SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21110, 9 August 1938, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Rogers, Gore, is staying with Mrs A. A. Scott, Bidwill Street. Mr and Mrs W. Quirk, Timaru, are spending a few day's at the Hermitage. Mrs W. H. Walton, Park Lane, left yesterday for Christchurch to attend the Grand National.

Mrs D. C. Macfarlane, Mt. Paul, Waiau, is the guest of Mrs G. H. Cossins, Ti-Ora Flats. Mrs Sherratt, Hawke’s Bay, who has been staying with Mrs Jack Acland, Mt. Peel, has left for Christchurch.

Mrs A. J. Allport, Wai-iti Road, has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs A. Lee, Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs Derrick Orbell, Balmoral, Mackenzie Country, have returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Mr and Mrs J. S. Whitehead and their children will leave this morning lor their new home in Christchurch.

Dr and Mrs T. Greenwood, London University, England, were week-enders at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. Miss Rachel Rolleston, LeCren's Terrace, left yesterday for Christchurch. She will be the guest of Mrs H. B. S. Johnstone for the races.

Mrs Jasper Herrick, Hawke’s Bay who has been staying with her mother Mrs F. J. Rolleston, LeCren’s Terrace has returned north.

Mr and Mrs H. B. S. Johnstone and Miss Jeanetta Johnstone, “Spring Bank,” Otaio, left yesterday to attend the Grand National festivities.

Misses G. and M. Suckling, Christchurch, accompanied by Miss V. Jackman, are spending a week’s holiday at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. Miss M. Roberts, who has been staying with Mrs C. J. LeCren, Grey Road, and Mrs R. Raines, Caroline Flats, has returned to Christchurch. Mrs W. T; Ritchie, Te Tawa, returned yesterday from Dunedin. Miss Patricia Ritchie will leave to-day for Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs A. J. Leland, Sourabaya, Java, who are making a world tour, included the Hermitage in their travels. It was their first experience of ski-ing and ice-skating.

Miss J. Spence-Sales, Dunedin, who has recently returned from a trip abroad is spending a holiday at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. Miss SpenceSale’s rendezvous is the Ball Hut where she is furthering her ski-ing she having had considerable experience in Norway and the Austrian Tyrol. Six weeks after he arrived in New Zealand, Captain H. Jeffrey, master and owner of the South African ketchrigged yacht Land’s End, was married to an Auckland girl, Miss Desiree Hansen, youngest daughter of Mrs E. James, Grafton. The ceremony was performed at the Auckland Registry Office.

At a smart luncheon given by a wellknown advertising agency in New York recently, grilled grapefruit was served as a fruit course. Piping hot, it is delicious for chilly days. Halve the grapefruit. Prepare by removing seeds and cores. Drop a little syrup between the segments and in the centre. Sprinkle cinnamon over the top, and grill for five minutes.

Miss E. J. L. Davies of Geraldine, accompanied by Miss M. Barker of Winchester spent the week-end at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. This visit to Mt. Cook was sponsored by Miss Davies’s generosity towards 29 Geraldine Rangers to enable them to have a holiday and see the Southern Alps. The weekend was spent in ski-ing, skating, tobogganing and an excursion to the Red Lake which proved more than a happy one as mountaineering was an entirely new experience to them all. When Inquiry is made into common customs and practices it is sometimes found that they originate from quite small beginnings, and such is certainly the case with the three lines of stitching or embroidery which are found on the back of most gloves. It is believed that this design dates from a period when the methods of manufacturing gloves were far less perfect than they are to-day. While stitching the fingers, the needle was often carried down part of the way to the back of the glove, and embroidery was added to cover up this fault. Nowadays glove-makers have no real need of embroidery, but the three lines of embroidery are usually still retained as an ornament.