SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

iWedding at Wanganui. ' At the.residence'of the bride's father, Liverpool Street, Wanganui, Miss Eosina Ethelind Harriet Harper, youngest daughter; of Mr. J. H. -Harper, a well-known ■< x resident of Wanganui, was married to Mr. William Alexander Hutchinson. The Rev. A..-S. Wilson officiated. Miss Ida Harper, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid, and Mr. Thompson Hutchinson was best ,mau. Tho bride wore a'dress of cream striped voile, with bridal wreath and veil, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet of white chrysanthemums and dahlias. The bridesmaidWroek was of pale pink voile, trimmed with insertion And black velvet, and she carried a bouquet of pink and white chrysanthemums and hops. ' . A', Farewell Social. - .Mr. and'Mrs.'Oliff Carlson, of Danne■Virke,. who,, with ,their,- family, are ] eay . ing that town shortly to live at one of iiT. Carlson's'. . stations, near" Te .Aute were entertained at the . Drill Hall 'in JJannevirke last week,- when there was a large and representative" gathering' of townspeople? Most of the evening was devoted to dancing and to cards, and during an interval farewell speeches wero made by the Mayor and the member for" the district, Mr. Halt saying, in the course: of his remarks, that it was the Uirlsons who gave Dannevirke its start. Mrs. Carlson was presented with a solid mlver tea service,. Miss Ada-'Carlson with Handsome silver-backed hair brush, comb and mirror and Mr.. Carlson with a motor rug, the gift of members who had Carlson' Borou ?h Council with Mr. ?The. Jig-Saw Craze! .' V - Jig-saw,'the craze that fastened ■on America and England, and even on Paris, ■which should havfe known better, has come to Wellington, not yet a craze, but lull of.- crazing possibilities. You buy it m a box, and, according, to your means, S-our leisure, or your ingenuity, you buy it in fifty or a-thousand pieces, a'nd then ■for a time you knowiuo rest. : , Jig-saw, or/zag-zaw as one . maker prefers to call it, is a puzzle developed from a child's game into one calculated to waste quite a lot of a grown-up person's.time. It is a. picture; puzzle, the picture ■ent with wicked, skill, into pieces almost impossible to put together,, then jumbled into a box and sent out without any guiding picture, to ba sorted out by oha or two or .more. innocent people, who ■ have never done any harm , to anyone. ' At first hearing, .the'thing'may appear easy enough, and when one is warned of its difficulty one simply smiles in a superior way, aud.says:- "Oh,, that -won't trouble me." And- then the trouble comes. ''-■'..' . -

.•--The' recipe for< ihe*-'trouble= runs -thug 7— Take a large table, and a jig-saw boi'; tumble the pieces out ,011 the table and arrange in the order dreamed of by the artist. 'Time required, from ten to thirty hours. No picture is supplied with-the blocks, and one guesses as' one goes along, vaguely, what it.should be about. Why, there are two 'dozen heads, in many bits, and at least five dozen feet. The colours are, cleverly, chosen and dinded, and a fawn-coloured piece may equally well be a bit. of road, a bit of house, an old gentleman's waistcoat, or a bit' of just common dog. ; One see's at once that this is an intellectual game, ont as one goes on the word intellectual ceases to serve, and one says, "Oh; \r~e\\, there's no denying it,is fascinating," arid after that* there are no apologies. It is quite a good game for families,- as there are enough pieces in the larger games to require several people's attention, and even ihen they will not find it easy to put a picture together. \ Of course, with so many pieces, care must be exercised not to lose one, and they are things easily lost, dropped, or flicked away. Should the jig-saw craze take hold of Wellington we shall probably be quite accustomed to see advertisements of this kind in the local press: "Lost, between Lambtbn Station niic Cnba Street, one jig-saw piece showing a Aorse's ear and' half its eye. Finder will be rewarded 01) returning to — : — '-,' and next day the notice altered to finder Will be handsomely rewarded." Does this sound absurd?. . Then you have not met jig-saw. A Presentation/ ■■*■*: Miss Evans, who has for several years been a member of ■ the Telephone Exchange staff, and who is, shortly to be married, was presented last week by her comrades in the Exchange with a Handsome wedding gift in the shape of a complete set of table silver.

The Boys' Institute Garden Fete. A meeting of the general committee of the Boys' Institute garden fete will be held in the Museum this evening, at 8 o'clock, when the reports of the officers and various sub-coniniittees will be received. ■ . • -.•....' Victoria League in Napier. Miss Talbot addressed a nfeeting in the Borough Council Chambers at Napier on Friday afternoon, when' a large number of ladies were present,. and Bishop Williams presided. At the conclusion of Miss Talbot's address Canon Mayne suggested that a provisional ' committee should be formed, and the following committee was then, elected:-Mesdames Mayne, Stedman, Warren, P. W. Williams?, Leask, R. Duncan, T. H. Lowryj Misses Large, E. Williams ' (Frhnley); rs f, J i>S : Sheath ' Warren ( Te Aute ). E. D. D. M Lean, and Canon Mayne. Sli«s Butherford ; was elected secretary. Obituary, s> . H;, Cole, one of . Wairarapa's earliest settlers, who had-resided in linsterton for about 44 .years, died there on Friday at the age of 77: She was born in Ross.-shire, Scotland, nnd came out to New*.Zealand in the ship Bcrar. Mrs. Cole, who was a widow, leaves three soulMessrs. William, Henry, and John Cole' one daughter, Miss E. Cole, and a sister Mrs. Tiusley. '

Lady Dudley's Scheme, ■A Press Association message received from London last night states that at Lady Dudley's request tho Council of Queeii Victoria's Jubilee Institute of ■A'urses has: arranged that Miss Hushes, the ; general superintendent, shall visit Australia to organise au order of nurses. Doubtless this refers to Lady Dudley's schemo'for providing nurses for the backblocks of Australia. Ever since she arrived in Australia and found how difficult it was for the families of settlers in (he backblocks to obtain proper care and attention when they were ill, the wife of the Governor-General has been intent upon the scheme which she herself proposed, to train and provide nurses for work in country districts. Madame Melba during her last visit to Melbourne took the suggestion up enthusiastically and subscribed liberally to the fund. . " " ■ Madame Calve, , ■ A Press Association cablegram , from London states that Madame Calve sailed on Friday for her tour to Australia and New Zealand. ' Miss Bennett and Miss Vallance, of Masterton, leave for London by the lonic at tho end of April. Miss Writers, from Carterton, is staying with Mrs. Fitchett at Day's Bay House. . " ■ ■ . '■ Lady Ward has announced her intention ■to bo present at the concert Mr. Andrew Mack is giving in the Opera House tonight. ... '~■ .'■ * ■ Mr. and. Mrs. Carl Thompson, : of Dannevirke, arc visiting Wellington with their family. ..-;.;,■