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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 9

News has been received by cable of the sudden death of Mrs. Norman Perston, wife of Mr. Norman Perston, of the Bank of New Zealand, Sydney. Both Mr. and Mrs. Perston have many friends here, and the latter who wae Mrs. Buckhurst, was sister to !Mr. Chas. Turrell and Miss M'Call. Lady Stout has been visiting Mrs Tuckey's cousin, Mrs. Hazleden, of the White Cottage, Bournemouth. Mrs. and Miss M'Owan, from Fiji, are guests of Mrs. R. M. Simpson. Miss Gwyn Thompson, from Christchurch, is staying with Mrs. Litchfield. Mrs. Tweed has gone to Ashburton for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Young are expected back from their trip to the Lakes at the end of this week. Mrs. W. Turnbull, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs. Johnston, of Highden, returned home on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. La Trobe arrived yesterday from. Christchurch, and are staying at the Hotel Windsor. Miss Fraser, who has been staying in Napier, returned yesterday to Wellington, and is at tho Windsor. Mrs. A. J. Tipler, of Christchurch, who h^s been in Wellington, staying at the Arcadia, left for the South last night. Mrs. Parker, of Kurow, is the sister of Lord Kitchener, and accompanied him through part of his Egyptian campaign, nursing him through an illness that was expected, to prove fatal by the doctors. She came to Wellington on the occasion of the leaving of the First Contingent, which her younge&t son joined. He was shot dead in the first encounter. Miss A. Macandrew has gone for some weeks to Auckland. Miss Ethel Law, 8.A., daughter of Mr. Geo. Law, of Northland, leaves on Friday for Inverca'rgill, where she takes up her position as assistant in the Southland Girls' College. Mrs. Perry, wife of Dr. Perry, who has left Petone to take up a practice in the North, left yesterday by the Main Trunk to join him. She has been a guest of the Rev. J. P. and Mrs. Kussell since Dr. Perry left. Miss Dunn, of England, .is a guest of Bishop and Mrs. Wallis. Mr., Mrs. and ]\liss Keinber have gone to Seatoun for some weeks. Mr. 'and Mrs. E. T. Taylor, of Kilbimie, leave for England on 3st March. The Hon. E. Richardson, Mrs., and Miss Richardson leave to-day for some weeks in Dunedin. Lady Sarah Wilson acted as war correspondent during the Boer War for one of the larger London papers. She was taken prisoner outside Mafeking, and exchanged for a Boer prisoner. She is a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, and an aunt of Mr. Winston Churchill. She and her husband, Lieut. -Colonel Wilson, with Captain Wilson, Mr. Guy Femvick, Mr. Malcolm, and General and Mrs. Grove, are camping and fishing at Taupo. Tn an interesting letter received from a Wellington lady at present in London, the writer describes the absurd luxuries that are being sold— and bought — for cat and dog pets. There are. little bedsteads with satin curtains and eiderdown quilt 3, ancl electro-plated footwarmers, and travelling-bags, completely fitted-up, with all the appointments mounted in silver. She was greatly impressed with the magnificent gold cross presented by Menelik, King of Abyssinia, after the King's Coronation. Ifc btands on the altar of Westminster Abbey, and is about two feet high, of solid gold, its pedestal is a massive piece of gold, while the Maltese cross rising above it is of fairy-like workmanship, as delicate as lace. It was made in Abyssinia, by the natives, and is a most exquisite piece of handicraft, quite apart irom its immense vahie. The contrast between a London railway waiting-room and our cheerless, grimy apartments is marked. At Euston station, a. woman, waiting for a train, can rest in a charming room, with thick carpet on the floor, a glorious fire, armchairs, and even flowers, while, if she chooses, •she can refresh herself, for a trifle, with hot coffee and rolls. Miss Gracie Moncrieff, of Wellington, is spending a holiday of some weeks in the "Wairarapa. Mr. James Cable, second son of Mr. William Cable, was married at St. Paul s Pro-Cathedra^ to-day, to Miss Ford, also of Wellington. Yesterday afternoon the employees of Messrs. William Cable and Co., through. Mr. Duff, the accountant, presented the prospective bridegroom with a silver-mounted oak stand and a silver tea sei'vice. In Denmark a. widow is always known by the l\and on which she wears her wedding-ring. Instead of wearing both an engagement and wedding-ring on -the game finger as we do, Danish brides wear only one plain gold, band on their left third finger, which is the wedding finger in that country. When the husband dies, ' the widow changes her ring to her right third finger, ancl then everybody knows that sue is a widow. Can your complexion be improved ? Yes, in ninety-nine cases out of a nundred it can. Lakshmi Cream will not only improve a good complexion, but it will make a coarse skin soft and gracious. Use this nutritive food, and you will find that it will conquer the most stubborn case of faulty skin affection. Success marks the use of Lakshmi Cream in every case. It is an ideal skin food. John Strange Winter's breezy little booklet, "Comely Woman," will teach you all ,-here is to learn on the care of the. skin and hair. Send for "Comely Woman," and it will be posted free to you. You will be astounded with the simplicity of the directions and the common-sense matter it contains. John Strange Winter is a woman of wide sympathies, as all her novels show, and this trait is well evinced in VComely Woman." 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