THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 378, 27 April 1915, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mr and Mrs Warren Fisher have taken a house at Sumner for the winter, and will move in early next month. Mr and Mrs Walter Macfarlane have gone back to Kaiwarra after a brief visit to Christehurch. Mrs Curtis went back to Ashburton on Saturday after visiting friends in Christehurch.

Mrs Marks (Wellington) is staying with Mrs Chas. Louisson, Christehurch. Mrs Harrison, Miss Nancy Warren, Miss Wallace, and , Miss Price were amongst the arrivals in Christehurch from Wellington this morning. All are guests at the Clarendon.

Dr and Mrs Balls (Brisbane) arc staying at Warner's. Mrs Green (Christehurch) is visiting Miss Cox, Tim am.

Mrs de Deimc (Blenheim) is shortly coming to spend a holiday with friends in Christehurch.

Mrs Wright has let her house in Holly Eoad for the winter months, and will reside at Sumner during that period. Mrs Carey-Hill is back in Christchurch from her visit to Wanganui, where she went to assist in forming a branch of the Victoria League.

Mrs A. P- Harper has returned to Karori, Wellington, from her trip to Christehurch.

Mr and Mrs Kirk (Christchurch) are ■■! spending a few days in Wellington. On March 16, at Christ Church, Ealing, the wedding took place of Mr Edwin Julian Trier, youngest sou of Mr • • and Mrs Frank Trier, of Champion Hill, London, to Miss Gwynedd Fanny Mcr- '.'. ton, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Al- , fred Merton, of Christchurch. The engagement is announced of Miss Edith Walters, fourth daughter of Mr ;!.' Richard Walters, Sydney (and formerly of Auckland), to Mr G. Ryne Terry, third son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Terry, late of Stonyhurst- Estate, Tasmania, :' and now of Wainui, Taihape, New Zea- ; land. •

Mr and Mrs C. Boyes (Christchurch) are visiting Wellington. The wedding took place in Auckland on Wednesday, in Holy Trinity Church, Devonport, of Miss Nellie Bennett, seeend daughter of Mr W. Bennett, Vauxhill Road, Devonport, to Mr Allan Baxter, of the staff of the Bank of New • Zealand, Hunterville Branch, and a nephew of the late Mr D. A. Baxter, of ',= '. this city. The bride, who was given away by her brother, wore a frock of white embroidered crepe de chine, with veil and orange blossoms. Miss Dorothy Bennett, the bride's sister, acted as bridesmaid, and Mr R. Pounthey as best man.

Miss L. A. Hunt, 8.A., has been ap- ] pointed as assistant mistress at Welling- ] ton Girls' College. Miss Hunt is at < present attached to the staff of the i Napier High School. ' At the Henrietta Tea Rooms last : ;j -week the executive committee of the 1 ~'4 Creche and Kindergarten Association, 1 i in conjunction with the committee of < ' the Sunbeam Kindergarten, entertained ( Mrs Johannes Anderson at a morning 1 - teaj prior to her departure from Christchurch. In the absence of Mrs Taylor, ; president of the association, Mrs Chil- : ton presided. A letter was read from the former, regretting her inability to be present, and recalling in most' appreciative terms the strenuous efforts ©f Mrs Anderson to have free kindergartens opened in Christchurch. She voiced, on behalf of the.association, the deep regret felt at the loss of such an earnest and faithful worker. Other members supported the sentiments expressed by Mrs Taylor, and all joined in extending to Mrs Anderson every good wish for her future welfare. As the captivating Dorothy Vernon i of the days of Good Queen Bess, Nellie Stewart scored another success last evening. Perhaps she was not altogether the Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall as those who had read the book pictured her, but she was very charming, very lovable, very delightful, for all that. She made the play go as per- : haps a true-to-life Dorothy could have never, done. In the first act she appeared in a quaint little-girl kind of frock fashioned of white brocade, and, later on, when she is shown to the audience as a prisoner by her father's wish, she wears a frock of sumptuous-looking primrose velvet. In the ensuing scenes Bhe is either masquerading as her own maid, or as the Queen of Scotland, and finally the curtain goes down on her dressed as a page, in which costume she proposes to accompany her lover to Wales, whither the will of the imperious Elizabeth has banished him for a year's exile. Elizabeth, by the way, with her "outstanding" draperies, her towering ruff, and her no less towering dignity, made one at last realise why the period of her reign is alluded to as '' the spa-

cious days of great Elizabeth." There was need for spaciousness, indeed! Mary, Queen of Scots, Avas sad and sweet in the traditional black velvet gown, and the cap and veil which history always associates vith her, and Lady Vernon, aunt to Dorothy, was splendid in richly-hued" silks and a ruff which almost rivalled Elizabeth's own.

The women of Berlin are being taught not only how to save food, but also how td produce it. A "war committee for vegetable planting in Berlin" has been formed, under the presidency of the wife of the v Ministcr of War. The committee, with official aid, will encourage the planting of vegetables on all spare and waste ground in Greater Berlin, and will instruct allotment holders in the suburbs how to plant most profitably. The committee will enlist large numbers of women helpers who have offered their services to the Red Cross, but hitherto have not found hospital occupation. The '' war garden ladies'' will not only '' encourage," but will also do some of the skilled garden work themselves. In Bagdad, says a writer for the "National Geographical Magazine," often you may see a fine Oriental rug lying flat in the filth of a narrow street, ground beneath the tramp of men and beasts; but there is method in this. Since an "old" rug is worth more, wily brokers have hit on this shameful way to make a new rug look old; the latest art effort thus soon becomes a "rare old rug."

The Burroughs Nature Club of Brooklyn, through its president, Mr Albert Houghton Pratt, lias expressed its desire to limit the number of cats by legislative restriction. It declares that cats are not only enemies of bird life in our cities, but that they hold first place among domesticated animals as carriers of disease. A census shows 116,000 cats in Brooklyn, and this number, it is thought, may be materially reduced Avith advantage to all—possibly even including the cats, for many of them are left to starve during the summer vacations of their owners.