NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 9

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE.

(By “Nanette.”)

Smart Parade.

A photograph taken of members of the Manawatu Women’s Auxiliary Service Corps bn parade excited much favourable comment on the smart appearance of the girls. Several people remarked that until they read the caption they had thought it was one of the English auxiliary units.

A Practical Vogue. It’s interesting to observe, on any smart occasion, how tho fashion for the short fur cape has caught on. And what a practical idea it is 1 Lighter and less expensive than a fur coat, it gives warmth just where you want it — round the shoulders —apd can be worn day or evening. See the fine selection of fur capes at H. H. Blandford’s, Coleman Place. * Pets on Rations. Cats and dogs in the Netherlands have to get in line with Nazi orders for eating, states a correspondent oi the New York Times. A rationing order the other day said cats must have no more than a kilogramme and a-half (3 l-31b) of food a month. Dogs may receive three to twelve kilogrammes, depending on size. Weather Victims. We’ve been having extraordinary variety in the weather lately and delicate skins are bound to have suffered. A network of tiny lines appears and the skin loses its velvety softness. Youthfulness■ can be restored with expert facial treatment by Sylvia Kirk, of Broadway, and she will also advise you on ’ tho best means of protecting and preserving your particular type of skin 4 How'They Began. Many and various are the reasons authors give when asked why they first began to write. Novelist G. BStern says a broken-up love affair started her. Jane Austen was similarly Urged. One day her editor said to the journalist Louisa Alcott “We ought to have a children’s story. Could you write one?” “I’ll try, sir, s * ie said. And wrote “Little Women. Another New Line.

Nearly every week brings something new to the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Shop, the Square. This time it’s a new range of Lustre underwear. 1 Ins well-known make can be seen to advantage in dainty lace-trimmed sets, floral trimmed pyjamas, exquisite nighties, and tailored slips, bloomers and vests. All are very moderately priced and well worth seeing.

Gramophone Needles. When framing pictures or photographs, try used gramophone needles to fasten the thin wood backing the picture. They are neat and do not split the wood like ordinary nails. For All Occasions.

Always smart and distinctive and correct for almost any occasion is a man-tailored suit cut on classic lines, such as those on view at Slater’s, the Square. They are eminently suitable for present wear with a chic fur stole and jaunty spring 'hat, which von can also select at Slater’s, and they will he useful right on into autumn. Taxi-Drivers Knit.

At .Salt Lake City, United States, an appeal by Red Cross authorities for help ill knitting garments for war refugees has been answered by a large number of men—as well as women. Drivers of one taxi company volunteered 100 per cent. When business slows down, they spend their time knitting: