SOCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21400, 26 January 1933, Page 3

SOCIAL NEWS

Mrs. L. Russell, nf Dunedin, is staying at. the Central Hotel.

Mrs. ,T. Sherlock and Miss Sherlock, of Sydney, are at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. Norman Lovcgrove, of Ostend, Waiheke Island, is visiting Hamilton.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Edmonds, of Hamil ton, are at Hotel Mon Desir, Takapuna.

Auckland visitors to the Hermitage in elude Miss D. Smith and Miss D. Young.

Mrs. F. Jolly and Mrs. Mary Beale, of Hamilton, arc spending a holiday at Orewa.

Mrs. G. Sutton has returned to Hamilton after spending a month's holiday in Auckland.

Mrs. P. Phillipps, of Feilding, is spend ing a few days with her mother, Mrs. B, N. T. Blake, Arney Road, Remucra.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. L. White and Mrs. J. E. White have returned to Dunedin after a visit to Auckland and the W.aikato.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Little, of Palmerston Nortl'i, will return at the week-end after having spent the past three weeks at Milford.

Mrs. Clifford Allen, of Okoroirc, is spending two weeks at the seaside, and is tlie guest of Mrs. T. Dane Allen, of Cheltenham, Devon port.

Mrs. G. Good, of Wellington. Mrs. E. ,T. Melrose and Miss 11. Hill, of Hawke's Bay, and Mrs. A, S. Laird, of Tn Rangi. are at the Station Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Duncan and family, of the Cove, Waipu, have returned after a visit of some weeks spent with Mrs. Percy Jones, of Wairakau Estate, Te Aroha.

Miss Somerset-Thomas, who has bectn visiting Mrs. Southey-Baker, Palmerston North, and Miss Williams, of Bishopscourt, Napier, have returned to Auckland.

Mrs. B. Jefferson and family, who have been spending the holidays in the South will returr.s this morning from Wanganui, where they were the guests of Mrs. Ronald Hatrick.

Mrs. C. F. Jacobs, of Wellington, who has been visiting her sister at the Grange, Horotiu, left 011 Monday for Wanganui, where she will be the guest of Mrs. Wentwortn Slater.

It must be very wonderful to know that a short spell of one's dancing is worth £IOOO. That, it is stated, is the sum Sir .Lilian Calm offered Lady Plunket for the Marie Curie Hospital if she will dance for him at a ball he is organising in Nottingham.

We hear a good deal about the hoarding of money, but people are still giving it away. One night recently, states a London writer, there were four great charity affairs—two dinners, a midnight show and a ball. One dinner realised £4OOO, the other had £3OOO promised before any collection was made, and I believe the other two entertainments made £4OOO between them.

Frances, Countess of Warwick, who reached 71 years of age recently, sets an example to old people. She is not afraid of her age; in fact, she refuses to remember it. Last year she forgot her birthday until greetings from all parts oi the world arrived by post, and on that occasion she said: "I am happier now than I have ever been. Old age is worth all the groping of youth."

If you suffer from insomnia, or a double chin, or from both, I will tell you howto cure them, states a London writer. Sleep on a wooden pillow—if you can. J. was admiring a Japanese baby in her white pram in Hyde Park. Her little head rested on a wooden pillow. The singling Japanese nurse explained that you cannot get a double chin or insomnia if you sleep on wood.

One of the first Christmas hostesses, the Hon. Mrs. Lyell, made some interesting departures from custom at the dance she gave, for her son, Lord Lyell, and 20-year-old daughter Letty, writes a Londoner. She secured the, services of the unemployed, so that, in addition to giving her guests a good time, her dance should mean a few hours' pay to menservants wiho are out of work. They helped the cook and waited on the guests'. Hot chestnuts were among the supper novelties. Another new idea was home-made hot sausage patties, about the size of miniature mince-pies.

There, are more than 20,000 public and club lawn tennis courts in Great Britain, and the number of tennis players goes up every year by leaps and bounds. Yet the game is barely 50 years old. The original lawn tennis was called Sphairistike. Half a century ago it was played on courts of hour-glass shape with a net 6ft. high in the middle. The racquets were rather like queerly-shaped shrimping nets, and the game was pure pat ball. It was played by ladies with wasp waists, who held up their long skills in one hand, and men whose costume consisted of tight knickerbockers, striped stockings, walking boots, jerseys, and —bowler hats. The original lawn tennis balls were of plain rubber, but later the covered ball came into fashion. In its early days it was usually coloured and often ornamented with fancy stitching.

More sombre fashions appeared at Tr<;ntham on Monday for the final day of the Wellington Racing Club's Summer Meeting, the cold wind making wraps a necessity for those who had ventured out hopefully in summer wear. Others had anticipated a chilly day, and wore light tweed ensembles and tailored suits, states the Post. Black and white was again a very popular and also very smart colour combination, and was in many cases accom panied bv a vivid red scarf or bag. Some rich blues and bright greens were also seen, and there were many variations of tile two-colour vogue, red being relieved with white or sometimes with white and blue. Hats were mostly small, though the few filmy garments worn were usnally accompanied by wide-brimmed ones. A party was entertained at luncheon by the president, Mr. Eric Riddiforcl. and the stewards. Mrs. Riddiford wore a red frock with touches of white, a black coat with astrakhan collar, and a red hat.