HAPPENINGS IN THE CAPITAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1765, 5 June 1906, Page 4

HAPPENINGS IN THE CAPITAL.

SOCIAL DOINGS.

(By Pknkloi’k.)

WellinglOJ

For tbo elder folk there have beon no onter tain meuts save bridgo parties. I hear a new bridge club is beiDg started by Mrs Lees and Mrs Macphorson. A wonderful plain and fancy dress party for children was given by Mrs T. YouDg, on Friday, from 5 to 8 o'clock, and later on young men and maidens disported themselvos. Tho children looked charming in their quaint aud pretty costumes. A baby of four months old, dressed as a footballer perhaps scored honors, but thero were fairios, cooks, naval men in miniature, gipsies, bandits, and marquises in fascinating confusion, Mr Young’s beautiful and spacious rooms were quite given up to her little guests, who fishod for strange parcels iu the hall, pDyed games in the nursory, danced in the drawingroom, and ato the delicious andjelaborate supper, laid out among chrysanthemums and autumn leaves in the diningroom They had a gay time and later on their elders took the floor with equal if not suck boisterous enjoyment. 2he occasion was the birthday of Mrs Yoimg’s little son Aleck, who was dressed as the knave of hearts.

Cards for an At Home, on Tuesday, have been sent out by Mrs Babington, and on Wednesday Mrs Grace gives a dance at which Miss Phyllis Higginson, one of our prettiest Wellington girls, makes her debut. On Monday afternoon Mrs Brandon gives a tea for Mrs Lemare, and various entertainments havo been got up for friends leaving for Homo. An excellent idea, carried out in Tirnaru, as a farewell to Miss Sealey, who left with Mr and Mrs Smithson iu the lonic, was a “ cabin ” tea to which each girl brought some trifle, useful or ornamental, for the voyage. Books, work bags, scent, soap, and quite a number of things, most acceptable to the recipient, suggest themselves under this head.

THE NEW COMBS

One of the largest jeweller’s shops has in its window a number of fascinating combs for the back of the hair. We havo become surfeited with gaudy, stone-encrusted combs, too often combined with a collarless silk blouse and a microbe-collecting skirt, and tho quiet beauty of these is a delightful change. Some are wide, the broad band of„torto:seshell having a deep band of silver or gold, quite plain, upon it. Others are tall and narrow, in some instances throe or four inches high, beautifully curved and carved ; others again are cunningly inlaid with gold, silver, and brilliants. Each one is charming, and now that simplicity is the keynote of our coiffures most of the well-dressed women here havo given up pads and turn tboir hair, guiltless of curl or wave, loosely back from their foreheads. The new combs seem to be exactly what is needed to complete the effect. Some of the latest evening hair ornaments are lovely. A pair of Mercury’s wings, joined by a narrow flexible band, were covered with overlapping sequins in tints of gold, rose, and green. A bow, made in the same way, only with emerald and silver spangles, was absolutely lovely, and in dark hair would look brilliant. The shops are full of lovely dancing fro.ks with all their dainty accessories, but the occasions to wear them are few and far between.