WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 286, 27 August 1920, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Vernon Irving, manager of the lorkshire Insurance Company, eon of tile late Captain Burcton Irving, Indian Army, was married on August 24 to Mm. Isabella lronson, of New Plymouth. Miss Whitelaw (Kelburn) left on Wednesday on a .visit to the South Island. Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, Miss Bar. bara Gould, and Miss Jocelyn Pyne. an leaving Christchurch on a visit to Austraha. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. G. Rhodes (Christ church) are leaving very shortly for England. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Abraham (Stmt Ford) have returned from a visit to ths Islands. Airs, and Miss Hunter-Brown have re turned to Hawke's Bay from a visit tc Australia. , In connection with the matinee whicl is to be held in His Majesty's Theatn this, afternoon in aid of the Upper Hut • Orphanage, there will be a sale of cakes sweets, and flowors. Some noted maker; of sweets apd cakes have given tliei: services, and their goods are certain ti be in great demand. Some beautifu flowers are also being donated for sale The, annual social of the ladies' brand of the Hibernian Society (St. Mary's No 3) was held in the Kent Terrace Hal last evening. The arrangements were ii the hands of iy. committee comprising thi Misses Crajg, Bezar, Wallace, Mitchell M'Carthy, White, Griffin, and Messrs Carmine, M'Kenzie, and M'Keown. Tin joint secretaries were Miss B. Craig am Mr. J. P. Carmine, and the M.C.'j Messrs. M'Kenzie and M'Keown. Braund'i orchestra supplied the music for th( dancing, and a very pleasant evening wai spent by all attending. Mr. Walter Macarthy, of Napier, ii visiting Wellington in connection v.itl an operation for car trouble that is t< be performed on hfe daughter, Misi Eileen Macarthy (a student at tho Sacrei Heart Convent at Island Bay). The Cooked Food Company, formed ii Dunedin for the purpose of oven:ominj housekeeping difficulties by women wh< must have some help, is, according to ai exchange, working successfully. Mrs Leech, the chairwoman, interviewed or Tuesday, said the demand for diuneri was increasing daily, that customer! came back and ordered Tegularly, tha' dinners for as many as 12 were suppliei to one order, and that the record outpu for a day to date was 69 dinners, Sonn would-be customers had had to bo re fused, because their residences were to< far away. Mrs, Leech" added that it waf too early to say definitely how the en terprise would turn out financially, bul that in all matters upon which a pro nounoement could be made tho com pany's operations 'ware very satisfactory A lantern lecture is. to be given short ly by the Hon. G. M. Thomson upoi "Samoa" as seen by the ■Parlianientarj party who recently visited that island The lecture is in aid of the Cook Islanr school. The Hospital Board yesterday accepts with regret tho resignations of Sister W Leo (who has accepted a position witl I the Education Department), and Nursei | Longton and Campbell (who have com 1 plcted their training). Mrs. Aitken has written from Tas mania resigning her seat on the Hos pital Board, owing to .her extended ab sence from tho Dominion. Tho resigna Hon was accepted with regret by thi board yesterday. Miss Helen Williams, lion, secrctan of the New Zealand Nurses' Memoria Fund, is visiting Auckland. The engagement is announced of Misi Ailsa Brown, only daughter of Mr. ant Mrs. C. A. Brown, St, Stephen's Avenue Parnell, and Lieutenant R. D. Oliver D.5.0., R.N., Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scot land. Mrs. Adams, sen. (Lower Hutt) is 'visit ing Auckland, and is staying with hei daughter, Mrs. Spicer, Rcnruera. Mrs. Hope Lewis and Mrs. Guy Wil Hams returned to tho Dominion dur ing tho week by the Niagara from Syd ney. In the course oj a lecture upon Maor myths and legends, given in Auck an< on Tuesday evening, Dr. Buck, medica officer to the Maoris, traced the orign of the Maoris back to very early days Their trail, indeed, could be traced bacl to the year 450 8.C., where they wen then in some land in the south of Asm Some of tho early heroes of tho race ha( gono down even to the Antarctic anc had left legends that aro so truthful tha thoy could not possibly have been mi ajined. One of these legends of th< Maori race told of • <v. land where ther was no sun, where baro white hills rosi from the water, and where an aninia with tusks plunged into the mountainow seas. . • __ Miss Gertrude Johnson, tlie Melbourne soprano, will leave for Sydney by the Mocraki to-morrow. Mrs. Patrick Campbell Not Dead. A cable message, dated July 22. mnounced the. death of Mrs. Cornw lisWest, a famous beauty. It was naturally concluded by nearly eveiT | newspaper jn New Zealand that the deceased lady w«>« Mm Patrick Campbell, the famous actress, who married (in the sreond instance) a Mr. Cornwallis-West. A paragraph in the Melbourne ."Age" ot a i~ Zml date shows that a mistake may have been riffle, for tie "Am" declares, tha ladv concerned to bo Mrs. Campbells mother-in-law. Tho paragrapn is as So.lO nC death of Mrs. Cornwallis-West. a famous beauty of 'her period, is reported m a London cablegram. By.birth she belonged to the family of Fihuatnct. barons, Castletown (Irish Peerage), and waa married to the late Colonel W. Corn-wallis-West. of the Earls' Delawar. of Ruthin Castle. North Wales. Lord Lientenant of Wenbigh. and M.P. for Derbyshire. In tho lato 'seventies and early "eMUes' Mrs. Cornwallis-West was one of the few 'professional beauties, as they were called. Mrs. Lily Langtry and Lady Randolph Churchill tielnu her great rivals. Their photographs were to be seen on sale in all the photograph shops in London. Colonel Cornwnltis-West put » stop to the sale of liis wife s photograph, apd to do so he had to bring an action against the photographer ho had employed to restrain him for selling tnem without the authorisation of the employer. Mrs. Cornwafiis-West was a snial! woman, and when Airs, "angtrv invented tho 'ianstry cape/ she found it hid In" almost" completely if she tried to wear one so she put tlienv on the coachman and footmen, whioh started tho fashion tnr Fliein to wear bear skin fur caDen. During the war she became conspicuous for a military-social scandal, which involved leading military lights. She leaves n son, who became the second husband of Lady Randolph Churchill, who divorced him. He then married Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the well-known actress. Of Mrs. Comwallis-West's two daughters, the elder married the Princo of View, ami'was o favourite of the ex-Knisnr'ss the younger married the Dukn nf Marlborough- Deceased was about GS yearn of ago."