NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11415, 11 January 1923, Page 9

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr W. Morion and Miss Morton, of Wellington, are in Christchurch. Miss Humphreys, of Christchurch, will arrive in Wellington to-day to catch the lonic for England. Miss Edna Loader, of Christchurch, ia visiting Wellington, where she is the guest. of Mr and Mrs E. J. T. Loader, Karori. Miss K. Buckhurst, who came up from Christchurch to meet Mrs WashmgtonTaylor in the Rimutaka, is the guest of Mrs IV. Lawson. Mrs Henderson Begg, of Christchurch, is leaving for a visit to England by the Remuera next month. Mrs Malcolm Ross is among the Wellington people who are leaving for England this year. She goes by the Ruapehu. Miss Esme Geddis (Wellington) and Miss Elasterfield (Nelson) are on a visit to Rotorua. Another of Wellington’s early arrivals has passed away in the person of Mrs G. Meek, widow of the late Mr Arthur Meek, who predeceased her sixteen years ago. Her death occurred on Sunday, January 7th, in her 86th year. Mrs Meek landed in Wellington with her family in May, 1874, from the ship La Hogue. She was born in. Brighton, in the. county of Sussex, England. Mrs Meek was well known, and had a large circle of friends, who will sympathise with her surviving relatives in their bereavement. She leaves three daughters .and two sons. Mrs M. McKenzie and Mrs A. North, both of Kelburn, and Mrs E. Hardinge, of Western Australia, Mr B. Meek, of the railway architectural branch, and Mr A. Meek, in California, besides fourteen {grandchildren and an equal number of great-grand children.

Dr and Mrs W. Ewart, of Invercargill, who have been spending the holidays in the north,' have returned home

Miss Hall, who for many years was on the technical staff of the Sydenham school (with which School her brother, Mr Winter Hall, now of Los Angeles, was associated for some years), was recently the recipient of a double presentation from the -medical and teaching staffs, and they small scholars of the King George V. Hospital School for infantile paralysis cases at Rotorua (says the Christchurch "Sun”). The school, in connection with the •hospital, was established aS a result of representation made Miss Hall, through Mr L- M. Isitt, M.P., and the work of its organisation was put la Miss Hall’s hands by the Auckland Board of Education. It was availed of—to Its very fullest capacitylittle sufferers from all over the North Island being sent there for medical treatment. and all were given some sort of educational instruction according to their respective capacities fot assimilating knowledge. Latterly, however. Miss Hall found the position too much of a strain for her somewhat indifferent health, and asked to be relieved. Her resignation was accepted with regret, and she formally gave up the position at the end of the last term of 1922. Advantage was taken of the occasion to make a double presentation, one from the wee scholars, for whom a little chappie, Martin Ryan, acted as spokesman. The medical and teaching staffs, for whom Dr Wallis acted, gave Miss Hall a very handsome suit-case, and' in handing it over. Dr Wallis referred to ,the noble and conscientious work of the recipient. Tn replvine, to both the children and the staff. Miss Hall expressed the hone ihat the work Would be carried on until every sufferer should be oquinned with some means of making a livelihood.

New Zealand visitors to Sydney when the l ist mail left included Messrs W. R., R. 8.. S/ S. and Miss Betty Wilson, and Colonel and Mrs Noel Adams, of Auckland: Mr and Mrs J. Fyfe-Smith and Miss Florence Eyfe-Smitb. of Christchurch: and Sir and Mrs Raymond Jackson. of Wanganui. Miss Mildred Peters has returned from a trip to the West Coast and Queenstown, and will spend a few days with Mrs Herbert Acton Adams, at l'ipftpa, before proceeding -to Wellington to meet her successor. Miss Irene Gray, of the Irene Mawer School of Dancing. London (says a Christchurch : exchange). Miss Blair, who has been, visiting Mr and Mrs D. Tennent. in Greymoufh, has returned to Wellington.. Mr George J. CKrates and hig wife (formerly Miss Dora Meeson, a student of the Canterbury College School of Arts) have received invitations from Princess Marie Louise to contribute a small drawing each to the dolls’ house, which is to be presented to the Queen. The house, which' lias been designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is to be a record for generations to come of such a home as the King and ■ Queen might live in to-day. The drawings,’ needless to say, have to be very small to bo contained in tiny portfolios to be placed in the King’s library Mr and Mrs Coatee are well - represented at provincial exhibitions last year at. Nottingham Castlq. where there is a special exhibition of modem paintings by British artists, at iho Royal West of England Academy, an,! at Brighton, Glasgow, and Huddersfield.

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WEDDING AT LOWER HUTT There was a large gathering of relatives and friends at th 3 Church of bt. and St Paul, Lower Hutt, yesterday afternoon, to witness the marriage of Miss Helen Pearce, of Mr G. F. Pearce, of Lower Hutt, to Dr. Gecrg* Frederick Vernon Anson, son o. Dr. a.nd Mvs Anson, also of Lower Hutt The ceremony was performed •by the Very Rev. Dean Lane, and Mr Alan Tennant presided at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of cream satin, veiled in lovely luce, with a long train of brocaded satin. She wore a tulle veil, fastened with a coronet of orange blossom, and carried a sheaf of lilies. The bride’s brother, Master Alec. Pearce, attended her as a page, wearing a Kate Greenaway suit of cream satin. MissJ. Anson was bridesmaid and wore a frock of gold satin and russet colour, with a brown lace hat. She carried a bouquet of Irish Elegance roses. Mr George I’ripe attended the bridegroom as best man. After the ceremony a reception was held by Mr and Mrs G. F. Pearce at tlijftr home, "Brampton/ 3 Lower Hutt, where the house was decorated with beautiful flower®, the diningroom, where the wedding tea was served, being arranged chiefly with "Irish Elegance' 3 roses.

Mrs Pearce received the guests wearing a gown of black marocain and lace, and a black lace hat with white paradise plumes. She carried a bouquet of "Bed Letter Day" roses. Dr. and Mrs Anson, parents of the bridegroom, w r ere present, the latter wearing black marocain trimmed with steel beads, and a black hat with maine flowers, and the bride's brothers, Messrs Ned, Athol, Harold and John Pearce were all present. Later in the afternoon, when the bride and bridegroom left for their honeymoon, the bride wore a going-away dress of pearl coloured crepe romaine beaded in self-tone, and a black hat, with white marabout.

Among the guests were Mrs H. D. Crawford in grey with a black hat; Mrs Somerville (Sydney), grey marocain, with lavender colotied hat; Mrs W. Pearce, in black, beaded with steel and a black hat; Mrs lan Duncan, in navy blue with touches of -wango colour, and, hat with ospreys; Miss Ida Duncan, in a green and white satin striped frock and black hat; Mrs Fred Pearce, wearing black gown beaded in white and a black lace hat; Mrs Yosswill (Napier), nattier blue brocade**, gown; Mrs Cameron, in black and white, with" an ermine stole; Mr and Mrs Alex. Crawford; Mrs V. Riddiford, wearing white crepe de chine, the drapery caught with a black jet ornament and largo black lace hat with ospreys; Miss Edith Anson; Mrs Sladden; Mrs Campbell Pearce, wearing navy blue; Mrs Ned Pearce, in string coloured lace, with shot-green belt and black hat; Mrs Gordon, in mole colour* wit.i touches of tangerine and mole hat; Mrs Arthur Duncan, in mole satin, finished with fur and embroidery; Sir Maui and Lady Pomare, Alias Poinare, Mrs Wardell, Messrs Kenneth Dune in, Mr and Mrs Henrys, Mis£ Henrys, Miss Zona VaUance, Mrs and the Misses Bunny, Mr and the Misses Jones. Miss Chapman, Mr Mowbray, Dr. and Mrs Kemp. Dr. and Mrs Stout, ‘Dr. Begg, Mr W. Pearce, Mr F. Pearce, Mr T. Tos&will. Mr and Mrs G. Tripe, Mrs Tilly, Mr Kebbell. Mr and Mrs Murison, and Mr Athol Murison, and a number of others-

LINK WITH ELIZABETHAN TIMES " After an existence of nearly five hundred years, the school in which the ‘children” of the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, receive their generaL education, is to be closed, and the boys transferred to the City of London School (says a writer in the London "Observer"). This step has been decided upon as a measure of economy. Although doubtjess necessary, the decision is none the less regrettable* since it involves the snapping of ar. .Elizabethan link. Forty vears ego, when the establishment's continuance was threatened on similar gjoumis. Dean Stanley suggested that it should be araa gamated with the Choir School attached to Westminster Abbey 1 he proposal, however, mot with so much opposition that it was abandoned. Jt is to the interest in their welfare evinced by Queen Elizabeth that was *s° t&ototum of the school for the ' children (as the boys always been, officially known) composing the younger memUrs of the choir of the Royal, bt. James's Palace. Since those spacious days, the establishment

has been conducted on muth the same Vines, and with very little change in the picturesque dress of the choristers. This vonsnsts of a. scarlet coat, trimmed with ruffles and gold lace and blue velvet, scarlet breeches, and black stockings and bhoes and white gloves. A Usselled mortar-board, however, lias replaced tho cocked hat that used to be worn. The btate coats are required to last four ye .we but the overyday costume is renowen more frequently. As it gets a. good deal of wear and tear, the provision a w*i:e one. Queen Elizabeth, who never did things by halves, appointed a "Master of tho *rairere Scholo for the Choristers of She Court,' and took care to see that he attended to his business. In return for J Mjodsst stipend fqy each boy entrusted to him, the occupant of this office had V) impart an all-round education and provide an "usher/' Originally, the children” (as they were termed, to distinguish them fro*n the "gentlemen” who then, as now, sing the tenor and bass Paris) were boarded and lodged sn the Palace itself. In long-distant days it was the prac\ice to make the boys take part in the religious dramas, or "mysteries,” that were then the fashion. For this reason fhev were generally referred to an T’hilclren of the Revels.” Tho number belonging to the choir has varied from [jiuo ” me > but it has never been less than eight or more than twelve, eked out with "gentlemen” as tenors and basses. • At one period when suitable recruits were not forthcoming voluntarily, impressment was permitted under a. license granted to the Master. Among those thus secured in the choir's early days was Thomas Tusser, who afterwards developed into a poet and a writer on natural hietory. Another, and well-founded, grievance, was that at one period the Master \va in (he habit of exploiting them for hit. own benefit. His plan was to let them accept engagements to sing at public and private concerts (the first performance in England of Handel's "Esther*' was given by them at the- Haymarket Theatre in 1731), and pocket a fee of half-a-guiuea a head, which was the tecognised charge for such appearances. It is on record, however, that (touched, perhaps, by pangs o-f conscience at such "profiteering”) the Master "distributed sixpence among them for barley-sugar.” The Chapel Royal choir school is the oldest of such bodies in England. Among the "children” who received their earlv, training there have been many who subsequently achieved distinction as composers and musicians. The list of those includes, with manv others, the names of Henry Purcell, Sir John Goss, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, an) Sir Arthur Sullivan.