SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19769, 10 April 1934, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs L. O'Callaghan, Nile Street, is on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs Dickinson, Temuka, has left to make her home on the West Coast. Miss Rattray, Dunedin, is the guest of Mrs Gladstone Robinson, "Oakwood.” Miss Chisholm, Hanmer, is staying at the Grand. Mr and Mrs A. J. Allport, Kitchener Square, have returned home after spending a holiday at Lake Tekapo. Miss Elsa Jacobs and Miss Rae Taylor, who were visitors to The Hermitage, have returned to Dunedin. Dr Beryl Lawrence, Christchurch, has been appointed to the staff of the Napier Hospital. Mrs J. C. Templer, who is staying with Miss Wright, Wai-iti Road, will return to Waimate to-day. Miss Mairi Campbell, Timaru, is the guest of Mrs W. Tait, "Flaxburn,” Woodbury. Mrs M. C. Harper and Miss Betty Harper, Waitawa, have returned from a visit to Christchurch. Mrs Percival James, Wellington, will leave to-morrow on a visit to her mother, Lady Fenwick, Dunedin. Mr and Mrs George Hardy. Martinborough, are spending a holiday in the South Island. Mr and Mrs George Cowley and Miss Cowley, Te Aroha, are on a visit to the Southern Lakes. Dr and Mrs Cecil Tait, of Dunedin, who have been on a holiday visit to Lake Tekapo, will return home this morning. Captain and Mrs George Hennessey, “Garryowen,” Morven, who have been on a visit to Christchurch, returned home on Sunday. Miss Annie Elder, Wai-iti Road, left yesterday for Akaroa, where she will be joined by Miss Frances Greenfield, Trafalgar Street. Mrs H. B. Couston, Dunedin, left on Saturday for England, where she will join her daughter, Miss Twinkle Couston, who is in London. The engagement is announced of Isabel Miller, of Campsie, Pleasant Point, to R. Gillespie Meldrum, elder son of Mr and Mrs Jas. Meldrum, Invercargill. Mrs LeCren, who was one of the delegates to the meeting of the Women’s Federated Clubs in Dunedin, has returned to Wellington. She paid a visit to Timaru on her return journey from the south.

Most people use flowers on a dinner table, but Lady Cory was original enough to dispense with this form of decoration when she entertained some two dozen guests before her musical soiree, at which Kreisler played, states the “Daily Telegraph.” The dining table at her house in Belgrave Square was not unadorned. Down the whole length of the table was what Lady Cory called her “lake.” This was an old Empire mirror surrounded by ormolu swans. In addition some of Lady Cory’s old Bristol glass dishes were used for fruit and sweetmeats, so the guests had plenty to admire. Mme. Molotov —or Comrade Paulina Semj'onova Zhemchuzhina, as she is known—who has received the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet decoration, has a curious job for the wife of a Soviet Premier, states the “Daily Telegraph.” She is the head of the great cosmetics trust known as Tezhe, and her award was conferred on her for her work in the supervision of the manufacture of better-class rouge, lipstick, powder, eyebrow pencil, perfume and other cosmetics. She does not use lipstick herself. Perhaps this is just as well—otherwise she might not have got her medal. Mme. Lunarcharsky, widow of the former Commissar for Education, was reputed to be the best-dressed woman in Moscow. Her finery, however, was said to have interfered with her husband’s political career.

Stone coloured linen is bringing table cloths back to fashion for meal-times. It is woven to resemble bath towelling, and all the edges are left in a neatly cut fringe. Runners and mats of this linen thread are woven differently in a design of squares, so there is no need to hide a decorative new table. “Zulu” trimming on the new tunic suits is a brushed cotton material used as a kind of piping. It makes a striking black and white contrast round the neck, wrist and hips.