THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1302, 8 April 1915, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

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His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool have returned to Auckland for several weeks and are in residence at Government. House. V * * * At St. James’ Church, Newtown, Miss Helen Mary Ccpeland, daughter of Mr. Charles Copeland, of v\ hare Maro,’’ Hataitai, was married to Mr. Frederick Harold Bass, of Bristol, England. % * * Miss Isabel Massey, daughter of the Prime Minister, is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Lawrence Taylor, Auckland. * * * * A flag presented by the W.F.C.A. at a patriotic concert in Masterton realised £1278 6s. * * * The Christchurch “Star” announces the engagements of Miss Norah Ben nett, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. R. B. Bennett, Christchurch, to Mr A. S. C. Andersen, of Wanganui, and oi Miss Muriel Farmar, second daughter of Mrs. Arthur Farmar, Blenheim, to Mr. George Spence, also of Blenheim. The marriage took place at St. James’ Church, Lower Hutt, Wellington, on March 27, of Miss Daisy P a ’ sons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A Langdon Parsons, late of Christchurch, new of Perth (W.A.), to Mr. R. A. Horne, manager of the Bristol Piano Company, Christchurch. Miss Gladys Buddle, Auckland, was bridesmaid, and Mr. Adrian Treadwell best, man. * * jp * Mrs. Theo. Cooper, Auckland, _is visiting her son, Dr. Cooper, El tham. * * * * * Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bloomfield are on a visit to Wellington. ♦ * * * Mr F M B. Fisher, late Minister fcr Customs, left Wellington last week fcr San Franciscc, en route to Canada, and ultimately England, where he will probably reside for some time. Mr. Fisher presented his Parliamentary library to the Victoria College Library. He was the guest of honour at several farewell functions. * * * * The Government has received an offer from the Commonwealth for .12 New Zealand nurses to join the contingent cf Australian nurses who are leaving for the front. Mr. P. A. Ongley, 8.A., has been appointed to succeed Mr. J. P. Mawson as assistant master at the Wellington College, the latter having volunteered for active service. Mr. Ongley is at present on the staff of the District High School at Eltham. * * * * The wedding took place on March 25 of Miss Pearl Winifred Mansfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mansfield, of Carterton, to Mr. Rupert Edgar Crawley, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Crawley, of the same town. * » * % Dr. and Mrs. Brewis, Hamilton, returned last week from a visit south. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. J. Giles, Auckland, celebrated their golden wedding on March 22. A pleasant reunion was held in Knox Hall, Parnell, to commemorate the event. • o « • The Otago contingent of the nurses going to the war were farewelled by the Dunedin branch of the Nurses’ Association in the Savoy Tea Rooms. Dr. W. Marshall Macdonald made a speech, and Mr. C. E. Statham, M.P., returned thanks on behalf of the guests. The nurses were presented with numerous gifts, including a deck chair each. * * * * At St. John’s Church. Christchurch, on March 25, the wedding took place of Miss Emily Mary Dixon, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. Dixon, Christchurch, to Mr. Arthur Leonard Round, son of Mr. and Mrs. Round, of Waltham. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mackay, of Devonport, left by the Niagara last week en route to England.

Miss S. F. Dailey, of Takapuna, has been appointed dispenser and clerk at the Wanganui Hospital. The position carries a salary of £2OO per annum. There were twenty applicants. Mr. E. K. Mulgan, chief inspector of schools for the Auckland Education Board, accompanied by Mrs. Mulgan, left last week for Sydney, en route to England. They expect to return at the end of the year. The engagement is announced in southern papers of Miss Sylvia Fell, youngest daughter of Mr. C. Y. Fell, of Nelson, and Mr. A. E. assistant master of Nelson College. Miss Atkinson, who has been matron of the Northern Wairoa Hospital at Te Kopuru during the past three years, has been appointed to take charge of the nursing staff attached to the Samoan garrison forces.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Stewart, Invercargill, are spending a holiday at Taupo and Rotorua. Miss Daisy Jerome, recently billed in Sydney as the 10,000-volt live wire comedienne, heads the cast in “The Babes in the Wood” pantomime, which opens in Auckland on May 10. Miss Jerome declared to an interviewer that “the real brick-red or terracotta” fits as a description of the colour of her own remarkably rich head of hair. “And it's al! my own, not a solitary hair of ‘wig’ about it,” Miss Jerome added. Latest notes from Paris state there is a “mode” of fastening the black ribbon in the hat. It is unfashionable to wear mourning other than of the slightest, while the ethical code demands that no mention shall be made of individual losses. * * * * “Weddings!” said the clerk of a fashionable West End church. “There aren’t any weddings now. In the ordinary way we’d think nothing of two or three a week, but we think we’re doing well if we get one now. And you can’t call them weddings. People don’t come here to be married. It seems to me they come to say good-bye. As a rule a wedding cheers me up, but what’s the good of it when you know the man :s going out to the war in a day or two — perhaps the same day—and the girl is wondering all the time whether she’ll see him again. I don't call these weddings. They’re more like funerals.”

The Wanganui nurses, Sisters Sid dells, Bird, and Gibbons, whose services have been accepted as Red Cross nurses, were farewelled by the Wanganui residents. The gathering was organised by the Mayor and Mrs Williams. * * * * A Christchurch lady gave the contents of her vinery to the Belgian Fund, the sum of £lB being realised as the result of a grape stall at the Harvest Festival. • • • • “At last, father,’’ said the modern daughter, as she entered the sittingroom. dressed in her latest gown, “you should be satisfied. Tn this dress I’m bound to be more seen than heard.’’ —“New York Judge.’’ * * * t'fi Two New Zealanders, Nurses Lind and Hitchcock, of Wellington, have been nursing in the hospitals at Rouen.

Mrs. C. C. Buckland and family have returned to Cambridge after several weeks’ stay at Puru, Thames, jj: s|: :j; The King has conferred a G.C.V.O. upon Count de Lalaing, Belgium Minister in England. * * * :Jc Mrs. Alfred Kidd gave a dehghtful farewell party at her residence, Epsom, in honour of the Auckland nurses who are going to the front. Each nurse was presented with a hot water bag and a fountain pen. Sister Young responded for the recipients. Miss Helen F. Barnes, national secretary of the Australasian Y.W.C.A., was entertained at a dinner by the Auckland branch. Mrs. McKail Geddes (president) presided, and Miss Barnes made a telling speech urging girls to realise an ideal. * * * * Parnell Park, one of the beauty spots of Auckland, is becoming a most popular resort. It commands a superb view of the harbour and its surroundings are ideal. A tea kiosk, admirably directed by Mrs. Mackay, is not the least among its charms, and is frequently requisitioned for wedding receptions. * * * * A lady’s outfitter fn Gisborne is giving the whole of the profits of her business for 12 months to the Belgian Relief Fund. Within three months, it is stated, she had £lOO to pass to the credit of the fund, and recently a second instalment of £lOO was received.

Sir Robert and Lady Lockhart, Auckland, left last week on a visit to Wanganui and Wellington.

Mr. James Mackenzie and Miss Mackenzie, of Wellington, are on a visit to Rotorua. * * * * The Athenaeum Club, London, having lost 17 of its men servants, all of whom have joined the army, has undertaken the experiment of employing women in their places. Mr. H. E. Partridge has presented his Lindauer collection of pictures to the citizens of Auckland conditionally upon the sum of £lO,OOO being subscribed towards the Belgian Fund. * * * * Miss Emily Hindmarsh, of Napier, who arrived in England in February, with the intention of living in England, is taking up a position under the London County Council at Hackney Wick, London.

Four of the twelve nurses required from New Zealand to complete the Australian quota of nurses for service at the front have been selected from Auckland. The successful applicants are: Sister Fraser, Nurse Winifred Scott, Nurse Hilda Steele, and Nurse Elsie Cooke. They left last week for Sydney. ❖ ❖ * * The Hospitality Committee of the Auckland branch of the Victoria League has given a bed for the hospital to be established in the Trentham training camp. It is to be called the “Victoria League bed.” * * * * Lady Jellicoe, addressing soldiers’ wives at Ilford, said: “I am glad the Government is giving a war medal to workmen as well as to soldiers. I am sure that a man who does not possess a medal in the future will not have a wife.” * ❖ * It is said that Lady Jellicoe owes much of her success in raising subscriptions to her charming oratory. In acknowledging gifts she writes: “The monejr will be spent on exactly what my husband thinks is best for the sailors,” and in this way Jack always gets those little luxuries which Sir John Jellicoe knows he appreciates most. Sfc Sfc * The engagement is announced of Miss Gladys Ella May Fox, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Fox, Valley Rd., Mt Eden, Auckland, to Mr. James Over Taylor, only son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Taylor, London, N.W., late of Cheshire, England.

The death has occurred in Dunedin of Mrs. George Shand, relict of one of Dunedin’s pioneers, and mother of Mr. J. A. Shand, editor of the “Thames Star.” The deceased was in her eighty-ninth year. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Staples Browne, who contributed £247 in London for the purchase of a quick-firing gun for .the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, have consented to the money being diverted to the purchase of binoculars for officers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt. * * * * Dr. Noel Johns, elder son of Mr. F. J. Johns, Wanganui, who has been pursuing his medical studies in the Old Country for several years, returned to New Zealand last week. * * * ' At Reefton, on March 22, Miss Selina Kenning, youngest daughter of Mr. T. J. Kenning, of the Criterion Hotel, was married to Mr. William O'Neill, Sydney. * * * * Dr. A. N. Houghton, of Auckland, left for England last week. On arrival Home he intends to join a medical corps and proceed to the front. An old lady of Wanganui, Mrs. Wells, senr., who is in her 89th year, has knitted seven pairs of bed-socks and six pairs of mittens for the British sick and wounded soldiers. * sjt * * “That’s exactly like your sex, you’re so inaccurate,” he grumbled. “To hear one woman tell another the name and nature of her complaint fills her doctor with awed wonderment that she’s ever pulled through it. A man would’nt, he’d die from sheer fright.”—From “Candytuft—l Mean Veronica.” A woman doesn’t care what a man looks like. They’d rather a man wouldn’t be handsome, so he’ll think about them instead of about himself. The way to please a woman is to help her to think of nothing but herself.” —“George Helm,” by David Graham Phillips. sji * A London correspondent writes that Miss Marion Munro, eldest daughter of Mr. A. S. Munro (late of New Zealand) was married recently to Mr. Norman Holden, second son of Sir Edward Holden, who is well known in city financial circles. * * * * “Truth and the excuses of a woman are stranger than fiction.”

Mr. C. J. Knight, of London and Brighton, has offered to the New Zealand War Contingent Association the use of his house at Brighton as a convalescent home for 12 New Zealand officers. Mr. Knight proposes to equip and conduct the home at his own expense, and made the offer solely in appreciation of New Zealand’s generous response to the Empire’s call.

The King, at Buckingham Palace, inspected eleven bands that are engaged in assisting in recruiting operations. The stirring marches played by these bands are productive of many enlistments.

“Every woman who loves children loves a man better for loving them.”

A popular young actress, whose one great grievance is that the War Office is not enrolling corps of Amazons, neatly scored off a slacker the other day (London “Opinion” tells us). They were discussing the recent naval engagement in the North Sea, and the uniform-less one remarked, “Oh, yes’ I think we put up a jolly fine show.” “I don’t agree with you,” replied the lady. “You don’t?” was the astonished enquiry. “No,” came the retort, “as far as I can see, ‘we’ had nothing whatever to do with it, but ‘they’ were simply splendid! ”

A man will look into the eyes of a woman he has once loved and make no sign, but a woman always shows that she remembers. —“Life’s Compass,” by Priscilla Craven.