WEDDING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19598, 19 September 1933, Page 10

WEDDING

WAGG—RUTTER. The marriage was quietly celebrated on Friday morning in the chapel at the Marist Mission House, Eccleston Hill, Wellington, of Molly Macarthy, only daughter of Mr and the late Mrs H. G. Rutter, Kelburn, and Rana Francis, third son of Mr and Mrs J. H. Wagg, Epuni Street, Lower Hutt. The Rev. Father T. McCarthy, S.M., the bride’s uncle, performed the ceremony and celebrated Nuptial Mass. The bride, who was escorted by her father, wore a smart suit of beige angora cloth with a fine rib, the skirt and “swagger” coat being worn with a tuck-in blouse of beige satin. A smartly-tilted hat of beige crocheted straw was finished with a tiny ornament in front, and she wore a shoulder spray of flowers. She was attended by Miss Eila Chapman, whose frock of angora cloth in a crushed strawberry shade, was worn with a short coat, the sleeves being puffed to the elbows. She wore a widebrimmed hat of pink straw, Mr George Williams was best man. The reception was held at the Hotel St. George. PRINCESS JULIANA. Few royal ladies have been brought up in a more home-like tradition than Princess Juliana of Holland, who recently visited England. The Princess’s position is a peculiar one. Not only is she the successor to the Throne, but she is the daughter of a great and well-beloved Queen, who became a reigning monarch before her own school days were over. For three generations the feminine element has predominated in the Dutch Royal Family. This has a very important bearing upon Princess Juliana’s character and outlook. Queen Wilhelmina, herself most carefully brought up by the QueenMother, knew a great deal more about the task of educating a young Princess to follow in her footsteps than many a royal mother less experienced might have known. She was wise enough to realise that times have changed, and in Princess Juliana’s case some of the training was modified. Hence, while Queen Wilhelmina still strikes many people as being almost Victorian in her staid, punctilious manner (a manner which, however, masks a tender heart and an understanding well above the average), Princess Juliana is a typical product of her time—sport-loving, frank, outspoken, easily carried away by enthusiasms, fearless in expressing her opinions. Dutch young people look upon her as a modern of the moderns. A Princess who is about to become a Queen in her own right needs to learn a great many things. But however many intricate subjects like constitutional law and political economy, were crowded into her curriculum, her education in the solid arts of domesticity, which the Netherlands rightly esteem, was not neglected. When Queen Wilhelmina was a little girl a playhouse was erected for her in the grounds of Het Loo, the Royal summer palace. There everything to be found in a well-equipped Dutch cottage was faithfully reproduced in miniature, and the young Queen learnt all the intricacies of housekeeping while amusing herself in this model play-place.