Jottings About Town

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 15

Jottings About Town

Enter Elaine ::~ "pHARM" is a frequently-used word A-' —-and a very rare quality. But It can be applied -with truth to . Miss Elaine de. Chair, who is at: preterit re-visiting this Dominion:, m company ■with Lady de Chair . and her father, Governor- General of Australia.. ;>•?' Miss de Chaip is fair— as anyone who wears the name Elaine ought . ; .to. fee, out of respect to the ; Lily Maid of AstOlOt Who bore it first — and her smile, her daintiness and her bright eyes are part of a general ensernb } e • which pleases the eye as much as> the deft little speech which she made to the E.S.U. on her last visit here\causrht the ear of that august body.^w^ (^^i^izs Cheer* UOW Christmastidels. conveyed tc the n intelligence of babies not six weexs old was told to an "N.Z. Truth" reporter the other day by a nurse of the Karitane Home. . "We can't give them Christmas"piicfcdings or cakes," said, the. nurse^. snillingly, "the mothers, who are- pfatients here have a real Christmas, of coubse, arid there's a big tree for the staff. ■ Our babies carry on with the same old milk and emulsion programme— btttSthere^are bright colors everywhere in\ the!xiurseries, 'and, if^s;ou saw how mucli that ;pleases our, younger members, you iwould know that Christmas is a happy'time for babies too." * ' ''"*■ :" •■■-•■ " } .-'v . '■' Ella's Jced^Ggk^i TAiLKING of w.eddings. (as we usually ■*• are)-, Ella; Richardson's bfidal'Lday did a deal to /brighten up. the MTethodist church: ;^.t Papakura, Auckland. Clifford Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. 'Rpss, well-known Aucklanders, was the* lucky' man, and; a yery-;toyely bride he had m the young lady, "w^ose white silk georgette frock was. noutre.ed with feathery Spanish 'l%c:e... FlotiAced 'sljpe'ves, which are; FashH?M'^s ver-y latest, 'addled a new note, ari'ci^hs same* old orange blossoms lookectgas fresh and' charming as they always^ o on' the brow or a bride. ;v "~£%;" \ Sister Hilda Richardsdn wd^ shot salmon pink taffeta, with t-ifiS; puffed sleeves, and a sqallope*. . skirt with" a^backgrouiid of mist^ tulle. ;■_ . : . :.£-■. Mac "Waliis wore peach color and Miss, Doreen . Ashe , was -flower girl, 3n pale apricot taffeta. J»ink and white decorations; and : a." towering rwhite cake rejoiced the eyes and appetites of the guests who troopeav alongxto the recep^ tipn, when the usually pretty speeches about still prettier ladies ; were enacted.