SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20721, 7 May 1937, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs W. Wyn" 5, Dunedin, is staying at the Grand.

Professor L. C. Galli and Madam Galli are guests at the Empire.

Miss Mary Mackenzie, Otumarama, has returned from a visit to Mrs James Scott, Cannington.

Mrs J. Walcott, who has been staying with Mrs F. Harper. Wai-lti Road, has returned to Dunedin.

Mrs David Williams, Hawkes Bay, is on a visit to her father, Mr Herbert Elworthy," Craigmore.”

Mrs Fleming senr. and Miss Deidre Mulligan, Mayfield, are the guests of Mrs Alan Fleming, Selwyn Street. Miss Barbara Williams who was the guest of Dr W. H. Unwin, Church Street, has returned to Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs J. L. Dell (Ashburton) and Mr and Mrs McPherson (Dunedin) are guests at the Balmoral.

Miss D. Brosnan. Kerrytown, and Mrs Conoghan, Central Otago, are spending a holiday in Timaru. Miss Rose Hutton. ' Bangor," North Canterbury, will arrive to-day to say with Mrs H. Sinclair-Thompson, LeCren’s Terrace.

Miss Katrine Loughnan who was the guest of Miss Philippa Acland for the Courage-Maling wedding will return to Fairlie on Tuesday. The Duchess of Kent, both in hair and hats, is regarded as a leader of fashion. The 'Marina” hats, the homburgs, the Tyrolean styles, and even the present vogue for veils, can be traced to models worn by the Duchess. The first veil of the present fashion was worn by her when she and the Duke returned by air from Paris many months ago. It was an all-over spotted veil that fastened round her hat brim and under the chin, completely covering her face in the manner of the ’nineties.

Before the bill of the Albanian Parliament making the wearing of the veil by Mohammedan women an offence recently became law, King Zog had been proceeding very cautiously m this matter, far more carefully, in fact than his colleague, Kemal Ataturk, President of the Turkish Republic. King Zog started a strong campaign against the wearing of the veil about ten years ago, his sisters persistently appearing unveiled on all public occasions. After a few years, only the older women kept up the ancient custom, yet it was not until the other day, when the Permanent Mohammedan Council ruled that the Mohammedan religion knew no dogma which enjoined the wearing of the veil, that the King ordered the bill to be brought into Parliament.