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THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating to weddings and social gatherings should be sent to Lady 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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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 arrangemen t.

The Prince of Wales has been created Grand Master and Lord Lansdowne Chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Miss Camille Clifford (the original Gibson girl), widow of the late Hon. Lyndhurst Bruce, was recently married to Captain J. Evans, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Free accommodation is provided by the Red Cross for relatives authorised by the Government to visit wounded men lying dangerously ill in the hospitals in France. All they need bring is a “change” and necessaries for perhaps a week’s stay.

The engagement is announced in Wellington papers of Miss Amy Cairns, youngest daughter of Mrs. E. Cairns, of Barker Street, Welington, to Mr. Leo V. Renall (late N.Z.E.F.), youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Renall, of Kokatau, Carterton.

The marriage of Dr. W. A. Conlon and Miss Emery, late of the Reefton ■Hospital staff, was solemnised in the Catholic Church on October 1. Miss O’Brien, of Greymouth, was bridesmaid, and Mr. T. Phillips best man.

The engagement is announced of Miss Isidore Cumming, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cumming, Remuera, to Lieutenant Errol Meredyth MacKersey (now serving in France), eldest son of the late Mr. T. T. MacKersey, of Hawke’s Bay, and Mrs. MacKersey, of Wellington.

The Mayoress of Wellington recently received from the Niue Island residents, both English and native, the sum of £45 Bs. 6d. for Red Cross work.

At a meeting of the Palmerston Women’s Patriotic Shop, a sum of £5OO was voted to the Y.M.C.A. for the purpose of erecting a hutment at the front for the use of our soldiers. The hut, which will measure 110 feet by 30 feet, will be known as the “Manawatu Hut.”

In the presence of a distinguished company, a tablet to the memory of Jane Austen was unveiled on July 18 by Sir Frederick Pollock at “The Old House,” Chawton, near Alton, Hants.

It is inscribed: “Jane Austen lived here from 1809 to 1817, and hence all her works were sent into the world. Her admirers in this country and in America have united to erect this, tablet. Such art as hers can never grow old.”

The engagement is announced in a southern paper of Miss Mildred Broderick, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Broderick, Wellington (formerly of Timaru), to Sergeant Slade Gully, of Auckland, who has just returned invalided from Egypt.

Miss Ada Reeve, while in Wellington, was entertained at afternoon tea at Government House by Their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool.

Mrs. T. W. Porter, lion, organising secretary of the Women’s National Reserve of New Zealand., is visiting Taranak’ with the object, of forming branches in the various towns.

The French Parliament is considering a bill to make every orphan a ward of the State, to be supported by the State with its own mother.

At the certificate, theoretical, and practical examination of the women’s division in wool-sorting and woolclassing at the Masterton Technical School, nine out of ten candidates were successful. This division has just conducted its first six months’ session.

An Aucklander, Mrs. J. Lambert (Miss Ella Basten), was successful in the literary competitions at Duned n, gaining a first in story compettion. and second in essay (subject, “Ambition”).

Persons with blue eyes are supposed to be immune to colour blindness.

“Oui’ Day” appeal for the Red Cross Fund will be made on October 19. Elaborate arrangements are being made :n Auckland, full particulars of which appear in another page of this issue.

At St. Mary’s Church. Addington, recently, Miss Olive Adelaide Hughes, elder daughter of the late Mr. E. H. Hughes, Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch, was married to Mr. Leolin Tracy Kiver Allison, youngest son of Mr. H. Allison, “Cotswold,” Lincoln Road, Christchurch. The bride wore a pink crepe de ch’ne gown, and a pink hat veiled with black ninon, and carried a bouquet of cherry blossoms. The br'desmaid was Miss Doris Hughes, sister of the bride. Canon Bean performed the ceremony.

An enterprising country woman, Miss Mary White, daughter of Mr. F. J. White, of Arm.dale, has come forward and set a fine example to other women with private means, says the Sydney “Sun.” Miss White has offered to insure for £5OO either a married or a single man with dependents who enlists. If every woman who could afford it sent just one recruit, probably a whole company might be raised in New South Wales alone. It could be christened “The Spinsters’ Own,” and the fairy godmothers could form a comforts’ fund and keep their recruits supplied for the duration of the war.

A Melbourne paper of October Ist says Miss Adela Pankhurst was married on Sunday to Mr. T. Walsh, a member of the Socialist Party and of the Seamen’s Union.

.A military wedding took place on October 3 at St. Albans, Muritai, Eastbourne, when Lieut. Sydney Bagshawe Probert, of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, was married to Miss Mabel Stanton, of Wanganui. The bridegroom was attended by Lieut. Wakeham as best man, and Capt. V. Dunne, Lieut. Murrell, and Sergt. French were the groomsmen. The Rev. Mr. Gardner officiated. The bride wore a dress of embroidered voile, with wreath and veil. Miss Jean Wilson, of Kelburn, was chief bridesmaid.

The Queen of Rouman’a has just forwarded a cable to the British Red Cross Society: “I am deeply touched by all you are doing to help my country, and it is too awful to think of the position of our wounded boys if it had not been for your organisation.”

The engagement is announced of Miss True Kenderdine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenderdine, Mount Eden, Auckland, to Second-Lieuten-ant Harold G. Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bell, Ashburton.

At St. Paul’s Church, Christchurch, on October 2, Miss Alice McWhirter, younger daughter of Mrs. J. McWhirter, Christchurch, was quietly married to Captain N. M.‘ Weir, N Z.S.C., Featherston, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Weir, Heathcote Valley. The bride wore a white crepe de chine gown, and was attended by her sister, M ss Jessie McWhirter. The best man was Captain D. Bryan, of the N.Z. Staff Corps. Both the bridegroom and best man left New Zealand with the Main Body and fought at Gallipoli.

At the Khandallah (Wellington) Presbyterian Church, on October 3, Miss Ethel Mason, youngest daughter of the late Mr. H. Mason, of Wellington, was married to Lieut. R. E. Burch Hopkirk, of the 35th Reinforcements, eldest son of Mr. R. A. Hopkirk, of Waipukurau.

Mr. Alexander R. D. Watson, a large property owner in Auckland, died in Sydney last week. Some time ago he handed over to the Auckland Hospital Board his fine residence at North Head, Devonport, as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers. * * * *

Lady Ward is on a visit to Christchurch, where she is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Bernard Wood.

It sounds curious, but it appears to be. admitted, that the left side of the face is the right one. All statistics tend to prove the paradox. Artists always put the best touches, finest shading, and most delicate tints on the left side of the profile. Actors, actresses, and public singers always make a half turn to the right when they wish to impress their audiences. Ladies desirous of making a favourable impression are. said to talk on the right-hand side of those they wish to captivate. Why? Because science has shown that the left side of the face is more beautiful or less ugly. The left hand is more magnetic than

the right, and the glance of the left eye has a bewitching power of which the right is hopelessly innocent. The remarkable part of the now wellknown fact is that the discovery was made by the Chinese. * :S * Handel, when only six years of age, smuggled a clavichord up to an attic and practised at night, because his father, who wanted him to be a lawyer when he grew up, had caused all music instruments to be removed from his house. Luckily for posterity the child’s brave persistence was rewarded, and he was afterwards allowed to develop his genius in every possible way. # “It is a mistake not to. yield to trifles that don’t matter.” sjs * $ “You say she is no longer editor of the ‘Women’s Corner’?” “No. She wrote so many articles on how to

alter last year’s hats that her readers began to suspect she was a man.”

The odour of printer’s ink and cedar is not at all agreeable to moths. An ordinary trunk lined with clean newspapers, under which a number of small pieces of wood from cigar-boxes have been laid, make a safe storage place for clothing.

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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1434, 18 October 1917, Page 30

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THE SOCIAL WORLD New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1434, 18 October 1917, Page 30

THE SOCIAL WORLD New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1434, 18 October 1917, Page 30