SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1506, 31 July 1912, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Linen' Tea at the Y.W.C.A. Yesterday afternoon a linen tea in tho interests of the coming Antarctic bazaar which is being organised by members of the Y.W.C.A. was held in the. rooms of tho association in Herbert Street, tho hostesses being Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Ilott. Many visitors were present and a large collection of tray-cloths, d'oyleys, supper cloths nnd dainty articles generally gladdened the hearts of the prospective stall-holders. Not only that, but a sum of money and promises of still further assistance were received.

"A "fish" competition gave much entertainment, the winners being Miss Hart and Miss Crewes. Miss M'Eidowney;and Hiss Newton contributed pianoforte solos to tho afternoon's programme, the Misses Brittain a (luet, the Misses Allen, Bates and Luke, recitations* and Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Grant songs each. Miss Birch, tho secrctaryr made a brief speech about the coming visit of Miss Barns and her association with the work of tho Y.W.C.A. Tea was handed round and a very pleasant time generally was spent by the visitors. Mrs. Campbell wore a green velvet dress trimmed with Oriental embroideries, and a green toque, and Mrs. Ilott was in grey "with a„ black plumed hat.. Mrs. Clay, the president, was in black with a black hat. The Women Writers' Dinner. The women writers' dinner on Monday night (writes tho correspondent of the "British Australasian" of June 20) was very interesting. Mrs. Charles Perrin, the author of "East of Suez,".etc., took the chair. Handsome jewels wero the rule, handsome gowns the exception; but the gathering was so brilliant, the personalities so absorbing, that one forgot all about frocks and .frills as a matter of paramount importance. " Elinor Glyn stood out, however, as a well-gowned woman, because hor long-sleoved black velvet dress'was bare of trimming of any kind, and was cut low in a V back and front to show tho whitest, youngest, most beautiful throat imaginable. Her pale complexion, dark eyes and black eyebrows, and piles of red hair would make her remarkable. anywhere, of course, and she wore huge antique diamond earrings, but 110 other jewels. Chatting to her for a lonj» time wero Lady Troubridge and Lady Doughty, tho latter very well gowned, as. usual, and another ' well-dressed wom-au was Frank Danby (Mrs. Frankau), who has also a strangely.magnetic personality. Mrs. perrin is a handsome, darkhaired woman, with a nice "wholesome" look, and a great amount of energy, not at all one's idea of an Anglo-Indian, with tho languor of the tropics about her. Then there was Flora Annie Steele, with her white hair, and clever,'weather-beaten face, who made 0110 of the great, speeches of the evening. A quiet little woman wearing glasses and a. grey frock was Beatrice Harraden, and the' woman with the smoothly-parted hair and bonny face and comfortablo figure was pointed out to mo as Mrs. Belloc. I.owdes. Ellen Thornycroft Fowler (the Hon. Mrs. Pelkin) and Mrs. Baillic-Iteynolds were wearing pretty gowns. Mrs. John Lane, (lie clever American wife of the well-known publisher, owned to having another book in the making, and Miss Marjorie Bowen, Miss Violet Hunt, Miss MacNaughten, Mary Gaunt, Lady Gommo, Countess Arnim (the, Australian-born author of ."Elizabeth and her German Garden") were there. From Australia also were Mrs. Roy-Batty, Mrs. Frank'Gibson, Mrs. Primrose, and Miss Quinlan, daughter of tha late Judge Quinlan, of Victoria. • Bishop Patteson's Sister. An unnoticed incident illuminated tho Queen's, visit to the S.P.G. Missionary Exhibition recently. A venerable lady, nearly Miud, was presented to her Majesty as she camo to one of tho sttills. It was tho sister of Bishop Patteson, who was martyred in Melanesia many years ago. Of the heroic Bishop, the story is told that when a visitor came to his "diocese" he Ivnd to bo carried, through tho surf on a man's back to the shore. Midway the visitor asked the man wading through the water if he knew ivhero Bishop Patteson lived. "I am tho Bishop," was the reply!