SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs B. R. Macdonald, Geraldine, is staying at the Grand. Mrs Wait, Christchurch, is a guest at the Grand. Mr and Mrs George Chance, Dunedin, are guests at the Dominion. Miss Radcliffe, Christchurch, is staying at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs J. Hutchison, Christchurch, are visiting the Grosvenor. Miss D. M. Kyle, Dunedin, is staying at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs W. Campbell and Miss Morral, Upper Hutt, are staying at the Grand. Miss Lesley Hay, Christchurch, is staying with Mrs Janet Studholme. Te Waimate.” Mr and Mrs D. Phillips, Dunedin, are visiting Timaru and are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs J. Roberts, who has been the guest of Mrs W. E. Tubb, Woodlands Road, is returning to Wellington tomorrow. Mr and Mrs Humphrey Holderness, Christchurch, ■who have been staying at Pleasant Point, returned home on Monday. Mrs David Solomon, Dunedin, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs G. R. M. Jones, Seaview Terrace, returned home yesterday. Mrs J. O. H. Tripp, Kurow, will arrive to-day on a visit to her mother, Mrs R. L. Orbell, “The Croft,” Park Lane. Mrs Alister Mackenzie, Clayton Station, Fairlie, has been spending a few days with Mrs Simon Mackenzie, “Otumarama.” Miss Alice Smythe, who was the guest of Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, “Silverton,” Woodbury, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs Maurice Warren and her children, Christchurch, who are the guests of Mrs F. G. M. Raymond, Beverley Road, will return home today. Miss Unwin and Miss Brockway, England, who are the guests of Miss Peggy Unwin, Church Street, will leave to-morrow to stay with Mrs C. Unwin. Winchester. Miss Almeda Adams, of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been blind since birth, recently passed through Munich, Germany, on her way to Oberammergau. Miss Adams, who is widely travelled, told the guide who took her round the Munich Museums that a visit to Munich had always been to her an impressive and enjoyable experience. Paradoxical as it sounds, Miss Adams says that she "sees,” hears, and feels more than those visitors in full possession of sight. “Something comes over me,” she explained, “and then I know just what everything around me looks like.”

I sat next to a charming platinum blonde, writes a correspondent at a West End function. After taking a careful second look, I realised that the lady's eyelashes were of a delicate violet shade. She was a woman of fashion with adventurous ambitions and a rich husband. Violet eyelashes, which add depth and aesthetic subtlety to Dan Cupid’s rapid fire, are yet another chic notion from Paris. But It would surprise me less to encounter even emerald-green or vivid magenta eyelashes in Paris than to come across even soberly dyed ones in grey old London. In the matter of super-chic fashions, London ladies are not such whole-hoggers, so to speak, as thenneighbours across the Channel. To those who like make-up for its own sake, and prefer ladies as artificial as possible, a pretty blonde with violet eyelashes does not look at all bad. But what about eyebrows en suite? Fruit and vegetables quickly deteriorate during the summer months, and it is a good plan to make a safe expressly for their storage. A vegetable safe may be made out of a wooden box which can be kept out of doors. Convert the lid of a good-sized box into a door by removing it and fixing two hinges. Cut a square out of the middle of each side and tack squares of butter muslin or perforated zinc over the openings. Give the improvised safe a coat of paint, and a practical inexpensive store cupboard will result. Vegetables which have lost their first freshness through storing can be freshened considerably by placing them in a bowl of cold water for some hours before cooking. Add a pinch of bicarbonate of soda to the water. Lemons will keep far longer if they are allowed to float in a bowl of water. Some women achieve smartness through subtle repetition. Marlene Dietrich possesses this rare type of chic, which is in keeping with the aura of mystery surrounding her. One evidence of Miss Dietrich’s individual flair for dressing is seen, according to Travis Banton, Hollywood §,tyle expert, in the hats she favours. Whether it be a stunning felt fedora for street wear, or a broad-brimmed dinner hat of satin and velvet, Marlene Dietrich affects the same silhouette. Banton points out that too many women believe that their hats should be different sizes and shapes for every occasion—but that Dietrich realises that one’s own individuality may be best enhanced by clinging to the same line in millinery.