SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21359, 31 May 1939, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Rose H. Rutherford, Dunedin is spending a holiday with Miss Wooilcombe, Trafalgar Street.

Mrs I. Morrison, Dunedin, is the guest of Mrs H. F. Morton, Beverley Hill.

Miss D. Wilson will arrive from Dunedin to-day to spend a holiday with her parents in Raymond Street.

Mrs Algar Williams, who has been staying with her brother, Commander D. Boyle, Orari, has returned to Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs E. Jackson, Mahana Flats, Nelson, who were the guests of Mrs K. de Castro, Ashbury Avenue, left yesterday on their return north.

Miss A. L. Mcllroy, “Kelso,” Sarah Street, who has been on a visit to Mrs Hunter, Balcairn, North Canterbury, is expected home to-day.

Mr and Mrs Kent, Mr- and Mrs A. Young, Mr and Mrs W. S. Sandrey, Christchurch, Mrs C. Scott and Miss Milligan, Oamaru, will be visitors to Timaru for Miss Muriel Kelland’s wedding on Thursday. Miss Margaret Cotterlll, Christchurch, who has been staying with Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, “Silverton,” Woodbury, arrived on Monday to stay with her niece, Mrs O. Clissold, Sophia Street.

When a buttonhole has to be worked in a material that is loosely woven or inclined to fray, it is worth while to strengthen the place before cutting the opening. First mark the exact size and position of the buttonhole with tacking stitches in thread of some contrasting colour. Then with a sewing machine make a few close rows of fine stitching along the line of the tacking and on each side of it, where the buttonhole will be worked. Use a thread that matches the material. Then cut the opening for the buttonhole, pull out the tacking stitches, and work with silk buttonhole twist over the lines of machining.

Kindness is never forgotten by the Maoris, and this was demonstrated recently at the farewells given in honour of a white woman, the Native Health Nurse, Miss V. A. Milroy, who has been commended by the Hospital Board for her fine work in Hawke’s Bay. Miss Milroy has now gone to Hamilton as relieving Nurse-inspector for a while. Before she left Hawke’s Bay, where she had been doing so much for the Maoris over a very large district, there was a function for Miss Milroy at Paki Paki, when leading Maoris gave native addresses and Mi' Jolly spoke on behalf of the pakehas. A travelling rug was given to Miss Milroy and a fountain pen from the Paki Paki school children, together with presentations from the pas at Kohupatiki, Waipatu, and Matahiwi,

Tlte new short skirt style started in America. Not surprising, because American women can usually count on their well-shaped, greyhound legs as one of their best points. But English women find these just-over-the-knce-length skirts pretty trying. Some of you are probably saying to yourselves: “But I can’t wear these short skirts." In fact, a lot of women are jibbing at the idea of wearing their skirts 17 inches off the ground. But there are ways of making short skirts look longer and more becoming. First. —Concentrate on getting all the lines of your suits and frocks vertical; panels, pleats, trimmings must run downward; this will make your frock look longer than it actually is. Second. —Go in for petticoats, bound hems, anythinwhich will add an extra inch or so without appearing to do so. Third.—Wear dark-toned stockings, matching your frock if possible. Fourth.—Wear heels as high as you can comfortably take them. These will lift you and your skirt well off the ground without showing any more of your legs.