EVE’S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

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SOCIAL NOTES

31 ss 11. -Millet* oi' Motueka, was an Easter visitor to Feildiaig.

air and 31 is Phillip Mason were visitors to Fcildiug during Eastei. Mr and Mi's l*. G. Miles, Miss -Miles and Mr PJ»il -Miles, are spending ten days holiday with Mr and Mrs Smith at Taumaranui. * * -* * * Mrs Slurmand oi Wellington and M-'ss Beryl Wallace of Taranaki, spent Easter in Eeilding with Miss Cult’s. Mrs Ron McDonald of Palmerston North with her ini ant daughter spent J'V’ster with Mr and Mrs Horace Freckliugton, lOmbolton Hoad, Fc’lding. •*■*■-* Coming Fashions, to hand from the Odliams Press, London, is a very interesting number as a guide to la-sliions. There are some delightful models in Colours also fashions in tweeds, smart coats, and the new bolero frock. GENERAL NOTES Met, courted and engaged cm a train journey was the high-speed romance of M -s s Mary Anderson, Jo, a resident of Vancouver. Only the iciuctanco oi a minister on hoard tho train to perform a wedding ceremony at such short notice prevented ior urr.Ynig at her native -town of Halifax, Nova Scop.a, as Mrs Russell Carman Roblee. wile of her “express’* fiance. ***** In London women aiv wearing shoes darker in colour this year, black and dark brown being the most popular shapes place comfort before smartness. * * * * * Attendant of. we-ghug machine to an extra- stout lady: Sorry, ma’am; ain’t enough weights you’ll ’are *.o sit on twice! * * -x- * The aesthetic value of a. beaut'ful woman's face is £13,000, according to a Swiss jury, who arrived at the decision with the aid of expert counsel and the Court’s approval. Marie Drew A/., of Geneva, 17, was run over by a- motor car hist year and a scar remained on her face. W omen defy cold weather better than men. in spite* of the r scantier (Nothing, because, according to one expert, they keep mote cheerful, look on tlu> bright side of things and car <3 more for the’r bodies. * * * * * “Did lie kiss you against vour will:-” “Ho thinks ho did.” • • * • * My w To- thought that only distinguished people received the Nobel Prize; but when it was bestowed on me sin* suddenly rejected that theory. Sinclair Lewis. “Excuse me,” sa d th© girl with tlie collecting box, “but would you lu'nd helping the Working Girls’ Home?” “Rattier!” said the bright young mail- ‘‘Where are they:'” Florence, House and Helen Ware, trip V-ts, were all married ai the same t ; me in a triple ceremony at Sheffield, Kngland. When they departed on their honeymoons with ilie-‘r respective husbands, they were separated, for the first time since birth. they had attended the same schools, taken the same courses of study, and achieved almost s ; miiar grades m each. HEI! MOW ROOMS (liv l’amela Murray) T have just been to see a. triend who lives in one of the barruck-lihe , houses, ill had always seemed indescribably dingy, although the furniture was “good,” and the- dull wall and hangings, though ugly, were beautifully cared for. | Mv friend has been saving up for some time to put new touches e\civwhere, and although I expected an improvement, T was unprepared for m revolution. All the dark Victorian sta’ncd furniture had been “stripped' to its natural cdla colour, so that tho vrkoh

house appeared to be ten shades lgliter. Nothing will.' change the shap© or period of furniture, but stripping gives the modern effect without severe expense. The rooms are high, a aid she could not afford to repaint them, so they remain an undistinguished brown redeemed by a really tlirdluig ceding, painted by her husband and herself during a week-end, at the moderate cost of twenty-nine shillings. They borrowed.two pairs of tall steps and stretched a phuik between them. The work was both triig and perilous, hut the attractive result ’s sufficient reward. A gallon of “fiat ' cornflower bine paint made an extensive sky. A p-'nt of yellow ditto formed the basis of the fat rounded clouds which were an enlargement of a.n illustration in tliP'rchild s picture hook. The top dressing of a pint of gold - made ’ tbe clouds gay. v. v.d and buoyant by day and excellent light reflectors by night. Nof having enough money to do away wUh dull covers .which a r© neither worn out nor. lght enough to put hi the dye pot, my friend wisely concentrated on lamps. The howls are of glass a ltd tho shades are square instead of round and double instead of single. The inner shade has' an indetennediale picture designed on ’t % and outer shade 1 s in a new material, through which both light and picture arc softly and mysteriously diffused. Her standard lamp had a midnight blue shade with a desert scene m £ t> |f colour, which looked us romantic as a Dulae illustration to an Eastern fable. Having Swept away a litter "F inartst’c ornaments from the mantel, piece »ud put Rvo sprays <.r fealh-r hyacinths at each end she felt the „ ee d ~f a. clock to balance the centre, and spent her blrtliday olicque on a French class clock, six •nohe« h-oh supported at each side by tv’nSJs •*» ebonite. . 'Tli's is tbe hist word hi drawingroom -locks, and has a-n ek-ame thai I-clones to tfifc of uiwompro,nisi..?; severity, and to none other. MAKE THE MOST OF OHIHEREN (]sy i/eoLloia Lyles) East night j went to the Duck d-or of a little- cottage aud saw Jdu'e' babies being bathed ready for hod. they capered u-boiut i» tho- fifchg-ht-ol t.ie kitchen in their pyjamas, rosy and glowing, and L could not help tt tiny feeling of regret that my otvn children)- are ;lung past til© age <>t being bathed and cuddled to sleep their mother. Many mothers nfid read this mil he eopihg with tiny Tiabies day am night; harassed nerves, aching backs, often strained tempers are the lot of many mothers of little children, because such children need constant attention. They cannot be left to their own devices for an-floor, and mother can never relax her vigilance lor one moment. “Oh, 1 wish they wy-re mrowli up!” many “a'Vifinus mdi lei "ays. “They’ll be off my bands then.” ’ ■ , , , Children are never oft your hands. Even when they are fathers arid mothers themselves they are still part ~f you, still deep in your heart, n.uu although you don’t have to may awake to soothe tummy aches and tar aches, and though you don t have to rush upstairs because a .ittle voic'd calls out that a, "-small person is afraid of the dark, yoil d© stay awake just the same, wondering and wetrryjug. Those da vs w hen they si.ro imy and very p r e c i ous—TTbii t wish them -way! You’ll never, no matter how dear tlu*y are as they grow up. have anything sweeter in your life tuw that warm hour before* the tire when ye.n roll a small, pink body in the towels and tell about the little’ pi>s s that went to market, uiud. 1 eel wa-jui, soft arms round your neck, alinest -tilling you Avitj.i embraces. 3 lost v-’uin ii Jive in the iulurc; tficy keep straining towards a. climax when baby is horn, when baby gvc9 to, .school, Avlicn baby leaves school, and so on—arid in this way they lose much of the jov of the present. Take each day as it comes and be glad of its r little joys; they are secure, and the future is not nearly so certain. PEWTER FOR DECORATION Although pewter, with its moonlight- glow, is old, it s appeal was the fore-runner of suoli intensely modern [ metals as steel, aluminium and platinum., wliieli have found their way into our .schemes for house decora--1 tio'ii, and our settings of precious stciiijoj writes an overseas _ C .

For hundreds of .years pewter plates porringers and castors, u*s well as mugs and bowls, hay© been in use. They appeared in the kitchen ol tho “seigneurie” and. on the dressers; and sideboards of lesser fcilk. For tfiose who liv© in towns it i. invaluable., as it scarcely ever tarnishes, and only needs to be polished with iih good' brass polish two or three times annually. The modern pewter maker tolls us emphatically never to use a silver polish oil it, as iihis spoils its own particular character and appeal. There is no hard and fast rule for the composition of pewter. Sometimes the older pieces are made of an. alloy of tin and laud. Sometimes it is made of tiiii and cooper, or of tin, copper and antimony. WHEN LAMP IS CHEAT (By Mary Evelyn) Lamb and Aspa.ra.ghs Pic. To make iamb [>ie, out flu* breast of lamb that Into already boon boil'd, b'sud, and pressed flat <.>ver n.igjit into neat pieces, season with pepper and .*ralt, and place in layers of meat, hardboiled eggs, and cooked asparagus tops in a- pie-dish until full. Pat k pretty eh soly. Add a little good jellied stock; if the stock is too thili to jelly make it linn by dissolving- in it some aspic jelly powder, using il according to fhe directions oil tbe packet. Cover the pie with a. fairy thick crust of rough puff pastry, ornament and brush with yolk of egg and a little milk, and hake in a hot even fe.r .ail hour and a half; lower the gas when the crust has risen and begins to brown. This P’o may he served V, t. with sonio good brown gravy separately, or cold. It is a good <*.< >l<J pio fur breakfast, lunch, or supper, and may be made for picnics by standing a eike. tin ring on ;i baking -licet oiiu /lining it •with .rough puff' pastry and filling it as stated, hut will rc. iquire lomgor HVa king accord ilng ."to size. DO YOU: A HINT FOR WIDE EARS How many parents—even the butt —• calmly with others, especially w ith strangers, the peeul arities, excellencies, or defects of their children in til© presence of the children themselves But consider tlie effect upon the child of hearing himself discussed. If it is no worse than embarrassment, that is had enough. To dwell upon a child’s abnormalities or peculiarities ol any sort ’s particularly likely to have a- had effect. A TEACHER’S STORY SHE W AS DISGUISED A small boy, six years of age, was it! the habit, of running to meet me on my way t f > school. One Friday afternoon I went to school weariug my best costume and smartest hat in readiness tor a weekend holiday. 1 noticed that may small pup I halted once or tw'ce on his Avay to meet me, and asked him why. He replied, naively. “Well, l didn’t know it Avas you at first, teacher. I thought it was a lady!”