THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 147, 28 July 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

NOTES AND NEWS.

Mrs Studholme was a passenger for the north last evening.

Mr and Mrs Cecil Wynn-Williams have gone to reside at their new home at Little River.

Mrs S. Lindsay, Ohristchurch, is stay ing with her parents, Mr and Mrs (i Talbot, "Enfield," Kingsdown, Timaru

Mrs A. Brown and Miss Brooks, Christ church, are the guests of Mrs A. G Turner, Beverly Road, Timaru.

The engagement is announced .of Gwen Barker, daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Barker, Peel Forest, to Mr Armitage, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Waiiiku, North Island. Mr and Mrs L. E. Pinch have returned to their home in Avenue Road, Timaru, after a visit to Christchurch. Mrs Wardrop, who left last week for Sydney, purposes visiting China, India, and .lapan before returning to Christchurch. Mrs Lee is accompanying her. Mrs Wilder is at present the guest of Mrs Pyne. The latter lady, by the way, will be one of the hostesses during National AVeek, having issued invitations for a dance on August 10.

Telling the truth and nothing but the truth is no good with a woman. She wants frills round the truth to make her swallow it.—"The Perfect Wife," by Joseph Keating. Mr and Mrs J. G. Murray, who celebrated their goldeu wedding yesterday, had a dinner party at the Clarendon last night, at which were present their sons, daughters, and other near relatives, numbering a-bout seventeen. Last evening a farewell was tendered to the Rev. H. Perkins by the congregation of the Tennyson Street Congregational Church. Mrs Bushby, on behalf of the parishioners, presented Mr Perkins with a purse of sovereigns, and Mr Congreve, sen., presented him with an inscribed -writing ease on behalf of Trinity Church. Musical items were contributed during the evening by Mr Charters, Miss E. Field, and Mr Bailey. The Rev. H. Johnson occupied the chair, there being a large attendance of members. The TLex. H. Perkins purposes returning to England shortly.

All sensible-minded women realise that the time has come for them to take the law into their own hands regarding pre-sent-day fashions, says an English writer. This fact is emphasised more after seeing Borne of the "freak" gowns and hats worn, well, by goodness knows who, at the- smart hotels and restaurants at tea. Then again, they are most wisely drawing the line between dresses that are suitable for the limousine and dresses for the woman who is a pedestrian by choice or by fortune, or one who goes from place to place in public conveyances. Nothing looks more out of place nor more unsuitable than a gown as flimsy as a ball dress, with the newest flair in draperies, and the latest caprice in frills and furbelows, when seeu in an omnibus or the Underground and Tube. The useful must be met by the useful. For the woman who goes from place to place in her motor car there is quite a different range of fashions.

The Earl of Castle Stewart died recently at his resilience, Stuart Hall, Stewardstown, Co. Tyrone, at the age of 77 years, after an illness of .some months' duration. Lord Castle Stewart, who was the male representative of the Boval Stewarts of Scotland, owned 36*00 acres, and was the possessor of a number of extremely valuable pictures, including 'Van Dykes, Knellers, and a Titian. It is a curiosity of his titles that although the earldom is officially Castle Stewart, the viscounty and barony are Castle Stuart. A cousju, Mr Andrew John Stewart, succeeds to the title. The late earl was a devoted member of the Church of Ireland, and was diocesan nominator and a regular attendant at Ardboe Church. He had a church at the castle, where services were conducted by his brother-in-law. In politics the earl was a Conservative, but he took no practical part in the presentday struggle. His last public act was to vote at Ballyclog for the Coagh County Council: He leaves two married (laughters. Gipsy-like coiffures are iu vogue, ami have attained popularity with many women. For evening wear the all-round band is very well liked, and black jet is fashionable with a gold rose in the centre. Bands of tulle heavily ornamented with big jewels, are bound round the hair, and gaily.. coloured fantasies

4mrrmrn. It is a pretty idea to weignt the ends of the feathers with a real or imitation jewel, so that it bends like a whip, giving a new and becoming line to the coiffure.

For the present, Barisiennes are beginning to think of their more summery wardrobes, and are engaged" actively upon the choosing of those adjuncts io the toilette which form so important a

I part of the stock-in-trade of a smart | society woman 's wardrobe. .For tho total aspect of a toilette can be entirely changed by the right or wrong selection of these adjuncts: collars, guimpes, fancy bags, sunshades, necklaces, etc., of whi'di each self-respecting Parisienne has so large an array. The smart bag, for instance, must always be chosen to carry out the idea of the whole toilette. The same bag —or aumonioie, as we call them here (from the old idea of the alms bag of mediaeval days) —cannot do duty for all occasions, and consequently for all toilettes. The bag worn during the morning for walks in the Bois or for early shopping is usually a quiet, unobtrusive affair that is smart, but more practical and useful than actually aggressive. In the afternoon, on the contrary, as the modern trend is to the rather severe note of dark blue or black gowns, relieved only by a note of plain white, the bag or aumouiere becomes the top note of colour of the toilette, and is usually an embroidered creation in bright, though harmonious, tones. —English Exchange. There are few misunderstandings that will survive a meeting and a heart-to-heart talk. It is easy to write ourselves into all sorts of snarls, and the more we write the worse the tangle becomes. The very best way to straighten it out is to arrange to talk things over. When we talk, what we say is explained by the expression of our faces —it can be read in the light of the eyes and in the smile —and we can see at once whether our meaning is made clear, or, where it is misunderstood, by the way it is received. When we write the words stand for themselves, and sometimes a word means any one of several things. It would do us all good if we would more often go halfway in a frank and generous spirit to meet and shake hands and say what we really : mean. Life is too short for misunder-!

standings, particularly those that a personal meeting and a personal word will brush away.

One of the most interesting girls in Britain—the Baroness Beaumont, eldest daughter of Ethel Lady Beaumont, who has grown out of her nickname of "the baby peeress"—has become engaged to the Hon. Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, elder son of Lord Howard, of Glossop. Lady Beaumont is one of the small number of ladies who are peeresses in their own right. She is in her twentieth year, and the title was called out of abeyance for her in 1896, a year after the death of her father. The marriage will unite two of the oldest Roman Catholic, families in the kingdom, whose faith survived the Reformation. Lady Beaumont's ancestor, Henry de Beaumont, who was summoned to Parliament as a baron of England in 1309, is supposed to have been a grandson of no less a person than John de Brienne, the laßt King of Jerusalem. The Beaumont peerage has been several times in abeyance, and the present holder is only the eleventh in a space of more than 600 years. Mr Fitzalan-Howard is in his twenty-ninth year, and was educated at the famous Roman Catholic institution, the Oratory School, Edgbaston, and at Cambridge. His father, who is a member of the Duke of Norfolk's family, is a large landowner in Lancashire and the Highlands.