SOCIAL NEWS AND FASHIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 2

SOCIAL NEWS AND FASHIONS.

(By "Marguerite.")

Mrs Morrison, wife of the late member for Caversham, Dunedin, and her granddaughter, daughter of Mr W,. Bird, inspector of native schools, who - have been the guests of Mrs A. W.' Hogg, left for Wellington yesterday. Mrs F. Redmond, of "Wellington, who lias been on a visit to her mother (Mrs H. Welch, of Mastertqn), returned to her home yesterday. Mrs J. Archer gave a very happy little "picture party" to'about forty children at the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon. Miss Sellar, who has.been oh a visit to the Empire City, returned last night. Miss Moore, of Victoria Street, has returned from a holiday visit to Wellington. Mrs S. H. Rasmussen, of Ihuraua Valley, has taken a house in Eketahiina, with a view to giving her four daughters a good education. "" , Nurse Howartson, of Oonville, who recently brake ,}\ec leg abljfasterton, has recoverad sufficiently tHpeturn to her parents' home in Alma Road, says the Wanganui Chronicle. Miss Rutherfurd, of Wanganui, is staying with her sister, Mrs Rutherford, of Mauriceville. Mrs W. G. Beard, of "Ovingdean," is the guest of Mrs Mawley, of "Ditton." '.,.'' Mr and Mrs Norman Matthews, of Featherston, are visiting Wellington. Mrs .Trapp, who has been visiting Mrs H. H. Walters,'of Carterton, has returned to the Empire City. "Hard-up 1 " dances are becoming fashionable in Wellington. The invitations are written on bi own paper, and in pencil. People attend the functions in their working clothes. Candles are used instead of ordinary light. The musio is supplied by a concertina, or some such instrument, and the refreshments are—well, indescribable. There is some sort of a mad function of this character being organised in Masterton.

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