Feminine Interests

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 5

Feminine Interests

WHEN THE QUEEN VISITS DUTIES OF A HOSTESS "NO TROUBLE WHATEVER” A woman who has had the honour of acting as hostess to the Queen at her country home on several occ-a* aions. is emphatic in her declaration that it is "no trouble whatever to entertain her Majesty,” and that many auests of far less exalted birth are apt to cause more anxiety and worry when under one’s roof, says a correspondent in an English journal. Naturally, there is a certain procedure that has to be followed for these Royal visits, and certain formalities that have to be observed. In the first place, none but the members of her Majesty’s family may invite her to visit them in their homes. On all other occasions it is the Queeu who takes the first step, which usually takes the form of a letter from her Lady-In-Waiting to the fortunate hostess, intimating that her Majesty would like to visit her upon a certain date, and intimating the number of days that he. Majesty can spare for the occasion. Needless to say, these letters are regarded in the nature of commands, and if a hostess had contemplated other arrangements these must, perforce, be immediately postponed or abandoned.

The visit having been definitely arranged, her Majesty will often intimate two or three people whom she would like to be invited to meet her. Otherwise the hostess submits a list of guests she would propose inviting. This the Queen goes through carefully, sometimes removing a name for one reason or another, and occasionally adding one or two.

Upon the approach of her Majesty, the host and hostess await her on the threshold of their home, and the latter immediately conducts her to the apartments reserved for her. A private sitting-room for her use is always included here, and her Majesty likes to have her Lady-in-Waiting as near to her as possible. The Queen’s thoughtfulness immediately manifests itself upon her arrival. She causes inquiries to be made about the times her host and hostess take their various meals, and intimates that these will be agreeable to her The Queen, by the way, always takes her breakfast in her own room, not descending to join the remainder of the house party until later in tho day. If the hostess had entertained the Queen before, her task is rendered much easier, since she will recall all her little foibles and likes and dislikes. Thus she will be certain to provide music, vocal or instrumental. or both, after dinner in an evening; while she will likewise recall that her Majesty likes tea sent to her apartments while dressing for dinner, and she will assuredly not fail to remember that her Majesty likes to retire at a fairly' early hour. The Queen, however, by no means wishes it to be understood that her withdrawal for the night is to be the signal for a general break-up. and the other guests are at perfect liberty to stay as long as they desire.

I As early as convenient every morn- i j ing the hostess waits upon her I Majesty to ascertain how she would ! Prefer to pass the day, and it is necessary on these occasions for her I to be rggdy with one or two sugges-

lions, in case, as often happens, the Queen leaves the plans to her. The Queen always likes as little formality as possible to be observed when she is paying a visit of this I character to a country house.

Sunshine, Fresh Air, Pure Water, And Nature’s Foods Are Needed Now For Health

NATURE docs not provide anyone human with spare parts; the loss of any one part is an ever-existing loss, whether it be from disease or accident. A human is a duplicate machine with a single machine pump—the heart, which depends for its existence on a pure, selected food supply and fair attention from its owner. .Ihe human body is a vast aggregation of life-cells living and working in harmony or perfect co-ordination. These cells wear out, or really are used up and are replaced. This using-up is not a gear friction wear out—this replacement is life’s function, a miraculous power we as yet do not know. Each eel! is a complete individual life, and is as potent as the whole. With the passage of winter, spring comes—thi, sap rises, the bud comes, and then the green leaves and blossoms; the same fidelity is there each season. It is, then, necessary that we should see that those foods, sunshine.

fresh air, pure water and Nature’* fresh edibles are taken, so that the thing we call lite may have exactlv what she wants to spring clean and to replace. This is exactly what is not done. Man feeds to-day—and woman more 80 —upon denatured substances, milled and cooked and pared and fractioned, and with a loud voice and elaborated waste sky signs man declares he eats "good nourishing foods to rebuild life cells, to generate energy and heat.” Man today can shift round tb apply Nature’s forces to get just exactly what she wants and Nature most willingly supplies. It is the bounden duty of all citizens to assist in getting themselves into tune with good health. Discard the stored foods of winter and take on spring’s freshness, and her bounteous fresh supplies; smile, and look i pleased.