In and Out of Town

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 11

In and Out of Town

News items intended for publication in this column cannot be accepted unless accompanied by the signature and address of the sender. Notices of engagements require the signature of both parties, and a charge of 5s will be made far such announcement. Mr. and Mrs. Healey Reeves, Tolaga Bay, are staying at Wainui Beach. * * * * Miss Molly Wilson, Gisborne, is a visitor to Rotorua. * * * * Miss G. Wheeler, Rbstrevor Hospital, is visiting Auckland. ■> * * * Miss A. Leslie is spending the holiday season on Rotorua. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Stock, Domett street, are holidaying at Wainui Beach. * * * V Dr. N. R. Mackay and Mrs. Mackay, Wellington, are staying at the Masonic Hotel. * * « * Misses N. Mitford and B. Dobson returned on Sunday from a visit to Wellington. * * * *_ Mrs. Hamilton, Napier! . is staying with her mother, Mrs. Brodie, Rawiri street. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. R. Morse, Grey street, were visitors to Hastings at the weekend. * * * * Miss Jeanette Gow, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs. Bruce Muir, Rawiri street. * # * * Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Scannell, Tokomaru Bay, are on holiday at Lake Rotoiti. * * * # Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Jeffreys, Domett street, are camping at Ohiwa, Bay of Plenty. * * * The Misses N. and L. Williams, Glenburn station, Ngatapa, left to-day on a visit to Wellington. ***••> Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, Iranui road, are spending a camping holiday in the Bay of Plenty. » * t * Mr. and Mrs. E. Cuthbert, Childers road, have left on a camping trip to the Bay of Plenty'. * * * * Mrs. J. Hutchinson, Haronga road, returned on Sunday from an extended visit to Auckland. * * * * Mrs. R. A. Fox-Rogers, Aberdeen road, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. T. Gray, Hexton. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Spence and family, Waipaoa station, Whatatutu, are visiting Waikaremo’ana. * * * * Miss P. deLautour, Auckland, is staying with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Willock, Russell street. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Davies, Rotoma, are the guests of the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bennett, Kelvin road. * * * * Regimental Sergeant - Major W. Stevenson, accompanied by Mrs. Stevenson, is spending his final leave in Wanganui. * * * » Miss Audrey Howe, Hamilton, and Miss Nora Howe, Auckland, are spending the Christmas holidays in Gisborne. * * * * Mrs. H. H. O'Loughlin, Wairoa, arrived at Gisborne yesterday on a visit to her mother, Mrs. E. M. Parker, Rutene road. * * * * Squadron-Leader Grundy, chief staff officer, air headquarters, Wellington, is the guest of Flight Lieutenant and Mrs. G. A. Nicholls, Wainui Beach. S * * It Mr. Gordon Turley, Dunedin, is spending a short holiday with his brother, Mr. Frank H. Turley, 211 Clifford street. • * * * * Mrs. Bruce Watt, Stout street, accompanied by the Misses E. and D. Watt, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Sutherland, Hangaroa. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. M. McDonald and 1 family, Kanakanaia, were the guests of Mrs. H. G. Wellborne, Kelvin road, for Christmas. * * * * Miss Molly Smith, Patutahi, and Mr. Dawson Muir, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Beckett, Wainui Beach, at the Week-end. * * * * Miss A. Williams returned to Napier to-day after spending Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Williams, Glenburn station, Ngatapa. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Wilson, Wellington, accompanied by their daughter, Miss E. Wilson, are the guests of the latter's sister, Mrs. P. A. Pettit, Rawiri street.

Engagement Buscke-White. —An engagement is announced between Dudley Ross, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Buscke, Manutuke, and Zelda Barbara, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. K. White, Waingake, Gisborne. Engagement Celebrated

Informality marked the jolly 7 o’clock party given by Mrs. King Reed at her home in Wainui road on Saturday, to celebrate the engagement of her youngest daughter, Miss Peggy Reed, to Mr. G. W. Smith, second son of Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Smith, “Waitaria,” Patutahi.

The decorations were carried out in delicate shades of pink, bowls of hydrangeas and antirrhinums being used with artistic effect.

Felicitations were conveyed in a very happy manner to Miss Reed and her fiance, whose health was proposed by Mr. H. 'E. Maude, an old friend of the family.

The guests included several members of the Special Military Force at present on final leave.

The hostess was wearing an elegant frock of leaf brown chiffon printed in a floral design in rich tonings.

Miss P. Reed was smart in a frock of Wedgewood blue faille printed in white, and Miss M. Reed wore a becoming frock of Dresden blue floral cloque.

A pretty frock of navy blue and white crepe was worn by Miss Smith. Surf Club Dance Everything that makes for success attended the bright and cheery dance held by the Wainui Surf and LifeSaving Club in the Wainui Hall on Saturday night.

The holiday spirit was much in evidence, and decorations of bright streamers gave a carnival air to the animated scene. The music was supplied by Mrs. W. Thomson’s orchestra.

Among those noticed were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Muir, Dr. and Mrs. W. Henley (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. G. Muir (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Beckett, Mr. and Mrs. L. Sherriff. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Irwin, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bain.

Misses M. and P. Reed, N. Broadhurst, J. McLernon, M. Scott, H. Steele, M. and J. Bennett, N. Cowan, F. Morse, J. Steele, S. Muir, M. Smith, M. Ruddock, R. Cox, S. Bright, J. Greig, J. Perry, B. Hutchinson, E. Hegarty, M. Duncan, N. Allen, J. Irvine, L. Hood, and M. Armstrong.

Messrs. S., C. and M. McLernon, T. Williams, P. and T. Mitford, D. F. Muir, T. Broadhurst, G. Speirs, D. Barker, P. and J. Twigg, G. Smith, K. Cooper, L. Margoliouth, N. Bennett, Tietjen (2), C. and B. Cowan, T. Bright, B. Kahlenberg, E. Burnard, R. Ogilvie, R. Morley, P. Caldwell, R l . Richardson, B. Smith, R. Sinclair, and N. Pettit.

Mrs. Rudyard Kipling Saved “The Recessional’’

Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, whose death was announced in last week’s cable news, was married to the famous author and poet at All Saints’ Church, Portland Place, London, in 1892. She was Caroline Starr Balestier, sister of Wolcott Balestier, a young American with whom Kipling became friendly in London and with whom he collaborated in the novel “The iNaulahka.”

For the first few years they lived at Mrs. Kipling’s home town, Vermont, U.S.A., where Kipling built a unique hoiise for his bride overlooking Bratteboro. Sir Arthur Conarr Doyle accredited him with “chivalrous devotion” to his wife, which caused him to take her to America lest she miss her home and her friends.

For their daughter, who died at an early age, Kipling wrote his first “Jungle Book.” Their only son was killed in Flanders during the Great War.

The inspiration of Mrs. Kipling, her perfect appreciation of her husband’s gilts and moods, and her gracious influence have been attested by him in many tender words, as well as in the more impersonal tributes to womanhood of brains and heart such as is found expressed in “From Sea to Sea” or “His Chance in Life.” “The world,” stated Annie Russell Marble, in her book “The Nobel Prize Winners of Literature,” “will never forget the persistent story that Mrs. Kipling saved, from the waste-paper basket, that grand hymn of all time, ’The Recessional.’ ”

In later years she and her husband lived in secluded contentment in England until his death. The shy literary girl of the ’nineties had evolved into the shyest chatelaine, fond of gardening and wood fires. She could be persuaded sometimes to open a local bazaar, but never to approach the subject, “My Late Genius Husband.”

Figures—Fashions—Foundations

Figures and houses stand or fall by their foundations. Build a good foundation for your house, and you can have a cottage or mansion of real and lasting beauty; build your ward* robe over a good foundation and you will not only feel your best but look your best —always.

Figure beauty is not a matter of age, or height, or size. Stranger still, it is not even a matter of shape, for you can be short-waisted, long-waisted, full-bosomed, or wide-hipped and still have a beautiful figure. It is a matter of proportion, firmness and control. And those three things are within the grasp of every woman. The beautiful silken sheath that is the modern corset has so many clever ways of performing sleight of hand feats upon your curves! They whittle you down here, build you out there. They smooth away bulges, so that your line is no longer a succession of bumps and hollows but one breathless liquid curve! They neaten bulk and redistribute flesh to give you better proportions. They have entirely new ways of lifting up the jaded bosom, and keeping it up.

So ingenious have the corset designers become that it is now almost impossible for any of the controlling devices to show under even sheer dresses —not even if it is one of the really stern types of corsets that have a big job of control to do. Suspenders have become completely self-effacing—and they attach themselves to your stockings in an amazing new way, flat as a pancake. They have done new things to bones so that

they no longer poke, prod, bulge in the middle or stick out at angles. They are supple and they stay closely to the lines of the figure under the greatest provocation; and they are incredibly light and fine. And the glamorous new fabrics have to be seen to believe they are corset fabrics at all!