SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19450, 27 March 1933, Page 3

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs D. G. Taylor, Craighead Street, is on a visit to Mrs J. Aitken, Gore. Miss Sylvia Wilson, Wellington, is staying at “Cadogan,” Sefton Street. Mrs Rivington, Christchurch, will arrive torday to stay with Mrs W. Evans, North Street. Mr and Mrs S. S. Home, Trafalgar Street, have left on a visit to Auckland. Miss Wright, Wai-iti Road, left on Saturday on a visit to Mrs J. C. Templer, Waimate. Sir Reginald and Lady Skelton, England, will arrive on Wednesday, Ito stay at The Bungalow, Wai-iti Road. Mrs A. C. Fahey, Selwyn Street, who has been on a visit to Christchurch and the West Coast, returned home yesterday. Mrs C. A. Paterson, Sefton Street, returned yesterday from a visit to her daughter, Mrs R. Dawson-Welsh, Dugedin. Misses Ayre, Melbourne, who are staying with Mrs W. D. Campbell, Wai-iti Road, will leave to-day on their return to Australia. Mrs James Hay, Christchurch, who is the guest of Mrs Hislop, Geraldine, will arrive to-morrow to stay with Mrs W. H. Walton, Park Lane. Mrs Barnes, Fairlie, who has been spending a few days with Mrs Dickhoff, Southbrook, has left for Christchurch. Mrs Gambier, who is staying with Mrs Bruce Murray, Godley Peaks, Mackenzie Country, will arrive to-day to stay with Mrs E. J, LeCren, Evans Street. Orange pomander is reappearing round the fireside. This is an orange with cloves stuck all over it, hung from the wall near the Are to perfume the air. This fashion dates from Henry VIII.’s time. It was announced recently that a marriage has been arranged and will take place shortly in London between Captain H. J. F. Mills, only son of Sir James Mills, K.C.M.G., and Hazel, younger daughter of the late William Pallett Cox and Mrs Cox, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Young people in society are very clever nowadays in striking out new lines for themselves, and Mrs John Fane, is the first to start a greengrocery in the heart of Mayfair. Daughter-in-law of Lady Augusta Fane, and daughter of Mrs Falconer Wallace, of Candacraig, Mrs Fane and her husband have a little farm of their own near Banbury, where pretty Mrs FaHe makes cream cheeses in the traditional French flavours. From Lord and Lady Darnley’s gardens, and Lord Lady Hillingdon’s place at Stony Stratford, are sent up to Mrs Fane flowers and vegetables to be placed in her orange-painted shop where an orange glass pumpkin provides the centre lighting.

In the pretty fishing village of Beer, on the coat of Devonshire, there is a little colony of lace makers who are struggling to keep the famous Honiton lace industry alive in this machineridden age (states an exchange). They work to designs that have been handed down since the days- of Good Queen Bess, when the Flemish settlers introduced the handicraft to England. Today the colony about 15 women are still at work, that they are training their children to make the beautiful Honiton lace, and entrusting them with the task of keeping the handicraft alive. Oldest of all the lace makers is Mrs Idwa Allen, a descendant of Jane Bidney, the skilled craftswoman who made the lace worn by Queen Victoria at her wedding. Recently her little shop had a distinguished visitor, no other than the Duke of Connaught, who was passing through the village. The Duke had heard of Mrs Allen from Princess Marie Louise, who regularly visits her shop, and he had long promised to visit her. He was keenly interested as she showed him some of her exquisite laces, and told him how she assembles the delicate roses, thistle-leaves, and other emblems made by the other lace-makers in the village, working them into intricate and very lovely designs. Sometimes it takes several years to complete a single piece of lace, and Queen Victoria's wedding veil is said to have cost £IOOO. The story goes that her Majesty was so pleased with the fine work that she sent for Jane Bidney, who at this royal bidding, left Beer for the first time in her life, and made the journey by mail coach to the Court. Only on one other occasion did Jane leave her beloved village, and that was when she went to the Royal wedding at Queen Victoria’s special invitation.

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