NEW PLYMOUTH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue II, 12 July 1902, Page 111

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Dear Bee, July 4. Mrs Leatham gave a very ENJOYABLE AFTERNOON TEA, as a farewell to Nurse Fotheringham, of Invercargill, who has been in the New Plymouth Hospital for some months, but is now leaving to join one of the London ones. She will be greatly missed in our little town, both by patients and friends, as she has such a sweet, winning manner. This assemblage took the form of a “placard afternoon tea,” which was very laughable. After being received by the hostess in the drawing-room, someone slipped forward and pinned a placard on one’s back, with a noted person’s name written on it, and we w’ere then told that we had to try and guess whose name it was. We could ask one another questions, such as “Am I alive or dead?” “Man or woman?” “Actor or actress?” etc., always getting “Yes” or “No” for an answer, and if by that we could guess who we were, we had to write the name down on a card, which was placed in our hands when w r e first entered, then go to the hostess, and have that taken off, and another pinned on, and so on. The one who guessed the most was Miss Mac Diarmid, so she received first prize, Miss Standish coming second. Dainty afternoon tea and sweets were served in the dining-room, during which Dr. Leatham gave several musical selections on the pianola. Mrs Leatham wore a black silk costume, with cream lace yoke; Nurse Fotheringham looked well in a white silk blouse, scarlet silk skirt, braided with black velvet; Mrs Bewley, navy coat and skirt, pink silk front; Miss Mayard, pale green blouse, dark skirt; Miss Newland, brown tweed .costume; Miss Knight, fawn coat and skirt, cream silk front; Miss Kemp, fawn coat, navy blue skirt; Miss — Kemp, grey blouse, dark skirt; Miss Wood, national blue costume, toque en suite; Mrs Capel, dark blue coat and skirt, cream silk front; Miss

Bedford, black with velvet jacket; Miss Webster, blue costume, blank hat; Miss Devenish, navy coat and skirt, pink silk front: Miss G. Stanford, red silk blouse, dark skirt, fur toque; Miss O. Stanford, cream serge blouse, cornflower blue skirt, hat to match; Miss Read, dark blue coat and skirt, hat trimmed with red; Miss Ptercy-Smith, black costume, black and red toque; Miss McKellar, dark green costume; Miss J. McKellar, navy coat and skirt, cream silk vest; Miss Govett, pretty pale greeny-grey Eton costume, black toque; Miss Hamertou, figured blouse, dark skirt; Miss E. Hamerton. navy blue coat and skirt; Miss Pridham, blue figured blouse, dark skirt; Miss Baker, blue costume, black toque; Miss W. Baker, brown, hat to match; Miss Mac Diarmid, blue, bat trimmed with pale blue; Miss Thomson, dark green costume, white feather boa, black hat; Miss Standish, blue blouse, fawn jacket, dark skirt; Miss G. Fookes, navy costume, hat to correspond; Miss E. Fookes, black, cream lace yoke, black and pink chiffon toque; Miss Skinner, pretty grey tucked costume, black picture hat trimmed with pale green.and pink chiffon; Miss G. Shaw, navy- coat and skirt; Miss Sadler. dark blue costume, red in hat; Miss Paul, pretty' grey costume, banded with grey silk, vieux rose camel’s hair toque, trimmed with cream; Miss Walker, navy coat and skirt, faced with black silk, cream silk vest, hat en suite; Miss A. Walker, black Eton costume, pale blue and cream vest, pretty pale blue toque; Miss B. Pennell, blue silk blouse trimmed with passementerie, dark skirt, toque trimmed with pink; Miss E.. Rennell, pretty national and pale blue blouse, with darker skirt, toque en suite; Miss Rawson, black costume; Miss Carthew, olive green costume trimmed with velvet, hat to correspond; Miss Hawkins, pretty pale blue satin blouse, with black lace zouave, black satin skirt, hat en suite; Miss — Hawkins, pink silk blouse, veiled in black lace, dark skirt; Miss Drake, dark green costume; Miss A. Drake, navy blue; Miss Holdsw'orth, brown costume, toque relieved with pink: Miss Marchant, blue costume, black and pink hat; Miss Hales, black coat and skirt, etc. On the same afternoon Mrs Kelsey also gave a very PLEASANT AFTERNOON TEA for Mrs R. C. Hughes, to enable her friends to say “Good-bye,” as she and Mr Hughes are going for a trip to the Old Country. After dainty afternoon tea was partaken of in the din-ing-room. the table of which was very prettily decorated, vocal and musical selections were rendered by Mesdames Hughes and Mullens, and Misses Burton (Dunedin). Mrs Kelsey received her guests in a blaek brocaded • tea-gown, trimmed with cream lace; Mrs R. C. Hughes, black coat and skirt, cream vest; Miss Burton. pale green tucked silk blouse, dark skirt; Miss Olive Burton, pale blue tucked sailor blouse, black skirt, hat en suite; Mrs Mullens, black cos-

tume, with vearlet vest; Mu Nicholson, black, pink in bonnet; Mis. Nicholson, grey coat and skirt; Mrs Johns, bluey-grey costume; Mrs Stanley, black skirt, fawn jacket, picture hat; Mrs Evans, blaek costume, grey and pink spangled toque; Mrs Corkill, blaek merveilleux, hat to correspond; Mrs H. Gray, dark green costume, black and red toque; Mrs Collins, blaek; Mrs (Dr.) Barr (Nelson), pretty heliotrope poplin, fawn jacket, hat trimmed with violets; Mrs Fenton, green costume, heliotrope toque; Misses Ahier (J), dark costumes, etc. NANCY’ LEE.