SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20897, 29 November 1937, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs F. S. Cave, Raymond Street, has returned from a trip to Nelson. Mr and Mrs J. S. Munro, Dunedin, are staying at the Grosvenor. Mr and Mrs R. A. Willis, Gore, are registered at the Grosvenor.

Mr and Mrs A. Jamieson, Christchurch, are registered at the Grand. Mr and Mrs J. Carey, Christchurch, are guests at the Grosvenor.

Miss Mary Gabites, Wai-iti Road, has returned from a visit to Mrs D. Burnett, Te Akatarawa, Hakataramea. Mrs Pearson, Christchurch, is staying with her daughter, Mrs Rolllnson, Wai-lti Road.

Miss Orbell, who is staying with Mrs H. M. Barker, Bidwill Street, will return to-day to Christchurch. Miss Mary Mackenzie, "Otumarama," has returned from a visit to her sister. Mrs Downes Roberts, Middlemarch.

Miss Kathleen Newton; Christchurch, is staying with Mrs Carlton Kain. Gladstone Park, Orari. Dr L. S. Mulholland, Wellington, who was staying at Beverley House. Wal-iti Road, returned North yesterday. , On Saturday the Y.W.C.A. Mothers' Club held a successful picnic in ths Temuka Domain, 70 mothers and children being present. The swimming pool was the chief attraction during the heat of the day, and later races for the girls and boys were run. Prizes were distributed by Mrs E. Hoskin, club president, who was ably assisted by Mrs Downward (vice-president) and Mrs Brodie secretary). Wooden salad bowls are becoming a little more practical and less ornate. It is found that more decoration on the outside and less on the inside proves more satisfactory. After all, the greenery tossed about in a bowl with perhaps specks of colour from carrots or radishes really makes enough colour inside. This makes a plain wood surface on the inside with painted outside a very practical and interesting piece for the table.

A few carrier-bags are well worth keeping in a car. If shopping has to be done they are handy for holding small parcels that easily slip behind the cushions, or get jerked out of the car when the doors are opened and the rugs moved. After a picnic a car-rier-bag may be used as a receptacle for waste paper and other litter. If plates and cups cannot be washed or rinsed, it is much better to slip them into a carrier than to replace them In a picnic case when they are sticky or greasy. After bathing, damp towels and costumes, beach shoes, and so on may be stowed away neatly in carrier-bags. This saves the Inside of the car from becoming littered with sand or stained with sea water.

To aid the special appeal for women and children in the war-stricken areas in China, the Y.W.C.A. World Fellowship Committee held an enjoyable Flag Bridge evening In the club rooms on Thursday. Mrs J. Miller welcomed the guests, and assisting her as hostess were Mesdames Arthur, Avison and Miss McCoy. Others present were: Mesdames Raymond, Norrie, Reeves, Baird, Bezzant, Wurm, P. Bradley, F. Chittock, McFarlane, Vucetich, Shirtcliffe and Bell, Misses S. Miller, R. Finlay, F. Bradley, Shanks (2), Lloyd, Runciman, Bell, Sunnaway, Morgan, Simpson and Johnstone. Subscriptions from several who could not attend brought the amount raised to more than £5 and it will be sent to the Chinese Y.W.C.A., whose workers are carrying on Red Cross work. Amongst the workers is Miss Nessie Moncrleff, who is maintained in China by the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand as a gift of world friendship. News of her has recently been received from Nankin.

For fruit jelly prepare a pint of strawberry jelly according to the instructions given on the packet. When beginning to set stir in one cupful of diced apples, peaches, and bananas mixed, and one cupful of raisins and chopped walnuts. Let it set firmly in a bowl, and when ready for serving break up with a fork so that the fruits will be fluffed and shining with jelly. Pile up in a glass bowl and serve with whipped cream. For chocolate cup jelly make a pint of jelly, any flavour, and half-fill four sundae glasses. Mix a dessertspoon of cocoa with a dessertspoon of sugar and two tablespoons of milk, and bring to the boil. When cool place a thick layer on the jelly; chop any remaining jelly and place lightly on the chocolate. Serve with sponge biscuits. For jelly cream prepare a pint packet of jelly, but use only half a pint of water. When the jelly is tepid stir in a small tin of condensed unsweetened milk. Mix thoroughly and pour into a wet mould. When set, turn out on to a glass dish and decorate with chopped jelly of a contrasting colour or with fruit salad.