NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 12

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE. (By “Nanette.”) Fifteen Bouquets. Mrs Hume, president of the Southern AVellington Federation of New Zealand AA r omen’s Institutes, received floral tributes from each of the fifteen institutes in the federation when the annual council meeting was held recently in Levin. A New Method. The machineless permanent waving process used by Sylvia Kirk, of Broadway, is quite different from any other method. It is not what is known as the “non-electric” process, though it does away with the machine heating formerly used. It is adjustable to suit any type of hair and produces lovely natural waves and curls easily arranged in a becoming style. * Oily Skin. A skin which is exceptionally oily, and therefore very hard to control, can to a pertain extent be remedied by dabbing with plenty of milk and allowing it to dry on the face before applying your powder. This will make a perfect 'powder base and will give the skin an even, matte appearance. Cosy Quilts. • A pure down quilt is light but gives the maximum amount of warmth ais well as being long lasting. There are some very attractive pure down quilts covered in a large variety of lovely colours in durable material at Hutchins’ Furniture AVarehouse, 493 Main Street, and priced most reasonably at 29s 6d for the single size and 37s Gd double. * How Linen Flax Grows. , As we all know, linen comes from the flax seed, and there are two kinds —the white flower which gives us linseed oil and oil cake, and the blueflowered variety which gives us our linen. A linen field is divided into" five sections, and the crops are rotary, i-e., wheat, barley, maize, potatoes and flax,, and next year we will have barley where the wheat was, maize where the barley was, and so on.

Mothers’ Day. Don’t' forget that Sunday will be Mothers’ Day. If you are perplexed about what to give your mother call at the Scotch AVool and Hosiery Shop, the Square, as they have hosts of suggestions for practical gifts that are bound to please. For instance, they have reliable brands of hosiery, delightful underwear in all sizes, cardigans and otheT useful items. * Persian Carpets. An Englishman's home is his castle, but a Persian’s home is his carpets. On these he eats, sleeps, sits crosslegged, and prays; and, lest his street shoes should defile them, they are left outside before he walks within his home. Except for a few ornaments resting in niches on the wall, a Persian relies entirely upon the carpet to furnish his room. Winter Wear.

' If you want a winter coat .you will find something to suit you at Slater’s, the Square. They have racks full of the smartest coats —velours with luxurious'.fur trimming, tailored tweeds, box and swing types in all sizes. There are browns', blacks, navies and rich autumn shadas, some with a delightful striped effect. Slater’s have Hats in keeping too. * War Influence. World events have always had a way of creeping into women’s clothes. There were tentative experiments along these lines during the last Great AVar of 1914. Then, even our enemy was acknowledged for a brief period; women went Turkish and sported the fez in all colours, and threaded elastic through the hems of their satin frocks in an effort to make them look like celestial trousers. This time we .have Polish peasant blouses, Czech dirndls and French legionnaire hats.