THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 245, 19 November 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Rev. T. Tait and Mrs Tait, of Napier; are at present in Dunediu. ■ Mrs Hyams Las returned to Welling- ; ton after a long visit to Australia. Mr and Mrs J. Colin Campbell,, of i Dunedin, are staying at Coker's Hotel. Miss Nelson, who has been visiting Christchurch, has returned to Wellington.

Miss Nancy Drunnnond (Christchurch) is at present visiting relatives in Kill»irnie, Wellington. Nurse Blackmore and Plunket Nurse Bowie, both of Timaru, hope to leave for England in January. Miss Evelyn Collins left Wellington, early in the week to visit friends in Christchurch and Dunedin. Dr and Mrs T. A. Will (Rangiora) are in Christchurch, and are staying at

Warner's. \ Mrs Nahr (Westport), who has been at the Clarendon for a few days past, left for the south this morning. . Mrs Don Riddiford has left Christchurch on her return to the north, and is spending a few days in Wellington en route.

Miss Bruce came to Christchurch from Waimate yesterday, and stayed at the United Service,until this morning, when she left for the West Coast. Miss Hprton, of Auckland, who has been visiting friends at Little River and in Christchurch, is at present in Wellington, staying with Miss Coates. Dr G. A. Forrest and Mrs and Miss Forrest, of West Oxford, Canterbury, returned to New -Zealand by the Niagara from a trip to Great Britain. They arrived in Wellington on Tuesday, and came on. to■ Christchurch this

morning. Their Excellencies the Governor and Lady Liverpool visited the Bose Show in Wellington on Tuesday, and were received on arrival by the president of the Rose and Carnation Club, Mr Harcourt, and Miss Harcourt. A beautiful bouquet of roses was presented to her Excellency.

On Saturday afternoon an interesting little ceremony will take place at the Rhodes Convalescent Home, when a Hag, the money for which has been subscribed by the patients, will be un- , furled by Mr A. B. G. Rhodes. A tram- " ber of people wjho are interested in the institution, ' and, of course, the

patients, v will assemble at the Home ,- during the afternoon to witness the unfurling of the bit of bunting which stands for. bo very much just now. Mr-and Mrs Edwin Kilpatrick, who have been touring New Zealand, left by the Westralia, en route to Japan, via Melbourne. Mrs Kilpatriek, who accompanies her husband on -his travels arounll the ih« only, daughter

and heiress ; ,oj£' tfcp-# Jate, JDixon Wyselaskic, the • Victorian philanthropist who' gave Wyselaskie Hall to the Melbourne University and Presbyterian Ladies' College, as well as innumerable bequests to tho various institutions throughout Australia.

Miss Nellie Stewart, who emerged from her retirement to play in "Du Barry'* a month or two ago in Sydney, is now appearing in Melbourne in the same play. A Victorian writer says that the reception which she received

was one calculated to stir the emotions *of the most seasoned playgoer. The dresses she wore were equally calculated to rouse enthusiasm even in these parlous times, when finery is at a discount. In the second act, when she is supposed to be endeavouring to decide what to wear, she changes he* frock

four times. The first of these four > gowns Js an airy trifle in lace and silver; the next a very bouffant silk frock in rose du Barry pink; next she appears in a silk gown, showing a big design in roses, and this she hides later on under a water-blue velvet cloak of cjuite exceptional beauty. These arts oitly a few among ever so many other gowns of most beautiful . d'eslgn worn during the progress of,the play. The" little village of Knapton, in has celebrated a new form of harvest thanksgiving. Instead of the usual floral decorations, gifts of fruit and vegetables were sent to the church, and q£ a result a waggon-load of foodstuffs was shipped to Belgium, in response to "the appeal of the Belgian Minister.

As showing the great need of thousands of garments for the British in hospital, Sir Alfred Keogh, the British Bed Cross Chief Commissioner in JVanee, telegraphing last month to the London headquarters, said, "Send with the utmost speed to Rouen, in addition to articles now on their way, shirts, pyjamas, pillow-slips, macintosh sheets, slippers, and socks. Send thousands of them. You cannot send too many." A strong revival of religion has taken place in Paris, where, a correspondent

of the "Gentlewoman" states, the churches are crowded, and the attitude of the worshippers most devout. After a splendid sermon in Notre Dame by Cardinal Amett (Archbishop of Paris), a great procession of religious bodies, including many young girls, paraded the streets and concentrated round a raised platform, where the Cardinal delivered a stirring address. "Who knows," concludes the writer, "but that the war may be the means of reviving that- deep devotion to the Church which so long, alas! has been a stranger to the gay^Parisienne?" Queen Mary's gift of 200 yards of dress material, sent to Lady Haig, wife of Lieut.-General Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the First Army Corps in Prance, has been distributed in Aldershot among the wives of men at the front. One dress length - was presented to each regiment, whose married women drew lots for it.

Another successful play, "Those who i Sit in Judgment,'' has been written i by a woman, Mrs J. T. Grein. She is : the wife of a well-known London critic, ; and is proud of the fact that until he read it in completed form her husband had never seen her play nor offered : any suggestions. The play was pro- I dueed by Sir George Alexander, at St. James's Theatre, and'received excellent press notices. "The women of England," says the secretary of the i'Army of Help" in 'London, "are concentrating themselves against the poverty among the women and children,. Ttnd a supreme effort will be made to tide over the winter without disaster. So many gentlewomen are in dire poverty in the United Kingdom that a special department is now being organised to look after them." All art work is also at a standstill, and this throws yet another great army of wage-earners upon charity. The "Ladies' Pictorial" of September -26 understands that the names of women who have rendered distinguished service in patriotic work will be among the next Birthday honours. Queen Mary, it is said, is specially anxious that this may be so.

/ The death of Queen Mary's old go- | verness, Madame Bricka, who passod away, quite recently in London, caused iher Majesty great sorrow. She was visited twice daily by the Queen during the latter portion of her illness.