SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19601, 1 April 1927, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. A. C. Turnbull, of Wellington, is 'visiting Auckland. Mrs. V,. J. Litrner is .staying with Mrs. B. Wake in Hamilton. Dr. and Mrs. B. Aldred, of Wellington, are visitors to Auckland. The Misses M. aud B. Hardie Neil are on a holiday visit to Tauraiiga. Miss Averill has returned from a visit to Christchurch with Mrs, Leslie Averill, who is staying a,t Bis.hopscourt. Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, who has been visiting friends in Hamilton and other parts of the North, left Wellington by | the Tahiti for San Francisco. A Russian. cargo istssamer, the Karl Marx, with a crew of women, is trading in the Mediterranean ~Bea. The women wear sailor dress, and! are of muscular I build, with their hair -cut short. The ! captain, the only man oia board, says that I he has never sailed _wi th a more willing or mom competent craw. The Ladies' Committee of the Flying Angel Mission is holding a jumble sale on Tuesday next, April 5, in St. Matthew's Hall. Since the reopening of the institute last year many thousands of seamen have made good u&a of the writing room and hall, where Lea and biscuits can be obtained each evening. The artificial flowers; that women are to wear this season—and tha real ones, too—are not to be called button-holes, hut posies. This is because they are just as liablei to be worn a I,fetched to a wristlet or the cuff or the waist-belt as on the lapel of the coat. When they are worn as button-holes they will be small and neat. The Duchess of Rutland will soon have one of the most beautiful homes in England in Haddon Halb This famous place has not been lived ira for 200 years, so much had to be done k> make it habitable. But the hobby of the present duke, even before the death of tiia father, was to busy himself with renovation -schemes for the old family seat, which is far m ire picturesque than the more stately Bel* voir. The duchess, who was a Tennant, is most artistic and will appreciate to the full her lovely surroundings. An effort is beintj marie to collect £IOOO for a "Dame Millicent Fawostt" room at Crosby Hall, the international hall of residence for university women, at Chelsea, where the Duchess of York recently unveiled a tablet Dame Millicent, who has taken a great interest in the project throughout, will be 80 this year, and the contributions will be regarded in the light of birthday gifts. At Easter the first group of British, Dominion and foreign students will arrive at the hall. There i:3 a widespread desire thai -they should find her name inscribed there, and remember what she and her generation did fo:r the emancipation of womelri. The amount already subscribed is about £685. " I am a Labour woman, but I am also a very keen worker, and I do not believe that keen workers ever like trade unions." So said Miss Sybil Tborndike, the actress, in discussing the recommendation of a Labour committee thai; some organisation of nurses capable of watching over their own interests should be formed, arid that the present nurses' uniform was oat of date and not in accordance with modern ideas of hygiene and eoimfort. " I agree that it is ridiculous that nurses should be dressed up in the tight bodices, long skirts and stiff colla.rs and cuffs," said Miss Thcrndike. A woman's dress, she said, should allow perfect freedom of movement and be open at the throat and the skirt should not be too long. "Girls have become such hardy creatures that I believe they are now much less liable to colds than are men," said a doctor in a recent interview. " But I do think their bad-weather sfyoes and stockings are a weak point." This doctor suggested that business girls might wear their pretty stockings during winter weather if only they would wear another warmer pair beneath them. " I admit the difficult point," he said, " that as stockings grow more sensible ankles will grow thicker." Cold feet are sometimes caused by stockings which are too good a fit or by tight shoes. Business girls should remember also that.anything which raises the feet from the floor helps to keep the cokl at bay. A little footstool would meet with the approval of many doctors. Green dresses with masses of daffodils as a background represented the first spring bridal scheme at St. Margaret's, Westminster. London, when Miss' Rosemary Estelle Craven, was married to Captain Gordon-Duff, of Duffus, recently. The Bishop of Moray and Ross, a cousin of the biride, stood between banks of daffodils as he performed! the ceremony, and the six bridesmaids carried daffodils with their pale green chiffon dresses and wreaths of green leaves. . Two little train bearers, the daughter of Colonel and Lady Moira Combe,, istnd Master Robert Cooper, woi-e green and white, and both ftad baskets filled with the early spring flowers. Miss Craven's draped wedding dress of satin had a trail of orange blossom at one side and the tra'n was lined with salmon pink.