A Lady's Letter.

Manawatu Herald, 17 September 1895, Page 2

A Lady's Letter.

Wellington, Sept. 14, 1895. Last Tuesday evening a very nice< dance was given at Mrs Levin's house in Tinakori Road, by Mrs Levin and some of her girl's friends. The large drawing-room was used for dancing, and was prettily and most elaborately decorated with lovely Russian violets and single daffodils, tbe supper table in the Jinyjg room Wfts/afso decorated with These flowers; A large room upstairs was converted into a reception room, where Mrs Levin received in a lovely black brocade gown, trained, 'and the bodice4rimmed with beautiful jet embroidery. , Miss Levin was I wearing a very.frlatty fresh pink I gown; with some "chiffon ruches on

the bodice, with here and there a small cluster of forget-me-nots, the contrast to the pink being very effective. Among the guests I noticed Lady Alice Boyle wearing ft black spotted merveilleux gown; Mrs J. Duncan, in handsome grey moire with trimmings of- black wirot ; Miss Duncan wore very pale pink brocade ; JUrs Aoland (Gfaristchurch) black satin, relieved with white lace ; Miss Acland, pretty white silk gown trimmed with accordian chiffon frills and ribbon bows; Mrs Pearce, orange silk and white lace ; Mrs Crawford, cream brocade, with deep red roses on the corsage; Mist Gibson (Dunedin) wore ft very stylish gown, it was of white satin with ft panel on the skirt and trimmings on the bodice of lovely peacock blue velvet, studded at intervals with tiny paste buttons, it was also trimmed with pretty white lace; Miss 'Williams (Hawkes Bay) wore white silk veiled with spotted net and the corsage was effectively ornamented with strings of pearls hanging from the shoulders.and caught up in the centre of -the- bodice with ft pearl buckle; Miss A. Gore wore a becoming pale pink silk gown trimmed with small ruches of chiffon to match. The Misses Grace, Bulltr, Cooper, Williams, Stowe (2), Tolhurst, Johnston (8), fiawden and Hadfield (Marton) the latter momr a pretty pink shot silk gown, trimmed with black lace andvelVet. s - Last night, the bread and butter dance, in aid of St. Paul's Kindergarten School, took place in Thomas' Hall and was only fairly well attended, although a large number of tickets were sold, so that a great many people who bought tickets, evidently did not use them, asm* ever, there were about seventy-five eoupbs occupying the floor, and they appeared to be enjoying themselves thoroughly, as there was plenty of room. Mrs H. D. Bell and Mrs J&nisch were the promoters ot the affair, and ought to be congratulated on the financial success of the undertaking. There was a very good supper (I did not see one piece of bread and butter) provided by several ladies and was laid out upstairs on the third storey, the decorations on the table being jars of peach blossoms and pink crimpled paper. Some of those present were Mrs Bell, who wore black brooade and pale yellow chiffon Mils on the corsage; Mrs J&niach, wore handsome brown satin, trimmed with ecru lace ; Mrs Baldwin, who wore a blaok velvet skirt, the reveva being of the same, and the bodice and under sleey^s were of white chiffon and ecru laca points; Mrs Beddard (England) pale yellow satin, and fluffy sleeves of chiffon to match ; Miss Simpson looked very nice in white" silk, trimmed with lace and snowdrops; Miss Johnston, cream satin, bound round the hem of the skirt with brown feather trimming, tho bodice was of gathered chiffon, kept in place with ecru lace points; her sister wore a neat black satin gowify Miss Williams soft white pompadour silk, -trimmed with "narrow bands pt black libbon velvet. . MerfdaMei Butt, Symons, Simpson, Dgnoan, Menteatb, Samuel, Larnaeb/ J and the Misses Skerrett, Reynolds, Gore, Brandon, Levin, Acland, Ppwnall, Fairchild, Ingles, I^se, pardiftg, Grace, Hiplop, etc. ' r~? i I meant to have told you about the principal • sbopjsfe. Turing the coming 4 we^,;>hQM a to^l aU&to do my little' wdrk iflßwjpMttotfyand will then £ive ari account of it in my next leffeiv " : : - 1 You will :be soYry to? beau: fcftfr Lady Glasgow, ha« had a bad attack of influenza, and though Better, is still confinej^to Jier be&. MrsJ-J. fa WflsoftHmade eAvery short stay in town this session. She left her eldest daughter with Mrs Swdinioo,- where she will 4timrat until Christmas, during which time she^will be studying at the SohooiTjf Design. - . ; -g^ < Mrs Arthur Russelrha's returned to her home at Palmereton Nqrth> t . Mr Maughan Barnett is giving his last concert of the series r .next Monday night, when the Vice-Regal Party wilUbe present. , • , <k> ;i / I S#na(J