WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONAL. Airs. T. A. Milroy is visiting Hawera for a few days. Mrs. Orr Walker left this week for Samoa. * * * •

Mrs. J. Morton is the guest of her mother, Mrs. W. D. Webster. Miss Nora Livesey (Christchurch) is spending a holiday here. © * * »

Miss B. Evans returned to Rotorua on Thursday. Miss N, Wilson has returned from a short visit to Stratford.

Mrs. H. B. Horner (Stratford) is staying with her mother, Mrs J. B. Thom-

Mrs. Simpson was hostess at a bridge party for Mrs. Matthews on Wednesday night.

Mrs. D. •K. Morrison has returned from a trip io Auckland. Mrs. Truby King (Stratford) was a visitor here for the Golf Club dance. # • * * Mrs. Jack Morrison, who has been vifiiting Mrs. M. J. Armstrong, has returned to Auckland.

On Thursday Mrs. Hugh Baily gave a delightful afternoon tea and bridge party for Mrs. R. J. Matthews. Miss Testa was the lucky prize-winner.

ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Miss Annie May Blennerhassett, of the teaching stall of the Hamilton West School, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Blennerhassett, of Mata Mata, to Mr. George Stuart Strack, second son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Strack, of Beaconsfield Road, Stratford. VICTORIA LEAGUE. Admirers of Alice Meynell will Took forward to the lecture* to be given by MLs-s J. McLeod, M.A., under the auspices of the Victoria League on Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock. THE GOLF DANCE. The East End pavilion presented a very attractive appearance on Wednesday last, the occasion being the New ■Plymouth Golf Club’s first dance. The hall was prettily decorated with flags and greenery tied with big bows of the club’s colors,, scarlet and black, and the same color scheme was followed in the table decorations. 'The long tables were most artistic with scarlet flowers and maidenhair ferns and. beautiful scarlet enemonies stencilled with black scattered over the tablecloths. Mrs. T. Anderson. the captain's wife, and her ertergctic committee—Mesdames Walker, C. H. Weston, Blackley. H. Gray, Misses Simpson, Winfield, Home and Greig—deserve great praise for the excellence pf the arrangements. From start to finish the dance went with a swing and was pronounced by all to have been one of the successes of the season. Not the least noteworthy item was the programmes. with the chib colors and suitable advice to golfers with each dance.

DAFFODIL FAIR. All members and friends and the public generally are askeu to help to make the Victoria League daffodil fair the success it deserves to be. On Friday next, August 12. afternoon and evening, the clubroom will be changed from a tea and rest room to a shop, where articles of all descriptions will bo sold for the league’s funds. The chief attraction will be the daffodils, and there will also be cake and produce stalls, china stall and stalls for plain and fancy sewing. This enterprising institution is doing such wonderful work in supplying books and magazines to backblocks schools, settlers and soldier settlements that any help the public can give will be welcomed by the officials of the league. WEDDING. SMITH—PHI LLIPS. A quiet but pretty wedding took place at the residence of the bride’s parents, Wai-toi-toi, on Tuesday, August 2, when Mr. Donald Smith, eldest son of Mr. A. Smith, of New Plymouth, and formerly of Urenui, was married to Mabel, eldest daughter of Mr. and Airs. J. F. Phillips, of Wai-toi-toi. The Rev. F. Lawrence, of Wai-toi-toi, officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a dress of* white crepe de chine, trimmed with georgette and pearls. She wore the customary veil and orange blossom, and carried a bouquet of fresias and white stocks. Miss Ethel Phillips, sister of the bride, acted as chief bridesmaid, and wore a dress of shell pink crepe de chine embroidered with silk and beads. Miss Ivy Phillips, Whangarei, cousin of the bride, was also a bridesmaid, and wore a dress of blue georgette over crepe de chine, trimmed with ribbon to match and pink rosebuds, and both carried bouquets of pink stock and asparagus.

Mr. Haddon Smith, New Plymouth carried out the duties of best man.

The bridegroom's present to the bride was a gold wristlet watch, and to the bridesmaids gold circular brooches inset with pearls and rubies. The bride’s persent to the bridegroom was a gold albert. The breakfast was laid in a marquee on the lawn, where the guests were entertained and the usual toasts were honored. The bride travelled in a green gabardine costume and hat to match. The 'happy loouple were t-ho recipients of many handsome and useful presents, including many cheques. They left by motor midst the cheers of many friends for New Plymouth, on their way to Auckland, where the honeymoon is to be spent, and thence to their future home in Hamilton.

AN OLD IDENTITY. Mrs. James Wall, who died at Porirua on Sunday evening, was a very old and respected settler, and had lived all 'her life in the Wellington district. Her .• parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas j Floyd, arrived in Wellington on AnniI versary Day, January 22. 1941, on The I Slane’s Castle, and later took up their residence at Porirua. Mrs. Wall ,was born on November 28, 1848. She was 'married to Mr. James Wall, who arrived in Zealand a few months after

The Slane’s Castle in the Lord William Bentick. Mr. Wall, who. is a farmer at Porirua, is still alive and hale and hearty, although in his <S3rd year. Mrs. Wall spent the whole of her married life at Porirua, bringing up a large family, who now number three sons and one daughter. The eldest son is Mr. James Wall, of Te Kuiti, chairman of the Waitomo .County Council, Mrs. Wall came from ‘a good old stock, both her father and mother attaining the ripe age of 93 years.

MRS. MASSEY AT HOME. The New Zealand Premier and Mrs. and Miss Massey have attended a good many social functions of a very interesting nature. Mrs. .Massey this time naturally finds London quite « different place from what it was during the war, for How entertainments, which for the time being were entirely abandoned, have again been revived. In London one sees very little evidence of the industrial distress* which the long-standing coal deadlock has brought to the country generally, and on the surface social functions appear to have returned to normal. Wonderful and costly dresses are seen at race meetings; dinners and lunches and receptions are on a generous scale in private houses. And yet in the innermost recesses well-to-do people are feeling the pinch. Mrs. Massey gave one instance. She had been on a visit to the country estate of a very w.ell-known man, who was proud to show her hi>s gardens, whose beautiful vegetables and fruit do great credit to the seven men continually employed, to keep everything up to “pitch.” Once upon a time, after the household needs had been supplied, the bulk of the products would have been distributed among friends. But now everything goes to the market to be sold, the owner remarking that the gardens must recoup the cost of their upkeep, for he did not want his men to be out of employment. In that particular house domestic economy was rigorously- studied.

A WHITE AND SILVER WEDDING. A white and silver wedding which took place recently sounds very attractive (writes the Wellington Post). The bride was in white draped georgette, caught with sprays of Madonna lilies. Her cloth of silver train was finished with a trail of liles and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaids were a pretty group in glistening frocks of white and silver brocade, with silver tissue sashes and wreaths of silver leaves. A little trainbearer was in an old-fashioned white suit of satin. The necessary touch of color was given by the bridesmaids’ bouquets, which were of vivid crimson Goodyear roses, the page's buttonhole being to match. Other bridesmaids mentioned were .in simple ecru lace frocks, with, jfilue tulle sashes and blue wreaths, and they carried sheaves of delphiniums. I Mo.ro “colorsome” frocks were of apriI cot c'harmeuse, veiled in georgette, and (gold safihes and wreaths. Some little I maids at the same wedding were in petal , frocks of apricot and gold taffetas. Another pretty combination of colors for bridesmaids mentioned was mauve crepe jde chine, with silver-edged tunics, mauve 'georgette hats, edged with grey lace, iand botiquets of pink carnations. •