WOMEN'S CORNER.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 2

WOMEN'S CORNER.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the "Women's Corner" items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear the signa-' tures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to> women. Mr and Mrs John Macartney ana Miss M. Tobeck, Tai Tapu, are staying at the "New Brighton Cafe for a fortnight. Misses Ida and Lillian Kennard are spending their holidays at Timaru. Mr and Mrs Douglas Cox, Mrs Armstrong, and Mrs Fenerty motored .back from Duncdin yosterday, Information lias been received in Auckland of the death, on November 24th, of Mrs "VVatkin, wife of the liev. J. B. AVatkin, of the Free Church of Tonga. Mrs Watkin was born in Sydney on Junp 20tli, 1844, and was therefore in her voth year. With her husband, then a Weslcyan missionary, she arrived in the Tongan Islands on May 31st, 1866, and had resided there ever since. She was much! beloved by Tongans and Europeans alike. Mr and Mrs Gerald Stead returned to Christchurch yesterday morning from Auckland. Mr and Mrs J. Campbell Hay (Pigeon Bay) are in town. Mr and Mrs F. W. Seldon (Ashburton) are staying at the Clarendon. Mrs Harold Greenwood (Teyiotdale) is in town. She is staying at W arner's. Mr and Mrs H. A. Knight, Misses , Knight, and Airs A. Deans (liacccoursc ; Hill), who spent tho holidays at tho' Hydro, Timaru, have returned home. ]\trs andi Miss-Duncan (Park terrace) are spending a fortnight at tho Hydro, Timaru. Mr and Mrs J.' C. Clarkson and Mr j and Mrs who tho holidays in Timaru, have returned homo. ) A very enjoyable evening was spent on Thursday by tho number of young people who wero invited to "Hilbre, £>t. Martin's, the residence of Mv t. O. Brown, to witness the presentation or a little play entitled ""Who's a Coward?" The characters werq delightfully portrayed by Misses D., J., and 'G. Brown, and the audience was a very appreciative one. Supper T Y a ®' afterwards served on the balcony, which decorated and illumined by Chinese lanterns, presented a very gay and pretty scene. . The engagement is announced of Miss Netty, Marsden, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Marsden, Christchurch, to Mr B. S. Lawrence, of the U.S.S. Co., Wellington-'and Napier. An old resident passed away yesterday I in the person of Mi's Ellen Sprosen, relict of the lato Mr Henry Sprosen. I Born in Cowley, Middlesex, in.J.B3/,she landed in Otago in ,1861, and, with her husband, settled in. Milton, eventually coming to Christchurch in 1900, where Mr Sprosen died two years ago. Her familiar face will bo missed in Linwood. where she was well known and respected bv. a largo circle of friends. She leaves six sons, two. daughters, and a large number of grandchildren and greatgrandchildren to mourn their loss. In connexion with the Canterbury Sweet Pea and Carnation Society an advertisement appears in this issue calling a meeting of ladies to meet the president (Mr W. J. Jenkins) at tho rf.M.C.A. on Monday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, to make arrangements for a street collection on tho 16th inst. The .Royal Horticultural Society of England, of which the King is patron, havo started a fund in order to and re-estahlisli all the gardens in Franco and Belgium that have been devastated by the Huns, and it is. for this purpose that the local Society are arranging this show and tho street collection.

Count Bentirfck, the Kaiser's host at Ainerongen Castle, Holland, has been a widower for the past two years, and his daughter, Countess Elizabeth, is acting as hostess at the castle. Sho is Count Bentinek's only daughter, born in 1892, and the Countess Victoria, "who has such pronounced Entente views that it has pleased her to stay in England almost since the beginning of the war," is his only sister. She is a charming and accomplished lady, and among her English nephews is Captain Robert Bentinck, who in 1915 married Lady Noral Noel, who visited New Zealand some years bach as one of the soloists of the Sheffield Choir. " Now that victory has como (says an English society weekly) London is more than ever likely to have a brilliant winter season, houses and flats being in greater demand than ever since all chances of air-raids arc at an ond. Already there is a great deal of entertaining, and Lady Wimborne's dance at Wimborne House was a much more ambitious affair than wore most of the war-time festivities. Another hostess —and one newly come to that iole —is Mrs Wardell,- who was formerly Lady Northland, and is a daughter of Harriet Lady Cooper. Besides all these private dances there are some public balls almost every day, intended, of course, principally for officers at homo on leave from France.

The death occurred in a nursing homo at Hastings recently of Mrs Emma Caroline Carpenter, a resident of Wellington for the greater part of her life. The deceased lady, who was 89 years of ago, was born at Waterford, Ireland, and arriyed in ew Zealand with her husband (Mr Henry Oarpenter) and several of their children over CO years ago. Jlr Carpenter, who was with the firm of Messrs George Moore and Co., and afterward with Messrs E. W. Mills and Co., uied a great many years ago. A short time before her last illness Mrs Carpenter had gone to livo with one of hpr eons (Mr James G/Carpenter. of Hastings, who has since removed to Valley road, Mount Eden, Auckland). One of her sons is Mr Charles B. Carpenter, who is in thfe Public Service in Wellington, and another is Mr Maxwell Carpenter. secretary of the Rangitikei Sawmillers' Association. Mts C. H. M. Hawk, of Wellington, is tho only daughter. Among ladies who are afflicted with superfluous haira Dr. Waldron'a preparations prove a boon, as they can bo applied with perfect safety. A spccial outfit for summer use complices Mafleago Cream for Freckles and Sunburn, Vanishing Cream for applying before powder; Rougette, an emollient for the ljpe. and a delicate powder, any of four shades. Prico 16s, postage 16s 6d. MRS ROLLESTON, Dominion Building*, 1. Cathedral square. WEDDINGS. BISHOP—PEASE.

j iVt St. Mary's Church, Hawera, on , Saturday afternoon, a pretty and a popular wedding was celebrated, when -Mr L. W. Bishop, of the Farmers' cooperative staff (son of Mr C*. AV. Bishop, headmaster of mew Brighton School), was married to Miss V iolet Pease, eldest daughter of Mrs 11. L. Pease. The church was prettily decorated for the occasion, the series of floral arches over the main aisle giving a most artistic effect. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen. The service was choral, tho choir and congregation singing the p&alm and the hymns, "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden'' and "0 perfect love." Mrs King presided at the organ and played ''The Bridal March" from "Lohengrin" and the "Wedding March'' as the happy pair left the church. The bride, who was given away by • her uncle, Mr A. O. Pease, looked charming in a pretty dress of wkifco taffeta and georgette, with the orthodox bridal veil and carrie;l a lovely bouquet. She was attended by her sister, Miss Rao Peaso. and by the bridegroom's sister, Miss D. "Bishop. The bridesmaids were % gowned in amethyst georgette, and had "lemon-coloured leghorn hats. Each had a beautiful pendant, tho gift of the bridegroom. The bride's mother wore a handsome dress of black taffeta and georgette. The bridegroom was attended by Mr N. Lewes as best man, and IMr G- Pease as groomsman. After I tho ceremony tho guests were entertained at Sirs Pease's residence. The wedding breakfast was served in a large marqueo on one of the lawns. There were a very large number present to wish the young couple good luck and bon voyage. After the toast of "The King" had been given by Major Cox. the toast of "Mr and Mrs B'shop" was.proposed by Rev. C. H. GrantCowen, and the bridegroom responded. The toast of the bridesmaids and the parents of the bride and bridegroom were also honoured: The happy ooupie afterwards left by motor for Wanganui, speeded by the hearty good wishes of all present. Mr Bishop saw a good deal of active sen-ice, having left New Zealand with the Btli Reinforcements. He was wounded on the "Western front about a year ago.

A GOLDEN WEDDING. There was a very pleasant function in the Burwood. parish hall on New Year's evening, when Mr and Mrs JWJwards'of Salisbury street, and late of Burwood, -were the guests of their sons and daughters, in celebration of their "olden wedding. The hall was prettily decorated, and high tea was spread on four long • tables, a three-tier wedding cake adorning the principal table. A pleasing little ceremony was the ottering of a purse of sovereigns and a lar<r© bouquet of white sweet peas the n-ifts of tne sons and daughters, by a trnv daughter of Mr Thomas Edwards. Mr and Mb Edwards were also the recipients of mairy.other gifts and messages of congratulation. Ihe health of the i bride and groom was proposed by the Rev C A. Tobin. Games, dancing, and musical items brought a very happy I evening to a close. Besides some intimate friends, there were present children and grandchildren numbering twentv-one. including Mr and ->ljs l'v. Edwards (Halswell), Mr and Sirs Cnmv ton (Rangiora), Mr and Mrs WpodfiercJ (Burwood), and Mr and Mrs T. Edwards (Cashmere), with their jitmilies. One son and his family were unavoidably absent. NEW YEAR DANCE. Timaru is becoming more than ever a favourite holiday resort with Christchurch neople, and quite a number of residents of this city spent Chnstma6 and the. New Year there. Many or. them were present at a very cheery little dance which Mr and Mrs B. C. Jones gave at tho Hydro, as a welcome to the New Year. -There were about a hundred and' forty guests all told, including the Hon. T. M. W ilford, Misses Wilford and Baldwin (Wellington), Mrs John Preston (Centrewood), Mr _ and Mrs H. A. Knight, the Misses Knight, and Mrs A Deans (Racecourse Hill), Mr and Mrs J. C. Clarkson (Christchurch) Mr and Mrs "YY. J. Ive Cren, Mr and Mrs E. J. Le Cren, Mr .and Mrs F M. Warren (Chnstchurch), Mr and Mrs R. I>. Fisher, Mr and Mrs H. C. East (Cashmere), Mr and Mrs S. Solomon (Dunedin), Misses Bridge, Miss Audibert. Miss Hartley-Smith, Mr and Mrs T. Brown, Mrs and Miss Douglas, Misses Allen (Dunedin), Mrs and Miss Laidlaw. Mr and Mrs Gerald Bernsten, Messrs F. C. and H. Raphael, Bowron, ard Shrimnton (Christchurch). Dancing took place in tho dining-room, which was gaily decorated with flags, and blue arid white flowers, the music being supplied by the hotel orchestra. A dainty supper was served in the playroom, the tables being decorated in a pretty scheme of heliotrope and pink. The lounge and drawing-room were set apart for card-players. Musical items were supnlied by Mrs H. C. East, Misses Audibert, Emery, and Wilkinson, Messrs East, Emery, and Bowron.