SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 871, 18 July 1910, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

At tbe Races. Among those who went out to the races at Treiitham on Saturday were: — Lady Beatrice Kerr Clark, who wore a black cloth Russian coat and skirt, with black picture hat and black fox furs.; Lady Ward, black cloth coat and skirt, large black hat trimmed with chiffon and jet, and black fox furs; Miss Hareourt, blue cloth coat and skirt, hat of blue Tuscan straw, and white fox furs; Mrs. J. Abbott, Russian coated costume, and largo black chiffon hat; Mrs. C. Johnston, black cloth costume, with sealskin coat, and black toque with osprey; Mrs. W. Bidwill, black cloth'dress, seal coat, and black and white toque; Miss Ward, cornflower blue costume, black hat, and white fox furs; Airs'. Wilford, brown coat aiid skirt, brown hat with large cerise roses, and wliite furs; Mrs. M'Lean, white coat and skirt, white furs, and scarlet hat with black; Mrs. Algar Williams, cin-namon-coloured coat and skirt, sable furs, and hat of brown and yellow roses on black straw; Mrs. Elgar, black velvet costume, long sealskin coat, and large hat of violet straw, with ■ high self-coloured osprey; Mrs. C. Crawford, coat and skirt of heather tweed, and cornflower blue toque; Mrs. Roberts (SoutXland), costume of royal blue, white fox iurs, and blue toque; Mrs. Arthur Pearce, black costume, seal coat, and black' toque-; Miss Elgar, grey Russian coated costume, and large black hat of chiffon; Miss Anson (England), violet cloth coat and skirt, and large hat of violet straw and violets; Miss Pearce. royal"' blue costume, with toque to match; Miss Tollmrst, brown costume, .with sable furs; Miss Russell (Paimerston North), black and white check coat and skirt, and black picture hat; Miss L. Brandon, navy coat and skirt, and black picture hat; Miss Laing-Meason, dark green coat and skirt, large black picture hat, and sable furs; Miss 1 Simpson, navy coat- and skirt, and toque to match; Miss R. Beddon, pale grey check costume, large black picture hat, arid white furs. Others: present were: Mrs. V. Riddi■fdrd, Mrs. and Miss Tweed, Mrs. Biss, Mrs; C. Pearce', Mrs. Findlay, Mrs. E; Johnston, and Misses Russell (Palmerston North), Vavasour (Blenheim), and Simpson. . : .-;'.: :;i. >.' .; jr.,-.-,! Carnival Week. This week is just about as near an approach to a carnival week as Vvel--liigton ever gets. Unlike other centres Wellington' reserves its field week of social and spurting pleasure' lo miuwinter, presumably: (1) Because Parliament is'.ih session, and a great number of the members' wives arc in town; and (2) because in mid-summer the. Wellington public have a great idea of rushing- elsewhere. The fun may bo said to have commenced on Saturday,'with the Wellington Racing Club's Trontham mootinc, which will be continued on Wednesday (Steeplecnasc day) and Saturday next. Almost every seat available in the big Town Hall has been booked ■■ for 'the 'Children's Pageant, to be held on Wednesday evening, and as each suat represents 65., the Free Kindergarten Schools of Wellington- should benefit substantially. On Thursday night- the "race ball will be held; on Friday night the Permanent Artillery ball'; aJid on Saturday the week will be brought to.a brilliant close by tho Savage Club's "ladies' night." The following week will bo devoted to recovery by the .wise. The Children's Pageant. ; • The first general rehearsal for the Children's. Pageant was held on Saturday afternoon in the Town Hall, when all the 600 children were present, with many of their parents and It was really a charming sight. Six hundred children*.pretty well cover the floor space, and when they wore all dancing the lancers with great earnestness and spirit it was fascinating to watch them. Tho lancers, is so essentially a children's dance .that it annoys one sometimes to see it danced by grown-ups who cannot with any degree of dignity enter into its sportiveness and frolic, but one hardly ever sees it danced by children alone, or knows how charming it can look. Even, at children's, parties there are always grown-ups dancing 'with the little ones. The pageant ,on Wednesday will bo unusual in this reBpect, that there the hundreds of children, from elder girls v to tiny dots, will be all children together, their ranks unbroken by any grown-up people. The tiniest children of all arc to.be butterflies; if they will —on Saturday one small'boy,, destined to.be a butterfly, gazed down from the gallery, at the throng of. children, iwith startled eyes, and. nothing would tempt him to go down to. that human maelstrom —but there are some very small children among the dancers. Miss Richmond, Miss Sybil Johnson, and the other directors, were very busy conducting tho afternoon's performance, but even they were not so earnest, nor did they feel the responsibility resting on them, so heavily as some of those email damsels. One saw them'all over the hall, little girls with big fluffy bows and pretty light frocks, poising themselves, and holding their short skirts' out. daintily; for minutes before the music would begin, and each of those, minutes full of. the most , important feelings. The children did not wear their ilotver frocks for rehearsal, those are kept for Wednesday, when the sight of six hundred flower children, and brown elves, all dancing away merrily, should be a most brilliant and beautiful one. A very good view of the floor can bo obtained from every seat in the gallery, even from the rows right at the back, as was discovered by some curious perrons on Saturday,, so all the onlookers . should thoroughly enjoy • tho pageant.

i Maurlcevllie Notes. One of the most enjoyable dances ol the year was held on Friday, July l»i in the Maurieeville Hall, in the form ol a pinafore dance. The hall was prettily decorated with ferns and gre'smvy, and tho. ceiling was festooned with miniature Hags. The committee spared no pains in inakinu the affair a groat, success. Among those present .wore: Miss Gardener, in brown silk , ,' vith overskirt-of muslin, band-pamted m floral design, tin! bodice of tho siiniu material with oriental trimmings; Mrs. Martin, in niousscliuo.: Mrs. Brooks, green frock; Mrs.-.Anderson, handsomeblack silk with jot ■ trimmings; Miss, Bagely, empire gown of pale channelise, with 'black velvet' ribbons and itcain lace; Miss Jl'Kcown, pale blue crystalline; Miss Stutter, white union; Miss K. Stutter, pink mousseline de swe; Mrs. W. Martin, dove grey, embroidered bodice; Miss Brooks, green blouse; Mrs. Braggins, white embroidered muslin; Miss Goodganio, black; Miss Jesscri, pink ninon; Miss Farmer, pale grey skirt, white, glaco blouse, and lace; Miss Hillas looked well'in black and white; Mrs. Stutter, handsome gown of black silk, and old lace. The music was supplied by Mr. Wrigley, Mrs. Brooks. playing the extras. . Miss Ruth Atkinson, from Nelson, is the guest of Mrs. Walter Fell. Mrs. Russell and tho Misses Russell, from Palmerston North, are visiting /Wellington. ' - , Miss Vavasour, from Blenheim, is in town, .',■■■ Mrs. C. J. Fell arrived from Nelson on Saturday. She is staying with Mrs. Tudor Atkinson. Mrs. Cecil Jones returned to Wellington on Friday, after an absence of seven months, during which she visited England,' Scotland, and Wales. She returned to Australia by tho HuddtirtParker's new steamer Zealandia, aria came on from Melbourne by tie U'iniaroa. Miss A. D. .Bright, of the Wallaccville School, has been-appointed sole -teacher at the Mikimiki School, and she will take up her new duties after the September term holidays. Miss Bright, wlio has published two charming books of fairy talcs for children,'is a hue literary critic, and articles from her pen have appeared iu several leading English magazines. She is very popular among the people of WallaceviUe, where she has lived for some years, and it was largely duo to her efforts that the local hall there was built.