IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 548, 28 December 1928, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

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Mrs. H. Caro, of Hamilton, is in ; Auckland fox* the races. Mr. and Mrs. P. Gunn, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mrs. R. Hannon, of Cambridge, is in Auckland for the races. Miss Nancye Hanna has left Auckland on a motoring tour. Mrs. W. Munroe, of Cambridge, is in Auckland for race week. Mr. and Mrs. A. Keeling, of Sydney, are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Scheele and Miss Edith Scheele have gone to Kawau for a few weeks. j Miss M. Wilkinson, of Hamilton, is , spending a holiday at Mon Desir, Taka- ‘ puna. ! Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vernon will I leave by the Ulimaroa to-day en route j for England. ! Mrs. C. B. Wake, of Hamilton, is in ; Auckland for the Christmas and New j Year holidays. Mr. and Mrs. R. Chester will leave to-day by the Ulimaroa for Sydney on their way to England. At the Central are Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Warburton, iind Mr. and Mrs. L. McKelvie, of Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. J. Rothschild, of Wellington, are staying with their daughter, Mrs. F. H. Pope, of Parnell. Lady Cooper, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. Magnus Johnson, in Hamilton, is visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. E. Dennis, of Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. E. Turks, of Wellington; and Mr. and Mrs.’E. Watson, of Thames, are guests at the Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barker, of Christchurch, who have been staying with Lady Nolan, are leaving to-day by the Ulimaroa for Sydney, en route to England. # HAMILTON NOTES (From Our Own Correspondent) Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Cowles motored to Taupo for a short holiday. Miss O. E. Rowe has gone to her home in Cambridge for a few days, and will then spend a week or two at Kawhia. * * * Miss Christophers, Cambridge, has | left for Tauranga and is staying at 1 Tho Mount. Mrs. Mervyn Wells, of Cambridge, who has been staying at Wairakei, has returned home. Mrs. Wilkes, of New Plymouth, is the guest of Mrs. A. P. Speedy. Mrs. W. de Latour, of Wellington, and her family are staying with Mrs. A. E Manning, River Road. Mrs. H. J. Ferguson is in Tauranga for the holidays. Mr. T. C. Fraser has gone to Taupo for the holidays. # Mrs. Montgomery has left for Wellington and is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Schofield. * Mrs. R. B. Hart, of Claudelands, is on a visit to Wellington. Mrs. W. H. Hume, of Hamilton, is j spending the holidays at Te Aputa, j Thames Coast. | SAUSAGES IN BREADCRUMBS A suggestion for the benefit of those who have not tried cooking sausages this way before. Put the sausages into boiling water and just bring to boiling point; allow to stand in the water for five minutes; then roll in egg and breadcrumbs. Sprinkle with pepper and salt, and fry a nice light brown. Soak bacon in milk and sprinkle lightly with flour and a shake of pepper before cooking. PIKELETS Bearing in mind the fact that a variety of eatables will be necessary for afternoon tea or supper during the holidays, a correspondent sends the following recipe: Prepare 1 egg, 1 cup of plain flour, half a cup of milk, 4 dessertspoonfuls of sugar, 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar, and half a teaspoonful of soda. Mix flour, sugar, cream of tartar and soda together, adds a well-beaten egg, then the milk. Grease a hot pari with dripping, and drop in the mixture in dessertspoonfuls, leaving space for each pikelet to cook without running into each other.

DANCE FOR NAVY QUEEN

DEVONPORT BAND CARNIVAL Despite the scattering uf dancers for holidays and warnings of bad weather the committee supporting the Navy Queen in the Devonport Band Carnival carried on with its weekly dances last evening in the Navy League Hall, Devonport. A merry throng of folk accepted the invitation of the committee and danced gaily, while across the promenade beneath the hall the waves sported with an easterly breeze and threw spindrift at the dancers who frequented the hall balcony. Mrs. T. Palmer, chairwoman of the committee, had willing assistance from her committee in superintending supper arrangements. Among those present were: Miss Webster, wistaria mauve georgette frock. Miss M. Newman, flame crepe de chine. Miss Marchant, lacquer red crepe de chine. Miss Bullimore, cream Chinese silk, with pleated skirt. Miss Bagnall, black crepe de chine. Miss Munn, lavender frock of georgette. Miss McSweeney, black sequinned frock. Miss Ussher, apple green tissue. Miss Rouse, blue crepe de chine with lace. . Miss Davies, mauve georgette, with silver lace and rosebuds. i Miss Johnston, rose lace over crepe de chine. j Miss Melville, fawn georgette frock. Miss May Bowen, ivory silk crepe. ! Miss Spraggon, silver tinsel over jade green georgette. I Miss Shenton, tinsel and old rose tafI feta. . , Miss Kathleen Fergus, shell pink satin and rosebud trimming. Mrs. Langley, cream pleated jumper suit. Mrs. Z. de Rose, black satin crepe frock. v Mrs. Alison, striped silk crepe frock. Mrs. Sproul, rose pink satin and silver motifs. OVERHAUL CUPBOARDS USEFUL ODDMENTS The practical housewife makes a point at least twice a year of going through the cupboards and drawers in her house. It is surprising how thing's accumulate, even in six months, and one is apt to put items away and then forget their existence. If you turn out your ‘drawers regularly you will probably And you can make good use of their contents. Most women like to set aside one drawer for “left-over” pieces of material and silk. Whether you are making a dress, a cushion cover, or new lingerie, you are sure to have pieces left over, too large to be thrown away, and for which, perhaps, you have no immediate use. If you overhaul your cupboards regularly these odds and ends can be turned to good account. Possibly you have had new cretonne curtains for your bedroom, and an odd part of a yard was left unused. This, later on, you can utilise for a cushion cover, or, if you are. holding a bazaar, there are a hundred and one ways of making use of such scraps. Then, again, at sale time few women can resist ' buying bargain lengths of silk, ribbon, lace and so forth. These again are often put aside and forgotten until the time comes when drawers are turned out and cupboards re-arranged and tidied. It is possible to make very dainty boudoir caps and camisoles out of odd lengths of crepe de chine and scrapr of good net or lace, and delightfu little handbags for evening wear cai be made from oddments of brocadi and velvet. Small pieces of silk, ere tonne and velvet can be converted inti work-bags, table-runners, mats, etc.

MIRRORED BEAUTY

Choose a good skin food or cold cream, and use it every night. If the skin is extra dry—-if the glass shows you, for instance, a powdery effect, al most as though the skin were peeling —use the cream freely after washing a night and wipe off only the superfluous cream before going to bed. It will be as well to use the cream as a powder base, too, and to keep away from vanishing creams altogether. When the skin is merely inclined to be dry, and your reflection shows a smooth healthy texture unless you have been out in a wind, or on a bitterly cold day, carry on with vanishing creams for day use, but use a cold cream generously at night. During the day use cold cream for cleansing the face instead of water whenever possible. Work it well into the skin, then wipe ,t off thoroughly with a soft towel or an old handkerchief. Does your looking-glass show any trace of wrinkles on 'our face? When it does, get a very small quantity of best oil of sweet almonds the next time you are shopping, and give the skin an oil bath. The oil is most effective when it is perfectly fresh, remember, and it very soon goes rancid, so don’t get in a big bottle of it to save bother. Look to see how far the lines extend. Bathe this surface gently with warm water, or lay over it pads of soft rag wrung out of hot water, until the skin is nicely moist. Warm the oil v.ry slightly by ! Putting a little in cup and standing i this in hot water just long enough to j get the chill off it—it is absorbed I much more readily like this. Now j With your finger-tips tap the oil into the skin wherever the lines show, until the skin has absorbed as much as it will. Quite close to the eyes just press the finger-tips gently. Give this oil tieatment once a week if the lines are wrlnkleT I’’ 1 ’’ tWiCG if they suggest A woman who has a dry skin should never wash her hands and face in hot water. Use tepid water and only the purest super-fatted soap, and * he skin with Plenty of cold ater afterwards. Hard water should also be avoided. Kainwater is excel- - IV }t * or *; he skin, but if it is not available bard water may be softened with oatmeal or borax.

To clean grey lizard-skin shoes brush them with a clean brush, then sprinkle with utlcum powder, rub well in and leave on till the shoes are wanted. Brush the powder oft and the shoes will appear like new.

ODDFELLOWS’ CHRISTMAS DANCE

FESTIVITIES AT HOWICK The Howick Oddfellows’ Hall was comfortably filled on Wednesday evening when the Loyal Howick Lodge, M.U., 1.0.0. F., held its annual Cliristmas dance. Visitors attended from all the surrounding districts, and representatives were present from a number of neighbouring sister lodges. A delightful programme of dance music was supplied by the newlyformed Frolic Orchestra, under tlie leadership of Mrs. S. Brooke. Bro. Newton carried out the duties of master of ceremonies. The sisteis of the lodge served a dainty supper.

FOOD AFFINITIES

EXPERIMENTS TO TRY Everyone knows what is meant by “ham and ■ ' or “pork and There are many . combinations which seem naturally to go together, and to which we are so accustomed that we serve them together, almost unthinkingly. Cranberry sauce with turkey, apples in some form with roast pork, cheese with apple pie, all come under this ruling. Of increasing popularity are peas and chopped carrots, either creamed or with plain butter, cranberry and raisin pie, lemon and raisin tarts, cream cheese and jelly for sandwiches (sometimes cream cheese and chopped walnuts), fruit ice in melons or ice cream on hot applie pie. More recent additions to menus are:Canned corn and baked beans. This is a good way to use up a cupful of baked beans which are not enough to serve by themselves. The canned beans (with tomato sauce), which taste more like boiled beans to some of us, are very good for this. Serve hot, of course. I suppose every one has tried canned lima beans with canned corn, a very good dish. Fried tomatoes and bacon. Slice the tomatoes, not too thin, dip in flour, salt well, and fry in the bacon fat. Green tomatoes are as good as ripe ones, and different. Prunes and apricots. Use half and half, exactly as you would use either of them alone, except for the sugar, which is to your taste —less than for apricot, and more than for prunes. Bananas with leman juice and sugar added at the table. This is good with raw sliced or with baked bananas. Cheese and onions. Boil the onions until done in very little water, then bake, with a good layer of cheese on top, until cheese is melted and browned.

REMOVING DENTS FROM FURNITURE

The dropping of a heavy parcel on the table, or an inadvertent knock, will make ft dent in the wood that is very hard to remove—unless you know the right method. First wet the dent with warm water, making sure that it is only about blood-heat. Then take a piece of ordinary brown paper and fold it about six times. Wet the paper, place it over the dent and apply a warm (not hot) iron to the paper until all the moisture has evaporated. If the dent has not disappeared, repeat the process; but a second application should remove all traces of the accident. The greatest care should be taken to see that only warm water and a warm iron are used, or stains may appear—which, however, can be removed by applying a good furniture-polish. Bo not discard worn brushes. Toothbrushes and hair-brushes are excellent for removing dust and mud from decorated or intricate parts of footwear, and shaving-brushes are useful for applying polish to fine-quality shoes.

Lady Heath, the airwoman, is still a believer in cross-country running to keep fit. After having taken part in a run with the Middlesex ladies, she took the chair at a special meeting of the Women's Amateur Athletic Association, held at the Regent Street Polytechnic, for the purpose of passing the constitutional laws governing cross-country running for women. The popularity of cross-country running for women, she declares, is growing fast.

GIFTS THAT GROW

It often happens that we cannot afford to buy the valuable gift we would like to bestow upon some beloved relative or friend. For this reason, it is well to consider the idea of establishing a form of present which may be augmented from time to time until it becomes one of which both donor and recipient may justly be proud. The pearl-by-pearl necklace, that begins with the gift to a child of a platinum chain centred with a single pearl, is a typical example of the gift that grows. At any time other pearls may be added, and the chain may be enlarged until at last a magnificent rope of pearls has been collected. Other friends may co-operate and have the satisfaction of knowing that the recipient, instead of being cumbered with a number of worthless and negligible offerings, has for life one that Is really worth while. The sectional bookcase represents another gift that grows usefully and acceptably. If you feel sentimental about your gifts, you can have a date inscribed or carved at the top of each section that you bestow. I know of other generously minded folk who yearly confer on a friend one handsome ivory or tortoiseshell brush, mirror, or tray, to make up eventually a complete toilet table set, which would be too costly to contemplate as a single puchase. It seems indicative of a more truly deep desire to give when thought is brought to bear to perfect a present of this kind than when each season brings a gift that bears no relation to a well-planned whole. An extra number of smart women in Paris are growing their hair, and the Eton crop is absolutely dead. Those who are growing their hair for the most part adopt the style of a centre parting, with the hair brushed down and back from it, and the ends curled up at the back, forming a little oblong bunch of curls. These curls, of course, require constant resuscitation. Ii you make your shoulder-straps to tie when your slip is on, you can then lengthen or shorten the slip to correspond with your frock.

FACE ENSEMBLES

Each season has brought about a closer relationship between the costume and the accessories, and now with the most revealing trend' of fashion, the woman herself has become part of this ensemble idea. Not only must the accessories of hat, bag, shoes, match the costume or be in correct contrast to it, but the complexion also has to make itself compatible. With the hat forming such a perfect frame for the face as the new styles demand, it is not surprising that tlie complexion should receive more attention than ever. When the evebrow hat first was introduced in Paris people were amazed at the incongruity of the hat and complexion. Naturally, the eyebrow line of hats is distinctly revealing, and also the fashion of showing the entire forehead, so that ft seemed the only thing that could be done was to make the complexion and the new mode better friends. With the natural appearance that all women have to-day, it, i s a ll the necessary that cosmetics should mm-e £ ti y chose, ‘- This requires mme of the art of make-up than ever before for it must be subtly done, in r ,n„ ensemble idea is tarried out m the hairdressing salon of the famous Antoine, who also contends that the hair must be in keeping with the costume and that the smartly-dressed woman fixes her hair two and even three different ways a dav

SKINNING PEACHES

A good way to skin peaches, which aie too small to peel with a knife It is done in the same way as torna b°g S wlfer k f ?n ned K~ by Sta ' ldi "8 in foiling water for about 15 minutes At the end ot that time the will 3li» easily off the fruit. * WIU