SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 5

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs Thomas Brown, of " Broomlands,” is away in Timaru lor some weeks.

Mr and Mrs of Napier, are the guests of Mr and Mrs Arthur Sidey.

Mr and Mrs G. Sinclair arc spending the holidays with Mrs Bruce Todd at Nascby.

Bliss D. Rhodes, of Timaru, and Bliss Olive Prcece, of Wellington, are staying with Mrs Macassey, St. Clair.

Bit- and Mrs L. Lazarus and family and Mr and Mrs L. Sbenkon and son aer spending their summer vacation at Brighton.

Misses Murid Riley and Bertha Rawliiison arc spending their holidays at present at Queenstown and Kaka Ppint.

Bliss L. Wilkinson, of Harbour terrace, is spending the holidays with Blrs BPLoan, of Heretaunga, Wellington.

Under the title of ‘ Every Woman Beautiful ’ a new shop was opened in Kiiigbtsbridgo with Hying colours. Its object is beauty culture, and much interested in the enterprise are Major Crockntt (of the Royal Scots) and his wife (says a ‘ Daily Chronicle ’ writer). The regimental note was sustained by the decoration of Captain Vcre Isliam, also of the Royal Scots- _ The colours are yellow and blue in this new happy bunting ground of beauty, and Captain Isbam gave a special formula for colours which suit types of womanhood, viz.; — “ For fair-haired, blue-eyed women green is the best background,” said Captain Isbam. “The brunette beauty is best set off by deep ivory. The redhaired woman should surround herself with bine, and the silver-haired woman should cling to black, like a shipwrecked mariner to a spar.”

Efforts arc being made to put forward rubies as tho fashionable gem 'f Christmas gifts. These red stones have not been sought after as have emeralds and sapphires, because they are rare, and large .specimens are unobtainable (says the ‘Daily Chronicle’). Ruby mines in Bnrmah are practically extinct, and the fine gems on the market are derived from the scattered collections of Russia. Tho best rubies in this country arc owned by the Londonderry family. They arc set with diamonds in the forms of a tiara and necklaces. Queen Blarie Antoinette bad some magnificent rubies which were once owned by Blrs Bradley Martin. Rubies weighing over five carats and of the pigemirblood tinge are very scarce. I hoard of one singlestone. owned by a Russian noblewoman, which was sold For a. small fortune.

Blr and Bfr.s H. W. Parker, of Kew, left Dunedin by the second express on Thursday to spend an extended holiday in the north.

Bliss R. Robertson, of Oainaru, who has been spending a portion of the holidays in Dunedin, returned to her homo by car on Thursday.

Blr and Blrs H. C. Jeffrey, of Oamaru, returned to their homo by the second express on Thursday. They were accompanied by Blr Binder, of Ballarat, Victoria.

Blr and Blrs R. V. Hall are spending the Christmas and Now Year holidays in Timaru.

Recent guests from Dunedin to the White Star Hotel, Queenstown, include Blr and Blrs Coull, Blr and Bliss Cuddie, Bliss Blackio, Bfessrs F. Parsons, H. Blorgan, G. Arras.

Bliss Kathleen Cook, of Wellington, is spending a brief holiday in Dunedin.

Fortunately the vain kept off on the Wednesday and Thursday race days, but. in spite of the bright sunshine, Wingatui, like Dunedin, felt the chilly effects of the strong wind. Henco the frocking, which is usually of the brightest ,and gayest for the summer meeting, was Lis'year much more sober, owing to the prevalence of coats. A large number of local racing enthusiasts are away on their holidays, though all the same one noticed many well-known residents, among whom were Blesdames ITarty, J. Cook, Cotterill, Hutchison, Hislop, Robert Hud-son,-Duncan, Jacobs, Greenslade, Fiulayson, L. Hudson, 0. Greenslade, Barron, A. Orbell, Leslie Mills, Bundle, Fothorlnghain, Haggitt, Lcwin, Russell, Donaldson, Forsyth, Johnston, Passmore, and Shrimpton, Misses Elisor, Callander, Hart, Wilkin, Reid, Gow, Hislop, H. Gard’ner, B. Thompson, Macpherson, Trotter, Orbell, Wilkin, and Williams..

Mr and Mrs A. C. Fahey and their child motored down from Timaru on Christmas Day, and are staving with Inspector Faliey (Mr Fahey’s father) in the vSoutii road.