THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 204, 2 October 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Miss R. Mandel, of Hokitika, is a guest at Coker 's Hotel. Mr and Mrs Ayreton/Upper Hi ghfield (Waiatt), who motored into" town yesterday, are staying at Warner's. Mr and Mrs W. P. Thompson (Auckland) are visiting Christchurch, and are staying at the Clarendon. Miss Dorothy Eisheris going to Dunedin to-morrow for the golf tournament to be held there next week. Mrs James Allen and Miss Allen, who came into" town frOm Little River yesterday, went pit to Dunedin by the iirst express to-day. Mrs Harvey Patterson (Meadowbank) was in town yesterday. On Wednesday jnext she.-intends going down to Dunedin'for the races. Mrs Philip Shaw left England by the Botorua last month, and is expected to arrive in New Zealand on the 20th inst. She will stay for some time with lier .mother, Mrs Hayhurst> Green Hayes, Temuka. '. Among, those present yesterday evening at the opening of the fourth annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition were Mr Wm. Reece (who, opened the exhibition), Mr and Mrs Wm. Wood and Miss Wood, Mr and Mrs J. Millton, Mr and Mrs T. Cowlishaw, Mrs J. Hall, Mrs Wallwork, Miss Stoddart, Colonel and the Misses Snow, Miss N. Chap-man,-Mrs Russell, Miss N. Guthrie, Miss vMiddleton, Mrs Tonks, Mrs Stewart, Dr Levinge, and Mr Hill Fisher. • Thirteen members of the English ladies' hockey team and 14 menlber.3 of the New''Zealand ladies*' hockey team arrived in Christchurch yesterday for the- match to be played at Lancaster Park to-morrow. In the .afternoon Mrs Carey-Hill, with whom a couple of the English girls are staying, took her guests and the other member's of the English team down to her charming little cottage at Clifton, where she «ntertained them at afternoon .tea. Today Mrs Stead is giving- a^farge .afternoon ..- party at her residence, '< ' Strowan," for all the visitors, the members of the local association, <and the offi'cers of the Canterbury Hockey Asso tiation. Tact is one of the direct roads to success in every walk of life. A whole career may be spoiled for the want of tact., Brains are'useless without it. Charity is lost where taet does not take a hand. Tact is the chief factor in .'friendship. A good hostess is not she who entertains lavishly, but she who dispenses hospitality with tact. If ask*d to describe tactj one might say it was diplomacy directed with care and thought. It has countless ends in view. Foremost are cleverness and kindliness. Very often it is not resultful without sacrifices, and there is no reward. Good manners are mainly responsible to tact, and consideration for others is one of its pleasures. It is never dulled by usage.* In fact, tact is our beacon light now and for always. As for fashion, nobody bothers about it these stirring times, writes a London correspondent in the Sj'dney "Telegraph." Owing to the war danger and officers being ordered to the front, many important weddings have taken place that in the usual order of things would have ushered in the autumn social season. There was a remarkable demand by navy and military men for special licenses. ' The fee for the ordinary license is £2, but these times the special license costs £29 5/6, which allows marxJages to take place immediately in the

Church of England, but does not apply to "other denominations. .Daily weddings uniting the leading families have taken place, shorn of all the gay panoply of a smart wedding. WivesHauckle on their husband's swords and w r ish them Godspeed, even if their hearts are breaking. The real spirit of the Briton is there; their work lies at home preparing for the return of the wounded. ' Into many of the new season's dresses creeps-a suggestion of those peasant j vogues that have survived the modernisation, of dress to which some have fallen victims. The Bolero, for instance, recalls Switzerland, Austria, and Norway; the big all-round cloak Ireilaiid; and the swathed sash, with its jaunty side streamers, Spain. , Abroad the habit of drinking barley water and water is. growing to such an. extent that very often not one out of twenty diners take anything else to I drink," if that. What is now termed the water habit is responsible for an innovation with regard to how and when it is, served. It is learned that few houses serve water at the table. Instead it is. brought to the drawiiig room half .an hour after dinner. It is carried around to the guests on a tray in glasses full, hot or cold. This water drinking is no myth, but a reality, well in prac~ tice both in England and America. Like all things, there is reason given for the practice. Preserving the figure is the great 'point, since it has been »found i that drinking at meals is a producer of fat.