WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 91, 7 October 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted toy " Jtiieen"). SOCIAL NEWS. NEW PLYMOUTH. bridge party. Mrs. 11. Stocker gave a most enjoyable bridge party last Thursday evening in honor of Miss Allele Avery, who is shortly to he married to Mr. Lewis Webster, the former's brother. The piizes were won by Miss Bradbury (first) and Mrs. G. Kebbell (second). The hostess received her guests in a dainty robs of pale blue voile, prettily finished with cream lace. Mrs. F. Webster, black silk: Mrs. Palmer, black chill'on taffeta, cream law berthe; Miss A. Avery, black chiffon taffetas, cream lace berthe, real lace shoulder scarf; Miss Bradbury, saxo blue silk, prettily embossed; Miss Bayley, moss green shaiigtung; Mrs. G. Kebbell, cream lace blouse, cream skirt; Mrs. Percy Webster, ciel blue crepe, embossed with gold; # \liss Bedford, hydrangea blue silk, with front panel profusely braided in floral design; Miss D. Bedford, white insertion muslin; Miss Simpson, cream silk; Miss D. Simpson, white muslin; Mrs. Walter Bayly, cream lace blouse, cream skirt; Mrs. Sidney Cottier, very pretty hydrangea blue satin charniuese. rich cream insertion on corsage, lace shoulder scarf: Mrs. R. George, cream crepe de chine, daintily embossed with silken- flowers, silver net shoulder scarf: Miss L. Webster, cream silk; Miss Rennell, pale pink silk, finished with broad bands of cream insertion: Miss Read, cream Indian worked silk, relieved with scarlet roses on corsage.

A DANCE. A most enjoyable time was spent last Thursday evening in the Good Templars' Hall, when a euchre party, followed by a dance, was held in aid of the Way Benefit fund. The prize* were won bv Mrs. Crant (first ladies'), Mr. J. Bullot (first gentlemen's), and Mr. S. Roberts (second). The music for the dance was spiritedly played by Mrs. Arnold George. Among those present were Mrs. J. Clarke, dressed in a white silk blouse and dark silk skirt; Mrs. Harvey, black voile, trimmed with bands of satin; Miss J. Kivell, dark silk, white silk and lace blouse; .Miss G. Kivell, white embroidered muslin; Miss O'Rorke. vieux rose voile, cream laee yoke; Mrs. H. Moon, myrtle green silk; Mrs. W. Bennett, black silk, silk lace trimming corsage; Mrs. Grant, cream voile, lace berthe; Miss Bond, cream silk, finished with lace insertion; Mrs. Prior, white embroidered muslin: Mrs. I). Jury, black chiffon taffetas blouse, black cloth skirt; Miss Jury, white muslin; Miss E. Jury, white muslin, prettily trimmed with lace; Mrs. Moverley. lettuce green voile, cream lace yoke; Mrs. Loesch. white muslin; Miss Bach, white muslin, lace berthe; Mrs. Stewart, ciel blue silk blouse, inset with cream lace, black skirt; Mrs. Loveridge, white muslin; Mrs. Hooper, pale mauve muslin, lightly trimmed with cream lace; Miss E. Katchett, white muslin, pale blue centur'e; Miss B. Smith, black voile, trimmed with lace and satin ribbon; Mrs. Doekrill, black satin, relieved with cream lace; Miss Morgan, cream voile silk lace berthe; Mrs. J, Roberts, white silk and lace blouse, black- skirt; Miss Shodroski, periwinkle blue silk, relieved with cream lace: Miss V. Shodroski, cream silk, inset with lace: Miss 0. Hoskin, vieux rose voile, relieved with cream laee; Mrs. F. Smith, white silk blouse, cream skirt; Mrs. Wallach. white muslin; Mrs. Joseph, white silk blouse, dark skirt; Miss E. Cock, pale blue crystalline, softly finished with cream lace; Miss Devcnish. rose pink silk blouse, black silk skirt; Mrs. S. Smith, white.silk and lace blouse, black skirt; Mrs. Stefferson, black merveillenx. relieved with jet passemmentene trimming; Mrs. X. Clarke, white silk blouse, lace berth, black silk skirt; Mrs. Bach, silk blouse, dark skirt; Miss Carter, hydrangea blue silk blouse, cream lace yoke, black skirt; Mrs. F. E. Clarke, pale heliotrope chiffon taffetas, berthe of cream lace; Miss K. Ilamerton, black voile, trimmed with satin ribbon; Miss White, cream silk blouse, lace yoke, black skirt; Miss Kirkby, white muslin, pule blue floral ribbon sash; Miss Curtis, blue >ilk blouse, dark skirt; Mrs. Hardwicke. cream silk.

Mrs. Heard entertained a few friends at a musical evening la.st Tuesday. Next Monday Miss Rennell is giving a bridge partv in honor of Miss \. Averv.

Miss Humphries held a most enjoyable "song night" in the Brougham Street Hall last night. PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Fred Hesketh. Auckland, is the guest of her aunt. Mrs. Everard Gilmour. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzhcrbert, who have 1 ii on a short visit to Australia, have returned.

-Mrs. Mitchell, who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. Rankin, of Wellington, is visiting her younger sister. Mrs. G. Kebbell. before returning to Auckland. Dr., Mrs. and Miss Leatham, who have been visiting the South Sea Islands and Australia, have returned to Auckland. Dr. and .Miss Leatham are now sojourning at Rotorua.

MOVING PICTURE HONEYMOON. HAPPY SIMPLE LTFE OF MILLIONAIRESS. New York, August 11. Mrs. Jack Geraghty, the 18-year-old daughter of Mr. A. T. French, the multim ill ii di:i in- banker and railway director, who eloped with Jack Geraghty. a chauffeur, has been found thirty-six hours after her marriage, leading the simple lite honeymoon in Springfield, Massachusetts The pair are visiting Jack's con-in. Mrs. Joseph Harris, whose husband is a carpenter. ' They an l enjoying themselves economically, hiking tram rides and visiting moving-picture -how-. Jack insists that hi-, money alone shall support them. Mrs. Ceraghly wa~ at home to interviewers .after they discovered the identity of the couple last evening, as they were returning from a moving-picture show. She said: "I just couldn't help it. I loved .lack the moment 1 first, saw him. Whatever my relatives try to do to break our happiness they will he unsuccessful. 1 love Jack too much for that."

The reporters asked if she had heard the report that her parents contemplated an action against. Jack for kidnapping. She replied: -Diil yon hear that, .Lick'.' Now ridiculous! If there were any kidnapping, f kidnapped .lack. He did not kidnap me. See here." -lie continued, displaying visiting cards bearing the name of Mrs. John Geraghl.v. "1 had them done today, because I wanted to see what mv new name looked like Isn't if. b.velv'/"

"I eloped." -lie continued, "because I hate socicly. They wanted me to go in for flic life all llii' young women of mv das.- lead, but 1 rebelled. The soeiefy nien are vapid and inane. There is no real man among (hem . They bored me lo distraction: and the women are hearth -s and self-centred, living only for the pleasure and excitement of possessing more jewels and more extravagant frocks than their neighbors. ''So when I met a true man like Mr. Geraghty 1 wa- attracted to him. He is so intensely different from the only other kind I ever knew before. It was

his type of self-supporting manliness j that won me. / ''l met him first three years ago, when ( he brought to our house a motor car / which father purchased for me. In the j following summer we were in love, so j you see the elopement was not the result I of a hasty impulse and happy affection. ' I would not marry until I reached the legal age of eighteen. I was too wise. So we waited . I was eighteen a week before the elopement, and now they j can't do anything to us. "I am not afraid of poverty with my husband, and as for what society says it does not bother me in the slightest—a society which smiles on the coming marriage of a forty-six-year divorced millionaire with an eighteen-year-old girl and frowns on my love marriage. What kind of society is it? I have no words to express my opinion." Several offers by enterprising firms have been made to Jack, but he has declined them so far. The French family refuse to discuss the affair, but Jack's family condemn the match, and declare they tried to get Jack to give up Miss French when they discovered their friendship, and thought they had succeeded. The elopement was a disagreeabel surprise to them.