SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

,-,u interesting stage uuu'riivsc .mo u.o wedding of Artliur Hourcuiar to Miss Kyrlc J3ellew, tho meeo and graiuluaugnter of actors who were well Known in Australia, states u London correspondent. Jir. Uourchier, who is .w vi.ars of age. was married to Miss Violet V.-m----lirugii for nioriy years, sine divorced him a year or so ago. Hiss Bellew is a jouug actress, who has only, been un the stage, four years, mid yet has -.uanuged to rencn the rank of ■ kading lady;. i'Jia wris playing load at tho Strand "i'heaU'e wiicn 6 bt: wedded Mr. Bourchier. 'I'hc roarriago took place at a London registtur'n cilice, and the pair appearedat a matinee directly after without tho .mblic knowing anything of tho -natter.

Recent letters from London announce the engagement of Starf-Scrgeant T, A •M Irlemin" '(Thirteenth Eeiuforcemenvs), soil of tho Hon. T. D. and Mrs. Flcunug, of Balcluthfl, to Aliss Ida Moodio \V 1 - ■limns, only daughter of Lieut-Coloucl 11. N Williams, It.A.M.C, of liolmhrtli, Yorkshire. ataff-Scrgcaiit Flemiug is at present on the. headquarters ' «ta«, NZ.E.F. Bloomsbuvy Square. Before coiu" to' the front ho was a Christchurch journalist Ho was wounded in the Somme Battle of 19.10, and against Passchendaele.

Mis' M. B. Calders (Wanganm). is now staying with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gladstone at their country homo m Berkshire, states a Loudon correspondent,ot February 27 Miss Calders came, to Lngland three years ago, and served in various Red Cross hospitals, including Abington Avenue, Northampton, and the V.A.D. Hospital at Chudleigh. bhe is at present undergoing convalescent treatment. , ■

Mr*. Dupe, M.8.E., who has ben honorary lady superintendent of tho Shakespeare Hut of the NXYM.C.A., in London, for two and a half years, lias had to relinquish h«r post, on account of lllhealth. Shu was entertained by members and officers of the association. -Mr. W. H. Gaorge, M.8.E., honorary Commissioner in London, said that Mrs. Dupe's name "would be known aud honoured throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand for the work she had done in making the Shakespeare Hut the Diggers' 'home from home.' '

On January 29, at St. Augustine's Church, Bournemouth, Second Lieutenant Nicholas L. H. Higginson,- N.Z.M., (P.) Battalion, son of Mr. W. W. Eigginsqn, of Whatawhata, was married to Miss Alice Ethel Cable, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Cable, of Bournemouth.

Lady Mabel Smith, sister of Earl iitzvilliam, has been returned unopposed in the Labour interest to represent 'West Biding County Council.

.The wedding took place in St. Pauls Presbyterian Church, Feiiding, on Thursday of Mr. Edwin George Dcwe, late of tho'N.Z IMflo Brigado, and fifth sou of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dowe, Grey Street, Feiiding, to Miss Florence Eveline Emerson, also of Feiiding. The Kp,v. t Miller officiated, and .Mrs. James played the organ. Tho bride wore white erepo de chine with a veil and wreath of orange, blossoms, and carried a bouquet of white flowers. The bridesmaid, Miss Miranda Stringer, was in cream silk eolienne, 'cmbroidered-with palo pink and saxo blue, and hat of : cream georgette. Her bouquet was of pink and cream roses, tied with blue streamers.

Mrs. Suckling/widow of B«v. J. B. Suckling,'late' of Cuvu Nadroga, Fiji, has received a cable message from tho Methodist Mission Board appointing her to the position of matron in tho, Boys Orphanage, Dolkusha, Fiji. Mrs. Suckling and hep two children will be leaving by the next trin 'of the Taluiia from Auckland. Mrs. Suckling was, formerly Sister Cushen, of the 'Southland Hospital. 1 ■' V: ■•

' Mr. and Mrs: J. W. Wallace ,have returned to Wellington from a visit to Christchureh and Dunedin'.

Lady Chaytor, Palmerston North, was entertained at afternoon tea at Messrs. Collinson and (Jnniiinghnme's last week bv the committee and sewing guild of the Women's National Hoscrve, who aro disbanding. Mrs. AVliiteheud, on behalf of membors, presented the guest of honour with four handsomely-bound volumes, including one each of Tennyson and.Long-ff-llnw. and spoke of tho interest Lady Chaytor had taken in the work since she had becomo their president

Mrs. M. IT. Rhodes returned to Christchurch last week from a visit to Hnwke's Bay and Wellington.

Tri a letter received from Sister Day (formerly of Kniapoj) by tho last mail 6ho slates that she is now with tho American Army of Occupation in Treves, Germany. Sister Day. who at one,time had charge of the Kaiapoi Nursing Home,- was in America when war was declared, and when Ihe United States joined the Allies she volunteral for service with the American Army.

Mrs. 0. W. Rn.sell has returned to Wellington from Christchureh.

lii the course of the report forwarded Id New Zealand by the Hon. Colonel Ilenton Rhodes, chairman of the N.Z. Ifed Cross Committee at Home, advocacy is made of tho claims of Bed Cross workers for free passages back to Now Zealand. Colonel Rhodes also stated that the Serbian Red. Cross is appealing for money, Icothing, etc. The British committee.of the French Red Cross had asked for clothing of every description, including boots for French refugees. The Kalian Society is also in want of suplilies, especially lor tho purpose of equipping .sanalorin for consumptive Italian soldiers. Colonel Rhodes says they hope the .i'IJi.OOO cubled will be sufficient fur tln> New Zealand requirements. There will be n good deal to do for fit men, but thev will be catered for by the War Contingent Association mid the Y.M.C.A.

The marriage took placo in St. Mary's Church. Cliy.j (Hastings), on Wednesday, of Miss Jl.irv Pulford. tsecond daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H; Pulford, of Clive. to Mr. E. J. Mawson, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Mawson. 01 Dnnsandel, Canterbury. The bridesmaids * ere Miss Dolly Taylor »nd Miss Maude Pulford, two little girls, the Misses Phyllis Hogg (niece of the liride'i and MK-; Winnie Muckie (cousin) beiim in attendance as flower girls. Mr. A. Pcene wai best man and Air. Gordon groomsman, ■

The Women's National Reserve (Wellington branch) is taking 1111 active in-lerpi-t in Dr. Barclay's scheme for tho training of voluntary nurses in the fundamentals of sick-room nursjng at the Oeiieral Hospital (.in view of a possible I'icurrenee 'f the influenza epidemic). Any body wishing information about (ho Mdifine should communicate with the reserve, which is doing all it can ip promote efficiency in view of contingencies.

[)r. and Mrs. Harty have returned to Wellington.

Hall-Jones-Bush Wedding. The Invercargill correspondent of tho "Lvttelton Times" telegraphs that a good deal of interest locally look placo on Fridav'when ex-Sergcnnt-Major Frank Cf. Hall-Jones, youngest son of Sir William Hall-Jones, was married to Marjory, only daughter of Mrs. J. L. Bush, of Esk Street. The wedding was solemnised in the Church of England by Archdeacon Richards. The bride's attractiveness was setoff to perfection by a.bimplo dress of white satin aud geeorgette. Tho bridesmaid looked charming in pale niuon over heliotrope satin. After tho wedding breakfast, at the residence ■of tho bride's mother, tho couple loft to Bpend their honeymoon on a motoring tour. Story of a Glass Eye. The tedium of life in a military hospi-. tal was relieved lately when 11 patient in one of the wards "pinched" his pal's glass eye, which had been .placed, on tho iablo beside his ted, states the "Australasian." When the owner missed it he explained that he had seen the cat swallow something that looked like a glass eye. The idea was ridiculed, but a solution of the doubt, was offered in the ready suggestion that they should havo tho cat Xiaved. As the ma.n who start-, ed the joke held both the eye. and the bag in which the cat.was contained there was no difficulty in placing the eye in the right position for corroboration. The print was convincing enough for anything, and the mail, who still held the bag with the chloroformed cat coming round again, suddenly gave a weird, choking sound, and exclaimed: "Blessed if he hasn't coughed it up.". There is still much wonder over the strange affair, though the ease-is not likely to he mentioned in the medical press. "They Say."' . • ■ . r ! . ft is strange how quickly.new situations create their own laws of etiquette, writes the Ixmdon correspondent of. the "Australasian." Tho .Voluntary Aid-De-, tachmenls are quite a recently-created body, and only about four years ago arrived "out of the nowhere., into here. There were no precedents..to.guide > nor traditions to.follow.. Yet already, a sort of. ritual is springing up, inspired, apparently by that impersonal potent entity "They say." Four shoulder stripes earned by four years of .service are most aid'ful aid can receive, and these, according to the "They say'.authority, carry certain liabilities with them. Should a voturned soldier, with four stripes up meet (no .matter when or where) an aid with. four_ stripes. up he is entitled-in fact it is his duty-to kiss her. Moreover, it is the duty of the aid to accept this purely ceremonial salute without resentment. Legal experts are of the opinion that "They, say is the camouflage of someone.in khaki. 4ids aud soldiers with less, than four stripes are exempt from this arbitrary and oppressive law. \ Demobilising the Waacs,

Demobilisation in tho world of women is a less elabnrato and cumbersome operation than in tho world of men, states tho London correspondent of the Australasian." Nevertheless, scores of thousands' of women aro being released from the munition factories and other war employments. Every member of the onien's' Auxiliary Army , Corps ■ (the W A A.C.'s) receives £2 on dispersal, aud an out-of-work policy, which entitles her to receive 255. a week for 13 weeks, or until she finds suitable employment, the eirk also receive their uniforms on condition that badges and buttons are removed. Difficulties aro rising out f ot the'generous unemployment bonus. Alter three or more years iT strenuous war work, not a few girls prefer a hohdav to eekiug fresh employment They a e quite willing to live on 2os a.week flntil the 13 weeks are completed. Weedks to say, this was not quite what the Government intended when they made ,thc\? X. In sonie cases su.tab e work 'has been refused by the ex-W.AJJE.b and- munition workers.,: .In one ca.se a domestic servant, who earned «■.«•.;>^ core the war, -refused i!3O a ; ycar.-. Her ex uso W Wot:she'. .had ..been-.earning from £2 to M 103. a weelc as .a- factory. a domestic servant no'longer. In»J«^ s . nroliably an unpleasant aw«*e. mng. before most of these girls, ihey win co; Wnly find that'i2 to. JE4 108. a week is hard (0 obtain in peace time. .

Princess Mary in France. _, The Princess Mary, home again at Buckingham Palace after her tour n V*L\*A BeWimi. is happi y busy in tollm* her fronds all about ten of tho most Interesting and cxpit.« $**$ life (says a writer 111 tho "Daily Mail . Her own private sitting-room, at the palace is a large, very comfortable room where she to* brought together many, of her girlhood's treasures, collections, ot Copenhagen china, some charming pictures and .drawings,, .photographs, and many other possessions of such mtwest and sympathetic value as every girl loves to «ather in her own room. Here to-dnj ■her"latest treasures, souvenirs, have tic placo of honour. , On a table in the centre of her room round a bouquet ot pink chrysanthemums the Princess has arranged "the'trophies she brought from France and the gifts made (0 her. by the other girls she visited. She wears on her right wrist n little gold identity dpc civeii her bv V.A.D.'s in France, and inscribed "Her Royal Highiies? Princess Mary, V.A.'D." And of this she is proud indeed. ■■ ■' ■ ■ ;, , ■ Inheriting from her mother a most extraordinary memory for details, Princess Mary has'every detail of her tour well in lier memory. She has kept all her programmes and the "oihcal itinerary and. having made her own notes on these in neat pencil, there seems no item she is not sure of, and she goes over the whole tour again and again with the greatest, enjoyment Shu feels that she b-is gained a great deal by her visit. No one who has not visited the women who are working in France and been mnong them as n visitor as sho has, rather than as an inopector, can possibly fonceivo the work they have done. Shethoii'»ht that tho self-sacrifice of (ho girls was nsioundiiiff, and. marvelled that, they could do so much and give up so much, living under conditions so different from those they had known ut home. Princess Mnry feels that 3he has been privileged ihiiNil to have been rmong' such splendid British women. However often she may go abroad !|{rain, ■ whether officially or for pleasure,-she says that sho is certain she can never have a moie. interesting time.