THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs Cuthbert Rutherford (North Canterbury) is visiting Timaru, and is Btaying with her sister, Mrs K. G. Turner. Mrs F. Raymond, who has been visiting Christclmrch, has returned to her home in Timaru. Mrs Gossett (Christehurch) is on a ■visit to Timaru, and is staying with Mrs Westmacott. Miss Hay has returned to Christ-i-hureh from a visit to Timaru. - Mrs R. L. M. Kitto (late of Napier) lias arrived in Christclmrch. A meeting will be held at Nazareth B-ousc on Thursday, August 5, when a committee will be formed with the object of furthering the interests of the annual-concert, which will be held early in October. Mr and Mrs H. E. Hart, of Dunedin, are staying at the United Service Hotel. Mrs G. L. Rutherford arrived in Christclmrch from Macdonald Downs toy motor car last night, and is staying at Warner's Hotel. Mrs Jlayter, who lias been visiting Christclmrch, left for Oamaru this morning. Mr and Mrs Drain gave a very enjoyable evening to friends last Monday, •n the departure of their two sons, Ernest and Horace, who are leaving for the front. Amongst the guests staying at the New Commercial Hotel, Wellington, are Mrs "HarroW (Nelson) and Mrs Recce, ©f Dunedin. The first ladies' billiards championship ever held in Australasia was played at Alcock's billiards rooms, Wellington,, last night. Great interest was taken in the match, which resulted as follows: — Mrs Watkins beat Miss Stace, Mrs Cirdlestone beat Mrs Kilmiuster, Mrs Chant beat Miss Player, Mrs Nagle beat Wfes Lockwood, Mrs Tucker beat Miss Stevens, Mrs Nagle beat Mrs Porter, and Miss Penman beat Mrs Watkins. The final was played off last night. The wedding took place at St. Mary 's Church, Addington, this afternoon, of Miss Winifred Gladys Weir, second daughter of Mr and Airs J. Weir, of Christclmrch, to Mr Cyril Clarence Goodwin, only son of Mr Charles Goodwin, •f Spreydon. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a blue coat ~and skirt, and carried a sheaf of arum lilies. Miss Ethel Weir (sister of the ■bride) acted as bridesmaid, and Mr Miles Walker wa\s best man. After the ceremony, a reception was held at the Henrietta Tea Rooms. Mr and Mrs Goodwin intend spending their honeymoon at Akaroa. A qniet but very pretty wedding w ; as •elebrated- at the Catholic Cathedral yesterday afternoon, when Miss Constance Cotter, eldest daughter of Mr and' Mrs T. Cotter, of the City Hotel, was married to Mr W. C. Wedderspoon, eldest son of Mr Richard Wedderspoon, of Wellington. The Rev. Father Long officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a lovely frock of ivory satin charmeuse, with pearl trimmings, and carried a white prayer took. Her tulle veil, which was trimmed with real Limerick lace, wrought by the nuns of Mt. Magdala, ■was crowned with a wreath of orange >lossom. Miss E. Cotter (sister of the bride), who acted as bridesmaid, wore a pretty frock of white Arcadian crepe, with which she wore a dainty white mob cap, with a fall of the same material. Her bouquet was of freesias and violets. After the ceremony a reception was held at Broadway's, at which the bride's mother wore a smart line cloth costume and black hat. Mr and Mrs Wedderspoon left by motor gar for Akaroa.

A neutral correspondent of '' The Times" thus gives the results of his observations of German women:—"One of the most prominent features of tho German industrial world to-day is tho increasing number of women who take the places of men'. As it is with agriculture so it is with industry. More than half a million women are, I was assured, already at work in munition factories. Everywhere in the industrial districts where women are employed homes for children have been organised. To those homes mothers whose husbands are at the front send their ehildren to be cared for. At Cologne alone there are already 100 such homes. Even the women, who suffer most, reject nil thought of a humiliating peace. The courageous, self-sacrificing wny in which the German women carry their load of sorrow and work was what impressed ine most deeply in tho workingclass world. The German housewife is able to bring the cost of living down to a minimum which, I am afraid, the English housewife does not think possible. In this time of crisis the German woman .steps into a man's place to a remarkable extent, and in the German Empire there are 20,000,000 women above the age of 18!" One of the benefits of conscription,

says a London exchange, is now being experienced by the mothers of large families in France. The French Government, having the power to call every man to the colours, is able to discriminate iu a way that is not possible in England and Australia, and to release some of those whose home obligations are the greatest. Thus a recent order has sent home all the soldiers who have five children or more. So there are many wives and children avlio are now rejoicing to have tho father back with them again.