THE SOCLIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1466, 30 May 1918, Page 32

THE SOCLIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and - contributions of interest relating to weddings and social gatherings should be sent to Eady 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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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 s groups, will be reproduced by arrangement. .

Mr. E. R. Rudman, headmaster of the Thames High School, accompanied by Mrs. Rudman, paid a short visit to Auckland last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Cockburn Hood, of Masterton, have been on a visit to Auckland.

Miss Vera Duthie, of Wellington, is on a visit to Auckland, where she is the guest of Mrs. Dargaville.

The engagement is announced in an exchange of Flight-Lieutenant R. P. Skerriff, son. of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Skerriff, of Wanganui, to Margaret, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Cameron, of Wanganui.

The engagement is announced in the Christchurch “Press” of Miss Agnes Essy Edith Thacker, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. J. Thacker, of Wharenui, Okain’s Bay, Banks Peninsula, to Mr. Herbert J. M. Winstone, of Wanganui, and formerly of Christchurch.

Mrs. T. Coverdale has returned to Auckland after a visit to Wellington to see her sons, who have joined the Flying Corps.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers while in Gisborne were entertained at Lady Carroll’s residence and presented with two Maori mats as mementoes of the visit.

Miss Fanny Kutner, of Wellington, has been awarded the Christchurch Competitions Society’s gold medal as champion lady elocutionist of the festival.

Sister Agnes McMillan, of Milton, has been appointed matron of the Red Cross Military Home at Montecillo (Dunedin). She represented New Zealand in France as a nursing sister early in the war.

Miss Chrissy.y Curry, daughter of Mr. William Curry, solicitor, of Wanganui, was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court at Wellington by Mr. Justice Edwards.

London bootmakers are now making what they call “queue boots.” They are of very substantial design and have no claims to beauty. The new style of boots is for women to wear as they stand in the queues waiting to buy sugar, butter or meat.

Miss Frances B. Lysnar, of Gisborne, who has returned to the Dominion after three years travel, -is the first woman in New Zealand to be made a Fellow of. the Royal Geographical Society.

“A woman with children is the biggest national asset we can have, and we must back her up whenever we are seeking political aid,” said Mr. Townsend (Wanganui) at the Second Division League’s Conference in Wellington last week.

Sister Willis, who has returned to Wellington, is the possessor of the Royal Red Cross. Queen Alexandra gives each nurse who receives a cross a beautifully designed panel card, with her photograph inset and personal signature, also a book. “The King,” said Sister Willis to a Wellington writer, “looks very tired and worn, but quite cheerful, and everyone loves the Prince of Wales.”

The Auckland Victoria League Red Cross Fund Committee has decided to open an “old clothes” shop at Ponsonby in order to give the poorer peopled chance of buying good, clean second-hand clothes at a reasonable price, and at the same time to help to swell the Red Cross founds. By leaving messages at the Victoria League rooms, Shortland Street, garments will be called for.

Sister Hilda Flynn, of Christchurch, after two and a-half years’ active service, has returned to the Dominion.

Mrs. Hugh Wright and Miss Bannister, of Wellington, have been visiting Auckland.

New York City raised £2,200,000 for the Red Cross in three days. The nation’s total is £9,000,000.

A baby girl in an English village has been christened “Rhondda.”

If a pair of shoes get stiff with being wet, they should be washed with warm water and then rubbed well with oil.

A smart hat appropriate for every occasion is the fiat one with a decided brim, its only trimming being a band of ribbon and a bunch of padded gaily-tinted fruit.

At the quarterly meeting of the Auckland Women’s Patriotic Society it was stated that nine ships had been met, carrying between 3000 and 4000, and refreshments had been provided to the returned men.

Major F. N. Harvey, N.Z.M.C., and Mrs. Harvey,, who have been spending a few days at. Rotorua, have left for Napier. Major Harvey recently returned from the front after having been away for nearly four years.

Mrs. Alfred Bayly, of Remuera, and her two daughters have returned to Auckland after a lengthy absence in England.

Hair that is fast turning grey should be carefully nourished with pure oil rubbed into the roots night and morning.

Medical examinations of poor children at a Bristol school show that there is not one ill-nourished child, where, according to the chairman of the local food committee, there used to be a considerable number.

The British Red Cross and the Order of St. John have granted £lOOO for the building of an annexe to the King Edward VII. Hospital, Windsor, for the out-patient treatment of discharged soldiers.

The soldiers at the Auckland Hospital Annexe had a special treat afforded them last Thursday, when several members of the J. C. Williamson Royal Comic Opera Company entertained them at a concert. The performers were Misses Gladys Moncrieff, Gladys Baker, Addie Lennard, Blanche Wilson, Bertha Kenny and Doris Hannify, Messrs. H. Ratcliffe, Peacock, Bernard, E. Bartlett, Reeves and Odgers. Miss Moncrieff distributed cigarettes to the soldiers, a kindly thought which was much appreciated.

“I charge women to defend the sanctity of marriage,” said Father Vaughan, addressing a meeting at Wigmore Hall, London, “and not to encourage a Bill which would entitle a man to have eight wives in 24 years.” .

“There are no women training as aviators now,” the London “Dispatch” was told* by an official of the Air Ministry recently. “Nor will any women be allowed to train. There were some schools for women who wished to take up aviation in prei-war days, but there is none now. The majority of experts on aviation see

no value in the woman aviator in war time. It would be quite impossible for her to do what is required.”

At the meeting of the Auckland Board of Education last week, Mrs. F. E. Baume was presented by the chairman (Mr. J. D. McKenzie) with a gold key, set as a brooch, on behalf of the people of Tauranga, who wished to express their appreciation of Mrs. Baume’s services in recently opening the Tauranga open-air school. Mrs. Baume, by the way, is the first woman representative on the Board. 5S= * * *

A clever writer says worry is a mortal enemy to beauty and charm of manner. This is undeniably true. Worry over the inevitable is not only a wrinkle inducer and a frown instigator, but it is a senseless and wicked rebellion against what can-

not be helped. Worry clouds the eyes, makes the voice sharp and - impatient, puts hard lines about the mouth, and destroys repose and gentleness of manner. Whatever is, is best. Therefore one would best control one’s feelings and learn as

soon as possible to know that bright eyes, a sweet voice, and smiles about the mouth will add much to one’s beauty and to one’s circle of friends.

At Holy Trinity Church, Greymouth, on May 20, the wedding took place of Miss Sylvia Mellor, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mellor, of Greymouth, and Mr. Leonard C. Blundell, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blundell, of Wellington. The Ven. Archdeacon York was the officiating clergyman. The bride wore a gown of white crepe de chine, with hand embroideries in a delicate shade of shell pink. The bridal veil was prettily arranged in mob cap style, and finished with a spray of orange blossoms. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Mary Mellor, and Miss Alice Hannan, and by little Miss Ailsa Nelson (niece of the bridegroom). Mr. J. McLean (Wellington) was best man, and Mr. W. Mellor groomsman.

“The only bachelors’ hotel in London,” which is situated in Covent Garden, and has some 200 bedrooms, remains in possession of mere man. As a set-off bachelor girls, however, have taken over many of the bachelor chambers where in pre-war days their presence was taboo—and such a transformation scene has been wrought in the rooms that their former tenants (now in iihaki) would not recognise them.

How to address a Dame of the Order of the British Empire is a question which several readers have asked a London paper. “A Dame shou'd be addressed by letter as Dame Mary Smith, or whatever her names may be,” said an authority at the College o' Heralds recently. “Supposing the Dame holds no higher rank than that of Dame, and neither she nor her husband has any other title, strangers in writing would address her as ‘Madam’ or ‘Dear Madam,’ acquaintances as ‘Dear Dame Mary Smith,’ and friends as ‘Dear Dame Mary.’ As far as precedence is concerned, a Dame goes before a Knight or the wife of a Knight of the same Order.”

Miss Ellen Terry’s seventieth birthday was celebrated on February 27 by a number of presentations to her at the Coliseum, in London. One of them was a laurel wreath on behalf of a number of “boys at the front,” handed to the actress by Miss Lena Ashwell. Mr. Hall Caine wrote; “What’s that you say— Seventy to-day? Tut! What odds about age, She’s the youngest girl on the stage, For tragedy, comedy, serious or merry, The stage has no match for our matchless Nell Terry.” * * * *

Everyone nowadays is learning to do without all kinds of things that they formerly imagined to be necessary to existence, is the comment of a London writer, who continues: When you arrive at even a large station it is quite probable that you will get neither taxi nor cab, and you may have to carry your luggage in driblets to the nearest tube. If you are lucky, of course, you get a taxi, and the best way is to go out of the station yard, watch for one coming in with passengers, and as it is emptying itself engage it for yourself. Soldiers and sailors on leave are adepts at this kind of thing, and are deservedly successful in getting vehicles where other people cannot. Probably on arrival at your destination you are told that there is no meat to be got, nor any butter, and that you must be careful with the sugar. In shops woollen garments command fancy prices, and are very scarce; but in spite of it all life goes on, and no one seems to mind. There are, of course, folks who think that “something ought to be done,” because they cannot get butter for breakfast, but they are not very numerous. The larger number privations philosophically, and as food and clothes cost so much, eat as little as they can. wear old garments, and economise in service.

A few houses in Paris show early Victorian tendencies, says a fashion writer, and very feminine and delightful they are —the drooping feather, the lace collar, the taffeta frill, the very plain corsage, the buttoned sleeve, the pork-pie hat and short floating veil, and a hundred and one trifles that are all charming in themselves providing that they do not degenerate into exaggerations. Change we must have and there is no reason because we are purely 1918 in our street attire, we should not become a little bit freakish and amuse ourselves in the evening by aping some quaint conceits or charming successes of the dress of bygone days.

Scrubb’s Ammonia has a positively magical effect alike on paint and plate. It is quite capable of restoring the colour to faded or stained carpets, and is immensely useful in the mere washing of fragile china or a dainty muslin curtain. Under these circumstances, it is almost needless to say that housewives will join in the chorus of praise, seeing that Scrubb’s Ammonia simplifies work considerably, by saving time and trouble, and showing far more successful results than would have been possible without its use.