WOMEN'S WINDOW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17079, 7 July 1926, Page 9

WOMEN'S WINDOW.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS. i „ “ .. (By “ \ vonno. , Mr. Rowley Murphy, Tokornriru Bay, j.-> in limn o;i n Liii'f vis;!, and i> it guest :il (In' 0 i 's>ociii' Hole!. i Hr. ini'! Mrs Ab-Sweeney, w ho re rided in Pukekohe for I in; past few .years, Itavo ei.niir- to Gisborne, in view ; "I- taking ii]' residence here. They .are I he guests of Mis 0. .1. Burry, Aberdeen Komi, j -d'. ami Mi- Iv'g. dine re*!urno*l I'ecciilly I'roin I heir honey moon, a mi nie spending a few days in toon. I'a'lore guile; m iheir home ill Mata - i 'a n i . i Miss Barbara Murpliy returned Inst i ••"eel. Iron i \ Nil Hawke's Day. I Everyone yv neparb isos with I In family Mn the unfortunate loss of Ilieir home j by lire during the week-end. At pre sent they' a re Ihe gui>i« of fnonds in 1 o\\ 11. | Mi-- Siiiei;> who •liar, been I ho gue.-; of Mr..: < i. Oraw shave since her family ’* removal to Hastings, .left at the end ei ihe week to .join her parents in their nets home. Miss Hilda Sherrill' lias l ieeii visiting friends in town. Hr. W. A. Howie, oho has Keen indisposed in Tiiaaru. loft for Welling ton on Monday, am! intends coming home by ensv Mages, during the w eek. Mr. and Mrs .T. !. Falknor. Hoxton, are spending a few weeks at. I hi* home of Mr. Frighten Falkner, N gut a pa. Mrs. A Vint on Porter and lift' final! son. who have been visiting relatives in town, returned home on Tuesday. Mbs .loan Louisson, of Auckland., was among those, presented :n: one of the recent Courts. Miss Molly Scott: is staying at Hexton till the end of die .month. Miss May Mcßae, of Wairoa. has Heft on a visit to South Africa j A Wellington singer, Miss Millicent Knight, gave a- highly successful recital at the Wigmorc Hall, London, recently. She wen: to England with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby Knight, of ihe Unit, several veara ago. and during the past two years she has been studying singing with Madame Esta d ’Argo, and l'reueh, German and Italian diction and grammar with oilier tutors. Her voice is a. mezzosoprano of wide, range, with notes of beautiful contralto quality. Miss Klsie Bullard (Gisborne) is the guest of Mrs L. List, New Plymouth. Mrs Leo .Money (Miss Mina Arndt) Nelson,, litis received the gratifying news that a picture of hers is being hung til the Paris Salon. Dr. Jessie C. Muddison, who has been practising in Waipawa for the past eight years, left last week on route for London, from which centre she will make a tour of Great Britain. l)r. Then. Eastei'iieid, the younger daughter of Professor and Mrs EasterHeld, of. Kelson, has been appointed to the position of house surgeon tit Tailranga Public Hospital. A Civic League has been formed in To Kuiti at a meeting attended by forty ladies. The Mayoress of the town has been made president. The engagement is announced of Ngnire, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs F. JM. Jervis, Lower Hutt, to llarohl, third son of Mrs George P. Pearce. “Brampton,” Lower liiitt. The engagement is announced of Ruth Arden, daughter of Mr. and Airs D. 0. Yule, Hastings, to Kenneth llouto, son of Air. and Mrs J. B. Hopkirk,, of Wellington. Dr. Lawrence Led brook, who has resigned the position of Assistant Medical Superintendent at the Auckland Hospital, is taking a holiday at the Bay os Islands. Miss Busan Bpencer,. of Brisbane, will leave shortly for New Zealand, where she .will be Ihe guest of Air. and Airs Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, for the hunting season. Aliss Gpencer, who is a Queensland girl, is a very line rider. A Alelbourne girl, Dr. Marjorie Hughes, travelled to Europe as ship’s surgeon, on the Gwedish steamer Yngarcn, and while in the Indian Ocean attended the captain's wife, who gave birth to a son. Alts AJ. (}. G. Pasco (formerly of Gisborne), who Las been spending several weeks in Melbourne, returned to Toowoomba, Queensland, recently. “The ladies are the backbone of Ihe society.” said Air. J. Allan at the animal mooting of the Alastcrton Horticultural Society. “Prom a. tiuaiicial point of view we have to depend on the ladies almost, entirely.” Aliss Butberland, of the New Zealand Forestry Department-, left yesterday for Bio do Jnuiero, where she will visit her sister. Aliss Mary King, daughter of Sir Truby and Lady King, accompanied her to youth America.. A wedding of equal interest to Datmevirko and Woodvilb* was eclebrated at the latter place ou Wednesday last, when Marjorie Gertrude, youngest daughter of the late AH. John Grant and Airs Grant, of “Grantully,” AVoodville, was married to Frederick Roberts, younger son of Mr and Alts F. G. Gov,per, of Kaitoke, Dannevirke. On Tuesday evening of last week at Sj. Paul's pro-Gathedral, Wellington, the wedding took place of Aliss Laura Unngiaho Grace, daughter of Air. and Airs Laurence AT. Grace,, to Alt'. Hector luglis Cibbald Fox, son of Dr. Fox, superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital. Air. il, G. Hills, the captor of Fount von Luckuer, was married at Auckland on Saturday. On the morning of September 17. 1017, von Luckuer. the commander of the German raider, Sen A diet, luge! her with seven compatriots. were captured off AVakaya. Island, Fiji, by Lieut. Hills and a parly of Fijian native constabulary. The. death is announced of Alt's T. 0. Guthrie, widow of the late Dr. Thomas Guthrie, who practised lor several years in Lincoln and afterwards in Lyttelton. Airs Guthrie was the youngest daughter of the late Air. Kbonezcr Hay, of Annamlalc, Pigeon Bay, who originally settled in that, locality in .18-12. Airs Guthrie s eldest son fell in the war in 1010,, and Dr. Guthrie himself died .in BUS. The golden wedding was celebrated this week of Mr. and Airs. Jas. Smith, old and respected settlers of the Fruti district, Taranaki. Air. ami Airs Smith came out t rom Home many years ago, and soon alter their arrival took up the section on which

they now reside. A.i ttial time the whole of tlio t’i'iiti dI -i i'it-1 was in j standing lun-h and the only means of access to the property was by a bridle track, ( Gisborne girls will be interest-1 ed to learn that in view of larger luits in the near future, right out of the Parisian bo.vs. their Auckland; sisters with bobbed. Lingled and! j shingled locks, me doing iheir utmost' to encourage their hair to grow. Those! who retained their switches dining the clipping reason crave are now doing! iheir best to pin them on to a few i straggly Lair.- and wondering why, the;' drop off occasionally. Other;', with a. view to "get thatch quickly," arc diligently studying the various brands of hair restorers, and incidentally a few new brands an- appearing on the market. Lis stated that up to i'! ii aKeen paid by maidens of the Queen Fity for a pound of jet; Mio'k j hair to cor.vert into a switch. A HANDKERCHIEF TEA, La,.-! Gatwiviny afternoon the home! of Aliss Daphne .fence was thronged with young people at holding a gif! tea j in honor nf Alins Grace Parke, whose mar'iinge takes place this month. The hostess greet,*.| her guests in a .smart ; lv-fashioned jumper suit of saxe blue relieved with ion,lies of fawn. Tin* guest of honor was wearing a charming navy blue coal frock cut on -imple lines, and’ trimmed with red silk iigurings, A navy blue and red hat was worn to match. The drav. ing-rooin was enhanced with bowls of foliage and vases of autumn blooms, and was the scene of a ! jolly party spending-a happy time with charier and music. Gramophone selections vied with pianoforte items, and the visitors joined in singing popular songs during t.ho afternoon. When ihe gifts were unwrapped some beautiful handkerchiefs were revealed, calling forth much praise from the recipient, and the other guests. An adjournment was made to the diningroom for afternoon tea. The table was decorated in a scheme of red and pink, and various paper roses in these shades were dispersed on the table and tilled with sweetmeats and sailed nuts. Delicious (lainties were served to Hie appreciative visitors. Those present included, Misses Sybil Lysnar. Elina Parley. Veda Matthews, Lorraine Bain, Betty and Sue Ghrir-p, Noil Fit tar, Nancy Hooper, Nell Corson. Phyllis and Ida O’Ateara, Lorna and Nancy Chrisp, Dorothy Hamilton, (’ora Oman. Nancy Martin, ‘ Vnlda Zaeharinh. .Molly Jackson and Nona Elliot i. GOLF NOTES. Some excellent golf has been witnessed at the links since the tecing-up rule has been abolished. The season’s record up to the present time has been created by Mrs C. F. Scott, who last week handed in a gross score of 86.