NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 160, 8 June 1937, Page 11

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE.

(By “Nanette.”) The Line To Happiness. The Moravians, those inhabitants of a Slavonic State, have a very pretty custom connected with the marriage ceremony. The relatives ot the bride take coloured chalks and draw the. most direct route from the house of her parents to that- which she is about to enter (says a Sydney writer). These chalk lines can be seen running across the streets, in the same manner ns those in our cities for the guidance of motorists and pedestrians. -, - The simple folk believe that a devious route to her. new home means a long way to future happiness. The Moravian peasant takes a very serious view of marriage. When the engagement is announced, several days’ grace is allowed in case the parents of the couple should alter their minds. After a week lias elapsed, tlie prospective bridegroom sends a deputy to inquire if her parents or guardian are satisfied with their future son-in-law. islo Need For Anxiety. “I. hope it isn’t true that Miss Gwen Gibbs is leaving Palmerston North,” someone anxiously remarked to Nanette. “I wanted to take a course of ballroom dancing with her—she’s such an excellent teacher!” “There’s no need to worry, because Miss Gibbs has no intention whatever of leaving this centre.” Nanette replied,’ “and I don’t think you could do better than go to her for tuition.”

King Gustav’s Kindness. King Gustav V of Sweden has saved the job of. a little girl typist. The typist, upset a bottle of ink overman important document which the King had signed. The Court Chamberlain prepared. another copy and slipped it in among several hundred other papers which were awaiting the ruler’s signature. King Gustav signed them all except the duplicate. “I have signed that before,” he said triumphantly. “You were convinced that I would not notice it. You ought to remember that I am still young. Give me the ink-blotted document. I will sign the new one hut do not blame the girl.” Don’t Be Puzzled. Puzzled as to what to choose for a wedding gift?-—well, don’t be! The solution is simple, for one of the wireless tables at Hutchins’ Furniture Warehouse would be the very thing. In linui, and stained an antique brown or to match the wireless, they are priced at 15s 9d with straight logs,

and 22s Gd with fancy legs,

Graduated In China

The first European to graduate in medicine from the University of Chengtu, China, Mrs J. E. Lennox, is visiting Sydney, together with her. husband, Dr. Lennox, who is assistant professor of medicine at the University. An American by birth, Mrs Lennox took the first year of her .medical course at the Women’s Medical College, Philadelphia, and completed at Cliengtu. Before this could he accomplished Mrs Lennox had to take a course in Chinese, in which language most of the lectures were conducted. She and her husband are on eighteen months’ leave, and will visit New .Zealand shortly on their way to America. He’ll Like The Ne.w Idea, Men are so conservative that C. and C.’s have enlisted Nanette’s aid to ask her married readers to introduce the new “Liberator” self-supporting socks to their husbands. To safeguard you against any loss, Cl.• and C.’s will refund in full if hubby doesn’t like them , after wearing them for a day. But they arc confident that, once tried, he’ll like the new idea— and he’ll like tlie new neat fancy patterns and the quality tool Two grades at 3s lid and 5s 6d, both really good value at Collinson and Cunninghame’s. * Popular—And Why? Why is the Itoyale Dutch so popular? The reason won’t be a secret if you have a hot meal or morning or afternoon tea there, because you’ll enjoy it so much. “Only the best is good enough for our customers”—that is the motto of this restaurant, and if you go there once you’ll want to go there again. . * Greeting Mother. Mother’s Day, 1937, will be remembered for the wholehearted spirit in which it was observed in New Zealand; in Australia thev have tangible evidence of the reality of the appeal of that day—in the number of the telegrams of greeting forwarded. This year the figures for the Easter season were surpassed and the number of messages lodged were second only to the Christmas Eve rush. Australia certainly did rise to the occasion nobly! Value.

“Smart?-Yes, aren’t they! And who’d believe they cost only 3s lid a pair?” whispered a friend to. Nanette, who remarked on the gloves she was wearing. “As you see,” she added, “they’re of lined suede fabric, and of high-grade quality. They may be had in tonings of beige, brown, and black, at the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Shop, Ltd.” *