A CANADIAN WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 13

A CANADIAN WEDDING

The marriage took place at Toronto, Canada, on 27th October, of Miss Barbara Anu v Mackenzie, daughter of Mrs. James Mackenzie, of Featherston, to Mr. Irving E. Robertson, proprietor of Canada's wealthiest newspaper, the "Toronto Evening Telegram," states a recont advice from the Vancouver correspondent of "The Evening Post." The circumstances of the wedding were unique. It was solemnised in a little stone church oh Lake Simcoe,-not yet completed. 'The wedding was to be quiet, and the time and place had not been announced; but somehow the news got abroad, and by 5 o'clock in the evening, when the bride arrived, the roads around were filled with cars. There were no pews, no furnishings, as the workmen at the church had but two days' notice—sufficient to put windowglass in. The -country folk around niade a brave phow of decorating the little edifice with groat branches of autumn leaves, banked up against the improvised altar. On a white cloth were two Grecian vas,es filled with white asters, cosmos and tall grasses. In front of the altar a rug covered a small portion of the unpolished floor. Here friends of the bridal pair placed two seat cushions from their car, to form a simple prie-dieu. A few minutes after

Late News of Flounces. This is what a traveller abroad tells of flounces:—The flounced skirt is popular. There are many ways of making it. Flat, fonr-ineh flounces may run round a skirt like a spiral staircase, ! and melt.away into the waist belt or sash. They may trim the dress all round and meet at the side to fall in a cascade drapery below the hem. They may slant across the front only, and fal in cascades down one side. They may cascade on both sid^from dipping lines, or they may trim the sides and Back of the dress and leave the front to be draped by their ends. They nev,er run straight. Either they wind or dip, or they slant and turn back on themselves, or, again, they are wide on one side and narrow on the other. They may be flat and. plain, with French binding to finish them off at the edges. They may be scalloped, fringed, edged with lace, or piped with gold, silver, or colour. "Rose Day" Appeal. The full results of the successful appeal of "Rose Day" are as follow:— Quinton's Corner—Mrs. Brainier, Mrs. Kiddoll, and helpers, £41 13s lid; Mee's Steps—Mrs. Moore, Women's National Reserve, and helpers, £20 12s 8d; Lindsay's Corner—Mrs. E. Parnpll, Mrs. Shute, and helpers, £19 7s Id; Kirkcaldie and Stains—Members of St. John's Ambulance, £59 16s sd; Harcourt's and D.I. C—Mrs. Mathew Holmes, Mrs. Troup, and the Memorial Cemetery Committee and the Women's National Reserve, £21 8s; G.P.O—Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Dan M'Kenzie, Mrs. Anslow, Mr.s. Skilton, and helpers, £6G; Stewart Dawson's—Miss E. M. Freeman, Mrs. Pycroft, Mrs. Wakeman, and helpers (Seatoun and Miramar branch W.N.R.), £84 12 S ; Boulcott streetMrs. Beales, Mrs. Hargreaves, and members of the W.N.R. (girls' branch), £38 Us 7d; Bank of New Zealand, Cuba street—Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Thomason, and helpers, £29 8s 2d; Veitch and Allan's—Lyceum .Club, Mrs. J. C. Andersen, and helpers, £15 19s 2d; Courtenay place—Mrs., Gallagher, Mrs. Cameron, and helpers, £13 Is 3d; Kelburn and Maritime Buildings—Mrs. Carroll and helpers, £16 Is 3d; Brooklyn—Mrs. Hyde, £7 5s 3d; No. 1 Com-mittee-room—Per Miss Griffiths, 10s, per Miss A. Gray £3 ss; Petone—Per Mr. L. Feltoa, £21 IPs sd; proceeds of raiSa (furnished doll's house), per Mrs. Mathew Holmes, £137 11s; total, £597 Is 2d. The committee also wished to acknowledge with thanks a donation of £2 2s from Lady Stout towards the Rose Day" Fund. To the large number of ladies who helped iv the making of . roses and who gave their time on Armistice Day the best thanks of the committee are due. The general public are also cordially thanked for their generous support to the appeal. The result will mean that the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association Benevolent Fund, the War Graves Section of the "Women's National Reserve, .and the St. John's Ambulance will receive considerable benefit from a financial point of view.

Jive the bridegroom, attended by Mr. James.Parker as best men, arrived. Immediately after came a second car with the bride and her escort, Mr. Harold Mara. The church could not accommodate the crowd that tried to get in to,witness a ceremony that probably is without parallel for the quaintness of its setting. The Rev. Stuart Parker, of Toronto, read the wedding service of the Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. J. D. Campbell, of Button, offered tho nuptial prayer. The bride looked very stately iv a travelling.costunie of deep blue, the gown of Canton crepe and the coat of needlepoint being trimmed with grey fox. Her hat of grey felt was enriched with appliques of deep red and violet, and she wore grey shoes and gloves. She carried no flowers, but, immediately after the ceremony, was presented with a bouquet of heather, fresh "from Scotland, from her friends. A two-mile drive brought everyone present to a cottage at Jackson's Point, loaned for the reception, where a huge wedding cake was cut. The groom was mainly responsible for the erection of the church, and as his new residence is being built of the same stone, gathered in the samcr manner, at the summer resort at Lake Simcoe, both he and his bride agreed to be married at the little edifice. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson left for a motor trip in the United States.

versal of this terrible method, and we are escaping from its bondage. A renaissance of verse-.'speaking.-with perfect transparency of meaning, expression, restrained, and natural delivery, is promising to make this art enjoyed by not only a small privileged class, but by the whole nation. "„ Elaborate Battling Equipment. Several London shops have held wonderful exhibitions: of rubber beasts and futurist raiment for- display on golden sands, but as yet we have not come up to overseas extravagance where special bathing gowns are devised for those who don't bathe, writes an English correspondent. Jumpers and "shorts" of glittering lame, with cloaks to match lined with silk, sound startling enough, but these were veritable "water suits," as tho French designers have patented a metal tissue that is waterproof and untarnishing, but the "sunbather" who did not wish to '' take to the water was provided with silk taffeta, gowns with sleeveless coata of gay floral chintz lined with silk to match the gowii. The beach parasol could either match the silk or the chintz, while if you preferred a selfcoloured jumper hemmed with wide stripes your coat must be lined with striped silk and must have a parasol and beach rug to match. It does not do, of course, to forget your beach jewellery ■ this year. Earrings, bangles, and posies are all provided in rubber that harmonise with the bathing attire.