FOR WOMEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18574, 29 November 1920, Page 3

FOR WOMEN.

NEWS AND NOTES. Mr ami Mrs Norton Frnucis hare been stiying in Akaroa. Mifr Agneg Humphreys was the guest of Mrs 0. Rattray, in "Dnncdin. Miss I. Dune-Mi (Wellington) is staying with Mrs 0. Reid. Miss H. Rich is the guest of Mrs J. C. Nichols, Kuriheka. Miss Dorothy'Anderson is tho gueat of Mrs Wrev Nolan, Gtsborne. Miss MacGoun (Dnnedin) is the guest of Mrs La Vio, Fendalton. Mr and Mrs J. G Collins hovo moved from Springfield Road to Webb Street. Mrs A. C. A fleck (Wellington) ißin lown. Mr and Mrs John Lusk (Mosgiei) are staying at the Clarendon. Mr and Mrs Samuel Hall (Foilding) are in town. Mr and Mrs D. Stowell (Thnara), have returned to their home after a short stay in Christchurch. Mrs Wnrdell (Mastorton) left on. Saturday evening for her homo, after a holiday spent hero. Mr and Mrs T. Parkinson, visitors to Christchurch from Leeds, England, are staying at Warner's. Miss P. Harloy has returned from two year? in England, and is staying with her sister, Mrs J. D. Millton. Mr and Mrs 0. T. fihand, recently of Oamaru, have gone to Australia prior to taking up their rfisidenoe in Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Cracroft Wilson and their daughter Mary will leave in Docomber for England, where the marriage of Miss Cracroft Wilson to Captain Dickenson will take place. There h?ve been quite a number of • L ennis parties during the week, and • mongst the hostesses have been Lady Boys, Mrs Wigram, Mrs Gould and Mrs Millton. The engagement is announced of Sylvia, the second daughter of the Very Rev Dean and Mrs Mayne, of Napier, to Ewen, tho eldest son of Mr and Mrs ,T. J. Maclnren, Christchurch (says the Napier 'Telegraph"). Miss Evelyn Thomao will leave by the Tainui on a visit to England, where she will stay with her uncle, Lord Strathspey, in London Sho intends to Btudy the latest ballroom and fancy dances while there, and on her way back to New Zealand will probably come by way of Singapore to see her brother, who is rubber planting in Sumatra. Mrs J. W. C. Nixon, Fendalton, gave a garden party on Thursday, in honour of her three ristors, who have returned from England aftor an absence of oyer seven years. The garden is looking particularly lovely just now, with roses and rhododendrons in bloom, and made a picturesque setting for tho pretty • frocks worn. Amongst those present were Mesdames F. G. Gibson, David Matson, R. E. M'Dougall, Keith Garrick, Carey-Hill. W. S. Dean, E. Webb, N. Macbeth, J. L. Fairhurst,' R. W. Anderßon, Misses E. Wilßon, RoBotta, Fanny and Gertrude Bullen, and many others.

A dance recital was given in tho Choral Hall on Friday evening, by the pupils of Miss Bessio Macdonald. There was a 'engthy programme of fancy and *tep-daneing with unusual items nicely Bandwiched in. The art of tho pupils made a etrong appeal to tho audience, which found much to admire in the cleverness and grate of the young performers. The dressing for tho fancy daneos waa splendid, and some very spectacular scenes occupied tho stage. The students of the Christchurch Training College held their farewell dance in tho Art Gallery on Friday evening. The lounge and dancing room wero tsustofnlly decorated with pink and white rosea. The chaperonea were Me?dames Purchase, Aschman, Wyn Irwin and Thompson, Amongst those pnwrt wero Miss Baster, who woro black ninon, with corsage of gold; Miss Smith, green silk; Miss Arcney, black velvet with touches of cream georgette: Miss Nicol, dainty white «ilk frock, relieved with pink; Miss Burns, lemon crepe do chine; Miss Sunkell, pale blue ninon; Miss Jakins, black not over scarlet: Mis& Parsons, gold coloured frock with overdress of black brocaded net; Miss Beck, white silk; Miss V. Leslie, pink and white crepe da cliir.e; Mist Opie, black velvet; Mint Cornwall, floral ninon; Miss M. Somerset, dainty frock of shell-pink sat:n; Miss A. Jimieson, pretty dress of iM-eam crepe do chine, heavily beaded with silver, Miss O. Robinson- black net. Miss E. Jackman. pretty frock of can de nil silk, with pink touches Miss M'Callum, blue ninon over silk ; Mrs I. Davidson, royal bluo silk over rre,im;Miss M. Alexander, deep tangerine satin frock; Miss E. Orton, pretty dre«s of cream satin; Messrs Campbell. Robertson, .T. Brown, F. HodgkiTib, Hammond. W. TTutton Wright, Hindlo, J. Jackson, Scoglund, K. Ritchie t.nd Inder.