SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Jean Gebbie. who- has been ■taying with Mrs C. S. Bruce, Douglas street, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs L. E. Williams, who has been /isiting Timaru returned to Geraldine on Saturday. Miss Madge Irwin is spending a holiday with her parents. Mr and Mrs VV. G, Irwin, Russell Square. Mrs and Miss Collins, who were the guests of Mrs Herbert Holdgate, Bidwill Street, have returned to Ashburton. Mrs Derrick Gould, Christchurch, who has been spending a few' days with her mother, Mrs A. S. Elworthy, Holme Station, Fareora returned home yesterday. Mrs W. H. Hargreaves and Miss Joan Hargreaves, Kakahu, will leave nest week for Christchurch, where they have taken a house for a few months. Schiaparelli, the Paris dressmaker, says that women are to wear fish fins and bird tails, and have their evening dresses so tight straight down to the hem that they will look like mermaids. She calls this her typhoon silhouette, and for it she has a new fabric, a heavy twisted artificial silk which, when worn over a taffeta slip, gives the maximum amount of swish. Recently returned from a trip to Holland, an Auckland tourist says that the growing of these vast areas of tulips and other lovely flowering bulbs was one of the glorious sights of Europe. One could traverse miles and miles of cobbled or red-bricked roadways through lovely stretches of glowing colour. Yet in spite of this it was impossible to buy a single bloom as the growers were under contract to American and other buyers for the purchase of the bulbs.

To clain a silk lampshade, first prepare a lukewarm lather in a bowl. After removing dust with a soft brush, hold the wire frame at either end and slowly turn so that the soapy watercan run through the silk and cleanse it. When thoroughly clean, rinse in clear water. If the colour has faded and needs renewing, use a cold water dye, immersing the shade by the same turning method. When the colour has taken sufficiently, rinse and hang up to drip and dry slowly in the open air.

Children’s laughter is expected to be heard again soon in the tragic home from which the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped. Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh are planning to convert the house, which is in the Sourland Mountains, into a children's home. Incorporation papers have been filed with the Secretary of State by a corporation. These papers state that the home is to be devoted to the welfare and nursing of children, irrespective of race, creed or colour. It is thought that the idea is to convert the home into a haven for poor children in memory of Charles A. Lindbergh, junior. Just two years ago the remains of the Lindbergh baby were found in a wood two miles away from the house.

Mrs Margaret Torrey, of Norfolk, although 81 years of age, has just completed an 18,1,00 mile air tour of Africa. She left Croyden five weeks ago, and flew by Imperial Airways to Capetown in ten days. She continued northward by air to Victoria Falls, and visited gold mines in which she was interested. She only regretted that she covered the day so quickly, and did not in the least- mind rising at 4 o’clock each morning to begin her air journey. Reporters were quick to motor to her aerodrome hotel at Croydon to interview her. They found her sitting in the lounge, unwearied after her long journey, smoking a cigarette and chatting with her son and daughter. With a smile she said that she thought of selling her ear and buying a plane.

There is a probability, writes a Londoner, that the coming season will see an increasing number of what have come to be known as “village weddings.” Sometimes they are dictated by sentiment, as happens when the ancestral home of the bride is in the near vicinity of the selected church. But more often than not they are dictated by the call for economy, A wedding at one of the fashionable London churches, with its attendant crowded reception afterwards, may cost anything from £IOOO to £2OOO. People simply cannot afford this huge expenditure nowadays unless they are very wealthy. If they incur such an outlay, it often means that they "feel the pinch” afterwards, while the bride and bridegroom also are denied many little luxuries which ordinarily, would come their way. A village wedding is a different matter altogether, the cost being small compared with the expenses that would be incurred in London.