THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 926, 29 January 1917, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs iiml .Miss dairy, who have been in Christchureh for some time, sue motoring back to Nelson to-day.

Miss P. Cramnioud (Dunedin) is staying at the Clarendon. I)r and Mrs Doctor (Hokitika) left for Wellington by Saturday's ferry steamer. The doctor, who is a wellknown and esteemed practitioner on the Coast, is going into cam]) in the north. JMiss Gresson (Christchureh) is the guest, of Mrs Cordon, Union Bank, Thnam.

Mrs Rose, (Christchureh), who has been living in Timaru for some months, intends returning to Christchureh this week.

Mrs J. M. Gorton and Miss Corton (Christchureh) are visiting Timaru, and are staying at the Crosvonor. Mr and Mrs Charles Hall (Gisborue) are at the United Service for a few days.

Mrs Downs, Miss V. Culhbertsou, and Miss M. Hurley (Auckland) return north this evening. Airs Hartley (England), who has been visiting Timaru, is now in Christchureh. Mrs Rankin (Merivaie) leaves Christchureh to-day for Wellington, en route for England.

Mr ami Mrs Richard AVallwork (Christchureh), and Mrs Marsh and Miss Ngaio Marsh (Cashmere) returned on Saturday from their sketching trip on the West Coast.

Miss Hitchings, Miss Maxine Edgar, and Miss Cato (Napier) have returned from Timaru, and are spending a fewclays in Christchureh, on the pv home. Miss Laura Baxter (Christchureh) is the guest of Mrs W. W. Baxter, in Timaru.

Mrs Percy Ifaggitt (Merivaie) is "visiting her people in Dunedin. Dr Gibbs and Mrs L. A. Gibbs (Nelson) aro at Warner's.

Mr ami Mrs Coles (Auckland) left Christehurch for Dunedin this morning. Mr and Mrs ,7. M. Scott (Timaru) are in Christehurch. Miss W. Worsfold (Bangiora) is ' visiting in South Canterbury, and is at present the guest of Mrs S. Cullen (Sutherlands). Mr and Mrs Pearshouso (Wellington) left for Duuedin this morning. Mrs Walter Macfarlane (Kahvara) returned home on Saturday. Miss Laura Barnes (Christehurch) left rj*st week for luvercargill, where she is going to live with her aunt, Mrs Christophers. Sir Thomas and Lady Ewiug and Miss Ewing (Sydney) are staying at Warwick House, where they will remain for a few davs.

Miss Margaret Oilivcr, lady principal of the Waimate High School, left for the south by the second express to-day. Mr and Mrs F. Burns (Orari), who have been visiting Mrs B. H. Burns (Chester Street), motored home this morning.

Sir Henry and Lady Green Kelly, of Ireland, have arrived in Wellington, on their way to Australia. They are accompanied by their four children.

The marriage arranged between Captain Thomas Izod Bennett, K.A.M.C, only son of Mr and Mrs A. W. Bennett, of Christehurch, New Zealand, and Euth Iris Weiss, youngest daughter of M. N. Weiss, secretary of the French Huguenot Society, and Mine. Weiss, of 54 Rue des Sants-Peres, Paris, will Bhortly take place in Paris.

The ladies' section of the local branch of the Overseas Club are arranging a street collection for February !). The proceeds are to go towards the gift of an aeroplane to the Imperial Government.. It is hoped that the sum of £SOO will be netted by this effort towards the cost of the aeroplane, which is £ISOO. The plane is to be called "Canterbury." Any girls willing to collect are requested to communicate with the secretary, Miss Denniston, telephone 4(l(.i.'i, or leave their names at, the Overseas Club Rooms, l(ii) Hereford Street.

A recommendation has been submitted by the Education Examination Committee to the Senate that "every girl entering for the matriculation or entrance scholarship shall forward to the Registrar, with her application, a certificate from the principal of the last school attended, or from some other responsible person, stating that she has taken a course in domestic science." The convener of the com-

mittoe, Professor C'hiltou, said that the committee considered the matter to be a very important one, because it affected the training of the future wives and mothers of our young nation. It was generally agreed that, domestic science should be a compulsory subject for girls, but nt present there were difficulties in the way of making it such. The recommendation was adopted.

A Melbourne correspondent in (he ' 'British-Australasian " writes:—" Mrs Aeneas (bum, of 'We of the. Never Never' fame, is living near Oakleigh.* but she is not, writing now, as she is devoting all her time to helping to send comforts to. the men at the front,. She has knitted much, her record to date being 120 pairs of socks and the same number of helmets."

Evening dress has been banned in the I Stale-subsidised theatres of Paris, says an exchange. In the distant |>re-war | days, when we could afford to be pleasantly remote from thoughts of the I majority and the common fate, we used ! to make it a rule that, no man should I be admitted to this or that restaurant oi' theatre unless he came in evening dress, and we flattered ourselves that Iwe were conforming (herein to the I Parisian standard. Now the Parisian j fashion is to go anywhere in the dress I in which you have done your work for | your country. It, is a happier because , a less artificial fashion, and it serves the not unimportant purpose of redue- . ing appearances in these stern days to realities. The time which can be spared for relaxation from one's contribution to the common cause is so brief a minimum that there is no leisure to be stolen for personal adornment. During the Napoleonic wars women's head-gear showed many variations of military models. The poke-bonnet is distinctly traceable to the influence of .the terrific helmets of the cavalry, while other shapes were unmistakably akin to the busby or shako, as then worn. There was, of course, a kind of hat or bonnet, one hardly knows what to call it, technically known as a helmet, a feathered affair with a kind of peak fore and aft, often affected by dignified and severe matrons. Military styles in boots were by no means confined to the masculine foot; "ladies' Wellingtons" and "ladies' Hessians" were quite familiar objects in their day, and the fashion in this department was more or less revived a few years ago in the, high boots with tasselled tops which had rather a brief vogue.

Somebody with a turn for statistics writes that more nurses have married, or are engaged to marry, since the beginning of the war than have married, or have become engaged, since the days of the Boer war. You may say that is not remarkable, seeing that all the pretty girls in society have turned their attention to nursing; but it is not they who are "going off." The badlywounded soldier, be he ordinary Briton, good looking officer, or Australian of breezy ways and large means, does not marry the amateur nurse who smooths his pillows at the wrong moment. The man who has been battered about in the trenches soon begins to think that he cares not a cuss how fair she is provided she has the gift of making him comfortable. This is where the professional nurse who knows her. business, and does it, scores.