SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Decent Wellington visitors lo Christchuri'h are Jlr. and Mrs. Ji. Mo.-;s, Mr. and Mrs. A. Young," .Mrs. Waters, and M.~s Kobioson.

The matron of the. Alexandra Homo thanks very heartily the loMowing friends far Christinas gills:—"A Friend," "A Sympathiser," tho Harris Hospital, Mrs. Adams, Mr.;; Hunter, Mrs. M'J.ean, Miss Morrah, "An Old Inmate," Nurso Collie, St. Vincent do .Paul Society, Nurse L'aniol, .Jlrs. Gill, Mrs. Gilberd, Mr?. Williams, .Mrs. Donaldson, Mrs. Dunning, Mr. S. A. .Wilton,'Denhard Bakery, W. Campbell, Ltd., Lady-Stout.

Admiral R. Copland-Sparks, I?.N. (retired), C.M.U., of. Surry, England, with Airs.-. Copland • Sparks,, is touring New Zealand, and, is - expected to arrive in Wellington to-day. irom the north.

M'fls Mildred liees, .who.eaw considerable musing service ill a _ [''reach hospital, ;iml later on a hospital barge on the S'jmnfe, is returning to New Zealand by the Bremen.

Dr. Martin B. Tweed and Mrs. Tweed are returning to New Zealand by the Kigoma, also M ss fSowen, who' has been one of' the most active workers at tho New Zealand War Contingent oilice.

Mrs. Harry Cuff, Cliristchurcli, arrived in Wellington on Thursday.

, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Robertson nro visiting.-Auckland.

Mrs. and .Miss Montgomery have returned to Wellington from a visit to Timaru.

Mrs.'Lord (llastcrton) has been spending a few days in Wellington.

Mrs. M'ltcie (Auckland) is visiting Cliristchurcli.-.'

Mrs. Hugh Blytlie (Dannevirke) lias t^keii.a.house at I'liiniiiorloii for a few weeks.'

Miss Payne, who had been spending some time in Hawke's Bay, has returned to Wellington.

Miss V. K. Hell, "of the Canterbury I'ublic Library, has received word from London-, that she was. successful in passing with merit tho professional examination in library., administration,' held in August last, by tho Library Association of Great Britain. As far as can lie ascertained, Miss Bell is the first Now Zealand assistant tb gain the professional certilioafo of the association.

■Mr. and Mrs/ Beswick returned to Cliristchurcli on Wednesday from a visit to the North- Island. ■

' Miss Ruth Atkinson, who is returning to New Zealand by the Bremen, has been an active member ill England of tho' B.W.'LA. and cognate societies, while she helped to organise the w;ork of distributing prohibition literature among New Zealanders-before the referendum. Miss Atkinson went to England for her health, which .restricted her public work, but she kept open house for young New Zcalanders in London on leavo during the war.

Mr. C. F. Bickford, who has occupied tho portion of -honorary financial organiser to tins Auckland Joint Conimitteo of the British lied 'Crass and Hie Order of St. John for the past three years, left for Sydney by the' Maheno en route for England. 'Mr. Bield'ord, who will take passage from Adelaide by the new Orient steamer Ormonde, has been appointed New Zealand delegate to the International Bed, Cross Conference, which will lie, opened at Geneva on March 2. Mr. Bick--' ford will .inako a short return visit to Auckland in it few months' time, and' .011 liis departure he will he accompanied by Mr-;. Bickford, who is remaining in New Zealand for the present. A cablegram was received yesterday by Mr. ,L. H. B. Wilson (Salamanca Road) to say., that the marriage had taken place in Bombay of Miss Dora Wilson lo Captain Bird, of the 35th Scinde. The Misses Moncreiff (Carterton) are ' visiting Otaki. ■ The .engagement is announced of Miss Margaret JSheilu Corniaclc, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Cormack, of C/irtortoii, ici Mr. Noel Henry Bull, only son of Mrs. J. H. Bull, of-Gisborne. The wedding took place in the Sacred Heart Church,, Hastings, this week, of Mis* Mar'v Collins (youngest daughter, of Mr. C. -Collins, of Hustings) and Mr. Frank Newrick, voungest son of Ma and Mrs. .Malcolm Neivrick, of Hnstings. The Rev. Father Malumey. performed the ceremony.- The'bridesmaids were: Iho Misyes Annie Collins (sister-in-law of tho bride and • Elsie Breen (cousin), with jrisse.? May, Nowrick and Mavis Manley in attendance as llower girls. Mr. "Richard Wynn (Wnipawa) was bes.t man, and Mr. J. M'Kain, of Hastings, groomsman. The bridegroom had been a member of the 20th Reinforcement, and had won the Military Medal, and both the best man and groomsman had been his com-rades-in-arms while on active service. The marriage took place in tho Geraldine Clulrch this week of Lieut. Wilfrid M'Clure, M.M., eldest eon of Mr. A M'Clure, Town Clerk of Ashburlon. „nd Aliss 'Merle M'tlregor, daughter of Mr. Duncan M'Crogor, manager of the local branch of the Bank of New /enland. Miss E. M'Clure was bridesma.d and Captain M'Clure, M.C. (cousin of tiie bridegroom) was best man. Tl'ie marriage took placo at the Kangi.tuniau Church, Mnsterton, this week, of Mr Cecil H. Crawford, eldest son of Mr. J"]l -Crawford, of Carterton, and Miss liori? E, Wilton, sixth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilton, of Raugitumau. On Wednesday, Mrs. Luke, with three other representatives of the Citizens' Christmas Gift Fund, visited tho Army Sisters' Convalescent Homo at Jioivcr Hutt, taking with them fruit, chocolate?, and a gift for each sister. Mrs. H.Desbdrough, of Khandallah, is at present on a visit to her parents at Auckland. . The death occurred <il Ihc Wellington Hospital vpstcrday morning of Mrs. CunlilVe, daughter of Jlr. M'Whirter, Petone. A Woman Upon Women. Discussing the women of France and America, and their difference, Mrs. Edith Wharton, , .tho-..we11-known American writer, expresses admiration of France, and her people, and makes out tho best case she can for them. She is specially favourable to French' women, and, in order to make them shine by comparison,' she is rather hard on other women, Cspeoi'ally those of her own country, the United States. For example, she says: "\inerican women are each other's only audience, and, to a great extent, each other's only companions. They seem, com pored to women who play an intellectual social part in the lives of mci>, like children in a baby school. . . . Tho long hvpocrisy which Puritan England handed on ■to America concerning tho danger of .frank and freo social relations between men and women has dono moro than anything elso to retard real civilisation in Amer.ca. ..." , Tho four qualities which, m Mrs. Wharton's' opinion,' distinguish the Ki-'iicli. and particularly French women, are: Tasle, lloveruice, Continuity, Inl'ilccliiai honesty. It ii to reverence for the past that, Mr.-:. Wharton attributes bolt, 'the French peasant's refusal lo eat blaekberriw "because they give one fever," and tho French hostess's cliiot observance of rules_ as to precedence, tho .-eating of her dinner guests, and so on. She and her husband lmiiji -it opposite each other, which means Unit "if the number at, table is uneven, ;ii<4ead of the guests being equally spaced, Hiev will bo packed like sardines oa one. sid'o and left on the other with ochoing straits between them thrown."

Wedding at Lower Hutt,

Tho wedding of Miss Annie Elizabeth Doull, daughter of Mr. and ill's. Alexander Doull, tailor, to Mr. U'onard William Sanders, eon of Mr. and Mrs. 11. Sunders, 'i'aila, took place "ii December 2H at Knox Church, .tilackbridge, J/jwer iiutt. The Jiev. Jame:; M'Caw olliciated. Tin; bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of cream lall'atas, with ninon blouso and a tunic of cream net embroidered in gold «•'<[ ornamented with silk fringe and gold beading, iinished with a satin girdle. The twin! veil and orange blossom were also worn, and she carried a pretty bouquet of roses mid pale shaded sweet peas. There were four bridesmaids, the chief'one being Miss Lavinia Sanders, sister of the bridegroom, who wore a pretiv ('rock of grey silk, and a black tulle" hat linished with gold. She carried a bouquet of roses and sweet pons. The throe little girls, Doris Avery, Eileen Cottle, and Ellen Doull were nieces of (lie bride. The first wore a cream frock embroidered in pink ami blue, and blue satin hat, and the other (wo wore white embroidered muslin.with pink satin .sashes and pink bows on their hair. Tliev carried bouquets to matcn. Mr. Edward Turner was befit man, and Mr. Vivian Doull groomsman. After tho ceremony e. reception was held at t.lic bride's parents, and tho usual loasts were honoured.