SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 547, 30 June 1909, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Star Boatlns Club Annual Ball. .Tho annual ball given by the members of the Star Boating Club is .always, looked forward to as one of .tho most delightful social fixtures of tho season, and tho'ono which they gave- last night in tho Sydney Street Schoolroom quite fulfilled all anticipations. Tho 'hall was beautifully' decorated with -haiigtngs.br blue and.-"white—tho colours of tho club—blue and white muslin draping tho stage .and the. doorways, while festoons ■' of lycoppdjum. were carried- across, and across tho room, low enough down to soften- the light from frosted-globes. Trails of'lycopo■dium'wero over the door,- and all round the .waUslwere..fixed groat stems of tree forn and. palms.'- At. the far end of .the hall facing tho'stage, .wore arranged, sets of pars' fastened, with'the club colours. The ,'stago was' carpeted -and furnished with comfortable chairs, and, everywhere-that room'-.'could be ■found..'for, them, -.palms iwere, placed. 'The rooms {adjoining, tho hall were furnished •as sitting-out-rooms and supper-room., . It* wits' a, very pretty: dance: The light shone subdued by, frosted globes,' and it so happened, that, for .once, bluo was tho favourite colour. ■Most of. tho frocks, that were'not white'.were, palo blue, 'which is much the prettiest colour -for .anything 'but: a! brilliantly-lighted room. I-'■ The.members of tho Ball Committee.were Messrs. H..D. Bell, 0/ Pcarce, A. H. Barnott, A:S:Biss,.T. \V. Brown, H. S. Barron. C< A. Dudley, J. Widdop, D. R. Mcnzie's, W. Sv Wheeler,.- and R. L.'Cha'fiey.j'Amongst the many ■ guests -present, were Mrs Widdop, who wore white lace over .pale .blue 'silk, •■with gold.fringe trimming; Mrs. Fulton, in black spotted net over white silk, with trimming of out jet'; i Miss Fulton, fale grey and pink r striped frock' with /pink 'nbband in her hair;: Miss 8., Fitzgerald; in -pale blue, figured- brocade, -'with narrow bands' of black; Miss. Blundell, .pale blue silk; Miss,Wat6on,-. palo pirik silk frock; Miss Mary; Jones; pale blue silk, with opalescent sequin trimming; Miss J. Read, primrose satin with gold _senuin trimming; -Miss H. Miles; palo pink •charmeuse; Miss L. Brandon; sequincdhclio-' trope tulle over pale pink; Miss Eliot, pink silk; Miss' G.' Newman, whitejehiffon. taffetas;. Miss' Poyhte'r,; reseda'. green' chiffon taffetas;- Miss • Palmer : silver sequined robe over bluo silk; Miss' W.', Pollock, white satin; Miss D. Bulkeley, white tullo, 'with i pink 'roses in her -hair;'. Miss \D; 'Wilson, white .silk; Miss .Le Sueur, - pale ,pink silk';. Miss Haybittky white: silk; ,Miss F '■ D'Oylej*', white silk with jewelled lace; Miss Marchant;-White >'silk;. Miss"Treadwell, white 'satin and silver; Miss E.' Simpson, pink messalmew'ith. gold "trimming V- Miss Winder, embroidered' white . crepeide-chine, with ; gold "trimmingj ,Miss -Ireno Webster, white satin with- trimming of silver and gold- Miss ; Levy, 'white.satin; Miss, BalTinger; white silk;,:' Miss •E. D!Oylcy, pale pink silk; Miss Mandel,' white silk with trails of "white clematis: Miss'Soyrhour,.'green; silk and band of pale bluo in, her hair; Miss'Wilkinson, pale , b1u0.,. There , were no fewer than seven; 1 nearly all of them wearing frocks, of.:soft, white > satin.-They were, the' Misses' Gladys Dimant; Mandel, Levy,' Millaise, Hemes, Doughty, and Webster.:. > ';.•.;:: ; : ;'■..-■ V,' -.-• ;-"i:. '■:"■•■ ';■-.-;■ ■.'''•';'■ >":'■"•' ■"' the Suffragette Club. ■:, 'V"?'\ ;-• ■'>' Members-; of. the 'new. Pioneer; Club are 'advised, that,' at the:,entertainment to be ■ given shortly by -Miss'.HaVdingc-Maltby and ' her' pupils,' there', is': to be. a'littleN. curtainraiser, which 7 will give an idea of what some women's clubs -may bo.. '■. It is to ■ show the ihteriorof a room in a suffragette club, and : one-is allowed.'to have any sort .of prescnti- ' .meht as to what those club-women,will talk abbut/i ,: Miss .Rita Simpson .is .to ,take the part idf/th'b. American girl/Miss Lalißenbow, ' tho! lazy girl—who .'may. be' found even, in a women f may v indeed, be sup- , posed-to.havo'alf'theVtypes'already'known . to men's clubs—Miss Alice.;Rawson,,.the shy girl, and Miss.-V.. Nelson, the girhof; serious mind. 'The part of the?widow is to be taken by Miss'.Gz-Ewen,,-Miss ■E'.-'Didsbury.jrepro- ' sents, the girl who is, a girl no longer, and ' Miss I.:Geddis •' takes' the: part of ', a housemaid;'"The President-of the Club, is-.-to;.be ' Miss'V.- Fulton, and. Miss' Oliver Kembor the Bihging' girl, 'in 'place• of .'Miss. Eileen Ward, who -was jto:have taken that part.J/Perhaps, on the da#:when .the is' .'given. ■■ -Miss Eileen'-Ward ; may betaking her share .' .in 'a 'suffragette- meeting, at; Home, - w-hich /.' Avould^be/eveh"better.;^: : '.r.;:-';'!' wbnienV N.Z..Reform;League.- v ,- : -':';,;'' i The womeii's, branch of rthe New -Zealand Reform League held a meeting in.the Geisha Tea .Panama Street,; .on Tuesdaj night,: when several ~,new; members wer< > elected, and arrangements 'were-.made:foi ..' the social and dance, to be held ■in Sydnej '" Street. Hall on July; 29 .: It was decided thai . : the meetings should in future be held'everj ..;■ Thursday. ,:;:V..-'.:;,'o.^'-'''r > - , ; ->: "■ ■',;-/J,'-.:!■,■-,;. ' ;-:Mrs/ J; C.,; Brown, from Napier,;is visit | 'ing;.; Wellington.;,''■! -.-V.-:■ ■".>■■: :■; : : '-',Mrs. : David Caselberg.-'of.iAlasterton,; ii : spending'a' few',days : in ;' ;,; ~ '■' Mrs.VSedddn'.'and 'Mrs.Morice left; yes ' : torday morning.on ,'a visit to Auckland. 4; i -'.^o.-Shake'spearo'Club is to give a. publii i readingc'of .;towards tho.v end o: i July-;;-,'-J:?' 1 '- ,;.< : ' !v;4 ■■'';: '--A'"-': ■ ■: 0-.iSs£.[ W. Wajdell,:of Masterten • has' been spending some little'time'in Wei V lingtoii.-;"" _ ; 4,", ; -.•:..':'■: '.':.:''■:-';.';'■.-,. ' . 'Mrs; and Miss Newman, wife and daughte: .-:' of.'Mr. Edward Newman, M.P., are' stayiiij ]■ at the.Royal Oak. !: ';"''•;', '- U.■-' : " ) ';'"A- very ; pleasant'.;little 'farewell: tea ■wa , given-yesterday: : 'at;tlio,Y.W.C.A;, in hohou: ;- of two of.' : tho'members of the associatioi -' who:arb'le'aving- Wellington; The table wa i. veryi'prettily decorated,with jonquils; daisies ), and ferns;, and a. number .-.'of. tho:mcmber; i, were present, ::.: ■'''..' '.-. : V\ .-'".."■ .."'. : ':.'.