THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1642, 20 May 1919, Page 2

THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Miss N. E. Thomson (Invercargill) is (it present in Christchureh. Mr and Mrs A. O. Wood (Christchureh) are staying at the. Hydro Grand, Timaru. Miss" Withcll (Christchureh) is the guest of Mrs Neville, Newman Street, Timaru. Dr. and Mrs C. Chilton left last evening to attend the Town-planning Conference in Wellington. Miss Sylvia Ardley has returned to Christchureh, after a visit to relatives in South.Canterbury. ■ Mdlle Antonia Dolores arrives here en Friday night from the West Coast, fcnil gives her first Christchureh concert on Saturday night. Mrs H. Holland has gone to Wellington with her husband, who will attend the Town-planning Conference, to be held during the next few days. Mr and Mrs Hope Miller (Feilding), «.vho have beeu on a visit, to the south, arrived in Christchureh last evening, and will stay here for a day or two before gQing north. Mrs W. Gee, who for the last few : months has been staying at Riccarton with her daughter, Mrs Archey, left last night by the Mokoia for Auckland, where. ;; she will make her new home. Miss Alice Philpotts, who has been ■on active service for four years with the N.Z.A.N.S., returned to New Zealand recently, and is staying with her mother in Picton. Miss Philpotts, who : has had some stirring war experiences, is a sister of Mrs H. Wynn-Williams, . Christchureh. Mrs Sydney Williamson, who recently came out from England to see her mother, Mrs Elworthy, and other New . Zealand relatives, will return by the Rimutaka, which leaves in about a month's time. Mrs Elworthy and Miss Elworthy arc going back to England with her on the same boat, and other Christchureh passengers will include Mr and Mrs M. Godby and their two little boys. The end of the week is to be enlivened with a dance in the Art Gallery on Friday night, the surplus funds of which • will be donated to the Returned Soldiers' ;! Building Fund. An energetic committee, ' of which Miss E. A'Court is the honorary r secretary, has made excellent arrange- '■' incuts for the enjoyment of -patrons, and a happy evening is foreshadowed. The chaperons will be Mesdames Geo. Rhodes, (!. G. Dalgety, and W. S. Bean, the lastnamed taking the place of Mrs Holland, who has gone to Wellington. The Christchureh Division of .the St. John Ambulance Brigade held its fortnightly meeting last evening, Miss Mills (lady superintendent) presiding. A letter from the Minister of Public Works (Hon. G. W. Russell) was read, expressing appreciation of the work done by the members in instructing and demonstrat- .': ing to the different blocks, in preparation |i .influenza epidemic. Mrs P Wli«af|r',(Ladies' Corps superintendent) P gave an' instructive demonstration of how '"' to change a mattress, give a patient a bath in bed, support a patient sitting up, shield a draught from patient; also how to make up a bed for out of doors. The announcement of the engagement of Viscout Ednam, the eldest son of the Earl of Dudley, to Lady Rosemary Leve-son-Gower, sister of the present Duke of Sutherland, disposes of an interesting prediction in regard to the future of the young lady. Stafford House, near St. James's Palace, which was the town house of the Levcson-Gower family until it was sold in 1912 by Lady Rosemary's father (the fourth Duke of Sutherland), was the most sumptuous private residence in London. Queen Victoria, when she lived at St. James's Palace, was a frequent visitor to Stafford House, and enviously expressed the opinion that it was .more palatial than her own abode. For several generations the younger members of the Royal Family had been in the . habit of visiting informally the younger members of the Leveson-Gower family at Stafford House, and in this way Lady Rosemary, the "prospective bride of the Viscount Ednam was often in the com- . pany of the Prince of Wales and his sister .... and brothers. When the suggestion was recently made in the newspapers that the loyalty of the British nation to the Throne would bo strengthened if the I Royal princes were to seek their brides among the daughters of the British peer.age, instead of among foreign princesses, it was- whispered that the. Prinee of Wales would choose as his bride the young lady of Stafford House, with whom he ba,il • been on friendly terms from boyhood. It was regarded as significant that . ene of the exhibitions of war paintings by' British artists sent to France included | the ranW^tf>Wales in uniform, talking , to<Lady Rosemary Leveson-Gower in the ; uniform of a nurse. During the war, Lady Rosemary was a V.A.D. nurse at a hospital in France, established by her -mother. Stafford House was purchased in 1912 by Lord Leverhulme (Sir William Lever) from the father of the present Duke of Sutherland. Lord' Leverliulmo presented this beautiful mansion to the nation, and it has been turned into a public museum.