WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 227, 23 March 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") SOCIETY NEWS. Garden l'arty. —Tlie garden party j postponed from last week eventuated on j Thursday afternoon in the lovely gardsns of "Overdale," Mr. E. Cock's handsome residence. Generally when an event is postponed, the ardour of the 1 public is damped, but to this fete fell the exception (probably the unforseen pessimist has arranged smiling possibilities for second events; if so, oh, Now Plymouth, great is thy fate! ! !). Delicious afternoon tea was served in the dining-room and verandah, and while meandering round the grounds one was accompanied by strains of sweet music discoursed by the Garrison Band. Amongst those present were:—Mrs.. E. Cock, lettuce green flowered muslin, black feathered toque; Mrs. Doile, cream costume; Mrs. Drew, white embroidered muslin, hat massed with pink roses; Miss Evans, black, relieved with cream lace, hat trimmed with heliotrope; Mrs. G. List, cream voile, bodice profusely tucked and finished with a silken girdle, whife straw hat with roses; Mrs. D. White, tussore silk faced with black; Mrs. Burton, black and- white striped muslin, white lace yoke, hat en suite; Miss Howell, white embroidered muslin, saxe blue hat wreathed with pink roses; Mrs. J. Avery, cinnamon brovVß taffeta, pretty bonnet lightly touched with pale pink; Mrs. S. Cottier, saxej blue costume, black hat relieved with pale pink roses; M rs - Lewis Webster (Stratford), silver grey voile, trimmed with cream lace, black feathered hat; Mrs. J. Morey, pale pink and green flowered muslin, faced with brown, brown hat; Miss Ramson, saxe blue costume, black hat; Miss Ramson. cream, hat to correspond; Mrs. Home, black costume, toque relieved with white; Miss Wade, blue and white striped muslin, piped with emerald green, hat wreathed with roses; Mrs. Scanlon. shell pink satin embroidered in gold,] veiled in smoke grey ninon, black hat! with emerald green and black feathers; j Mrs. JenkinsOn, heliotrope cashmere <!ei soie, trimmed with deep black fringe,' black hat; Mrs. Hall,. fawn costume, black hat with white roses; Mrs. A. Avery, pale blue voile, cream lace yoke, black hat'lined with pale pink silk; Miss Carter, cream muslin, pale grey hat swathed with muslin; Mrs. F: Asher, black and white muslin faced with pale grey silk and lace, black hat; Mrs. Newman, black costume, heliotrope toque; Miss Bedford, pale 'grey eolienne, black feathered hat; Mrs. Clarke, smart heliotrope costume, braided in black, black j toque; Mrs. F. Tribe, pale green floral muslin faced with green silk, black hat; Mrs. Honeyfield, black; Mrs. McLeod, blue and pink floral muslin over a cream lace underskirt, black hat with feathers; Mrs. Wells, pale blue voile, cream lace yoke, black hat with feathers; Mrs. Dowling, heliotrope floral voile, faced with heliotrope, black hat; Miss Dowling, yieux rose voile, cream lace yoke, Tuscan, hat trimmed with scarlet roses; Mrs. Tribe (sen), black; Mrs. Bannister, reseda green muslin, cream lace yoke, moss green hat; Mrs. Paget (Stratford), saxe blue costume, bodice profusely' tucked and braided in black, pretty black feathered. hat; Mrs. G. White, cream coat and. skir.t., brown hat with pink roses; Mrs-. W. Ambury, black costume, white lace yoke, black hat; Miss Lepine.l cream, hat trimmed with striped emerald green ribbon; Mrs. G. Browne (Mayoress), black costume, black hat wreathed with white roses; Mrs. Roberts, black; Miss A. Roberts, smart biscuit colored costume, braided in' black, black hat lined with ecru colored silk and trimmed with flame colored roses; Miss W. Roberts, pretty dove grey voile, grey crinoline-straw hat massed with scarlet i ~oses; Miss K. Bennett, dainty grey co3-i | '''me, hat to correspond; Mrs] Little,' 'mart black and white striped muslin,: cream lace yoke finished Vith black emr broideries, black hat with pink roses; Miss Sole, bottle green coat and skirt'.! cream straw hat,trimmed with loops of salmon pink ribbon; , Mrs. Hammond; Mrs. Ladner, dark green costume, hat to match; Mrs. Putt, black, trimmed' with gold lace; Mrs. Healev, pretty yieux rose linen coat and skirt, black • hat lined with pink; Mrs. J. Clarke pale grey striped voile, cream lace yoke! black hat: Mrs. Waugh, cream coat and ; skirt, violet toque; Mrs. N. Mclsaac cream costume, smart royal blue and ! black toque.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss Teresa McEnroe is the guest of Mrs. F. Henderson, St. Aubyn street. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Burgess have been on a short motor trip to Wellineton. Mrs. H." Stocker "left last Thursday for Wellington, where she will be met by her ihother, Mrs. Fred' Webster; and from thence they will journev to Sydney, remaining there about three months. Mrs. and Miss Devenish left on Wellington for Blenheim, where they, will be the guests of, Mr. and Mrs. w". Skinner. , Miss Fabian, of the local telephone exchange, is at present at Auckland, relieving Miss Brett, who is at New Plymouth for a time. Still another engagement is rumored, so evidently Cupid works more than; the legal eight hours a day, or else his | markmanship is improving, viz., Miss Lulu McAllum, of this town (but-at present a nurse in Hamilton hospital) to Mr. Dickself, of Te Kuiti.