WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2509, 12 October 1915, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A Wanganui Wedding,

I Tho marriage took place in the Gon- [ ville Church, Wanganui, on Saturday morning of Miss Ireno Bignell, elder daughter of Mr. A. G. Bignell, of GOll- - Wanganui, to Corporal Eric Merewet'her. The' Rev. H. Reeve performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white embroidered voile, with a wlnte satin and a white tagel hat with a long white ostrich feather. She carried a bouquet of freesias, carnations, and maidenhair fern. Miss Elsie M'Farlahe was chief bridesmaid, and wore a white silk costume and, a Panama hat trimmed with pink roses and black velvet streamers. Her bouquet was of freesias and roses. Miss Cecil Chaldecott was also a bridesmaid, and wore white muslin, with, out of compliment to the bridegroom, a sash of red, blue, and white. Her bouauot was of freesias, | carnations, aud maidenhair forn. Tlie best man was Lance-Corporal G. J. Williams, and the - groomsman Master Thomas Bignell. .. The mother of the bride wore a gown of black silk, with bodice of white silk veiled with black ltce, and hat of vieux rose straw wreathed with roses of the same shade. Tlie wedding was a very quiet one, owing to the bridegroom leaving shortly for the front. Countess of Liverpool Fund. Contributions to the Countess of Liverpool Fund, received by the Mayoress's Committee at the Town Hall for tlie past week, are as follow: —Mrs. G. H. Davidson, 1 pair socks; Mrs. Mills, 3 balaclavas, 1 pair socks; Toko (Stratford). 50 khaki handkercljjefs; H. M. Skelling (Ekctalmna), 2 casesof Christmas gifts; Mrs. AVeston, old linen ;_Miss M. Alexander, books; Mrs. Burnett, 1 balaclava,,2 face cloths, 1 balaclava; Mrs. Williams, 1 pair socks; Lady Liverpool Committee (Pahiatua), 32 balaclavas, 10 shirts,' 27 pairs socks, 11 pairs mittens, 138 handkerchiefs; Miss Birth, 2 pairs socks, 1 balaclava; Miss M'Ewen, 7 pairs socks; A.L.S., 1 pair mittens, 1 balaclavaJudgeford School, per Miss Messenger, 1 dozen. bags, 6 feeders; lan Walsh, 6 face cloths; Mrs. Ho,ire, 1 balaclava, 1 scarf, ,2 pairs socks; Mrs. Findlayson, 2 scarves, 1 pair bed-socks; E. and. D. Atkinson, bags; Island Bay, St. Hilda's, per Mr. Castles. .3 balaclavas, 2 pairs.mittens; Mrs. Lindsay, 4 pairs hand-knitted socks; Rangiotu School children, 5 facecloths. 5 pairs mittens, 2 pairs socks, 3 mufflers; Miss Jean Johnstone, 2 boxes, writing material, and pencils, 1 pair bed-socks, tapes and needles, and balaclava, for Hospital Ship; Mrs. Morison, C pairs bed-socks, 3 nairs socks; Gladvs Walton, 12 bags:_ Mrs. Morrow, 1 pair bed-socks; Mrs. W. E. Curtis, 3 nairs socks; M. Sollar, 1 balaclava - , Mrs. E. Levorstam, parcel of books; Gladvs Stratton (Wereroa), 1 balaclava, 1 pair mittens, 1 pair kneecaps, 1 nair bed-socks; M.E.H., 1 pair mittens: Mrs. Giblin, i pair lia lid-knitted socks, 1 pair mittens; Mrs. Duff, old linen; Mrs. Clapperton. 3. balaclavas; Mr. Fred Rowe, Christmas gifts: Mrs. Harrison, 1 balaclava: Mrs. Wheeler, 1 pair socks; Mrs. Kreoft, 8 balaclavas, 3 pairs socks, 1 pair kneecans, 2 pairs mittens. 1 pair cuffs. 1 ■ cholera belt: G.K., 2 balaclavas; Mrs. W. G.. Reid, 2 balaclavas, 1 pair bed-socks, 1 muffler, J hoy's shirt, 3 face-cloths, 6 bags; Mrs. J. R. Blair, 2 pairs boxing gloves, 1 pair dumbbells,' and set clubs; ' Mr. Moorhouso, 2 pairs boxing gloves; Mrs. W. A. Waddoll. 'l -pair socks, Ipair wristlets: Mrs. V. Riddiford, old linen; Miss J. Hislop, old linen and towels; Miss Barraud, 2 balaclavas, 1 pair socks: Mrs. Lyall Scott, 3 balaclavas; Mrs. Halley., 1 pair boxing gloves; Mr. and Sirs. J. W. Marcliant. 6 balaclavas; Waverley Ladies' Patriotic Committee, 7 balaclavas, 6 nightshirts, 20 feeders; Newman Ladies' Red Cross. Guild, per Miss M. Kydd, 11 suits pyjamas, 1 balaclava, 9 pairs hospital slippers, 10 pairs socks, 8 scarvcs, old linen: Mrs. Topliss, magazines; Mrs. Mncdonald, books; No Name, 1 .pair pyjamas,' 2 belts, 2 handkerchiefs,- 3 bags,' and comforts for wounded soldiers; Miss Hosie. books for hospital at Cairo; Te Aro School, PW Hiss Bright, 14 bags, 1 balaclava ; Mrs. -J. M. Davie (Rougomai), handkerchiefs, chocolates, bags, mittens.

One by one Miss Milsom has perfected tho hygienic beautifying, toilet preparations that have since mado her namo so well know and which are being used by thousands of women.' These preparations are specially prepared; and a wonderful outfit for the hair, skin, complexion, and hands will be posted to clients near or far. Whichever Outfit is required it .contains exactly what- is needed with full instructions for home-treatment, and results assured. AVrite at once. Hairwork every description. Treatments,, etc. Miss Milsom, Barnett's Buildings, .94 "Willis Street, i doors past "Evening Post." Tel., 81-1 —Advt.' ' • .

A Famous Hots!.

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An excellent use has been found at last for the famous Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond (states the "Queen"). A great resort of .London society before the advent of motor-cars ended its popularity, it fell on evil days when people began to j;o farther afield, and about ten years ago it had to be shut up. In the late 'eighties the hotel was a Mecca for pleasure-seekers and members of "the" profession, and social notabilities used to flock there on fine evenings. It became useful lately as an Army Service Corps Depot, and now it has been presented to the Queen by tho auctioneers . and estate agontsoosf s England as a permanent home for soldiers disabled in tho war and unable to help themselves. For such a purpose the Star and Garter is ideally suited. It is an immense building containing over two hundred rooms; it commands the famous view up the Thames valley for which Richmond Hill is noted and at its doors is the unrivalled Richmond Park. The present building is a modern structure, but there have been licensed premise's on thei site for the last two hundred years. Art and War. It is curious to hear that in the very heat of the groat contest now on hand there is a quiet _ spot whore art etill persists, despite disadvantages, and this spot, of all places, is tho.Ruhleven civil camp in Germany (states a London correspondent). Many men whose names are well known in music and letters are interned there, among them Professor Bryceson Treharne, the composer, and Leigli ■ Henry, Gordon Craig, Edgar Baintou, anil Cyril Duncan Jones (the latter being actor and dramatist, as well as novelist). The Kuhleven Dramatic Society stages plays by Shaw and Galsworthy, and even Shakespeare; as well as those of several minor dramatists. Ruhleven also has its Irish players, who are preparing such pieces as "The Rising of the' Moon," "Spreading the News," and "Hyacinth Ealvey." There is another place where art on a- less ambitious scale is practised in tho intervals of work, and that is the Australian Hospital at Wimereux. One of the nurses lias.« 'quick and witty turn with lier pen, and she produces dramatic sketches which are played by the other nurses and those associated with the hospital. On? of'these 1 playlets, "My Australian Niece," was acted amidst hfilpless laughter at the time of tho dinner party which was given in honour of the matron after her decoration . with the Royal Red Cross. Tlie sketch opens with the English aunt awaiting in agonised expectancy the. arrival of her unknown Australian niece. Wliilo she and her friends indulge their shuddering anticipations (tho skit on the English ignorance of things Australian is really not much exaegerated),' there is ushered in an impossible woman of the rabid social-reformer type,. who. is immediately mistaken for the Australian niece. "When the complications liavo become hopelessly involved there arrives the real niece, tall slim and fair/ well-bred, and exquisitely dressed. The difficulties of establishing her identity may be imagined. •

On Thursday last, at the residence of the bride's parents, 40 M'Farlane Street, Miss Doris Chapman, eldest daughter of the Rev.,J. G. Chapman, of the Taranaki _ Street- Methodist Church, was married to Mr. A. Morley Saxton, son. of Mr. A. W. Saxton, of Wellington.': The bride, who wore' a travelling dress of'navy crepe de chine, with a hat to match, .was attended-'by her'sister,, Miss Toko Cliapinan, . and Mr. H. Marbrook was best man. ' Tlie ceremony was performed b,v the bride's father, and tlio same, evening Mr. and Mrs. Saxton left on a trip to Sydney by tlie Ulimaroa.

Mrs. Lamer (Auckland) is visiting. Wellington.

Mrs. J. Tole left for Auckland on Sunday on her return from a'visit to Wellington.

Mr. and Mra. John Perry (Sulphur Wells, Masterton) and the Misses Perry returned to tho Wairarapa yesterday from Wellington.

On August 10, at St. Thomas, Portinan Square, London, by the Rev. C. 0. Sharpe, vicar'of Wendover, Bucks, Major Geoffrey Samuel Smith, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was married to Miss Jlarjorie Garnett, second daughter of the lato Hov. C. L. and Lady Ella Garnetfc (states the "British Australasian")- • < The special course of Hair Treatment for One Guinea at Mrs Eolleston's. comprises Clipping and Singeing, Massage, with Scaln Food, Shampooing, Hand and Vibro Maisage; also a lesson in the latest stylo of Hairdressing, and advice on the care and treatment •of the hair. 256 Lambton Quay, Tel. 1535.—Advt.