For Women Folk

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11254, 7 December 1914, Page 7

For Women Folk

By "CHRYSSA."

A correspondent from Blenheim writes:—"lt is with the greatest regret that I announce the death of Mr Arthur Rose, youngest son of Mr and Mrs John Rose, ' Kegworth,' Blenheim. Tho deepest sympathy is extended to the relativos in their sad bereavement."

Mrs Julius entertained a number of friends at a musical afternoon at Bishopscourt. Mrs Gabbatt and Miss Lewis both played and sang. Amongst those present were Lady Moon, Mrs and Mrs Elworthy, Mrs and Miss Cocks, Mrs G. Harper, Mrs Wigra.ni, Mrs George Gould, Mrs E. T. Harper, Mrs Kirkpatricfc and Miss Reeves.

Miss Alice Harris, of Timaru, is spending a holiday with, friends in Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs Freer, of Christchurch, are spending a holiday in Timaru. • * # ♦ •

Mr and Mrs Melville Jameson, who spent the week-end at tho Hydro, Timaru, left to-day for Mount Cook.

Miss Pharazyn, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs Erio Ha'rpor. •«B * ■ *

Miss Helen F. Barnes, national secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association for Australasia, is planning to spend two months in New Zealand early in tho coming year, Her programme will include three camp conferences of five or seven days each, one for the north, one for Wellington and Christchurch, and the third for Dunedin and Invercargill. The Wellington and Christchurch conference camp will take place about the middle of February, but the site has not yet been fixed. « * * » •

Mr and Mrs Stringer arrived in Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning. A quiet wedding took place at St Peters Church, Wellington, on Wednesday, December 2, when Miss G. A. Stanley, of the Nurses' Club, Wellington, was married to Mr G. Edwards (Government Life Office).

Mrs Gorton, a.nd Mrs J. Wild have returned to North Canterbury, after spending a fortnight at tho Hydro Grand, Timaru- *»* * . *

Miss Reynolds, of Dunedin, is visiting friends in Christchurch. ***»■•

Tho pictures at the Grand Theatre are drawing largo houses with their war scenes, and the big star attraction, "Lucille Love." •*■• , * *

Mr and Mra Birdling, of Waitara, Mrs Mitchell, of Halswell, and Miss Fleming, of Christchurch, have returned home after a motor tour through South Canterbury and Mount Cook. * * * .. * *

Miss Parker and Miss Pilling, who have spent twelve months m New Zealand, will leave Timaru to-morrow for Canada". * . * ' * . .* * ...

Mrs Buchanan, of Christchurch. is visiting Timaru as the guest of Mra Dalgleish, Arthur Street, Timaru.

Mrs Chalmers, of Timaru, who has been spending a short time with friends, left for the south on Saturday. ••• * * *

Mr and Mrs W. S. Hosken, Simon s Hill, Timaru, are visiting Ashburton as the guests of Mr G. Hosken, Pendeen Villa."

Mr and Mrs and Miss Dellow, of North Canterbury, have been on a motoring tour-through South Canterbury and staved for a few days with Mrs John Bray'of " Langdon,"' Cricklewood, before returning north. • » « • •

Thus a London correspondent:— " London society is nothing if not previous in these days, and people are beginiug to talk of what will be done when the, war is over. One of the first things to be arranged is the pension fund for foreign royalties. Already the ICi.OOOdol per annum allowed to the poor old granddaughter ot Georgo ill., tho Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, has been cut oft. As she is ninety-two years old, it was hardly worth while. She is a greataunt of tho present Queen Mary, who was quite cut up at the decision ot Lloyd Georgo to discontinue 'it. There are, to bo greater sells than this, and already it is openly mentioned that all royal allowances from tho King and Queen downward will be reduced. Whether the war is ovor or not in tho spring, tho King and Queen are going to hold Court as usual, though if peace is not declared by then these gatherings will be sorry spectacles. At the same time many Americans whose names have been for vears on that long waiting list could not do better, if they are still keen on buying Court gowns, than to take the opportunity of making their bows next February. So many British people will still be in mourning at that date io connection with tho war tho presentations from this side will be, comparatively speaking, few. Several of the Paris' dressmakers who have opened salons here in London intend, they tell me, to stay on because they have met with much success since their arrival, especially from Americans." Miss Dolly Castles, so well known in musical comedy, was a passenger on the •Jlararaa, vhi.:i> an.vei in New Zealand on Friday, eu route to Melbourne to take up the principal girl role in "Cinderella." Sho has been absent from Australia for seven years. * * Canon and Mrs Burton, of Chri-.t-church, who have been to England, left London on October 31, and hope to be home by Christmas. Mrs Bethell is at present visiting Wellington, ; . « u ' One of those "inentioned in despatches" by Field-Marshal Sir John French is a lady, Miss Maud M'Carthy, of Sydney, who is head of tho British nursing staff on tho Continent, and who also performed very important duties during the South African war. Miss McCarthy comes of a well-known Sydney family, and. is a grand-niece of Gilbert a'Beckett, of literary tamo. Miss .M'Carthy has lived for many years in England, and holds the highest position but one among military nurses of the Empire. » » » » » Professor and Mrs Bankine Brown, of Wellington, will arrive in Christchurch this week en route to Hanmer. An elderly lady in South Canterbury, .Mrs B. Bone, of Aibury. who is eight.v----0110 years of age, has ,set a fine example in the matter of earing for tho men who have gone to th;j front, (write.-j our Timaru correspondent). She has just made and fnrwardctl to the authorities nineteen Nightingale b»d jackets, buying the mat; rial as well as doing the making. She aNo made thirteen Balmoral cap-s when the war first broke

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out, and presented them to tho men leaving for the front. It is worthy oi note, that Mrs Bono helped to make lint from old linen for wounded soldiers ■at the time of the Crimean war.

Tho following is an extract from a letter received by Madame Emily Briggs, the well-known Wanganui vocalist, from a cousin who resides at; Bayswater, London :—" Lady H—r was asked if she could take four Belgian orphans. Being a rich woman, she consented. The poor mites arrived. They had not a hand amongst them! The Germans aro cutting off the hands of tho nest generation as well as the hands of wounded soldiers on the battlefield, so that they may never be able to handle a gun. The devjls! Their behaviour to women, even to our Red Cross nurses, is too terrible to think of."

Last Thursday, at Brougham Street, Wellington, Mrs Mary Thompson Campbell King died, at the age of ninety-onir years. For the last ten years she had lived in Wellington, and for forty years before at Hokitika. Her husband died twenty years ago. .Mrs King is survived by a family of six sons and two daughters, thirty grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren: • « •' * » BAYI.IS—SIMPSON. Tho residence of Mr and Mrs G. F. Simpson, of Milltown, Southbridge, was the scene, of a very pretty and interesting wedding on December 2, when Miss Alice Jano, second youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Simpson, and Mr Arthur Baylis, of Leeston, were married. Tho day was delightfully fine, eo it was decided to hold the ceremony on the verandah, and this gave the large number of people from all parts of the district a good opportunity of witnessing the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev G. Lindsay, of Southbridge, assisted by the Rev R. H. Blair, of Leeston. The. brido has. been a resident of Milltown all her life and for a number of years has been an active member of the local Presbyterian . Church, while she has also taken a interest in local social organisations. The bridegroom is also very well and favourably known thrcugh his association with the EHesmero Brass Band, of which he is now conductor, and also on account of the help he has given by singing At district entertainments. The bride was becomingly dressed in cream silk, trimmed in Valenciennes lace. She wore the customary wreath and veil and carried a pretty bouquet of orange blossoms. The bridesmaid was the bride's sister, Miss Frances Simpson, who was attired in a pink silk dress, trimmed with lace. She woro a hat to match and carried a dainty bouquet. Mr James Buick, of Irwell, acted as best man.

After tho ceremony the bride and bridegroom led tho way to Mr Simpson's large granary nearby, to the strains of Mendelssohn's " Wedding March," pjayed by Mrs F. H. Barrett. An excellent wedding breakfast had been laid and the guests, numbering about a hundred, spent a very pleasant time; The customary '-,-toasts - were honoured in an enthusiastic manner. The health of the King was proposed by Mr James Simpson, the guests singing the National Anthem. The Rev G. Lindsay proposed the health of "The bride and bridegroom." Mr and Mrs Baylis received a large number of useful and valuable presents. They left during the afternoon for the North Island where the honeymoon is to be spent. Mrs Baylis's travelling dress was a navy bluo costume and she wore a saxe blue hat trimmed with flowers. * • * * m NOTES ON FASHION. GRIM SOUVENIRS IN LONDON. [Fkom Cub, Lady Correspondent.] LONDON, October 28. A unique hat show is being held iu Oxford Circus, hi the background and at tho sides of a large millinery window are delectable confections to tempt women to look as radiant as they can at this gloomy period; in the centre, ou the same sort of stands, are several German helmets from the battlefields cf the Aisne, splinters (ono weighing two and a half .pounds; from the dreaded "Black Maria*' shells, bullets, pieces of fuse and other grim mementoes! The public spirit exhibited by numbers of London firms who might, probably without much notice being taken, have done a booming business,"in substantially reducing m price all goods, from soldiers' blankets to handkerchiefs, is one of the evidences of the cleansing from trade, indeed, any selfishness that the war has meant. " An interesting exhibition of beautiful Belgian laces is being made by one shop whose agent's passport has been signed by both General Kluck and General von Moltke and lesser lights. Fur on costumes, iu that it is a .necessity that this be good, if it is to look well on cloth, means that they will continue to look fairly exclusive, but several models are to be seen in the street and many in shop windows. The newest idea is a longish coat, peaked at the back and edged all round the bottom with a thick round border—as if padded—of fur. It is a question as to whether this can be at all comfortable when the wearer is sitting down, and it certainly is yet another fashion solely for the slender ono whose figure will stand tho rather top-heavy though undoubtedly piquant effect of the furtrimmed coat (for there iu a fur collar and cuffs) on a tube-like skirt. Tho white muslin, pique, and corded silk half waistcoats and collars that followed tho rage for Medici and other collars is not to die out with the approach of winter, for these aro just as general as ever. Coloured buttons are now being added. A. material in texture and pattern very like a. hair and wool carpet has just made its appearance for outdoor coats.. These, by the way, &re mainly cut burnous style but with sleeves. Heavy metallic lace is, being used on fur coats with, not very artistic effect, as may perhaps bo imagined. Broad horizontal hip panels of it ornament costly fur cloaks, while others have wide revers of it; some cut short even have entire basques of gold or silver metal lace . .

The present style of is rather complicated but certainly effective and . for short people worth trial '"or it assuredly' adds to height. A frame is wort high up at the back of the head, the hair being waved and fluffed out in front from a centre parting if it is not naturally wavy, but.net worn .high in front. The strands of hoir then lose themselves unostentatiously iu the frame at the back, the whole having a swathed appearance. The hair must be fluny. Pony plush, that is, as its name implies. t„ plush material with n surface resembling pony ;>kin—prt tinps tne medium tor and cloaks this reason—is hrh\- r -enc-h used lor coats a/id sk'rts for ma trot)':!

Shadow I.kv olmi-ses are extremely fnshioualiic. They are generally i ross-

orer stylo in the front and aro mounted, whether black., white or cream, on white in- pah? tinted niuon. A crepe lie diiiio Peter Vim collar is a new idea with tbeso. The introduction of so many Belgian children into London lists meant the introduction oi' tho sensible capo that nearly all Belgian school children wear, a cosy affair with a hood for iuclomout weather.

Silk lingerie is, of course, no novelty but Japanese silk ready-made nightdresses and other garments of the flimsiest medium and embroidered only a littlo less elaborately than kimonos, in colours, are. So far it is safe to prophesy that in a day when handmade s'mplieity is beloved of dainty women theses won't find much favour Patent leather sashes, wide and loose like cummerbunds, are .again being -exploited in West End shojis, though on what sort of a. garment they could bo becomingly worn it is difficult to guess. Largo frilled muffs aro here again, tho muffs, bolster shape, of fur or plu*h. tho frills of charmeuse or merveillcux to match the gown worn. WHY LADIES VISIT MES ROLLESTON. FOK permanently removing' superfluous hair, Mrs Rolleston secured a Diploma in Boston, U.S.A., and has been awarded the following testimonial: "212, Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass., U.S.A., Bth August. 1911.—T0 tho Principal Rhodes School of Electrolysis,—This is to certify that the_ patient treated by Mrs Rob leaton, of Wellington, New Zealand, during the month of July, 191 D, for tho removal «»f superfluous hair by Electrolysis, has been under my observation, and I am pleased to stato that the treatment has been permanent and has beon skilfully performed, no pears being visible and the growth of hair entirely removed.—Very truly yours, EDWARD W DANIEL, M.D. Regarding Face and Hair Treatment, Madame Clara Butt writes: "Warner's Hotel, Chri'lchnroh, ISlb No. veinber. 1913.—Dear Mrs Holleston,—l cannot leave New Zealand without telling vou how glad Lam to have had your treatment and advice for my skin, which was in a very bad stato afteT touring all these months. Now it is splendid. I am happy aeain, and know if I follow your advice I need not fear chango of climate or anything. I am using tho preparations for the scalp, toe, and already the hair is glossy and not falling out so much. With best wishes, for your success and many thank?, —Yours sincerely, CLARA BUTT-KtTMFORD."

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