SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20505, 25 August 1936, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs F. L. Hindley, Wellington, is the juest of Mrs Harte, Rose will. Mrs Rickman, Oamaru, is staying at the Grand. Mrs Mathewson, Central Otago, «s staying at the Grand. Mrs J. Ford, Maungati, is staying at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs J. Thompson, Dunedin, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs C. Johnston, Invercargill, is the guest of Miss Adams, Sealy Street. Mrs C. H. Tripp, Wai-iti Road, will leave to-day to stay at Orari Gorge. Miss Dora Nevill, Hadlow, is spending the holidays in Dunedin. Mrs Cameron, Dunedin, is the guest of Mrs W. A. Scott, Selwyn Street. Mrs Huddleston, “Cadogan,” Sefton Street, is on a visit to Christchurch. Miss Wright, Wai-iti Road, is on a visit to Mrs Harold Wright, Mayfield. Mrs Mansell, who was the guest of Mrs H. S. Leech, Branscombe Street, returned yesterday to Christchurch. Mrs C. Bowker, Sarah Street, returned yesterday from a visit to Christchurch. Dr and Mrs Allan, Christchurch, and Miss M. White, The Levels, were recent guests at Mt. Harper Hostel. Mr and Mrs W. Hampton, Kaitangata, are the guests of Mrs D. Callanan, Geraldine. Mr and Mrs W. L. Harrison, Temuka, are visiting Christchurch for the school vacation. Miss Winsome Talbot, Dunedin, is the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs L. V. Talbot, Kakahu. Mrs J. Best, Sefton Street, left by yesterday’s express to join her husband at Kurow. Miss Joan Cleghorn, Dunedin, is spending a short holiday in Timaru and is the guest of Mrs Flamank, Highfield. Mr P. A. Coote, Miss Mina Coote and Mr Alan Coote, Pareora East, left yesterday for the Franz Josef Glacier via Picton and Nelson. Mrs S. C. Chisnail, Woodbury, left yesterday for Wellington, where she will attend a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Women’s Institutes. Miss M. Gibson, Timaru, who has been the guest of Mrs D. E. Nutsford, Raukapuka, Geraldine, has left for Wellington. Miss L. Hawke, Geraldine, will leave to-day to spend a holiday as the guest of Mrs E. Arthur, “Strathdoon,” Trafalgar Street. Mrs L. J. Wareing, Temuka, has returned home afer spending a holiday with Mrs A. J. Morley, Rawene, North Auckland. Mr and Mrs K. McNaughton, North Canterbury, are spending a holiday with Mr and Mrs W. J. Topham, Seadown. Mr and Mrs W. N. Bond and Miss Mary Bond, “Dunrobin,” Southland, who have been spending several weeks in the North Island will arrive in Christchurch to-day to spend a few days before returning south. Mrs E. J. Twigg, Raukapuka, Geraldine, left yesterday to spend a holiday camping at the mouth of the Rangitata river. The Misses Beryl, Sybil and NAncy Twigg will join her at the weekend. Messrs R. W. Hill (Wellington), J. F. Marten, Turner Smith (Christchurch) , Miss E. Brice, Mr and Mrs N. R. Williams (Christchurch), Mrs and Miss Miller, Mrs and Miss McPhee (Oamaru) and Misses I. M. Winton and N. J. Hoy (Invercargill) are guests at the Balmoral. An effective way of keeping moths out of carpets is to crush one or two moth-balls on the carpet and sweep these up into the vacuum cleaner. The effect of them will be carried over all the carpets and furniture where the sweeper is used. If this is done daily moths will be banished not only from the carpets but from the inside of the sweeper. Miss Elsie Bennett, whose marriage to Mr H. Mallinson will take place at Geraldine to-morrow, was presented with a beautiful linen supper set from the Geraldine Ranger Company. The Rangers extended best wishes to Miss Bennett for future happine’ss and expressed regret at losing her from their ranks. Miss Bennett has been a member of the Company since its foundation. A meeting of the Girls’ Interhouse Sports Committee was held in the Y.W.C.A. club room when it was decided that the sports be held on October 3 at the Caledonian grounds. A letter was received from the Caledonian Society stating that its cup would be available for competition. The secretary reported that the following teams had registered: Ballantynes (2), McKenzies (2), Millers, Canterbury Shoe Co., McGruer Davies, West End Basketball Club, Y.W.C.A. (2), Woolworths, Timaru Woollen Co., Y.M.C.A., Royal Fencing Club, Thomsons, Fairview, Trinity Basketball Club.

Marguerite Salle is to-day the most painted woman in the world. She has been painted 5000 times, and pictures of her hang in the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, Melbourne Art Gallery, and many other famous galleries, states an exchange. She has posed for thousands of advertisements, and has been selected as the model for seme of the most celebrated painters. She works eight hours a day, but her pay is usually only 2/6 an hour. Before going to London Miss Salle delivered mails by p&ck-horse in New Zealand. Decorative watches are always fascinating to women, and the recent spate of new designs show much ingenuity. The lapel of the coat is a popular position for wearing the newest watches. Some are small and set in gold, and fasten into the buttonhole like a stud. Others are surrounded with crystal and hang from the buttonhole by a silken cord or tassel. For sport these little “fob” watches are set in leather, with short leather straps and buttons to fit into the button-hole. A watch set into a tiny dice of crystal, with aces painted in red and black, is suggested for the bridge table. A gold and platinum ring “set” with a blackfaced watch; a tiny gold watch in the centre of a broad gold chain, with links the same size as the watch itself, and a slender gold watch with two dials —minutes and seconds —suitable for a man or a woman are all this season’s