SOCIAL NOTES

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 318, 23 August 1924, Page 2

SOCIAL NOTES

Dr Elizabeth Guiiu and Nurse Wise arc at present in Wangauui.

Miss H. Pearee, of South Sired, returned this afternoon from a visit to her parents in New Plymouth.

Mrs A. L. Hordman, Auckland, who lia.s been visiting her mother Mrs Mahon, Feilding, left yesterday to join Mr Justice Hcrdmau, at Hamilton.

Writes a Loudon correspondent under dale July 15: The Hon. E. Newman, C.M.G., M.L.C., and. Mrs Newman, Marton, will leave next week b> the lonic. During the last fortnight they have been paying farewell visits to relatives and old friends in various parts of England.

Mr and Mrs .Moss Davis, formerly of Auckland, gave a reception at which there were nearly 400 guests at Glaridge's Hotel. London, to welcome hack their daughter, Mrs Mackenzie, Wood, and Major Mackenzie Wood, M-l\, from their wedding tour '"i France, says a, London correspondent. Three spacious rooms were used for the reception, and were beautifully decorated with ferns and damask roses, while the temperature was pleasantly lowered by the presence of huge blocks of ice, set attractively among growing ferns. Many handsome frocks were worn the bride appearing in beige-coloured lace over satin, and a- hat of gold and brown with drooping plumes-

Mr and Mrs I. Ernest Close, o l ' Feilding. are staying at Wandsworth Common, having been nearly twelve months in London. They hav»» booked to return per Ceramic, via 'Capetown and Australia on August .'lO. They travelled over via Homrkong, .Manila, Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, 'Frisco., and across U.S.A. via Santa Fo to New York. Since arrival here they have made a long motor tour of England and Scotland Mrs Kidd accompaning them. M'' and Mrs Close Hare just returned from a month's tour on the Continent, having been as far south sis Rome. They were in Belgium, Holland. Germany and Denmark". Their hoy is at school at "Brunswick/' Hay wards Heath.

McCKUFR'S DISPLAY'

It would be a fatal policy to withhold the showing 'of the spring goods until the last frost thaws, and smart. women feel it to be one of their firstduties to view the displays when tin* new season approaches. McCruor'* realise this, and their establishment as it appears to-day reflects credit on the management and all concerned. It is natural to look for variety in spring apparel as brighter colours are demanded at this reason of the year, and MeGruer's certainly hav*» variety in their new goods.

The showroom, decorated by Mr Groves, is the embodiment of sprints .with its artistic arrangement oi" mauve, biege, and grey drapiu&s. from which arc suspended clusters oi ! wislcria.in shaded niauvcs. Hats in all the latest colourings—heliotrope, almond green, navy, red, and black and red combined—are on view, and numerous little pull-on shapes in tb« ready-to-wear section. The knitted silk costumes and frocks in greys and pastel colourings are very smart, and will be much worn this season, as also •will be thr* light shades in wrap coats/ Som* of these- are beautifully embroidered. It is certainly the heyday of knit Led wear, and this is evidenced in lk« lightweight knitted wool costumes in almond, grey and light shades. The underclothing department in 'a feature of McGruer's, and tins year i J , is exceptional I v well stocked. Beautifully Fuji silk underclothing, brassieres, woven silk undcrweiw, Irish hand embroidered nightgowns, and all the daintiest of lingerie imaginable are included. The babes have been well catered for and have ajarge assortment of frocks, hats t and charming rubber goods.

In the dress department there *&. an array uf tlie new season's ma-terials-fiigured inarocains, wool and silk marbcaui, embossed trieolen", wool and silk resildu, and the new metal and blacked striped goods. For the washing frocks there are cotton mnrocains, harmony crimps, cotton crepe de chinos, very pretty patterned voiles, and every shade in. the new linens. Very uncommon ara

the Fisher robin gs, in delicate shades. The fancy department has a charming array of accesuries in neckwear ribbons, scarves, etc. It i.s certainly going to he a lace season, and laef* from one inch to 36in wido are 3 feature- This year's -silk hosiery is mostly in the pastel shades. Beautiful, indeed, are thd embroidered gloves, and the silk and leather bags In no (previous .season has there been such a variety of th<> "little things that count.'" The spring furnishings in cretonnes, shadow tissue, and sateen pro. tonne would charm the heart of the housewife and those looking for iip»' curtains should certainly see th° display of new curtain nets as weO as everything else in this delectable spring display at M^Gruer's.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A little dry mustard rubbed on th* l hands avj'll immediately remove all smell of fish.

To brown fa, custard, isift lightly over the top a little powdered sugar as soon as the surface is cooked enough to hear it up. To dean matting take a coarse cloth, dip it in salted water. and scrub the matting. ' Go over with clean salt water. The salt prevents the matting from turning yellow. About half a tcaspoonful of ammonia added to a wineglassful <•!" water may be used for cleaning gold and silver jewellery.

After baking cakes, turn them out of the baking tins at once, with tho bottom sides up, on a sieve If let * in the thus they most probably will be heavy.

For binding up cuts and wounds idways use linen, not cotton, as th« fibres of, cotton are flat, and apt i«» irritate a sore place, while those of linen arc perfectly rounded. When storing knives not in use. keep them in powdered French salt, and they will never gel rusty. "To Restore a Faded Carpet.—After a faded carpet has been wyU swept, leave it fyr a little time, tb<m lake a, pail of strong salt water, and dip in the broom, and lightlv sweep the carpet again. This will not only remove all the dust that idways settles again after hard sweeping, but will brighten the colours considerably.

SUPERSTITION

Superstition is a woman's failing. Is it? In. California it seems there are in certain office piles of from motor car persons who ask that their license number, shall not he the fatal 13.

Some intelligent persons, who can evidently do sums quite nicely, even bargain, that the number shall not h; a multiple of 13i Now the great majority of motor car owners are men, are they not?

OI ! course, superstition lias nothing to do with sex. but rather with one's mode of existence. Vou are superstitious in* proportion as your life or income depend on chance rather than yourself. In that case however, it is the that should be careful of the fatal number surely. Soon, ' however, there Avill be so little "ehanco" about being run over.that they will become incb*fcrent again. The motor always gets you in* the end, as someone said cheerfully the other day. An American woman, sa.vs an observer, has one husband and many hats. In Thibet she hay many husbands and one hat. The latter is always, 0)1 her head, and goes with her to the tomb. Tibet is the only place it seems where polandry is th" fashion. ; A traveller ascribes it to the general, poverty! the bridegroom being seldom aide to afford the gifts demanded by the father, and so willing to be one of a number. However, there are plenty of other places where poverty is general, - hut none other sepmiugly that has such curious fathers. Why the male parent should;,,have thought out polyandry simplyib'ceauso ho wants more pocket money, or whatever is the Tibetan equivalent, is not wry clear. It is •■> notion that certainly has not struck iho more enterprising [European races, full of ideas as we are.

THE LEAL SUZANNE,

A strong, dark, brooding face, with a powerful, curving nose, oy«:s any colour you care to imagine, » fairly large mouth well acquainted with the lip-stiekt—that is the face of Suzanne Lunglen, the most remarkable of all women who have taken to sport. ... Her face,, possibly; because it is too strong to be identically feminine docs not appeal to all. There can. however,; be 110 possible doubt about the grace of her form. Perfectly proportioned, perfectly poised, there is a savage fascination' about this wonderful French girl when slw steps on the tenuis court, and suggestive somehow of a panther. In repose Suzanne is not' remark-

able; but in action .she is tlio opothcosis of feminine grace.

She has a curiously baffling dual personality, and is no more affected than we. in our insular prejudice, expect a Frenchwoman to be. Oil' the court she is modest and frankly bored if you try to discuss her own prowess.

But on the 'court Suzanne is another person! I/or five years she. has reigned supreme as queen of lawn tenuis, and she is royally icaous of her position. She feels that pre-eminence such as hers inovilablv entails unchai'itableness, envy, and even malice. Slight actions are distorted out of all recognition, and she bitterly resents what she considers the unkind things that havy beensaid and written about her. Consequently, in her public capacity, she is now nearly always on th« defensive, and, in addition to being the queen of lawn tenuis, she has become the queen of gestures. "Perhaps she believes that she can do no wrong. She is convinced, for instance,,, that she does not foot-. fault, and if a linesman dares to say that she docs make a regal gesture and she suggests; his removal. She has. however, made so many gestures of late that people are getting a. little tiled of them, and it ia surprising that so asture a person us her father -the real power behind the throne—does not advise her to moderate them. Suzanne is not a woman's woman, and many women do not like her. Probably the majority of the thousands who (lock to see her at "Weinbledon go with the unspoken hoO'J that she will bo defeated. Suzanne, who, like nearly nil French people., is essentially a realist, knows thai., sooner or later she must vacate her throne. And when that day cornea this queen of gestures may be trusted to make the most magnificent gesture of all.

THE OLD CAME

A girl's voice broke out petulantly. behind me in the omnibus. She said to the man with her, 'lf you really .loved me, you'd do this for me." It was a. voice out of the ages. It was the Serpent of old Nile. It was the doom, of Antony when he played the fool at Actium. .It was Vivien, the minx, and lovely Guinevere; Deidre, Iseult, Helen of Troy. It was the 20th century at tin* old game. It was the weaving of the spell, the speaking of the incantation, the setting of the snare. < It got him.