THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1504, 20 February 1919, Page 36

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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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 arrangement.

Mrs. J. G: D. Spicer and her children have returned to Auckland after a long stay in Wellington with Mrs. C. W. Adams, Lower Hutt.

Miss Estelle Beere and her mother and small niece, Miss Joan Beere, returned from a visit of some months to Sydney and Melbourne by the Riverina.

Applications are being received from all parts of New Zealand from nurses willing to go to Australia to assist in fighting the influenza epidemic.

It has been definitely decided that Lady Jellicoe accompanies hei’ husband on his visit to Australia and New Zealand.

No one could be at his best without a minimum of four or five miles’ walk a day, or some other form of exercise, said Dr. Truby King at the National Health Society, London. Before women could, take reasonable exercise they would have to give up absurd high-heeled boots, he added. In the mental hospital to which he was attached, the first thing done on the arrival of a woman patient was to guillotine her boot heels.

Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and the Countess of Liverpool, who are at present in Christchurch, gave an enjoyable garden party at “Elmwood.” Her Excellency wore a simple pleated white voile and lace frock, and a tuscan straw hat adorned with velvet. Afternoon tea was dispensed from a marquee on the lawn, the table decorations being artistically carried, out in hydrangeas and marguerite daisies arranged in huge silver bowls.

The Acting-Premier, Sir James Allen, has received from General Pau, head of the French Mission, a gift of £4OO, to be distributed, at Sir James Alien’s discretion, among the widows and orphans of some of those New Zealand soldiers who gave their lives in the cause of the Allies.

A Timaru paper announces the engagement of Captain Lancelot Moore, who left with the Main Body and has recently returned to New Zealand, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore, St. Albans, to Miss Strachey, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claudyl Strachey, Christchurch, and formerly of Timaru.

Miss J. M. Mclntosh, of Napier Technical College, has been appointed commercial instructor at Greymouth Technical College.

The London County Council’s Education Department is offering a free training in different branches of work to women who have been in munition factories during the war.

The Auckland Education Board appointed Miss Grey, at present with Messrs. Milne and Choyce, as inctructor in dressmaking at the Technical College at a salary of £2OO per annum.

The Queen paid a surprise visit to the West Ham Central Mission recently, and was enthusiastically welcomed by over 1000 East End women at the Barking Road Tabernacle. Remaining for half an hour, she had a cup of tea with the women, and showed great interest in the work of the mission.

Miss Nunnelly, of the Public Library, Wellington, has returned from an extended visit to England.

Mrs. Heaton Rhodes, wife of Colonel Heaton Rhodes, organised the New Zealand stall at the Big Savoy Fair in London.

Miss Estelle Stead, who has edited the “Review of Reviews” since 1916, has undertaken the business management of Stead’s Publishing House.

Fourteen letters of Jonathan Swift, 1732-9, at Sotheby’s, London, realised £200; letters of Jane Austen fetched £260.

A new shade of brown is Cordovan brown —a reddish shade, supposed to be like old Cordova leather.

Staff-Nurse N. Slater, N.Z.A.N.S., who has been doing temporary duty at the Waikato Sanatorium, Cambridge, has returned to Trentham.

On December 10, at University Church, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Mr. Michael Cavanagh, of Ballagh House, Errill, Queen’s County, was married to Miss Iris O’Leary, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. O’Leary, of New Plymouth. Early in the New Year the young couple intend to sail for New Zealand, and their idea is to settle on the land. Mrs. Cavanagh studied music on the Continent, and is a brilliant pianist.

At St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London, on December 14, the wedding took place of Miss Helen Mackenzie, elder daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Mackenzie, to Captain A. V. McDonald, M.C., the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Canon Edgar . Sheppard, D.D., Sub-Dean of the Chapels’ Royal, officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore white charmeuse, veiled with Brussels net and lace, with a court train of satin broche. The’ bridal veil was of tulle, arranged from a double circlet of silver and orange blossom. The only bridesmaid was Miss L. Mackenzie (cous-

in), who wore pale chiffon over satin, with a veil to correspond, arranged from a circlet of gold. The page wore a suit of pale blue satin, slashed with gold. Captain Hogg, a brother officer of the bridegroom, was the best man.

Miss Muriel Starr, who is to appear in “The Great Divide” at Melbourne Theatre Royal when the theatres reopen after the pneumonic influenza outbreak, was first amongst the theatrical folk in Melbourne to take precautions against the epidemic. Miss Starr was seen wearing an elegant face mask of pink chiffon, tied with baby ribbon — a confection she had purchased at one of the most fashionable shops.

The tradition that the late Lord Kitchener was a woman hater collapses with the disclosure that he passionately loved a beautiful Scottish girl named Caroline Hutchinson,

whom he met in London in 1868, when he was about to enter the Military Academy (says a London cable). A mutual devotion existed uninterruptedly. The lady first refused marriage on the ground that she had a bed-ridden aunt, who had paralysis of the throat and whom she assisted as nurse. Subsequently she admitted a second reason, that the great man required a woman accustomed to a lofty station. Lord Kitchener constantly visited the lady, and corresponded with her in affectionate terms. Miss Hutchinson died in London on February 25, 1917.

At a meeting of the Christchurch committee of the Belgian Relief Fund the secretary reported that after paying £3OOO to the Belgium Orphans’ Fund there was a sum of £3470 Ils. 4d. in hand, to which about £l4O would be added in interest. It was decided to close the fund and transmit the amount through the Minister to London.

Among those who have rejoiced over the great victory of the Allies no one has left a keener happiness in our triumph than the aged Empress Eugenie, remarks a London

writer. She has been spared to see her dearest wishes fulfilled by the restoration to France of her long-lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Her Majesty has ever held to the belief that not only would France win back these provinces, but that she herself would live long enough to see them again a part of France.

The death is announced in London of William Michael Rossetti, the wellknown author. Born in 1829, he was the author of a large number of publications, including “Lives of Famous Poets” and “Life of Keats,” and was editor of “The Germ” in 1856.

The engagement is announced in an exchange of Miss Eila Rutherford, daughter of Mr. Edmund Rutherford, Kekerangu, Marlborough, to Mr. E. L. Good, also of Marlborough. Mr. Good has recently returned from France, where he was on active service for about three years.

Don’t wrinkle the forehead when worried, or draw the brow together in a frown when out in a bright light. If the eyes are weak, abjure toques and only wear broad-brimmed hats. Nothing ages a woman so much as deep ridges on the forehead;

Miss Mildred Leo Clemens, who is a member of the Chautauqua party, which is to commence a campaign in New Zealand shortly, is a cousin of the late Mr. Samuel Clemens (better known as Mark Twain). Her specialty is travelogues, vivid pictures of countries she knows intimately-.

A strange incident occurred the other day at the railway station of Kremsier, Austria, states a Vienna paper. A young woman, with an infant in her arms, asked a soldier on furlough to hold her child for a few minutes, as she wanted to buy a ticket. Before the soldier was aware of it he held already the little load in his arms. He waited patiently for mother’s return, but when the train and all the persons had long left the station he realised that the vanished mother wanted to rid herself of her child. When the child started to cry the soldier found a slip of paper that read: “A soldier has given it; a soldier has taken it.” The soldier took the foundling to his home and intends to bring it up.

Two girls belonging to the New Plymouth Girls’ High School—Peggy Brown and Dinah Brown —were publicly honoured for their bravery in rescuing two fellow students- from drowning on the Fitzroy beach in March last. On the ninth of that month two girls got into difficulties while bathing, an,d were being carried away in the current, when the two girls mentioned went into the surf and rescued their schoolfellows from their perilous position.

A very pretty wedding was solemnised at the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby, on January 25, when Miss Suzette Campion, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Campion, Herne Bay, was married to Mr. John S. Donovan, only son of Mr. T. Donovan, Alten Road, Auckland. The bride looked charming in a white crepe de chine frock embellished with tiny wreaths of pale pink rosebuds at intervals on the skirt and corsage. She wore a graceful hat of white georgette and pink rosebuds. Miss Gerti Campion was bridesmaid, her dress being a becoming pale pink crepe de chine, hand embroidered in conventional design, with white hat encircled with a beautiful white ostrich plume. Mr. D. O’Donoghue was best man. The Rev. Father Carran performed the ceremony, which was followed by a breakfast at the residence of the bride’s parents, when many felicitous speeches were made. Mr. and Mrs. Donovan are spending their honeymoon at the Cold Lakes, Otago.

Probably the English brides of New Zealand soldiers are reaching the Dominion in considerable numbers, but the invasion is a very real and startling thing here (states the Sydney correspondent of the Christchurch “Press”)- The young wives of the Anzacs are pouring into Australia in a steady stream, much to the consternation of our marriageable girls, of whom the supply is already in excess of the demand. A transport which arrived at Fremantle recently with invalided soldiers had 300 brides aboard, coming to join their soldier husbands here—a fine, wholesome party of English girls. Some had been married a considerable time. Several babies were with the young wives, many were born aboard, and a few died. Eighty of these girls arrived at Sydney station, and were given a cordial welcome. Generally, the type did not have the peculiar style and chic of the Sydney girl. She did not have the natty silk stockings and flashing transparencies — but she was charming, for all that, with a very noticeable air of domestication. It was noticeable, too, that the soldiers who claimed them were generally of a very good type—the very men who ought to be the solid citizens and fathers of the future. That they have chosen these modest English girls, instead of the smart and “sporty” Australian miss, should make the latter seriously think. “They say that we have been glad to marry Anzacs,” said one little lady to a reporter. “They don’t seem to realise that these soldiers are the kind that girls anywhere would be glad to marry.” The reporter, on his own account, added that the great majority of the newcomers were girls whom men anywhere would also be glad to choose. But this detracts nothing from the disconsolate view of the situation being taken by feminine Australia.