THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 241, 14 November 1914, Page 7

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Professor /Boys-Smith, of _ the! Otago University, is visiting Wellington.

Mrs H. ; Abrahatn: / (S;tratford) / ig: visiting her inother, Mrs Denniston, Christchurch.

Miss Coates (Wellington), who has been visiting 'friends in Christchureh, has returned to'

'Mr and . .Mrs' ifrrol Cotton-Staplet'on, and. Mr and Mrs Charles. Cotton-Staple-ton are returning to New Zealand by the Tongariro.

Mr arid- Mrs lan Duncan have re

" Itur'ned'-to- ther north from Christchureh, - yrhere' 'they' wGtfG '"the guests of Mr and : SLrB ' .1' Theb.,feißjtteii<jies. the Governor and

Lady Liverpool .in^epd'returning to "Wellington o» oMpnciayi.. . Meanwhile they are* the guests of iMr and Mrs-A. E. G. Bhodes.

Miss Belle Eiike, : who has been spend-

ing .a holiday iii 'Christchureh, has reWellington., The Misses An"derson,!. -of iAshburton, ares at present -gtayiajg- with her. „ ; .. . -U, !:• - ; .iLa'st'evening grand Scottish ; concert '•'••'■ was' "held' ,; iiv' ! the.' ; ' Scottis- Society 's "rooms, and antiMeresting programme of national soligs, tWn'qes, recitations, and _ bagpipe selections were submitted. . Mrs .Arthur Burns, of Pembroke, Central ..Otago,' !wha has been spending the last eighteen months in Great Britain, returned to New Zealand by the Moeraki, via Sydney, this week. The 'engagement is announced of Miss Eunice M. Garland, only daughter of Mr and Mrs F. H Garland,-of Oriental Bay,. Wellington, to Lieutenant C. T.. Brown, No. 9 Company, Garrison Artillery,. fourth son of. Mr and Mrs W. Brown, " Keewalden,'' Lower Hutt. Mrs J. W. Bull (Wellington) has received gabled .advice announcing the safe arrival of he*' daughter, Miss Bull, "and Miss M'Nally, in: Bulawayo, Rhodesia. Miss-Bull, it will be rememberwas head mistress of the Sydenham • "Kindergarten,- arid recently left'to un- " 4£rtak e education work in the mission ißulawayo...

The Wellington Committee of the Countess of Liverpool. Expeditionary Force Fund have decided that the New Zealand soldiers in Samoa shall not want - for" Christmas cheer,, and are "making Up " cakes containing cakes, bottled fruit,''atid\ vegetables, dates, figs, etc.,, which Tvill be dispatched in time for that auspicious ,dat,e. The Mayoress is sending a .case of delicacies on Monday for-friends stationed in Samoa, but fchat has nothing to do with the Clirist-

Uvas cases; ;;t; The workers at an Auckland sewing Tbee for the Belgians had a pleasant surprise las| week, says an Auckland correspondent, .for, while working hard, Miss Ellen : Terry • was suddenly announced. Shei.had just arrived by the Makura, en 'route to Canada, and calling on an' Auckland friend and finding her out, had been directed to the locale of th"e bee, where she was. It was a very 3oily interlude, for the charming visitor was in high spirits, anil told lots of odd bits of news gleaned from . letters from Home* ■; Before, leaving,

she asked her friend to accept a small donation from a very poor woman.—herself." 1 .

Miss Anna Holman, who has just passed her judicial examination at the University, is- now nominated sworn attorney of the judge in the district of Holt, in Nedenes, • Norway. The district judges have to travel the circuits, and they have more work than they themselves. can Ao. They therefore have sworn attorneys, who., may take charge for. the, ; judge himself and may perform all:, the official duties of the judge, at the proceedings in the courts of law.

• Probably one of the greatest' changes that has come over the nation, -as far as the women are concerned, is not the energy that is shown in making garments for the troops, but the sudden loss of interest in fashion (remarks a London "correspondent). The welldressed woman is still well-dressed; butsh<? .hardly .ever mentions her clothes, or.-other,: people's clothes, or what may be, or will be, worn. Further, pairit, powder, and false hair: are almost taboo. Just why this is would be difficult to say; but beauty doctors and chemists, who make a specialty of complexion requisites, report such an entire slump in their business. At theatres and in the park nearly all the womeri are "in their own faces," and their hair is so simply arranged as to suggest vthat thoy or their maids arranged the coiffure in about ten or fifteen minutes. Everything has suddenly become simple, and one might say saner, in matters of dress and millinery. Anyone wears just what happens to be most becoming, and many noted society women : are seen at the various charitable and patriotic meetings in garments that are almost shabby. Many people are in black, of course. In the churches it seems as if two of every three women were in mourning. This is notably the case in the Eoman Catholic churches; that, of course, is explained partly by the fact that French and Belgian women wear black far more than any other colour.

An Australian nurse who went to the Continent with Lady Dudley's hospital, but who had to return through illness, says she was much struck with the silence of the French troops as they marched out of the town. The "British soldier invariably sang his favourite song, '' Tipperary,' 1 or the other, nearly, as great a favourite, 1 ' Oh, You Beautiful Doll." A Freuch lady explains this difference easily. "I do not think,'' she says,, '' that our men would sing if they were marching out of London, Manchester,' and other cities, to meet the Germans, who had laid waste Scotland and all Northumberland, and who had killed mothers, wives, aunts, and cousins of these men. , Maybe our men will sing when they march through Germany, but not while they inarch through Northern France."

Music-lovers have heard with regret of the death of that veteran musician, Wilhelm Canz. To Australasians Mr

Ganz is best known as the man who .enabled . Madame Melbri. to make her London debut. The occasion was a con-cert-at Prince's Hall, in 1886. The Australian prima: donna—she was Nellie Armstrong in those dava—sang "Verdi's ''Ah, fors & lui," and, Mr Ganz's i"Sing, r Sy?feet• -Bird*'■/;., Gana- was so impressed with Nellie Armstrong's voice, and the beauty of her style, that he mentioned her gifts to Carl Eosa, who was then running his famous opera company in the English provinces; Carl Eosa made an appointment to hear the | young Victorian singer, but, apparently, forgot the time or date. Ati any rate/ he missed the .chance of securing a singer ; of * the century.. Instead;, Mrs Armstrong went to Paris to study with Madame Marchesi, and made, her appearance in opera in Englandj at iCovent j Garden. Madame Melba never .forgot Ganz *8 kindness, and sang at ;his jubilee concert at the Queen's Hall in ; 1$&8.; Mr Ganz was for many years associatedwith Jenny Lind and Madame Patti. as accompanist. His "Memories of a Musician,'' published in 1913, is a mine of musical anecdote, which is well worth exploring. / v In the field of feminine endeavour, the most recent innovation is the_ "Woman's Hospital Corps, which left London for Paris a little consisting entirely of women and nurses. The leading spirits in the undertaking are Dr. Garrett Anderson and Dr Flora Murray. The first lady is a daughter of Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, one of the earliest wonjen doctors, and the first woman in England to be elected a mayor.. Dr Flora Murray has become famous, as Mrs Pankliurst's doctor. -Glad in businesslike costumes of ; cOver.t coating, with round iiats'to match, and smoke:coloured veils, the members of the Women's Hospital Corps seemed for any duty. '' New women,'' one and all, and still devoted militant suffragettes, they.; have decided to put aside iheir differences with the Government for a time, and take their places in a new '' fighting line.". Other British women suf-, fragettes are doing excellent work as recruiting agents. Within five days of the 1 declaration of war, 53,000 members of the National Union of Women Suffragettes were organised into an Active Service League. They are now engaged upon various patriotic duties under the direction of 150 trained work-

ers who formed the National Union's staff. The 53,000 women are assisting woineq in distress, arranging for "the housing of refugees and forwarding recruiting. Amongst other things the National Union has opened an emergency workshop for destitute women. A trade union wage of 3d an hour for a maiimum 40 hours week is paid. Similar work, but upon a larger scale, is being done by the Queen's Work for Women Fund, for which £50,000 has been subscribed already. The executive committee of the Queen's Fund" includes one Victorian lady, Dr Marion Phillips, who has a. wide experience in connection with women V employment. Miss Phillips secured her doctorate of science at the London School of Economics some years ago, and has since been employed in social work among the women workers of London. '