SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21559, 23 January 1940, Page 10

SOCIAL NOTES

Dr and Mrs M. S. Wells, Fairlie, have left on a camping holiday. Mrs Sainsbury, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs C. G. Bryan King, Sealy Street. Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, “Silverton.” Woodbury, has returned from a visit to Wellington. Miss Gertrude Spring and Miss Lillian Macdonald, Heaton Street, have left to attend the Music Teachers’ Conference in Wellington. Mrs Hunter-Weston, Dunedin, who has been staying at the Grosvenor, left yesterday to stay with Mrs G. HunterWeston, Mt. John, Tekapo. Miss Oakley, England, the newly appointed headmistress of Craighead Diocesan School, has left for New Zealand. Mrs M. Sutherland, LeCren Street, and Miss Katie Gillies, Craigie Street, have returned from a short visit to Christchurch. Mrs A. Garland, Waimate, and Mrs Hendry, Christchurch, are the guests of Mrs Wilfrid White, “Summerhill,” Levels. Mrs W. H. Walton, Park Lane, has returned from a holiday at Peel Forest. Miss Dorothy Walton, will leave to-day on a short visit to Wellington. The Hon. Celia Monckton, and the Hon. Isabel Monckton, daughters of the Governor-General, Lord Galway, are on a visit to Te Anau. Mrs A. R. Brooker. Lower Hutt, is on a visit to her parents, Mr and Mrs C. A. Schmidt, Trafalgar Street, who will celebrate their diamond wedding tomorrow. Mrs G. Pinckney and Miss Mona Pinckney, “Glenaray,” Southland, who were staying at the Grand, left yesterday to stay with Mrs C. Tripp, “Nithdale,” before returning home. Mrs H. M. Barker. Bidwill Street, and Mrs R. T. Turnbull, Beverley Road, will leave to-day on a visit to Miss Kathleen Cracroft-Wilson. Tikao. Akaroa. The engagement is announced of Mabel Mildred, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Macdonald. Lough Street. Timaru. and Neil Ewing, only son of Mr and the late Mrs Colville, Studholme Street, Temuka. Miss May Hardcastle. Queensland, will visit Wellington to play in the Dominion championship tennis tournament, beginning on February 10. Miss Thelma Coyne, Sydney, also will be a competitor. The wedding of Miss Effie Studholme, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Studholme, Pahia, Bay of Islands, formerly of Waimate, and Mr C. E. Dawson, was celebrated in Auckland last week. Miss Pamela Orbell. “Pentlow,” Miss Angela Rhodes, “Hadlow,” Miss Janet Aitken, Christchurch, Messrs C. Turnbull, Wai-iti Road, I. Innes, “Haldon,” and C. Greenwood, Tevotdale. who spent the week-end with Mrs F. Smith. “Waratah,” Fairlie, returned home yesterday. One curious effect of the war is that Saturday night in London, which, in peace-time used to be the emptiest owing to the weekend habit, is now the gayest, because so many officers and men get weekend leave, comments Charles Graves in the “Daily Mail.” The theatres have always done good business in the cheaper parts of the house on Saturdays. Now the stalls are equally full. The High Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr W. J. Jordan) and Mrs Jordan spent Christmas at their home at Wimbledon. Mr Jordan’s only son is undergoing training as an air force officer at Cranwell—having surrendered the last year of his studies at St. Andrew’s University to enter camp—and he and Miss Gwen Jordan, who is also a student at St. Andrews, were with their parents during Christmas. Part of the Christmas week was spent by Mr Jordan with his aged mother, who is approaching 88 years of age, and who recently returned to London from the place in the country where she had gone to escape possible air raids.

A welcome |onie was extended to Mr and Mrs R. Gray in the Tripp School on Thursday. The evening took the form of a euchre party followed by dancing. Winners of the euchre were Miss M. Allan and Mr M. Cooling. Mr R. Gussetti obliged with songs and Miss Juliet Scott contributed Highland dances. Music was supplied by Messrs W. Fawdray, R. Brown, b. Heney and Mrs J. Robinson. Mr Downes was M.C. Among those present were: Mr and Mrs R. Gray, Mr and Mrs Downes, Mr and Mrs W. Fawdray. Mr and Mrs A. Kennedy, Mr and Mrs J. Robinson. Mr and Mrs T. Smith, Mr and Mrs R. Hall. Mr and Mrs T. Scott, Mr and Mrs T. Wright, Mr and Mrs D. Heney, Mr and Mrs W. Walker, Mr and Mrs J. Patterson, Misses P. Gray. E. Waller. E. Adamson, M. Burrows, G. McEvey, M. Allan, N. and J. Scott, N. Collins, Messrs A. and E. Adamson, F. Pratt, H. and A. Patterson, L. and H. Waller, W. Harris, M. Cooling, K. Lysaght, R. Gussetti, L. and D. Galbraith, O. McKee, G. Waller, M. Fifield, R. Brown.

Making your own perfumes is a very interesting and simple hobby. Flowers such as roses, violets, and lavender, which are fairly strongly scented, are best to use, and should be gathered in the early morning, when their scent is at its best. Take a clean, dry glass jar, scatter a little salt at the bottom, and over this place a layer of petals which have been thoroughly dried. Cut a fairly thin piece of wadding into a round which will fit into the jar, and saturate it in the best lucca oil. Lay this over the petals, then put more salt, another layer of petals, and more wadding till the jar is full. Make sure that it Is very tightly packed, and seal it carefully. Place this jar on a sunny shelf or in any place where the full rays of the sun fall on it. At the end of three weeks it can be unsealed and the oil drained away through a piece of fine muslin fastened over the mouth. While doing this the wadding should be firmly pressed with a spoon, so as to obtain every possible drop of perfume out of it. If you like your perfumes blended rose petals and lavender go well together or violets and rosemary.