The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23735, 6 February 1939, Page 9

The Social Round

The lady editor will be pleased to receive for publication in ‘The Social Round* each day items of social or personal news. Such items should be sent in promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

Mrs A. W. Owen Johnston will re;urn from Timaru tomorrow.

Mrs P. B. Macdonald, Dalrymple street, leaves tomorrow to spend a holiday in Oamaru. Mrs Colin Anderson is the guest of her mother, Mrs F. E. Shrimpton, St. Clair, Dunedin.

Mrs H. G. Sutton, Swinton street, has returned after spending the week-end in Alexandra.

Mrs W. H. Coltman, Duke street, is spending a holiday in Auckland and Rotorua.

Miss Constance Miller returned on Saturday from a tour of the North Island and Stewart Island. Mrs Eustace Russell, Herbert street, left by the express last night to accompany her daughter, Mrs L. Fulcher, to Auckland.

Captain and Mrs Elliot-Page, Dunedin, and Mrs R. H. Baird, Mount Soho, Arrowtown, are the guests of Mrs R. E. Hyde, Edington Mains. Lady Cheetham, England, who has been visiting Queenstown and Timaru, is now the guest of their Excellencies Lord and Lady Galway at Government House, Auckland. Miss Nancy Overton, who has completed the diploma course in Home Science, has begun her duties as housekeeper at Upper Studholme House, Dunedin.

Miss Vida Reynolds and Miss Beatrice Farquhar have returned to Dunedin from a holiday at Stewart Island. Miss Clarise L. Dunn, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. R. Dunn, Gala street, has left to take up a position on the staff of the Gore Post Office. Mr and Mrs C. R. Hart, Albert street, accompanied by Mrs Hart’s aunts, Mrs F. Hutchison, Wellington, and MissM. E. Smith, Glasgow, spent the week-end at Te Anau and the Eglinton Valley. Mrs Hutchison left by the express last evening for Wellington. Candles have come back into their own, states a London writer. Their becoming light adds to charm as well as to a scheme of decoration. Unlighted candles are still attractive. The latest pottery bowls are made with four candle-sockets round the rim. Short stemmed anemones massed look lovely with green or primrose candles. These bowls can also be used for fruit. Stack one with oranges, add peacock blue candles, and see how it cheers a dark .comer. The posy ring has also taken to candle-holders. It can be suspended, chandelier fashion, by its four cords from a convenient hook. This would make a charming decoration with scarlet candles and white chrysanthemum heads. Evergreen circles set with dwarf candles are another idea for a festive table. They can also be had in sprays and single stars. A suggestion for a children’s party is to flank the good things with tiny painted figures such as Santa Claus or a starry angel, each bearing a lighted candle.