LADIES' COLUMN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13880, 17 April 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

Social Doings for the Week. 9 (By Ghellic.) Mr and Mrs T. D. Young have returned from the Sounds. Mr and" Miss Clothier returned to " Strathearlie " (Kaiapoi) on Friday. Mrs Weathered has returned from Hamner, where she spent a very pleasant holiday. . Amongst the visitors to town tins week °were Mrs IFielden (fleasant Point), and Miss Islip (Oran Gorge). Miss Jean Drumrnond, a daughter of Mr J Drumrnond, the well-known indent merchant of Duiicdin, spent Easter at Hook, as the guest ot Mrs J P Smith. Miss Drumrnond is conspicuous in hockey and swimming circles in the southern centre. The appearance of Madame Melba on Wednesday evening next at the theatre will be a memorable event, and trie ■Teat prima donna will receive a magnificent reception . Madame has brought some lovely jewels with c. including a diamond and emerald tuia, and worn with a shimmering satin.. sequinned gown, the effect ,s supc.b. Michael and ill" Angels, Christchurch ™ V Wor Tuesday, the contracting r of B S Harris Esq. "Myrtlehohn, Wall, Tasmania, and Mane Christina Clarke, eldest surviving daughter Mrand Mrs' J..M, Clarke rence The bride entered the cliuii cii on the arm of her youngest brother, Mr Vnieent C. Clarke (Timaru) and looked charmingly beautiful. in anEmp re and fell gracefuUy and pale blue. fh ™ d u»g and later in tho noon Air Harris left by motor f .°V "wm'-nway £„,, the latter weanng '.^^ to match and ccr.se. roses K.£ of Thursday of Mart week j /n-iHnd is a wonderful counti >, tlie ienory hi both islands I consider 3 Christchurch is my iavo.ir.to "t" and 1 am looking forward with pleasure to mv --coming visit time.. I have "rent faith in tins eountiy and during my »fy » I ; i ,,mCl t" I allowed a doctor there to . l>e.at. on inv throat, and he was yen success ul I fee' 'no effect of the operation now, and Btag-with thn ease New Zealand people aie yei> hospitable, and the audiences are very enthusiastic. 1 had phenomenal successes in Melbourne and Sydney, .i i d throughout your dominion. \ou mvc a prcttv little town here, and I hope to revisit it in the near future. A .dance at the number ot frocks and .tats waiting to be packed under Miss Baines' directions convinced me ot llu value of her time, ■ and therefore ! brought an extremely interesting ntcrview to a close. , ,"■" i A brilliant social event of tins week was the ball given by Dr and Mrs C. E Thomas in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday evening, the guest of honour being Mr Timaru Rhodes, sou ot Mrs Thomas, who has just returned from a prolonged stay in England, ihe stage was arranged as a drawing room, and furnished and decorated with pic-, turcs and stately palms. TJfc supper tables were very beautifully decorated with scarlet and white geraniums. Jhe gowns worn by the ladies were particularly handsome and becoming, and several diamond ornaments were worn. Mrs Thomas received her guests wearing a trained gown of rich black satin, with overdress of sequinned net. Miss Rhodes was beautifully gowned in white crepe-de-chene, with gold tissue trimming and satin girdle. Miss Brodrick (debutante), cream crepe and net toilette. Mrs Arthur Elworthy lovely white satin gown, the skirt cut away and showing an underskirt of beautiful old lace, a handsome diamond tiara completed a smart toilette. Mrs Percv Elworthy, pale blue satin gown. yMrs Smithson, pule green paune velvet, directoric style, with silver girdle, loveIv diamond ornaments. Mrs wright, pale blue glace silk. Airs Frank Barker, white satin. Mrs Gabitcs, white silk crcpoline, with overdress of sequinned net. Mrs Maurice Harper, cream silk. Miss Mendelssohn (Temuka), white embroidered net: Miss Orbell, pale pink silk. Miss LcCren, white satin. Miss Straehev, white mousscline dc-soie frock. Miss Kerr, pink satin. Miss Grant, nalc blue satin. Miss O'Brien, heliotrope crepe-de-chene, beautifully trimmed with rich cream lace. Miss Scaley, pale pinksatin. Miss Bristol, pale blue silk. Miss Hassall, cream satin. Miss Dryden, black satin. Miss Nellie Hay, pale pink silk. Miss Hay, lovely white satin frock. Miss M. -Raino, cream crepe. Miss Joan Raine, pale blue glace silk. Miss Cargill, pale blue silk, tinsel trimming. Miss' Wilkinson, peacock blue velvet. Amongst the gentlemen present were Dr Thomas, Mr timaru Rhodes, Messrs M. Harper, Gresson, A. Elworthy, Dr Bett, L. Orbell, Woodhousc (Duncdin), Robin Harper (Fairlie), Temple, Holderncss, Templar, Fisher, Mendelssolui, Melville Gray, Smithson, Mackcllar (Duncdin), Rovell, W. Ravmond, Otto Strachey, and R. Wright.

WEDDING AT ST. ANDREWS. St. Andrews Church was filled to th? porch on Monday last to witness the marriage of Mr Samuel Cague and Miss Hilda Clara Williams, second daughter of Mr George Williams, builder, of St. Andrews. Mr Andrew Cague, brother of the bridegroom, and Mr Arthur Williams, brother of tho /bride, were the groomsmen, the brides•maids being Miss Julia Williams and Miss Agnes Cague. The bride was given away by her father, and there was a largo gathering of relations and friends. The church presented a very beautiful appearance from the effect of the chaste decorations of white flowers and a light green background. Both the bride and bridegroom having been staunch members of the choir For many years, it was decided to mark the occasion of their wedding by a chorallyrendered service. Mr Troudlock, parish ' organist, was at the organ, and all the members of the choir in their places. The vicar, the Rev. L. Carsley Brady, officiated. The • services began with the hymn "The • Voice that

Breathed o'er Eden," and tlie closing hymn, "How Welcome was the Call." On the liowlv-married couple leaving the church the Wedding March was played. The bride was prettily attired, as also were tlie bridsmaids. Altogtlicr the wedding was certainly one of the prettiest that has taken place in St. Andrews Church. .Mr and Mrs George Williams entertained a very large number of guests at their residence during the afternoon and evening, in a large marquee which had been provided for the auspicious occasion, and the happy pair left by the evening train south on their honeymoon trip, amidst the good wishes of their many friends. They received numerous valuable wedding presents which were much admired. Great regret was expressed on all sides at the approaching removal from the St. Andrews district of Mr Williams and family to Gisborne, in the -North Island, where he has acquired a farm, he having been a resident hero for a long number of years. |.' On Saturday evening last, after choir practice, the vicar made a pre-sentation-on behalf of St. Andrews Church Choir to Miss Williams and Mr Cague prior to their marriage, of a valuable Queen Anne silver tea-pot and butter dish, and in doing so expressed his own and the choir's hearty good wishes for their happiness and prosperity. Mr Cague suitably responded and stated that they both intend continuing members of the choir, and would treasure the handsome present so kindly given. A WOMAN PREACHER. The Rev. Gertrude von Pctzold, who has been for some time in lowa, U.S.A., was invited recently to open the lowa State Senate with prayer, and the next day she dined with the Senators. This lady has had a most interesting career. She was 'born.'in Germany of an old Lutheran family, and - early showed signs of a thoughtful nature quite oirfc of keeping with her surroundings. Having finished her school days, she felt an urgent dosir.e to become a preacher, but she saw. that she could not hope to conquer the- prejudices that keep women back in Germany, so. she went to Edinburgh, where she succeeded :in taking her degree. After that, she went iii seriously for the study of theology, and eventually won the pulpit of the Free Christian Church at Leicester, against several male competitors. Miss von Petzold has a. remarkable personality, which, even more than the words she utters, carries her hearers with her. She has a wonderful in-, fliiencc over her congregations, it is said, and her voice is one of the most compelling things about her. -,

THE CZARITSA'S WARDROBE. The Czaritsa takes no interest whatever in her clothes, and, though her costumes, are, of course, well made and of expensive materials, they never have anything remarkably distinctive about them, for the very reason that she cares so little about the matter. She does much of her shopping in Paris,' but she does it by proxy. Each season one of the ladies-in-waiting is commissioned to buy in-" Paris' her gowns and her hats arid all the other little details appropriate for'the wardrobe of an empress, but many times when they reach the Czaritsa she discards' them with the expression, "Indeed, that is perfectly lovely, and very Frenehy, but it would never do for me at all." For everyday wear her gowns arc all ■of the plainest, but, of course, there are occasions when she must wear regal robes. Her Court costume is a ' magnificent creation of the richest satin, elaborately trimmed with heavy embroidery. Masses of tlie embroidery are used, while the corsagc ; is laden with jewelled trimming. : Thc buttons which trim this Court, costume are each of them worth a small fortune. They con-sist-of a large pearl in a wonderfully artistic setting! The Czaritsa's pearls, which she wears with this costume, arc famous the world: over. Sometimes she rfcars drop-earrings of matched pearls, which are very valuable, and her dog collar and necklace and corsage ornaments, also of pearls, arc almost priceless. The Czaritsa is always glad when the time comes for her to take-off her Court costume, the long heavv train is a burden to her. She alwavs prefers gowns that are light in weight. Many of her dresses are of the lingerie order, consisting of lace and fine cambric.: Yet, on the other hand, she has many house-gowns and cloaks of velvet, trimmed with rare laces. Perhaps, of all her jewels, she prefers a long string of ; wonderful pearls, which she wears very often. The string is so long that she can wear it twice round her neck, and yet have the longest loop reach her knnes. The short loop comes to the waistline and is finished with one single pear-shape pearl of enormous value.

AN OTAIO WEDDING. A very pleasant gathering took place at Sea v iew farm, Otaio, on Thursday, April Bth. By the kind invitation ot Mr and Mrs It. R. Brunton, a number of friends from far and near were able to bo present at their eldest daughter's wedding to Mr P. Campbell, eldest son of the late Mr J. Campbell. The day was all that one could wisli for the wedding ceremony, which was solemnised in the house of the Rev. Mr Chappie. The bride was very becomingly dressed in white voile trimmed with lace, insertion and ribbon, had the usual orange blossoms veil. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Jennie Brunton, as bridesmaid, who looked very pretty in a white embroidered muslin, with pretty pompadour sash reaching to the hem of the skirt and had white satin ribbon bows m her hair. Both bride and bridesmaid carried lovely shower bouquets. Mr J. Morrison was best man After the ceremony all the guests sat clown to a sumptuous wedding breakfast, and everyone seemed to eniov themselves ;Mr Chappie proposed the iiealtu ot bride and bridegroom, Mr J Seviiigton bridesmaid and best man, and Mr R. Thompson the bride's parents Afver the jbreakfast the bride aud bridegroom spent an hour or so receives the good wishes of their friends ■Mrs Campbell was the recipient of many handsome presents, useful as well as costly. At about 4 o'clock tlie bride and bridegroom left for Timaru, amid a shower of rice aud good wishes from all present. Mrs Campbell's goingaway dress was a brown costume and hat to match. There was a large party at night in the big granary, which will all the young people thoroughly enjoyTO BREAKFAST OR NOT?

lhere are a surprising number of people who do not break their fast each day until luncheon time. To tins abstemiousness they attribute wonderful health. To hear the devotees of the no-breakfast fad talkone could rival Methusaleh if s i, c but refrain from eating in the morning. ">«*"

To eat or not to eat is, or should be, a personal matter, but the noubrcakfasters do not see it in that way •Iney are not content' unless all the world goes breakfastlcss tdo. Thev rub in their theories to boredom. A man or woman should no more go without .breakfast, save by the advice of a physician, than he or she should stop eating altogether. " Undoubtedly there are many with whom the practice agrees, but there arc more who could not stand it at all. To advise the working man to go hungry until he could tako his dinner at noon would be to lay up for him seeds of ill-health. His active life demands nourishment before starting to work. In the same way, a girl who must sit in an office all day makes a mistake in starting forth without a substantial breakfast; to eat none at all means a headache and a halfsick morning for most women.

"But," .says the non-breakfastcr, "you can get used to going without food!" Possibly you can, but why should you? The average wage-earner cannot afford to pay for a heavy lunch in town, and to make the usual sandwich or bun do duty until the late dinner is folly on the face of it. Rather than go without breakfast, it is well for the worker to eat one that is fairly substantial. The favourite Continental breakfast is well enough for the woman of leisure, ,but the worker- should train herself to take more than strong coffee and a roll. Fruit, cereal, an egg, and a glass of milk is none too much for the woman who must use her- brain or body under nerve-trying circumstances. Far better it is for the worker to go without luncheon, if she must skip a meal, than not to make a good start in the morning. It costs her less both in money and tissue-building power.

WHY MAN HAS GIVEN UP FINERY. As society advances there is, writes Professor Thomas in the "American Magazine," a tendency in man to give up ornament and in woman to take on more of it. This is not because man is naturally less inclined to display, but he has undergone a great reform in his habits, the greatest, perhaps, in the history of the .world. But when man exhausted the game which had been his principal pursuit and began to take up the settled manufacturing and agricultural interests, which had been chiefly developed by woman, and to buy and sell, he brought with him more ingenuity than woman had ever developed, a freer movement, a greater power of organisation, and at the same time less domestic responsibility, and he gradually transferred some of his interest in the pursuit of game to the pursuit of business. But business lies, so to speak, outside the region of appearances. It is primarily a matter of judgment,; efficiency, and energy, and if a man has efficiency and wealth in abundance, he is attractive enough without ornament. But a pretentiously housed business and a handsomely gowned wife are capital advertisements; they are signs of business success, and "nothing succeeds like success."

' Wc must 7iot, of course, imagine that man set deliberately about abandoning ornament. Specialised ocmipations became more effective means of getting his results than personal display, and he gradually vent over into them. Neither is his ornamental nature fundamentally altered. He dips into ornament in adolescence before he lias regularly become harnessed to an occupation, and he keeps up his interest in tbo spectacular vicariously in his patronage of "shows " of all descriptions; but money is his main charm. . Woman, on the other hand, is not naturally spectacular, but rather reserved, and it was only when "man had acquired a specialised skill which gave him a mastery of the world and of her as well, that woman began to specialise the display which he was abandoning. Restricted in movement, with no specialised skill, with not even life to educate her in the broad sense in which men encounter it, and limited in her interests by the proprietary tastes of man, her occupation, is to charm. There is', however, both retribution and irony in the fact that mail pays the bills.