IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 20, 14 April 1927, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

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Mrs. Devine, of Wellington, is stay ing with her daughter, Mrs. Prender gast, of Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Bass are Wellington visitors to Auckland.

Miss Monica Mack, who gained second place in the big “Miss Australia” competition held 18 months ago, is a member of the “.No, No, Nanette” company.

Miss Joan Granger is an Auckland holiday-maker in Christchurch.

Miss Hitchcock, matron of the Karitane Hospital, is at present visiting Christchurch.

Miss Lesley Mcßae Peacock is at Mount Cook for the Easter holidays.

Mrs. Pharazyn left yesterday for a holiday in the South.

Mr. and Mrs. Leyland, who have been spending a holiday in Rotorua at “KLia Ora,” returned to Auckland yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Frazer, of Grafton Road, are at present on a visit to Wellington.

Mrs. P. S. K. Macassey, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland for Easter.

Miss Bond left for a visit to the South yesterday.

Miss Seccombe left town yesterday and will be away during Easter.

Mrs. Jamieson is out of town for the Easter holidays.

Mrs. Wells was a passenger by the South-bound Limited last evening.

Miss Vivian Brookes, of Hamilton, left by the Marama to-day on a short holiday visit to Sydney.

Miss W. Moulton, who has been visiting Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. F. C. Fantham, has returned to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Holmes have returned to Wanganui after a visit to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. .1. M. Hussey, of Wanganui, are visiting Taupo and Rotorua. They will later visit Auckland.

Mrs. D. Sykes is an Auckland visitor to Wanganui.

Miss Win Gillespie leaves for Whangarei to-day, where she will spend the Easter holidays.

Mrs. W. R. Wilson and Mrs. A. Ely have returned from Christchurch, where they attended the conference of Girl Guides.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Ely will spend the Easter holidays in Te Awamutu.

Mrs. R. A. Wright left Wellington at the beginning of the week for a visit to Auckland and Rotorua.

Miss F. Fisk, of Wellington, is an Easter visitor to Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. W. S. Whitley, of Mount Albert.

Miss F. M. Wheeler is a Wellington visitor to Auckland.

Mrs. Athol Murison, of Wellington; is at present staying with her mother, Mrs. A. G. Graham, Remuera.

Mrs. Athol Mills has returned to Auckland from a visit to Christchurch and Wellington.

Mrs. C. C. Odlin and Miss Odlin, of Wellington, arrived in Auckland yesterday and are the guests of Mrs. R. Porter, of Devonport.

Mrs. J. W. Hyde and her little son, of Auckland, are at present visiting Christchurch. NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD Miss Joan R. Laird, of Auckland, who went to England recently for the purpose of continuing her musical studies, is at present staying at Tunbridge Wells. Recent New Zealand visitors to Cannes include Miss Pettitt, of Auckland; Mrs. Fulton, Miss Marjorie Macfarlane, and Miss Tripp. Mr. Gordon Bolitho, a younger brother of Mr. Hector Bolitho, is at Home to spend a few years in the study of ballet and Russian dancing, in order to eventually start a school of Russian dancing in Auckland. An English writer on March 3 mentioned that Mr. Bolitho would go for a holiday tour by car before getting seriously to work, and that later he would join the Astafieve company on its return from Monte Carlo. Callers at the office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand during the first week of March were: Miss Marie Hopkins, of Hamilton; Miss Joan R. Laird, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Tern pier, Auckland; Mrs. E. Daisy Ross, Auckland; Mr. Gordon Bolitho, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Black, Christchurch; Mrs. Fred. Midlane and Miss P. Midlane, Wellington; Miss E. Ethel Wood, Christchurch; Dr. R. B. Martin, Wellington; Mrs. Emrys Thomas, Christchurch; Capt. and Mrs. T. S. Weston and Miss Rewa Weston, Paymaster-Lieut. and Mrs. C. Law, Mr. Harold H. Arnold, Hawera; Lieut.-Colonel, and Mrs. C. Gray and the Misses Gray, Nelson; Mrs. Clara I. Bailey and Mrs. A. C. R. Bailey, Wanganui; Miss Winifred M. Amos, Taihape: Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Nicholson, Auckland; and a number of others.

MUSICAL BOX CABARET

SPECIAL NIGHTS Special nights will be held at the Musical Box Cabaret, Beresford Street, this evening and on Saturday evening. Dancing will be continued until midnight. Exclusive music will be rendered by the Musical Box Five, under the baton of Mr. Jack Rowe. When ribbons have become faded, wash in cold soap-suds, rinse well, shake out. spread on the ironing board, cover with a piece of muslin and iron. You will be surprised how this will freshen the colour. A quart of boiling water-loured over a half-pint of tar in an earthenware vessel and placed in the pantry will keep red ants away.

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MUNDANE MUSINGS

THE DOMESTIC HUSBAND! I haven’t any use for the domesticated man! Don’t think by that I have unbounded admiration for the man who lies back in liis chair with his feet draping the mantelpiece while his wife staggers under a scuttle of coal or a loaded tray! That sort ought to have been drowned in infancy! I am talking about the man who kno\vs all about the price of beef and bath towels; where you can buy cheap fish and undies! The man who wants to know what Matilda does with all the washing soda and fire-lighters; who gives his wife tips on booking vegetables and bathing the baby! A man can’t afford to be interested in a house; he always ends in being interfering. If he bothers about the price of beef he’ll interfere with the kind of curtains you have at the din-ing-room window, and insist on going with you when you buy your new bedcover! The domesticated man leaves his wife no freedom. He’s so beastly sure he knows better than she does about everything. If I’d had the ill-judgment to marry a man like that, do you know what I’d do? I’d dress him up in my overall and dusting gloves, and say, “Here you are, old bean, get on with my job and I’ll get on with yours.” And I’d hie me to the city. That’d teach him! says an English writer. A man who can’t find his way to the 'kitchen to make his wife a cup of tea when her head's splitting in two, or hold the baby while she washes her face and scrapes back her hair, is another word for tragedy in a woman’s life. No matter how badly a man does these little things, if he only does them, or offers to do them, ley are charming in a woman’s eyes. They make up for the lack of tons of other things—money, holidays, heaps of things. It’s the thought behind the acts that mean so much to her. Never shall I forget that awfLil time when I was down with ’flu, and there was only Jim to look after me.. The awful splodges he brought me called milk puddings; the coffee, that was so strong it nearly took the roof off my mouth; the tea, that was so weak it would scarcely dribble out of the teapot! The cinder path that trailed from the bedroom grate to the kitchen sink! Shall I ever forget the crunch, crunch, crunch, as Jim padded to and fro —to and fro —ceaselessly. And his total inability to ever find anything that was wanted. But if you think I minded the splodgy messes, the cinder path, and the searing coffee you’re wrong! I saw past all these things. I saw the love that was behind it all. That made up for everything. I wouldn’t have exchanged Jim’s clumsy lovingness for the best trained nurse in the world! Women are like that! The only thing they mind about is love, even uncomfortable love, as long as it is love. When I hear a girl wailing, “I do wish Jack would take an interest in the house,” I always feel I’d like to take her round to a friend of mine who married a man “who takes an interest in the house.” My goodness, his interest is so big it leaves no room for hers! He can tell you to an ounce hoyv much tea and kitchen soap is consumed in a month, and notices if there is an extra carton of cream on the milk bill! You can take it from me, the domesticated husband i£ grossly overrated! Having seen him, I haven’t any use for him! A QUIET WEDDING A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnised yesterday afternoon at St. Peter’s Church, Takapuna, between Kathleen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. M. King, of Napier Avenue, Takapuna, and William James Dick, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Dick, of Mavisbank, Melrose, Scotland. The Rev. Mr. Monckton performed the ceremony, and the bride was given away by her father. When the bride and bridegroom left later the former donned a smart ensemble suit of wine colour and a charming hat to tone. FATHER OF 34 CHILDREN Mr. Reuben Bland, says an exchange, is the father of 34 children, and has recently been congratulated by President Coolidge for his great service to the nation in propagating this small army. The New York “Herald” describes him as the man who has contributed most to the prosperity of the nation. There is no mention of Mrs. Reuben Bland!