SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 17

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Bush (Marlborough) is visiting her mother, Mrs. T. Rapley.

Miss Church (Melbourne) is on a motor tour of the Dominion.

The Misses Higgins, who were guests for some weeks of Mrs. Bush (Marlborough) have returned to Sydney.

Dr. and Mrs. Paterson (Christchurch) left this week for Wellington cn route to America,

Miss Annette Barton (Featherston) has been paying several visits in the south and left this week on her return to the Wairarapa.

Miss Jessie Craig (Auckland) will arrive in Wellington to-day and will leave by the Makura for San Francisco, and later for England.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jenkinson (Feilding) are passing through Wellington on their way to Dunedin, where they expect to be for a few weeks.

One of the attractions to be organised in connection with the St. John Ambulance Association campaign for funds is to be a ball which will be held early in May.

A carnival in aid of the funds of the Hutt branch of the I'luuket Society will be held at the Riddiford Park, Lower Hutt, this afternoon. The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, will be present, and will perform the opening ceremony.

Mrs. Knox Chapman (Melbourne) left Wellington last evening for Auckland on her return trip to Australia. Mrs. Chapman has been visiting Dunedin and the Southern Lakes, and has also seen the sights at Rotorua.

A woman’s charm is a subtle thing, most difficult of definition. It may depend on the sheer loveliness of face and figure, but it is far more likely that it lies' in a certain ingenuity, that governs her choice of clothes, and her realisation of the type to .which she must conform (states an exchange). A woman whose appearance is considered “nondescript” and “dull” might turn her very insignificance to good account. Supposing, instead of buying to camouflage it with vivid colours, she accentuated'it by wearing demure greys and smoky blues, with a suggestion of lacy softness about the neck —behold her "dullness” immediately transformed to “charming quainthess.” A woman whose claim to be called beautiful is widely recognised denies that her features are remarkable for their loveliness. She attributes any beauty she possesses to the hours she has spent tn Study of pictures by the master painters of all countries and all centuries.

■Tn appreciation of the splendid patronage accorded us by the ladies of Wellington during the last fifteen years we have decided to introduce the following innovation Every twentieth permanent wave will be done free of charge (half-head), and every five hundredth purchaser of goods or attention will be permanentlv waved free of charge. Results will be announced Stamford and Co., Ltd., 68 Willis Street Tpl. 44—745.—Advt.

Weddings to De artistic must have bouquets to harmonise with frocks Miss Murray, 36 Willis Street. De* liveries anywhere in Dominion. —Advt

Mr. and Mrs. Cassells, Brooklyn, have returned from Dunedin, after spending the past five weeks there.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Warren (Pirinoa) have left for a motor trip to Rotorua, where Mr. Warren, in company with Mr. George Elliott, will do some fishing.

At the annual meeting of the Masterton Golf Club, held on Thursday evening, Mrs. H. G. Williams was elect' ed ladies’ president; ladies’ captain, .Mrs. P. Gordon; ladies’ secretary, Miss F). Robicson; committee, Mesdames Hornabrook, Rishworth, Lawrence, Robicson, Broad, Misses Perry and Murrav.

The marriage took place in All Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, of Mist Grace Parrant, eldest daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. 'George Parrant, Carterton, to Mr. Keith Howard Reid, youngest son of Mr. Charles Reid, Clareville, Carterton. Miss Myrtle Kreite (Wellingt/m) was bridesmaid, and Mr. Horace Reid best man.

The engagement is announced of Dr. Mollie Fisher, daughter of Mrs. Fisher and the late R. 11. Fisher, of Wellington, to Mr. Harry K. Christie, F.R.C.S., eldest son of Mr. Andrew Christie, of Napier. Dr. Fisher is at present doing pcst-graduate work at Cambridge, and Mr. Christie is on the resident staff of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Great Portland Street, London.

Madame Dclaruc-Mardrus, a wellknown French woman of letters, has just been awarded the Order of Christ of Portugal. The Order carries with it the right of mounting on horseback and riding into any’ church or sacred place (states a London exchange). _ This is one of those anomalous survivals, of which many exist at our universities, which have only continued because nobody has worried to use their privileges. Madame Delaruc-Mardrus is, however, of an Amazonian breed, and lias declared that she will exert her rights. When she goes for her annual holiday to the little village of Honfletrr, she proposes one day to ride into the village church. 1 imagine that the villagers will not object if she gives good notice of the affair. The crowds will be great, and the profits made front them should be large. But it all seems to be a little unnecessary.

One of the most difficult signatures to obtain is that of the present French Premier. But a wily woman autograph collector has managed to penetrate his defences. She wrote that her sister was in the midst of a delirious fever, and that she imagined herself to be in correspondence with M. Briand. If they could only show her a letter written by him she would be cured. M. Briand could not resist the plea, and his autograph now holds a place of honour in the deceiver’s collection (states a Paris correspondent). This reminds me of the stratagem by which a friend obtained the signature of a reticent English dramatist. He wrote to him in £ childish fist, and asked if he would ■give, permission for a pet rabbit to be called after him.. The reply came back, “Certainly not. How do you know that the rabbit would not object ?” The refusal was curt, but the signaure was in full, so my friend did not worry. Manv years later, when the trick was revealed, the great man remarked that he did not object to giving his signature if he was amused. The person who asked straight out, however, could only get it by paying for it.

Mrs. MacDonald, recently from India, left Wellington last evening for Auckland, to join the Aorangi for Australia.

Miss Irene Buckhurst (Christchurch) will leave next week for a visit to England.

■\ New Zealander recently returned from the United States comments upon the frocking of the average American woman. Characteristic touches were given by frills, flounces, and ribbons, even among > the singularly plain and unadorned fashions of to-day. Kid gloves of all shades were a novelty, and a new pink tint, whose shades vary from salmon to almost a beige colourin'’ has recentiv made its appearance, atid is gaining 'much popularity.

Some original and effective novelties for table decoration are coining out this season in Paris (says the London “Evening News”). One is a group of water-lilies half open, each petal made of a single flawless curved shell of pure white mother-of-pearl. In the heart of each blossom is an electric lamp. The foliage is of flat glass painted a' deep green. For a smaller table there are trails of rose japonica in its rich scarlet, with an electric spark at the centre of’each blossom; and then for ultra highbrow people who make no profession of seeing life in rosy hue there is another scheme all in sapphire blue. The centre-piece is a pool of water, in a dark blue glass, on which floats a reflection as of a rav of moonlight thrown by the lamp beenath the water. A fine jet of water springs into the air. Vases of sapphire blue stand about containing leafless Christmas roses with a spark of light in each to throw into relief the livid white of their petals.

In her 88th year, the death took place at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Marsden, Stoke (Nelson), of Mrs. Frances Rees, widow of the late Mr. W. G. Rees. Mrs. Rees, with her husband, landed in Wellington in 1859, and Mr. Rees was the original discoverer of the possibilities and extent of Lake Wakatipu. Mr. Rees took up land there and was for many years the only settler in that district, many of the surrounding features of which were named by him, such as Diamond Lake, _ Dart River, Shotover River, Mt. Ceci! and Walter Peak—named after his eldest son. The original homestead was on the site now occupied by Eichardt’s Hotel, and on that land being taken over by the Government as a town reserve, Mr. and Airs. Rees moved to a new homestead at Kawarau Falls, and it is still known as the Falls Station (states the Nelson “Mail”) The present Kawarau gold-mining operations are within a few hundred wards of that homestead. It is interesting to note that it was in one of Air. Rees’s whaleboats that the first consignment of gold, valued at £60,000, was sent from the Wakatipu diggings. The small town of Frankton, on the way to Kawarau Falls, was named after the late Airs. Rees. One son, Air. Cecil Walter Rees, of Wellington, and two daughters, Mrs. Marsden ' (Stoke) and Aliss Mildred Rees, survive her.

FINE QUALITY SILK. Ask vour dealer to show you Silk Sheen Silk Hosieiy Examine it and you can see the extra reinforcing that incans extra wear. You can feel the fine quality of the silk and notice the careful finish and splendid appearance of Silk Sheen Stockings, which are yet priced at only ss. lid.—Advt.

Street collectors were abroad yesterday, their labours being devoted to raising funds for the benefit of the Wellington Free Kindergartens. Stalls were placed at all the well known street stations, and badges were sold for a shilling or as much more as the passer-bv cared to give. Fortunately the greater part of the day was fine, and as a result of the effort a sum of

about £2OO was taken. Probably it would have been considerably more had not the rain descended just as all the offices were closing. At such times people do not want to bunt for small change, ’flic list of stall-holders has been already published.

Almost any politician can win applause bv saving: “All that I am 1 one to the little wife.”

Too many people think opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

“But, Gladys, on what grounds docs vour father object to me?” “On any ground within a mile of the house.