SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 10

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Budge, Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. Albert Cupps, Rapanui. Mrs. A. Keen is a Dunedin visitor to Wanganui. Mrs. K. W. Edmonds, of Auckland, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday. Mis. W. B. Rainey, Lower Hutt, has been visiting Wanganui. Miss Barnott has left Wanganui to spend a holiday in the north. Mi. and Mis. J. Dive, of Feilding, are spending a holiday in Wanganu. and later will tarvel north as far as \V hangarci. Mr. and Mrs. C. Corpe, of North Auckland, who have been visiting Mrs. Haase, Wanganui, left yesterday I for Feilding ana Wellington. Miss Dawn Ewen is a Feilding visitor to Wanganui, and is staying with hej sister, Mrs. C. L. Bourke. • Aucklanders who paid a brie! visit to Wanganui this week were Mrs. F. J. Just, Mrs. Gooding. Miss L. T. Sheehan, Miss E. Tierney and Misses Rohan (4). Mis. A. Tyerman, Wilson Street, leaves to-day for Napier, where she will spend several days before going on to Gisborne to visit the Tom lyerman's for New Year. She expects to be away about six weeks. Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald, founder and principal ot Chilton St. James School, Lower Hutt, who has relinquihed her post after twenty-one years, was fai-cwelled at the school break-up held recently. i Mrs. D. Christie, Wanganui, arrived iat Christchurch by plane on Monday Ito attend the wedding of her son. Mr. Neil Christie, to Miss Phyllis AcLon- | Adams, on Monday afternoon. Madame Winnie Fraser (Heriot) is visiting her father, the ?:ev. John Nixon, at New Plymouth, before going to Auckland and Rotorua. Later she will give two lecture-recitals in the women’s section of the exhibition al Wellington, and will return south after three months. English papers announce the diamond wedding celebrations of Mr, and Mrs. William Johnson, the grandparents of Dunedin's famous quad- ■ ruplets. Natives of East Kent, the i old couple were married al Waldcrhare Church, near Dover, in 1879, when 21 and IS year of age repectively/ Among the congratulations hey received was one from the King. CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY HYLTON LODGE. AKAMOHO The annual treat, for the children was hold in the new hail of Hylton Lodge, 1.0.0. F., at Aramoho, when about 100 children, with their parents, attended. Father Christmas arrived at 3 p.m. and received a great ovation from the children. Races were run in the .grounds under the supervision of Bros. D. H. Taylor, K. J. Farmer, F. W. Banks, and L. Birkby. Prizes were presented to the winners and consolation gifts Io other participants. A special prize was won by Mrs. Souther* Lincoln Road. The Mayor. Mr. W. J. Rogers, attended, and was welcomed for the lodge by the secretary, Bro. A. L. Robb. Mr. Rogers was asked to accept a bouquet for in? Mayoress, and a small present for himself. After afternoon tea. Mr. Rogers eulogised the work of the members in catering for the children and wished members, their wives and families the compliments of the season. The social committee responsible for the party was Bros. F. W. Banks, E. G. Davis, A. L. Robb, D. H. Taylor, C. D. Harley, O. E. Persson, L. Patchett, K. J. Farmer, L. Birkby, being assisted by Sisters K. Todman and K. Roche. Mrs. Larsen (2), Persson, and Banks, and Misses N 1son and Sutherland. HOW DO YOU FIGURE IN THE NEW FASHIONS? To-day the world's great dress designers are working hand in hand with leading corsetieres, building beautiful figures to display to advantage exquisite frocks. No woman who would be smart will attempt to wear the fashions they create over the uncorseted figure. We are going to have to wear corsets as never before. Anti we’re going to look smarter, lovelier, more womanly than we've ever looked —or felt. The aesthetic ideal of beauty in the natural figure is different from the dressmakers' ideal. Look over the women at any large evening function - notice the vagaries of the ‘natural’ figure in modern clothes; see the unsightliness of badly corseted figures. It is a saddening and a sobering sight, and makes us want to run home quickly and have a look in the mirror, just to assure ourselves that we really are different. Then follow' the lead the Paris and London dress designers have given us . . . get the right type of foundation and build ourselves better figures.