SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19835, 26 June 1934, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Sord (Dunedin) is a guest at the Dominion. Mrs J. Page, Mt. Gerard, Mackenzie Country, is staying with her mother, Mrs R. A. Rickman, Grey Road, Mr and Mrs G. N. Mac Lean. formerly of Amberley, have gone into residence in Wai-iti Road. Mr and Mrs J. D. Lacx, who have been on a short visit to Timaru have returned to Geraldine. Mrs Percy Clark and family, Evans Street, will leave for their new home in Dunedin to-day. Miss Nancy Howell, “Ranui,” Grey Road, is on a visit to her aunt, Mrs Morland, Christchurch. Mrs Arthur Brown, who has been staying with Mrs R. Brodie, Jackson Street has returned to Geraldine. Mr and Mrs Alan Giles, Hokianga, North Auckland are staying with Mrs P. A. Brittan, QJiristehurch. Mrs Keith de Castro, Sealy Street, will leave to-day to stay with her sister, Mrs P. Gresson, Invercargill. Mr and Mrs Alan Lochhead, who were the guests of Mrs IV. Morrison, Brunswick Street, have returned to Mt. Somers. Miss Edith Wilkin, Dunedin, formerly of Timaru, has resigned her position at the Massage School of the Public Hospital, Dunedin, and has left for Whangarei, where intends to spend the winter months. Here is a very simple home remedy for the impecunious housewife. If your hands are very rough and hardworked, try putting a few grains cf brown sugar in the palms while they are still damp from washing. Rub the sugar well in. Rinse and dry, and they will feel quite smooth. Garden earth comes off more easily if the hands are put under the cold-water tap first and then washed with soap and hot water in the usual way. When Ruskin bought three tenement houses for Octavia HilUs first experiment in housing estate management it was impossible to imagine the important part she would play in the great housing developments of to-day. Undoubtedly she was one of the women reformers whose work directly affects modem life. She did for housing management what Elizabeth Fry did for prisons and Florence Nightingale for hospitals. An American woman, Miss Anna L. Strong, can claim to be the founder and co-editor of the Moscow Daily News, the first newspaper published in English in the Soviet Union. Miss Strong has lived in Russia for many years. When making a lecture tour in the United States recently she was greatly interested in the five-and-ten cent stores there, remarking that they contained so many little gadgets unprocurable in Russia that the stores were a Soviet citizen’s dream of a shopping paradise. Miss Phyllis Kaberry, of Manly, a young Sydney anthropologist, and the first woman to gain first class honours in anthropology at the Sydney University, has just been awarded a grant by the Australian National Research Council, states the "Sydney Morning Herald.” She is on her way to the Forest River district, in the north-west of Australia, where she will .pursue her investigations among the aborigines. Miss Kaberry, who is only 23, has had a brilliant scholastilc career and is most enthusiastic about her work. On this journey she will make the Forest River Mission her headquarters, though she will work entirely alone, and hopes to learn much of importance, by establishing contact with the women of the tribes.