Of Interest to Women

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3292, 9 April 1935, Page 6

Of Interest to Women

(Bp Our Social Reporter)

Social G) Doings, Feminine News anti Notes.

PERSONAL Miss Jcs.-ie Mackereth Ims returned home after six weeks holiday m Wollington. * * • Mr and Mrs Rex Carcw, of Takapyua, were week-end visitors to Cambridge. They, stayed at the Masonic. * * • Mrs A.. H. Magson, of Orakei Road, Eemuera, returned home yesterday, after a holiday spent with her daughter, Mrs A. N. Wrightson, of Monavale. bridge afternoon Mi's S. Tiewis gave a very jolly little bridge party on Friday afternoon. Flame coloured dahlias, zinnias and trailing Virginia creeper made attractive decorations in the drawing-room. Mrs Lewis was wearing a smart black and white figured crepe frock and lici guest, Mrs Saclier, a cocoa-brown georgette frock, patterned in beige. Those present wore: Mrs A. J. Law, Mrs ..orman Waddle, Mrs A. Mag-son,-Mrs Willoughby Horne, Mrs A. N. Wrightson, Mrs «T. C. Stowers and Mrs C. W. Yennell. BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM HONOURED Te Awamutu’s town clerk, Mr Dudley Bockett, and his bride (who, by the way, were married in Cambridge not so long ago), were accorded a public woleo;;ie home at the To Awamutu Town Hall last week. Before the newly married couple arrived at the hall the many hundreds of well-wishers were assembled inside, lined up in rows from the front door to the stage —which latter coign of vantage was also packed with onlookers.

The Municipal Band had paraded in full force, and after rendering several martial tunes in the street, the bandsmen were lined up outside the hall as a guard of honour for Mr and Mrs Bockett on their arrival. Then, once inside, the guests were accorded a rousing welcome, and as they walked to the stage down the long lines of applauding friends those nearest the entrance filed in behind them, banking “tin-

cans,” and creating a din reminiscent of the oeo-popular ‘‘tin-canning” associaaed with the homecoming of bride and bridegroom. Dancing was then the order of the evening, Dalton’s orchestra. playing all the popular dance tunes.

OPENING OF GOLF CROWD AT CAMBRIDGE LINKS Golfers and their friends turned out in full force for the Cambridge Club’s opening on Saturday afternoon. Mixed foursomes were played and the weather was almost perfect from the golfers’ point of view. As is customary, afternoon tea was provided by the lady members for the players and their guests. The long table in the club-house looked most attractive with its decorations of flnntc-red dahlias and zinnias, orange marigolds and beautiful autumn-tinted maple leaves, which had been arranged by Mrs George Calvert. Some of the guests of the club for the afternoon were: Mcsdamcs G. Calvert, S. Lewis, Saclier, H. Magson, N. Wrightson, W. Drake, A. R. Hino, F. Swayne, Colin Wood,-En-twisle, M. Garland, T. Robinson, C. Meredith, J. Banks, R. Alford, Iv. Wilkinson, P. Hunt, W. R. Garrard, N. Waddle, A. N. Mucky, W Harbutt, F. iCingsford, W. .T. Ward, H. Clayton, C. W. Yennell, Iv. Browne, H N. Freeman, Duckering, 11. C. Tod, A. J. Law, Whewell and M. Willis.

The Misses G. Brann, A. Cox, M. Christophers, Joyce Lewis, Mary Ferguson, Meryl Neely, E. Robinson, G. Perkins, J. Watt, B. Whewell, Rona Culvert, I. Garland, .T. Thompson, Jean Brewer, Edith Lawes, Hilda Moorhouse, Joan Sayors, Elsie Sheet, Barry Harbutt, Joan Maberly, F. Clark and Yen a Garland.

AN ENGAGEMENT The engagement, is announced of Elsie Agnes, second daughter of Mr and Mrs L. T. Lynds, Hull Street, Cambridge, to Clifford Shakespeare, fourth 'sou of the late Mr-and "Mrs J. 11. Stewart, Takapuna. NEW REDUCING TREATMENT FIBMESE, new English Reducing formula, bears highest pharmaceutical approval. It benefits the whole system. Not the merest trace of a drug, but 100 per cent Herbal and Mineral. One woman reduced. ITlbs in 5 weeks, and was much healthier. ITRMESE is sold under Money-Back Guarantee.—W. J. Smellie, Chemist.

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MARRIED AT ST. ANDREW’S

HEWSON—BOYCE A wedding which caused consider* able interest in the whole of the Wai•kato was celebrated at St. Andrew’s Church. Cambridge, on Saturday afternoon, when Mabel May, daughter of Mr C. Boyce, sear., and the late Mrs Boyce, of “Arundel,” Cambridge, was married to Charles Hewitt, son of Mr C. Hewson, of Herne Bay, Auckland. The Rev. C. W. Chandler was the officiating clergyman, and Mrs C. A. Biland played a violin solo. The bride entered the Church with her brother, Mr A. G. Boyce, in a gown fashioned in gold chiffon velvet, slimfitting to the knees and then flaring gracefully to the ground. The hem of the skirt was finished with a wide border of brown fur. The long sleeves were tight-fitting and the high neckline in front fell to a soft cowl at the back. She wore a smart brown peachblossom felt hat and carried a sheaf of flowers in autumn to'nings. The bridesmaid, Miss Hazel Rainey, of Herne Bay, was gowned in almond green chiffon velvet cut on classical lines rind the skirt was slightly trained. She wore a peach-bloom felt hat in deeper tonings and carried autumn shaded flowers. The bridegroom was attended by Mr F. E. Coote, of Cambridge. Later a reception was held at the home of Mr and Mrs F. L. Tucker, in Thornton Road, where the guests were received by Mrs H. W. Giles, the bride’s eldest sister, who wore a nigger brown ensemble and felt hat to match, am! carried a bouquet of apricot roses and maidenhair fern. Mrs F. L. Tucker wore a smart woollen georgette suit in wine tones and carried roses in the same shades. Mrs Hewson was wearing a black and white woollen georgette ensemble and black felt hut.

The bride and bridegroom left later for their honeymogn, the bride wearing a nut brown tailored ensemble in figured French.-, crepe and hat to ione.

KITCHEN EVENING PARTY FOR BRIDE-TO-BE An Easter bride who was guest of honour at a kitchen evening on Saturday night was Miss Doris Drew. The hostess for the evening was Mrs Y. Sharkey, who had arranged “500” for her visitors. Competitions and musical items were also included in the evening’s fun. Mrs Sharkey was wearing a navy crepe de chine frock, while the guest of honour chose a frock of wine maroeain. A well-known Maori woman had such very good luck at a recent Waikato •ace meeting, that she found it necessary to utilise a child’s lunch case to 'any home her winnings, which totalled nearly three figures.

SLEEPY WOMAN. DOCTORS AND FRIENDS MYSTIFIED. A strange, unexplained medical case ...a victim of mysterious, trance-like sleep...lies day and night in a room facing south above a shop in High Street, Wimbledon. M iss Elc-anor Coburn is her name. She is nearly 93, and for the past four years her case has puzzled doctors, friends and those who take care of her.

In the midst of doing’ something she will suddenly fall into a deep sleep which sometimes lasts for several days. Then she will be awake for a day and night, alert, vivacious, in full possession of her faculties. She will be bright and talkative, will write long letters to her innumerable correspondents, read rather heavy biography, and thoroughly enjoy life and her friends. Then, once again—swiftly, without

warning—she will fall into a tranceiike sleep, There is no gentle drifting off. She will be unconscious for another -18 hours or more. As the months pass she sleeps just a little longer each time... During these spells of sleep Mrs Grocott, who has looked after Miss Coburn for 26 years, has to feed her. She gives her a little broth, finely! minced chicken, or custard. Usually Miss Coburn swallows automatically. Occasionally she does not and has to be left until she awakes. An interviewer saw her soon after she had awakened from a two-day sleep. She was an enchanting picture of pink-cheeked old age. Her clothing was of deep lilac, from the frilled bon- 1 net on her head.to the fingerless mittens on her frail hands. “It distresses me,” she said in her low, cultured voice. “Let me see. This time, this time”...she turned to Mrs Grocott. “I have been asleep such a long time. I don’t know what happens to me. I don’t dream. I just disappear. “This old body of mine. How sick of it I am, failing me in this w r ay. I certainly have no wish to live to be a hundred. I have done enough, lived long enough. I suppose now my tired body is revenging itself this way. I do not fear death. “I am Annerican, but I have lived over here for more than 50 years. I looked after my mother, who was ill for nine years, almost night and day. “Since then I have never been able to sleep much...l suppose that is the reason why I lose consciousness this way.”

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WOMEN IN THE AIR. “Granny” Stroud, aged 66, is the oldest pilot in England, and she has just learned to fly. Mrs Stroud, who thinks it is never too late to learn anything, became interested in aviation through her son, who is an ardent pilot. She decided she would like to fly a machine herself and her first-time up in an aeroplane was her first flying lesson. She had no fears and her grasp of the controls was as firm and as confident as that of a young woman. She has only had a few lessons but she can handle the machine in the air like an expert.

She raced her young grandson, aged thirteen, to see which of them would learn to fly first. They had the same instructor and the same machine. The contest ended in a tie, for the boy, the youngest pilot in the country, is also capable of flying solo. VAN-GREY ENDS GREY HAIR In YAN-Gll IdY Hair Colour Restorer science has- discovered a certain way to bring buck tlie true, glorious, original colour to grey and faded hair. VANGREY supplies essentials required by the papilla. It rejuvenates and vitalises the dull, faded pigments in the hair capillary cells. Entirely free from dye. 5/6 lOoz. bottle. Money-Back I Garantee.—E. H. Leigh, Chemist.