EASTBOURNE LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 4

EASTBOURNE LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

The Eastbourne branch of the League of Mothers held its first meeting of the year last week, more than 80 members and friends attending. Mrs. Shearer presided, opening the afternoon with the league prayer and hymn. The speaker was Mrs. Mazengarb, who took the audience with her to various cities of the world in a talk entitled “Memories.” To Perth, the garden city of Australia, with its Memorial Mile of brilliantly-coloured gum trees; to Colombo, a city of the old intermingled with the uew; to Cairo, where she described a wedding and a funeral; to Switzerland, where she told of the “Narcissi Fete” and “The Battle of the Flowers”; to the clean towns of Holland with their model dairies and spotless houses. She left her listeners in front of Big Ben, London.

Mrs. * Miller proposed a vote of thanks to the speaker aud presented her with a bouquet. Two new members were admitted, and the “thought” was read by Mrs. Barton. Mrs. Collins and Miss Goodwill sang duets, and Mrs. Stuart gave solos, with Mrs. Stevens at the piano.

Miss E. Campbell, who has been relieving Plunket nurse in Mastertoil, has gone to relieve in the Porirua district. Evening gowns are really exciting this year—silks that stand alone, crinolines, bustles'. A terribly smart bustle gown of fuchsia taffetas. The silhouette is straight, sides and front, with the great width of the skirt drawn to the back, bunched up at the waist into two big bows lined with sapphire, with bouffant drapery' below showing splashes of sapphire. The little brassiere bodice, with short puff sleeves, has a few gathers caught with a brilliant garnet and sapphire clip. A glamorous crinoline gown is of pale blue satin. The wide skirt is worn over a hooped petticoat, and the tight little boned bodice lias a flat two-inch-wide bertha of ganged rose dn barri velvet. Another wonderful gown is of heavy turquoise corded silk. The skirt must be at least 14 yards round, attached to the top in a vandyked outline. The rather long, tight bodice is finished round the top with rouleaux of the silk, shoulder straps optional, and a little posy in wallflower tones. Salon Celia, Ltd., Lambton Quay.—Advt.