THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1591, 21 October 1920, Page 30

THE SOCIAL WORLD

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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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

Napier is talking about forming a Jazz Club for next winter.

Mrs. F. J. Bankart, Auckland, left by the Ruapehu on a visit to England.

Mrs. and Miss Moritson, Auckland, have left on a trip to Honolulu.

Mrs. A. L. Wilson, Wellington, is visiting her son, Mr. Warwick Wilson, Auckland.

Mrs. J.-C. McKillop, Masterton, and Miss L. Montgomery have left for Sydney, en route for England.

Mrs. Florence Taylor, Sydney, has been admitted an associate member of the Institute of Architects. She is the first lady architect in Australia.

Mrs. Macklow and Miss Nancy Macklow, Auckland, have left on a trip to Sydney.

Mrs. V. J. Larner and Miss Cecil Larner, Auckland, are on a visit to Te Aroha.

Miss Phyllis Lindsay has returned to Auckland after a visit to her sis--ter, Mrs. A. Adams, Langley Dale, Blenheim.

Miss Anita Webster, of Auckland, has left for Sydney where she will study the latest dancing methods.

Miss Sylvia Brown, of Waiapu Hospital, Tokomaru Bay, has been appointed to the position of matron of the Nelson Hospital.

A party of 35 British school teachers recently left Liverpool for Canada, where they will be placed in large Canadian schools by the Dominion Government.

Mrs. Barnicoat has returned from a visit to Australia and the East, and has been spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Eric Riddiford.

At Christie’s, London, a piano bearing the autographs of many famous musicians, owned by the late Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was sold for £430.

The King has- knighted Colonel E. W. M. Grigg, x who accompanied the Prince of Wales on his recent tour as military secretary.

On October 5, at St. Matthews’ Church, Auckland, Miss Kai* MacKenzie, third daughter of Mrs.. Mackenzie, Poi Poi, Featherston, and the late Mr. James MacKenzie, was quietly married to Mr. W. P. Hales, eldest son of Mr. A. G. Hales, the novelist.

While in Sydney, Mrs. John Farrell gave a small tea party at the Carlton, the guests including Miss Dorothy Brunton, Miss Dorothy Purdell (Mrs. W. Green), Miss Madge Eliot and other members of the “Yes, Uncle” Company.

Southern papers announce the engagement of Mr. Philip Keddell, son of the late Major Jackson Keddell, Oamaru, to Miss. Frieda Moore, eldest daughter of Mr. W. J. Moore, “Chippenham,” Papanui, Christchurch.

Writing to relatives in New Zealand, a New Plymouth lady now; visiting England mentions a visit to Brockenhurst. She states that the graves are beautifully kept by a few ladies there. Each one keeps the grass cut and attends to a certain number, and one woman makes a very large wreath every Saturday and hangs it on a cross, half-way between the mounds, evidently put there for the purpose.

Many people thrown away old oilcloth and cuttings of new oilcloth, but if these are cut in strips they make excellent fire lighters. They burn well, and save the expense of buying firewood. * * * * Miss Mary Black, of Wellington, has been appointed by the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society to proceed to Dunedin and undergo a year’s training at the Karitane-Harris Hospital. * * * * By command of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Miss Bessie Griffiths, Australian ’cellist and singer, gave a recital at Kensington Palace, London. The Duke of Connaught and Prince . Don. Jaime of Spain were present. « ♦ ♦ * The engagement is announced of Miss Mildred Sherratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Sherratt, of Gisborne, to Mr. Percival Barker, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Barker, also of Gisborne. * 4 * * Mr. and Mrs. A. Douglas Spiers, of Napier, have returned from Auckland, after visiting Mrs. Spiers’ father, Professor A. P. W. Thomas, and her grandmother, Mrs. J. B. Russell, who, although 86 years old, recently arrived from England. 4 4 4 * At the Napier Cathedral on October 12 Mrs. Elizabeth Constance Cato, widow of the late Mr. W. G. Cato, of Napier, was quietly married to Mr. Samuel David Macfarlane, of Dannevirke. The Rev. Dean Mayne officiated. The bride was given away by her son-in-law, Mr. H. Tonkin, and wore a smart fawn gabardine costume, with saxe blue straw hat. Mr. B. T. Dinwiddie was best man.

A cablegram from. London states that the approaching marriage is announced of the Hon. Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Greville, Master of Kinloss, to Miss Katherine Jackman, the daughter of a village blacksmith. The Master of Kinloss is 31 years of age.

Miss Pearl Dahl, daughter of Mr. C. Dahl, Palmerston North, is a passenger by the Marama for San Francisco. Miss Dahl has completed her training in St. Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, and General Hospital, Wellington, and is now entering the San Francisco General Hospital for postgraduate training for surgical theatre experience.

Mrs. Hamilton Rutherford and her daughter, Miss Gretta Rutherford, have left for Australia, where they intend to patch the Ormonde for Colombo, says the “Dominion.” Miss Rutherford is to be married to Mr. Humphrey G. Dyer, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Dyer, of Napier. They will live in Assam, where Mr. Dyer is manager of a plantation.

After a wedding at Alan Road Church, Ipswich, the bride placed her sheaf of beautiful lilies beneath a war memorial. On a card attached to the flowers was .written: “In grateful and loving memory of our two brothers.” These were brothers of the bride and bridegroom both killed at Neuve Chapelle.

Miss Mabel Forbes, who has been secretary to the eminent town planner, Profesor Patrick Geddes, of Edinburgh, is at present touring New Zealand.

At St. Andrew’s Church, Christchurch, on Tuesday, October 5, the marriage took place of Dr. L. E. Barnett, son of Dr. and Mrs. Barnett, of Dunedin, to Miss Flora Chalmers, daughter of Mrs. F. A. Chalmers, of Christchurch. The wedding was a very quiet one, only relatives of the bride and bridegroom being present. The bride wore a soft grey souple satin, with a tomato-coloured hat, and carried a bouquet of wallflowers and forget-me-nots. Dr. Will attended the bridegroom as best man, and the Rev. R. M. Ryburn was the officiating clergyman.

Mr. arid Mrs. W. G. Wood, of Napier, have left Auckland on a honeymoon visit to Sydney.

Miss Gertrude Johnson, who recently toured Nev/ Zealand with Mr. Horace Hunt, is having a benefit concert in Melbourne early In November prior to leaving for England to try her luck in the Old Country.

The decadence of attractive dressing for concerts is the direct result of the busy war years, when weary people snatched a few hours from their national toil to refresh their souls with music. It was excusable then, but the temporary laxity is in dangei* of becoming a fixed habit, says a writer in the “Sydney Suri.”

Gold and silver lace and trimmingsoon get tarnished. Try cleaning it in this way. Take a stale loaf and rub the inside to make crumbs, mix with it half a pound of powder blue, lay this plentifully on the lace, and rub gently until it becomes bright. Then take a piece of clean flannel and dust the crumbs well off. Finally, rub the lace gently with a piece of velvet, and it will look as bright » as when new.

“Jane,” declared a mistress, “is moving with the times, and she frowns if I call her ‘cook.’ She prefers to be called ‘chef’.” The secret is that for the last 12 weeks Jane has attended daily the London County Council cookery classes. The word “mutton,” says her mistress, grates on Jane’s ears. Her “kitchen French” is unlimited, and she can write out a long menu without a hitch, and knows exactly things that go together and things that do not. The council are very pleased with the results of their cotirses, says the “Daily Mail.” Many girls come in their own time regularly every afternoon. A number of boys also are taking courses in waiting and cooking and kitchen French.

Lady de Frece, admired the world over as “Vesta Tilley,” told a Press representative of the misfortune of Sir Walter de Frece and herself in losing half of a collection of valuable china. The collection, Lady de Frece said, was of a powder-blue shade and was kept in two cupboards. One of the cupboards, containing about one half of the china, collapsed. The loss is estimated at about £lO,OOO. “I cannot ascribe the accident to any other cause than that one of our servants, during spring cleaning operations, had insecurely fixed brackets into the wall sockets,” said Lady de Frece. The collection, she pointed out, had taken her husband many years to gather together. Sir Walter would start to get another collection together, said Lady de Frece. Some of the smallest pieces in the collection were worth as much as £250 each.

The high price of clothes in these post-war years is making many women clever with their fingers who would have scorned home-made things in times past, says an English writer. Lingerie, in particular, is being made at a bride’s home with the happiest results. Not only are the things cheaper, but they are much better. One bride, with a small trousseau allowance and a keen sense that she wanted the very best, went to a firstclass lingerie shop and purchased “one of everything.” She chose simple designs, but the very best. When the sample garments came home she cut paper patterns of them all, rind set to work to copy the French designs diligently. She found that she secured results which would have been impossible with ordinary paper patterns. Her reward was a charming trousseau at a very moderate cost; not cheap, cheapness is impossible nowadays, but reasonable. The lingerie of the moment is characterised by its simplicity. The bad washing is also persuading many brides to favour coloured lawns, crepes, and silks, though pure white materials are general where expense is no hindrance.

A pretty wedding was celebrated at Knox Church, Masterton, on October '7, when May, second daughter of Mr. Allan H. Thompson, of Carrington, was married to Robert Hall, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fulton, of Farnham, Blenheim. The bride wore a frock of cream crepe de chine, exquisitely hand-worked. Her veil was arranged mob cap fashion with a wreath of orange blossoms. The bridesmaids were Misses Margaret and Jean Thompson, and the best man Mr. E. Pike, of Blenheim.