SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss Patsy Talbot, Fairlie, is on a visit to Christchurch.

Miss Frostick, Christchurch, is staying with her sister, Mrs G. Webster, Nelson Terrace.

Miss Clarke, Craighead Diocesan School, spent the week-end with Mrs B. H. Howell, Cave.

Miss Nora Fleming ‘s spending a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs A. Fleming, Selwyn Street.

Mrs M. Warren, who has been slaying with Mrs B. Murray, “Braemar,” Mackenzie Country, has returned to Christchurch.

Mrs Blackford, Irak, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs E. Temple, Cattle Valley, has left for Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs G. Hunter-Weston, Mr John, Tekapo, will leave to-day for Dunedin to stay with Miss HunterWeston, “Highthorne,” for the Winter Show.

Miss Nancy Bond, “Pareora Cottage,” LeCren’s Terrace, who has been staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. N. Bond, “Dunrobln,” Southland, will return to Timaru to-morrow.

Mrs W. G. Hornby, of England, formerly Miss Christine Parr, youngest daughter of Sir James Parr, will arrive at Auckland by the Rimutaka this week. She will leave next week for Australia by the Awatea to visit her sister, Mrs Michael Seifert, in Melbourne. She also inter'’s to visit her other sister, Mrs Epps, in Queensland. Miss Marion Fyfe, of the biology department of Otago University, who has been spending a few days in Christchurch, loft by the Mariposa from Auckland for America. In August she will visit Stockholm to attend the international meeting of the Federation of University Women, and the rest of her nine months’ trip will be spent in travel study in England.

Advice has been received by Mr and Mrs A. McNeil, Mansfield Avenue, Christchurch, that their daughter, Sheila, has qualified for the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg University, where she has been studying for the last two years. Dr. McNc’l graduated M.A. at Canterbury University College in 1934, having received her secondary education at Christchurch Girls’ High School and lona College, Havelock North. On going to London she took up the study of German and gained a practical knowledge of the language in a German school before going to Heidelberg.

The Hon. Mr Justice Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy (Dunedin) have arrived in England. They have been travelling since January, and have visited Java, I '.lay States, Burma, India (where a month was spent), Egypt, the south of France, Greece and Turkey. Three weeks were devoted to Greece. While in the Mediterranean they made a point of visiting the battle area of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Mr Justice Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy hope to stay in England until October. Scotland has been included in their itinerary, and the return journey will be made via the United States and Canada.

More than casual care must be taken of toothbrushes if they are to do their work efficiently, not only in cleaning the teeth but in providing the necessary antiseptic to teeth and gums. After each cleaning they should be well rinsed in antiseptic solution and put away to drain, if possible near a draught of air. Although some dentrifice makers recommend that their paste should be used on a dry brush, it is an added hygienic precaution to rinse the brush in antiseptic solution before the paste is applied. If the brush is thoroughly dried each time after using this rinsing will not appreciably soften the bristles. To ensure this dry condition at least two brushes should be in regular service for use alternately.

Having elected to make travel her vocation in life, Mrs A. T. MacDonald Greig, of Edinburgh, who claims to be a descendant of the Scottish heroine, Flora MacDonald, has spent the last eight years in ceaseless wandering from one country to another, states the “Sydney Morning Herald.” Not even the possession cf Belmont, a lovely residence with spacious grounds near Edinburgh, a Park Terrace home in the city itself, and another home in London’s Mayfair, has tempted her to settle down and take life quietly. “About once in two years I strike back home, usually at Christmas time,” she explained when she arrived in Sydney, after touring for some months in New Zealand; “but am always eager to be travelling again. Travelling has become my vocation, and I take it seriously enough to train just as an athlete would. Health seems to be the key to happiness, and as I wanted the hap; iest contacts with the interests one finds in travel I first gave up drinking and smoking. Also, although I am no longer young, I keep fitter still by indulging a passion for dancing. I travel "lone, regardless of inconveniences, so that I may please myself about what I see. I am a ‘traveller’ ; distinct from a ‘tourist.’ In New Zealand I did try travelling with a companion, but soon gave it up as a bad job.”