WOMAN'S WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 2

WOMAN'S WORLD.

PERSONAL itek. Mr. and Mrs W. Brown, of Worksop Road, Masterton, celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on Saturday night. A number of guests assembled at their home, where a very enjoyable evening was spent by all. Mrs Calder, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs H. Haise, Lansdowne, for some time has returned to New Plymouth. Mrs Milne, Kuripuni, is visiting her sister, Mrs Cameron, Hastings. Miss Margaret Coom, Te Ore Ore, is visiting Palmerston North. Miss Barbara Williams, Te Parae, was a' visitor to Palmerston North for the Golf Ball, which was held iyMrs E. S. Cameron, Te Ore Ore, Masterton, gave a very pleasant gift afternoon on Saturday in honour of Miss Aileen Thomson, who is to be married shortly. The rooms and hall were artistically decorated with daphne, violets, berries and early spring flowers. The hostess received her guests, wearing a gold celanse frock. Miss Thomson’s froek was of brown and gold crepe de chene. During the afternoon musical items were given and a delicious afternoon tea was served, after which the bride-elect received many beautiful -gifts. Those present were, Mesdames J. B. Thomson, J. McKenzie, H. K. McKenzie, D. McKenzie, W. McGovern, M. McGovern, J. Tarbet, Wrigley, T. Ingley, Longstaff, R. Buick, T. -Cooper, Chapman, D. Cooper, Candy and Misses Aileen Thomson, Margaret Thomson, Mary McKenzie, Doris McKenzie, Joan McKenzie, Isabel Cooper, -Chris Cooper, Dorothy Cooper, Eileen McKenzie, Avis McGovern, Jean Beiliss, Linda Smith, Irma Buick, M. Sellar, N. Sellar, Mary Wrigley and Elma (Chapman. An ordinary brown sack can be made into an excellent and hard wearing mat, for a tiled kitchen or scullery floor by dyeing it any shade preferred —red or green look well—then binding it all round with webbing, which can be obtained l from most drapers. To clean white suede gloves pull them over the hands, then rub vigorously with hot flour, applied with a piece of flannel, paying particular attention to the parts between the fingers and thumbs. Remove the flour particles with al fairly stiff clothesbrush. One of the small but significant changes at Wimbledon this year in tennis fashions is the raising of the waistline and the lengthening by just an inch or so of the skirt length. Mrs Fearnley-Whittingstall ’a highwaisted frock, with -a bodice shaped like a waistcoat attached to a pleated skirt, is a popular model among aspirants to tennis stardom. Waistcoats such as Senorita D’Alvarez wore last year, of red and canary yellow satin, fastened at one side with diamante are also seen. The Senorita likes satin, both because of its sleek "soigne” appearance, and because it suits her sunburnt beauty. White satin baa been the most popular material for evening dress for two seasons, but it is not associated with sport. Tho Senorita is also wearing eyeshades a la Helen Wills-Moody, instead of bandeaux. THE CHARM OF COLOUR. Modernistic art demands colour, and the tendency within the last few years has been to introduce it into home decoration, to such perfection that, in the hands of the artistic, most pleasing and harmonious results aro obtained. This season fashion has extended her domain and now favours colour for table use—-in fact, to such an extent that in England the barriers of prejudice have been broken, and the white damask cloth set with silver and crystal, which for years has -almost been a tradition, has now given pl-ace to colour. Some beautiful effects can be obtained by using tinted glassware, so popular at Home and on the Continent at the present time. A table set for an impromptu luncheon with pale amber plates and stemmed glassware on a cloth of pale lemon will please the most fastidious. For tennis parties there are lemonade sots in exquisite shades of blue, green and pink, and for serving ieo cream the footed sundae dishes in tones to match are all that could be desired. To use tinted glassware -at a children’s party will give just that desired result of brightness that is so essential to the success of these functions. For this purpose pale blue or pink are the most appropriate colours to employ. For the dinner table, water goblets, wine and cocktail glasses, with water jugs to match, may be used, and will be drown to better advantage on a damask of similar tone, and so there are many ways in, which the hostess can create atmosphere of beauty by the use of colour. Let the housewife be warned that discretion in choosing colour is essential to its success. For if overdone the result will be most distasteful, but in the hands of the artist it will resolve into a thing of beauty and joy.