SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20259, 7 November 1935, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs J. Archibald, Dunedin, are staying at the Dominion. Mr and Mrs F. Myers, Wellington, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs G. Pinckney, “Glenaray,” Southland, will arrive in Timaru to-morrow. Mrs Percy Knowles. Theodocia Street, left for Christchurch yesterday. Mrs C. H. Tripp, Wai-iti Road, has returned from a visit to Mrs Charles Tripp, Southland. The Misses Turnbull, Wai-iti Road, returned on Monday from a visit to Mrs Wilfred Turnbull, Geraldine. Mrs A. Hayhurst, "Ashfield,” Temuka, has left on a visit to the North Island Mrs Holmes, dhristchurch. who has been staying with Miss Alexander, Nile Street, is now the guest of Mrs E. Butchers, "Sunridge,” Fairview. Mrs R. Dawson Welsh. Wellington, will arrive to-day on a visit to her mother, Mrs C. A. Paterson, Sefton Street. Mrs B. H. Howell, ‘Matata,’’ Cave, who has been staying with Mrs M. A. Raymond. "Clovelly,” Nelson Terrace, returned home yesterday. Miss Joan Rutherford, Christchurch, who was the guest of Mrs E. M. Arthur, Trafalgar Street, returned home yesterday. Mrs W. H Hargreaves and Miss Joan Hargreaves, Kakahu, have returned from a vist to Christchurch. Miss Diana Orbell, “The Levels,” is their guest. Mr and Mrs Noel Newton and Miss Hilda Britton, England, who have been staying with Mrs James Meehan, Sefton Street, returned to Christchurch yesterday. The Mothers’ Club of the Y.M.'\.. met in the Clubroom, Oxford Buildings yesterday afternoon where it held a social afternoon. Songs were sung by Mrs Phillips and Mrs Bently which were much appreciated by the audience. A reading was given by Mrs Hoidgate. At the close of the afternoon a bring and buy sale was held. A visit to one of the industrial houses was planned for the next meeting. By using an empty keg a most c zzorative little pouffe can be made, states the “Cape Times.” Stuff the top well with coir. Cover tightly and firmly with cretonne, fastening it down with drawing pins. Make a frill round the top end. Cover the rest with the same or corresponding cretonnfe well gathered in. also fastening by means of drawing pins. The bottom end can be finished off with a braid or left plain. This makes an ideal pouffe at the fireplace, and is most decorative for the bedroom. Just when life seems to be going smoothly, along comes a scientist with the most upsetting fact, states an exchange. Now it is one who specialises in studying our habits to find out what ails us and why. He has discovered that we cannot make up for a night of hard work or a heavy party, just by sleeping all of the next day. It takes two weeks of regular hours to get back the vitality we lose through one sleepless night. Which boils down to the fact that we can’t stand more than two big nights a month. Looking over some 60-year-old periodicals, a London writer was amused by seme of the advertisements supposed to be of interest to women. “Hair rings -with two hearts united” may have raised cupidity in the breast of the Victorian miss, but would cut no ice with her modern counterpart. “Strong grey merino—very durable,” would prove even less attractive, if not actually repellent, whilst what Amazon in 1935 would care to employ “a marriage go-between” who was to be found “at the bow window next to Margaret Chapel, Cavendish Square.” The correspondence column showed even wider contrasts. A ruling was given in one of these that “to give a pair of slippers to a gentleman to whom she is not engaged would be the height of impropriety.” We have travelled a long way from that bow window in Cavendish Square. In keeping with the elaborate trend of summer frocking the new season s neckwear is gay and frivolous, v.-'th some attractive notions for day and evening wear. Fresh crisp organdie and spotted net form many of the new' attractive collars, and taffeta is still in vogue for finishing bows and jabots. Smart white flowers of pique and organdie, and colourful posies of field flowers in geometrical design, give a# chic touch to any toilette. New notes seen at the neckwear counters are the dainty sets of Hungarian work in soft white voile. These are embroidered in cross stitch and smocking in green and gold threads, allied with blue and scarlet. The circular collars tie high at the neckline, and the little cuffs tie tight at the wrist, and flare out into a gauntlet effect. Crisp white pique has a smartness of its own, and in the new .supDle weave lends itself to many dainty finishes. SALAD DRESSING—NO EGGS Delicious salad dressing, with high food value, can be made in a minute simply by adding milk and vinegar to Gregg’s salad dressing. No eggs required. Contains no starch or cornflour. Get a tin of Gregg’s salad dressing and save time and money