SOCIAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 5

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs F. B. Young, of Wellington, is at the Hamilton Hotel. Miss V* Williams, *of Auckland, is visiting Cambridge. » * * ® Miss Anne Boyce, of Cambridge, is spending a holiday at Takapuna. * # * # Mrs J. O’Sullivan, of Raglan, is staying at the Royal Hotel. Mrs H. C. Ross and Mrs W. G. Pountney, of Hamilton, have returned from a motor tour of North Auckland. Mrs H.*II. I-lowden* of * Hamilton, has returned home from a visit to Auckland. * * • * Mrs 11. Burch, of Hamilton, is spending a holiday at Herne Bay, Auckland. * # * * The annual picnic organised by Nurse Hooker and the Frankton committee of the Plunket Society will be held next Saturday afternoon at Scddon Park.

Girls have never shown a greater desire to go into domestic service than they do to-day, states a Londoner. Applications to enter the various residential training centres for domestic workers which are established throughout the country are becoming more numerous every day, and at many of them are waiting lists for months ahead. The reason for the in'crease in the number of applicants is that at long last the prejudice against domestic service as a means of livelihood has been broken down; and neither girls nor their parents look upon it auy longer as an inferior form of work.

The fashion sensation in London last month was the 12-yard-ro.und skirt, with a 36-yard hem, the creation of a famous dress creator who has many Royal clients. It is only for the evening, of course. The interesting claim made for the new skirt is that despite its magnitude it will make the modern girl look slimmer than ever. The exquisitely moulded hip-line is the explanation of this satisfactory state of affairs. Taffeta-faille is the 'correct fabric for the 12-yard skirt. The corsage, it appears, is slightly waisted just at the normal line and from a narrow belt the silk fits closely to a point just above the knees, when it commences to widen, but so gradually that one cannot possibly realise that by the time the godets rest on the ground the skirt has become “12 yards round’’ the hem.. * * * *

The Princess Royal and the Duchess of York will have to look to their laurels. I believe lam right (writes an English correspondent in an exchange) in saying that neither has yet ventured on an aeroplane mglit. i this respect some of the foreign Pi incesses are setting them a notable example. The Queen of the Belgians has always been a dauntless ahwoman. Whenever she comes o\ci here she invariably comes by aeroplane, and during the war she made several flights across the Channel to visit her children in England. Princess Ingrid is another who is rapidlydeye oping a taste for air tra\e . > ’ is the Crown Princess ofk«. who 'came over from B usse s by nlane after visiting her sister in tl - Belgian capital. In »» cess Ingrid adventure is in the blood. She is probably the keenest sports™„»n S all the revalues In Europe.