Notes for Women

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20075, 16 April 1927, Page 26

Notes for Women

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PAPER PATTERN SUPPLIES

DAINTY LITTLE DRESS. 6051. —For the email girl has this mode of the day been fashioned. Material required, If yards. 38in. Age, 8 to 8 years. Other size, 8 to 10 years. SMART FROCK FOR THE GROWING GIRL. 6052. —An attempt has been made to produce the two-piece effect in this frock for the schoolgirl. Material required, 2 yards, 38in. Age. 10 to 12 years. Other size. 8 to 10 years. The price of ® ac h pattern is la. Pattern supplied on application to “Patterns,” Otago Daily Time* 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 order are not fulfilled at once are asked to note that two or three weeks _ must elapse before fresh supplies are available. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “Carrot Marmalade."—l regret that I am unable to procure this recipe for you. 1 wonder if any of my readers have the information you want. If so, I would be very grateful if they would send this recipe to me for publication. "Patterns."—Would the correspondent who wrote for pattern No. 6039 (12 j-ears of age), and enclosed a postal note and a stamp, please send her name and address. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Mrs Tonkinson and Miss Linda Tonkinson have gone to Christchurch. • o • Mr and Mrs F. M. Oldham loft Dunedin on Wednesday for Roxburgh. • • • Mr and Mrs J. A. Sim are spending Easter in Timaru. • * • Miss Gwen Gallaway has gone to Timaru as the guest of Miss Salmond, “Craighead.” • • * Mrs James Allan has left Dunedin for Wairaki. • * • Mr and Mrs P. L. Halsted are at present visiting Wellington, where they motored to see their daughter, Mrs Maurice Myers. • • • Mrs D. H. Cameron (St. Kilda) has gone to Timaru to spend three weeks there and at Geraldine. • • * Mr and Mrs J. A. Johnstone and the Misses Johnstone left on Wednesday for a short visit to Queenstown. • • * Mr and Mrs George Ritchie are spending Easter at their Waikouaiti house. « • • Miss Barbara Shrimpton, of Hawke’s Bay, is the guest of > Mrs Henley, Pitt street. • • * Miss Helen MTiennan, who has been visiting Christchurch, has gone to Wellington, where she is the guest of Mrs Evelyn White. * * * Miss Clara Low, of Dunedin, has returned to London from Franco, and leaves this month for Canada, where she will spend some considerable time before returning to New Zealand. * * * Mr and Mrs W. O. M'Kellar have gone to Waikouaiti for the holidays. • • * Miss Nichols, of Kuriheka* i* the guest of Mrs Finch for Easter. • • • Mrs Acton Adams is at present visiting Christchurch. a a • Mr and Mrs Harman Reeves and family, accompanied by Miss Hartmann, are spending the holidays at Waikouaiti. • • • Miss Joan Halsted i 9 the guest of Mrs Hislop at Brighton for Easter. • • • Mr _T. K. Sidey, M. P.. and Mrs Sidey, are visiting Pembroke. Mr and Mrs C. Rattray are spending Easter at their Waikouaiti house. • • * Mrs E. Theomin, Miss Mocatta (London), and Miss M. Halsted have returned from a visit to the Franz Josef glacier. Mr and Mr? 11. B. Fenwick, and Miss H. Fenwick, left on Friday for Christchurch. * • • Miss Jean Findlay is the guest of Mrs Orbe'l, “Tbe River.” « • « Mr and Mrs Brewer and family, accompanied by Mrs Stock, are spending Easter at Warrington. • • • Mrs J. D. Hutchison, of Christchurch, is visiting Dunedin. • • • Mrs Srr.eaton and family are spending Easter at Broad Bay, with Mrs R. Hudson. Sir George and Lady Fenwick, Mi?s Fenwick. and ' Mrs Hazlett are spending the holidays at the Levels, South Canterbury. Mrs J. M. Ritchie and the Misses M.-vc Laren are staying at Moeraki. • • Mrs Bruce, of Christchurch, is visiting Dunedin, and is the guest of her daughter, Mr* Fordham.

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Mrs Erwin, of Dunedin, ia visiting Wanaka and Hawea. • • • Mr and Mrs A. E. Holst and Miss Jessie Holst, of Timaru, are visiting Dunedin. • * * Mr and Mrs M'Lennan and Miss M'Lennan left Dunedin on Friday for a snort visit to Timaru. * » • Miss Venus Reid has left for Queenstown where she intends spending the Easter vacation. • • • The engagement is announced of the Rev. Roy Alley, of Balclutha, to Miss Allison Milnes. second daughter of Mr and Mrs J. W. Milnes. of 39 Leo street. * * * Misa Clanpcrton was hostess on Monday evening to *a delightful bridge party nt her residence, when the guests were Misses Gallaway, Finch, Macandrew, Reeves, M'Clollan. Messrs Sise, Solomon, Reynolds, Dawson, Whitcombc, and Yallange. • * • The ex-High School Girls’ Club held its April meeting in the school hall on Monday evening last. There was an excellent attendance of members, and the time passed merrily with games and music, it being a social evening. Miss Isabel Tilbury sang delightfully, and Misses Rene Aslin and Ngaire Penrose caused great amusement by a short reading. On the tihrd Monday in May the evening is to be devoted to play reading. • * • In spite of the very wintry conditions prevailing on Saturday evening, the attendance at the Wembley Dance Club was very large, nearly 500 dancers being present. The supper tables were decorated with choice blooms and autumn foliage. The Kapai Dance Band and Beath’s Professional Orchestra provided the beautiful music for the old and the new dances. Another of these delightful evenings is being arranged for Saturday night. * • * Three ladies who are well known in Dunedin have loft for the north, en route to England—Mrs Little, superintendent of the juvenile department of Knox Church Sunday School; Mrs Lanclrcth and her sister. Miss Faulks. The party will probably return about Christmas time. Mrs Landreth’s daughter, who was educated in Dunedin, is a professor of domestic economy in America, one of her eons is a doctor, at present studying in London, and the other son is a mine manager in Rhodesia. After meeting her son and daughter in London, Mrs Lambeth will return to New Zealand, by way of South Africa to see her son there. * ft • Queen Mary u adding yet another to her many ‘‘collections” of things. She i» making a collection of photographs of scones and incidents in connection with tlio present tour of the Duke and Duchess of York. These are likely to fill many albums before the tour ends, and should be extremely interesting from a national, as well as a family, point of view. Some photographs have been sent to the Queen direct from the Renown, showing scenes ai Las Palmas and Jamaica, while others have been selected from those appearing in (ho newspapers. The Queen carefully goes through a large number of paper* and tries to see all the pictures published dealing with the Royal tour, obtaining copies of those which attract her special attention. • • • That women students at Oxford suffer from ‘‘fatty degeneration of the brain” is the opinion of •‘Eve," writing in lais, the university journal. ‘‘We come up," the young author says, “straight from school, whore for the last six years or so wo have been spoon-fed nnj herded about in a Hock like the geese we are. We allow ourselves to be stuffed with more knowledge, which in itself is valueless. As if anyone will remember our academm honours 10 years after we go down unless we are capable of upholding them in the world outside, and how few of us are so capable! Most of our mental energy, our originality, has been sapped by overwork during our three years’ residence. It is depressing to realise how few of the women who have taken brilliant degrees are over heard of after they go down- It is not altogether our fault. It is largely thelunatic system on which women’s college* are run—a system which seems based on the idea that* the really important part of a student’s career is her short period of university residence, and that the rest of life is a very minor affair. They are our woes.” » • • Miss Edith I.eilch, sister of Miso Cecil Leitcli, and almost as well known in the golfing world as her ex-chainpion sister, was married recently to Mr Herbert Guodalla. The ceremony took . place at Marylebone Town Hall before the registrar. and Miss Cecil Leitch and Mrs Dennis Turnbull, the bride’s two sisters, were both present, as well as Mr X<'. At. Guodalla and Mrs Guodalla. The bride, who has played golf for England, and captained the Middlesex ladies, wore a simple, smart coat ana skirt of beige colour, and a hat to match. » • • First Church Hall presented a very pleasing appearance on Monday last, when the opening meeting of the Young Women's Club was held. Tea was served at 6 o’clock, and a happy hour of conversation ensued. Dr Merrington then welcomed the members, and congratulated the club on past achievements. Mrs Mcrringtou spoke for a few minutes on the spiritual aspect of the work of the club as embodied in the motto “Follow the Christ —the King: live pure, speak true, right wrong: follow the Christ: else wherefore born.” Miss Morton then spoke on the social aims of the chib, showing how essential is meeting to dispel the loneliness of life, and to give sympathy to one another. The good work of the club _ in supporting an orphan at the Glcndining Homo, and supporting the missionary fund was touched on by Sister Elinor, who spoke of practical affairs, which embraced the Rosa Home, the Benevolent Institution, and the'orphanages- The club baa also another responsibility, that of arranging the flowers for the church every Sunday, and they were thanked for the very great pleasure which their gifts of sprays of flowers at Christmas time to each patient of our hospitals inspires. Sister Elinor expressed her gratitude to members for their work in helping with the street collections and in the work of the poor. Later, Dr Marion Taylor spoke of public health work, and much enjoyed items were given by Mrs M’Niven and Miss Ettie Morrison. A very pleasant competition was won by Miss Morton. At the close, all felt that the evening had been a most delightful one. * * • 1 am growing awfully tired of hearing that the famous Suzanne Lenglen is coming to London to play exhibition games, and that Mr Pyle, her energetic exhibitor, is planning this and that wonderful show, to which all London will flock (writes a London correspondent). One hears, by the way. that the fascination of going to watch these exhibition games is palling a little, and that people who have seen the finest players several times do not care to go again. When one comes to think of it, there cannot be the same interest in watching merely an exhibition, however perfect, of tennis playing as compared with a real game in which each side straining every effort to win. If Mile. Lenglen comes to England and pi a vs some professional tennis in the Albert Hall, as is proposed, many people will go and watch her, I have no doubt, because she is the finest woman player in the world. But there cannot be the same interest in her play as when she used to queen it at Wimbledon, the acknowledged world champion. 1 wonder if she ever regrets that bitter transaction with Mr Pyle? • • • Masses of pink and white lilies and the same shade of Michaelmas daisies made an exquisite sotting for the celebrations of the first marriage ceremony in the beautiful new Presbyterian Church at Waitahuna. The contracting parties were Mr S. Wclharn, son of the late Miami Mrs A. Wclharn. of Mataura, and Miss -Tenet May M’Corkindale. elder daughter of Mr and Airs Donald M'Corkimlale. Murray's Flat. Waitahuna. The Rev. E. E. Andrews, M.A., officiated. The bride made a dainty picture in her wedding. frock of while georgette, with its deep yoke of silver lacc and insets of lace on the skirt. Her beautifully em-

broidered veil fell from a coronet of silver tissue and orange blossom buds. White satin slippers and white _ stockings and an exquisite bouquet of lilies, daisies, and maidenhair fern completed a charming toilette. There were two bridesmaids— Miss Dorothy Bringana and Mias Jean M'Corkindal'e (sister of the bride). The former wore a frock of a pretty soft shade of orchid blue georgette and silver lace, made in the same fashion as the bride's gown, and a bandeau of silver leaves on ber hair. Miss Jean M Corkindale was froeked in pale apricot, and in her hair wore a bandeau of gold leaves. Both bridesmaids carried beautiful bouquets of pale blue delphiniums, pink gladioli, and maidenhair fern. The bridegroom was attended by Mr J. Urquart, of Thovnbury (Southland), as best man. After the ceremony the guests, some 120 in number, adjourned to Brown a Hall, where they were received by Mr and Mrs M’COrkindale, the latter wearing a navy repp coat-frock and a hat of the same ahade. After the excellent wedding breakfast had been enjoyed and the usual toasts honoured, another pleasing function took place, the Rev. Mr Andrews presenting the bride with a handsome morocco-bound Bible from the Waitahuna Presbyterian Church congregation, in commemoration of the first wedding in the new church. Mr M’Corkiudale, on behalf of his daughter, thanked the congregation for their gift. Later in the afternoon the happy couple left for a tour of the North Island, the bride wearing a cedarwood repp frock, with fawn hat to match, and handsome fox fur. Their future home will ho in Oaraaru. • * * Beautiful carpets are being offered at greatly reduced prices at Hayward’s, 145 George street. Axminster and Wilton Squares, from £6 10s. —Advt. • • • Note.—When deciding on your Gloves or Stockings go to the specialist, London Town Hosiery Parlour, where you buy direct from mill at the lowest cost —186 George street (opp. Salisbury Butchery).— Advt - . , . Ladies, why suffer from the distressing complaint, superfluous hair? You will find a satisfactory remedy in “Chiroene. ’ Write for particulars, P.O. Box 179, Dunedin. —Advt. • • • MAKE YOUR OWN FROCKS. A girl can learn the delight of fashioning with her own hands the charming frocks, lingerie, and millinery she loves by enrolling for the Dressmaking and Designing Course of the Woman’s Institute of Arts and Sciences. A free booklet, “ Dressmaking and Millinery Made Easy,” tell you how.—Apply for it to P.O. Box 20, Tc Aro B, Wellington.—Advt. THE WAY TO SUCCEED. When something goes wrong with a pattern you are working, and you feel inclined to give it up as hopeless, it is often because you aro not in form for grasping the idea.’ This happens at times to the best workers. A sensible woman puts down her work, when she feels it is beyond her. The following day. when feeling fresher, she may pick it up again and work it right away. Alien she wonders whatever it was that puzzled her. Scientists roll us that our brain works oven during sleep, and that it is possible to give ourselves a problem that seems to have no answer in the evening, and to wako after a good night’s rest with the whole thing as clear as daylight. If you apply the principle to your needlework you will find it saves you hours of trouble, end you learn new stitches and methods of work without any difficulty.— Homo Chat. BRIGHT BREAKFASTS. Breakfast-eaters either get up too late or the meal is served unpuncbually, with the result that a “gobbled” meal with one eye on the clock is all that ia possible. Yet breakfast can bo made very attractive. and tor digestion’s sake it ghould bo so, for a good breakfast makes a good start for the day. Lot the meal _l>e fixed for a time which allows paterfamilias to enjoy it without a rush for (ho train immediately afterwards, and so (hat the children are not obliged to run holter-skelior to get to school in time. Breakfast should be served in a sunny, cheerful room: if it overlooks a garden all the bettor. If this ideal it not practical, unci the room is naturallv gloomy, have it papered in a cheery yellow or cream, and lot tho table appointments bo dainty and gay. Tho breakfast table ghould bo rather small, for “passing things” is the order of tho meal. Even in stately homes breakfast is usually informal. Quito a good idea is to dispense with a linen cloth and use the new rubber mats covered with coloured net. Those protect the polished surface of the tabic, are washable, and can bo obtained in many pretty coloursAn alternative is a linen cloth with rather a large draught-board check in blue, red, green, mauve, or yellow, to match tho predominant colour note in the pottery or china borakfast set. Tho possibilities for a decorative breakfast table are great. Anything elaborate, such as a massive silver rosebowl or ornate eporgne, which would grace a dinner tabic, looks out of place at breakfast time. A large portcry bowl or a few slender glass vases sparingly filled with flowers looks well. Indeed, on these days when flowers aro scarce, foliage alone looks effective, and fruit also lends a touch of colour to the meal. Pewter instead of plate i» often used and possesses many advantages. It not only looks charming but is easy to clean. Tho old-fashioned dumb waiter is replaced by tho convenient polished wood or revolving electro plated stand which simplifies serving.—Modern. “TEA-TIME PRATTLE.’’ How it is despised, how it is condemned, all that talk about the weather, all those nameless nothings which have the stamp of only being said for something to say! Haven't you heard often enough some superior person murmur languidly: “Oh dear me. I’m no good at ‘small talk’! I can’t sit and discuss the weather, or the latest fashion, or cooking dinners or the garden. Put me down with somebody who has got something to sav and I’ll ho pleased enough to listen to them. But spare mo, oh spare me, from tho conversation of your average afternoon tea miss!’ Yet small talk, for all its pointlessness, cannot be dismissed as entirely unimportant. And, after all, most discussions are pointless as far as getting anywhere is concerned, however deep and solemn they may lie. Apart from ths, too, is tho fact that deep discussions are not for every one any more than one’s secrets and inmost thoughts are for mere acquaintances. Small talk quite indefinitely has its advantages, vou may be very sure. Only the shallowest or the most confiding natures can talk about their most intimate affairs to people other than intimate friends, and if you can do it, it is not always wise. For the average person small talk is simply a safeguard, and only the very foolish will dismiss it as something urimportant and petty. It is invaluable on anv of those numberless occasions when a set of people who do not know each other verv well aro gathered together. At such times it would not only bo foolish but in bad taste to enter upon sonffi deep and complex discussion. There aro ‘ safe subjects and difficult subjects and it is best to steer clear of the latter except when you arc with people you know intimately. Religion, politics, and advanced forms of art, for instance, arc seldom safe subjects to embark upon. “What” yon may perhaps ask, ‘conies under tho category of ‘small talk”:’ Veil, almost anything that isn't personal. Aim weather the news, tho latest play or book, hobbies—ill fact, almost anything may resolve itself into small talk if tackled iu an abstract fashion. A very wise and very charming woman, whose activities in a certain village worn such as necessitated her attending nutneroii* lea pa riles anil small social functions, i attributed her success to the fact (hat she I was always at tains to arm herself with an unlimited supply of small talk. .he wa 3 what if commonly known as a reserved woman, but. when she was present at a I gal boring there was no awkward gaps for 1 want of something to say. . . ‘ U was her own private orunion that small talk originally had probably been instigated by wi-'C maidens of some other era as a sort of safeguard for their secrets, to conceal what they really thought about deeper problems. „ , Small talk or “tea-timrt nrattlo only becomes tiresome and petty when scandal and gossip poke their way in, but here again we come to personalities and if you are a real small-talker and indulge in d in the proper spirit you will prefer to talk about the wendier rather than about your neighbour.—Woman's Life. f's’tinued on Page 27.