THE SOCIAL ROUND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1787, 5 November 1919, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND.

!Mr and Mrs A. Fels (Dunedin) are on a visit to this city. Dr and Mrs Gilmer arrived from the north by this morning's boat. Mr and Mrs H. A. Salmond (Dunedin) are in Christchureh at present. Major and Mrs Bond returned to Claremont to-day, after a short visit to town. Miss Enid llallenstein has returned to Dunedin after a visit to friends in Ashburton. Ladv Fenwick and Mrs Hazlett (Dunedin) left to-day for Hanmer, after. B brief stay in town, x Dr and Mrs Davenport (Coalgate) tame into Christchureh last evening, and are staying at Warner's. Mr and Mrs Theo.' Cox and family leave for Sydney by the Mocraki this week, and intend residing there. Mrs Rose and Mrs Ulrich (Sumner) are staying with Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs 3. H. Whyte, Palmerston North. Mr and Mrs Sydney Smith (Auckland), who have been on a trip to the south, arrived in Christchureh last evening, and are staying at the Clarendon. The wedding took place in London on Saturday of Miss Margaret Evelyn Armstrong, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Armstrong, "Willow Nook," Avonside, to Mr Robert Wilson, of the Assay Department, Egyptian Civil Service, Cairo. Their future home will be in Cairo, where they are due on the 9th of this month. Mrs Robert Wilson was, as Miss Armstrong, a well-known Christchureh girl. The annual tea meeting in connection •With St. Paul's Presbyterian Church was held in the Sunday School-room last evening, the Rev. John Paterson presiding. After the tea a well-selected concert programme was given in the echool-room, embracing pianoforte selections by Mr White, songs by Mr W.'Tennent,'Mr Cade, Miss Pole, and Mr Eric Winspear, Scottish dance by Miss Dorothy Caldow, quartet by Misses K. Paterson, G. West, Messrs R. and T. White, violin solo by Miss L. Pry, monologue by Rev. J. Paterson, and chorus items by the choir. Mr Raynor White also played a number of Scottish melodies on the organ, immediately after the conclusion of the tea. The accompaniments for the singers at the concert were played'by the Misses Pole, Paterson, Messrs R. White, Lawry, and Shields, the later playing a bagpipe ac- . companiment. Hearty votes of thanks were passed to all who had assisted to make the entertainment such a success. Miss Estelle Stead, daughter of the late Mr W. T. Stead, and a sister of the editor of the Melbourne magazine, _ "Stead's Monthly," is carrying on the business of Stead's Publishing House at Bank Buildings, Kingsway,' thus becoming the only woman publisher in England (says the "British-Australasian"). ''lt is rather curious that women, who in recent years have crept into most professions hitherto sacred to men, have not- tried their hand at publishing, for there is an element of chance in it that should appeal to our sex. Most of us, if we would admit it, love a gamble. Of course, many women have published on a small scale. I know one woman novelist who has systematically, for the last few years, brought out attractive little volumes of her own work. Her bigger novels she leaves to the production of regular publishing houses, but she tells me that her own publications pay her far better than if she left them to the tender mercies of her publisher, even now, when the cost of production has gone up about 300 per cent."