FRIDAY NIGHT IN TOWN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 14 January 1916, Page 3

FRIDAY NIGHT IN TOWN

"Everybody seems to be talking about conscription at Homo just now," said Airs. Burr, by way of introducing tho weekly shopping discussion with, her friend, ill's. Johnson. I wonder if it ever occurs to h!ie people who 1 are raising such a cry against it that they, and all of us, have been all our lives compelled, by somefcod'y or other, to do this and to do that. If it had not been so, what sort of a world would this be now, I'd liko to kuow? Antii-oonscriptionists, indeed! Anti-fiddlesticks!" Aiul with this emphatic climax, Ill's. Barr addressed herself to matters of more domestic moment, much to the relief of her friend, who felt that she had been picked up by a tempest and whirled about like a leaf for a minute. "By all means," my dear, said she, relapsing into her comfortable attitude once more. "There are two pictures that I particularly want to see at Shortfs Thoatre. One is a very fine drama calleJ 'The Coward,' and the other is the parade of all the Germans who were captured at the big Battle of Champagne. Oh, and by tho way, I see that they are going to repeat that screaming farce about 'Charlie Chaplin at the Seaside,' by special request—on Monday, and also "The Woman Who Stayed at Home." "I managed to nail a very common delusion the other day. I asked a friend of mino to spend an evening at the pictures with rae, and she said she would rather not, as the pictures hurt her eyes. I told her what a doctor said: 'If the pictures hurt your eyes, it's the eyes, not the pictures, that are at fault, ■ and so saying, I bundled her off to Spear, the optician, in Willis Street. She now has a very good pair of glasses, and is becoming a Tegular pic-ture-gazer." '"By tie way, I particularly want to call at the Wair'arapa Fanners', on the Quay to-day. And you must come too, for I'm going to show you something very special." \ . "Oh, a surprise ?" "Well,, it was to me, as I had never tried it before. They have just got i'j some delicious smoked trout and cod. 1 took some home earlier in the week, and the family declared that it was a huge success. I'm goin? to get some more today, and I want you to f get some too, and tell me what you think of it." "I was having lunch with some friends at the Vegetarian Health Food Cafe the other day. The weather was so close and hot that a vegetarian lunch seemed to. appeal to us. You know, they have all sorts of meat.substitutes like almond meat, nut meat, nut chpese, nuttoline, and so forth, that, with a little selection f.o one's taste one can have a most enjoyable meal." "Let's lunch there to-day." "By all means, my dear.j Now, let mo see. Oh yes, the special sale at Lees and Church's, in Cuba Sreet. Have you seen ,their window?" : "I peeped in yesterday—hats everywhere. and such smart styles and wonderful bargains I saw. There were untrimmed shapes, and chipped shapes at Is. lid., Tagel shapes from 2s. lid. to 3s. lid., while all their ready-to-wenrs, and trimmed hats were reduced in prices. It seems to be a good sale to go to all right." By tlie way, I want to call in at Stamford s, m Cuba Street, to have my hair done in a now style. I have a new hat, you know. Stamford's did it for me when I got the hat, and everyone tells me that it is quite becoming. It quite reconciled my husband to the little bill which I handed to him." "A friend of mine had a little transformation done to hair, which gavo it a pretty natural umrl that brightened her up wonderfully." "While wo are on. the subject of hair, I must make a note to get a bottle of Galvin s Hairaid for Molly. You remember how thin her hair' used to b?, and what a different-looking girl she is now? Well, it was simply Hairaid, and constant, regular attention that did it, and although we 1 have settled Mollv's hair troubles, yet I believe in' keeping" a bottle in the house as an occasional tonic, for anybody." "Oh, by the way, my sister's family are all going to be photographed at the Irevor Studios next week." "A lot of soldiers go there, judging by their framed • exhibits. No-,v that the bright days are here and the children are home for the holidays I must get mine photographed, too. The Trevor Studios excel m child studies." Another item. I want to get a pair of shoes for my eldest girl, as a present. A nice pair of Goer's single-bar white buck shoes at 17s. Gd. Of course I know her size and foot. I happened to look in Goer's window as I was coming down Majoribanks Street this morning, and the thought struck me. I saw 6uch a nice pair of white button boots at 12s. 0 "Oh, I want yon to have lunch with me at the Tyrol Rooms, in Manners Street, on Monday." "Delighted!" "The Tyrol Booms, of course! I took my husband along there tne other day, and he was delighted with the service. They have a smoking room there- for gentlemen, and I think that must have been the last little touch that captured him. He does so enjoy a smoke after lunch. We had such a nice lunch, too—three courses for a shilling." "My husband took me to supper then* the other evening, and we quite enjoyed ourselves." —(Pub'ishrd by arrangement.).