SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 104, 27 January 1920, Page 4

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

TII9 engagement is announced of Mr Ka.ph H. Skipwi.'h, ot "Afcliniud," vfiiu/icvirke, weil-Kr.uwn in journalistic and sporting circles, to Mrs. Stanley Hume bewuuijr. ' Miss Hiorns and Miss Eleanor Jliom* England by tins Kuuhine. "' Mrs. Coley has returned lo "Heathert>!io are staying in Wellington, leave, foiled," Otaki, from a visit to Wellington. Miss Cor.rigan 'has accompanied her, ami will he her guest for a few days. Mrs. Maclean Stewart has relumed to Mastertou from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. K. C. Renner has returned to Wellington from a visit to the north. Mr. and Mrs. T. Shatter Weston have returned to Wellington from the north. I,adv Ward and Mrs. Bernard Wood left for Christchurch at the end of last week.. Tho Rev. Mother Mary Aubert, founder of the Home of Compassion, is a passenger bv tho Bremen, due in Wellington from Europe and Australia to-day. The vessel is expected to clear hor passengers on Wednesday morning, and many residents are looking forward to seeing the Hev. Mother again. Mrs. W. D. S: Mac Donald, who -had been slaying with tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald at Rotorua, has returned to Wellington. Miss R. Woolf (Melbourne), who hnd been spending dcvernl months in New Zealand, left for Australia by the Manuka on Friday. .Mrs. fan Johnston (Waverley) is visitinj her mother, Mrs. Vavasour, Blenheim. On Thursday last, at Napier, the marriage took place of Miss Catherine lletemeyer, of Napier, to Mr. A. M. Macmjlkui. Mrs. Carey (Masterlon) is visiting Stratford. Mrs. T. W. Eaplcy has returned lo Wellington from a visit to Ken- Plymouth. The Rev. E. 0. Blnmires and Mrs. Blnmires, of .Hamilton, formerly of Ilawera and Wellington, expect to leave Now Zealand in February on a twelve months' visit 10. England and America. Mr. and Mrs. Brro! Mackcrsey have arrived in Napier, where they intend to live. Miss Muriel Wylio is the guest of Mrs. Graham Robertson, Hawke's Bay. |

Mr. and Mrs. P. W.. Peters (Hawke's Bay) aro leaving shortly for England.

Mrs. Gear has returned to Wellington from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Graham Robertson, Hnwke's Bay.

The death look place at the home of her.<laughtor, Miss C. M'Kenzie, Wellington, on Saturday, of Mrs. Mary M'Kenzie. relict of the late Mr. Alexander M'Kenzie, at the age of SS years. -Tho lato Mrs. M'Kenzie was a native of Alkirk (Stirling, Scotland), and came (o New Zealand over CO years ago. With her husband she lived for some years at the Tamtam (Wairarapa), and later left for tho Masterlon dirfricl. Sho leaves a family of two sons and three daughters, together w-ihlf ten grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The sons are Messrs. ,1. L\ .M'Kenzie (Bovue Terrace, Masterlon), and Alex. M'Kenzie, headmaster of the Te Aro School, in Wellington. The daughters are Mrs.' D Reid (Carterton), and the Misses C. ami 11. M'hcnzio (Wellington). 'The funeral takes place in Masterlon to-dav.

Racing has been the chief amusement I of tho patients and staff of Treiitlwm Military Hospital during tho past week. On Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday the staff and patients were (hi. guests of tho Wellington Racing Club, ami'on Wednesday the patients were the guests of the Trotting Club. The tram-port to Lower Hull, was provided by fhe Red Cross. On Friday there was a Red Cross drive to Island Bay, and on Wednesday the weekly picnic given by the Salvation Army ami Red Cross l<> A Ward was held. Tho commanding officer and matron acknowledge with Hißiiks the following gifts-—Mr. .1. E. Rodda, manager of Asafnkr Horticultural Station, HavH-k North, three cases of fruit; Y.M.C.A., three pianos; Mrs. Nairn, papers; Woilington Branch of the Red Cross, Jwo lots of fruit salads and cake, also smokes, flowers, extra, comforts, and ward visiting; Salvation Army, literature, sweets, i'l-nit. cake, and ward visiting.

. The formation of fhe Village Clubs Association marks a memorable departure in English village life. It arose out of a. discussion of the Agricultural Club. The main idea of the association is to

help village people to conduct, by themselves and for themselves, centres of amusement and recreation. They are to supply themselves with what they want, rather than with what other people think they ought In have: the association helpins: them, but not dictating in any way. This mnv well lie the seed of a very big movement, and is a noteworthy sign of the! times. VVeddinq at St. Peter's. The wedding took place in St. Peter's Church. Willis Street, on January 22, of Miss' Nellie Hazel Tarrant, eldest daughter of Mr. 13. Tarrant, Miramar, and Mr. Ctordon Tavlor Latham, eldest son of Mr. It. Latham, Eoulcott Street. The Rev. T. Fielden-Taylor officiated, and Mr. Andrews played appropriate music. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a frock of while, crepo do chine and georgette trimmed with' pearls, and a veil fastened with orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of Christmas lilies, loses, and carnations, finished with traces of ribbon edged with silver horseshoes. Miss Maisie Tarrant, the bridesmaid, wore a frock of pale, pink crepe- de chine ami ninon and black picture hat. Her shower bouquet was of mauve, sealions and pale pink carnations with ribbon to match, the ends fastened with hand-uainted swallows. Mr. Percy Latham was tho best man. A reception was subsequently held in the MasonicHall. Boulcott Street, and Bailey's orehestra contributed musical items." The. brido travelled in a grey'tailored garbardine costumo and while georgette hat. Mr. Latham was a member of tho Eleventh Reinforcements, and was wounded on tho Sonune. The First Silk Stockings. It was during Elizabeth's reign (hat Kir Thomas Grcsham introduced the manufacture of pins and ribands. Knitled worsted Blockings, 100, were first mude about, the vear 1")U5, by a London apprentice, named William Ryder, who hnvim: seen some that came from Italy, imitated a pair exactly, and presented thcin to William, Karl of Pembroke. in Sl/iwe's "Chronicle" wo find th e followiim: "In tho Lid. yeere of Queene Klizalv.'lh. her silk-woman, Mistress Montagu, presented Her Majestic, for a. new yen re's gift, a pair of black silk knit stockings, tho which, after a lew days wcariii"' pleased Her Highness so we'll, (hut sluj sent for Mistress Montagu, and asked her where slio hud them, and if she could hell) her lo any more; who answeriii" said. 'I made (hem very carefully of purpose, only for Your Majestic, ami evoins! them picasc you «i well, I will presently set more in hand.' 'i)o so (quoth the Quccnc), Cor indeed I like sill; stockinss so. well, because Ihcy are pleasant, line and delicate, that honwloi'ih I will wear no more cloth stockings.' And from that time . . . I lie Qnoeno never wore, anv more cloth hose, but oulv silkstockings; for you shall understand that Honrv the Bth did wear only cloth liuse, or hose cut out. of ell-broad tali'uly, or lliat bv great clianco (here came a pairo of .Simnish silk stockings from Spain." From this extract it appears (hat silk stockings were now lirst made in England, and not first imported, as is generally supposed—From "The Hook of Costume," by "A Lady of Rank."

Dressina for the Skies,

A description of the costume worn by Roland Kohlfs when he broke the altitude record, the, other day, by driving; his aeroplane ,'M.Glfl feet up in the air, easily adds another mhsoii possibly financial, for the disinclination of the average citizen to try. similar experiments. Mr. Holill's necessarily dressed for cold weather aloft, lie wore a woollen shirt, khaki riding breeches, a pair of woollen trousers that came up round his chest, several sweaters, and more woollen shirts, a

"teddv bear" flying suit, which is a good deal like a diver's suit lined with fur, ' a chamois helmet, with openings only for eves, nose, and mouth, a fur helmet lined with newspaper, and a pair of goggles. On his hands were gloves covered bv mittens, and covered again by ihumbless gauntlet mittens which still left him the use of his lingers to manage his machine; and on his feet were three nairs of woollen socks, one pair of (hick naner socks, and ft pair of sheep-skin-lined hunting boots. A final and very important part of his costume was an oxygen mask. And even so ho "felt the cold keenly" before ho got back. Women Voters in America. Political forecasting, says an observer of tho recent election in Now York, becomes' a lost art with tho advent of women as voters. He speaks as one familiar with American politics, and admits that they "voted well, and, in tho main, wisely"; but they failed to vote us the same number of men might reasonably have been expected to. One could not say, for example, that they would vote Republican because their fathers had voted Republican, and they ouilo evidently failed to vote Democratic because a Democratic Administration had. iust beforo election, appointed a woman to an important position. Broadly speaking, they appeared to make up their minds independently of parly arguments and emblems; and although many voted as did their men folk, it is the ouiuion of this observer that they voted according to their own judgment. Tin's new electorate, he thinks, is "bigger already, better very probably, but oil, how different!" One-gathers an odd impression that one element in tho difference is that women vote-more impersonally, and (iro less affected by political emo r tionalism.