NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 14

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE (By “Ndnette.”) An Did Toast. The following verse, discovered in an old book is suggested as a toast to be proposed at-an engagement party: Health to the girl who can sing and can dance, Health to the girl who can paint and romance, Health to the girl -who is faithful and true, Whose ways are becoming, whose fail- ■ ings are few. And last, but not least, I sincerely appeal For the health to the girl who can cook a good meal. Temptation.

Legs will be looking their best tins wcek-encl if you pay a visit to the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Shop, Ltd., for they stock all the leading makes of stockings and tennis socks, in such lovely shades that you will not lie able to resist them. See for yourself I v Debutantes of 1837.

A deportment handbook published in the year of Queen Victoria’s coronation, and titled “Dedicated to the Fail- Sex of Great Britain” makes amusing reading, says a Sydney writer. Miss 1837 had to remember that good table manners were essential to social success. She was implored by the author never to “convey food to your mouth with your knife—it is only to be used as .a divider.” The art of being a good listener was also included in a young lady’s social education. Evidently there was nothing “so brutally shocking, nor so little forgiven, as a seeming inattention to the person that is speaking to you.” A debutante of 1837 was not encouraged to make casual friends. “Ladies- usually have a proper sense of their own importance,” one chapter states, “and therefore it is hardly necessary to say that - if a gentleman presumed to recognise you in the street _ from the circumstances of his having danced with you at a public hall, you will not return liis salute—but will cleverly avert your bead, so that he will receive due cognisance of your rebuke.” A Ready Answer. “Where can we go for a cup of tea?” asked the visitor to Palmerston North for the Jubilee celebrations. “To the best place in town which is open on Sunday and all lioldiays,” said her friend promptly as sire led the wav into the Royale Dutch Lounge, in the Square. * The “Burning” Question. One of the first and more homely signs that Christmas is drawing near is the preparation being made regarding Christinas cakes. Shop windows with their tempting displays of peel, almonds and cherries cause mothers to stop and consider if they will experiment with that new recipe of Mrs Next-door’s, or use the old favourite one that has done service for many Christmases. The most popular question between women at the present time, Nanette noticed, is, “Have you made your Christmas cake yet?” Sweet Sleep.

Airs - was a very poor sleeper. Although she tried all sorts of practices to remedy the fact, her sleep was broken and fitful. Then a friend advised her to take a course of Turkish Baths. What a difference it has made I She now enjoys at night, sound liealtliv sleep. More Out 'Of Life.

“The English are jollier than we are. They get more out of life,” says an Australian woman on returning from a trip abroad. “The English crowd is a laughing one. I am not talking of the so-called upper class, which lias a manner all its own, but of the great mass of the people one meets in country homes and offices, and bumps against in trams and buses and trains. They are a jolly lot. They laugh at petty annoyances and the discomforts of crowded trains. In comparison, our people wear bored expressions.” Think Ahead.

A suggestion for a Christmas gift for mother or the girl friend, for those wise people who plan ahead is a wall mirror. In frameless, fancy and bevel-led-cdged styles with hanging chain, Hutchins’ Furniture Warehouse have a large selection to suit all purses, from 13s 6d to 755. Think it over. * “English Suburbs Charming.”

“I was very much impressed,” the lady mentioned above continued, “wifih suburban England. We are apt to believe /that tlie suburbs, of London are congested, but they are not. Compared with ours they are garden estates. They have trees at the rate of about a thousand to our one, and half a dozen parks to our one. An English suburb has acres of playing fields and thousands of trees through its streets. Here we chop down the trees to make room for telephone lines, but in London beauty takes precedence.” Dad Changes His Ways.

“Do you remember what an old stay-at-home Dad used to be,” asked a friend recently, "and how he would never take us out at the week-end ? Well, he has quite changed. Since we bought our new Vauxhall from Fowler ill)tors, Ltd., ’there’s no dull weekends for anyone now.” * Sugar Brides.

The annual pastrycooks’ exhibition held recently at the Sydney Town Hall was a sad day for the boiled sugar experts. The humid atmosphere caused some minor tragedies to basket handles, and flower petals, but the piece de resistance on this section was a barrel of liqueur under a rose arbour—ail in sugar, with the exception of the liqueur, which dripped from its marzipan barrel in a most convincing manner. Baskets of flowers and fruit were there in bewildering array, and meriyigue birds sat hopefully on sugar eggs in meringue nests, of shades which would have sent ornithologists crazy, but which were ■ nevertheless effective. ” ' '

Sugar brides and bridegrooms emerged from amazing sugar churches, complete with bells in the steeples, in the wedding cake section, and one particularly beautiful cake, iced in a pale shade of apricot, had an arrangement of lily-of-the-valle'- at the top, supporting golden joy bells. Attend Saturday's Feast. Very near now is the treat that Palmerston North lias been waiting for, A feast for all lovers of dancing, music and colour, the recital being given on Saturday by the talented pupils of the Broadway School of Dancing, the principal of which is Miss Gwen Gibbs, needs no more commendation. *