Notes for Women

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22810, 20 February 1936, Page 16

Notes for Women

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS “ Sunny Central ” wishes to know a recipe for (1) blackberry cordial and (2) apricot'wine. ' (1) Blackberry cordial —Heat and squeeze berries through a cheese cloth; to each pint of juice add 11b sugar and ioz cinnamon, ioz mace, 2 teaspoons cloves. Boil together for a quarter of an hour, strain, and to each pot add a wineglass of good brandy; bottle and seal tightly. This is excellent for gastric trouble. (2) Apricot wine—AVbuld some reader kindly oblige with this recipe?

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Lady Hutchison will leave to-morrow on a holiday visit to the Franz Josef Glacier. * * *

■ Miss Ada Inman, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs E. Inman, o£ Fairlie, will leave this week for Rorth Canterbury,

Miss, Cross and Miss Farquhar, of Warepa, have returned home from a motor trip to the West Coast. They visited the Franz Josef Glacier and returned via Nelson.

The engagement is announced between Anita, second daughter of Mr and Mrs M. R. Winkel, 17 Smith street, Dunedin, and John Hamilton, third son of Mr.and the late Mrs T. H. Thompson, of 35 Carnarvon street, Belleknowes.

Mrs Richard Hudson gave a jolly farewell party at the Otago Women’s Club on Tuesday evening in honour of Mrs F. T. Anderson, who is leaving on March 7 by the Ruahine on a trip to England. Cards were played in the lounge, and supper was served in the dining room.

Mrg J. A. D. Ivcrach and Mrs R. Jack were hostesses at a luncheon party at the Otago Women’s Club yesterday, given in honour of the Misses Fairbairn, who are shortly leaving for England, and Miss Winnie Rule, who is leaving for Melbourne. , '

Miss Mary Ewing, who is to be a February bride, was the guest of honour at a gift afternoon given by Miss Joan Scaife at Glendhu Station.. An enjoyable time was spent by those present, and Miss Ewing was the recipient of many useful' gifts. ' A putting competition, which was held during the afternoon, was won by Mrs R. Walker.

The first' meeting of the Miller’s Flat Junior Homemakers’ Club "was held on Friday when there' was a good attendance of girls. After the business matters had been discussed, Mrs Cooper, of Dunedin, entertained the girls with reminiscences of her young days in Southland. Miss Crowe thanked Mrs Cooper for her interesting chat and the meeting closed with applause for the guest.

Lady Georgina Curzon, who was recently married to Lieutenant Home Kidstoh, R.N., who was formerly on the Diomede, chose her mother’s favourite colour scheme —white and madonna blue — as the motif for her bridal procession. Lady Howe, regarded as one of the best dressed women of the day, has adopted a rule with regard to the wearing of white, of which she is fond. She on introducing madonna blue somewhere into the scheme. Her friends, when they see her in white, look for the touch of this beautiful shade of blue. The bride had the blue introduced into the sleeves of her white gown of uncrushable velvet. The sleeves were Plantagenet in design, and the blue appeared where they folded back into deep cuffs. Her square neckline was another Plantagenet note.

The well-known writer and first woman journalist of Latvia, Mrs Anna RumanKenin, has recently been able to celebrate the fortieth jubilee of her literary and journalistic activities. Mrs RumanKenin, who can at the same time look back upon many years of successful work in tile educational, domain, was the founder of a high school for girls, which she opened at Riga in 1909. With the help of a circle of prominent men and women, which she has always had a particular gift in gathering round her, she has known how to rouse, and to maintain, popular interest in the national literature of her country. Since 1915 Mrs Ruman-Kenin has devoted all her capacities and energies by propagating the idea of Latvian political independ-ence-by word of mouth and her able pen, at home as well as abroad, and owing to these activities she came t to hold an almost unique position in public life and as participant in the efforts of organised women ever since Latvia became an autonomous State. * * *

Mrs Clare Sheridan, a cousin of Mr Winston Churchill, is once more home after having travelled to many strange places in her years of wandering (states the Queen). She has taken Dame Laura Knight’s studio in St. John’s Wood, and will find it a curious change from the home she built for herself at in North Africa. Here she will continue her work as a sculptor, and it is to be hoped she will write an account of her journeyings which should be more than, ordinarily interesting. She is a brilliant talker and lias met most people worth knowing. She has made busts of many of the distinguished men of the day all over the world; her heads of Lenin, Trotsky, and other Russian notabilities being especially striking. She has also sculptured the busts of Gandhi, Marconi, and several of our leading statesmen. Women as subjects for her art do not seem to appeal to her greatly. She has a very attractive personality, is unconventional, and has that touch of "Americanism which adds piquancy to her individuality.

Recent guests at Wanaka Hotel, Pembroke, were: —Mr and Mrs K. Myers, Auckland; Dr Teichelmann, Mr W. E. Williams. Mr S. H. C. Darby, and Mr George Trippner, Hokitika; Mr L. J. Clark and Mr F. B. Dwyer, Wellington; Mr and Mrs T. H. Lowry, Okiawa, Hawke’s Bay; Mr' E. L. Suter and Dr D S Whyte, Hastings; Mr and Mrs A. R‘. ’Harris, Mr A. J. Hawker, Mr R. Morns, Miss Mathews, Miss P. Huntin, Mr W. R. Whitworth, Miss Cunningham, Miss M. Frazer, Mrs E. Taylor, Mr and Mrs Johnston. Mr F. Rogers, and Mr G. Shanmng, Christchurch; Mr and Mrs L. Duurloo and Mrs L. Young Timaru; Messrs J. Kene, G. Smith, Mr and Mrs Tmdle, Messrs Jordan, John MacOnie J. D. Dreaver, George Glue, Ck \Valdie, A Ohevne *T. A. Sparrow, W • Lishiicr, J. • N Tundle, R. N ? Meffins, E. W Watts, W. R. Brush, S. H. Poole, E. N.. Stewart, H. C. Browett, D. B. Pattrick, F. Drake, H. E. Littlejohn. F. J. O’Neil. F. A. Keane, and T. M’Laren, Dunedin; M MTndoe, Clinton; Mr Andrew Murray, Mr M. Watt, Mr B. C. H. Robson and Mr T W. Lynch, Alexandra; Mr E. S. Fashion, Clyde; and Mr A. Dewar, Cromwell.

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 principals, or *>y some responsible person, as a guarantee of genuineness.

. Mr and Mrs T. A. E. Nevill, who have been on holiday in the north, have returned to their home in Mqa Creek.

Miss Bettv Cotterill, who has been visiting Mrs C. Rattray, has returned to her home at Christchurch.

* * ❖ The engagement is announced between Freda Helen, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Pyrte, of Dunedin, and John Edward, eldest son of Mr and Mrs F. Kavanagh. * * *

The engagement is announced between Evelyn Betty, only daughter of Mr and Mrs L. F. Wright, of Arun street, Oamaru, and James Wyatt, only son of Mr and Mrs Cyril White, 0 f Shrewsbury street, Christchurch.

Lady Buckleton and her daughter intend to leave for New Zealand on February 29 (says our London correspondent, writing on January 25). Mies Buckleton has been studying beauty culture ever since she arrived, and now is taking an intensive course with a specialist in matters of health as associated with beauty.

Mr s George Reid gave a bridge party on Friday as a farewell to Mrs W. Garrett, who is shortly leaving on a trip to England. The other guests present were Mesdames O. J. Begg, Easton, Kerr, Aslin, Pratt, Arthur Harris, Renfree Harris, Morrell, T. G. Brickell, W. Speight, R. Duncan and Scoular; and Misses Armstrong and Aslin. On Monday, Mrs W. J. Morrell was a hostess in Mrs Garrett s honour. * * *

Two prospective brides have recently left England for New Zealand. One is Miss Freda Amos, of Rhyl, North Wales, who is to be married to Dr Maurice J. Kelly, of Raglan. Miss Amos is a graduate of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. It was whilst cruising in the Mediterranean a year or two ago that she met Dr Kelly, then ship’s surgeon on the holiday liner. The other is Miss Elsie Priest, of Liverpool. She is to marry Mr •J. Cadenhead, of Christchurch, whom she met while on holiday at the Isle of Man 18 months ago. * * *

Amelia Earhart, famous woman flyer, went to Lafayette, Indiana, recently to join the Purdue University faculty as a "consultant in careers for women.” Miss Earhart will hold conferences • with women students _ for three weeks, and -will return several times throughout the school year to resume her conversations (reports the Christian Science Monitor). "Things are changing so rapidly and the field is broadening so much for women that the opportunity for employment upon graduation from college is better than it has been, and promises to expand even more,” Miss Earhart declared in an interview.

Recent guests at the White Star Hotel, Queenstown, were:—-Mr W. Brinsdcn, Auckland; Mr J. Jordan, M.P., and Mrs Jordan, Manukau; Mr and Mrs Seaton Morris, Waipawa; Mr and Mrs T. Fotheringham, Mr G. L. Lindon, Mr and Mrs F. Ashby, Mr and Mrs J. Newell, Mr and Mrs W. Bailey, and Mr and Mrs T. Brook, Wellington; Mr and Mrs G. Henery, Mr J. H. Honery, Mr and Mrs T. Lewis, Mr J. Baker, Miss A. Baker, Mr G. W. Sherman, Mr E. Taylor, Mr M. Fraser, Mr and Mrg A. Pennells, Miss A. Hawker, Miss L. Matthews, Miss R. Morrow, Mr A. Whitworth, Miss R. Austin, Miss Cunninghame, Mr H. J. Walker, and Mr and Mrs M. A. Johnstone, Christchurch; Mr and Mrs R. Wilson, Miss J. D. Stewart, Mr W. Bell, Mr E. Fairmaid, Miss L. Young, and Mr R. C. Sunly, Timaru; Mr and Mrs F. Adams, Waitaki Hydro: Mr P. A. Stanton, Miss. J, Kane, Miss G. Smith, Mr P. N. Rundle, Mr C. Hetherington, Mr J. Thomson, Mr A. Duff, Mr W. Brent, Mr H. Russel, and Mr K. M‘Kay, Dunedin; Mr P. R. Gray, Oamaru; Mr A. J. Bradshaw, Invercargill; and Mr W. Harlow, Clyde.

# * # The marriage of Margaret Helen, younger daughter of Mrs Wilson and the late Sir William Wilson, and Edgar Wilson, only son of Mrs Hunter and the late* Mr Allan Hunter, of Musselburgh, was celebrated on Wednesday, January 29, at the Wilford Tea Gardens. The bride, who was escorted by her uncle, Mr Gavin Wilson, of Wellington, wore a frock made in a simple style in beige lace, featuring a softly draped cowl neck; line held in place with velvet roses of deeper tonings. A large picture hat with twisted brown velvet trimming, brown velvet shoes and elbow beige gloves completed her toilet. She carried a sheaf of shaded peach gladioli, and was attended by her sister, Miss Winnie Wilson, attired in a model of white and brown, with a large cream picture hat, brown shoes, and cream gloves, and carrying a bouquet of deeper gladioli. Mr J. Ferguson Ingram attended the bridegroom. The ceremony took place in the garden, the Rev. G. L. Taylor being the officiating minister. The guests, numbering 52, were received ,by the bride’s mother, Mrs Wilson, wearing a black and white ensemble with smart black hat with touches of white, and the bridegroom’s mother, Mrs Hunter, in an ensemble of navy blue with smart hat to tone. When the happy couple left for the south, the bride was wearing a figured frock of brown and lemon tonings, with three-quarter brown coat, a Leghorn hat and brown accessories.

The wedding was solemnised in Invercargill at 3 o’clock last Saturday afternoon of Beverley, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Mervyn H. Mitchell, of Leet street, and Neil Lachlan, youngest son of Mr and Mrs J. L. M‘G.. Watson, of Forth street. The Rev. A. G. Mackintosh Carter performed the ceremony in First Presbyterian Church, which was decorated with blue hydrangeas and cream gladioli. Mr R. Henry was the organist, and while the register was being signed Mrs B. W. Hewat sang “ Because.” The bride was given away by her father and was attended by Miss Elizabeth Macdonald and Miss Patricia Macalister as bridesmaids. Mr Charles Johnston (Winton) was best man and Mr S. Armitage (Dunedin) was groomsman. Mesprs I. Watson, H. E. Russell, B. Seville (Canterbury), and J. S. Hazlett (Burwood) were ushers. The bride’s gown was a French model in ice white suede finished elephant crepe threaded with silver. Cut on classical lines with simplicity as its keynote it featured a cowl neckline and a circular train falling away' from an inverted pleat in the front of the skirt. Lined with ice blue taffeta, wings of the same material as the frock extended across the shoulders and were caught in deep loops at each side of the wide stitched belt which encircled the waistline. The bride wore silver sandals and her ice-white faintly embroidered tulle veil was held to the head with a narrow plait of silver. Her bouquet was of' Madonna lilies. The bridesmaids wore Grecian frocks of parchment-coloured oatmeal crepe, each featuring a scarf of georgette in the same shade which fell from each shoulder in a wide loop to the ground. The skirt fell into a deep train and showed a slit at cither side of the panel in front. They wore large picture hats of straw with an edging of stiffened tulle and a trimming of feather flowers in a deep shade of apricot. Their shoes were silver, and they carried sheafs of deep apricot gladioli, and each wore a diamante filigree bracelet, the gift of the bridegroom. The reception was held at Elmwood Garden, where the guests were received by Mr Mitchel and Miss M'Hutcheson, of Dunedin, an aunt of the bride, who took the place of Mrs Mitchel in her regrettable absence owing to ill-health.- They were assisted by Mr and Mrs J. L. M'G. Watson. Miss M'Hutcheson wore a frock of sapphire blue lacs and a. straw hat in the same shade. Her bouquet was °f roses. Mrs Watson’s frock was of brown and fawn lace. She wore a brown hat, and carried a bouquet .of yellow roses For travelling, the bride chose a sports suit of grey flannel with a white pin-stripe. With it she wore a Hungarian blouse and a navy blue flyaway hat. Her Monk shoes were navy blue suede, and her accessories were navy bine to match. On their return, Mr and Mrs N. L. Watson will reside in Wellesley avenue.

Mrs D. Falck returned on Wednesday after spending a holiday in the North Island.

On Tuesday evening, at St. Mary’s Church, Omakau, which was decorated with white and red gladioli for the occasion, Jean Isobel, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. G. Secular, of Matakanui Station, Omakau, was married to Edward Kirby, of .Ranfurly, elder son of Mill. D. Halstead, of Roslyn. The Rev. S. Hurd performed the ceremony, with Mra Lester us organist. During the signing of the register a solo was rendered by Mr W. B. Secular; The bride looked charming in a frock of heavy cream leaf patterned lace, made with a high neckline of gathered net above a lower line of velvet gardenias and finished at the back with white velvet buttons. It had long, tight-fitting sleeves, and a fitting skirt flaring from the knees into a long train, and was covered with a Brussels lace veil falling from a halo of white velvet gardenias. A bouquet of cream roses completed the pretty effect. She was attended by Misses Nancy and Eily Secular, who. as bridesmaids, wore cream lace similar to the bride's, made with off-the-shoulder effect and finished with red roses at the corsage. They carried bouquets of red roses, and on their hair wore halos of white lace. Miss Lesley Secular, as flower girl, wore cream georgette made with a tight bodice and full puffed sleeves, the skirt being shirred fully from the waistline. Mrs Scoular wore black ring velvet, with a black velvet hat and silver fox fur, and carried a bouquet of red carnations, and Mrs Halstead black lace with a black and gold cape, and carried a red carnation bouquet. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr Charles Halstead (Dunedin), as best man, and Mr G. Cunningham (Ranfurly) as groomsman. The ushers were Mr P. Scoular and Mr A. M'Millan. After the ceremony a reception and breakfast were held at Matakanui Station, the home of the bride’s parents. Among the guests were;—Mr and Mrs W. J. Crawford, Mr and Mrs V. Jacobs, Miss Hazel Smith, Mrs E. Glendinning, Mr and Mrs Arthur Barnett, Miss E. Roberts, Mrs H. E. Battersby, and Mr A. Andrews, all of Dunedin; Mr and Mrs W. Scaife (Wanaka), Dr and Mrs Sorymgeour (Lauder), Dr Eudey (Ranfurly), Mr and Mrs W. B, Scoular, Mr John Faulks (Pembroke), Mr and Mrs Hedley (Duntroon). and Mr and Mrs Irvine (Oamaru). Following the reception, a dance was held in the Omakau Hall. The bride travelled in a smart navy frock, trimmed with silver buttons and buckle, and navy hat and shoes, with accessories to tone. The future home of Mr and Mrs E. K. Halstead will be in Greymouth.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Y.W.C.A. was presided over by Miss F. J. Ross. There were present: Mesdames P. L. Ritchie. P. Milne, J. M. Samson, N. G. Brewer, H. P. Kidson, J. Malcolm, T. Somerville, P. B. Adams, and C. F. Fowler, Misses L. Sullivan M. Begg, R. Dobbie, and M. M'Namara, and Dr Gregory and the general secretary. Miss Rose, in opening the meeting, made reference to the loss suffered by the Empire in the death of the late King George V, and the sympathy extended to her Majesty Queen Mary and the Royal Family, members standing in silence. The message sent by Mrs J. Sutherland Ross to Lady Galway asking her, as patroness of the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand, to convey the sympathy of the association to the Queen was read, together with her Excellency’s reply. The secretary gave a report of matters attended to by the executive in the interim since November. A garden fete was being arranged by Mrs Briggs and members of the various women s sports groups to assist the funds of the health and recreation department, and was to be held at “ Redwood ” by the courtesy of Mrs J. B. Dawson. Greetings were read from numerous association friends in New Zealipd and abroad. Congratulations were v to be forwarded to Professor Strong and Sir James Hutchison on their receipt of New Year Honours. The reports covered the work done since November and showed that the end of the year had brought its attendant functions, while the holiday period had been busier than usual. The accommodation in the hostel had been taxed to the uttermost, and it had not been able to meet all the requests even from girls wanting permanent residence. A party of tourists had been accommodated on shakedowns in the administration building, and the cafeteria had kept consistently busier over the holiday period than was usual. A party of 17 in all enjoyed the benefit of camp life at Dunback for 12 days, and through the generosity of the Women’s Auxiliary it was possible to take five campers at greatly reduced fees. A number of visitors from other associations had called in to bring greetings from sister associations. The appearance of the first two issues of the national magazine, “ The New Zealand Girl, ’ was a pleasing feature of nn extension in association activities, and reference was made to the excellent start that had been made. Preliminary arrangements for the street day to be held at the end of March were also discussed and a further meeting is to be called, and members were also reminded of the president’s ‘ at home,” to which all association workers were invited.