EVERY LADY’S JOURNAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4810, 6 March 1918, Page 3

EVERY LADY’S JOURNAL

(By “Vivienne.”)

PERSONAL

Mi- and Mrs A. H. Wallis and Miss Norali Wallis have left on a visit to Taupo. Miss Gwen. Gorrie, who has been the guest of Mrs J. it. Murphy, lias returned to Auckland. Miss D. Bennett .has jheen visiting in the-south.

Miss E. Young, of Auckland, was recently visiting Mrs J. It. Murphy. A charmingly arranged party for •little folks was given by Mrs W. ltceve at her residence, Wa-inui Hoad, on Saturday last. . . The autumn flower show, which is being held for Red Cross Funds, takes place in the Garrison Hall on March 14. Several attractive stalls and tea rooms will he run in conjunction with the floral displayLady Carroll lias returned from a trip to- Auckland.

WEDDING

ROBSON—REYNOLDS

The marriage of Miss Rosamond Reynolds, daughter of Mr and Mrs R. J. Reynolds , of “Sandown,” to Mr Robson, of Hawke’s Bay, took place last Thursday at Holy Trinity Church. The wedding was of a quiet nature, only intimate friends and relatives being invited. Ine bride, who was given away by her father, was 'very tastefully attired m a pretty and modish ivory silt giurlanda coat skirt, and wore a becoming chapeau lined with black and trimmed with clusters of pastel tinted roses. The bride carried a charming bouquet of lilies, the gift or Mrs W. L. Rees. There were no bridesmaids, but Mr George Reynolds acted as. best man. Mr E. IS. Sidebottom presided at the organ, and Archdeacon Pa-oke was the officiating clergyman. After church ceremony, the guests adjourned to “Sandown’ for wedding tea. Mrs Reynolds received ’ tiio guests in a black chataigno toilette with a toque to match and wore a handsome cream Spanish lace scarf. Mrs Jamison (sister of the bride) wore a charming navy blue drap de Lyons toilette, and a picture hat trimmed with roses. Mrs Gaddum (sister of the bride) wore a tailored coat and skirt, and a modish hat en suite. . Mrs Rutledge (sister of the bride) wore a smart tailored costume of black, with a. modish Welsh hat. Mrs R. U. Burke (sister of the bride) wore a stylish sapphire blue toilette trimmed with blonde ninon, and wore a nigger brown hat with smart tiimnnngs. Miss Jamieson wore a pretty tail ore costume modishly fashioned, and a hat en suite. Miss Dorothy 1 ollen wore a dainty floral frock and a sweet picture hat. Mrs wore a very smart coat and skirt or cream pongee cloth, and wore a pietty picture liat to match with touches of pale blue. Mrs Harvey wore a figured silk voile toilette with P rett ' trimmings, and a cinnamon brown toque. Mrs Williamson wore a costume of black oriental satin and a hat en suite modishly trimmed. -• ! 8 J W Williams wore a striped nuron* siik toilette prettily fashioned and a black melange hat. _ Miss E. W illiams wore a violet tinted toilette, and a hat en suite. Mrs A. rl. " ailis wore a cheque costume in blac'and white and a hat to match Mis Richard Slierratt wore a bottle green cloth toilette, and a hat to harmonise. Mrs W. G- Slierratt wore a pretty sapphire blue toilette, and a black picture bat. Mrs Agne\\ Brown wore a black luxeine toilette with’ effective lace trimmings anci a pastel pink hat prettily trimmed. Airs John Murphy wore a lime, colored coat and skirt and a smart and pretty picture liat- Mrs L. H- Mam wore a tussore silk coat and sknt, and a pretty black velvet hat. Hi lie wore a smart tussore costume, and a liat in shades of grey and helitrope. Mrs Cyril White wore a modish chantilly toilette and a toq en suite. Mrs Kennedy wore a black chantilly silk toilette prettily fashioned and wore a large black pictuie hat effectively trimmed Mrs I.oisel wore a tailored coat and skirt, and a pretty liat trimmed with pink tenet flowers. Mrs O. Thomas wore an electric blue toilette, and a stylish toque. Mis Kells wore a modish silk toilette and a pretty bat en suite. Airs Blair wore a black and white toilette and a picture hat en suite. Airs Maude wore a grey tailored coat and skirt, and a toque to match. Airs Bradley Smith wore a dainty ecru toilette and a handsome fur coat and a stylish toque. Mrs AN atson wore a grey tailored costume, and a smart toque. Mrs A.lurphy wore a cloth tailored coat and skirt and a hat en suite. Airs Shernff wore a canotier costume and a hat vith pretty trimmings. Aliss A. L. Rees wore a tasteful pastel tinted cloth coat and skirt, and a hat en suite. Airs Herbert AVhite wore a pretty green couronne clote toilette, and a hat to match. Airs. Ralph Murphy wore a charming navy blue toilette, rind a picture hat' en suite. Mrs. Jack White wore a prune cloth coat and skirt, and a stylish hat. Aliss EAVilliamson wore a pretty saxe blue toilette, and a picture hat en suite. Airs Randall Slierratt wore a striking black and white toilette and a smart picture liat. Aliss Blanche B> at Icj wore a white organdie voile toilette prettily trimmed, and a stvlish Jia» with chic trimmings. Airs Orr wore a tailored cloth coat and skirt, and a modish hat to match. Aliss Norah Wallis wore an effective cream toilette, and a liat to match. .Aliss Alargo Rees wore a smart tailored coat and skirt and a pretty hat en suite. Aliss Zoe Williams wore a mole cloth coat and skirt, and a pretty canotier hat. Aliss Sheila Jex-B.lake wore a dainty pastel tinted toilette and a charming hat to match. Aliss Ursula AVilliams wore . a pretty pastel tinted cloth costume, and a-hat to match. • Airs H. B. Lusk wore a sapphire blue silk toilette, and a strawberry tinted liat with dainty floral trimmings. Miss A era AN ll - iams wore a modish falconne cloth/ coat and skirt, and a. liat en suite. Airs George Carter wore a sweet helio-tinted silk toilette, and a pretty picture hat. Aliss Brook-Tavlor- wore a tasteful grey costume, and a toque to match. Airs Bennett .wore a mo--dishly fashioned Assam toilette and a liat to match. Mrs Robert Scott wore a light saxe bine toilette, and a pretty toque to match. Amongst the gentlemen present were Mossi s Gaddum. Burke Rutledge, /A B Wallis, J White, Cyril AVhite, W. G. bherr'att, E. H. Mann.

about sugar, “It is mooted that we shall soon have to take our own sugarto teas'll nns ” says a writer in the Lonaon Dadv 5 Alirror. “Up to the present people have been taking sugar away from tea-shops. I have sometime* noticed the precious lumps being popped into handbags. 9

CROCODILES. “Boys on leave are constantly providing one with new war slang, says a writer in The Daily Alirior. The latest I have heard is crocodiles the lmnm our men give to the H n tear-shells.”

VARIETIES. --

A gentleman once went to a, party of Air. Pepper’s, .who had assembled a few friends, and said to his host on entering .'the room; “Aly dear Air Pepper, how glad you must he to see your, friends mustered 1” Slum Child: “She died through eat-in’ a tuppeny ice on the top o’ ,’ot pudden.” The Other Slum Child: “Lor’ ! wot a jolly death?”

GEMS OP THOUGHT. “Read: not to contradict nor confute, nor to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” — (Bacon.) “Alan considerate tee deeds-, hut God weigbeth the intentions,” — (Thomas a’Kempis.)

POWER OF A SAULE. Do not look for ivrong and evil — You will find them if you do ; As you measure for your neighbor He will measure back to you. Look for goodness, look for gladness, You will meet them all the while; If you bring a smiling visage To the glass, you meet a smile.

A PLAINTIVE CRY FROAI AUS

TRALIA. Patriotic workers are beginning to get a little restive at the constant change of costume asked for by organisers and stall-holders of fetes, “days,” etc. Some girls have dress-boxes full of quaint dresses and aprons, freak caps, sashes, and badges of all kinds of colors. These, supposing . they were to he shown at some exhibition of, antiquities in the year 2000 A.D., would no doubt prove both interesting and instructive to our descendants. “Weren’t our poor great-great-grandmammas funny—didn’t they nave weird ways?” one can imagine these 2000 century flappers saying. “Just look at all these. impossible fripperies the poor dears spent their time—in the midst of a horrid war. too! —making and wearing. Thank goodness we didn’t live in those benighted days!”

ALFRED HILL’S COAIIC OPERA

A REPORT FROAI AUSTRALIA

Alusic-lovers are all delighted with the melodious numbers of Air Alfred Hill’s new comic opera, The Rajah of Shirvapore”, now being given at the Playhouse’. The book lyas written by Air. D. S. Souter. who also designed the costumes. The story deals with the eratic course of true love in the city of Shirvapore, and the impersonation, by a hard-pressed lover, of the great Tod Shiva, An interesting incident is a fight, when the hero, armed with a long,, curved sword and a round copper shield, takes on his antagonists one after the other, and overcomes them. Miss Alice Bennetto, as the templekeeper’s daughter, has a part with some charming songs. She looked veiy picturesque in a saree of -palest blue tissue embroidered with red lotus flowers, and edged with very heavv gold fringe. The long strings of coral round the throat and head' reflected the scarlet undertones of the robe; and- she wore ankle 'bangles on her bare feet. All the nautch girls were barefooted too. Air. George AN hrte-iic-nd, who played tlie Rajah, made a majestic figure in liis' rich Oriental diess of sapphire blue velvet heavily embossed with' gold, a jewelled turban and a necklace of turquoises as large as pigeons’ eggs. Some delicious ballad's fell to his share “Maid of the Dear Eyes” being one of the best features of the performance. Hie deeply sonorous chant of the. priests, and Air. John Quinlan’s songs The Wives of Joy.” and “Sword of Aline cannot fail to become popular. Airs flurry Austin gave a luncheon party at the Australia in honour of the successful debut of tlie opera Her guests included Air. Alfred Hill, All. D. Souter, and Air. Frederick Ward.

LOVE’S KNITTING. Siie was knitting, lie was watching, As her busy fingers flew. And he thought she looked so pretty In her simple gown of blue. . “1 should like to learn some knitting If you’d teacli me,) then I might! And she handed 1 him the worsted. Laughed and set the needles right. He was -knitting, she was smilingAt liis blunders, I suppose; But I know liis tender glances Made her color like a rose, “There! You’ve knitted two toget-h----“Never mind;; now dear, confess. Love lias knit our hearts together? And she shyly whispered! “Yes. She is knitting, he is thinking In his cosv fireside chair, And he takes the long grey stocking— • . . Just the color of his hair. “Wife, these stitches, though fane knitted, Wearing out, leave holes to fill; But our hearts, as we grow older. Love knits only closer still. —Grace Maberly-Jordan.

n. SURE TEST. “That man is so honest he wouldn’t steal a pin,” said the admiring friend. “ I never thought much of the test,” answer,ed Aliss Cayenne. “Try him with an umbrella!”

HIS ONLY EXCUSE. The young undergraduate was haledbefore his tutor. He had; exceeded nis leave by no less than two days. “Wejll,” (said the professor, what have you to say for yourself?” “I m awfulbi sorry,” replied the undergrade “I really couldn’t get back before. I was detained by most important business.’ The professor looked at him sternly. “So you wanted two more days of grace, did you?. he asked. “No," sir,” answered the young man, off his guard for a moment—“of Marjorie.”

BREAD AND THE BRIDE. A " Wisconsin “marrying magistrate” it is said, has announced that he means, to ask every bride who comes before him if she can bake a batch of good bread. If the lady canno L answer in tlie affirmative, lie refuses to perform the ceremony. It is not staged whether ho ascertains that the bridegroom is a good provider of flour.

CAKE AND THE HUSBAND. Guest: “That’s a very good cake. Did you make it yourself?” Hostess: “No‘, I didn’t and I’m never going to make another one. George was perfectly horrid about tlie last one. He broke a tooth over it, and said I ought to be making munitions.”

QUEEN ALEXANDRA AND OSPREYS.

Queen Alexandra refuses to wear ospreys on account of the cruelty to the birds which the collecting of the feathers involves.

A USEFUL I’OILET-OOVER HINT.

No doubt many of your readers (iike myself) have been troubled with the toilet-cover slipping off the table so I thought they may like a hint to help to remedy that evil. Fix two small brass screws by the side of the small trinket drawers, amd make two loops under the toilet-cover. When it is fitted on the table the loops slip over the screws, so the cover is kept in place.

RECIPES

SPONGE CAJvE

Three eggs, weight of 3 eggs in sugar; weight of 2 eggs in flour; 3 drops of essence of lemon. Beat eggs and sugar about 20 minutes until light. Stir in flour but do not beat it; add flavoring. Put in greased and sugared tin, and bake at once in a moderate oven.

FUDGE’S CHOCOLATE. Two cups granulated sugar; butter (size of an egg); ' 1 cup sweet milk; 2 Jiars chocolate. Boil all together till the mixture forms a' ball when dropped into cold water. Take from fire and beat with spoon till thickPour on to buttered tin. and cut into squares when cold.

LEMON SYRUP. twelve pounds white sugar; 12 large cups of water; the thin rind of 12 lemons and the juice; 3ozs of citric acid crystals. Put sugar, water, and lemons in a preserving pan, and bring slowly to boil; then draw on one "side and simmer for three or four hours. When almost cold add the acid previously dissolved in half cupful of water. Strain well while hot and bottle when cold. About half an inch in a tumbler makes a delicious and wholesome drink. Excellent for children, and verv nice for everybody. ___