SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21558, 22 January 1940, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Mrs Righton-Smith, Brunnerton, is staying with her sister, Mrs J. Temple, Highfield. Mrs G. Murray, “Glenmore,” Mackenzie Country, has returned home after a short visit to Timaru. Dr. and Mrs D. H. Moir, Church Street, left on Satuday on a motor tour through Central Otago. Miss Angela Rhodes, “Hadlow,” is spending the week-end with Mrs F. Smith, “Waratah,” Fairlie. The Rev. F. H. Wilkinson and Mrs Wilkinson, Bidwill Street, are spending a holiday at Peel Forest. Mrs J. Page and her children, Albury Park, will leave to-day on a visit to Sumner. Miss Zona Blaikie, who has been spending a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs W. S. Blaikie, Sealy Street, will return to-day to Wellington. Mrs C. W. Harvey and children, Selwyn Street, are returning to-day after a short holiday at Bryndwr, Christchurch. Mrs Malcolm Burns and Miss Edith Burns, Lincoln College, who have been staying with their relatives, Mr and Mrs Haigh, Jackson Street, have returned home.

Mrs J. A. Mullins, “The Cliffs,'’ and Mrs E. S. Johnstone, “Trenholme,” St. Andrews, who have been spending a camping holiday at Tekapo, will return home to-day. The engagement is announced of Rena Frances, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs P. B. Foote, Wai-iti Road, and Robert John, only son of Mr and Mrs J. Wilson, Otipua Road. Breakfasts without bacon, now becoming the order of the day in many households, cause little or no concern in most other countries, for the Englishman seems to be almost alone in his devotion to bacon and eggs for his morning meal, writes an English correspondent. Even among us, too, the dish would appear to be of comparatively recent adoption. Shakespeare denoted the preferences of his day in making the guest at the Rochester inn in “Henry IV” breakfast on eggs and butter, and his contemporary Thomas Venner, in his “Via Recta ad Vitam Longam,” recommended “a couple of poached eggs, eating therewith a little bread and butter, and drinking after a good draught of pure claret wine” as the ideal refreshment for beginning the day. As late as 1831 Samuel Rogers provided guests at his famous breakfast parties with eggs without any hint of accompanying rashers.