DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 9, 5 October 1907, Page 3

DAY BY DAY.

.';-. A SOCIAL DIARY. . ' ■ The.Kelburne,-Kiosk was \ gay with greenery and crimson • flowers, rhod- ■ odcndrons; popp.es, and. .-anemones, on Monday', afternoon when; Mr. and - Airs'; .Rutherford were-''at home'.' to' a-large-party, of:-friends.- .During the ,-■ early .'part' of the'; afternoon: heavy rain :fell,' but it soon cleared off ; and the visitors-had a very lino' view pi the . harbour overhung with ; dieavy stormy clouds."; ■■ • ■■'.■•;'' " s ■:''''. ■ . - Mrs.Ruthorford wore, a-frock, of' heliotrope' and- white, flowered - brocade with vest of- lace- : and-'jewelled.'net, : and a whitei'.crinoline hat," with heliotrope flowers • and- ospro^'s.:' Miss Kutn-.' . e'rford was'.:in;whit'o niitslin, tho skirc trimmed, with 'innumerable little frills, a sash of floral-ribbon, and ' a,': charming hat; wreathed > .with ■ pink,' ; white,' and lilac stock; .Mrs. Fmdlay, blue and white 1 striped voile with bands of , dark- blue- on': the-kimono, bodice, a white.lace blouse, and small dark blue hat; Mrs. Cooper, navy blue*'voile, black .velvet..toque., with- feather; Miss: Eileen Ward, black and white striped marquisette, hat of dark powder, blue, and white furs;.- Mrs;; Rhodes, black brocade j ;Miss Hall-Jones', cream and, : green :Costumej- green hat; . Mrs. Christie, 'pink',silk voile with'-.-bands of .green; silk; Mrs. C.' Izard," brown skirt; sealskin coat, floral silk vest, and brown chjffoiv hat v.'ith palepinkroses; Mrs. Baume, black and white striped silk, black and i white hat with blue roses; ;Mrs. Wylie, pale groy with appliqued key pattern trim- .' jning, of .black.; Miss ■ Wylie, cream costume;- Miss Stafford,.' .black ' and white Bentinck tweed, green ;hat with floral ribbon; Miss . Meinertzhagen, cream voile, picture hat; Mrs. Major, black chiffon taffetas, hat of satin straw with pink 'roses; < Mrs. Knox Gilmer, dark grey costume, grey.hat; Miss Wood, white voile, white hat and pink;roses; Mrs. Lewis, blno cloth., frock, white lace blouse, blue hat.' Among the guests were alsoi Lady Steward, Mesdames Hamilton Gilmer, Hales; Fisher,. Hornsby, Thomson, Mr., Mrs/..and the Misses Mills. Mrs.Malcolm; Ross, ;tho Misses Feldwick,' Fowlels,Jl-vKenzie,' ; Seddon,. Stevens, : iWood,, Mrs. Uriel Miss Louisson, and Mrs. arid,Miss-Sinclair. ■'. M^'** : a . very attractive performance Of Sweet-Lavender" that Miss Har-dinge-Maltby's'pupils gavo in the' con-, cert chamber", of .the Town Hall- on Monday arid Tuesday nights, and some ~ of the dresses worn .13 pretty as the story..itself;, Miss Rita Simpson, who made a. delightful .Minnie GiJfi'lian wore-three pretty frocks,' thi first of white embroidered musli.n with a whitn hat trimmed with -pink' roses and white ospreys; tho second an evening dress, of .pihk-fldwerad cream net over pink- glace .made with a '.pink silk hem to the : hill ■ skirt,' and bsi nds of pmk on the bodice. Miss Elsio Watson was 'most mysteriously transformed into an elderly lady of great dignity She. .wore in the first act a handsome gown of mother-jof-pearl tinted taffe-

i»:-.s, and a palo bluo velvet-bonnet. In fthe curtain-raiser Miss Elsie Rawson, who took the pathetic part of a young wife already worried with, the servant question,. wore'a verv becoming frock of cream net.. The hem of the skirt nnd the belt were of, pale blue silkHotted with black French knots. Her pretty white hat was ' trimmed with •pale blue, and pink roses. The first night, their Excellencies the Governor orid Lady l'lunket 'were oresent with