SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Tho annunl sports of the Wellington Girls' College are lo held. on Friday afternoon at tho lCdlburn farlc. .This is always an event which- is looked'forward Jo with much interest, not, tiiflv by tlie girls themselves but by. "iiltl girl" relatives and friends of tue present-day students. Mrs. Shirtelide has returns! o Wellington'from a visit, to Invemirgill l Mrs. Deans (Christcluirch )v.a- .. r.issenger by the Reimiero from ,E:'sand. Miss Balcombe Brown returned to Wellington yesterday l)y the Heuiuora from Auckland. Mrs. Louis 13'unde.ll is visiting Auckland and Hdtorua. The engagement is announced of Beryl, younger daughter of' Mr. and Mrs. 1\ solig, of Christcluirch. New Zenland. In Oscar Lewis Gilbert' Joscphson, eldest son of Mrs. M. Josepheon, .of Sydney. Miss Selig's fiance served in tho wur iov four yoars. . A French war bride. Mr*. Athol-M'lven-zie. formerly Madomoisello Therpse: Dubois, died at Slnrton on Saturday. Murriod in Amiens three years ago; she and her husband caine to New Zealand a year later. She was only twenty yeiirs of age. To Aid the Starving Children of Europe Fund, Mis* Dorothy Snuriders is presenting tho annual dance recital of her pupils 011 Saturday and Monday evenings next in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall. Not only will there bo pretty and original ballots' and solo dances/but vocal items as well, Miss Eilceri Clifford being among thoso who are contributing*. to this part of tho entertainment, while recitations will btt given by some of 'Miss Helen Gardner's pupils. An excellent orchestra will be under the direction of-Mr, Wolfgang. 'Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Viscountess Jcllieoe are giving their patronage, and tho Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) and a committee arc assisting iliss Saunders In.. regard to variolissido issues in. connection wltli the entertainment. Altogether the evening promises to be.most attractive. The marriage took place on September 10 of Miss Elisabeth' Nicholson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Nicholson, of Jfangataheri. New Zealand, t«. Dr. George Sinclnir, M.8., Ch.B., Lock- 1 ei'bie, eldest son of Mr, and Mrs ,Imm Sinclair, Nottingham, Latheron, writes a London correspondent. The ceremony wok place at the Boyal' Hotel) Thurso, and was conducted by the Rev. Alister Mackenzie, United Free Clinrcl). Castletown, assisted by the Kev. J. P. Sinclair, Free Oliuich, Cootlctown. The marriage took place recontly at Holy Trinity Clnirch, Devonnart (Auckland) of Miss Audrey Griblen, third daughter of Mr. and M,rs. G. A. Gribben, of "Overdone," Dcvonport, to Captain \V, F. E. lllooinfield, son of the. late Mr. M. K. Bloomlield and Mrs. Bloomfield, of Gisborne. The following candidates from tho Convent of the Sacred Heart, Island- Bay. passed the First Aid examination, held under the St. John Ambulance Associn' tion, recently •-Maiorio Logan, Eva £ykes, Ellen Scott, Eileen Bourke, Eileen McCarthy, Siubra Lynch, Ailsa Dillon, Nenagli Gleeson, Helen Mills, Hileen .Goodson, Gwynnytt-'Griffiths. Mr. and Sirs. W. D. Lysnar liavo returned to Gisborne from Wellington. . - Mrs. Ivo Symes (Wanganui) arrived, in Wellington on Monday to sing at a concert given by the local Caledonian Society.' ' - ■ ' A garden fete in aid of tlie •Stewart. Kavitane Home and .Plunket Society wns ; held,at the residence of Mr. John Stevenson, Wanganui, on Saturday afternoon, nt which a sum of over ,£3OO was realised. ■ ' • Sir Andrew and lady Unssell have eomo to Wellington to farewell Miss Mildred Russell (Sir Andrew Uussell'f) sister). who is. leaving on her return to England. ' » Mr. and Mrs. Howard Booth have re-' turned to Ciu'tcrlon from Chvistcliiucn. vMr ■ C.' E. Statham, M.P.. and Mrs. Statham (Dunedin) have returned- to Wellington from a week-end visit to New Plymouth. Miss Curran, who has been visiting America, has returned to Wellington, and' is staying at Sayes Court. t

How England Pays for Gas, The public, it is authoritatively elated, can look to considerable advanage from the introduction of thermal units in the calculation of; pis bills, states the "Daily News." A therm is the liamo giveir to 100,000 British thermal units. . Olio thermal unit is the amount of heat absorbed iirraising ono pound of watei 1 one degree Fahrenheit. In South London, where' the Act of Parliament sanctioning this change lias been first brought into. operation by the South Metropolitan Gas Company, consumers -will in future pay on a calorific power .standard, as against a.n illuminating power anl Thus the consumer will be payin? for the amount of heaii he receives, and not. for the quantity of vapour -which goes through his'meter. Under tins new system the companies have to declare to the London Gouniir Council the heat; In* value, of the gas supplied, and the London County Council is remured to ascertain bv ft system of testa that tilts declaration is complied wit,ll. the houtli Metropolitan Company's gas is declared to contain 560 British thermal units per cubic foot. \To ascertain the number of therms used it is only necessary to millliply the number of cubic feet consumed I,Y 'the declared heating value ot tho |»ns, and divide the result by 100,000. Wr 14,000 cubic feet x 550 and divided Iff. 11)0.000, equals 77 therms. For the Starving Children, " A well-attended meeting of Indies rerf-; dent at Brooklyn was held in the Baptist Church Schoolroom yesterday. afternoon to consider the matter of helping .m the. appeal which is being Starving Children of Europe luuul. The Hew B. Hutsoii occupied -the nsMiir. an the Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) attended the nieetiug. After the great need for this effort had 'bee" emphasised, by the, , cKMrmaii, Mrs. Luke made a strong apneal for help for the children of Central Europe, pitiable and most belplcsK victims of the war. A.discussion fo owed and a committee was v, ith Vrs S Pearson ns president of theßiooKftu ««s> ?»E <jj-«arrwsWs9i five blocks, and the was til be commenced foitlnwtli. f« '■« Kintal is b t held shorty the to do what. po.sibie to" help in this appeal was shown by these present

The Influenceof..an Empress. Tlie London "Daily Telegraph" recent. ly published a few interesting (acts upon the. late* Empress .Eugenie's wouderiul dresses. It was said by von .Moltke ''that iiw neck and arms-were incomparable. Tito article is particularly. interesting, for it records how fashions repeat tnemr selvcfi, on moditied lines. It seems that when Queen Victoria went to Paris she was rceoh'cd at; Chcrbouig by the Emperor and Empress. . Of course,., the lull crinoline skirts were then- Worn,' and special' .provision', liad "to "be ni.ido on benrd «!'))>. the gangways, and companion ladders hi ing widuicii, so that the ladies of-the suite could pass, along them, ino dresws of the moment, were llouhced to . the waist.' and tlic Empress had her gowns IVathered along the edge, so afl to soften t'e outline. Well,. to-day many of our frocks lwvc tiers of flounces, and during th, Prince's visit-some of the prettiest, hall dresses were those with os, trich leat her fringe, edging the-, The article goes on to say. that the Lm press's world-wide power in the nia.tl« of dress' Kas' perhaps tire bc*t summary in the "Memoirs" of Dr. lhonias W. Evans, who brought her in . safetyEngland. He. says:— ~.. "It was with the,most exquisite, tact and tnste that she fixed the line wlipre fashion slopped and W. pnssbeyol'd" umnCl hnv«-beon ridicUiOtts. Ahc neau liiondp everywhere accepted her in these matters. From the' day she en. tered the Tuileries the Empress ruler of tlie world of inshion and "ie Sfffiifc a her XnSge And yet ladies who are at all prominenb "ft <E"S« KS of a few gown's made for special ccrcmonduring the whole.tiniS.that I was dresses were much less cxpensi . . "Money Grubbing Girls?" . .. • 'Mr Arnold Bennett, in his , S«i~ i" .Sflm'iwili, -mtyggP a monoy-gruiiber, in. (h,O t ?'* \r r ' in whicii we are aU 'lnoney-wübbmg. Mr., Bennett shows clearly that ono ® chief objects of ia economic freedom.. He :sap the salary-earning girl is tjiat 1 thins, n nioney-ffrubbor. blie » monev either for. hsqraelf or f° r ' ' but. usually for hcrselt. and she plunges into the ignoble world Hi ■ rder to set it. Money always costs, a price. Sho pays the price, in the loss of qualities or ignorance, and naivete, and dependence which once were highly i6teemed; and she pays it in hard work, Often in dis« comfort, and sometime? in impaired health. Money is partial or complete economic freedom, wltich is what she is after.' . . *Later in the chanter Mr. Bennett finds that. "Money-grubbing is tiius not an unmitigated evil. W° go further, and shy that, practised in moderation, it is_an unmitigated gooct nnd tlie pnrent of happiness, justice, and sound sagacity," The. young man of to■'•day.'" shysi ilr. Bennett, lijeels in . the salarVrearniiig girt "somebody who is nearly hip equal in material matters. an(t Ills remarks to lier nre likely to lie tested ■It.'every, point by experience—experience of men, Experience of economics, experience' of life." "Is, then, lovo reduced to ni'ose? Not in the slightest degree. There is less bargaining than ever there was. and'such "bargaining ns Temailis is much less crude nnd much less one-sided than the old Love has a larger scope than aforetime, and tta lemptaETons in ignoro love and to pretend that' love exists when it does not aro immensely' fewer." By salary-earninj girls Mr. Bennett explains that I/o means "that very middle class of girls who wholly or partly earn their own living."