SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3539, 1 June 1912, Page 4

SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Sliss Rose returned to Auckland this week.

Mrs and Miss Symes left for their future home in Auckland on Wednesday.

Mrs Gatland has returned from Auckland.

Mrs (Burleigh has returned from the South.

Mrs Buscke is hack from Wellington.

Mrs H. Tuliock is back from the South.

Afternoon tea at Golf on Saturday, which was much appreciated, was given by Mrs Traill and Misses Davies (2). The table looked very gay with its flower decoration in red.

Mr and Mrs E. H. Mann are visiting the South.

Dr. and Mrs Williams are away South just now.

Mrs James Blair gave a very enjoyable evening on Tuesday last to a lew friends.

Mrs E. H. Mann and Mrs J. Wnliams entertained a number of members of The Winter Entertainment Committee at Mrs E. H. Mann’s residence, Whataupoko, on Friday evening last at a musical. Some m those present' were, besides the hostesses: Mesdames Traill, Dods, Kissling, F- Parker, Chattel-ton, Blair; Misses F. Davies, Nolan, Evans,-Wil-liams, Gwen Lewis, Faulkner; Messrs Dods, Mann, Dodgshun, Kisslmg, and Wells. The next evening is to be given at Mrs Kissling’s.

Lady Duff-Gordon, sometimes called the “.Whistler of feminine fashion” who was saved with her husband from the Titanic wreck (writes the Toronto Globe), was born Lucy Wallace, the eldest daughter of the late Douglas Sutherland, of Guelph. Mr. Dyce Saunders and Mr. Bernard 'Saunders, of Toronto, are cousins. In 1900 she married Sir Cosmo Edumund DuffGordon, who represented two of the oldest and proudest families of Scotland. Lady Duff-Gordon, as she then became, was for a while one- of the favorites jin British society circlesWhen financial reverses came to her husband she resolved to enter trade, as many other English women of nobility had done. She adopted the name “Lucille” — sometimes with a prefix—as the one under which she did business, and set up a large establishment in London, another in Paris, and not long ago another in New York. With the companionship of her sister, Mrs Elinor Glyn, the novelist, she invented combinations of color and the most startling arrangements of draperies and waists, some of which shocked even the leaders of outer fashions in Paris and Vienna She was called “a dressmaker,” and treated with criticism and derision by people with whom she had formerly been intimate, and who tried to have her debarred from Court, and even boasted of their success. But she stood it all courageously, defiantly, and even cheerfully, declared that she was “proud” of being a dressmaker and loved her art just as a painter or a musician should his..