THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 49, 3 April 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

NOTES ATS NEWS.

Mile. Dolores and Madame Yandour arc guests of Mr and Mrs John Prouse, Wellington, and leave on Saturday for Nelson, and Blenheim. Very many in the capital are looking forward with pleasure to Mile. Dolores's concerts. The first takes place on May 5, in the new Opera House. Mrs Bradshaw and Miss Sadie Bradshaw arrived in Wellington from Auckland last week, and are staying at Berli&mpore. Miss Bradshaw "is to be married to Mr Borte, of Soutliall, London, on April 8, at St James's ■ Church, and leaves on April 9 for the Old Country and the Continent, where the honeymoon will be spent. The Misses Nathan, who have been at Mount Cook and in, Dunedin, returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr and Mrs J. H. Estell have returned to Wellington from Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Robert Hay have left Christchureh for a visit to Pigeon Bay. Miss Emily Wilson, Bealey Avenue, is visiting Port Levy. Miss Doris Chilman arrived, in Christchurch yesterday morning. A pretty and interesting wedding took place at" the-Church of St. Barnabas, Fendalton, yesterday afternoon, /when Miss Wanda Martin, second of Mr Walter Martin, Christchurch, was married to Mr B. J. Ager, architect,.of this town. The ceremony ■was performed by the Rev. T. Hamilton,' and the bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by her sister, Miss Elma Martin, as bridesmaid. She wore a beautiful gown of white satin, draped with Brussels lace, and J her veil was of handsome Limerick lace. She also wore the usual coronet of orange buds and blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of choice white flowers. The bridesmaid, Miss Elma Martin, was gowned in pale blue satin f veiled in flame-coloured ninon, "and trimmed with fur, black picture hat. The bridgegroom. was attended -by Mr Buschell as best man. After the ceremony the bridal party and guests adjourned to the residence of the bride's parents, where a reception in honour of the event was held. "A wedding tea was subsequently served, at which the usual toasts were honoured. The burning question of a few months ago—to tango or not to tango —has been answered by Sydney society in the affirmative. Having hesitated rather long, dancers find themselves with the ball season almost upon them and'many of the intricate steps still unlearned. Dancing classes of good standing are therefore all full to reple? tiori of tango pupils. There is a sort of Renaissance in ballroom dancing at present. Absolute precision in every detail .was, it is said, demanded from exponents of antique ceremonial dancing, the penalty for a mis-step being death, ;and although this high standard i 3 inot maintained, the new dances are being studied with a seriousness which ; might almost seem to raise them to the level of art. At evening parties movements which have hitherto been associated with "cats on hot bricks" are executed with much solemnity, the absorbed faces of the performers proving that they are engaged in no light matter. The weather of sate has gi>en little encouragement to these exercises, which, besides the brain-fag involved, - ai-e physically strenuous, but a pleasant open-air dancing i.= com ng into vogue. German women's latest move in the campaign for emancipation is to demand admission to the floor of the Stock Exchange. Their ambitions have cetne to light through a circular letter addressed to leading bankers and financiers by "Women's Capital," the new financial weekly launched by the Berlin Y/omen*s Bank. The letter e-ets forth that the rules of German bourses now bar women, children, idiots, bankrupts, criminals, and persons afflicted ; with contagious diseases. German financiers are asked to express opinions as to whether the time has not arrived for amendment <?f the rules as far as women are concerned. ~ The successful administration of the Women's Bank, which has just celebrated five years of dividend paying existence, is cited as proof that women know something about the handling of mo«iey. According to official figures compiled in Washington, the retail prices of twelve of the fifteen principal articles of food in the United States have increased by 66 per cent, in the last fourteen years. Statistics issued last year endeavour to prove that the price of living in America is only about onethird greater than in England, but people with equal experience of both sides of the .Atlantic declare that onehalf higher is nearer the mark in most big eastern cities. This is. partly due to national causes, and partly due to artificial stimulation. To meet the latter handicap, American housewives are advocating the establishment of public markets and co-operative supply establishments such as exist in England.