SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21323, 18 April 1939, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mr and Mrs H. Munro, Fairlie, have been visiting Mrs D. Munro, Lawrence.

Mr and Mrs J. W. Becker, who were guests at the Hermitage, have returned to Dunedin.

Miss D. Wrightman, Park Road, Temuka, is visiting Wellington and Masterton.

Miss Joan Neill, who has been staying with Mrs W. D. Campbell, Waiiti Road, has left for Christchurch.

Mrs C. C. W. Hazeldean, Bank of New South Wales, has returned from a visit to Christchurch.

Mrs H. A. Philp, Winchester, is spending a holiday touring the North Island.

Mr and Mrs J. T. C. Dennison, Christchurch, have taken up residence at Winchester.

The engagement is announced of Jean Elaine, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs A. M. Spillman, Palmerston North, to Leslie Harold, elder son of Mr and Mrs H. Bird, Waimate. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs W. H. McFarlane entertained Girl Guides’ parents and supporters at her residence “Oakleigh,” Winchester. A most enjoyable time was spent in games and competitions. Shirley Bailes, on behalf of the Guides, expressed thanks to Mrs McFarlane and called for three cheers for her. Mrs McFarlane briefly replied. It is not a far cry from the outward warmth and comfort of fur to the newest next-to-the-skin delights of woollen lingerie. Paris has set her seal of approval on the delicate woollen garments displayed at a recent fashion show there. There is a threetoned dressing-gown in the softest flannel, full-skirted, and with a broad sash in a contrasting shade lovely for when dining quietly at home. Dress materials in pure wool are used for other dressing-gowns in the most lovely colourings, and a new idea for pyjamas is to have them in checked or plain wool taffetas. For the invalid or the just naturally chilly soul there is a charming nightgown of white wool lace made with a square neck. And they have not forgotten the crinoline —they have designed a strapless vest, one that fits snugly and stays in place, to wear under it.

Now that Prince Edward is three, his education is beginning in a happy, imple way. His nurse is teaching him to count and distinguish colours with the special nursery rug which the Duchess of Kent bought. As the little Prince plays on it, he becomes familiar with its embroidered nursery-rhyme folk, and with the alphabet and numerals up to twenty which also appear on the creamy background. The Duke of Kent went shopping at a famous West End stores not long ago, and returned bringing his small son a big box of the special bricks that are recommended by child-training experts. Both the Duke and the Duchess often play the piano to Prince Edward when he is brought into the drawing room and his obvious pleasure shows that he already possesses a love of music.

Among the Innumerable odds and ends that every woman hoards in tins and boxes in case they might come in useful some day, there is bound to be a great variety of buttons of all shapes and sizes and colours. There is no knowing when some or other of them will prove to be just the thing to add finish to a new garment or to lend a fresh, new charm to an old one. Often the job of assembling a set of the buttons required becomes a tedious one, if you keep them bundled together loose in a box. And even if you are orderly and go to the trouble of tying or stringing buttons of a kind together on a thread, the untying and tying up again of the bundles is a nuisance. Here then is a small hint that will save you a great deal of bother. Assemble your small buttons on large safely-pins. Then you will have them all neatly filed away in rows, selection will be easy, and it will be a simple matter to slip off as many as you require and to fasten the others safely together again on their pin. For the larger buttons, use scraps of wire of appropriate lengths; bend them into rings, having made a hook at each end of each length of wire to serve as a catch. You have no doubt seen rings of this kind used to keep small brass safety-pins together.