NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 100, 30 March 1937, Page 11

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE. (By “Nanette.") Precious Earth. “If so much as a grain of earth fell from the pots on to the deck it was hastily scraped up and replaced.” That wa6 what a woman who arrived in Australia from Copenhagen by a windjammer and who acted as the “ship’s gardener” on the voyage, told a reporter. Tho ca.ptain of the ship, she added, was devoted to his pot plants, mostly geraniums, and it fell to her lot to water them. Sleep Your Worries Away. We may not have had much summer this year, but we must face the fact that the chilly winter evenings will soon be with us. A good night’s sleep will solve many worries lor you, and if you wear one of the cosy nighties or pairs of pyjamas at the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Shop, Ltd., your rest is assured. Youthful Geneva Women. “Tho Swiss women are the most l>eautifully made-up women in the world, and that is because their country is so geographically situated that they come in contact with cultured travellers from all oyer Europe,” comments a beauty specialist who is visiting Australia. “They acquire their beauty culture, their fashions, just as they assimilate their arts and their politics. Nine out of every ten women in Geneva try to improve their skins, and they mostly have good complexions. assisted by the conditions of the air. I have seen women of fifty, and even seventy, years of age in Switzerland looking as attractive as a young girl of twenty.” Guaranteed. “These mattresses are guaranteed pure kapok,” Nanette was informed when she visited Hutchins’ Furniture Warehouse, and admired a pde of them. “They are well filled and have nice tickings. Single sizes are priced from 22s 6d and double from 32s Od. Popularity.

“The Royale Dutch certainly does serve delicious meals,” an Easter visitor to Palmerston North commented to Nanette. “I was delighted with their three-course dinner, and 1 thoroughly enjoyed the dainty afternoon tea they serve. No wonder the Royale Dutch is so popular!”

Getting The Bird. Bird-song has moved more than one British poet to ecstasy and renewed output; will it have the same effect upon the British typist? The answer to that inquiry should soon be known, for it is announced that an important commercial concern in Manchester has decided to equip its typistes’ room, where more than fifty machines are kept at work, with a number of budgerigars because it is thought that the sound of the birds in song may do much to diminish the fatigue that arises from the monotony of massed typewriters in action. It seems a picturesque and even a touching contribution to the great modern quest for wiser and healthier working conditions ; among other advantages the birds in

this case could hardly resent the use to which commerce and industry are putting them, as they might conceivably do when they are taken down coalmines in order to detect the possible existence of poisonous gas. A Wonderful Opportunity. ' “Have you heard about the new competition, Nanette? It's something quite novel for Palmerston North, and won’t the womenfolk be excited?’ exclaimed a friend gaily. “I know what it is—the home-dressmaking competition being held by G'ollinson and Cunninghame’s,” replied Nanette. “All the women are chattering about this wonderful opportunity.” Flowering Squares For Coronation. In addition to her many great parks, London has a number of garden “squares” like miniature parks in the residential areas, each one surrounded by tall houses and affording a pleasant view. I hose gardens are quiet little oases in a busy city, and are frequented chiefly by children and, their nurses. Now, however, a campaign has been started by a small group of London hostesses to beautify these square gardens for the Coronation. A gay colour scheme of lilac, mauve, and white has been chosen for the Portman Square garden. This will he carried out in beds of tulips and daffodils in the spring; a profusion of tall hollyhocks in the summer ;• and, for the autumn, beds of dahlias and chrysanthemums. Belgrave Square and Cadogan Place will be planted with flowering cherry trees, lupins, lilies, and a vnriety of delphiniums. The Very Thing. Dressmakers are busy at present .making autumn and winter outfits, and Alston’s (2 doors from G. and C. s) are husv, too. Selling like hot cakes are their 1937 styles in handbags, which include smart models in square j

and oblong shapes, and which are the very thing for your new ensemble. *

Clipping Cupid’s Wings. President Roosevelt has discovered that Cupid is becoming too apt at involving United States citizens in international affairs. In a circular letter, ail serving the United States abroad are informed that their superiors have ‘‘viewed with sympathy and tolerance” any American stationed in detached posts away from American society who ■‘contracted a marriage with an alien.” But there are limits to this tolerant sympathy. A recent survey ‘‘reveals a state of affairs which cannot be regarded with approbation.” The fact was discovered that 18 out of every 100 American diplomats were married to foreigners. An executive order has therefore been signed by the President, at the request of the State Department, requiring any diplomat who wishes to marry a foreigner first to obtain permission from the Secretary of State. If he docs not, he will he dismissed. Moreover, every request for permission to marry must he accompanied by the diplomat’s resignation, so he may he dismissed in any case. Cupid, you see, is to have his wings clipped.