SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20165, 20 July 1935, Page 20

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs E. Carlile, Sydney, is a guest at the Balmoral. Mr and Mrs R. Smillie, Gore, are guests at the Dominion. Miss Joan Beattie, Bluecliffs, left yesterday for Auckland. Mrs C. Hayter, Orbell Street, left yesterday to spend the week-end at “Rollesby,” Burke's Pass. Mrs J. M. Scott, Seddon Street, who is on a visit to Dunedin is expected home on Monday.

Miss Frances Triman, is spending .. holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs J. E. Triman, Winchester.

Mr and Mrs J. Acland, Mt. Peel, will be the guests of Mrs M. C. Harper, Waitawa. for the Hunt ball and races which take place next week. Miss Amy Kane, Wellington, intends leaving England early next month and will arrive in New Zealand about September 11. Mrs John Trotter, Fairlie, left yesterday to attend the annual conference of the Women’s Institute at Auckland.

Mrs E. J. Cordner, Christchurch, will arrive next week to stay with her mother, Mrs C. E. Thomas,, Hampton House, LeCren’s Terrace, for the Hunt ball and races.

Miss Margaret Porritt, “Pareora Cottage,” Le Cren’s Terrace, returned yesterday from a visit to Mrs Bruce Murray,' Godley Peaks, Mackenzie Country.

Mrs M. L. West, of Fail-lie, is attending the Women’s Institute conference at Auckland as voluntary organiser of the South Canterbury Federation.

Mrs Chisnall, Woodbury, treasurer of the Dominion Federation of Women's Institutes and Mrs Kennedy, Orari Gorge, will leave to-day to attend the conference at Auckland.

Miss Mary Alexander, Lincoln, Miss Janet Studholme, Waimate, Messrs D. McLeod, B. Golding, D. Studholme and R. Vaughan-Jones will be the guests of Mrs P. A. Elworthy, Gordon’s Valley, for the Hunt Club ball and races. Captain and Mrs Neill Rattray (Waimate), who left early this year for England, will leave early next month on their return journey to New Zealand, travelling via America. They will probably spend a few weeks in New York.

Representatives from 13 firms met in the Y.W.C.A. Club room on Thursday to discuss the possibility of holding an inter-house sports day for the girls of the town. It was unanimously decided to hold this, the date being fixed for Septembter 21. A meeting of the captains of the teams is to be held next week to draw up the programme. The debutantes who will attend the Hunt Club ball next week include Miss Molly Orbell, daughter of the Master of the Hunt, Mr C. L. Orbell and Mrs Orbell, Miss Marama Barker, daughter of Mr and Mrs HufccrtBarker, Ashburton. Miss Ann Gabites, daughter of the late Dr G. E. Gabites and Mrs Gabites. Miss Linley Glen, daughter of Mr and Mrs G, Glen, Geraldine; Miss Ratahi Parker, daughter of Mr and Mrs C. Parker, Holbrook Station; Miss Hazel Rule, daughter of Mr and Mrs P. W. Rule, Avenue Road and Miss Carlisle Studholme,. daughter of Mr and Mrs E. C. Studholme, Waimate.

A miniature Maori canoe filled with violets, nasturtiums, pink sweet peas, and poi balls, was a feature of the official table at a reception given in honour of Lady Hore-Ruthven, by the New Zealand Women’s Association in the ballroom of the Australia Hotel recently. Received by the president (Mrs J. W. A. Prentice), Lady Julius, and Mr and Mrs L. J. Schmitt, Lady Hore-Ruthven was presented with a basket of flowers. A musical programme was given by Madame Margherita Zealanda, Mr Robert Miller, and the Bridges Instrumental Trio. Lady Hore-Ruthven’s cape frock of black broadcloth was worn with a brown fox fur and a black velvet hat which was finished with a small white feather mount in front. Here is good news for fat women, declares the “Daily Express." If they want to look thin they must not wear belts, dresses too tight for them, or short sleeves. They must just streamline themselves. The authority for this advice is Mr Henry S. Churchill, famous architect of skyscrapers, who, addressing the Council of Fashion Research at Newark recently, advised stout women to use the principle cf architecture in dressing themselves. “Folds of materials, colours, and textures will, if improperly used, make a diabetic matron look like the Woolworth Building,” he said. “We advise not too much colour and very little in the form of a ‘flipsy-flopsy’ trimmings. Shiny surfaces and puffed sleeves should be taboo. The stout woman persists in buying exactly the wrong thing. She should wear dresses that fit her without being too tight, sober in colour, and as simple as possible. She should have the look of a well-designed skyscraper.”