WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Fellding Notes. Mrs. Hitchinpcs has £one to Wellington Co stay with Mrs. Perkins. Mrs. Richards has gone to Wanasinui. Mrs. Hill (Christchurcb) is the guest of Mrs. AVheeler. Mrs. Anker.lHo.wke's Bay) is staybp- with Mrs. Mills. Jlrs. F. H. Haggitt has gone to ■ Auckland: Mrs. Eraser has "one to Auckland. Mrs. Horroclcs has sone to New Plyjnouth. Miss Atkinson );as returned from Wellington. • • Miss Woollam has returned from Marton. Mrs. Murphy has returned from Wcllinston. Mrs. Ellis has come to Fending for the holidays. Mrs. Lanoo has gone to Wanganui. Mrs. Neville "has gone to "Wellington. Mrs. Perry has taken her family to .the seaside. . Mrs. Stewart is coins: to the seaside. Mrs. M'Lean hs.c_zo.no to Kai-iwi. Mrs. M'Guire has gone to Plimmerton. Miss L. Wilssn is spending a few weeks with friends. ijLtho country. Mrs. Malcolm, who lias been staying with Mrs. Masnm has gono Back to Diinedin. Mrs. Kavanagh who has been str.yiiur with Mrs. J. Karanagh, has returned to her home.

Mrs. AV. Turnbull and her daughter are visiting friends in the country.

Mr. and Mrs. Lever aro going to Christchurch to stay with Mrs. Patterson.

Major and Mrs. Sleeman, who have heen to Rotorua, have returned * to Wellington.

Miss Fitzgerald has gone for a trip to AVairoa and North of Auckland. Mrs. A. Crawford lias returned from Hawke's Bay,

Mr. and Miss Skerrctt intend to take a motoring tour to Mount Egmonli and the Hot Lakes.

The silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bird, Lower Hutt, was celebrated in Godber's Rooms on Friday. During afternoon tea congratulatory speeches were made. The presents were numerous. Amongst them was one from Mr. Bird's staff, a silver. teapot suitably inscribed and a silver vase.

At the celebration of tlic silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bird, Lower Hutt, on Friday, opportunity was taken to present Miss Wackrow with a handsome salad, bowl from Mr. and Mrs. Bird and staff, in honour of her approaching marriage.

The AYanganui' Sn'anker.s' Club is holding a sports meeting at; Castleclifli to-day. Every effort is being made to make the outing a. success, and tho entries received for tho races and competitions indicate that tho proceeds, which are in aid of tho Nurses' Red Cross Fund, should be large.

Tho Wadestown branch of the Women's National Reseryo had a vory successful .day at the Red Cross Shop in Lambton Quay on Friday, tho takings amounting to £34 2s. .The ladies in charge were Mesdaines Willis, Stewart,. Brico, and Delaware. The Misses Cooper and Moss presided at the flower stall.

An appeal to ..mothers to safeguard the welfare of their daughters during the holiday season .was'made by Mrs. Moore-Jones, principal of tho Ladies' College, Rcmuora, Auckland, at the breaking-up ceremony on Thursday last, reports an Auckland jiaper. "I pray you to bo very particular with your daughters during the coming holidays on their excursions to the 6ea beaches, at picnics, launch, and camping parties," she said. "They recniire vour protection nioTC at these places than at home. ■ Object to your girls going hither and thither with only other girls for company, oven to Queen Street, and the restaurants. The older your daughter is the more she renuires your company and oversight. Do not foreet that knowledge is not wisdom. Your daughters are clever, but you must be cleverer and wiser. For tile freedom of this ago is not tho best' character-builder for our girls."

The marriage took place on October 4 of Viscount Uffington, the only child of tho Earl and Countess of Craven, to Miss Mary Wilb'elmina, daughter of Mr. William George, a solicitor, town clerk of Invergordon. The wedding wa a very quiet ono at Christ Church, Albany Street, and was attended only by a few relatives and -intimate friends, reports a London paper. Viscount Uffington and his bride aro only nino teen years of age, and in marrying at such an early age they are following the example of the bridegroom's parents, for Lord Craven was only in tho early twenties when ho wedded in 1893 the beautiful Miss Bradley Martin, then a girl of only sixteen. Lord Uffington is a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of tho Hampshire Regiment, and it is stated that he met his future wife, who is a .very pretty girl, while undergoing training at Stratlipeffcr.

The following item appears in tho Now York "Times": Colorado Springs, September 29. —Major Charles A. Gordon, 94 years old, was married to-day to his fifth wife, Mrs. Margaret E. Dixon, aged 78. Gordon first married a millionaire's daughter in London in 1837. She died in Omaha in 1808. His subsequent marriages occurred here, and all his brides have been widows. His only child, a son aged 78, has fifteen children.

Mrs. and Miss Sclanders of Nelson, are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel, and are leaving this week for a trip to the Southern Lakes.

Nurse Flora Smith, 22/164, of the N.Z.A.N.S. at the front, was reported to be severely, ill in hospital, in the hospital and progress report issued on Saturday. The next-of-kin of Nurse Smith was given as Mrs. James Smith, Kaipaki, Cambridge, mother.

On Wednesday last a pretty wedding was celebrated, the parties being Miss A. E. Tomsitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Town, of Tangiwai, ana' Mr. Jack Bougen, of Te Arolia. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. W. T. Weller, vicar of Ohakunc. The bride wore a cream gaberdine costume, and was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss (Connie) Town and Miss Elsie Chappell, who were dressed in cream silk. After the ceremony the guests proceeded to the Tangiwai Hall, where the wedding breakfast was set. After the usual toasts, Mr. and Mrs. Bougen caught tho riorth-hound train, and will spend part of their honeymoon in the north and the remainder at Carterfon.

Nurse M. 0. Dav.ie.Sj who was attached to the Fifteenth Reinforcement, i? at present stationed at the New Zealand Hospital at AValton-on-Thames.

Miss Cole, who has been for about fifteen months secretary at the Red Cross central depot at Christchurch, severed her connection with the depot on Thursday. Miss Cole will leavo for Wellington in February to take up tho position of house secretary, to the Youim Women's Christian Association here.

Mrs. M'Kibbin, late of Hastings, leaves New Zealand by the Rotorua this month for England, where she will join her husband, who is a major in tho N.Z.A.M.C.

A weddiug took -place at the Beacli Church, New Brighton, on Friday, when Miss Gladys Marjorio Williams, younger daughter of Mr. L. C; Williams, New Brighton, was married to Sergeant Albert Napper, of the Twentythird Reinforcements. The Rev. Canon Purchas (Glenmark) officiated, assisted by the vicar, the Rev;. H. H. Matthias. TL'e.B was a full choral service, and the church was specially decorated by girl friends of the bride. The bride wore white taffetas over ninon, the sleeves and top of the bodies being of white ninon. She carried a sheaf of lovely annunciation lilies in her arm, and woro tho usual wreath and orange blossom. Her sister, Miss Williams, who acted as chief bridesmaid, wore-a dress of old gold, with purple asters that, had an Oriental effect, and wore also a veil. The other'bridesmaids were the Misses Bargrovo and Ottley. Corporal Giiy Reece was best man.'

In her 97th year there died at Papaweek Mrs. Jane Sinclair, who had lived in the Auckland district ever siii£C. she landed here 57' years ago; with her late husband,. Mr. James Pater son Sinclair,'and , two infant sons. Mrs. Sinclair had never been more-than 20 miles from Auckland City. Since the death of her husband in 1883, Mrs. Sinclair has lived with her son, Mr. J. P. Sinclair, first at Swarison, and for the last fourteen years on his farm at Papakura.. Mrs. .Sinclair was able, to tela.t<> many stirripg anecdotes of her recollections of the Maori war and of early settlers' experiences. To the last she retained all her faculties, excepting only a slight failure of the eyesight.

A "distinguished neutral" has been | recording.in the '.'Berliner Tageblatt" liis impressions of London in war time, 1 says the London correspondent, of the "Australasian." After studying London society and theatrical life, the write'r came to the conclusion that the pleasure-seekers verb spending their lives much as -usual, the war amusements consisting of charity matinees; bazaars, and auctions for deserving objects. instead of the more private entertainments of pro-war times. These private entertainments, we are - told, are impossible, owing to the readjust menfc of the relations between mistresses an 3 maids. "Scryants now always have a couplo of free aftovnoons and evenings, and no lady would dare to invite guests to her table on these days, as a valuable maid might get into a tamper and no off without notice." In the theatrical world,- revues and farces of the lightest texture hold the boards. The ono joke that is certain to put an audience in a roar of laughter is an anti-German joke.- Tito "distinguished neutral" tells that tho worst actor, by merely sticking on a 'martial moustache, making his. entry with raised hands, .and shouting "kamerad," can bo certain of a salvo of applause.