SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18965, 12 March 1925, Page 14

SOCIAL NEWS.

"Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Hicks and Miss Hicks are spending a few days at Wailakei. The engagement is announced of Miss I'eggv Sutherland, youngest daughter of Mr. "and Mrs. George Sutherland,, ot Hipnngo Terrace, Wauganui, to Mr Keg. Legge, of GoiiviHc, Wauganui I late AueU- * land"). Mrs, Peter Tulloch, Paliiat.ua. has been in town meeting her daughter, Mrs. A. h. Turner, who returned by the Lemuora. Miss J. H. Tulloch, Hokianga, and Miss Tulloch are also in town to meet MisTurner. The engagement is announced of Eileen Marv, vounger daughter of Mr. and Mis. J. t. 'holey, Hataitai, _ Wellington, and George Septimus, sevetitn son *>t Mr, and Mrs. W. W. S. Hales, of Chanlelands, Weber, Daimevirke. > An effort is being made in England to revive the old custom of wearing glows at dances. Girls are complaining that their partners' hot hands shorten the life of their dresses, and consider that as men have to spend comparatively little on their evening kit they can well £<> th© expense of a pair of gloves. An interesting debutante of the corning London season will be Earl and Countess Haig's prettv older daughter. Lady Alexandra Ifaig. She recently had an informal coming-out at the Berwickshire Hunt Ball, Lady Alexandra, is a god-dac.gnter of Queen Alexandra, and her younger sister, Lady Victoria, was sponsored by Princess Victoria. Hie Grand Duchess of Ltixomberg celebrated her twenty-ninth birthday last month. At the end of the war the Grand Duchv very nearly became a republic. The reigning Grand Duchess was suspected of pro-German sentiments, and her - subjects were dissatisfied. She abdicated, however, and retired to a convent, and the succession passed, as the result of a plebiscite, to her younger sister. The Hon. Mrs. John Forteseue, who is an authority, says that the new colour schemes for house decoration are to be parchment colour combined with a deep emerald green, and Italian blue combined with grey. She has just, redecorated a room in which the walls are parchment and the hangings, covers and carpets emerald green. Many people in England aTo having the panels of their walls filled in with Brocatello in real Italian blue. The days of chaperons seem to have -departed "for good, says a writer in an exchange. Not only are young Society women setting up in homes of their own, like Lady Irene Curzon, who for a long while now has rented various London houses, and carried on bachelor fashion, and the Hon. Lois Sturt. who has been film star and artist as well as adventuring into all sorts of other spheres, and who has now taken a studio in Chelsea as her home; they are also travelling about unchapcroned. Premier marquis of England and sixteenth Marquis of Winchester, Henry William Montagu Paulet was secretly married in London last month to Mrs. Caroline Marks, widow of Major Claud Marks. Cloaked by a heavy London mist, the bride and bridegroom reached unnoticed the Chapel of the Savoy, off the Strand, where the ceremony took plp.ee. Tho back door, which opens upon a very ...quiet, street, was used. The wedding party numbered five. Lord Winchester, who is in his sixty-third year, has been a great traveller. The late Marchioness died on December 28 last. The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hos- % pital is the only hospital in England run for and staffed entirely by women. The fair sex, therefore, rallied in their battalions to the " all-star" matinee which Marie Tempest organised recently in aid of this hospital's extension fund. Violet .Vanbrugh, Frederick Ranalow, Layton and Johnstone, and others of a similar calibre appeared, and Mayfair and Ha r ley Street turned tip in full strength. Marie Tempest's interest in hospital work is such that it has more than once led her to spend a morning in an operating theatre as a spectator. The presence of Princess Royal, gave a fillip to. the matinee. Stage folk give their talents often to the causo of charity, and in these performances never give less than their best. In this instance Cathleen Nesbitt, Kate Cutler, and Maud Buchanan appeared in Gertrude Jennings" one-act comedy, *' Cats' Claws," and Lilian Braithwaite marie an eloquent appeal in which she related interesting facts about the hospital. Other things besides clouds have silver linings. In London hospitals there are now four beds which have been lined with silver paper. Which means to say that London Druids—members of the Ancient Order of Druids—collected 85 tons of silver paper from packets of cigarettes, tobacco and chocolate. This, being sold to he mode into solder, realised £1250, and this in turn enabled four hospital beds to be endowed for ever. Mr. S. J. Leek, secretary of tho A.O.D. Hospital Tinfoil Fund, told a correspondent how, 12 years ago, a Druid, frugal-minded like John Gilpin, Tealised the waste of money in the silver paper thrown away every day, Now, In every "lodge" in the country, tinfoil, leafd coverings from the tops of spirit bottles and lead wrappings _ from tea {jackets are assiduously saved. " Many oderes give the proceeds to local hospitals," "said Mr. Leek, "so the £1250 which I have accounted for by nr. means represents the total benefit hospitals received last year from other people's lea\-ings." A most delightful evening was spent at "the Nurses' Home, at Grey town Hospital, "when Mrs. Reid and Miss Burton (matron) entertained a large number of guests at a farewell evening for Mrs. McCracken. Interesting competitions and music made tho time pass happily, the winners of the former being Mrs. W. A. Tate and Mr. J "W. Card. A bright and clever dialogue, acted by Mrs. Reid and Miss Armstrong, proved most entertaining. Supper was served in the nurses' sitting-room, and a •final touch to the evening was tho presentation to the guest of honour of a flasket of flowers and an an re voir card inscribed with the names of the guests. The singing of "Auld Lang Syne" ion cinder! a very happy evening. On Friday Mrs. W. A. 'fate, on behalf of the Uvuratawhiti Red Cross circle -presented ' Sirs. McCracken with a handsome suede travelling cushion, In making the presentation Mrs. Tate said bow much they (regretted Mrs. McCrarken's departure. It was with real regret on the part of many Rotarians that the conference reached finality on Monday, says a Wellington paner. There can be no question of the hold that liotar y has upon its members, and already they are looking forward to next year's conference, which will be bold in Dunedin. During this conference quite a number of the wives of Hotarians Save made a point of being present at the sittings—purely as onlookers- so interested are they in its work, and already there is talk of women's rotary clubs being formed. The final event ill the list of entertainments that, had been arranged in connection with the conference was an afternoon tea which was held in Messrs. Xirkcaldie and Stains' tearooms. The main room was none, too large for ."Rotarians and their wives, and the beautiful flowers with which the tables were arranged made the scene a most attractive one. There was, too, a happy atmosphere ©f camaraderie and of interest in each j ether which made, the occasion a thoroughly enjoyable one to everybody, The Special commissioner, the Hon. George .Fowlda, toward the end of too afternoon, made a brief speech, in which he warmly thanked the president of the Wellington Jtot-ary Club (Mr. I), A. Eweri) and the Wellington Rotarians for the wonderful feme that had been given them all-a time wouldjnevcr forget.