Of Interest to Women

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3188, 2 August 1934, Page 6

Of Interest to Women

\£) (By Our Social Reporter)

PERSONAL Mrs M. A. Hall, of Bryce Street, celebrated her 89th birthday on Sunday last. * * * At the Masonic: Mr and Mrs W. €app (Auckland), Mr and Mrs J. Griffin (Auckland), Mrs Pearee (Auckland), Mr C. H. Washer (Hawera), Mill. Sage (Putaruru). Mr J. Johnstone (Russell), Mr A. Forsytho (Auckland), Mr and Mrs Sisley (Gisbome): Mr A. Carter (Auckland). Mr E. Exton (Auckland), Mr H. Cooper (Gisborne), Miss N. Stubbs (Gisbome). - TRINITY CLUB NEWS (By Sunbeam). I wonder if you have all heard the exciting news? I will just tell you about it. Early last week Ave received a letter from the Eotorua Basketball Association inviting us to enter a team in a tournament to be held during their spring sports meeting. Last Saturday we held a club meeting in the Peace Memorial Hall to find whether the club thought it worth while entering a team or not. After a good deal of discussion for rand against the idea, it was unanimously decided to enter a team. Those who thought it likely they would be In the team were so keen that as soon as the meeting closed they rushed up to the courts for some hard practice. This Saturday an "expert" team has challenged the team that is competing in Rotorua. So all come, even ?li it is only to cheer the "Rotorua"

team,' as we don't wan them to get beaten too badly! Be at the courts at 2 p.m. sharp. There will be -play for all.

There was a large gathering at club ilast Tuesday night when a very enjoyable evening was spent by all. The <dub is sending ' two folk dancing group's to compete in a competition to be held in Matamata tonight, so last Tuesday the selected groups had a practice while the rest of the girls tr-njoyed ball games.

In our groups last Tuesday ivo studied the lives of different wellTin own missionaries. The liycs we studied were Mary Slessor, Grenfcll of Labrador, Aggrcy and Ivagawa. The evening was brought to a close with a mission talk and vespers.

Social Doings, Feminine News and Notes.

EARLY SPRING STYLES GLEAMING SATINS TO RETUEN TO FAVOUR With frosts of 10 or 12 degrees stiJl with us, it may seem a mis-statement to suggest that new spring models are already influencing our shopping. But no other season can create so cordial a welcome for new features and fashions, and optimistically speaking, spring is just round the corner. There is, unfortunately, no record that Eve refreshed her wardrobe each season when the trees wore their earliest greenery, but judging by feminine instincts today this psychological feature of her character has been merely overlooked. There are many distinctly attractive points about the early spring styles now showing. In the first place they lay no claim to tho attention by exaggeration. Tailored Distinction. A tailored severity, very becoming in the majority of cases, is the prevail ing influence. Watch this severity develop in the coat-frocks, slim and straight of line, frequently with loops or pleating of the self-fabric to edge the collar or to close the frock tunic-fashion at one side. Fabric pleating is a most distinctive finish at the moment, falling .in line with the tailored effects, while tho slender "cartridge" pleated pan-

els sometimes set from the neck line, and the wide collars edged in a pleated border, are reminders that on occasions we still square our shoulders at the world. Two-piece suits have amusing fads. They're here at present with threequarter coats which moderate the lines of their swagger predecessors. On these, with their rounded yoke lines, collars are practically non-existent; but they are prodigal with their wide rovers, and they have an inclination toward gauntlet cuffs. The blouse beneath, whether of gay checked taffeta or tailored silk, will be a very decisive factor in the general scheme. Some Gay Designs For summer days there is talk of small capes and three-quarter sleeves, and of small gay designs in printed silks. And wide belts are emphasised. The swinging three-quarter length cape tailored with high upstanding

collar lias returned yet again, and accompanying it, a definite prediction that it is the forerunner of the evening cape. Floral-patterned evening gowns .still remain, but after months of dull-sur-faced fabrics for evening, we are entering again upon a season of gleaming satins and taffetas. Delicate beaded embroideries in studied motif de- : signs- are "fea't'ured," arid there is a do-"- : rightfully youthful trend about theidea for wide-fringed ruchings used to border, and the small flower posies, another revival, which offer pastel contrasts. The high-cut bodice line 1 is departing; these gowns show squared or shaped lines cut low in front. Taffeta has its way, too, with several examples of the more dressy type of coat for day wear. It is used for sleeves on a smart black model, and the fine padded taffeta rouleaux "cleverly outlining the armholes of another model is also used grouped as a smart collar. Navy blue appears to have had a very emphatic "say" in the choice of colours for early spring, while a pale shade which hovers elusively between a smoke blue and a horizon tint is also well to the front. MARRIED GIRL STUDENTS Vassar College, one of the most exclusive girls' colleges in the United States, has given its students permission to marry while continuing their studies. Up to the present almost every girls' college in the country has forbidden its students to marry on pain of expulsion, but now that Vassal 1 , with, its great traditions and prestige, has made this change other institutions are certain to follow. The new policy has been practically forced on Vassar by the number of secret marriages 'contracted, and by the clamorous demands of the students for the liberalising of the rules. Miss Eleanor Dodge, warden of the college, in a statement on the.subject, said: "A girl may marry and continue at Vassar if she wishes. She is expected, however, like all other students, to reside in a dormitory unless ! factors in her particular case make other living arrangements desirable. Such an exception was made recently | for one married senior student." "My word, that Brown's a lucky chap," His fellow workers say, "For coughs and colds don't trouble him Or make him lose a day." But Mr Brown the secret knows Such freedom to secure, And keeps all coughs and colds at bay With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.