WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1919, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

PERSONAL. Mrs* A. Webster returned last week from a trip to the Islands. » » * • Miss Fairbrother is spending her holiday in North. » ■' * # # Miss Tidy, who has been the guest of Mrs. Butler (Wallington), is staying with Mrs. E. Addenbrooke, New Plymouth. • * » » Miss Burrows, of the Girls' High School staff, leaves for Auckland tonight. » * * • Miss Cox, of Auckland, is the guest of Miss Wade. • * « » Mrs. McNaughton Christie is visiting her mother, Mrs. Reg. Bayley. • • # # Mrs. Fitzherbert and Miss Sybil Fitzherbert, who have been on a short visit to New Plymouth, return to Auckland nex* Tuesday. • • • • Mrs. Oliver Samuel has left for Wellington. • » • • Mrs. Mortimer-Jones leaves next week for her future home in Cambridge. I • * • * Mrs. Mayne arrives from Christchurch I on Monday, and will 'he the guest of Miss Leatham. • • » » Miss Meldrum, who has been visiting Mrs. Carthew, senr., has left with her father, General Meldrum, for their home in Hunterville. • » • • Miss Kebbell, of Levin, is the guest | at Mrs. A. Crooke. ! • • • • Last Thursday night a committee of girls arranged another novel dance at the East End Pavilion in honor of Miss | Sybil Fitzherbert. Each guest was ask-1 ed to wear a costume made of paper,! and the effect was extremely good, some of the frocks being simply remarkable. The decorations, which were all carried out in colored paper, were most effective, the lights Fven being arrayed in frilled redskirts. The chaperons were Mesdames P. B. Fitzherbert, Fraser, Chaney andl Anderson. '

WEDDINGS •WHEELER—RUSLING. (From a Correspondent.) A great deal of interest was manifested in a wedding which took place at Inglewood on the afternoon of Thursday, July 31, between Ernest Bennett Rusling, son of Mr. George Rusling, formerly of Inglewood, and Lily Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Thomas Reid Wheeler, of Durham Road. The warirage service was held in St. Andrew's Church, and conducted by the Rev. J. Stanton, vicar of Inglewood, where a very numerous gathering of relatives and friends had assembled. The bride, accompanied by her father, arrived from her home by motor. She was very becomingly dressed in white crope-de-chine, trimmed with pearl, and a very handsomely embroidered veil secured by a wreath of orange blossoms, and carried an exquisite shower bouquet, the gift of Mrs. Whittington, of Hawera, and looked radiant as she passed on her father's arm from the car through the throng of congratulating friends to the church, which was crammed with interested witnesses, and so to the altar, where the bridegroom awaited her. The bride, who was given away by her father, was accompanied by Miss Whittington, of Hawera, and two little flower girls, Miss Doris Jury, niece of the bride, and Miss Maisic Rusling, niece of the bridegroom. They were appropriately dressed in white and bore bouquets of the choicest flowers obtainable at this- time of the year, which had been specially procured for the occasion by Mrs. Whittington and forwarded from Hawera. The bridegroom was supported by Mr. W. R. AVheeler, brother of the bride, as 'best man. After the ceremony the parents of the bride received their guests at the Town Hall, where the wedding presents were displayed. These were very numerous, and included useful as well as ornamental mementoes of the donors' good wishes to the newly-wedded couple. The bridegroom's present to his bride was a handsome set of white furs and handbag, to the bridesmaid a gold brooch set with diamonds and sapphires, and to each of the two little flower girls a gold wish-bone brooch, while the bride's gift to the groom was a gold-mounted cigarette case. In the supper room of the town hall a sumptuous wedding breakfast was spread of viands appropriate for such occasions, a notable feature of which. wa3 the bridecake, a three-decker on silver tiers. The tables were most tastefully decorated, water-lilies of a winter flowering variety, a flower specially suiting the bride's name, being prominent in profusion. Of this repast more than a hundred guests partook, and after having done full justice to the good things provided and honored the toasts —"The Bridal Pair," proposed 'by Rev. J. Stanton, "The Bridesmaids," at the behest of Mr. J. Sutherland, cousin of the Tiridc, and "The Parents of the Bride," by request of Mr. Stevens—the company dispersed to reassemble later in the hall, where to the music of Mr. J. Wilson's orchestra, assisted at intervals hy Mrs; 'L. Brown and Miss IDombrowski at the piano, dancing prevailed well into the wee sma' 'oors of August 1. When the bridal pair left the ballroom, and whither they hied, the friends assembled -were not allowed to know, so quietly was their departure effected.

DENMAN-CLARRY. A pretty wedding was solemnised in the Eltham Methodist Church on Monday last, when Miss Elsie Clarry, daughter of Mr Walter Clarry, was linked in the bonds of matrimony to Mr Geo! Denman. The bride, who was tastefully attired in white silk with the customary veil and orange blossoms, and carlied a bouquet of white roses and daisies, was given away by her father. The chief bridesmaid was Miss Minnie Ciarry, dressed in white silk with black lace hat; the other bridesmaid being Miss E. D»nman. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr W. R. Denman, of Wanganui, as best man. A reception was subsequently held, about 50 quests being present. The officiating minister (Rev. Hosking) proposed the health of the bride, and the other usual toasts were honored, Mr G. S. Papps expressing the good wishes of the Oddfellows, of which order the newly martied epuple are members. The presents, which were numerous, included several substantial cheques. In the aftwnQpn the happy couple left for Wan;f/inuii by car, on a honeymoon tour.— Argui,