THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1538, 16 October 1919, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating to weddings and social gatherings should be sent to Lady Editor, Dramatic Bexiew” Office, AucJdand. In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not tor publication). Photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arraage-

Mrs. G. D. Greenwood, Christchurch, has left on a trip to Australia.

Mrs. I. Alexander and Mrs. Eliot Davis, Auckland, are on a visit to Rotorua.

Mrs. Arthur Myers and family came up from Wellington last week, and have taken up residence in Auckland again.

Miss Chilton Button, of Auckland, has returned to New Zealand by the Adolph Woermann, after four years’ war work abroad.

The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Tripe, daughter of Mrs. J. R. Tripe, of Wellington, to Major R. C. Chaytor, M.C., son of Mr. J. C. Chaytor, Marshlands, Marlborough.

Miss C. B. Mills, M.A., B.Sc., has been appointed as lady principal of the New Girls’ High School, Palmerston North. Seventeen applications were received for the position.

A queen election, with a trip to Sydney and £25 to spend on the way as the first prize, is to be one of the features of the Napier Mardi Gras.

The engagement is announced of Miss Lydia Field, second daughter of Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., and Mrs. Field, to Captain Noel Pharazyn, son of Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald, of Tinakori Road, Wellington.

Sister Bessie Young, of Hawera, has recently received advice that she has been awarded the Royal Red Cross for war services. Sister Young is at present doing war work at Trentham.

Mrs. Edmunds, secretary of the Auckland Ladies’ Golf Club, received a presentation from the visiting competitors who came up for the recent New Zealand ladies championship meeting, in appreciation of her efforts for their enjoyment.

A priest at a wedding in old Babylonia used to take a thread from the garment of the bride and another from that of the bridegroom. These he tied together into a knot, and presented it to the bride as a symbol of the binding nature of the union between her and her husband. Hence the expression “tying the knot.”

The Royal Red Cross (second class) has been awarded to the following nurses: Miss Hilda Burton, matron, and Miss Kathleen S. Cumming, sister, Military Hospital Rotorua; Miss Ruth Gilmer, matron, Miss Ellen Grant, matron, Devonport Convalescent Home for Soldiers; Miss Elsie May McAllum, matron.

Amongst the debutantes presented at the Royal garden party at Buckingham Palace, on July 11, was Miss Margaret Campbell, who was presented by her mother, Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Miss Campbell wore a gown of silver grey charmeuse with a simple wrapped skirt trimmed with long sash ends lined with malmaison pink; a hat en suite trimmed with clusters of osprey.

The engagement is announced (says the “Manawatu Daily Times”) of Miss Gladys Moore, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gifford Moore, to Mr. C. H. Lawrence, third son of Mr. F. C. Lawrence, of Christchurch. Mr. Lawrence was a lieutenant in the Expeditionary Force which served in Palestine and returned recently.

Philip J. S. Richardson, editor of “The Dancing Times,” London, makes the following interesting remarks: The Fox-trot first made its appearance in this country in 1914, just before the outbreak of war. Its rapid increase in popularity during the “dark years” is easy to understand, for its tunes were catchy and its steps sufficiently simple for a man to pick up during his 14 days’ leave. When it first arrived, its steps were numerous and almost freakish. Dips, hops and a peculiar movement known as a “twinkle” were introduced. There were no hard-and-fast rules. To-day all is changed. The Fox-trot, well done, is a graceful dance entirely free of all trick steps and made up of gliding movements in which the old valse plays no unimportant part. The Rag is a development of the one-step (which came into vogue during 1910) after that dance had

passed through its somewhat objectionable phases when it was known as the Turkey-trot and Bunny Hug. To-day Turkey-trot and Bunny Hug are unknown. Like the Fox-trot, the Rag is an unostentatious dance in which again the old valse is not forgotten by good dancers. A number of people who have not danced for years feel they would like to commence again, but they are deterred because they cannot do the “complicated modern dances.” Let me assure them the modern dances are not complicated, and if they can do the old valse well they need never dread adventuring in the modern ballroom. The secret of modern dancing is contained in the one word “glide,” and, unlike the successful business man, the really good dancer never advertises; in other words, all his movements are unobtrusive. Any step that focuses attention upon him is to-day in the worst of taste.

His Excellency the .Governor-Gen-eral and the Countess of Liverpool spent last "Wednesday in Auckland, when an investiture was held at Government House, His Excellency presenting a number of badges of the Order of the British Empire to Auckland residents. The badge of Commander of the Order was presented to the Hon. George Fowlds, and those of Officers of the Order to Mrs. Alice A. G. Buckleton, Mrs. Edith M. Macfarlane and Mr. George Elliot. Badges of Members of the Order were received by Mrs. Louisa Bollard, of Tamahere; Mrs. Ada M. Donaldson, of Waihi; Mrs. Jessie Hill, of Rotorua; Mrs. Emily H. Maguire, of Auckland; Mrs. Riria Thompson, of Whakatane; Mrs. Charlotte S. Ward, of Tauranga; Miss Helen Graham, of Te Kuiti; Miss Violet H. Webster, of Pukekohe: and Mr. A. S. Bankart, of Auckland.

“I think shopping is fascinating. I love the counters; I love the sheen of the silks, and the ribbons, and laces, all foamy and white, like the scum from milk. And, best of all, I love the hats, each sitting by itself on a little stand, and twirling round in a rainbow flash as a girl goes by to whisper, ‘Buy me and see how lovely I’ll make you look, how daintily I’ll nestle on your head and flirt my wings of ribbon at the pass-ers-by. You needn’t do the littlest thing; I’ll beckon for both.’ Do you know, as I pass by, I can hear some hats saying that?. But Rotha laughs at me if I tell her. . . . She says I am too romantic, that I have an even-ing-dress-and-pink-shaded-candle outlook on life. ‘Now my condition,’ she went on, ‘is just the opposite; a sort of coat-and-skirt, cup-of-tea-and-a-bun style describes me; but, you know, it’s a lot better for every-day wear than yours, because there’s lots more counter lunches than champagne dinners in real life.” —“The Year Between,” by Doris Egerton Jones.

Mrs. Mark Cohen, Dunedin, has returned from a trip to Sydney. The Hon. C. Louisson and Mrs. Louisson have returned to Christchurch after a long stay in the north. Miss Jean Wright, daughter of Mr. George Wright, Golf Road, Epsom, returned to Auckland last week by the Corinthic after an absence of five years and a-half. For the past three years Miss Wright has been a member of the Military Massage Service. • • 9 » Mrs. Hosking received a warm welcome back to Wellington from her visit to England from the members of the committee of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children. She was entertained at afternoon tea and gave a most interesting talk about Plunket work at Home.

“To fight against ‘dummies’ ” was one of the big works being done by the National Council of Women, stated Lady Stout in Wellington before a meeting of the Plunket Society. Mrs. Hilloc Dale said that she bought up all the “dummies” offering at a bazaar, and had sent one to each Cabinet Minister with the words: “Sir, the National Council calls these the invention of the devil. The sale of them is illegal in France, why not in England?”

A combination knife has been presented by Lady Jellicoe to Master Maxwell Cochran, of Takapuna, as a reward for his finding of Her Ladyship’s gift purse during the unveiling of the Sanders Memorial in the marine borough. The gift was accompanied by a letter, signed by Admiral Jellicoe. On the handle of the knife is a silver plate, bearing the inscription: “M. Cochram_ from Viscount and Viscountess Jellicoe, 25/9/19.”

Lady Diana Cooper, better known as Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the Duke of Rutland, met with a serious accident while watching the peace firework display in Hyde Park. With a party of friends, Lady Diana went to witness the display from a convenient roof, and in the darkness stepped through a skylight, falling 20 feet to the floor below. On medical assistance being summoned it was found that she was suffering from a fractured thigh.

A petition to Parliament is being extensively signed by women in Gisborne district, asking the Legislature to do something to relieve their household worries in the matter of domestic service. The petitioners state: We, the women of Poverty Bay and East Coast, most earnestly pray for the immediate restoration of the pre-war reduced passages for women, and would urge upon yon the fact that many women are breaking down in health from overwork and strain. We would also draw your attention to the low birth rate, which is not likely to improve unless some relief is afforded to overworked mothers. We therefore pray for immediate action in this most pressing matter.

The marriage was celebrated at the residence of the bride’s parents, Linwood, Christchurch, of Miss Elsie Seed, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Seed, to Mr. Frank Rutherford, son of Mrs. A. W. Rutherford and the late Mr. A. W. Rutherford, of Mendip Hills. The Rev. Percy Knight was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was given away by her father, was smartly costumed in putty-coloured cloth, with a pretty hat to match, trimmed with daisies, and carried a bouquet of pink flowers. The bridesmaid was Miss Rita Seed, whose pale blue costume had fawn touches, and was worn with a hat to match. Mr. Norman Rutherford was best man.

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