THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1436, 1 November 1917, Page 30

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 ( n °t j ’ or publication). Photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arrangement.

The Bishop and Mrs. Averill enterta’ned the members of the Synod and their w.ves at Bishopseourt, Parnell, on Saturday week. Tea was served in the garden, and an orchestra from King’s College supplied delightful music. * * ♦ * Lady Stout paid a visit to Palmerston North last week and addressed a public meeting on the Social Hygiene Bill. Miss Fraser entertained the wives of members of Parliament at the Ministerial residence, Tinakori Road, Wellngton. one day last week. Among those present were Mrs. W. F. Massey, Mrs. G. W. Russell. Mrs. A. Myers, Lad-y Hall-Jones, Miss HallJones. * * * Dr. Florence Keller, who has returned to Auckland after a trip to America, says the women in her country are rapidly taking the places o', the men in every profession and walk of I fe. * V * * Miss Herdman, sister of the Hon. A. L. Herdman, who has been nursing at Malta and Gibraltar, has returned to New Zealand. * * * * A novelty in war weddings is reported from Liverpool, where, at the wedding at St Michael’s Church of Pte. T. Annesley and Miss C. A. Wooley, the bridesmaids, at the suggestion of the bride’s mother, carried draped baskets containing fresh eggs and cigarettes. After the ceremony the bridesmaids drove to Myrtle Street Hospital, where the cigarettes and eggs were handed over for the use of the wounded soldiers. * * * * Lady Mackenzie, wife of the High Commissioner in London, recently underwent an operation in London, which was satisfactorily performed, and when the last mail left England she was getting on well. * * * V Cabinet has decided to grant Dr. Truby King twelve months’ leave of absence from Seacliff Mental Hospital without pay, in order to permit him to go Home to take up the post offered him at the Marlborough School of Motherhood. * * * * The engagement is announced in Wellington papers of Miss Alice Barr Montgomery, second daughter of Mr. W. B. Montgomery, Comptroller of Customs, Wellington, and Mr. J. H. Williamson, eldest son of Mr. J. J. Williamson, of Wellington and Wairuna. $ * * * News comes from Fossoway, Scotland, of the death, on August 13th, of Mrs. Isabella Agatha Runciman, widow of the Rev. D. W. Runciman, M.A., of Auckland. Archdeacon Mac Murray. speaking at the Auckland Anglican Synod, said he bel eved there were more institutions for clr’ldren in Auckland than in any other city in the whole of the British Colonies and Dominions. * ❖ It is interesting to learn that the Queen Victor a Hospital, Melbourne, is, according to a Sydney paper, staffed entirely by women, and was declared, after the latest official inspection. to be the best managed and best financed hospital in that city. ❖ * * * A Sydney cable announces the death of Sumner Locke, the novelist, after giving birth to a son. Her husband, Sergeant Elliott, ! s at the front. * * * * Next year the King and Queen will celebrate their silver wedding. It was on July 6, 1893, that the Duke of York and Princess May were married in the Chapel Royal, St. James’ Palace.

Miss Koi Rogers, of Nelson, has been appointed assistant dispenser at the Christchurch Hospital. * * * ♦ A wedding of interest to New Zealanders took place recntly at Mary Magdalene Church, Upper Tooting. London, when Lieutenant John Melvyn Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Papanui, Christchurch, was married to Miss Dorothy Ida Mary Haywood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Haywood, Wandsworth. The bride’s sister, Miss Enid Haywood, was the -only bridesmaid. Lieut. Gordon de Courcy Drury, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, acted as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pickering, of New Zealand, uncle and aunt of the bridegroom, were present. * * • ♦ According to Madame Evelyn Scotney, the distinguished Australian soprano who is at present touring Australia under engagement to J. and N. Tait, there is a great demand in America for competent dress-design-ers with bright ideas. When she was in America a few months back some frocks of her own des’gn excited considerable attention among smart people, and there were some amusing efforts to secure her services by society queens and fashion newspapers. At least two ladies, who are eminent in New York society, wanted Madame Scotney to design frocks for them, and a cut-paper pattern agency, which does an enormous business all over the world, offered her a big salarv to work for them.

The Australian Red Cross Society has increased the money sent to the Australian Commiss oners in England for the benefit of Australian soldiers on the various fighting fronts from £7OOO to £12,000 a month. The sum of £lOO has been cabled by Mrs. G. R. Bloomfield, as president of the Ladies’ Emergency Committee of the Auckland branch of the Navy League, to the Lad es’ Emergency Committee of the League in London. The amount was remitted in response to a cablegram stating that money was urgently needed for the supplying of food to members of the Royal Navy now prisoners in enemy countries. :S * * * Mrs. Arthur Duncan, who has been visiting America with her parents, the Hon. C. and Mrs. Johnston, has returned to Wellington. * * * * Vice-regal patronage has twice been bestowed on “Seven Days’ Leave” since Mr. Allan Wilkie produced the submarine play at Melbourne Princess e ,- ght weeks ago. The last party included Lady Ellison Macartney (wife of the Governor of West Australia) . & si; * * The famous actress complained that she was growing old. “Last night, before my mirror,” she sad, “I counted four grey hairs.” Her husband spoke up gallantly: “My dear,” said he, “as long as grey hairs can be counted they don’t count.”

“No woman ever atta'ned to the romantic mood without powder on her nose, and no man was ever seriously interested in a woman who d dn’t own a powder puff. Of course, they will protest to the contrary; men have a theory that they hate ‘make-up.’ That, I presume, is why they pursue so assiduously the women who use it; they burn to reform them.” —Kathleen Murray, in “Lady’s Pictorial.” « • • ■ The spirit of carnival was abroad in Queen Street on Friday, October 19, when all efforts were concentrated on “Our Day” appeal for the Red Cross Fund. Many and varied were the devices for loosening the pursestrings, but everyone seemed fired with enthusiasm to do his or her best for the great cause, and so generous was the public response that a total of over £6OOO was received by the hon. financ’al organiser, Mr. C. F. Bickford, as the day’s results. With all the attractions, pride of place must be given to the Witches’ Cavern, organised by the Allied Consuls, who, with an enterprising committee, had converted the basement of the New Zealand Insurance Company’s new building into a retreat of mystery, the atmosphere being cleverly suggested by the dressing of the witches and the nature of their wares, while the huge cauldron with the red fire illusion gave a shuddersome feeling that put the finishing touch to the desired creepy effect. There was also a spacious tearoom, decorated with

ferns and nikaus, which d d a roaring trade, wh’le diversion was provided in the evening by the Navy League Originals, Miss Burmester’s dance pupils, and the Italian band. Credit for the successful carrying out of the Consuls’ novel scheme must be gven chiefly to Mr. A. Ferguson (Consul for Belgium), Dr. and Mrs. Haines (the latter’s skilful generalship being in evidence in the refreshment room). Mrs. F. Rayner (who controlled the entertainment section), Mr. MooreJones, Mesdames D. Gillies, D. Nathan, A. O. Knight, R. Laidlaw. H. Ra nger, St. Claii’ Brown, P. Watson, Xbbott, Isaacs.. O’Brien, and Volkmere. The Town Hall was given up to the Cale Chantant promoted by the Auckland Women’s Patriot’c League, and here an array of workers kept? the ball rolling, entertaining programmes being given at intervals by the Originals, Mr. S. Adams’ orchestra, Mrs. Johnston Toplis. Misses lima Page and Mary McCormick and others. Special efforts were also made by the Civic League, whose “Merry Jesters” proved true to their t : tle, the Women’s Mutual Aid Society, and Returned Soldiers, the Victoria League, the Auckland Automobile Association, the Devonport branch of the Women’s Patriotic League, the Girls’ Realm Guild, the Women’s National Reserve, the Navy League, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, St. John Ambulance Association and Y.M.C.A. Night and day the stall-holders worked with a will, and from their gaily-decorated stands

made an appeal which was seldom resisted. In every case the plentiful goods they were able to offer were ample testimony of the work they must have put in the last few weeks, and the result of their efforts to help the wounded soldiers must be distinctly gratifying. J? -i* -tSays an overseas fashion writer: — “War conditions seem to have enabled many people to recover the virtue of simplicity. This is perceptible in dress. Use and beauty are allies. Women are at war with fussiness. Fussiness has always threatened to destroy their civilisation. The quality of unselfishness in woman has not been without its defects. She would live for everything rather than for herself. She would live for her clothes, or she would subordinate her convenience to the fine effect of the furniture in her home. The attempt to arrange all life on a basis of appearance has been woman's undoing. It represents an attitude towards life which present circumstances have forced her to abandon. What is the consequence? That woman for the first time in her life becomes natural. It is impossible to live for effect and to be natural at the same time. The desire to be natural has g ven a fresh impulse to fashion, and created a new style of furnishing.” :j: ❖ ; I : Will the sulphur tint in costuming catch on? asks a fashion expert. It remains to be seen; but certain it is that it has already been a craze in Paris. One realises why. The Frenchwoman, with her pale complexion, her dark ha'r and dark eyes, can so beautifully wear this trying, yet at the same time extremely chic, thit. The Frenchwoman can wear such a colour with great charm, but who else can? Not only in millinery, but also in frocks and blouses, the sulphur tint will appear. In fact, this colour will vie with the flesh-pink and mauve in crepe de chine blouses that has reigned so long. In the one-piece frock, too, an effort will be made to bring it into favour.