PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION BALL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20042, 3 September 1920, Page 9

PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION BALL.

_ Tho Canterbury Public Service Association's annual ball, held last evening in the Art Gallerj, was a highly-suc-cessful and cheery affair, and attended by a large number of public servants and their friends. The ballroom was artistically decorated with yellow and white muslin, large gilt-edged mirrors on tho walls enhancing the bright effect. The permanent gallery, used for tho dual purposes of sitting out and supper, was arranged with palms and pot plants. The committee who arranged the dance consisted of Misses Isobel Brake and Winifred White, Messrs Jordan (chairman), S. E. Penlington and R. Hall (honorary secretaries) and Messrs Rogers, Smith, Rich, Bndgeman and Standeven. The ehaperones wero Mrs H. Holland and Mr 3 L. B. Jordan, both of whom wore black satin gowns. Amongst thoso present were:—Miss Olive Eslick, who wore cream satin and net i Miss Doris Frost, black ninon draped with georgette;. Miss Phyllis Nalder, flesh-col-oured do chine and georgette; Miss V. Wilwn( r ' black net and jndo flowers, and a jade-green hair ornament; Mrs E. J. ■Hulbert, black gcorgetto embroidered in beads; Miss E. Chambers, vieux-rose frilled crepe de' chine; Miss G. Hill, black ninon with touches of emerald-green and gold; Mrs J. E. Queree, pale blue satin; Mrs G. T; Bullock, black taffeta and gold laco • Mrs C. Knight, sulphur ninon and charmeuse relieved with sapphire-bluo velvet; Miss V. Dwyer, pretty pink and white crope de chine frock; Miss -K. Eraser, blue and silver tissue; Miss May Thompson, primrose georgette, with a, brocaded bodice in a deeper shade : Miss Myrtle- Larcombe, black net over gold, with touches of turquoise; Miss A. Jordan, black not with gold lace corset bodice; Miss A. Harris, lemon-coloured taffeta and silver lace; Miss Pearcc, fawn georgette and jade; Mrs Mottram, gold satin charmeuse; Mrs G 11. Stockdalo, striking frock of henna-coloured silk fringe over gold-coloured "satin; Miss Nora Frank ish, crimson satin and-jade-green net; Miss Sturtevant, pale pink satin and g'orgeue; Miss Noil?, black and gold; Messrs J. Hill, War-drop, A. Barns, P. Ivirby, T. Perry, It. Mottram, Scott, J. Darbey, Worgan, IJnterbourno, Ed<nnton, Waito, J. Fleming, Leversed™, Laurie, Williams and Adams. ■

Women who live below ground all the days ot their lives in apartments so spacious that they accommodate oven camels, such was ono of tfoa finds of Mrs J. R. Forbes, a woman traveller who has just returned to London after wandering for several months from Morocco to Syria. "These troglodyte (cavedwelling) women of the Tripoli mountains come up only once in th-ef courso of their lives," Mrs Forbes told the "Weekly Dispatch," "and that is when they marry and change their abodo for that of their husband. Being continually in their- underground caves, a moft remarkable change takes place in their appearance. They become- very white in tho face, and'their eyes become very dark and brilliant. Am they grow older they becoino seized with a passion for dyeing their hair with henna, In the daylight these women are almost blindj in fact, they stagger about as though under the influence of liquor. Their houses aro spacious enough for them to keep all their live stock below ground, including their camels." The Right Hon Louisa, Dowager Viscountess Molseley, of Hampton Court Palace, widow of Field-Marshal Viscount W'olseley, left £56,058 gross and £53,029 net. In her will she stated: " I declare that it is my most earnest wish that I should be buried with! inly late husband, Viscount W'olseley, at St Paul's Cathedral, and in the ovent of the Dean and Chapter of St faul's refusing permission for the coffin containing my remains to be placed over that of my late husband, I direct my executors to demand from tho Dean and Chapter tho coffin of my husband and to remove the same from the crypt of the cathedral, that my remains shall rest in the rame grave, either in Glynde Churchyard or elsewhere." She left £SOOO to the fund now being organised by Sir! Frederick Maurice for the benefit of offioers and their families, or to some other charity or institution having the (same or similar objects.