THE SOCLIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1470, 27 June 1918, Page 32

THE SOCLIAL WORLD

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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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

Mrs. Eliot Davis has returned to Auckland after a visit to Australia.

Mrs. Miles and Miss Hilda Miles, of Wellington, have returned home after a holiday in Auckland.

Mrs. Claude Sawtell has returned to Christchurch after a visit to Auckland and Rotorua.

Miss E. Teschemaker and Miss G. Wilkin, of. Christchurch, have gone to Wellington to assist at Lowry Bay Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Burton, of Auckland, are on a visit to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Macassey have returned to Dunedin after a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. E. T. Wilder, Gf Hauturu, Kawhia, has been paying a short visit to Auckland.

Misses Clifford, of Christchurch, returned last week from a visit to Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cutten have returned to Auckland after a holiday spent in the south.

Mrs. Kenderdine, Auckland, and her daughter, Mrs. Bell, are staying with Mrs. Robert Bell, Ashburton.

Miss Thomson, who has recently returned from the war area, has been appointed masseuse at the Invercargill Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cohen, of Dunedin, have returned home after a visit to Auckland and the Hot Lakes District.

A cable from London states that the King gave an audience to Mr. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Wood have won the George Rhodes bowl for a mixed foursomes flag match at the Shirley Golf Links, in Christchurch.

Miss Clarice Buckman, sister of the gifted Rosina Buckman, is at present residing in Wellington, and intends to take up a vocal career.

Miss Mary R. Barkas, Timaru, has Qualified at the Royal Free Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital as a medical practitioner, and has been admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians.

The engagement is announced of Miss Doreen Humphrey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Humphrey, of Mangaweka, -to Mr. S. Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Wright, of Christchurch, says an exchange.

An interesting item at the recent patriotic carnival at Ellerslie was the jumping event by the lady members of the Pakuranga Hunt Club. Miss M. Brigg secured pride of place, with Miss E. Gill second and Miss R. Gorrie third.

The engagement is announced in the Christchurch “Press” of Miss Daisy Rutherford, third daughter of the late Mr. Walter Rutherford, to Mr. C. G. Foster, only son of the late Dr. Charles James Foster, LL.D.

The Auckland French Club held an enjoyable soiree on Monday week. A smart little playlet “L’Anglais Que I’on Dit” was performed by several members of the club under Madame Villeval’s direction, and other agreeable items were given by M. Francis, Mlle. Ulmans and Misses Thomas and Bachelder.

New shoes should be tried on over moderately thick stockings.

On the marriage of Brigadier-Gen-eral A. Asquith, D. 5.0., son of the ex-Prime Minister, to the Hon. Betty Manners, daughter of Lord and Lady Manners, a guard of honour was provided by New Zealand officers from Lord Manners’ convalescent hospital, who formed an archway with their swords.

Speaking at a Y.W.C.A. meeting in England, Mrs. Randall Davidson, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, said she loved to see the new free look and the consciousness of power that had come into the faces of women and girls, but sometimes there was something that she m’ssed. Women must remain womanly.

Do you know that by keeping a few pieces of the dried yellow rind of an orange in your tea caddy you can give the cheaper grades of tea the delicious fragrance and taste of the more expensive grades.

The marriage was solemnised at the Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, of Miss Florence Amy, eldest daughter of Colonel and Mrs. C. J. Winter, to Mr. Leslie Balfour, son of Mrs. T. W. Balfour, of Napier. The ceremony was performed by the Ven. Archdeacon Packe.

“Don’t think trouble. It may become a habit. Be brave and utter a cheerful word in place of the complaining tone. Keeping silent in an atmosphere of discord attracts to you peace and serenity instead of pain and sorrow. “As a man thinketh in h’s heart, so is he.” No greater truth was ever uttered. As soon as a person stops thinking trouble and begins thinking joy, then joy will materialise.”

Gibbs: “To-day I pleased a pretty woman by telling her that a certain red - faced, snub - nosed, bald - headed mortal looked like her.” Mills: “Nonsense! You didn’t!” Gibbs: “Fact. The red-faced, snub-nosed, baldheaded mortal was her first baby.”

A little Scrubb’s ammonia in the water is invaluable for washing hair brushes.

She was a modern Mrs. Malaprop, and aired her views on things as follows: “’Eaven ’elp us!” she said, “what with the guns going off and the German bombs, I felt any moment I might be hurled into maternity!”

The wedding took place at All Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, on June 18 of Mr. Alexander H. Morgan (late of Palmerston North, now of Waihi), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Morgan, Rangawahia, to Miss Muriel Inez Permain, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Permain, of Palmerston North.

To make white soup without meat use three pints of boiling water, three potatoes, three leeks, three heads of celery, all finely cut up, loz. of butter. Boil and then pass through a sieve. Boil up again, and add a pint of milk, teaspoonful of sugar, and pounded tapioca to thicken.

Besides the King, Queen Alexandra, the Empress Eugenie and Sir Eric Geddes were the sponsors for Sir Douglas Haig’s baby boy, who was christened at the Field-Marshal’s residence, Eastcott, Kingston Hill, and received the names of George Alexander Eugene Douglas. The gifts included gold christening mugs from the King and from Queen Alexandra.

If a new silk skirt has considerable “dressing” in it, press it all over with a hot iron before wearing. This will take out the stiffness and prevent it from cracking, especially along the folds near the seams, where a ready-made skirt first begins to break.

When the working basis of all fashion is the conservation of materials —not only wool fabrics, but all materials—we simply must be slim, whether we are or not; for the new silhouette is so decidedly straight. At the same time, emphasises a dress authority, it is interesting to note that, although the very newest costumes use the minimum amount of cloth, they have not the faintest suggestion of tightness, but, rather, give an air of great freedom.

“Crowding in raid shelters has a lot to do with it,” said the Shoreditch Infirmary doctor of the measles epidemic

Bond Street, possibly the most aristocratic thoroughfare in Europe, has seen some strange sights during the war (says a London paper), but it is doubtful if anything more curious has been seen than an incident we observed recently. A young girl in the breeches and white smock of the worker on the land strolled leisurely . down the street looking into the shop windows, with her hand on the arm of an old gentleman, who was obviously an aristocrat. Evidently the young lady was having a day off, and she was so proud of her uniform that she gave Bond Street the benefit of it. Another fact to be noted is that no one seemed to think there was anything incongruous in a girl in breeches and white smock promenading in this fashionable street. War has made us change many of our ideas regarding work when even the aristocracy are willing to try manual labour.

A quiet wedding of much interest was solemnised at St. George’s Cathedral, Madras, recently, when Miss Hilda R. Felstead, the popular comedienne of the Fantastics (Mr. Frederic Shipman’s company (recently playing in Madras), only daughter of John and Ada Felstead, Malvern, Adelaide, South Australia, was married to Captain C. M. Flanders, A.V.C., Bangalore, only son of Ula and Sarah Flanders, Mohawk, Ontario, Canada. Lieutenant - Colonel Rivett Carnac gave the bride away, and the best man was Captain A. A. Robb, 1.A.R.0., Bangalore. The Rev. B. M. Morton performed the ceremony. The bride looked charming in a cream sJk embroidered frock, with touches of blush pink and Irish crochet and a modish white hat. The bridal party included the Misses Nellie and Elsie Black (well known to New Zealanders) and Mary MacFarlane, of the Fantastics; Mrs. Rivett Carnac, Major Jackson, A.V.C., Mr. Jack O’Sullivan (manager of the “Court Cards,” an old Australian friend of the bride’s family), and Mr. A. H. Steele. It is the bride’s intention to fin'sh her present tour with the Fantastics before taking up her residence in Bangalore.

What sort of reception will Cupid, shorn of his khaki, get from the womanhood of the victorious Allies? (writes “D.,” in the “Daily Mail”). Peace when it comes will find the women of this country emancipated not only politically but also economically—women who have been told with justice and gratitude that they are “splendid.” But this freedom will be mitigated by the restrictions which the war will have coincidentally imposed upon their emotional life. With a surplus feminine population, which in normal times amounted roughly to one and three-quarter millions, no English girl could ever make quite sure of finding a husband. Henceforward that difficulty will be enormously increased by a universal shortage, of young and healthy men. However imperative a high birth rate may be to replace the thousands of Britain’s sons cut off in their prime, it is obvious that here, as well as in France, there will not be enough husbands to go round. A wide and fair field of choice will be opened to those who respond to this call. Girls will be as plentiful as roses in June. From this overcrowded garden intending Benedicts will naturally pick the fairest flowers, with the result that the necessity “to look a little drest and be beautiful” will be impressed by the logic of the situation upon all who do not propose to bloom and fade alone. To cultive beauty, snd, above all, charm, will therefore become woman’s part of the national duty in all the Allied countries.

To those women who are repelled by the lot of wife and mother the alternative of work is open (the writer points out). Except in the rare case of the brilliantly gifted woman, work means some form of

drudgery, which will enable her to exist in penury, or, if she is fortunate, in comparative comfort. The unprecedented demand created by the war for women with business capacity and training is not likely to continue beyond the day when our surviving heroes return from the trenches to reclaim their former posts. - Thousands of women who have meanwhile invaded the sphere of manual labour will then be forced out of industry. Thus the problem of the future is how to eleminate the superfluous woman who has never learnt to do anything really well, who is neither an attractive wife nor an efficient worker. If a girl aspires to be a happy wife and mother she must not only develop to the utmost any qualities of beauty and charm she may possess, but also learn the rudiments of domestic economy and the care of children. Above all let us have no more waste, either of beauty or energy.

The engagement is announced in a southern paper of Captain G. M. Wilford, N.Z.R.8., only son of the Hon. T. M. Wilford, M.P., Minister for Justice, and Mrs. Wilford, of Wellington, and Dorothy, eldest daughter of Mr. Herbert Wilson, K.C., and Mrs. Wilson, of 12, Hatch Street, Dublin, and Holmhurst, Greystones, Ireland.

Those who have a keen propensity for sensing bargains —so necessary in these war economy times — will learn with pleasure that Mr. Warren is holding his special annual sale at his emporium, ground floor. Strand Arcade, to-day. The enterprising proprietor is planning a great clearance of crepe de chine blouses (navy and black) from 15/11, and of white silk blouses at 9/11, 12/11. Some exquisite samples of underwear, a special line of silk hosiery, and costumes from the appealingly low price of 35/- are a few of the features that must attract feminine notice. The sale will extend over a fortnight.