THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 699, 8 May 1916, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mr and Mrs C. It. Chapman (Dune 4in) are visiting Wellington. Mrs Buchanan and Miss Agnes Buchanan have come up to Christchurch from Timaru. Archdeacon and Mrs Jacob (Timaru) OTC in Christchurch. Miss Nancarrow (Christchurch) is the guest, of Mrs W. Orbell, Raincliff, South Canterbury. Mrs and Miss Nevill Smith have returned to Timaru after a couple of years spent abroad. Mr and Mrs A. S. Elworthy have returned home after a visit to Nelson. Mr and Mrs C. Miller have returned to Te Kuit.i after paying a round of visits in South Canterbury. Miss Moana Rhodes, who has recently been staying in Christchurch, is now visiting Mt. Cook. Dr Emily Sicdeberg (Dnnedin) who lias been attached for the last six months to the Royal Infirmary at Sheffield, is leaving for England at the beginning of April (says a recent, English exchange). Miss Cooper, 'laughter of Mr .Justice Cooper, Wellington, who has been acting as secretary to his Honour since his associate, Mr R. Mackay, went into cam]), will continue to (ill the post during the period of the war, says a Wellington paper. The wedding took place at All Saints' Church, Taradale (llawke's Bay), on Wednesday, of Miss Elsie Harvey, only iaughter of Mr 11. Harvey, "The Rise," Taradale, (o Mr Norman Fussell, youngest son of Mr J. R. Fussell, of Russell Square, Timaru. Miss Ivy Powdrell and Miss Rymer were bridesmaids, and Lieut. Fussell, brother of the bridegroom, was best man, and Mr Harry Harvey groomsman. A garden party, to raise funds for the liquidating of the debt on the St. Aidan's Mission Church (in connection with the Avonside Parish) was held on Saturday afternoon. The location was the pretty grounds surrounding Mr W. Chrystall 's residence at Stanmore Boad, Richmond. There was a good attendance, ami the various amusements were much enjoyed. A band played selections, and the other attractions included some spirited Scottish dancing by Miss Klsie Clark. The stallholders wore:—Fancy ami work stall, Mesdames Reahy ami Cusaek and Miss Baker: cake stall, Mrs Tustin; sweets, Mesdames Lancaster ami Burtt; produce, Mesdames Cook, Klfick, Pruden, and Bridgens; Aunt Sally, Mr Klfick. In oriler to release for military service many of the men now engaged in the electrical industry, the lOlectrie Contractors' Association of Liverpool has decided to train a number of women in electrical work. The super girl clerk earning .Clot) a. year has-made her appearance in London. She is said to be the best paid woman clerk in London. The position she occupies that of foreign exchange clerk in a big bank. Her business is to keep the bank constantly posted up in the fluctuating international money values, a work requiring a trained mind with a particularly well-developed mathematical bent. A unman who can do the work well is. of course, a particular rarity, which accounts to some extent for the high salary she is paid. Talk of the high cost of living! The apex of sybaritish luxnriousness appears (o have been achieved in America recently when the manager of certain London tea rooms paid 2;"( l dollars (£SO) per lb I'nr a parcel of (lib of Indian Ceylon tea which had been on exhibit at "the Panama Exhibition. Moro war economies! — There was an exhibition in Manchester of various breeds of quaint toy dog:;. The show attracted about 500 entries, among them many of the champions of the land. After the judging there was a sale of pets offered for the benefit of I he Red Cross funds. The evidences of the ex

ti'avagant care with which these pampered animals are tended, and which recently roused a strong protest in several quarters on the ground of its inappropriateness at the present time, were nut. wanting. Many were housed in little apartments draped with silk or satin, warmly cushioned, ami not infrequently furnished with furs. Sprigs of sweet scented herbs flanked some "kennels, 7 ' and others were tricked out witli flags and tinselled hangings, or bedecked with imitation (lowers. If you wish to be very "up to date" you must take out all the faintly toned ribbons which hitherto you have threaded in your underwear and replace them with new ribbons, black in toue, either of plain-corded silk, velvet, or of moire (states an Australian writer). Of late it has not been considered particularly smart to have ribbon threaded in underwear, except, perhaps, to draw up the beading of a nightgown or camisole; but now, no matter how little is used, such ribbon should be inky in colour. We have known for some time that a touch of black is wonderfully effective in a drawing-room, where it is usually introduced as a background to the carpet, and upholstery cretonnes, and also by cushions, but few of us have. thought of so embellishing our bedrooms. However, plain black satin eiderdown quilts and white lace bedspreads and pillow-shams, threaded witli broad black ribbon, are among the newest ideas. It is true that they remind the matter-of-fact person of mourning note-paper with its black edge, but it must be remembered that the person who would experiment with garments and bed linen decorated with black ribbon could not have much sympathy with that which is matter-of-fact or ordinary. Thousands of business and professional men in England who have enlisted have transferred their bank accounts and cheque books to their wives. While the husband is with the army it, devolves upon the wife to manage and settle everything, rent, rates, education, wages, household, and all other bills. She also has to receive the husband 'a income and to pay it. in to the bank. Most of the women who are now cheque signers never before had a banking account. But tin? manager of a big London bank said recently that his admiration for the capabilities of the war time woman has been heightened by the intuition and system she displays in tackling her absent husband's fin ances. "Women," he said, "do not make the mistakes and display the simplicity in financial affairs that legend credited to them. They are very methodical in their banking. Women customers pay in promptly and are more attentive to their pass books than many men. It is very seldom that women incur overdrafts." The longest name ever inflicted on an English child, says a writer in a Melbourne exchange, must surely be that, of an unfortunate born at Derby in ISB2, on whom her parents bestowed a name for every letter of the alphabet—Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Kmily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez .lane Kate, Louise Maude Nora I will cease the infliction until it comes to Zenobia! The Rev. Ralph Lyonel Tolleinachc Tolleniaohe was another person with a craze for lone names. He baptised his eldest son Lyulph Yderallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Kreheuwyse Saxon lOsa Cromwell Orme N'ovil Dysart Plantagenet.