THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 287, 8 January 1915, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Miss Eraser (Wellington) is staying at' £he Clarendon. Miss Bean was a passenger to the . north last evening. Mr and Mrs Mackay (Blenheim) are visiting Wellington. Mrs Norton has returned to Christehttreh from her visit to the north yesterday. Mrs W. Lockwood, New Brighton, is visiting her mother, Mrs Bird, at Rona Brty. • .Mrs Hutchisoiv-(Auckland) leaves for the north to-night, after a visit to ' Christehurch. Mr and Mrs John Haigh, of Ferry Road, celebrate their golden wedding on ' Tuesday next. Mrs Emerson, of Napier, is'at present Rangiora, and is staying with her Mrs Miller. Mr and Mrs Harvey Patterson (Meaflowbank) left yesterday for a holiday • visit to Australia. Mrs F. C. Johnston (San Francisco) has gone to visit the various places of tourist interest in the south. ..• : ;Archdeacon and Mrs Evans (Oamaru) left last night for New Plymouth after it short stay in Christehurch. Mrs Rose, accompanied; by her two "''Children,, arrived from Auckland this moruiug, and are staying at Warner's. Mr and Mrs H. Gamliri and their two children (Dunedinj arrived from' the 'north- this morning, and are staying at the Clarendon. Mr and Mrs Grant and Miss Banks, who have been staying in Christehurch for a few days after a visit to the West Const, returned to Timaru. Mrs F. E. Hopkins (Sydney), who has been visiting the West Coast, returned to Christehurch last evening, and is staying at the Clarendon. The engagement is announced of Mr John L. Turnbull to Miss Vera Holm Biss, second daughter of the late Mr C. Holm Biss, both of Christehurch. Mr and Mrs W. Wood, and Miss Bea "Wood left yesterday by the Ulimaroa . for Sydney, where , they will join the Home boat for a trip to England. Miss S. E. Fleming, late headmistress at.St. Margaret's College, Christehurch, has received the appointment of assistant mistress, at St. Mary's School, 'Mountain Road, Stratford.

Mrs. Cramond and her daughter, from Benrucr'a, Auckland, and Mrs Anderson and her son, also from Auckland, arrived in Christelvurch this morning, and are staying at Warwick House. The engagement is announced of Miss Emily Wilson, daughter ol Mrs J. Wilson, of Milton, -Otago, to Mr .1. L. Oliphant ■ Rovve, of the New Zealand Permanent Staff attached to the third reinforcement. Professor Fawsitt, of the Sydney University, and Mrs Fawsitt, arrived in New Zealand by the Marama on Wednesday. They intend spending two months in New Zealand, and are at present in Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs Thorpe and their two daughters, who motored through to Christchurch from Nelson a few days ago, have gone on to Dunedin. They will return via Maunier Springs, where they will break their journey for a day or two. The engagement is announced.of Miss Zillsih Taucred, voungest daughter of

Mr H. CTancred, Westqwn, New Plymouth, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Thomas Tanercd, Bart., to Mr Raymond Lawrence, of the Julius Knight Company, elder son of Mr Arthur Lawrence, Liverpool, England. The marriage will take place shortly.— "Post."

At St. Mary's Church, Timaru, yesterday, the marriage took plaee of Mr Jas. Stewart Turnbull, Timaru, to Miss K. Laing-Meason, also of Timaru. The wedding, which was a quiet one, was performed by the Yen. Archdeacon Jacobs, the bride being given away by her uncle, Mr A. E. G. Rhodes. After the ceremony the wedding party and guests were entertained at the residence of the aunt of the bride, Mrs Michael Studholme,. Le Cren \s Terrace. The marriage took place in the Jewish Synagogue, Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon, of Miss Rachel Davis, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Davis, of Wellington, to'Mr Alexander Lust, third son of Mr M. Lust, of Palmerston North. The Rev. H. Van Stavercn performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given .away by her father, wore a gown of white charmeuse satin trimmed with ninon and pearls, and a veil with orange blossoms. Miss Annie Davis (sister of the bride) and Miss Dolly Lust (sister of the bridegroom) were bridesmaids, and were in white silk frocks trimmed with lace. Mandel and Hannah Davis were page boy and girl, and Mr C. Lust, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. A reception was subsequently held in n.e Alexandra Hail, and in the evening a dance took place in the same hall. a

Paris lias always been regarded as the city of well-dressed women. This has not only applied to the moneyed class, who could afford to garb themselves in the most expensive and luxurious raiment, but to the poorer classes as well. The Parisian has always been credited with that nice sense of the.fitting, and that instinct for detail in dress, which makes the well-dressed woman, no matter whether she be poor or rich. According to cabled advice from London yesterday, however, the well-dressed woman is at present an object of curiosity, and is frankly stared at. Further, shop assistants make grimaces at her, and to be in the fashion one must be completely out of it—which sounds Irish, not French. The Frenchwoman, continues the cable, is incapable of the least enthusiasm for the very things for which she is supposed to have lived. As for the bargain buyer, she goes about furtively, and, so far from Haunting her bargains in the faces of her friends, she hides them as one would a guilty secret. While it is doubtless true that Parisians would consider it the height of bad taste to make dress the most serious matter of their lives at such a time of national stress as this, one can be quite sure that the statement is at least open to the charge of exaggeration. Parisians are probably as well dressed —that is, as tastefully and becomingly —as ever. The habits and training of generations are not abandoned so quickly. And although it is true that many drastic changes have swept over the city since the declara-

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Hon of war, one can hardly imagine shop assistants making grimaces at every well-dressed woman they see. The reference to the bargain-hunter, by the way, seems too good to be true. Cora Patterson, lit, is the proudest girl in her neighbourhood, in the State of Kansas. Last Fall she asked her father for a small plot of his farm on which she could experiment with wheat raising. Patterson allotted his daughter four acres. She ploughed the ground, harrowed it, and sowed the grain. She cared for it and watched it with an eager eye. Recently the wheat was threshed. It averaged 47 bushels to the acre, the best yield in that part of Kansas. Women and girls in large numbers are trying to enter the Russian army in various disguises, and several women have already succeeded in deceiving the military authorities. The most successful have been the masculine-looking peasant women of the northern provinces. . Amongst them is Nadezada Ornasky, a thiek-se.t, well-educated peasant woman from the province of Archangel. She posed as a man through the second part of the Manchurian campaign, and was praised for her courage by General Grippenberg. She fought in September in South Poland, and it was not until -after the battle of Lubliu-Krasnik that her sex was discovered. girl named Liuba Uglick, a 20-year-old attractive-looking girl, was present at four engagements in East Prussia*aud West Poland, and has been wounded slightly. She says that during the long-range lighting she had no fear, but had a terror of crossing bayonets with the enemy. Two daughters of a landed proprietor at Kurck have been arrested on their way to join the colours, one of them posing as "Prince Adrianoff," and the other as her servant. A peasant woman who was killed at Gumbinnen had donned her husband's clothes and impersonated him, as he had shirked the summons. She did not want her family to be shamed.

A novel appeal to the public hrs just been issued by the mayor and corporation of Brausberg, a township in Kas't Prussia (writes the "Daily Chronicle"). The district seems to be very prolific in cats, and the authorities have hit upou the brilliant idea of thinning out the cats and at the same time benefiting the army in the field. They therefore call upon the citizens to shoot the cats and to send in the skins as speedily as possible to the Town Hall. The mayor promises to superintend the conversion of the skins into body belts and mittens. The proportion of cats, he declares, in this and other townships is so large that it will not even be a sacrifice for the citizens to part with them. He hopes that his appeal will be acted on, and points out that as the cats' skins afford protection against rheumatism they would prove of great comfort and value to the sol-

I diers. Ladies, in fact, are very prominI ent in all efforts on behalf of the | army, some of .which assume striking ; forms. Women of all ranks of society \ are not hesitating to give up their jewI cilery, and at Vienna are thronging the • bureau where their gifts are received.

Each lady who gives jewellery over a certain value receives in exchange an iron ring with the. inscription, " Gold gave I for iron, 1914." In Vienna alone by this means over £40,000 has gone to swell the war funds. Only in one respect have the authorities found it desirable to restrain the liberality of the women towards the army. Wives and sweethearts of the soldiers have been in the habit, in spite of an earlier prohibition of sending parcels of perishable food to the front, so that at one centre alone 25,000 consignments proved uneatable owing to the time occupied in transit, ami had to be destroyed. The prohibition has now been stringently renewed. The campaign against "foreign fashions in AustriaHungary has taken a practical turn, and under the auspices of tlje Government and commercial bodies at Vienna a commission has been formed to create independent Vienna fashions and educate the Austrian public to adopt these in preference to the modes imported from London and Paris. It has now become an offence against social etiquette for a Vienna lady to wear a Paris hat or for a Vienna man to wear clothes cut in the English fashion. A writer in the " Australasian" supplies the following rules for working parties making surgical bandages':—As a guide for working parties making surgical bandages, the following description may be relied on. These bandages are roughly divided into six sections. 1. Strips of flannel or domette four inches wide and eight yards long. 2. Mull muslin two and a half incites wide and 6 yards long. 3. White calico two and a half and three inches wide and six yards Jong. 4. Thin unbleached calico, washed and tightly rolled, two and "a half and three and a half incites wide, six to eight yards long. 6. Triangular bandages, made of unbleached calico, four feet square, cut diagonally from corner to corner, which makes two bandages. All bandages tightly roiled should be fastened with a safety-pin. Make things large has been a sort of catch-word, and it is a good one when judiciously mixed with common sense, but a better catch phrase is "make them in proper sizes, each marked clearly with its size."

During the bombardment of a French village a lieeing family was already on the'road to safety when a boy of seven broke awaj-, calling out that he had forgotten his school-books. He ran through the bursting shells, entered his home, which was already in flames, and came running back, unhurt. He explained that he wanted to take his school-books, because he did not want the Germans to learn French.