SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Eggins and Miss Pitts, Dunedin, are guests at the Empire. Mrs R. B. Bell, Arden, Wai-iti Road, is on a visit to Dunedin. Mr and Mrs C. L. Wallingford, Christchurch, are staying at the Grand. Mr and Mrs D. J. Lack, Geraldine, , will leave to-day to take up residence in Dunedin. Mrs Robinson E. Hall and Miss Marie Hall are staying with Mrs Frank Ruddenklau, Rangitata Island. Mrs E. J. Twigg and Miss Sybil Twigg, Raukapuka, Geraldine, have returned from a holiday visit to Nelson. Mr and Mrs Edmond Smith and Miss Joy Smith, Dunedin, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs S. Langveldt, Christchurch, and Miss H. Collis, Wellington, are guests at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs E. Craig, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, are on a visit to Umaru and are staying at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs Neilson, Mrs Weir and Mrs Shacklock, Dunedin, are guests at the Grand. Miss Young, Dunedin, arrived on Saturday to stay with Mrs W. S. Young, Ashbury Avenue. Miss Gwyneth Hughes, Orari, is at present in Wellington where she will take part in the Wellington Musical Society’s competitions. Mr and Mrs C. W. Don, Orari Gorge, have left for Otekaike, where Mr Don has been appointed sole teacher. Mrs D. Unwin, Hart Street and Miss Peggy Unwin, Church Street, will leave to-day on a visit to Tekapo. Mrs H. May, England, will arrive today to stay at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road, for the Curnow-le Cren wedding. Mrs P. Stanley Foster and Miss June Foster, Christchurch, will arrive tomorrow to spend a holiday at “The Hermitage,” Mt. Cook. Mrs Price, who has been spending some weeks with her niece, Mrs M. A. Raymond, “Clovelly,” Nelson Terrace, has returned to Wellington. Miss Maisie Jamieson, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs C. J. le Cren, Grey Road, for the Curnow-le Cren wedding which takes place at St. Mary’s Church, on Wednesday. Miss Lyla Mckenzie, of the Christchurch Training College, is spending the holidays as the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs C. W. McKenzie, Geraldine. The Rev. Tremaine Curnow and Mrs Curnow, Lincoln, will arrive to-day to stay at Beverley House, Wai-iti Road, for the marriage of their son, Mr Alan Curnow to Miss Bette le Cren. Miss D. M. Galloway, M.A., who has been on the staff of the Wyndham School, has been appointed assistant on the staff of the Secondary Department of the Geraldine District High School. Mrs A. C. Barton, Raukapuka, Geraldine, will leave on Wednesday for Wellington to take part in the Wellington Musical Society’s competitions. Miss Bernadette Mangos, Craigie Avenue, will accompany her, and will act as her accompaniste at the competitions. Tilly Losch, famous Viennese dancer, declares that American men are the most henpecked in the world. “In France,” she says, “the relationship between tlje sexes is shown by the way they walk down the aisle in a theatre —the man always goes first. “In England they go side by side, but in America the man follows the woman. The arrival of Admiral Sir Murray Anderson, the new Governor of New South Wales in Australia, has a special significance for New Zealanders in Sydney, as his wife is a New Zealander. Lady Anderson was formerly Miss Edith Muriel Teschemaker and was born in Otago. Members of her family, which is of Dutch extraction, are still prominent in the South Island. Pin a bunch of flowers in the lapel of your swagger coat —that’s a recipe for a bright outlook on the day. You will find that other people will notice it and like it, too. A buttonhole of fresh flowers adds a charming finish to any get-up. Choose your favourite flowers —stocks, lily of the valley, or even a little bit of wallflower picked as you go out of the front door in the morning. If you start the habit, keep it up during the summer. You’ll be surprised how much less hot a heatwave seems if you have a few flowers in the V of your dress, or perhaps pinned to your belt. They look so fresh and cool that you can’t help feeling cool to match. Ever since Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, after her success in “The Miracle,” Mr Cochrane’s lavish production, made money by going over to Hollywood and acting in films, there has been a tendency among England’s younger set to regard Hollywood as the Land of Promise (states an English exchange). One of the latest to go is the Countess of Warwick. She will stay with Mr and Mrs Douglas Fairbanks and hear first-hand the result of the Earl of Warwick’s film tests which were sent from England to Hollywood for inspection. The princely salary of £lO,OOO a year has been mentioned as that likely to be offered to Lord Warwick should his face prove to have that indescribable but high-profitable quality known as “filmable.”

Many people find that they cannot wear gloves while gardening. In consequence, the hands get rough and sore. A healing lotion, used regularly, will prevent this. The following recipe has been in use for many years and can be recommended with confidence:— Glycerine, 10 drachms; tragacanth powder, 80 grains; rectified spirit, 5 drachms; simp, tinct. of benzoin, 1 drachm; almond oil, 24 drachms; water, half a pint. Any good chemist will compond this, or it can be made at home in the following way. Mix the glycerine and water in a wide-mouth-ed bottle; mix the spirit with the tincture and stir in the tragacanth. Pour this quickly into the glycerine and water and immediately shake vigorously until a smooth jelly is produced. Pour in the oil and shake again. If desired, a little perfume may be added. Rub well into the skin after washing, for a few minutes, until the cream is quite absorbed. The result is smooth comfort, and the care of gardening hands ceases to be a worry.