In and Out of Town

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 13

In and Out of Town

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Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Kissling, Tokomaru Bay. are visiting Auckland. • » * • Mrs. Worsfold, Mangapapa, is on holiday in Napier. » * * * Mrs. R. C. Willis, Mangapapa, is visiting Napier. • * >!< * Mrs. R. C. Tukc, Riverside road, returned this week from a visit to Auckland. Mrs. E. Mcßeath returned to Hamil',on from Gisborne during ,the weekend. • » » • Miss Margaret Newman, Iranul road, lias returned from a brief visit to >t:he Waimata Valley. • * « * Miss Madge Ormond, Wairoa,. is a visitor to Ghristchurch for Grand National week • * * * Miss Molly Ferguson, Wellington, who is visiting relatives .in Gisborne, is ait present the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mason, Clifford street. Mrs. A. L. Singer, •'Bridgewater," Ballance street, returned to-day from a visit to Hawke's Bay, Palmerston North and Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Petchell, who have been the guests of Mrs. "A. F. Houston. Score road, returned to Wairoa to-day.

Madame Eugenie Dennis, formerly of Hamilton, who has been living at Bondi, Sydney, for some years, has arrived in New Zealand to judge at the Gisborne and Timaru compec.no. * « * * Miss Kathleen Danetree, examiner [or the Rpyal Academy of Dancing, London, arrived by plane from Auckland yesterday. She will conduct examinations in Gisborne and leave for Napier on Saturday. * * * * Miss Ruth Herrick, Hawke's Bay, .•ho has been visiting Auckland for '.Jte annual church parade of the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts' Associations, has returned liome. Miss Herrick is Dominion Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides.

"Be Good Sweet Maid" The accomplished young lady o. Victorian times, with her piano-play-ing, r'rench conversation, singing and skill at the embroidery frame, would have opened her eyes at the modern idea of fashionable accomplishments, London mothers are sending daughters to classes during their first and second seasons to learn (1) How to scrub a floor and use a vacuum cleaner; (2) How to bake a joint and .plan menus; (3) How to make their own dresses and launder them. Charles; Kingsley, responsible for Ihe "Be good and sweet maid and let who will be clever" advice, would have been charmed at the steady increase in the number of young girls going to the pioneer women's college at which he lectured, Queen's, in Harley street, London, to acquire the old, newly fashionable arts of housewifery. "Lunching" famous people of the day is one of the subjects that debutantes learn when they take the home maker's course. At a lunch for their college visitor, the Bishop of London, students will help to plan the menu, cook the food, wait on him and other guests and wash up.