PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 14

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Mrs Peter Gray left on Thursday for Queenstown. * * * Mrs J. Milne is making a brief stay at Christchurch. $ * * Mrs J. V. Brown of Otautau, is a visitor to Dunedin. * * * Mr and Mrs D. Young are spending a holiday' at Christchurch. C * * Mr and Mrs A. E. MacDonald are spending a holiday at Timaru. * # Mrs Paterson, of Gore, is the guest of Mrs R. D. Halstead, Highgate. «(’ V V Mrs G. Dransfield. of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs' C. E. Greensladc, Tennyson street. $ sjc 5?! Mrs E. Evatt, of Wellington ,is the guest of her daughter, Mrs Guy Tapley, Royal terrace. sjc V v Mrs Gordon M'Lcan. of Riverton,, is paying a brief visit to Dunedin. j * * # Miss Ruth Thomson is visiting Winton as the guest of Miss Alma Moore. * * * Miss P. Ritchie has returned from a visit to Southland. * * # Mr and Mrs Peter Anderson have returned from Queenstown. n* The Misses Somerville have been spending a holiday at Franz Josef Glacier. * * * Mr and Mrs G. Ritchie have returned from a holiday visit to Queenstown. *#* . 1 Signor and Madame Squarise have returned from Queenstown. * * * Mr. and Mrs H. Black are enjoying a stay at Queenstown. Mrs G. Bain, of Riverton, is visiting friends in Dunedin. * ❖ * Miss Brass has left on a visit to Mrs James Hall, Otautau. * * * Mies Peggy King, of Winton, is a visitor to'Dunedin. # * * Mrs T. L, Porter has left on a visit to Mrs R. J. Gilmour, Invercargill. # # * Miss P. Sutton has left to pay a visit to Mrs G. Cleland at Winton. * # * Mr and Mrs P. 0. Pemberthy are paying a brief visit to Christchurch. * * * Mrs S. Webb is viisting her mother, Mrs W. Davies, at Queenstown. * * * Miss M. Greenslade has returned from a visit to Queenstown. * * # Mrs R. Stroud is visiting Queenstown as the guest of Mrs T. Stroud. * * * Mr and Mrs John Scott have returned from a long holiday .visit to Queenstown. * * * Mrs 6. R. Ritchie has returned from Waikouaiti. i, ‘ . * $ # . Miss C. Williams is the guest of Mrs Frank Fitchett at Waitati. * * * Mrs Riley is spending a holiday at Waitati. * * * Mrs J. W. Black has left for Christchurch. * * * Mrs Rowley, of Shanghai, has left to spend a holiday at Queenstown. ❖ * * Mrs Thomas Brown has returned from a long holiday spent at Timaru. # * # Mrs J. H. Fotheringham and’ Miss Vallange will leave Dunedin by car this wedr for Christchurch. * * 1 >!« Miss Betty Davidson, of Methven, is the guest of Mrs Thomas Brown, of ‘ ■ Broomlands." * * M! Miss H. Williams has returned from Waikouaiti, where she was the guest -of Mrs G. R. Ritchie. * # * Miss Twoomey, of ’South Canterbury, is the guest of Mrs J. H. Crawshaw, St. Clair.

Miss Maisie Marshall, of Oamaru, is at present the guest of Miss Forsyth, Scotland street. * * * Mrs I. Thomas, of Auckland, is visiting Port Chalmers. She is staying with her mother (Mrs Hay), of George street, eje # " $ Mrs Keith S. Ramsay and family have returned from a three months’ holiday spent at Auckland and MJaclennan. * * * Mrs J. A. Sim and her guest, Mrs E. A. Le Cren, of Christchurch, will return to-morrow from Queenstown.. * ♦ # Mrs H. D. W. Brewer and Miss Airini Brewer are _ spending a holiday in the Gatlins district. * * # . Mrs C. Bowker, of Timaru, is the guest of her mother, Mrs A. C. Stephens, Hawthorne avenue. • Miss Ritchie has left on a visit to Winton, where she will be the guest of Mrs T. Walker. * * * Mr and Mrs Orwell Michaelis left from Auckland yesterday by the Aorangi for Sydney and Melbourne. * # # Mr and Mrs J. Sutherland Ross will return to-day from a long holiday spent at their country cottage at Pukepito. * » # The Misses Eileen, Mama, and Beryl Service have returned from a holiday spent at Stewart Island. * # * Mrs Gordon Stewart, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs P. H. Cox, at Mcrivale, returned to Dunedin on Friday. -I- -iMrs H. Hay, of Christchurch, who has been spending a holiday in Dunedin, has returned to her home. Cp !JC Mrs Mendelsshon has left for Christchurch after spending a holiday in Timaru as the guest of Mrs F. R. Harold. * * Mr and Mrs James Manchester, of Waimate, have left for their home after a pleasant holiday spent in Dunedin. Miss Rona Allen has been spending a few' days at “ Bushey Park,” Bushcy, as the guest of Mrs J. A. Johnstone. * !p * Mr and Mrs J. F. Sutherland have returned from a visit to Queenstown where they were the guests of Mrs D. F. Sutherland. • The “ Grafton ” Folding Card Table, made ill New Zealand, price 15s Gd. —C. and W. Hayward, Ltd., 141 George street, Dunedin. —Advt. W * Mr and Mrs Napier are still conducting “Te Kiteroa,” the popular Guest House and Health Resort at Waimate; modern house, with electric light and drainage. Ideal climate, beautiful garden, extensive view. For illustrated descriptive circular containing full particulars address Mr W. D. Napier, P.O. Box 10, Waimate. Telephone 151, Waimate. —Advt. # * sf: Ladies requiring permanent waving, marcel, water waving, facial or hair treatment should consult Miss Miller and Mrs Shrimpton at the Stock Exchange Hairdressers and Tobacconists. Inocto Dyes iu stock. Phone 11-560.—Advt.

Miss Dutton, who lias been paying a visit at Winton as the guest of Mrs J. A. Brown, is now visiting Mrs Beavan, at Oporo. •J* $ Mrs J. Galbraith entertained friends on Thursday to dinner at her residence, William street, in honour of Mrs Neil Gow. a visitor to this city. > * * * A delightful'tea party, presided over by Mrs Geoffrey Henderson, who is leaving shortly for Auckland, took place at the Tudor Hall on Saturday morning. * * * Mrs Jack Crawshaw, of Christchurch, who has been the guest of Mrs J. H. Crawshaw, St. Clair, has returned to her home. * * Mrs G. P. Sise and Mrs E. J. P. Denny will leave to-morrow for the North Island, where a month’s holiday will be spent. %% m % Dr Mary Russell, of Christchurch Hospital, who has been spending a holiday with relatives in South Otago, returned north yesterday. * * * Canon and Mrs Pcrcival James, of Wellington, who have been the guests of Mrs Edgar Hazlett. of Montpelier street, have left Dunedin on their return journey. * * # Mrs S. Porter, formerly of Port Chalmers and now of Ashburton, is visiting her home town. She is staying with her brother (Mr P. Smith), of Mount street. * # * Mr Johnston and Miss Johnston, “Bona Vista," East Taieri, and Miss Wylie, of Balclutha, arc spending a holiday at Queenstown. * * * Mrs A. E. Wilson, 0.8. E., widow of Dr Wilson, who perished with .Captain Scott’s expedition in the Antarctic, will arrive in New Zealand by the Ruapehu, due in Auckland to-morrow. * * * The engagement is announced of Dorothy Mary, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs C. R. Attfield, of Clyde, Central Otago, to Enoch, third son of Mr and Mrs 0. P. Ronberg, of Palmerston North. V V 'l* Miss Ramsay and Miss Doris Ramsay are leaving very shortly for abroad, and expect to be away for some considerable time. During their absence their home in London street will be occupied by Mrs J. R. Glendining.

Miss Veronica Ward, youngest daughter of Mrs W. T. Ward, of Manchester street north, Christchurch, left Melbourne on Thursday for Christchurch, via the Bluff, Miss Ward has, for the past few years, been living in Melbourne. * * * To celebrate the visit to this city of Mr and Mrs M. Wilson, of Linwood, Christchurch, Mr and Mrs J. Boomer and Mr and Mrs H. Calvert, both of Millar street, Abbotsford, entertained friends at several social evenings. Mr W. T. Clifford and Miss Aroha Clifford of Fendalton, Christchurch, who are at present in England, intend leaving London on their return journey to the Dominion on February 13 by the Rangitane. Miss Clifford has recently purchased a Puss-Moth aeroplane, in which she will fly with a companion from England to Constantinople and back to England, via Athens/ The aeroplane will be brought to New Zealand on the Rangitane. Mr Clifford’s second daughter, Mrs Sherriff-Hilton, will probably accompany her father and sister to New Zealand. V $ Recent visitors to Lake Te Anau inelude Colonel and Mrs Kilkelly (Oxford, England), Miss E. Langden (London), Misses Mitchell (Cheltenham, England), Mr E. C. Vosey (Woodstock, England), Mr A. Smith (Kent), Miss W, Mattingly (Capetown), Mrs Les Horscroft, Mrs Carlyon French, Mr E. Roughton (Melbourne). Miss R. Pinkerton, Miss M. Bates (Sydney), Mrs and Miss Morrison (Auckland), Miss M. M'lldowie, Miss Osborne (Gisborne), Mr E. Nees (Wellington), Dr Borrie, Miss E. Borrie, Miss Ellen Borrie, Mr A. A. Paape, Mr Thomas Ross, Miss I. F. Ross (Dunedin), Mr J. R. Wilson (Tawanui), Mr and Mrs Sandys Winsch (Edendale). The jubilee celebrations of the Girls’ High School will be commenced on Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the school with a social gathering of members of the Jubilee Association, present-day pupils of the school, and invited guests. As a museum of relics of the school is to be on vieyj, in the school that afternoon, all who have interesting material are asked to leave it previously with the janitor, addressed to Mias Lucy Morton. The president, Lady Ferguson, and members of the committee of the Otago Women’s Club have kindly extended the hospitality of the club to visitors from a distance (50 miles away) to the High School jubilee. , * * * ' “ You can tell the time by the skirts of a well-dressed woman,” says a wellknown screen star. “ Short skirts indicate the hours before noon, ankle-length hemlines announce the waning afternoon while trailing draperies herald the afterdinner period,” She offers this fashionable hemline timetable: — 9 am to 12 noon: Twelve to 13 inches from ground. 12 noon to 4 p.m.: Ten to eight inches from ground. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Eight to four inches from ground. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Three to two inches from ground. 8 p.m. to ?: Skirts meet ground. * * *

One of the most beautiful girls in the United States, Miss Alice Lee Grosjeun, has become Secretary of State of Louisiana at the age of 24 With auburn hair and dark, flashing eyes, Miss Grosjean is known throughout the southern State for her beauty and charm, inherited from French ancestry. Miss Grosjean's salary is comparatively modest—£l2oo a year. She has had an adventurous career. She was married at the age of 1 15 to Mr James Terrell, from whom she was divorced three years ago. At the age of 18 she became secretary to Mr H. P. Long, now Governor of Louisiana, but then practising as a lawyer at Shreveport.

Perhaps the most interesting passenger on the Maheno last week—speaking from the feminine point of view—was Dr M. Allison Ingram, superintendent of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, which is Melbourne’s second largest hospital, and the biggest women’s hospital in the world (says the Evening Poet). The Queen Victoria Hospital is an institution which should certainly give pleasure to ardent feminists, for it is run strictly “by women, for women not a single man is included in its staff. Its superintendent, petite, dainty, and altogether feminine herself in appearance, is very proud indeed of her splendid hospital, which has recently made use of Sir William M'Pherson’s magnificent gift of £25,000 to add to its premises the first “ community wing ” ever, started in Melbourne. “In this new wing,” Dr Ingram said, “rich and poor alike will lie able to obtain private treatment, under their own doctors, fust ns though they wore in a private hospital. Of course, fees will bo scaled to suit very poor patients, as well as those of more ample means.” Dr Ingram, who has already visited several New Zealand hospitals, is much interested by the part women are playing in medical progress in this country. “ I was very much pleased.” she said, “to hear that at the Dunedin Hospital a woman doctor is coming to take charge of the radiological section. And I think that the. New Zealand women’s campaign last year for a chair of obstetrics, and consequent greater safety for the nation’s mothers, was wonderful. In Melbourne, we already have such a chair, and Professor Marshall Allen is in charge of this most important branch. The greatest interest in modern maternity methods is now taken in Australia.” Dr Ingram did the round trip with the Maheno, and then returned,to her post in Melbourne. Whilst in Wellington she visited the Karitane Home.

Young women to-day are acquiring grey hair five years earlier than their mothers did, and 10 years earlier than their grandmothers This statement is made by Otto de Donato, of St. Louis, descendant of 11 generations of coiffeurs. The coiffeur, asked at a meeting of beauty _ specialists, for his reasons for the sensational assertion, said, “No, not cocktails; not late hours; not the strain of modern living; but the lack of application of the hairbrush. Failure to brush the hair daily and give it proper treatment is responsible. How many young women brush their hair to-day as it' was brushed by their mothers when they were children? ” The idea that finger-waved and waterwaved hair cannot be brushed was emphatically denied by de Donato. “ Leave it alone for the first 24 hours, but after that brush it. The wave may come out the first time. But what can you expect of hair that probably has not been brushed correctly for eight or 12 years? It may come out for four or five times, but after that —oh, the improvement! ” The story is told that when Mr Parkington, a well-known citizen of Ipswich, presented Oak Hill and its lovely grounds to the British Institute of Journalists as a home of rest for members of the profession, he said, jocularly, that it was the nearest point to Heaven that journalists would reach! An account of a visit to this -place states that it is sufficiently near London for the expense of the journey there to be very small. The journalistic party travelled in “ celestial weather,” and felt when they arrived that they were remarkably near the imagined perfections of Heaven. Oak Hill is a fine stone mansion standing on a hilltop with terraced lawns,_ wooded grounds, and winding paths sloping down to the private golf links, which stretch to the river Orwell. There are tennis, croquet lawns, an orchard, vinery, and kitchen garden. There is a spacious central hall at Oaklands, around being drawing and dining rooms, billiard room, and libary—all beautifully furnished. The bedrooms are the same, with electric light and hot and cold water laid on, while central heating makes the whole house comfortable. The service and cooking are mentioned also with great praise. The place is not an “institution," but a system of payment, according to means, brings it within reach of most journalists,' and as a rest and change “ refuge ” will be an immense boon. Due to the holiday season, only half the members were present when the Awamangu Women’s Institute held its monthly meeting on January 3. The afternoon proved, nevertheless, a very enjoyable one. Mrs J. Cochrane (president) occupied the chair, and the usual business was dealt with. The demonstration on “ humpty-making ” was given by Mrs Helm, of Awamangu. The competition for the month was “ Something new out of something old.” Mrs C. H. Taylor secured first place with a boy’s overcoat, Mrs W.. Craig second with a silk tunic and pants for a wee boy, Mrs Buchanan third with a small girl’s topcoat, and Mrs F. M'Arthur fourth with a ease for holding d’oyles. Quite an amusing quarter of an hour was spent in a guessing competition named “ The Grocer’s Mistake,” Mrs R. M’Credie being first with most items correct, and Miss Ruth Cunningham second. A dainty afternoon tea was then served, Mrs Grazier and Mrs R. M'Credie being the hostesses. Mrs C. H. Taylor gave the social item, “Japanese Love Song.” The afternoon closed with the singing of the National Anthem. * * * The news that a large orchestra, under the masterly _ conductofship of that talented musician, M. de Rose, had been specially engaged to dispense a programme of music, brought early to Tudor Hall yesterday afternoon patrons in such large numbers that the overflow had to be accommodated in the Warwick Room. This proved that the effort of the management to provide such a musical treat had been duly appreciated. That the offering of M. de Rose and his orchestra appealed to the aesthetic sense of his listeners was demonstrated by the warm and spontaneous applause which greeted the conclusion of each item. To satisfy an audience of catholic taste is at all times a difficult undertaking, but it stands to the credit of the man responsible that his programme captured the attention of those present. Among the 10 items which comprised the programme several very attractive numbers familiar to a musical audience were rendered with musicianly skill, these being “ Fantaisie ” from the opera “La Traviata,” by Verdi; valse lento, “Sphinx?” by Poppy: “Hindoo Song.” by Bemberg; air de ballet, “ Lancelot,’ by Gutierre; “A Straus Garland,” by Winter; and a serenade, “Heart of Harlequin,” by Drigo; and two delightful tit-bite, “ Mandolinata,” by Paladib’e, and “The First Heart Throbs,” by Eilenberg.