WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 October 1920, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Tb.tj Hon. R. Scott, M.L.C., and Mrs. Scott left for the south ojj Friday, and will bo away for the greater part of this week. , • . • Sirs. Harold Gregson (Auckland), who? 8 husband is musical judge at the competitions here, is visiting Wellington. In his air stunting over, the city on Sntmday nfternoon Captain Russell, look as passenger Hiss Dorothy Bulkley, who thus achieved the distinction of being the first lady in Wellington to go through a full stunting programme. Miss Bulkley states that she enjoyed her experienca immensely, despite several rain squalls, * At Wellington last week, Mrs; C. M. .Campbell, until recently proprietress of tho Victoria Hotel. Pctone, was married to Mr: F. Brougli, also formerly of Petcne. To suit tho convenience of those who live at Kelburn, Haitaitai, and ' Kilbirnie, late trams have been arranged for in connection with the Navv League donee at the Town Hall to-night. They will leave for these suburbs at 1.30. A London correspondent writes that at tho Eoman Catholic Church, Brook Green, August 3, the wedding took -place of William Orr Campbell, youngest son of the late Mr. J. R,; Campbell,' formerly of Southbridge, Canterbury, to Laura Nancy I.oughnan, escond daughter of Mr. JI. H. Loughnan, of Christchurch. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Basil Loughnan, S.J.

A BRILLIANT SPECTACLE . CHILDREN'S FANCY DRESS BALL. One of the most charming spectacles that has been seen in Wellington for a long time past was the Mayoress's faucydress bail for children held in the.Town Hall 011 Saturday evening. Children seemed io have come from far and near, and there must have been from 1300 to 1500 of them on the fir/or, all in fancy dress, and of .varying ages from two years upwards. From' the- moment .of ..entrance into the. hall the feelings of excitement and anticipation with which they were regarding the evening could be sensed, and there is no doubt that for. many of them the ball of Saturday night will havo left a golden memory that, will last for a long time to come. To tho younger children, and there were many of these, it was. the world of their imagination como to life for a while, with •its' brilliant colouring,' its lights and music, and its great throng of fantastically and often beautifully-dressed children. Fairies, walking and talking aits, charming court ladies that looked just as the court ladies did in some of their illustrated favourite stories', real live golliwogs, and even a leopard, were only a ißw of tho gorgeous beings that peopled their world that night. The decorations of the liall were admirably suited to the scene; their brightness and variety of colouring- blending with, and also intensifying in effect, tho vividness of the children's dresses, so that the result was one of extraordinarily gay effects. Innumerable balloons of all colours were largely used for decorative purposes, either in clusters or in festoons underneath the gallery, or else as ropes carried from side to 6ide of tho hall, while suspended over tho heads of the dancers were light masses of lycopodium, from which hung long coloured streamers. Innumerable small flags decorated the walls, and brightly coloured festoons and streamers of d'rapery were used with effective results. Supper for the very small children was served in ' a partitibned-off space underneath the gallery. The tallies wero most charmingly decorated. The Concert Chamber ' had been turned into a. supper room for the older children, and here, again the arrangements were charmiflg.

. At. lialf-pasteight Their Excellencies the Governor-.Gene.ral . and Viscountess .Tellicoe. .arrived,' accompanied. by'"Cantains.. Curtis; R. P.' Mundy, and R. G. .Southey, •A.D.C.'s. They'were received by the Mayor and' Mayoress and 6ome members of the committee. Two of their- daught£j£, the Hon. Lucy and the Hon. Myrtle Jellicoe. also attended the dance. Viscountess Jellicoe wore a Tose, coloured frock, the corsage veiled with georgette of the same shade, patterned with, a jewelled design, and the skirt draped with panels of the georgette, repeated the s.inie design as that 011 the corsage. Sho also woro a diamond necklace and a narrow diamond band in. her .hair. Her .two daughters were both in picturesque Eastern drosses. As a greeting to Their Excellencies the children gavo three cheers with great vigour, and then repeated the eraud march,' headed by John Bull and his dog and Britannia, with wlucli the evening began, curtsyinsr (those who thought of" it-in -time) a"s they -passed the ViceRegal party. A great event of the eveninp was the march into the hall of tho Wellington Pipe Band, and their playmg of a schottische, to which some of the children danced. ' After this performance Miss Jean M'Keir/.ie, champion Scottish dancer, danced a Sheauntruibhai which was watched wijli the keenest interest and pleasure, 'Polkas, TO"t zeSi and other dances followed each other. A Pierrot group in black .and white'was very effective, and quaint and attractive was a Dutch group of children. Quite a number of children were in pairs, and some of their representations were iemarkablv well carried out, 60 inuch 60 that it seined a pity that no prize was offered for the best coup e. . , Seven prizes were oitensd, and in awardin" them the task of the. judges was exceedingly difficult. Their decisions were as follow :-For the most effective girl, Mary M'Lean, representing a Victorian iadyi most effective boy, Johti .Blandford, as John Bull with his bulldog; most inexpensive dress for girl, Rona Raw, "Topsy"; -most inexpensive Jjoj s diess, Patrick Miller, representing a sack ot sW'; most oVigina girl's dress, Verona Jeffries, as "Rickotts Bhie , original boy,' Sinclair Gray, Old King Coal": prize ior a little gill uniW, wars of'age, for the simplest nnd most Xr/bfT? S. S»»j lilSilg tiou of tho Citizens D. V pcriotl* very charming ladyof a fJ^ } or n P oHl .ii,g fl "vert S i^ master of momohildren, assisted though j- H helpers, bers of tfe committee and <>tl ci Among the Mayor t<> Their Excellences w 0 . u( and. Mayoress, Upstairs the Stywin! keenly interested and adnuring_onlotos^___