WOMAN'S WORLD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10743, 14 November 1928, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. G. S. Kemp ip- visiting Hawke’s Bay. ■. , Miss Brooke-Taylor is the guest' of Mrs. G. Busby, Tokomaru Bay. • Mrs. W. Lissant Clayton was a visitor to Wairoa last week.

Mrs. J. McLeJland is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Lawrie, Christchurch.

■ Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Pufflett returned on Saturday • from a visit to Australia. ~ ' • • Mrs. Eric Loisel invited several friends to . a most enjoyable informal tennis party at her home at Tolaga Bay during the week-end. Miss P. Ferguson (Cambridge) arrived in Gisborne on Saturday and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. B. Muir,. Rawiri Street. Miss L. Coleman and her niece Miss N. Coleman, who have been the guests-i of -Mrs, Stephenson Smith in Blenheim, returned to Gisborne on Friday.

Miss Joan Evans, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. C. N. lliomas, Owen Road, returned to Napier on Sunday. Mrs. Walter Blundell and Miss Didsbury of Wellington, motored through to Gisborne on Saturday and are the guests of Mrs. A. J. Dixon. Russell Street.

On Monday afternoon Mrs." Bruce Muir invited several friends to a charmingly arranged tea party at her home, in Rawiri Street, to meet Mrs. Walter Blundell and Miss Didsbury of Wellington. Miss Stella Murray has returned to London after a pleasant time abroad. She has been in Paris. Coino, and -Southern France. At Cannes she was the guest of Miss Kennedy (Wellington). Miss Murray is now in excellent health, and has made a complete recovery after her operation

The Kaiti branch of the - Young i eople’s Union is holding a jumble sale in the Parish hail to-day, but i departure will be made this year by opening the sale at eleven o’clock and continuing all clay. Ono stall will be devoted to clothing of every description, which should find ready buyers. There will also be a produce stall, and many attractive articles made by the members during the winter will be on exhibition. The proceedings of the recent PanUacific Conference in Honolulu have been compiled, and the book of the conference being published by the Pan-Pacific Union. The book makes an interesting record, containing as it does material from the Pacific lands, and of their women in particular, including much data not heretofore gathered or published. It is a valuable book of reference to those who attended the conference and to all women of tlie Pacific. Biographical reference to papers published elsewhere gives a completeness to the whole.

Someone asked the other day how many portraits of Queen Mary are in existence. There must be quite a gallery of them by now, for Her Majestry has rarely ’been absent from the line at any Royal Academy, not to mention minor shows, since she became chatelaine of Buckingham Palace (says a London writer). But the wonderful charm of the Buchess of York, whom all the artists are keen on painting now, may soon make her a good second even to the Queen. Vicountess Curzon’s portrait has probably been painted as many times as any Mayfair woman’s but the leading painters no longer follow the Stuart and Georgian fashion of taking stage beauties as their subjects, perhaps because we have no very outstanding actresses to-day. Probably no lady’s features have been more often immortalised on canvas in our clay than Lady Lavery’s. Sir John Laver v usually paints her several times a year, and has just put her stately head on the Irish Free State’s new stamp.

TENNIS. On Saturday afternoon there was a large number of tennis enthusiasts at the opening' of the Whataupoko dub for the 1928-29 season. The courts are in excellent order, and the coming season promises to be most successful. The lady members were the hostesses "'for the afternoon, and tea was served in the club house, the table being artistically ornamented with a great bowl of white roses. The annual general meeting was held during the afternoon. Among those present were: Mesdaines g. F. Clare, It. U. Burke, H. A. King, P. G. Peacocke, W. G. Willock, B. C. Jeffreys, J. Wauehop, F. FT. Galvin, H. L. Primrose, Robinson Misses E. deLautour, D. Runciman, E. and I. Hunt, M. Macaulay, G. Buswell, B. Murray, J. Faulkner, M. Armstrong, Peacocke, E. Evans and L. King. There wa? a good _ attendance at the opening of the Gisborne dub on Saturday afternoon and despite the high Wind all the courts were in play. Afternoon tea was dispensed by the lady members. Some of those present included: Mesdarnes C. H. Wells, Allison, H. Chrisp, D. Chrisp, B. Bree; Misses M. Bull, L. Bain, S. Chrisp, M. and E. Hegartv, N. Puflett, H. Cumming J. Blair, B. Stewart, A. and S. Ormond, D. Jeune, M. Fairlie, Surrey, O’Halloran and Hueston

A BIRTHDAY PARTY. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. A. S. Monck, of Waimata, gave a most delightful party at her beach cottage at Waikanae, to celebrate the birthday of her daughter Nancy. The rooms were gay with masses of lovely roses and in the diningroom, where tea was served, crystal vases of pastel . tinted roses were artistically arranged round the layge beautifully " decorated favors adding .td'be charming effect. The weather was delightfully warm and a very happy time was spent bathing, while'"some of the younger guests enjoyed ; all sorts of jolly games on the beach, an unlimited supply of ice-cream being very much appreciated. : The hostess was wearing a smartly tailored frock, of mauve fugi silk, and a black hat,‘her daughter choosing, a pretty blue linen frock,and a large .-shady hat.-. V; v / Some of the‘guests included : Mes-, dames H. A. Barton. H. I. Thodey, E. E. Brown, A; Whitehead, C. Margoliouthj L. Maude, N. Fulton, P. Leslie, Ai .J. Dixon, W. Blundell (Wellington); Miss Didsbury fWel- ' liiyrton), Brown (England), Baker Foster,", Bell, M. and M; Thodey, j. 'and N. Max-goliouth, N. • Leslie M.' % Hamilton. /M. Pullinger. j l '. Pac'lte,' M. Roberts. P. and J. Lusher sS'Dunlop.'N., R. and P. Dixon, S. Ofinond; S. Barton, T. Bennett, J. ‘Maude, M. Toipbleson. - L. Davis, P. De Costa.■ S- and D. Richardson, E. deMonta Ik. D. Short, M., Read, B. Stoedl C. Dymock; M.- Bruce,, J. and, P." Spence, M. McNeil V M. Jones,-. R. Keinp,.--jV; C0x,,.7. Irvine, d. Blair, e: . Harper, M., and R. Newman, •M. ' and, E. Williams. ' '■ - • ‘ '•'

A ROYAL WEDDING

Commenting upon the marriage of Prince Chichiou, brother of the Emperor of Japan, land Miss -Setsuko Matsudiara, which took place repcißly, a London writer states that it is certain to play an enormous part in the future history of Japan, for both the Prince and his fiancee have absorbed a great deal of Western culture. Since Miss Matsudaira Has returned ' home from America, she has spent a great deal of her time at the Imperial palace.- Her father is a member of one of the cldfamilies, who have been feudal lords in the country for generations. Both bride and bridegroom wore the gorgeous rich silk wedding robes which have been used at Imperial weddings for centuries. They are thousands of years old, are extremely carefully preserved and guarded, . and are always worn by Princess and their brides. After the wedding, there was a big banquet at the Emperor’s palace, in Tokio. The future home of the Prince and Princess is' the former’s palace, at Ahasaka. This palace Was completed about a year ago. and is designed and furnished in Western stylo.

THE: READY-MADE GOWN

To-day, when the manufacturers of fabrics also employ high-class cutters and fitters to produce the ready-made gown, some of the model dresses seen in the shops are really good style, and one wonders why women fatigue themselves by making up their own materials.

The borne dressmaker spends many hours, and often wastes much material in the endeavor to produce something smart when, if she only realised it. she could procure a wellmade g'own in any fashionable color and pattern at half the cost of buying tlio stuff and paying for the making. Even in making up one’s own material there are all kinds Of little expenses that crop up, trimmings, bindings, buttons, etc., .which soon do away with the economy of “making it idi homo,” •then, too, thejte is always that home-made look. ■ Messijffi Guthrie and MaddocliMave a very fiirgo stock of readyMoJPears in /-oilf, j art-silks, Jhd rents, IWiM froLlcs/ea n fifteen amrsix. Sc*if awe sfoWele.ss models, and the faJii<fu#>le spot is much in evidence, sneii there are small floral designs, bfth in the voiles- and the. art silks; these latter are also to be seen sleeveless or with sleeves, and some modish styles are obtainable from twenty-two and six. Smarter gowns, floral, spotted or plain. _ run from twenty-seven and six, thirty-two and six, thirty-seven and six, to sixtythree and six. ' . The return of mid-winter this week, brings home to women the need for some fairly warm t’ween seasons frocks, for our climate is so uncertain that voiles and silks cannot be worn every day, and gowns of fine wool repp find a welcome place in the summer wardrobe. Guthrie and Maddoek have a lovely line of repps in 'exceedingly smart makes, the colors being view rose, navy, and b'lack. and the skirts have the fashionable pleats or gathers, and wellcut sleeves, the bodices have all the little touches featured in frocks twice the price. These repp gowns are obtainable at Guthrie and Maddoek s from forty-five shillings to four guineas, and each and every one ox them is a distinct bargain. *,*