SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 10

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

tJi cos °f ® n jSß®iients ' and Weddings.— When reports of weddings and • b-iiuoiiiifo-ments of engagements" aro sent to "Dominica", for publication; tlu> .name and address; of; the . sendor should bis enclosed, not for publication, bul us an evidence Of good faith. .Otlierwiso the announcements cannot bo published.] 1 ,■ M" A: Wellington Wedding. 1 1 At tho Courtonay Placo .Congregational Clnrrcli'on- Timrsday, Miss Nellio Kathleen Slatlcr. was married .to Mr. John Henderson, the Ko>v\Macdonald. Aspland -perfbrmtng j tho ;bride; who was' given- away by her; father,-.ftore a'simple Mreiss of cream'silk taffctta, trimmed with -silk , chiffon, -.and. a bridal veil and, orange blossoms. She ■ earned a ■ beautiful shower a gift from "Now .Plymouth'. , Her bridesmaid.s ".were , Mary' Henderson, sister, of tho bridegroom,' and ilisa Cora T?iebig, ;cou6in of .the, bride,' who wore, dainty. .white, embroidered, muslin dresses• 'an'd ; white, hats, - and carried respectively': bouquets of pink and heliotrope sweet .peas, with white streamers. ' The bridegroom was attended by his brother;vKr.' James -Henderson, as;best man; and Mr. Lowe as groomsman; Tils ; wedding li'ffl 'fully., choral, both bride and bridegroom' being;-'members of -tho choir.' i After the cersmony ; the' brido's, : mother; entertained' the guests nt afternoon fee.', at her- residence/Caroline Street;. the. bride ■ and bridegroom standing under a' large hell of;white flowers. The bride's mother, Mrs., .Slatter. wore -a- gown of': black silk; crepbline, filk scarf, \ hat . trimmed: with feivthew "and 'jet,' and carried 1 -' a botiquet iof heliotrope.{Sweet' peas. v' Thi Smother of the bridegroom", Mts. Henderson,' wore a handsome dress of.blnel* siHt.;,trimmed.Avitlv :paMenm'en- ! .and •. black; feathered'.; )iat Mrs.• L'oasby; .t\unt;''.of:'..the; ; bride; n dress ."of 'blick corded silk;'cream'';scarf,.and heioifope hat. An in--' terested.-rgitert.' was - the..'bride's' grandmother,, who is invher'cigh'tf-fifth'year.- •• ■>'(*. ■ The bride's, present to tho bridegroom was a pair, of gold sleeve' links, the . bridegrbom's present to this bride a granny chain, and to the bridesmaids a'. Tjangle and ■ brooch in ' dainty blue '• Te'ccived,'"ineluaffig ? d'^PolalM 1, ohina i twwetand- frqifi and fifl«fc'(6S ? 'se9' i from the employees; of Messrs. E. W; : Mills and Co., find; an ; oak'clock .'with Westminster chimes from the 1 choir. . ; ;;' v

.• The, .bridegroom's, mother•'entertained'-aliiut. a 'hundred guests at tea, and the evening 'was spent ih'musio,and'games. . The travelling costume-was navy-blus ; 'cloth;'braided ui black, and' cream- hat trimnied -i\-ith\''vieux roso snV and;;roses.' ' Mr. and Mrs. ; Henderson are-visiting Auckland;and- Rotorua.. <

A Wairarapa Wedding.' M On Thursday at Mastertoh Miss. Ethel Davidson was married to : Mr. Rupert Clark, the ■Kev. G. K. Stowcll,officiating.] After the about. eighty:guests 'were.'entertained at a-wedding/breakfast " in" the Town Hall. ; Mr. Clark' aro 1 visiting; .Wellington. • Mrs. Will Crooks, visitor .to_ ihe__Hotel Windsor yesterday .evening found Mr., Will Crooks, M.P./standing under , the ~v erandah \anxiously. scanning i the stroot for signs,, of; his luggage,;, whieh -had gono ft .stray on loaving the station, and in a. room upstairs she found Mrs., Crooks waiting patiently lor some; word of its.safe arrival,.waiting with a good deal more patienco than'.tho average,woman would-be capable of, .but porhaps' a tour of: the world teaches philosophy'in-:this-respect. • • • • . . ■• .' • ..... '? .well known in' her! own aistrict' of Poplar, is a "woman. of, great' symana'neighbourly .kindness,, and, shc-plnys 1 a part in tho affairs of the wives about her,asimportant as that of her husband an tho political affairs of: tho men-folk.- • ; Ono would expect that; she .would- bo heartily in'sympathy; with the suffragist movement, if only for tho. reason that she'is a ; Socialist, but it; Seems-that ;eho_does notin the least' sympa--thise with .the efforts of- the. Suffragist party / ;fr an °hise.;."They are not aiming at adult femalo franchise," she says, "but ask for' a property "qualification.".;,, It is true that the amount .ot property necessary.:would be small. ,A,: rental, of:: JlO .a. year : woul'd,Vif: .they had their wayi Ontitle'.a womani'to'.a .voter but even ; this ; would .shut- out the, wholo. mass of working women; and Mrs. Crooks feels that to give. the vote only to women of comfortable rooans wouldbe to. do. a great wrong to tho'working, women. It would "meap, ,'she :says,. that for. ■ the 1 , next ten or twenty.years no Labour member;would Ibo returned, to the Ilouso.. Tho Conservative vote,would bo/doubled, and' the Labour, party, loso proportionately. . So, as- long as, this vote is asked for'with .thojiroperty qualification, tho wifo of. tho sturdy 1 Labour member .must oppose it; ; ; ' ,-Mrs. Crooks;.could/riot''say. much about the., part -played by the -wives of other Xabour members in philanthrojpieal efforts. Most of them come from,tho provinces, and she is.seemingly tho only London- Labour, member's wife, with the exception'of Mrs.'John ljurns.: Poplar is a very, poor district,' perhaps one of the; poorest, in London, f(ir • the large docks attract scores of mett. who como theroliopiiig for. employment, and who perhaps, tramp' the whole day long without earning a penny to support.their wives, and families. Mrs. Crooks draws a pitiful picture ;of tho'poverty .in : many a ;homo where the father, with a thoroughly honest desire 'for ■work,: spends hopeless days searching for even casual employment. • . : , The -homes are; sordid,: and' the ' young . girls, who- go from sohool' to factory: at a very early age;, think ; their ■_ greatest ichancct of escaping from the.:unhappincss of their own' home lies in marrying: aud.making tt homo of their own.. They marry - at a -very early, age, and, as. they have had no 'traihing-to fit them for domestic duties, the homo they inako; is, apt to bo, as coinfortless, as tho one they havo left. It js to give "theso .young girls 'an idea of housewifelyskill, aiid fit them for -home-making, that Mrs. Crqoks has opened ,a Girls' Club, which, meets in tho. Shaftesbury.' Hall, Poplar, where, they have, regular meetings for sowing, with one "evening'a.week for socials. .;■- ', . ■There aro. sixty , members, young girls who work in tho factories from eight in the momlng .till eight at night, and who come straight from work to'the. Club, to save What they have of the. ovening.' They nro provided with -tea, and thou, under tho supervision of three board sohool teachers, they are taught to cut out and sow garments' for; them selves, special attention being given to tho cutting out. The materials aro supplied by Mrs. CrookV antl bought bv the girls at a very moderate cost, and theso classes prove most successful. On her return to London,. Sfrs; Crooks is going: to extend tho' fcom of tlieir work; Mrs. Crooks is president of the Poplar branch of tho'Womon's Labour Loanue, but she' states that this political organisation has nothing to do with thft, suffragists:.. . . Mr?. 'Crooks .has been much strnck, as -sho travailed through No\y Zealand,';with jtho. fact that, whilo tbo Canadian and Australian people are distinctly" un-English on appcarance,. New Zealand folk , look liko , English petiple.'. , *

Children's Party. A children's pnrty, given by Miss Beryl and Master Douglas Earle at'Carrill's-last eveniiiß. providod pleasant for-.a;;iiost. 6t young people, / who i daneed and . indulged; in gomes of .various kinds, to tlio manifest enjoyment of thomsalvos and their elders looking on.

The Victoria League. _Ycsterday morning; the- committee-, of fto ' Victoria' League mot at tho, homo of. the pro. siueut, Lady Ward, who presided. The mein. - bers of committee present wore:, Mrs. Tuekey, : Mrs. Grady, Mrs.. Larnaoh, Miss Coates, Mrs. Chatfield, Mrs: Grace, Mrs. Harris, . Mrs. Cor-r -' rigan, Mrs.. Corliss,-' Miss Harding; and' Mrs, v;/ Rankino; Brown, secretary. - - v;:- •. Correspondence was received, including' leU;. : ' !' tors from Miss Talbot,- tho London secretary, ' vmo wrote, from- Adelaide.' Ono letter receivedwas from settler ' living -in '; tho bafck-blocks,' »••- a-stai-mvalid,'.who wrote to ask for literature-. " dealing with engineering .- and . mechahical-' science. ' .• . 'Miss Talbot ij; to,arrive'in 'TOlingfon'^UN.^V.';.• ing' the third. week in January, and arrange*.; . monts wero.-raado 'for her to: bo present"; at' V,;, 1 : three different meetings,: at a' reception jjiven V , b>' tho Victoria league, in the Concert Cham- ' ber of (ho Town Hall, at a meeting of tho committee of-' the league,-and at tho league's annual meeting, which, will bo. hold at that• time ! in' order; that >h6' -may be present. Mibs ,l'. 1 1 Coates, Mrs. 3. If vf.uko, and. Mrs. Corngaa Were appointed ,'a P b-co'mmittee/ to- make.- .ar» r ?®S e nionts for the,inception, i ■}.'-; : Tho'.' Wellington ( branc)i now numbers, ,'4OS . : moinbcrs, four of whom aro life incml»rs, and -; paying .-.for "a' cot. in tho hospital, it lias .C-W left- in hand. -~ ' . V.'-: , A letter -was. received concerning: tho -newly V ; , •.'; fonn«i branch of tho league at Aucklani',The : ; for tho .'coining year wore!. ' nominated, and • thfeir; liaines : will,. be ; submitted toflw, annual meeting in. tho ordinary coarse. : ;fhe secretary reported that a larga-collodion; of books had been sentout from England to bfi.distributedjainsnig. various schools.' ii ; . Several business, wore dealt .with',and a votro,of thanks earned .to Miss Coafes for' lending her. houso so that! tho-.m#.-.;f<-' Eideiit of the'league, 'lady-,'Ward, might ;bß' , . TClcome'd in. a fitting, manner. - ' .w,:';. 'Mrs, Ra'nkine Bro-mi, secretary of tlio ■! loaves,for;England before, tho next c'omniittce : •:!M meeting, and iticmbe-rs-esprcAscd, their,.appreciatioh of .tho services she had. rendered to tha loag)ie. In her absence Mrs. Chatfield will act-' V ' as secretary.w;! v Wollington Girls' College, , : v. - , -■ • K was found neccssary to appoint thred aow teachers, to. tho-,'Wellington-Girls' .Collfcgo -.- this - .. inonthi ' two ;of them ■to fill vacanoios' caused V ! M. recent .'resignation' of. Miss. Gellitly.and- -U J miss Morrah, and a third to meet tho increase in tho number of; scholars .--that' is expected nest, year.:;,At ',tho. meeting, of tho Board of .Governors'.yesterday.-<tho..\following were ap- , pointed. MißS'-Maud; -Rigg,-" I . l ' M.A.M.So., v'Misa, Salmond,, B.A.',;and-, Mies- Elsib'Jonnstoni i... • ij.A, •'i'V. f . Maud - Rigg.Vwho ■ is. doscribed 'as'.'- "ono ■ ! ' ■ J l ' the most -distinguished students they liavo' . had; at,;tho University;'" was. formerly dux of ■ '■ tho.,-,Wellington Girls' 'College. . She took her M.A, degree. at Victoria , Cofiego irith honours • t in mathematics,'and her.M.Sc.,.degree, special-, jsmg in' phj'siw arid.chomistry,; -.She : also won' : tho .Jacob Joseph scholarship lor" research.' For . the'past- two- years Miss', Rigg. has been second Assistant at the Southlaind; Girls'"High. School. ,' p ! Mabel Salmorid, 8.A., is a daughter of . - Professor Salmond, -of Otngo:.University. - Sho ') took her degree, at tho Otago f-Univerity, and v has, had Several years, esperienco as: a toachcr. For' k four ■ years'- nhb, .whs, second: assistant . at v ■;; Princc, Albert College, Auckland, and for eomo time teachor at the .Girls' High School in Dunedin. ■- .-• . ...

Miss>Elsie 'Johnston,, 8.A., 'who has been ap- 1 "■ pointed junior assistant, was also m hor famo 'dux of tho Wellington Girls' College. She won" ■ both a junior and a sqmor scholarship, and - exhibition .in French, and took her degrcoat -Victoria College'.-- ' Miss; Johnston taught for one ycaf at the; Girls';,', Collego. during - the absence of.'one; of.-the : 'staff; 'ahp ? has ;f6r' the lost 'C year, been teaching at a'private- school 'in Wd»' lington.. C ■; ■;> A' .- - A■ A Sale of Work. ■ ■ V ; ■ ■ A. sale of>work is to be held in,tho Sydney ;' ' Street' Schoolroom;.' on ..AVed^e.sd^y.' and' Thursday,, December 1 and 2, ,jn 'aid;, of. various parislu to bo stalls for tho salo ot tdolls, ~toys,. other .spcciaLicatiiro'will be the on-.:, I ;.' tertaiftmonls•;provided;in the afternoons and ;- evenijtgS.:: '.There . will bo musical • programmes in tljc' afteffidojiS.'iand 'Jliss. Sybil Johnston ia .' Brrauglrig iovenicg ''etitcrtainments. Thero are, ' : to/bo six la.blcani .representing • Shakespeare's •', heroines, Titnnia and Obcron, Kosalind and Celia. Mariana iri'i'tho; Moated 1 Grange, and the death;of.Cleopatra, apprppriate.inusio be--ing. supplied'by Mrs.- Cachomaillo,' and the 1 Misses Gertrude and Ethel Martin. • Thero is also to bo an acted story. set to Grieg's music, . i -Au' Printemps," which will be played by Miss Ethel Martin. Tho,.dresses aro to bo most beautiful.. Those who-havo seen previous ■ : tableaux arranged by; Miss Johnston will - uni these, jrill be .wdl .-worth .Koing. : , - Soclaj. atithe-Training-College. .Xast' night;nt the. Training College, -Tboui- ■ don, tho; students:who \arc leaving .were' enter* ' tained .by tho other students\ ;\t -a social; and danco. : :v ; The arrangements . in;i;the'':. - handslof .the, first-year .students,', and were cioellontly ' carried,' out; ;■ Supper : wis served': in-. !V , ; the;largo;lecture' hall; .and .th©: guests danced': - in tho big assembly room. During the oarlier.. ■ : part of tho evening there were musical items and, a oompotition, in w;hich 'a story was - told ' by means Of the, na'nies 'of'."Wellington streets, Vhich had to bo guessed by the ■ competitors."': This ! ,was.: very,, ingeniously, worked put, .fcnd" ■ caused'much amusement.' Tho competition was ■" won',by Miss.Bailey;. ahd'.Miss Staco,. who wero >: presented 'With : little books'.. The toast of tho .; King was imposed .by Mr. Gray, and that, of . the departing students by,.Mr. Morice, pre-.-r sident of.tho Students' Aesociation for tho com-' .?. ing year, the retiring prebident;. Mr. • Qordoti»' responding. . ■ • . . ■ '- '.

Tea at Talavora Terrace. • • : Str. and Mrs. Donald Robortson a few days ago .'-roturncd:; to their own home in ,Talavera ; Terrace,' and. Mrs. ltobcrtson gayo '• a very plea- ■,\ sa'nt little tea-there; yesterday afternoon. The drawing-room-.was .'decorated with most beautiful .roses' : dndy with .s>vbet.;scas in':two' shades " of pink. Mrs;, ltobertsori ; received in a frook of: .- ' :silk muslin,: over rose silk,',iTimmod with'embroidery of- gold;'and aluminium! with cream lace yoke and sleeves worked: with . - little touches of. ro'so. colour;.- Mrs. Knox,, who' helped w,ith the HeaV woro., a black silk with ■ broad whito;, stripes, i with.' vest and sleeves .of white uet, : embroidered'in mauve, and a largo picture • hat "with jet trimming. .' Among'; her' ;, guests were , Mrs.' Findlay,: Mrs. Tewsley,- Mrs; f 'lVWordjMrs. P. Samuel; Mts. Field, Mrs. voa r ■ Haast,. Mrs.: Adamson, , Mrs!.' Corliss, Mrs. Uussell,, Mrs. 1 Trihgliam, Mrs." : Baume, Mrs. v Kankino. Brown, . Mrs. Sidey, Mrs. Ponsonby, Mrs. Theo. Cooper, Mrs. Denny, Drown, aaa Mrs. Easterfield. ' ■ Afternoon Tea at Hutt. • ' j ■ . : . Yester'day afternoon the'. stiidents of '•the ' Wellington .Training Collego; : were entertained. v - ;5 by »Mr. and Mrs, Kolxrt Lee at their'home ,at the Hutt. About fifty students went' out and they .were accompanied by Mr., Gray, tho!"Prinoipal .of thd • college, anu Mrs/'Graj. It was a perfect day, and tho, Quests waudejed about the garden and Up tho hill, from which' a beautiful, ncw/of the valley and tie harbour is to be obtained; Afterwards lea was served in':; the - drawing-room. . During, tho afternoon .- soveral of-tho'.guests sang songs 1 ahd-'part '. Later; on, Mr.i' Morioj, on" behalf: of the ,Gtu--,■)v dents,' expressed -their.appreciation of the-hoe-' pitality and kindness,shown.: to them by,; Mr. q; and Mrs. .Lee. ■: *

De ca a visit, fo Captain Thomas, of tlio Salvation Army Rescue Homo at Auckland,-leifc by -tho Takapuna yesterday for Kolsonito M married oil Wednosday next to. Captain Atkinson, officerin charge'::;--; of the ArmyV work in that town, Urigadicr ; Albiston, I'rovincial Commander of the S&lvn- t > tion Army; for. the South Island, \vho \rill pex*.\form the ceremony, also left for Nelson by-' . tbo Taka))una yesterday. , Mrs.. .Malcolm., lloss. was • hostess yesterday afternoon at a very, enjoyablo tea, and among lior gnestslmre.iwvml of.the wives of mem-;'. ', bers of Parliament. 'rV.'i. ' ■ . • ■; • Prom December ■1. to: February: 15 . the Wo-V;. mon Students'. HoEtcl in .AVooleombo Street is"., open; to rcoeive 'tis toinporary - boarders 'women ■ >. ivho. aro : connected ■ with. scjiools ! -or:'univorsi-::-;.: :ties' or who ara.;eivit WrVaiits; : >r v olerks , ;;:;';,' ; : : i :: , Tlio annual meeting of. the Newtown, Girls'■ Association, in\to l ;lK> .held Vat : - : l!3; ; .Constabl» '; '. Street on Monday.