MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 7 April 1926, Page 3

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

["Angela” will be pleased to receive for publication in the women’a page, notices from town and country subncribers, of engagements, weddings, dances, or any other item of social or personal interest, but all such must boar the rignature of the sender ]

Miss F. Byrne, Wai-iti Road, has returned from a short visit to Dunedin. Mr and Mrs \V. Pcarse, leave to-day for Dunedin. Mrs and Miss Hargraves, Kakahu, are in Christchurch. Mr and. Mrs K. Ballantync, Christchurch, spent Easter in Timaru. Mr and Mrs H. 0. Bowron, Seddon Street, have returned from Dunedin. Dr. and Mrs P. R. Woodhouse, Bluecliffs, left on Monday for Dunedin. Mrs E. C. Studholme, AVaimate, is the guest of Mrs Wells, Christchurch. Mrs C. Bowker, Sarah Street, is visiting Dunedin. Miss Betty Harper, Park Lane, is visiting Christchurch. Mrs Buckingham, Te Weka Street, returned yesterday from Dunedin. Mr and Mrs 'J'. Knight, Temuka, have gone to Dunedin. Miss P. Ward, Rose Street, has returned from Dunedin. Mr and Mrs J. C. Miller, Woodbury, .are in Christchurch. Mrs C. H.. Gorton, Neison Terraco, is expected back from Christchurch tomorrow. MiV Kinross and Miss E. Kinross, Central Otago, spent-Ea.ster with Mrs T. Kinross, Woodlands Rond. Mr and Mrs Holiday Hartley, “Opawa,” Albiiry, are staying in Christchurch. ... Mr and Mrs M. J. Doyle, Theodocia Street, leave next week, en route for England. Mrs J. Smith, Pleasant Point, has returned from a week’s holiday in Dunedin. Miss Nancy .Poynton, who was the guest of Miss Una Scott, Geraldine, has returned to Burnham. Miss L. Clark, R.R.C., who has booh the guest of Mrs Owen Howell,. Eairlic, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs Kcdward, Wanganui, and Miss Bates, Geraldine, have returned to Geraldine after a visit, to Dunedin. Miss Noeline Beid, who was the guest of Mrs Ernest Hotvden, Park Lane, returned yesterday to Oamaru. Mr and Mrs W. W. Baxter, and Mr Bruce Baxter, AVai-iti Road, have returned from Christchurch. Major and Miss Mary Bond, Claremont, and Miss Margaret Hlwortby', Craigmorc, are in Christchurch. Airs C. E. Johnston, and Miss Alison Johnston, AA'ai-iti Road, arc spending a holiday at Bluecliffs. Captain and Airs Redmond Neill, Alount Somers, are visiting Christchurch. Aliss Margaret Elworthy, Craigmorc, was a debutante at the polo hall held in Christchurch <jn Monday night. Aliss Effie Hay, Alain South Road, returns to-day from a visit to AA'cllington.

Air and Airs Gerald Martin, AVilson Street, have returned from Christchurch. Airs E. 0. Kerr, Nelson Terrace, leaves to-day for Christchurch, to take part in the golf tournament. Air rind Airs Leslie Smith, AVaimatc, motored back yesterday from Christchurch., Mr and Afrs D. Lawson, who spent Easter in Timaru, returned yesterday to Ashburton. Mr . and ATrs Hamilton SinelairThoiusoif, Four Peaks, are in Christchurch. Airs Banncrman, and Airis Gladys Andrew,r AVai-iti Road, loft yesterday for Dunedin. Air Alex. Johnston is staying with Air and Airs AV.. Johnston, Sefton Street.. Airs Cecil AVebber, Kitchener Square, and Miss Popplewell, returned on Afondav from Christchurch. 'i’hc.,;Misses Sbivas returned from Dunedin on Afonday, where they spent the Easter vacation. Aliss Florence Clissold, North Street, and Afiss Helen Cotton'll, Sefton Street, returned last night from Dunedin. Aliss Jvy Oliver. ‘‘Surrey Downs,” is the guest of the AJ. rises Rogers, the A'iearago, North East A'alley, .Dunedin. Afiss Scott and Air E. Scolt. “Oaklea,” Geraldine, have lecmued from a visit to t|m Hermitage. Air and Airs IT. 1 nnes-Jones, Sefton Street, and Airs N. K. Cox, AVai-iti, Road, motored back yesterday from Dunedin. ' . ' 'Miss J. R. Barr, Principal of the Timaru Girls’ High School, has rc-

turned from .a short holiday-in Christchurch. ; l Mrs Percy'Barker and'Miss Realby, Kakaliu, left, on. Monday., lor ...Christchurch. They wiil later visitythe West' Coast. Miss Phyllis Collins, of Timaru, has returned- to Mcthvcii, where she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs A. McLeod. Mr and Mrs L. N. Kempthorne, St. Andrews, motored down to Alctnu for Easter, where they were the guests of Mrs W. E." Mills, “Cook 'Bock.” . Mr and Mrs Arthur Klworthv, and •Mr Stewart Peter, Holme. Station, motored up to Christchurch on Sunday. Miss Irene Alulvaiiy-Gray has returned from a visit to California, where .she has been studying the American methods of dancing. Mr and Mrs G. S. Cray and Miss Cray, Seaviow Terrace, ’ and Miss Phyllis Pigott, AVoodlauds Boat], returned yesterday from Christchurch.

The engagement is announced of Alary Madeline, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Cha.s. 1). Matson, Feiulalton, and Herbert M.aurice. youngest son of the Rev. Canon and Airs I* J. Cocks Waimate.

_ Mr and Mrs ITerbcrt LoCron, and Miss Leslie LeCren, arrived on Moild&y from Dunedin, to bo present at the LeCren-Afaedouald wedding, which takes place to-day. One wondered how long it would be before tho modern bride took a .stand against tho flippant sliort skirt, so out ot keeping witii the serious ceremony of a wedding, says an Australian writer, An English brid e (Miss Bosalind Bonson) has given Hie knee-high frock a docidod setback by wearing a wonderful gown that came below her ankles, yet looked very lovely. This is a description of it:—“Jt was n Florentine gown, with tho beautiful line and dignified simplicity of an age when dress was at its most decorative point. The material used for the dress and train was a palo parchment coloured panne velvet, embroidered in gold thread in the delicate style of the period. Tho train was lined with cloth of gold, a filet of orange buds held the veil of Brussels lace, and in place o!i a bouquet a. rod prayorliook was carried —the red echoed bv the red panne frocks and red and gold tunics of her retinue of small girls and hoys. The Florentine gown is an ideal model for the modern bride to follow in choos- . ing her wedding gown. Tt lias a dignity ’'which aro peculiarly suited for an c~

casion when its wearer has to remain still for the greater part of the time, and it can be knelt in without fear that one’s knees are slicking out oddly behind. There has been a pathetic triviality about some of the recent wedding frocks cut on present-day fashionable linos and provided with skirts reaching little below the knees. They certainly have a. smai't, slick look—but slickne.ss is not quite what is wanted in a girl bride ”