Notes for Women

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19498, 5 June 1925, Page 14

Notes for Women

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PAPER PATTERN SUPPLIES,

Nos. 5248, 5249.-TWO PRETTY FROCKS,

No. 5248.—This can be made of soft spot silk or rambrio, and will bo a useful I'ttla frock for the schoolgirl. Age, 6to 8 years. Material required, 1J yards, and i yard plain for trimming. • No. 5249. —A smart model for the small girl. Any striped and plain material will do. Material required. l£ yards striped and 2 yard plain. Age,- 6 to 8 years. The price of each pattern is Is. patterns supplied on application to "Patterns,” Otago Daily Times office. The price of the pattern must accompany the application. In some cases the supplies of patterns are sold out almost immediately, and as.a consequence fresh stocks have to be ordered. Applicants for patterns whoso orders are not fulfilled at once are asked to note tllat two or three weeke must elapse before fresh supplies are available.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Mrs Denniston Cnthbertson, of Invercargill, is the guest of Mrs Reynolds, Lees street. * * * Miss Hilda Hazlott left yesterday on a visit to Auckland. Mrs Oldham left yesterday on a visit to Auckland, Mrs Button, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs R. Hudson, Royal terrace. Mrs and Mi.s> Hazlett; of Invercargill, are visiting Dunedin. Dr and Airs R. C. Bell left yesterday for a visit tb Tirnaru. • * • Mr and Mrs James O'Donnell, of Inver-

cargill, are staying at Wain’s Hotel lor •Show' Week. • « 0 Mr and Mr, W. Baird, of Invercargill, are visiting Dunedin. \ ... Mrs W. No.-worthy, who came south with her husband, the Minister of Agriculture, was present a( the races at Wingatui on Wednesday and at the Overseas Club’s entertainment in the evening. She returned north yesterday. ... Mr and Mrs T. H. Cahill loft Dunedin yesterday per motor for Christchurch, where they intend residing in future. ... M iss Maud Reynolds gave a small bridge party on Wednesday evening in honour of Mrs Denniston Cuthbertson. of Invercargill. * * * Mrs P, R. Chapman, matron of the Y.M.C’.A. hostel, who is proceeding to J oronto cn a visit, was given a rousing •send-otf at the Dunedin railway station when the rnid-day express left for the north yesterday. Large numbers of young people assembled to bid her farewell and bon-

voyage. * * * live engagement has been announced of Celia, only daughter of Mr and Mrs H. G. Coombe, of Milton, to Arthur, only son of Mr and Mrs A. M'Gookin, County Antrim, Ireland. * • * Mrs Roland Fulton gave a small bridge party on Friday evening. The guests were Dr and Airs Fitchott, Mr and Mrs Edgar Hazlott, Mr and Mrs Mathcson. Mrs Batchelor. Ali.-s L. M. Reynolds. Dr Ritchie, and Mr Evans. • * « Mr and Mrs J. D. Woods and Mr and Mrs Jas. Brown, of Dunedin, who left New Zealand in the Maunganui in March, left New York in the Majestic for England after spending some six weeks visiting the various cities in America. They are at present staying with Mrs C. Giles, a daughter ol Mr and Airs Brown, in Surrey. ... Airs J. E. Macassey arranged a party at the Merrymaker*’ Dance in honour of Alisa Helen O’Neill. The party included Air and Airs Alafheson, Aliases 11. O’Neill, J. O’Neill, Batchelor, Halsted,

Fitzgerald, and Vipan, Messrs Sleigh, Hilton, Ramsden, Russell, Haggitt, etc. * » • Miss Finch gave a bridge party on Tuesday evening in honour of Mr and Mrg Giiv Sinclair and Mr and Mrs W. O. M‘Kel!ar. Other euesrs were Mr and Mrs J. Sim, Mesdanics N. llaggitt and L. Mills, Misses Stock, Macandrew, Callaway, Laidi a ’v, Colvin, Rargocd. and Morris, and Messrs Sinclair. Haggilt, Maopherson, Sise. de Castro, VniJringe, Bundle, Irvine, and Harper. • • « The St. Clair Women’s Club was entertained on Tuesday evening by Mrs John Wilson and Mrs York. Mrs George and Miss Grigg played a pianoforte duet. Mrs Lightfoot gave an amusing recitation. Songs wore rendered by Mosdames York and Crawford and Misses Twhigg and MTntyre. accompanied by Miss Grigg and Mrs Waters. Mrs Wilson, ably assisted ‘by Mcadames Ferguson and Mazey, gave a laughter-provoking sketch, and Miss Lightfoot charmed everyone with her monologues. A very pleasant evening was brought to a close with a sketch given hv M iss MaeDougall. entitled ‘'Grandma’s Parcel.'' I’he hall was decorated with beautiful bronze and yellow chrysanthemums.

WEDDINGS.

Items of social interest and topics relating to the home are invited. Communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Notices of engagements must be signed by one at least of the prince pals, or by some responsible person, as a guarantee of genuineness..

Upholstered furniture demand? careful selection, but we can recommend with every confidence that offered by C. and W. Hayward (Limited), 14] (leorge street;, and suggest that you call and inspect the many fabrics in which it can be upholstered.— Advt.

Seldom has a wedding created more kindly interest throughout the Tiileri Plains than that solemnised at Outran Presbyterian Church, West Taieri, on Thursday .afternoon, ti.'Srd ult, when Leona Orant, only daughter of Mr and Mrs P. M. Bathgate, ".Tnnetield,” Outram, was married to itobert Ainsloy, eldest son of Mrs and the late Robert Olendiniiig, of the well-known linn of Ross and Glendining, Dunedin. The picturesque church was very beautifully decorated for the occasion by the Ladies’ Guild and girl friends of the bride, wifii pink, lemon, heliotrope, and cream clirysiuithemiis and autumn leaves. Suspended over the bridal party was a huge white hell, silver horseshoes, and streamers of tulle. The Rev. D. Campbell, assisted by the Rev. J. Fordyeo (Riverton), conducted the wedding ceremony, and Miss Bessie Harrison presided at, the organ. As the bride entered the church on the arm of her father Miss Harrison played "How Welcome Was the Call." The service was choral, and "The Voice That Breathed o’er Eden” was sung after the bridal party had taken their places at, the altar. The bride looked charming in a sleeveless frock of cream brocaded satin, with panels of gathered brocaded georgette, caught at the sides, with beautiful pearl ornaments. Her head-dress was a pearl coronet with orange blossoms, from which hung a beautiful tulle veil in the form of a train, and she also wore silver-brocaded shoes and carried a shower bouquet of white hothouse flowers, asparagus, and maidenhair fern. The bride was attended by Miss Iris Glendining, sister of the bridegroom, who was attired in a sleeveless frock of shell pink brocade I georgette, made tunic style, and finished with pearl? and feather trimming to match. Her hat was of pink georgette with feather trim-

Mrs Ivor Evans, of Melbourne, has returned to Dunedin after a visit to the. norfh.

Mrs Gordon Denniston has returned to Christchurch from Dunedin. where she stayed with he* parents, Sir William and Lady Sim.

The John M'Glashan College on Wednesday afternoon (King’s Birthday) played the annual football match against the Old Boys on the Bishopaconrt Grounds. Tho match resulted in a. win, after a koon game, for the Old Boys by 17 points to 11. The day was beautifully line and a number of parents, friends, and Old Boys assembled to watch the match. Amongst those present were Mr and Mrs Gilray, Mr and Mrs James Begg, Mr and Mrs T. C. Ross, Mr and Airs H L. Cook, Mr and Mrs Gray, Mr and Airs J. S. Ross, Mesdames Moss, J. C. Begg, Walker, Drake, Burt, Begg - , and Beattie, Alisses Glendinning, Gloss, Moss. Duthio, and M‘Gregor, Dr Stuart Moore, Messrs W. J. A. M’Gregor, Holme, Drake, Erwin, Eustace, Young, Hope-l’earson, etc.

On Wednesday evening the Old Boys of the John M'Glashan College held a very enjoyable dance in the College Hall, widen was prettily decorated for (he occasion with flowers and foliage and streamers of the school colours (red. bine, and gold). At one end of the hall tho school flag with the coat-of arms was hung. Tho guests were received by the President of the Did Boys’ Association (Mr T. Kinmont), the secretary (Mr Erwin), and Mr and Mrs Gilray. Among those present were: Mr and Airs Gilray, Air and Mrs T. C Ross, Air and Airs Gray, Mi sses Glendinning, Stronach, Bett (2), Romans, Paterson. Ballantyne,, Barnett, Urqnhart, Moloney, Spence, Alacnamara. and Gibson, Messrs Robinson, Alorgan, Dunning, Boyd (2). Harris, Gilkison, APGregor, Bonfell, Urquhart, Perkins, Glondining, etc.

Wingatni has been blessed with beautiful Weather for the first two days of the Dunedin Jockey Club's Winter Meeting. On Wednesday n very largo crowd was present end though there were fewer people there yesterday there was still a pleasantly big attendance. Winter dees not offer much variety as to clothes. As a general rule large coats or tailored suits and furs were worn, and in almost every case a smail felt cloche completed the outfit. The total effect, however, in spue ni its sameness, was decidedly chic, and it may ho safely said that when Dunedin attended the Winter 'Meeting, it gave from head to foot a uniform impression of trim smartness. Among the women who thronged the members' stand and the lawn were Mrs Hanlon wearing a black fur coat and a black panne hat ; Mrs Marshall Macdonald, black fur coat and hat; Mrs O’Neill, brown tailored suit, brown hat and furs; Mrs R. Hudson, black fur coat over navy blue frock, and navy blue hat; Mrs Wtllis, tan fur coat and fawn hat; Mrs Mackenzie, grey suit and black hat; Mrs Hazlett (Invercargill), fawn costume and saxo-bhie hat; Mrs Barrowolough, mole fur coat and hat to match; Mrs Catßn, grey tailored suit and mustard-coloured hat ; Mrs Henderson, grey tailored suit, black hat and furs; Mrs Button (Christchurch), fur coat and black hat; Mrs Sarpood. blue coat frock piped in white and black and while hat, Mrs L. Mills, fur coat and heather hat; Mrs S. Neill, black fur coat over navy blue frock, and a navy blue hat; Mrs Gram, black coal with grey furs and a black hat; Mrs Theotnin, black astrachan coat and bat to match; Mrs Dodgshun, black fur coal and black bat; Mrs Cook, grey tailored suit and apricot felt hat; Mrs Allan Or bell, musquash coat and fawn hat; Mrs Reid, fawn costume and fawn hat with furs; Mrs Acton-Adams, navy blue" coat and ■hat to match; Mrs Hutchison, mole tailored suit and black hat; Mrs Brewer, fawn costume and hat to match; Mrs Hislop, navy blue coat frock and black hat with furs: Mrs 0. Sinclair, fawn coal am! hat to match; Mrs AlHvellar, grey tailored suit and grey hat; Mrs D. Reid, lweed costume and fawn hat; Mrs Oldham, fawn costume and golden-brown hat; Mrs Dcnniston Guthbertson, brown coat and heliotrope hat ; Alias Hanlon, tweed tailored suit ami multi-coloured hat with furs; Miss Bell (Shag ‘Valley), ,tweed costume ami black bat; Miss O’Neill, blue costume and fawn Imt with furs; Miss H. O'Neill, brown costume, henna hat and furs; Miss Logan, heather-coloured suit and fawn hat ; Miss L. Logan, mivy blue coat frock and bla' k hat; Miss Preston, navy blue costume ami black hat; Miss Ha/lett (Invercargill), fawn striped suit and hut to match ; Miss Thenmin, grey tailored suit and black hat with furs; Miss Rargood, fur coat ami fawn hat; Mis» Oram, tweed costume ami fawn hat with fin's: Mrs Laidlaw, brown costume and fawn hat with furs; Miss Grigor (Balclufha), blue knitted costume and black hat: Miss Callaway, navy blue coal and block bat with plumes; Miss ilalslcd, (weed suit and black hut with furs; Miss Batchelor, navy blue coat frock and black hat; Miss Fitzgerald, grey costume, black hat and furs; Miss Finch, fur coal and black hat; Miss Statham, fawn tailored suit and fawn hat; Miss Barr, fawn costume and hat to match; Miss Reid, navy blue coat and black hut. and Alias Milne, tweed suit and grov hat.

ining and she carried a bouquet of pink hothouse (lowers and asparagus fern, which completed a charming toilette. Two little (lower girls attended the bride - Mavis Craig (cousin of the bride) anil Margaret Swallow (daughter of Mr and Mrs 11. Swallow. Mosgiel. old friends of the brute’s parents). kittle Miss Craig was dressed in lemon pailette siik trimmed with gold, with a lemon and gold hat to match; her companion. wore heliotrope pailette silk, with a heliotrope and silver hat to match. Mach carried a basket decorated with lemon and heliotrope flowers and tulle, tilled with rose petals whicn were scattered in front of the bride and bridegroom as (hoy left the church, to the strains of tho wedding march. The bridegroom was attended by Mr .Toon M’Nuity, of Dunedin, in the role of lies" man. Following the ceremony at the church a reception was held at ’Manelield.” the beautiful home of the bride's parents. Mr and Mrs I*. M. Bathgate received their guests on the lawn.' Airs Bathgate won- a handsome nigger brown moroeain frock, beautifully trimmed with Egyptian embroidery, small brown hatter’s plush hut. with feather mount, and a brown marabout. . Her bouquet was composed of bronze chrysanthemums and autumntinted leaves. Mrs If. Ghmdining was in a handsome black and silver chenille silk velvet, trimmed with silver fringe, a black and silver hat to match, and a conev seal coat. Her bouquet was of scarlet cactus dahlias and autumn leaves. The presents, which wore numerous and costly, were on view in the dining room, and included several cheques. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a handsome coney seal coat; to the bridesmaid a gold-mounted fountain pen, and to (he (lower girls gold armlets. The bride's present to the. bridegroom was a solid leather suitcase. The wedding breakfast was held in a spacious marquee, and was presided over by the Rev. D. Campbell. During the afternoon a short musical programme was contributed by Alisses Harrison and Southgate, Messrs J. Bathgate and H. Miller (Dunedin), and by the Taieti Male Choir. Air and Airs Bathgate entertained upwards of 70 couples in the ('veiling at a dance, held in the large and spacious barn, which was turned into a ballroom for the occasion, and was beautifully decorated with greenery and streamers of pink, lemon, and heliotrope trelissed to and fro from wall to wall to form a canopy. Suspended from the centre was a huge boll of the corresponding colours. The bride and bridegroom, led the grand march, after which they motored to Dunedin en route for the North Island, where the honeymoon was spent. The bride travelled' in .t silver-grey rep cloth coat frock, trimmed with blue and grey Richelieu embroidery, a small hut of grey and blue, and a handsome fur coat. I’rior to her wedding the bride was entertained at several evening parties. The local church choir, of which she was a member, presented her with a well-bound Church Braise. She also received a Boulton salad bowl from the members of the Ladies’ Guild, and from girl friends a d’oylcy and handkerchief afternoon. • • • St. Alary’s Church, Christchurch, was Uie scene of a very pretty wedding last Monday morning, when Irene Stanislaus, younger daughter of Captain and Airs T. Alahon. of Canon street, St. Albans, was married to Afichael Francis, younger son of tho late Mr and Mrs C. O’Sullivan, of Dunedin. The Rev, Father Roche, S.M., was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a beautiful and uncommon frock of palest cyclamen French crepe-de-chine. The tunic and tiny sleeves were banded with marabout, the godets of the skirt and the painted yoke of the bodice wore of silver lace, with a tiny trail of silver loaves across the front of the low-waiated bodice. An original touch was introduced in the form of a long scarf of silver lace, lined with cyclamen georgette and edged with marabout. Her bridal veil of pale cyclamen tulle hung in graceful folds to the hum of the gown, and was held with a ■small pointed coronet of silver leaves and cyclamen flowers, with a posy of orange blossom buds over each ear. She carried a shower bouquet of geraniums and rosebuds. Aliss Rewa Murphy, of Wellington, the bridesmaid, wore a frock of lilac georgette. made with a long tight, bodice and potallod overskirt of pieot-edged georgette. Her black hatter’s plush hat was trimmed with an osprey, and she carried a bouquet of iris and scabious with streamers. Air J. M’Kiefrey, of Timarn, was best man. Following the ceremony. Airs Mahon received about; 50 guests at Dixieland, which wrs dor-orated with autumn (lowers and foliage and the tables with pink flowers. When leaving for the wedding lour, the bride wore a two-piece suit of navy cloth with facings of cinnamon brown tartan crepe-de-ohine. Her hat was of navy cloth with upturned brim of cinnamon crepe-do-chine. and fhe wore a handsome marmot coat.

PORCELAIN MENDING.

In these days, when very many women have some appreciation ot old china, even if they do not understand much about it, and when most housewives lutve a few P'ucos, either handed down from forbears or purchased, the question of how to make good a breakage of one of these treasures is an important one. Disfiguring rivets are not necessary now that there are adhesives which admit of a joint I hut, at any rate on a patterned surface, is not visible even at close range, ami which is so strong that sometimes when a piece that has been mended lias been dropped ; t lias broken m a fresn place and not in the old one. Two or thrive women have taken up this work of restoring old china, and are Very successful at it. One of them said that she recently had a large blue and white Oriental plate to restore that had been broken in iwo and then mended with

large rivets that had rusted. She had to lake them all out and till up the holes before she could make a sat isfactory mend. When a treasured piece is broken it is a great: mistake to try home mending, as various kinds of china and pottery need quite different treatment, and very often when a home-mended piece is sent, to a restorer it is impossible to make a good job of it because use has been made of an adhesive leaving a white deposit which cannot be removed. It is important when china is broken that oven the tiniest ehippings should be saved. The broken pieces should be packed separately in paper. Very often they are put all in one parcel and the edges get. chipped in transit, making the task of restoration doubly difficult. * At spring cleaning time good old china that has bqen put by with pieces broken olf is sometimes thrown away because it is thought that if pieces are actually missing nothing can be done. But the expert restorer thinks nothing of adding a missing handle or inserting a triangular patch at the edge of a plate. Figures also that have a hand or a foot gone can he restored completely, and the flowers on Dresden and Chelsea china that so easily chip can be invisibly mended. One restorer had a specially valued old Chinese jar to mend that, besides being broken into 47 pieces had four or five big pieces missing—so no breakage is hopeless. China restoring requires endless patience as sometimes the whole thing has to be taken to pieces again after it has been stuck together if t.ho last piece does not fit correctly. The cost varies according to the value of the article mended.—The Daily Mail.

OUR KINSPEOPLE AND OUR FRIENDS.

For our kinspeoplo to love our friends is one of the rarest of life’s boons (says a writer in an English paper). Sometimes we are conscious that they are trying to love them, and the effort, though it has ite comic side, is more painful to us than frank indifference.

Those who arc linked most closely to us by the ties of blood do not us a rule look kindly upon tho ties that we form for ourselves. Tlio beginning of this vague churlishness is soon in the attitude of some mothers towards their children's school friends. They do not see why letters need lie exchanged during holidays j” they ridicule the plans and belittle the jokes which the young people share. It is all done nicely, but, it is done, and the children, with their extraordinarily quick spiritual ears, know that it is done. They may not state the fact to themselves, but it enters their very being. tSo as life goes on confidences become fewer. Enthusiasms are not revealed. Warm affection between the older and younger members of the family continues. They have the power to make each other happy, and also the power to wound each other to tho quick. But they have not thepower to share life; their emotions, as they are relaxed to each other, move in a re. strioted space. Tile older ones grow more and more jealous of the lively interests that belong to tho other part of tho young one:.’ lives, and the young ones grow less and less able to speak of these. Just how far i.he child, | on growing up, allows the influence of the family to mould his or her life depends. | of course, upon the character of the child.

HOSTESSES,

People who take the. line of least resistance are sometimes smothered by their home affections. Tim family is a great institution, and wo are. no doubt, right to bo proud of it, in spite of all that its distinguished critics have had to say against it. But if the people who live at home home, where our roots are—would open their hearts and their minds to the people and the things that.are dear to ns away from home, what a much sweeter place home would be '

“Yes, thank you. Everyone who stops here has to work,” said my hostess, smilingly, when 1 asked tier if I snonld set the tea. You see, she had no maid, and I tclfc it would bo so much more "homey” jf we did the work together. It doesn't seem half so tiring doing work in other people’s houses—maybe because we arc not compelled to do it. Anyway, I spent a very happy few days in niy friend’s comfortable home, despite the fact that 1 worked nearly as hard a* she did. Prior to that, I had spent a week with another friend who kept no maid. As soon as I had her answer after first having asked if I could help, 1 knew she would rather I did not. Consequently, 1 remained a guest, pure and .simple! True, I tclt a hit lazy and ashamed of sittting chatting with her husband while I knew that she would be getting through the task of dish washing, but she did her work so easily and unostentatiously that one hardly realised that she was working, in between popping in and out: to have a few words with us. I was glad of the rest and tho change from housework, but I should not have f elt comfortable had I known she found catering for me a trouble. Of course, I made my bed and attended to my room. Guests should always do that where there are no maids. liven one room makes such a difference. To niy mind, the only time when a servant is an untold blessing is when' wo have friends, and she saves ns from having to leave them to got the meal and clear away. Then, again, it is nice to find everything washed up and put away alter our friends have gene. Facing a pile ol unwashed pots very late at night, is none too attractive. While to leave them until the rush of the morning is apt to cause nightmare. A professional man, who one would imagine never soiled his hands with housework,* told me that ho and his wife had a compact. If his friends were invited, then she supped away and washed tip; if they were her friends, ho did the same thing. It they were joint friends, then ho got rid of the tea things, while his wife undertook ...ose that were used at supper. All such duties are very much easier done when they are shared by somebody else Even now, though, I can’t quite sa--whether 1 prefer visiting the people who liKe 1110 to help, and be us one of the family, or whether I would rather act tho lady, and do nothing. At one time of mv life, when I had 100 big- a share of housework at my home — wo wero a very largo family and entertained a lot—l remember I never liked going anywhere where there were not a sufficient number of servants. I always tolt so -orry for the tiredness of whoever had to clear up.—Lillie Ross Ciyne, in the Glasgow Weekly Herald.