SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Miss C. Rainger iii visiting Huntly.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Lan Simson are visiting Rotorua.

Miss Eawson, of Auckland, is a visitor lo Timaru.

Miss M. Vernon is a passenger by the Ulimaroa to-day.

Mrs. C. B. Wake, of Hamilton, is a visitor to Auckland.

Mrs. A. Morton, of Hamilton, is visiting St. Heliers Bay.

Miss Heywood has returned to Auckland after a visit to Hamilton.

Mrs. Frank Mackay "is the guest of Mrs. James Taylor, of Cambridge.

Miss Gwen Kingston is the guest of Mrs. A. E. Manning at the Thames.

Miss Lloyd, of England, is the guest of Miss Wilkie, Gardner Road, Epsom.

Mrs. Wood, of Wellington, is staying with her sister, Mrs. R. Towle, Remuera.

Mrs. C. Meredith and Miss Helen Taylor, of Cambridge, are visitors to Auckland.

Colonel and Mrs. Noel Adams and Mrs. Rennie, of Clevedon, are staying at Hotel Cargen.

Miss K. Edgerley and Miss I. Gray have left Auckland to join the Port iremantle.

Miss A. F. Thomson, of Auckland, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Gilkison, Karori, Wellington.

Mrs. M. Carrick and Miss Spear have returned to Waitara from a visit to Auckland and Waitomo Caves.

Miss Holden and the Misses Hegoity, of Gisborne, and Miss 0. M. King, of England, are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Ulrich, of Tarakohe, Nelson, and Mr. and Mrs. Graeme Alderton, of Wellington, are spending the holidavs with Mr. G. E. Alderton and family at'Takapuna.'

. Their Excellencies Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson, who are going to Christchurch on January 20, will go into residence at Elmwood, the home of Sir Heaton Rhodes.

Among the guests staying at Hotel Stonehurst are:—Mrs. J. Jenkins, Wellington; Mrs. Craddock, Wellington; Miss E. M. Thomson, Sydney; Miss C. McGrath and Miss M. McGrath, Sydney; Miss M. J. Fitzgerald, Brisbane; Miss A. E. Tapsall, Brisbane.

There is an increasing tendency at Oxford to go about hatted, instead of the bare-headed style which has been prevalent for many years now. This will be a fillip to the hatting trader, for fashion at Oxford is followed by youth all the world over—witness the Oxford bags still seen in the streets of Tokio!

Miss Ada Boyland, the explorer, who has recently returned to England after a 6000 miles tour among the lesser-known tribes of Persia, says that most of the Persian women are slovenly and dress badly, while their special quarters are dreadfully untidy. The men's departments, on the other hand, are magnificent, and kept in Eerfect order by male servants no woman eing allowed to enter them. An exception among the women were those of the little-known Bakhtiari tribe. "They are strikingly handsome and beautifully dressed," Miss Bovland said, "and they are all painted. They paint their faces a brilliant red, with vermilion lips, and use thick black paint on their eyebrows and lashes. The ambition of every Bakhtiari girl is to have eyebrows which meet over the nose. And if they can't make them meet they fill in the gap with black paint." ■