SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs A. Smellie, Dunedin, are I registered at the Grosvenor. Miss Phyllis Talbot, Temuka, is on a visit to Wellington. Mrs R. Hudson, Mrs D. Smeaton and Mrs T. Robinson, Dunedin, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mrs Maurice Baker, Geraldine, who has been the guest of Mrs C. O. Ewings, Umaru, has returned home. Mrs C. S. Chisnail, Woodbury, has returned from a visit to Wellington where she attended the conference of the Women’s Institutes. Miss M. M. Raine, who- has been staying with Mrs H. V. Drew, Raukapuka, Geraldine, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Miss Diana Elworthy and Mr Anthony Elworthy, “Gordon’s Valley,’’ will leave to-morrow to spend the week-end with Mrs George Hutton, ‘‘‘Bangor,’’ North Canterbury. Mrs J. Wyn Davison, “Waitui,” Geraldine, and her daughter, Miss Jean Davison, who have been visiting Christchurch. where Miss Davison was a debutante at the Rangi-Ruru School ! old girls’ ball last night, will return home to-morrow. Travellers returning from abroad say that leading designers are using dull-surfaced materials for evening ■wear, and are mixing the pastel shades in orchid effect. Some of the younger ones are daring with colour, and raspberry' with pale blue accessories is frequently seen. Turquoise | blue and tan is also a new colour I combination. A sheet of plain galvanised iron cut slightly smaller than your oven can be extremely useful in many ways, states an overseas writer. Biscuits and scones can be made on it in half the time, especially if a finger-shaped diamond or rectangular biscuit is desired, as the dough can be rolled, cut out, and baked on the metal without all the usual transferring from basin to pastryboard and then to baking sheet. It also makes an excellent drying sheet for meringues and chocolates; or for baking shortbread where the dough is shaped into individual cakes on the sheet of tin. When used in the oven the sheet must be placed on a shelf in the oven. This same sheet makes an excellent pastry board for everyday use. It is light to handle, cool for pastry, and is so easily washed and stored. It can be placed flush with the wall in an upright position, or suspended from the lowest pantry shelf where it is out of the way until required.