WOMEN IN PRINT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT

The engagement is announced of Miss Enid Elgar, only daughter of Mr. Elgar, of Femside, to Captain Hamilton, A.D.C. to His Excellency the Governor. Mrs. Levein and Mrs. Tully (Brisbane) left to-day for the Bluff, en rout© for Hobart. Mrs. Reading _ left to-jtlay to visit friends in Dunedin, Miss N. Wilson (Bulls) is in town, for the races. Mrs. A. Hardy (Wanganui) is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Richardson. Mrs. and Miss Melton (Hawkes Bay) are in town for the races. ' Mr. and Mrs. G. Seymour (Wairau) are staying at the Eoyal Oak. The officials of the Wellington Racing Club had nothing but the happiest conditions for their summer meeting. It was a lovely day, and the attendance was large and representative, and even more beautifully dressed than usual. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Islington, with their staff, arrived in good time. Lady Islington wore a white muslin gown with a quantity of lovely lace about it, wide black corsage belt, and large black hat with crown of white marabout feathers and , white wing at one side. Miss Stapleton Cotton had a white muslin frock and large black hat with white wings. Lady Beatrice Clark, who arrived in the afternoon, wore a beautiful gown of brown mole cloth, handsomely braided tunic skirt, and hat to match trimmed with wings. Lady Ward wore a soft grey braided silk costume • and large black plumed hat. Miss Ward wore an embroidered white muslin gown and black hat trimmed with blue ribbon and flowers. Mrs. Wilford wore a blue muslin costume and scarf and black hat with blue flowers ; Mrs. Dalziell, a rose and white soft silk gown and hat trimmed with blue; Mrs. Johnston, a very handsome black silk costume, with lace, and large black plumed hat; Mrs. Robsoit (England), a lovely black ninon gown, trimmed with black lace, and hat with octrich feathers ; Mrs. C. J. Johnston, a handsomely braided brown Oriental silk dress and brown hat to match ; Mrs. J. Blundell, a black striped silk voile over petunia silk, with jet and coloured motifs on the bodice and black jetted toque ; Mrs. A. Duncan, a very pretty French grey costume, with touches of vieux rose velvet, and large grey satin hat wi£h pink roses ; Mrs. Tringi ham, a beautifully embroidered white [ muslin frock, and pretty floral hat; I Mrs. Vivian, Riddiford, a mauve chiffon silk, with prettily draped overskirt of floral chiffon, and Tegal straw hat with wreatli of flowers. Mrs. Eric Riddiford wore a braided saxe blue costume, and large black hat with ospreys; Mrs. -Maurice G-illon, a pretty muslin costume, and large white hat with black lining; Mrs. C. Bidwill, a black and white spotted foulard silk, with Tegal straw hat with black tulle choux ; Mrs. Elgar, a white muslin gown draped with lace, and a large black hat with pink ostrich f eatherß ; j Miss Kennedy, a champagne muslin, and black hat trimmed with wattle; Miss B. Fitzgerald, a pretty white muslin with embroidered insertions and choux of white taffeta, and green hat ; Mies A. Kennedy, a pretty mauve muslin strapped with silk, and a hat to match trimmed with mauve stocks ; Miss Rubi Seddon, a heliotrope charmeuse, and hat trimmed with heather ; Mrs. Dymock, a 'saxe 'blue ninon costume, , and black hat trimmed with blue; Mrs. K. Duncan, a grey cloth gown, and hat to match with grey feathers; Miss Hislop, pale blue Shantung co&tume, and blacK hat; Miss Head, a white coat and skirt, and brown straw hat with black ribbons ; Miss Hilda Mile^i, an embroidered gown of white muslin, with black hat with pink trimming ; Miss Williams, a white ninon gown strapped with satin, and blue hat with feathers ; Miss Elfie Williams, a tussore silk., and pretty grey hat with grey oats ' and red velvet flowers; Mrs. Herbert, a white voile costume, and large hat trimmed with blue net choux. Mrs. Clay, a pretty magpie costume, and black plumed hat; Mrs. Joseph, a handsomelybraided brown costume, and black hat; Miss Joseph, a blue soft silk gown, with cream lace yoke, and hat with scarlet flowers ; Mrs. Guise, a petunia coat and skirt, ,and small toque to match. Amongst others who were present were Mrs. and Miss Burnes, Misses Reid, Miss Anson, Dr. and Mrs. Webster, Miss Cooper, Mrs. and Miss Tweed, Mr. and Mrs. Biss, Misses Brandon, Mr. and Misses G. Seymour, Mr. and Mrs. W. Bidwill, Miss Haybittle, Mrs. L. Rutherford, Mrs. apd Miss Kane. The President, Mr. J. B. Harcourt, entertained Lord and Lady Islington and their party and others at luncheon. In the afternoon he entertained a large number of visitors at tea. ' His daughter, Mrs. Maurice Gillon, assisted him in receiving the guests, in the absence of Miss Harcourt. Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P. and Mre. Luke, will be passengers for Lyttelton by the Maori to-night, en route for a holiday tour in Otago and Southland. Mrs. Malcolm Roes arrived in Auck land last week by the s.s. Mantua, from an extended tour of England and the Continent, and returned to Wellington by the Main Trunk Express on Saturday. Miss A. F. Ironside, M.A., of Lyttelton, and formerly of Auckland, has been appointed senior mistress at the Palmerston North High School, vicp Mies Lynch, resigned. Miss Ironside studied at Auckland University College, and has had teaching experience in the Prince x\lbert College, Auckland, and in the District High School, Reefton. One of the acts of cruelty alleged by a wife in the London Divorce Court was that, although she could not skate, her husband took her to tho centre of the rink and left her there, with the result that she fell and broke her leg. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cartlidge, of Stoke-upon-Trent, Market Drayton, recently celebrated their diamond wedding. Mr. Cartlidge's wages when he married were 8s a week, and they have never been more than 15s He has nine children. . "Did you want to kill it? It wasn't a cliickeii. You might just as well ha-ve given it prussic acid," said the Poplar coroner to a woman whose baby had died as a result of her feeding it with oatmeal. Of her fifteen children ten have died. Weddings. — Brides' and bridesmaids' bouquets in numerous styles, artistically designed ; only choicest flowers used. Special floral tributes for invalids, friends, relatives — at Miss Murray's, A r ice-Regal florist, 36, Willis-street. Telephone 265.— Advt. A man is m old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks. "Vitalis," the nerve-building tonic, makes you -well and kdcpi you well. — Claude H. Perretl, M.P.S.PLC., Chemist, Manners-fit.— Adyt.