HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 163, 13 July 1933, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Concert to Aid Charity. A ‘splendid programme has been arranged for the concert to be held at the Makirikiri Hall this evening, tn aid of the Home of Compassion. Leading Wanganui artists and the Kaiwhaiki 2YA Concert Party will be assisting. Queer Things. We have always been told that nature takes care of her creatures, but strange things happen these days,” said a farmer’s wife yesterday, when chatting to friends in town. She toh» of a duck that had built ; nest in a high hedge and is there hatching her eggs. But the problem is what will the ducklings do when they come out? And how will they get down to the water. Tennis Fashions. It is not so very long ago that a girl tennis player who did not wear stockings was considered daring. Now comes news from overseas that it is expected that there will be no stockings worn at future big tournaments. As for men, shorts arc to be the thing and designers are busy fashioning flannel trousers of a special cut. In a year or two we may expect to see tennis players in bathing suits. Opal Nails Now. The novelty of ruby and rose nails having become a thing of th e past, ultra-smart mademoiselles are now displaying something much more startling —fingertips of gold and silver and even opal. The enamels which give these bizaare effects are to bo procured at most of our leading emporiums, so it will be nothing to see dozens of finertips gleaming like metal and jewels at many of our approaching season’s dances. Society Mannequins. Fewer complaints are heard nowaday; than formerly of society amateurs invading the domain of stage .professionals. That used once to be a fierce theatrical grievance; but now there is a tendency on the part of titled ladies to invade the professional fashion mannequin’s preserves. Times are lean, dress allowances have been cut down, and the chance of earning a little pinmoney by the agreeable work of parading in beautiful new gown or even lovely lingerie is one that naturally attracts once a well-to-do women. 1 am told, however, writes an English fashion expert, that the professional mannequins, though they resent the intrusion, do not greatly dread it. Few society women know how to display apparel as professional mannequins can, and fewer still possess the same natural advantages. The amateur’s one asset is usually the aura of Dcbrctt. Housecraft.

England has an electrical association for women, and at a recent annual conference held -in Birmingham there were a large umber of delegates present. In speaking of the year’s work, the director, Miss Caroline Haslett, said that new methods of electrical housecraft education were being evolved, and during the year the association had placen many girls in posts in the electrical industry. The association’s co-operation with the Women’s Institute movement woold bring about a powerful representation which would press for a further development of electricity in the countryside, she said. The association, which started eight years ago, with a mere handful of members, now has 31 branches and a membership of over 5000. A diploma for women teachers of electrical housecraft has been established, and 171 diplomas have been awarded. Miss Haslett recalled that following a visit she paid to Amsterdam last year, a Dutch Electrical Association for Women had been established, with the same idealg as the British Association. Herring-bone Borders.

If you want to decorate a new tablerunner, some new curtains, a cushion, or a breakfast set, and you haven’t a transfer to hand, here is a good idea to help you over the difficulty, providing that the threads of your material wil' draw (states a correspondent). All coarse canvases and linen-like materials and art serges, too. for that matter, draw quite easily. All you do is to draw three or four threads, or more if the material is.line, at intervals, leaving about an inch between each two blocks. Form them into a border. Next, got out your bag of wool oddments and work coarse herring-boning along the top and bottom of each block of drawn threads as you go. Three or four rows of this work in gay colours will give you a lovely effect. It is just the sort of work that a busy housewife could tackle, for it wouldn’t matter if she did have to throw it aside for a domestic job at a minute’s notice.

Diamond Wedding. It is sixty years since Mr. and Mrs. William Evetts, of New Plymouth, were married in Wellington (states the Taranaki Herald). Now, at the respective ages of 82 and 80 years, both are still hale and hearty. A family gathering was held during the week-end in honour of the auspicious occasion of the couple’s diamond wedding. Both Mr. and Mrs. Evetts (Martha Carvcll in those days) were born in the little village of Southam, Warwickshire, England. They grow up together, being boy and girl sweethearts. Mr. Evetts was in the employ of th© great English engineering firm of Brogdons, with whom Sir Julius Vogel, then Premier of New Zealand, contracted for the construction of the Dominion’s railways. Mr. Evetts came out to New Zealand in the ship Halcione. which arrived at Wellington on July 29, 1872. On the same vessel came Miss Carvcll, the couple being married about a year after their arrival jn New Zealand. There were 13 children of the marriage, of whom nine are still living.