SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1433, 7 May 1912, Page 9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A Presentation. Says our Feikling correspondent: AHho Presbyterian Church, Awahuri, on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. G. Budd, on behalf of the scholars of the Sunday-school and their parents, presented Jliss Weightman with a cream jug and sugar basin on the occasion of her approaching marriage. The Victorian League. In connection with the Empire Day celebrations, it has been decided by tile Victoria League of Victoria to hold a pageant at tile Princess Theatre on Kmpire Day, May 24. Miss Enid Dorfmm lias written tho pageant, and Miss Ewart _h»s set it to music. A third enthusiastic expert Miss Violet Teague—has taken in hand the staging arrangements. Lady Fuller, the president, will be present at the demonstration, and 1000 State school children will be accommodated in the auditorium. A petition is to be sent lo the railway authorities by the league, requesting them to convey free books distributed by the society to back-block centres. The league collects, sorts out, rebinds (if necessary), and forwards books, magazines, and papers bearing on Imperial matters. Lecture Upon Italian Art. Another lecture upon Italian art was given bv Mrs. Webster last evening in the Wellington Girls' College, Mr. Hamilton presiding. Perngino, Raphael, and Michael Angelo were the great painters with whom she dealt, and necessarily in so short a time they could only be lightly touched upon. Pcruginc, as the master by whom Raphael was fnught, passed on several of his distinguishing characteristics to his pupil—his aloofness, his selfcontained hauteur, his wonderful sense of proportion, his dignity of style, and his free, open spaces. Of Raphael it had been said that lie owed his art less to nature I ban to study. He gathered up in himself all divergent threads, ail divergent methods, and welded them into his art so that he stands now for all time, lis reinstated beauty in all its perfection. It was always to the Madonnas he turned, and among his noblest paintings are the .Madonna of the Chair, the iSistine Madonna, and the Madonna of the Goldfinch (torn to pieces in an earthquake and marvellously resin red), l'reseoes in tho Vatican, done for Pope Julius 11, were also his work. Michael Angelo, that giant among painters and sculptors, was a vast subject to introduce into a brief lecture. He it Vas who regarded himself as not the creator, but merely the agent that released the spirit from tlio marble. There had never been anyone like him before and there has never been anyono like hiin since. Decorator of the Sistino Chapel, builder of .St. Peter's, creator of the noblest sculpture, and painter of wonderful pictures, he stands alone. A voto of thanks to Mrs. Webster was passed, and it was announced that she would give a lecture next Wednesday in the same place upon English painters. (Reynolds, Turner, Romney, etc.). Mrs. Cooper (Clmstchurch) is risiting Wellington, and is staying with her sister, Miss Hislop. I Mr and Mrs. Fred. Ward returned to Wellington from Auckland last Thursday. Miss Booth, of the Wellington Hospital, has gone to Masterton for her yearly holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson (from Sydney) and their two daughters, together with. Miss Morland (from England), have beer, staying at tho Roval Oak for a few days, and last night they left by the Maori ior the south. Mrs. A. K. Newman intends leaving next weSk on a visit to Sydney, and will probably be away for four or five weeks. JIRS. ROLLESTON, Hair Specialist (filial. London and Paris), is recommended for the permanent euro of all Scalp Ailments and the mast effective treatment for tho growth of hair. Shampooing, Ilairdressing, Electrolysis (permanent removal of superfluous hair), dip. L.b.A., Face Massage, Combings mado un, Transformations, Switches, etc. 25G j.ambton Quay. Tel. 1593."