Of Interest to Women

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3271, 25 February 1937, Page 6

Of Interest to Women

(Bi) Our Social Reporter)

PERSONAL Mrs W. A. Fisher, of Puknrimu, has left for Taihape for a holiday. * * * Mrs A .H. Magson, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs Nigel Wrightson, has returned to Auckland. # * * Miss Rona Lewis is spending a few days in Cambridge with her parents, Mr and Mrs S. Lewis, before returning to Auckland. * ♦ # Mrs Gilbert Gane, of Auckland, who has been staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs A. W. Gane, of Williams Street, has returned to Auckland. AN ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced of Tliora Kathleen, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs E. L. Hardy, Thornton Road, Cambridge, to Stuart Meredith, fourth, son of the late Mr and Mrs Griffith, formerly of Cambridge. . .. 1 ;V CROQUET NEWS On Monday afternoon Mrs M. Butler, president of the Cambridge Croquet Club, entertained thp mem-, pers 'ai'an"'“it Romef on tfte lawns. Fayouml with .beautiful weather a happy time was spent.: ‘ Progressive croquet was played until afternoon tea time, after which ordinary-games were played. The winners of the progressive were: A’s, Mrs W. 11. Hall; B’s, Mrs C. W. Hooker.

The occasion being the president’s birthday, during the tea interval Mrs D. Murray, on behalf of the members, presented Mrs Butler with, a beautiful posy of carnations and roses, and a lovely gold-coloured satin cushion. Mrs Butler briefly thanked the members for their gifts.

A very dainty tea was served by Miss Butler, assisted by friends. Mrs

Social Doings, Feminine News ana Notes.

Holmes returned thanks to Mrs and Miss Butler.

Those present were: Mesdames M. Butler, Murray, Short, Hall, Watt, Hcpkirk, Young, Hardy, Hooker, Harvey, Clothier, Holmes, Fitzgerald, Glennie, Miss Hooker and Mo/. Butler. DUCHESS’S PEACH BEDROOM In a stately house in Belgrave Square, S.W., is the bedroom that all mothers must envy, the bedroom of the Duchess of Kent. Through the tall doorway the favoured visitor steps into a cool, colourful atmosphere. The Duchess lies in bed, of course. The bedroom, which was green, has been redecorated for the event. It is now of a carefully-chosen shade of softest peach. Also of|ibe same lov.fi v peach shade are pillow-slips, sheets, and dainty dressing-gown she is wearing. Everything. On one side of the Duccss’s bed is a bank of white hyacinths, growing. On the- other side are white lilac. -They fill the rpom with their fragrance. And aitiid this Splendour and elegance, with everything superbly in its place, you see op the floor a disorder of toys that belong}.£p /little Pririco Edward. It shows that the room is lived in, played in. Off it opens the nursery with trim nurses in attendance —It looks like a hospital ward. In it, but not visible, is the new baby Princess. The room gleams with white enamel, glass, and metal.