THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1351, 16 March 1916, Page 30

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of eng-ag'ements and contributions of interest relating' to weddings and soeial gatherings should be sent to Ziady Editor, “Sporting and Dramatic Review” Office, Auckland. In all cases the writer's signature and address must be attached (not for publication). Photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arrangement.

The engagement is announced of Miss Maud Woodford, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Woodford, of Opotiki, to Dr. J. C. Macdiarmid, of Huntly.

Mr. E. K. Lomas, M.A., has been appointed science lecturer to the Wellington Teachers’ Training College. Mr. Lomas was formerly a member of the staff of the college, but resigned to take up missionary work in Korea, from which country he is now returning.

The” Wellington College Old Girls’ Association held its annual meeting

last week, with Miss Mac Lean presiding. The retiring honorary secretary, Miss M. Lyon, read the reports, which stated that owing to the war the usual dance would not take place. The following committee was elected: Mrs. Maysmor, Misses A. Marshall, D. Woodhouse, N. Hind, K. Elison, J. Bull, N. Willcocks, Anyon I. Dryden, E. Wilson, E. Wild, M. Still, O. Salmon, H. Laurenson and I. Pearson, with Miss Pope as bon. secretary.

A brilliant function took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Booth, Cashmere Hills, Christchurch, when the Savage Club gave a performance in aid of the Red Cross funds. The beautiful grounds were lighted with myriads of electric lights, dominated with a large red cross. Over 1000 people were present and showed their appreciation of the unique programme offered.

Lady Muriel Deck, of Waipawa, was a delegate to the Countess of Liverpool Conference, Wellington.

Mrs. M. L. Reading, of Christchurch, is spending a holiday in Auckland.

The marriage took place on February 29 in St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, on Corporal Alfred Lovering, of the Wireless Troop, 10th Engineers, to Miss Winifred Ethel Benton, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Benton, of Featherston.

On Christmas Day, at Fulham Parish Church, Leonard William Tosswill, second lieutenant 9th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment, only son of Mrs. Tosswill, of Christchurch, was married to Miss Doris Mary Chilman, only daughter of Mr. C. W. Chilman, of Wellington. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. Davis. An “old boy” of Waitaki High School, Mr. Tosswill came from New Zealand as sergeant in the Fourth Reinforcements, and was wounded at Gallipoli in the August fighting. He was promoted from corporal to a commission in the Imperial Army, and was gazetted to the Warwickshire Regiment last October.

The “Times” correspondent at The Hague says that a distinguished neutral lady from Berlin complains that at the frontier she was stripped and the soles of her feet washed in a search for invisible writing. The heels of her shoes were removed, and her hair taken down, and the lining of her hat examined. Because German news is reaching England there has been a tightening of the German search everywhere.

Miss A. V. Stewart, late charge sister of the Cottage Hospital at Rotorua, has been visiting her people in various parts of Scotland, and also at Bristol, and is now on the staff of the New Zealand Military Hospital at Walton-on-Thames, though she intends later on to go over to France or Egypt. She is a sister of Bugler Stewart, who was killed m action at the Dardanelles on June 6, gays the “British Australasian.

The engagement is announced in southern papers of Miss M. Glasgow, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Glasgow, Bank of Australasia, Wanganui, to Mr. J. C. Nicholson, of the firm of Roy and Nicholson, solicitors, New Plymouth.

Misses Mary Frater and Marjory MacCormick were responsible for a most successful Red Cross tennis tea on the Parnell lawns. Some keenly contested games resulted in a win for Mrs. Marshall in the A grade, with Miss Woodroffe and Mrs. Pope second, while Mrs. Aiderton was first in the B grade, with Miss Kent run-ner-up. The players included Misses Frater, MacCormick, Kent, Weston. Whitelaw, Payton, Preece, Fraser, Macfarlane, Scott, and Burt.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brooking, of Northcote, Auckland, celebrated their silver wedding on Saturday, March 4.

Belts, for the most part, will be very wide (says a Sydney fashion writer). The prettiest will be made of soft panne, either figured or black, and both upper and lower edge, will be decorated with a narrow band of fur. The revival of panne is hailed with much pleasure, as this material is so delightfully soft and pliable that it is easy to handle.

Miss Annie Henderson, of Dunedin, who recently went to England, has been appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Military Hospital, at Walton-on-Thames.

An exchange announces the engagement of Miss Olive Gore, of Wellington, to Dr. Douglas Bett, of Palmerston North.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Ladies’ Golf Club the following officers were elected: —President, Mrs. J. L. R. Bloomfield; vice-presi-dents, Mrs. J. Reid, Mrs. McCosh Clark; committee, Mrs. Geo. Bloomfield, Mrs. D. Hay, Misses Cotter, Payton, Henderson, Clark; treasurer, Miss E. F. Gorrie; secretary, Miss M. Cooper.

At St. Peter’s Church, Welling ton, on March 2, Miss Rhoda Major, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Major, of Home Street, Welllington, was married to Mr. John Burns, of Fort Ballance.

A quiet wedding took place at St. Matthew’s Church, Hastings, when Mr. Cyril S. Reynolds, fifth son of Mr. Jacob Henry Reynolds, of Wellington, was married to Ethel, youngest daughter of Mr. W. F. Smith, of Hastings. The Rev. J. B. hurst officiated.

Miss Alison Barnett, daughter of Mr. Maughan Barnett, Auckland city organist, who met with a serious accident when out driving a few weeks ago, is making good progress at Tauranga, but it is still very uncertain when she will have recovered sufficiently to be brought to her home in Auckland.

A wedding of interest to many in New Zealand took place in England a short time ago, when Major George Miller, son of Sir Henry Miller, was married to Miss Violet Teschemaker, daughter of the late Mr. William Teschemaker, of Taipo Hill, Canterbury. * » • •

Miss Helen F. Barnes, national secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association for Australasia, accompanied by Miss Geddes, arrived in New Zealand last week. Miss Barnes has been leading the Australian Y.W.C.A. Conference, which has just closed in Hobart. Miss Mary Geddes is the Y.W.C.A. national secretary of the girls’ department.

The Auckland Tennis Club gave a farewell party for four of their members, Professor Owen, Messrs. A. E. H. Milnes, H. Johns and Marshall, who have enlisted. Progressive tennis was played, the winners being Miss Faulder and Mr. H. Snelling, with Mrs. Burton and Mr. V. Johns second. A dainty tea was served, the table being decorated with the club colours, and. later on an impromptu dance was held interspersed with songs and recitations.

The death took place on March 6 at the residence of her mother (Mrs. R. McGee), Otahuhu, of Mrs. R. J. Simpson. The deceased was for several years a resident of Devonport, where she, with her husband (Chief Scoutmaster Simpson), took a keen interest in the boy scout movement, over 40 of the boys trained by him being now at the front. The late Mrs. Simpson is survived by her husband, two sons (Lieutenant Frank Simpson, 11th Reinforcements, H. Simpson, 14th Reinforcements) and a daughter. The interment took place on Wednesday last at Purewa, the service being conducted by the Rev. Mr. Tisdall, of Ellerslie.

Mrs. J. A. Laing, of Auckland, who has been in England over two years, left in February on her return to New Zealand.

Miss Ledger and Miss J. Ledger, of Christchurch, are visiting the Franz Joseph glacier.

Mrs. Bullock, who has just returned to Sydney after three years abroad, says the aspect of London in the daytime is unchanged, but at night it is transformed. The streets are so dark that a white line has been painted along the pavements so that foot passengers will be able to distinguish with the help of meagre lighting where they are walking. Many of the middle-aged people refuse to stir out after dark, but the younger set does not let the lack of adequate light prevent what enjoyment offers itself. Though dances are not frequent, there are some when the men get leave from the trenches. The theatres, though, seem always to be crowded. Paris is different. All the large theatres are closed. “Almost every second woman we passed seemed to be wearing widow’s weeds, which in France consist of much heavier mourning than we have here,” Mrs. Bullock said.

The idea of separation of the sexes has a romantic meaning in Russia (says a Russian writer). It is believed that the more the sexes are separated the stronger is the romantic feeling. How much the romantic element is cultivated and appreciated in Russia is incomprehensible to an outsider. The woman’s power lies in the romantic influence. She wins the man by means of the emotions, but not the intellect. The romantic question is a second religion with the Russians.

The admiration of the French trooper for the amazon-like achievements of the Englishwomen knows no bounds, says a writer in the “Times.” Their own women are devoted, tender, and sympathetic nurses, but Les Anglaise are heroic. A man who has been wounded three times during the war told me that the difference between a man and a woman driver of an ambulance was all to the credit of the latter. “I would a thousand times rather be driven by a woman,” he said to me. “They’ll look out for every pebble in the road, avoid every jolt, and it makes a difference, I can tell you, when you have got a bad pain in your body.” As far as I can ascertain, Englishwomen are the only women in the war who have driven motor ambulances. These services; have been performed not only at. British bases, but more particularly among the French. Clad in fighting clothes, wherever there are fighting men there the Englishwoman is to be found.

The Queen, says “Land and Water,” has set an example in many different ways to the women of the Empire. It is perhaps not generally known that Buckingham Palace was about the first great house in the Kingdom where true economy was wisely instituted; this was quite at the beginning of the war. It may be questioned whether any woman in the land has made with her own hands more garments for soldiers or sailors than Her Majesty,

Strict rules have been laid down as to the attire which may be worn by women workers engaged on dangerous tasks in munition factories at Home. Women filling cartridges must wear fireproof cap and overall, and put on special boots made without nails. If metal came into contact with some of the material they use an explosion would be