was groomsman. The Rev. G. P. Davys officiated. A wedding breakfast was held in tho Victoria Hall, and this was followed in tho evening, by a dance,. at which threo hundred,and fifty guests were present. Among tho many presents received was a marblo clock presented by tho members of Jiipp's Band.Tho hockey danco which is given every year by tho. combined girls' hockey clubs of Palnierston North and is always regarded by tho young people as ono of tho,most delightful dances of the season was given in the Municipal Hall, Palmerst-on North, last, night, and in every way justified their anticipations. The floral decorations were beautiful, and excellent music was suppliod by Hanley's orchestra. . Tile supper had been provided by tho girls themselves. Among tho -many guests wero the following:—Mrs. H. Palmer, who wore a frock of black satin with cream laco; Madame Greene, black silk 'with breast-kliot : of damask. roses; Mrs. Bett, black silk, with guipure lace; Mrs. Hellish, black silk trimmed with much fino laco; Miss, Pike, cream silk •with flounced skirt; Miss Miller, white frock; Miss MullinS, v white and blue; Miss Crawley (Wanganui), floral delaine; Miss Hadfielcl, primroso silk; Miss Alice Hadfield, charming semi-empire frock of, palo lavender silk, trimmed with silver embroidery and wide silver fringe; tho Misses Buick, both in white' and blue; Miss Walkley, palo crepo do Chine; Miss Freeman, blue silk with yoke and sleeves of not; Miss Olivo Freeman, white and blue; Miss Meade, white and bluo; Mrs. (Captain) Brown, black; Miss Hcaloy, white; Miss Forsyth, whito and blue; Miss Kerslake, palo yellow floral chiffon; Miss Wadsworth, blue and white; Miss Hilda' M'Cullougli, palo spotted muslin, primroso sash; Miss Doris Flyger, pale ,pinl; silk; Miss Dixon, lavender silk with touches of black; Miss Schwartz, 'floral silk with damask p roso; Miss Drow, cherry-coloured frock; Miss _ Gladys Drew, white; Miss Elsio Drow, pale pink ;Miss Winifred Cook, white and palo yellow; Miss-Whit-taker, palo blue silk with silver embroidery; Miss Vyso, reseda silk; and Messrs. Brotby, Palmer, Rudd, Batt, Bachelor (2), Moiylem, Hall, Freeman, Mitgridge, Edwards, Mellish,-' Patterson, Collinson (2), Bett, Hogg, Talton, Hutton, Anderson,: Hockley, Teed, Stubbs, Crump, Mansford,. and Daniels.

Melba cleared £2000 for tho London Hospital by tho charity matinee concert , that she has just given m London to comniemorato her twentieth year of operatic service. Mrs. Millicont Garrett Fawcett points out that tho new English Anti-Suffrage Association contains fewer distinguished names than the 0110 organised somo years ago, which has sinco gono to pieces; and that two prominent women who gavo their names to tho "Anti" 1 movement at that time, i.e., Mrs. ' Louise Crcighton and Mrs. Sidney], Webb, havo sinco como oyer to the suffragists. Women suffragists in England (says an American paper) clamour for their rights, mob tho Parliament building, smash tho windows in . tho Premier's residence, and aro run in by the police. Over here, a Chicago woman attorney gets a feo of £6000 for successfully prosecuting one caso in Court, a woman doctor attends ono of'the greatest prelates'of tho Episcopal church in his sickness, a woman delegate has • been chosen to sit in a national convention to nominate a presidential candidate, and no ono thinks anything of it. ■ ■