HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1931, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

Mental Hospital Entertaining. Through the kind thought of the Bey. A. Harding, three separate entertainments were provided recently for the benefit of patients at the Porirua Mental Hospital. A picnic was the first, held on an ideal day, and a delightful time was spent by patients and friends. The Petone Band supplied cheerful music, which added much to the enjoyment. Then followed a Sunday concert, when an excellent programme was given by friends from Wellington and Hutt. Another concert was given at one of the cottages, when Wellington and Hutt friends again provided a much-appreciated entertainment, the items by the Muir Brothers being particularly popular. Presentations were made at the last-mentioned function by Mr. Harding to two of the nurses (who arc leaving to travel) o£ handsome cushions for.use on board the steamers and trains, these being given with many expressions of goodwill. The First Advertisement. The first known English newspaper advertisement concerned, not pills, soap, tobacco or clothing, but a lost horse, states an exchange. It appeared in the "Moderate" in 1649, and ran: Header, thou art entreated to inquire after a blackish and kind of piebald Nag, very poor, his face, foot and flank white, and with a little white tip on his tail. Ho was stolen from grass from John Bothcrhani, of Barnct, in Hertfordshire. Whosoever shall inquire, find him out, and bring or sond tidings of him shall have whot content they will for their paina." Unemployed Girls. ■A report concerning the numbers of girls in the city who arc unemployed and the necessity for their registration was discussed at a meeting of the Wellington branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It was suggested that tho Minister of Labour be approached and asked to put up posters calling attention to this necessity. Mrs. Murray, who presided, read the report of the forty-sixth annual convention, held in Nelson last month. It wns stated that the W.C.T.U. was tho only women's society working for Prohibition in New Zealand; £650 would be needed by July to pay off the second mortgago on headquarters. La Mode. Jade or turquoise shoes, for evening, with a white frock as well as with tho ono they match exactly. Bed shoes-with a. dross of white or palo beige as well as with Ihoir own. Brown slices with ivdry or beige and some of tho delicate rose tones as well as with one of this year's lovely gowns in dark brown lace or net. Evening wraps, jewels, and bags, may follow tho same path to an end which combines variety with nconoiny. Some of Ihe palp lames flushed with colour make lovely even-

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