WOMEN’S WINDOW

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 13

WOMEN’S WINDOW

SOCIAL JOTTINGS

(By "Yvonne.")

Mr. and Mrs Durham Russell, who have been guests at Cargon Hotel, Auckland,, for Easter, have returned to Waikohu.

Mr. and Mrs Caccia Birch, and Mr. T. C. Birch, of Palmerston North, were guests at the Masonic Hotel for the Williams-Caccia Birch wedding. Mr. and Mrs Jofferd, East Coast, were visitors to town this week. Mr. and Mrs B. C. Jeffreys spent, the Easter holidays camping at Opoutama. Mrs Hugh Williams, and. family arc the guests of Mrs G. M. Williamson, Russell street.

Among the Easter visitors to Lako Rotoiti who have returned home aro Mr. and Mrs Robert Watson, Mr. and Airs Or. W. Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs S. Nathan, Mr. and Mrs G. T. Bull, Mr. and Mrs J. C. N. Thomas. Misses J. Gardner, P. Seymour, E. Thomas, M. Bull,, P. Humphreys, A, Gaddum, N. Maclaurin. Sir Francis Boys and hir, mother, who have been visiting Auckland and Rotorun, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. IT. C. Boys, of Motn, this week prior to their departure for England by the Port Napier. Messrs. A. B. Williams and E. V. Carpenter have returned from a visit to Auckland. Most of the Gisborncites who visited Napier for the Chrisp-Macfarlane wedding on Easter Monday have returned Mr.' and Mrs TT. G. Hall, of Whakntnne, who have been visiting relatives in Gisborne, returned home yesterday. Mrs Thomson Bush, East Coasi, is the guest of her mother, Mrs A. T. Hookey, Whitaker street. Mr. 'and Mrs S. T. Gray, who have been staying at Cargen Hotel while visiting Auckland, intend visiting AVaitomo Caves before returning home. Mr. and Mrs C. Innes Walker„ East Coast, are the guests of Mrs A. T. Hookey, Whitaker street. Mrs H. Stevens is the guest of her daughter, Mrs Pat Parker, in Pukekohe.

Mr. and Mrs C. K. Williams were visitors to town this week and were the guests of Miss Ludbrook. Mrs Thornley Sherratt, who has been'visiting Hawke's Bay, has returned home.

Mr. and Mrs Geoffrey Cottcrill, of Makarika, were the guests of Mrs L. Cotterill, Pox street, this week. Miss H. Wicksteed has been the guest, of Mrs G. Stock. Mr; and Mrs G. Winter were the guests of Mrs Hamilton Morice for Easter. Misses K. and J. Barns-Graham, who have made their home in Gisborne for the past year, leave Wellington at an earlv date for their return to Scotland. Mrs C. E. Armstrong and family and Miss G. Busweil and Mr. H. Buswcll spent Easter camping near Opotiki. Mrs J. McLeod, of Wellington, who has been staying in Auckland for the Ea'ster holidays, is now visiting Gisborne and is the guest of her father, Mr. E, Sherratt, at Swarthmoor. Her son, Mr. R. Pattnllo, is also a guest at Swarthmoor.

Mr. and Mrs J. Russell and Mr. Trevor Kissling, of Auckland, were visitors to Gisborne for Easter. Misses A. and N. Ormond and Messrs. A. Stock and J. Caesar were guests of Miss N. Steele, Tahunga, for the Easter holidays. Mrs K. S. Williams, who has been staying at Mutahiia, is now visiting Miss Ludbrook. Mrs Hanna, of Tnnranga., is the guest of her mother, Mrs Sweet, Ballance street. Mr. and Mrs 0. T. Williams,, East Coast, wore visitors to town this week for the Williams-Caccia Birch wedding. Mr. and Mrs Harold Williams were the guests of Mrs A. H. Wallis this week. Mr. and Mrs B. Watkins were the guests of Mrs W. G. Maclaurin, Waipura, while visiting town. . . Mr. and Mrs G.J. Falkner have been staying with Mrs J. Gardner, at Hihiroa. Miss K. Sherriff is visiting friends in Hawke's Bay. Mr. and Mrs Lawson Field and Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Jex-Blake were guests of Mrs. .T. C. Field, Homebush, this week. Mr. and Mrs. .T. B. Williams, of Wharokopac, stayed at the Masonic hotel while in town for the WilliamsCaccia Birch wedding. Mrs G. Albertson aod Miss G. Buswcll. leave to-morrow for Eotorua for a holiday visit. Mrs Macfarlanc and Miss Peggy Macfarlane, of Svdncy,wcre the guests of Mrs 11. B. Williams, at Turihau, for Easter. Mrs E. R, Ludbrook, East Coast, has been the guest of Mrs R. Barker during the week. Miss P. Biddies,, of Northern Wairoa, is the guest of her grandmother, Mrs A. 11. Wallis. Miss Nelson, of Hawke's Bay, has been staying with Mrs H. B. Williams at Turihau. Miss N. Bayly, of Hawke's Bay, has been the guest of Mrs G. Busby, •East Coast.

The engagement is announced of tfancy, elder daughter of the late Mr. Leonard Cotterill and Mrs Cotterill, of Gisborhe, to Jemmctt, oldest son of

Mrs Fox and the Into Col. F. J. Fox, of England. Air. B. Keillor, of Palmerston North, was a visitor to Gisborne for the Wil-liams-Caccia Birch wedding. The Rev. D. J. Davies and Mrs Davies, of Opunake,, are re-visiting friends in Gisborne. Mrs A. Cuthbert lias returned from visits to Lake Waikaremoana and Napier. Miss Dulcie Osborne (Gisborne) is the guest of Mrs John Young, Palmerston North. Miss Esther Fisher, the brilliant New Zealand pianist, gave her farewell recital.in the Wigmore Hall on March 1. Miss Stella, Murray was hosless at a handkerchief tea for Miss Fisher, when many of her friends assembled to say good-bye to her before she sailed for New Zealand. Miss Marjorie Maxse, a cousin of Mr. Leo Maxse, editor of the National Review, has been appointed to the new post of deputy principal agent for the Conservative party in England. Her duties include the administration of Women 's organisations. Mis;; Dorothy Garrod, daughter of Sir Archibald Garrod, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, has been awarded the Prjx Hollandius by the International Institute of Anthropology for the best work in physical anthropology or pre-history. The award is worth over £6OO. ■ The Duchess of York hopes to have a dance- at No. 145, Piccadilly, some time in May or June, writes a London correspondent. It will be attended by several members of the Royal Family, and. those of the younger set belonging to the "younger" Royal circle. The dance will be the first entertainment of the kind to be given by the Duchess, and will be one of the chief, but not the biggest, events of the reason.

A DANCE. After the Williams-Caccia Birch wedding on Thursday a delightful dance was arranged for the evening and took place at the home oi Mr, and Mrs R. Barker. The charming ballroom was enLanced With graceful palms, and Mrs Kc'cncy's orchestra played excellent music throughout the evening. Enjoyable extras wore played by Miss N. Slock, and Miss N. Maclaurin, accompanied on the violin by Air. B. Watkins. The drawingroom was artistically decorated with vases of shaded roses, and the lounge with palms and roses. In the smoke-room autumn-tinted leaves and gaily-hued zinnias in tones of red and gold were attractively arranged. A delicious suppor was served in the diningroom, where beautiful cosmos were seen to advantage on the supper-tables and mantelpiece. Mrs. Barker was attired in a charming frock of black cire lace worn over pink georgette and a shoulder posy of sunset shades in contrast, and finished with a pink stone buckle. Miss Patsy Barker wore a very pretty frock of gold net banded with yellow taffeta, worn over an underdress of gold lame, and fashioned with a full-length skirt, offset with a cluster of "green and yellow flowers at the waist.

Those present included/Dr. and Mrs J W. Williams, Mr. and Mrs Caccia Birch, Mr. and Mrs J. B. Williams,, Air. and Airs G. Cottcrill,,Mr. ahd.Mrs C. K. Williams, Mr. and Mrs R. G. S. Hale, Mr. a.nd Mrs .Robert Watson, Mr. and Mrs Lawson Field, Mr,.and.Mrs B. Watkins, Mr. and Mrs W. Maclaurin, Mr. and Mrs G. Reeves, Mr. and Mrs V. T. C. Savage • Mesdames 0. T. Williams, Harold Williams, Hugh Williams; E. R. Ludbrook; Misses B. Barns-Graham, A. Anderson, M. and J. Barker, D. Broadhurst, N. Cotterill, J. Falkner, Gaddum (2), J. Graham, T. Gardner, I*. Humphreys, Hanbury, L. Holden, J. Ludbrook, P. Murphy, N. Maclaurin, H. Nolan, D. Molinc, A. Pomnrc. Nelson (H. 8.), A. Pittar, M. Sherratt. D. Sherratt,. B. Sherratt, N. Stock, Sheridan, E. Williams, D. Cannine. J. Blair, Z. and _TL Williams, N. Jeffrey, P. Biddies. (N.W.), P. Seymour, N. Bayly {H.B.), E, Thomas; Messrs. A. and J. Barns-Graham, .J. Busby, It. Bowen, .A. Broadhurst, R. Cato," H. Cave, J. Fox, G. Gregory, B. Iveiller, It Ludbrook.-A. McPkaiL.M. Maude, J. Nelson, R. Pattullo, It Parker, A. Russell, Reeves (2), J..D. Williams, T. Birch, M. and P. Williams, J. Byrd, W. Barton, T. Gaddum, B. Thomas.

THE CRY ROOM The. ";crv room" is the latest picture house'amenity. Is it necessary to add thftt it is an American innovation? Milwaukee is the city which boasts this novel addition to movie comforts. The "cry room" is not, as might, lie thought, a sanctuary to which patrons easily affected by "soli stuff" may go after some particularly poignant scene on the screen. Nor is it for those who arc bored to tears. The room is set aside as a temporary nursery for babies whose mothers are watching the films in the main auditorium. But this is not all. The management has been farsighted enough to make the cry room completely sound proof, so that no matter how loudly the abandoned infants howl for their mothers, these same mothers will know nothing about it. On the principle that "what the ear doesn't hear the heart doesn't, grieve over," the mothers will be able to enjoy the love-making of their screen favorites in perfect bliss. It has been suggested that the day will come when a special sonnd-proof section of the house will be set aside to which patrons who read the sub-titles. aloud may lie banished. j . ;„,vr.'.:_ \

A WOMAN'S CHANCE OF MARK! AGE A great deal has been written nowadays on the subject of the excess number*of women over men, and that is put forward as a reason why women cannot marry since the war.. In n book recently published in England, entitled the "Social Structure of England and Wales," Professor CanSaunders shows that such statements arc not substantiated by the facts, and. that a greater proportion of women j

are married to-day than hi tlio days before tlie war. The author takes the census figures for the years 1011 and 192.1, arid shows that while in 1921, 520 women out of every thousand over fifteen years of age are married, in 1911 the figures were 506 out of! every thousand, lie calculates, too, that about a quarter of all women between the ages of 20 and 24 arc married, and that of women over the age of 50 only one in every six is unmarried. A final deduction is made showing that in England and Wales it is the destiny of five out of every six women to marry at some time during their lives. GUESTS GIVEN TRIP ACROSS I ATLANTIC TO SILVER WEPDTNG PITTSBUPG, March 10. It will cost Walter A. May, Pittsburgh chain store owner, many thousand dollars to celebrate hisjwentyfiffh wedding anniversary in Paris on April 27. The Pittsburg business man and his wife have invited more than sixty of their friends to join them in Paris for the silver wedding party in the French capital, and he has provided transAtlantic passage for those invited to . the Paris party, each invitation sent out being accompanied by a steam-. ship ticket. ■ The guestf) will sail from New i York on April 18 on the liner Aquitania, and return on May 11 on the Berongaria, according to present plans. The party will be held at the Grand Hotel in Paris. j

WEDDINGS BIRD—HENLEY St. John's Cathedral, Napier, Avas the scene of a very pretty wedding on Tuesday night, when Nora Isobcl Henley, daughter of the late Dr. E. A. W. Henley and Mrs. Henley, of Prance road, Napier, was married to William. Anderson Bird, son of Mr. and Mrs W. W. Bird, of Roseneath, Wellington. The service, which was choral, was performed by the Rev. Dean Mayne. The church was prettily decorated with palms and flowers, arranged by friends of the bride. The bride was most charmingly attired in ivory georgette. Her bodice was finely accordeon pleated and the petal skirt was adorned with narrow diagonal flowers of georgette, while her veil was of tulle crowned with "orange blossoms. White satin shoes and stockings completed a most delightful ensemble. She also carried a bouquet of pink and white flowers.

She was attended by Misses Pegg Bird (sister of the bridegroom) and Rachel Smith, who wore soft-apricot georgette over crepe-de-chine. Tight fitting bodices were worn with "full skirts, which were formed entirely of deep tucks, dipping at the sides. Their sashes of shot taffetas, their bouquets and their bandeaux and posies in their hair were all made to tone with the remainder of their costumes. Dr. E. 11. H. Taylor, of Christchurch, was the best man," and Mr. Wilton Henley (brother of the bride) officiated as groomsman. After the ceremony at the church a reception was held at the home of the bride's mother "Cooldrinagh," Prance road. DALY—PARKER A pretty and interesting wedding was solemnised at St. Patrick's Church, Napier, this week, when Miss Agues Doreen Parker, eldest daughter of Mrs. J. J. Parker, of Napier, was united in the bonds of holy matrimony to Mr. John Daly, oldest sou of Mr. and Mrs. M. Daly, of Napier. The Rev. Father Murphy officiated, assisted by the Rev. Father Fay. The bride, wfro was given away by her brother, Mr. J. barker, looked charming in a pretty .frock of ivory, georgette graced with old lace. She wore a coronet of orange blossoms, from which hung a beautifully embroidered veil lent for the occasion by Mr. B. Parker. The bride carried a

pretty bouquet of roses and maidenhair fern.

Miss Miriam Parker, sister •of the bride, was chief bridesmaid, and wore a willow blue hand-embroidered frock with a blue hat to match. Miss Kathleen Daly, sister of the bridegroom, assisted her, wearing a blush rose eharmeuse frock with hat to match. Mr. Martin Daly acted as best man, and Mr. Pat Parker as groomsman. "The Wedding March" was played by Mrs Scott. Nuptial mass was celebrated after the ceremony and later a reception was hold at the residence of the bride's mother, in Colenso Avenue, the Rev. Father Murphy presiding over a gathering of 50 guests. Mrs Parker, mother of the bride, was wearing a French model frock of black georgette with Roman embroidery, with blaek close fitting hat. Mrs. Daly, mother of the bridegroom, wore flame crepe 'do chine, with, hat to, match. _ , . i The. Visual toasts w'c'ro honored, ahrl later the happy pair left for the north, J the bride wearing a three-piece suit of j dark red marocain with touches of fawn, a dark red hat to tone. i Among those who attended the cere-

mony were Mr. and Mrs D. L. Lawlor, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs D, J. Parker, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs J. W. ~ Parker, Gisborne; .Mrs and Mass •■ Honan, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs F. Kirkpatrick, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs. Byrne and Misses Byrne and Mr. Jaek\ Byrne, Wairoa; Mrs.E, J. Healy, Wei- , lington; Mr. Jack Parker and Miss £ Nellie Parker, Gisborne; Mr. Pat "J Lawlor, Wellington; Mrs O. Gorman, -. Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. Bert, Onga- - onga; Miss Amy Parker, Takapau, ~. and many from Napier.