NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 22 (Supplement)

NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL

Mrs. T. C. Fookes and Aites "Alary Fookes have returned from Hastings. * # a • . Mrs. D. Thompson, ■ Invercargill, visiting New Plymouth’. °*a * . Miss Mildred Alleman is the guest-’ -Jf Aliss'Eriid AlcAllum, Inglewood. • ♦'# a * Miss Joan Carrick Robertson, .who ‘ has been the guest’.of.Miss Mildred Alleman, has i i eturned ; to Axidklhnd. ? Mrs. Hutton, wlio has been' the guest o| Mrs. J. S. Church for Music Week, returns to Opunake to-day, accompanied •by Mrs. Roskruge, who will be her / guest. » # o • Mrs. Addenbrooke is now the guest of Mrs. J. -Wilson, •w. « « Mrs. Cogan left on Thursday to return to Dunedin. # ft * * Mrs. E. J. Carthew is visiting Hamilton and is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Crimp. >» ft r * . Mrs. A. C. .Greatbatch leaves to-day ®n a visit to Auckland. e * # * Miss Doreen Renncll and Mies Cicely Greatbatch leave to-day .for Tpngariro Chateau'. '■ # . ft Zft * Miss Kathleen Syms loaves to-day ou a visit to Hamilton. / * * * ■» Mrs. Bloxam has been Hie guest of Mrs. Sydney Allen for a few days. ft. ■ ft •* * Mrs. M. H. Barnett motors through to Auckland to-day. * . ■» * * Miss Stewart has returned to Auckland. ’■> . # ft 'ft ft Miss Mary Jackson leaves New Plymouth on Monday for Auckland, where she will meet Miss Jackson, and sail for England by the Corinthic on Wednesday. # .' ft . * * Airs. 'AI. L. Atkinson and Miss Helen Atkinson have returned from a visit to. Alton and Masterton. x ft , # .ft * Miss Eileen Campbell returns from Rotorua to-day. ft ft * * Mrs. Tayior, Ridge Lane, entertained at tea onThursday afternoon. . a ~ » ft ® Miss Grace Avery is visiting Matapu and is the guest of Mrs. J. O’Sullivan. Miss Avery is to attend the Waverley Golf Club’s ball. # # ft * Miss Molly Campbell returns from Hamilton on Monday, accompanied by Miss E. Madeley, who will be her guest. ft ft ft ft Mrs. Chandler, Rotorua, has returned from an extended trip abroad and is z the guest of her daughter, Mrs. S. 0. Syme. # # * # . Miss Nona Dell is visiting Wellington for a few days and is the guest of Mrs. J.- Harle. ■> # ft ft * Mrs. T. J. Griffin is visiting Nelson for several weeks. - ft ft * * Airs. J. B. McEwan, Wellington, left New Plymouth this week for Rotorua.

Mrs. Hart, Masterton, visited New Plymouth for several -day,s and has left for Rotorua. i/t fl a fl Mrs. Church was hostess at a musical afternoon on Thursday in honour of her guest, Mrs. Hutton. # * fl • * Alias’Stenhouse entertained at tea on Wednesday afternoon. a « 0 • fl Hostesses at bridge this week were Mrs. J. E. Avery, 'Mrs. T. G. Thomson, Miss B. Bayly, Mrs. J. S. S. Medley and Mrs. R. J. Matthews. Airs. Colson entertained at cards on Wednesday afternoon, a * * * Mrs. Wynn Nicholson, Wellington, lias been th© guest of Mrs, F. S. VarnAam and left on Thursday for Rotorua, A * fl * Mrs, Walter Simpson, who was the riiest of Airs. A. D.’ Keeling for Alusic Week, returned to ‘‘Bonny Glen,” Marlon, on Thursday. # a a # Airs. E. M. Hawkins and Miss Betty Hawkins will leave this morning cor Wellington. a fl fl * Aliss Gladys Ackland (Leppcrton) k-.lt thia week on a visit to Auckland, whee she will be the. guest of Mrs. W. J. Simons. # * * * Guests at the Criterion this week have’included Airs. G. N. Gimson, Ainu W. Alcßae, Mrs. A. Al. Nicholson, and Mrs. F. C. Rauch (Auckland), and Aliss J. Coleman (Stratford). ##’ # * Mrs. C. H. Burgess will be lioste.'-s at the Victoria, League club room on Friday. # . fl fl * During the holidays Alisa AleLeau is visiting Wanganui, Miss Liken Oamaru, Aliss Gillies Timaru, Hiss Bruce Dunedin and Christchurch, Misses Ry burn |nd Campbell, Auckland, Aliss Duff, Miss AL Clarke, Aliss Fearn and Aliss E. Holden AVellington, Aliss Sheat IJawera and Afitss Downes Westport. . # # * Aliss A. Horner leaves to-day for Hunterville, where she will be the guest of Mrs. K. Dunean. A fl fl • * Aliss B. Hawkins is spending the vacation in Wellington, Aliss K. Howes at Stratford and Eltham, Aliss A. Clarkson at Ashburton, Miss R. Corney at Wanganui and Aliss W. Downes at Alasterton.. « fl fl .* Tho''wedding was .quietly celebrated on August .11, at the home of tho Rev. J. H. McKenzie, Wellington, of Alary, only daughter of Airs, Hamilton, New - 'Plymouth, and the late Dr. Hamilton, Richmond, Nelson, to Alec, youngest son of Air. and Mrs. Cassie, New Plymouth.

• Mrs.-J.- Iliggie has returned to Wanganui from New Plymouth. ;v r •_ ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced of Evelyn,: second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.. W, B. Jone's, Stratford, to Alee. G., youngest son of Mr. Andrew Meads and the late Mrs. Meads, Stratford. ■ ■ : The engagement is announced of Esme, elder- daughter of Mr. and Mys 0. A. McKinney, St. Anbyn Street, New Plymouth,-; to Clarence Edward, second son of Mr, and Mrs. G. E. Dinnies, Dawson Street,'New Plymouth.

Lace-Makers Scarce. Lady Inglefield, who is president of the Buckinghamshire Lace Association and the wife of the well-known admiral, has sent from her home at Beaconsfield an interesting letter about the makers of pillow lace : . Locally, she states, they were not neglected during the war, as a woman reader .has suggested. But the old lace workers are dying out and are not being replaced because the young people will not learn the trade. “Real lace,’? says Lady Inglefield, “has not, been the fashion for years. At this moment the association has hundreds of pounds’ worth of lace locked up, which has been bought from the cottage workers merely to help them and for which we’have no sale.’L “Chi-Moee.” r Special interest attaches to. three of the customs observed at a Chinese dinner. The passing round of the bowl and napkin in the East is a common practice of great antiquity. Reference is made to it in the Second Book of Kings, when Elisha offers the bowl and towel to Elijah. .Between courses, toward the end of a meal, the chi-moee game is played. Two diners simultaneously raise a hand and at once call out how many fingers are extended. The loser has to drink, not stand, a bowl of wine. Much as the game looks like chance, a Chinese nearly always beats a foreigner- at it. A variation of chi-moee is found in which the two diners take it in turn to hold up a hand, some fingers being closed and some extended. The man challenged has to make an instant guess as his neighbours arm ehoots out. Tn the Beni Hastsam temples and the fresco paintings at Thebes, ancient Egyptians are shown playing this game. Later it passed on to Athens, and to Rome. Peasants play it in Italy to this day. Oak Repays Care.

No wood repays the .expenditure of a little bit of elbow grease more than oak, and unless it is well cared for, half of its beauty remains hidden. Here is a craftsman’s secret for an oak polish and for keeping the wood at its best. Alix together two ounces of boiled linseed oil, three ounces of turpentine, onCj ounce of vinegar, and a quarter of a pint of methylated spirit. Put it into a bottle and shake vigorously until .the ingredients arc .well mixed. Apply it to the oak with a soft cloth, where the surface is plain; where there is carving or ornamental work brush it in with a nail brush. A piece of clean sacking or canvas makes a splendid polisher. In an Air Ministry examination of applicants for the important Class IL Air Navigator’s certificate, recently held in London, a woman. Miss F. M. Wood, headed the list. Aliss Wood, who is a lecturer in mathematics at London University, is also a member of the London Aeroplane Club, and is a pilot of considerable experience. This success on the part of Aliss M odd ’ft considered a further proof that women everywhere are going to ■be very successful in flying. Women in the Lords

Lord Astor is emulating the famous Spider watched by Robert Bruce (says Time and Tide) and is again presenting a resolution to the House of Lords, as follows: “That in view of the attainment of women to full enfranchisement, to membership of the House of Commons, to Cabinet, and Ministerial rank in His Alajesty’s Government, this House would welcome a measure admitting them to the House on the same term* as men.” This resolution is the result of a new activity by the women's movement in England to remove this flagrant constitutional anomaly. The situation has changed since the Upper House last discussed this question three, years ago. The Prime Aliuister has declared hJmself very definitely in favour of this reform. ' The entry of women into tho Cabinet, the appointment of a woman for the first time as a full delegate to the League Assembly, and the complete political enfranchisement of women, have made their -absence from the Upper House more ridiculous than ever. It is difficult to see how in the face of the present situation the House of Lords can very well record its vote against the principle of admitting women to its delibeiations.

An Aged “Typiste.” To be able to use a typewriter expertly at the age of 101 is the distinction of Miss Eleanor Hadow, of Leamington, England, who has just celebrated her 101st birthday. She has not lorn* been acquainted with the wprking°of a typewriter, but since she studied it she frequently resorts to its use. Jewellery at a Ball.

All-Briti h jewellery worth half a million pounds'was worn by (lie mannequins at the jewel and fashion parade staged during a ball recently, says the Daily Mail. Tins is yet another effort to popularise British-made frocks, and some of the committee, among them Lady Trevor Dawson, Lady Augusta Fane, and Lady Mulleneux Grayson, wore gowns made by English designers from English fabrics. To show the durable qualities of British-made fabrics. brocade, woven in Stafford over thirty years ago with gold thread from Lancashire, was worn as an- evening cloak by one of the guests.