for WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 2

for WOMEN

The Hon. Mr Justice Northcroft and Miss Nancy Northcroft have returned from a visit to Hokitika. Mrs Richard Allen and Miss Diana Allen, formerly of the Mill House, Fendalton, have returned to Christchurch after a long visit abroad. Mrs Allen is the guest of her sister, Mrs T. Y. Wardrop, Innes road, and Miss Allen is staying with Mrs T. Cowlishaw, Beverley street. . Mrs Frank Symon (Wellington) will arrive in Christchurch to-mor-row for a short visit and will be the guest of Mrs Denys Hoare, Kilmore street west. Miss Elspeth Barton (Heretaunga) is visiting Mrs George Gould, "Avonbank," Fendalton. Mrs Gordon Coull (Fendalton) is visiting Auckland, where her husband, Squadron Leader Coull, is oh military duty. Mrs Geoffrey Hamilton and her daughters (Fendalton) are spending a holiday at their seaside house at New Brighton. Mr and Mrs J. R. McKenzie ("Roydon Lodge") are staying at Hanmer Springs. ' Mr and Mrs Norman Facer (Merivale) have returned from a holiday visit to Nelson. Mr and Mrs L. P. Longuet (Sumner) are spending a holiday at Geraldine. ' * Mrs ' Palmer and Mrs Parnell (Christchurch), who have been the guests of Mrs S. T. Madeley, "Ashleigh," East Eyreton, have returned home. Miss Marjorie Nicholson (Fendalton) and Miss Megan Papworth, who have been the guests of Mrs J. H. Papworth. "Greenwood Farm," Wil.lowby, Ashburton,' have returned to Christchurch. Mrs Shirreff-Hilton (Garden road) is paying a visit to Wellington. Mrs Guy Cotterill (Merivale lane) will leave on Sunday for a short visit to Wellington'. .Mr and Mrs E. G. Kerr (Timaru) were vfsitors to Christchurch yesterday for the farewell ceremony to troops of the Ist Echelon, who will leave soon for service overseas. At a farewell morning tea party given in her honour by Auckland members of, the Returned . Army Nursing Sisters' Association, Sister W. Wall, who will soon leave for overseas with the New Zealand Forces, wore the new uniform worn by the sisters sailing with the Ist Echelon. It was considered by those present to be a great improvement on those worn by the nurses of the 1914-15 contingents. The modern uniform comprises a neat grey tail-, ored costume with a small red tab on each lapel, a white silk blouse with a soft turned-back collar and grey tie,' and a soft-brimmed felt hat banded in grey ribbon edged with red. In the last war, nurses wore a long, heavy ankle-length coat, high necked dress, and small bonnet tied with strings under the chin. Among those receiving diplomas for arts and crafts' exhibits in the Women's Court of the Centennial Exhibition appear two Dunedin nariles—Mrs T. S. Cairney, of Concord, who was awarded a first class diploma for needle painting on linen, and Miss Fynmore, a first class diploma for hand-made toys. ... Figures issued by the Australian Commonwealth Statistician in Canberra, recently showed that in 1938 there was one bride aged 12, one aged 13, 17 aged 14, 120 aged 15, 596 aged 16, 1629 aged 17, and 2086 aged 18. One boy of 14 led a bride of 15 to the altar. There were 15 bridegrooms aged 15, 101 aged 17, 347 aged 18. A child of 12 married a man of 22. At the other end of the scale the oldest bride recorded in 1938 was aged 82, and she married a man of 58. A bridegroom of 88 married a bride of 53. In England and Scotland there are many instances of quaint, romantic, and historical ways' in which rents are still paid. JFor instance, each year on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington has to travel to Windsor Castle to hand over a small silk flag. Tradition has prescribed the flag as the annual rental for the estate of Strathfieldsaye,' which was presented to his ancestor by the Crown. The anniversary is on June 16. Similarly, the DUke of Marlborough has to: undertake a long pilgrimage, each year to preserve his right to live at Blenheim. The Duke of Atholl holds Blair-Atholl on even cheaper terms. He has to present the reigning sovereign with a white rose each year. -„,• ■ ...". ; ,_:.. : : ,.■,,.,_, ; Ethne Tosswill* of 123 A Cashel street, and Hereford Court, conveys to her many patrons best wishes for the coming New Year and asks her public ,to remember her two shops at the above addresses have reopened to supply your needs 'for the coming holiday period at New Year. 'Phone 33-478. —6 SUN-TAN SECRET! Do you admire, the: attractive tan of others and dread the burning you inevitably receive when sun-bathing? The secret of a. perfect tan is Tan"ola, which contains "Vitamin Turtle Oil, and is used universally. Tanola is obtainable from E. Cameron. Smith, Ltd., Chemists, Cathedral square, at 2s and 3s 6d bottle. X 4300

i CURRENT NOTES

Mr and Mrs Clive Crozier (Heaton street), who have been visiting Mrs T. W. Satterthwaite, Timaru, will return home to-day. , Major S. M. Satterthwaite (Burnham) and Mrs Satterthwaite, who have also been Mrs T. W. Satterthwaite's guests, have returned home. Mrs Tyndall Harman and her guest, Miss Tait (Sydney), who are visiting Pembroke, will return home this week. Mrs /van Wood (Beverley street) will leave on Sunday for a visit to Wellington. { Miss Lorna Martin (Auckland), who is visiting her sister in Christchurch, will leave to-day to visit friends in North Canterbury before returning north. Mrs a T. W. Churchward and Miss Margaret Churchward (Blenheim) are visiting Mrs W. H. Skinner, New Plymouth. Mrs A. Grant (Timaru), who has , been visiting Mrs C. J. Ronaldson, Papanui road, has returned home. Miss Phyllis Cowan and Miss Betty Johnson (Christchurch), who have been spending the Christmas holidays with Miss Cowan's parents, Springburn, have returned to Christchurch. . Miss Nancye Wynne, the Australian tennis champion, only daughter of Mr H. M. Wynne, of St. Kilda, and the late Mrs Wynne, has announced her engagement to Mr George Frederick'(Peter) Bolton, of Corowa, New South Wales. The lady editor of "The Press" gratefully acknowledges receipt of a- khaki knitted scarf from "North Beach" for a soldier. The action recently brought unsuccessfully by Princess Stefanie Hohehlohe-Waldenberg against Lord Rothermere was one of the most expensive in the King's Bench for some time. A fair estimate of its total cost is £ 15,000. The daily cost was about £IOOO, but although the case lasted only six days, it had been long in preparation, and there had been a number of expensive consultations and preliminary skirmishes. A small band of women in a West End square in London has been working at top speed to supply 12,000 each of scarves, balaclavas, helmets, and pairs of mittens for members of the Royal Air Force in France. The comforts committee had inquiries made among airmen in France to find out what will keep them warm. A scarf is particularly welcome because the airman can wear it round his head' in addition to his helmet or round his neck for extra warmth. Fingerless mittens are not supplied as part of Royal Air Force kit and are another welcome comfort. They are worn under gloves, which can be removed when necessary, leaving the fingers free to manipulate instruments. Lady Granville, the Queen's elder sister, has just suffered all the pains and panics of an examinee. At Government House, Douglas, Isle of Man, she sat with many others for the first-aid and nursing class examination. Afterwards she remarked to one of her fellow examinees that ' she believed she had made an awful muddle of the questions. Her fears, however, were belied by her taking a good place in the list. Lord Granville was thus able to hand her a certificate when he made the prize distribution. Lady Granville's anxiety is understandable, for she has got together a first-aid corps in the island of about 600 women. She did so while herself attending classes. Two problems are, engrossing theatre managers in London to-day: t-(1> The best "opening times' ; and (2) the "right prices." The former is the more acute. A recent census of opinion among playgoers at the Westminster Theatre, where J. B. Priestley's "Music! at Night" continues to do well, endorses the management's choice of 7.30. as the best opening time. The three mam reasons given were:—-d) It is sufficiently late to permit of a light meal beforehand; (2) it is not too late for those who prefer to sup afterwards; and (3) it enables all playgoers to be safely home by 11. Some theatres open at 6.30 p.m. Colours are fighting back to favour in the new season's fashions. Red and violet are combined in one ensemble and rich snapdragon red jackets, square cut and padded on the shoulders, are worn with violet ■dresses.

, The ICing of Sweden has given the title of professor to the well-known Swedish historian Dr. Lydia Wahlstrom. Professor Wahlstrom' was one. of the leaders of the Swedish women's fight for suffrage. For 34 years she was headmistress of a girls' secondary school' in Sweden, and is still, at 70 years, old, one of the most admired and popular lecturers in Sweden, travelling all over the countrv for the Swedish People's Educational Society, lecturing on historical, sociological, psychological, and religious subjects. Sh has an extraordinarily charming and vivid personality, keen and fearless in her fight for democracy and justice for men and women.Keep internally clean and be externally fresh! Take R.U.R. two or three times a week and say "goodbye" to constipation, blood acid and toxins, rheumatism, neuritis, sciatica, etc; R.U.R., the perfect laxative, is to-day's grjeatest health asset. —7

HEALTH CAMP OPENING AT NEW BRIGHTON TO-DAY JAM AND FRUIT WANTED . d Thirty-six girls, with four prefects and a nurse from the Department of Health, will go into camp at the New Brighton Trotting Club's course this morning. The camp is in charge of the Sunlight League, which for the last nine years has annually held camps in January in different parts of the pro- ■ vince. The children will assemble at the Health Department's office, Herei ford street, at 11 a.m. to-day, and, after | being examined by doctors, will be taken by bus to the trotting course. Mrs G. T. Hill, honorary secretary of the Sunlight League's Health Camp Committee, and a band of carried out all preliminary preparations for the reception of the children, who will be accommodated in the luncheon room at the course. A staff of two will attend to the domestic-du-ties at the-camp. Arrangements have been made with the Tramway Board to take the children to North Brighton for a bathe each morning. Gifts of jam, fruit, and rhubarb for the children would be welcome at the camp. 'Parcels left at "The Press" office addressed to the lady editor will be acknowledged and delivered by her. GIFT PARTIES An enjoyable gift party was given in the Coronation Hall, Oxford, to honour Miss Frances McCormack, whose marriage will take place shortly. The entertainment was arranged by Mesdames T. Inch, T. Power, T. Garlick, and J. C. Mann. Items were given by Mesdames N. Stevenson, C. E. Johnston, C. Meares, and Misses M. Powell and N. Mann.. Competitions were'won by Mesdames H. Thompson anct C. Meares.Amongst those present were Mesdames T. Inch, T. Power, T. Garlick, J. C. Mann, J. McCormack, F. Myer, E. Myer, A. Henderson, W. Cross, E. Bowman, W. Fenwick, W. J. Skurr, J. Perham, C. H. Powell, F. Debenham, E. R. Inwood, W. A. B. Reed, R. Thompson, H. Thompson, B. McGrath, J. Cook, H. Youngman, T. Gundrey, P. Englebreeht/A. Mitchell, L. Winter, O. Le Comte, R. Garlick, L. Skurr, C. Meares, R. McGrath, B. Pachnatz, C. Mann, J. Gilchrist. C. E. Johnston, T. Judson, N. Stevenson, A, Winter, Misses F. McCormack, K. Dorn, E. Myer, V. Perham, V. Fenwick, B. Brosnahan, M. Pachnatz, J. Vincent, N. Mann, P. McGrath, M. Powell, J. Youngman, N. Bowman, and D, Whyte. Miss McCormack was also presented with a crystal rose bowl from, members of the Oxford Catholic Church.