HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Sea field Country Club. Members and friends of the SeafFk; Country Club are reminded of the dance to be held this evening in the golf clubhouse. W.G.C.O.G.A. Tiie committee members of the Wanganui Girls’ College Old Girls’ Association are holding their annual entertainment for present girls at the college on July 21, at 7.30 p.m. All old girls are invited to attend. Picture and Supper Party. Miss Montgomery Moore entertained a large number of friends at a picture party at a theatre on Thursday night, and afterwards to supper served at her home Victoria Avenue. Your Cooking Problems. Miss C. Wadmore will give another of the winter series of demonstrations on cooking by electricity at the Power Board’s Buildings, St. Hill Street, next Wednesday, July 19, at 2.15 p.m. The programme will include packed oven cooking, novelties, and interesting films. Forthcoming Drama Festival. The Ruapehu Federation of Women’s Institutes will hold a drama festival in Taihape on August 2. Judging by the enthusiasm of the competing teams and the preparations under way, a good evening’s entertainment is assured. Four country teams are > competing, and Mrs. Linda Bennett, M.A., of Palmerston North, is to be the adjudicator. Druids* Hall Dance. Old and new dances, Monte Carlo, and novelty dances will be included m the programme at the dance to be held in the Druids’ Hall to-night. Thia weekly dance is a popular event for a large number of patrons, who spend a t noroughly enjoyable night of dancing to good music. Plain and Fancy Dress Party. I All members and friends of the I Wanganui. National Dancing Society (will have a happy time if they attend 'the plain and fancy dress party being ■ held on Saturday evening, July 22, in ’ McGruer’s Hall. The proceeds are in aid of the society’s funds, so all rally iand make this a success and give the ' children a happy time. Good prizes ' will be given. ' W eek-end At ChaU'au. ' A party of young people l p ft last !evening to spend the week-end at The i Chateau, Tongariro. Among those in i the party were Misses I. Bradshaw, M. R. Hillier, N. Miller, N. Jamieson, R. ; Wishard, L. Young, E. Doucly, W. Fowler, E. Pratt, L. Bushell, D. Cox, M. Hyland, V. Madeley, B. Scott, .!. ' Carter, B. and J. Hammond, V. South- : combe, T. Dandy; Messrs. Gannon, G. I Bretherton, G. Foster, G. Strachan, V. I Cooke, L. Hulbert, K. Mcßrearty, C. I Marchant, T. Foster, L. Carter, B. and P. Pritchard. S. Drummond, A. Samp!son, D. Lang, E. Carter, R. Sutclilic, !R. Cargill, F. Clark, R. Wilson, A. j Walker, and A. Smithers. ' An Amusing Advertisement. During her opening address at. the annual conference of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, Mrs. Fraser, wife of the Hon. P. Fraser, used a light touch in her remarks, and delegates thoroughly enjoyed her humorous references, particularly I when she spoke of advertising meant to impress women. ‘’They are the buyers and so the important people,” said ' .Mrs. Fraser, who then quoted an I American advertisement, "Decorate ' your nails. Your husband’s .stenoIgrapher puts adorable shades on her ! linger nails. Try it yourself. Maybe | he will stay at home if you make the | home as bright a.s his oliice!” “Miii iions are spent on the cult of beauty, land it is all done by advertising," said | Mrs. Fraser. “I was told of a woman who had her face ‘lifted,’ but when she saw I he bill, it fell again." , “Fashion At Home.” • Patterns for a juvenile blouse, a {lady’s frock and coat and child's pettiIcoat are enclosed in the July number | el "Fashion At Home,” which also i contains "Honolulu," the complete !story of the film. Several short stories, I a fashion newsreel, live lovely knitting | I designs, new designs for crochet workers, film chatter, beauty notes, pages for the home cook, household i ninis. problem club and a mothercrafl I page, complete an excellent number. ■ Stationmaster’s Thoughtfulness. ’ "I think that quite the most human i touch about, the spectacular homej coming of the King and Queen was supplied by the stationmaster at Waterloo,’ says a writer in the Sydney Morning Lieraid. "There the little Princesses entrained for Portsmoutn on the first stage of that exciting | journey by train and destroyer to meet their parents. The thoughtfulness of the stationmaster, no doubt, a father, provided the small girls with comics to while awaj’ the time." X Z. Nurse Returns From Spain. ’ Sister Una Wilson, a New Zealander who, for 16 months, from December. 1936, to March, 1938, acted as theatre sister in front line hospitals in Spain. ' and who has just completed a three | months’ lecture tour in Australia in • file interests of Spanish refugees, is at present staying in Auckland. With Dr. Dumont, a Belgian surgeon ol high repute in Republican Spain, Sis- ' ter Wilson served as theatre sister on I the Madrid, Aragon and Teruel fronts, jThe battles of Jarama, Brunete, Belchite, and Teruel were some througl. which they worked, the retreat from Teruel being to Sister Wilson one of ( the most unforgettable and tragic ex- , periences of the war. On leaving ) Spain, Sister Wilson spent eight . months in England; four months re1 cuperating in Hastings, followed by a - comprehensive tour of England, and a 2 visit to Paris. England she found a delight scenically, and the democratic - freedom of speech and action a sharp contract to the oppression suffered by many races represented in the Interj national Brigade, to which she had I been attached.