SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 292, 29 August 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wedding at Christchurch. Tho marriage took place in St. Peter's Church, Ferry Street, Chriytoburcli, on Tuesday afternoon, of the iter. Leonard Hunt, .of Marton, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Wylio M'Donald, only (laughter of the Rov.'T. and Mrs. M'Donald, ''T-lio Grange," Opawa. The ccrcniony was performed by the liev. Dr. Irwin, assisted by the Jiov. 0. Hunt (brother of the bridogroom). <>F Oamaru. The bride, who was given away by her father, woro a frock of white georgette over white, chilfon taffetas, with a veil and wreath of orange blossoms, and ■ carried a bouquet of white (lowers with tonehes of pink. The bridesmaid, Miss Wylio, of Wellington, wore a frock of palebhie ehifl'on taffetas, with a. hat of pink velour mid ermine furs- Master Donald Sloan, ctf Hawer/i, was a page in a white silk suit of the period of Louis XIV. Mr. William M'Donald, brother of tho bride, was best man. A reception was subsequently held at tho residenco of the bride's parents. New Zealand Wedding at Home. On June 11, at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington,. London, the marriage was celebrated of Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Shepherd Allen, D.S.O. and Bar, son of the late Mr. W. S. Allen, M.l'., and of Mrs. Allen, of AYoodhead Hall, Staffs, and Miss Mary Isabel Hay Foster, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Foster, of Auckland (New Zealand) states the "British Australasian." The service was. choral, and a guard of honour was. formed by men from the bridegroom's regiment. Tho brjde, who was escorted -up the aisle by Sir Charles AVado, and in the absence of her father was given away by her mother, wore a gown of ivory cliarmctise, with touches of silver anil-pink. Her veil was worn with ft wreath of myrtle ami orange blossoms, and She carried a \bouquet of white roses. Major AVest was bust man, and the bride's sisters, the Misses Esther and Dorothy Foster, and little Miss Eila Morlev, H'ere bridesmaids, tho first two wearing primrose crepe do chine and georgette, ■and tho littlo girl a jado frock with a tullo capjand wreath. Indignant Telephone Cirls. Eight hundred telephone girls have presented a memorial to tho Controller (if London Telephones (says n. Loudon cable message to an Australian paper;, protesting against his public appeal for girl labour, on. tho grounds that tho many recent resignations are evidence of tho excellence marriage, prospects in the service through contact with subscriber#. The memorial declares thai the service is. not a matrimonial agency, and points, out that there is an official penalty it'or conversing with subscribers. It asserts that tho resignations' aro duo to insufficient pay, and asks tho Controller to apolo-gise-publicly. , America at War. Miss Marie King Scott, affectionately known to Tivoli (Sydney) audiences .'is the Country Girl, has returned from her American holiday filled with the patriotism of her countrymen. "America," she says, "has gone into tho war in amazing manner. Life in America j.'ow is like fi perpetual patriotic celebration. ' Flags are always' Hying and bands always playing. AVhilo I was away I played only 'camp engagements, :wd it was an endless delight to me to .too tho boys over there so cnthusias-' tic. At Camp Custer I entertained 5000 splendid young men. One of tho oest. tilings about America in_ tho waits her attitude towards the drink question. You will hardly believe me when I tell you that I never saw a sol'dier under the influence of liquor all tho'time I was there. That is because, the men cannot get it. As you know, of course, wjiolo States havo gone dry. • And even where a State is not a prohibition one, drink cannot be sold in any city that is within a few miles of a camp.' . So, strict are the regulations on this subject that oven my Contract to' sing for the soldiers contained n clause which read that my engagement would be'-cancelled, and'l would be P.nod if 1 carried any intoxicating liquors.into the town or cam])., Our soldiers'aVe now like yours wore at the beginning of tho war. • They all seem so young, such splendid vomig manhood. Their enthusiasm is boundless. lOverv soldier expects to bring home a, decoration because every soldier fneans to'do something specially, heroic to earn it. 1 was impressed, too, with the difference rhe soldiers in tho different cafiips. .For example, at Camp Sherman there is an air of great seriousness. Men go busily to and fro with grave faces. At Camp 'luster the boys aro full of cheerfulness, and Tireak into song on every possible occasion. Tho discipline seemed most .strict in all tho camps 1 visited."