Sweet Nell's Days

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 17

Sweet Nell's Days

MRS: COATES' purple and blue IVI cinerarias looked very gay on the afternoon of the Women Students' Hostel garden party, tor which affray our P.M. was good enough to lend hia pretty Wellington grounds. • The old house at Tinakori Road, with its great oak trees and smooth green lawns, ds a place of peace— outwardly, anyhow?— and a very fair setting for anybody's Sunday-best togs. " There were periwigs < In plenty pn the green, for Mrs. Pearson, who is; a clever Wellington lady, sprung a surprise by. producing a. pastoral play set m the days of the Merrie Monarch, Charles 11. : 'Twas a good period for the girls, and a splendid one for the menfolk, judging by the quaint costumes displayed. - Around some of the little airs and scenes there was something reminiscent of the work of the lyric poets of that long ago day, when everybody, after the compression ' Of the Puritan ; period, wanted to throw his hat— or her bonnet xip m the air, and dance round a maypole. Anyhow, the garden party was,, a" success, and quite a"'few;. of the needful must have been , stowed away m the Student Hostel Movement's old stocking! • The' day was blue and gold, too, so evidently Wellington weather is prepared to do its small best for Mrs. Wallis, founder of the; movement, who has just returned. :frpm England. ]