NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 160, 6 June 1940, Page 11

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE. (By “Nanette.”) Small Girl’s Contribution. A Kelburn, Wellington, collector for the Sick, Wounded, and Distress Fund reports that a little girl came to him, saying; “Here is 6s received from a concert we gave in our backyard.” Growing Up. Young complexions are very important, and must be treated as such. Parents, perhaps, consider a girl too young to think of beauty but at seventeen and eighteen she has either learnt correct skin care or started to ruin her skin. The expert advice of Sylvia Kirk, Broadway, shows her how to enhance youthful charm, while preserving natural loveliness.* „ If the Wringer Roller Cracks. If a crack appears in the rubber roller of your wringer, bind the cracked part tightly with adhesive tape.: It keeps the crack -from spreading and does not come off. Proud Display. A delightful idea for -preserving' and displaying treasured loveliness is an oak china cabinet 1 saw at Hutchins’ Furniture Warehouse,, 4§3 Main Street. Its plentiful glass panels, set in an unusually shaped front, allow” the light to pick out all the lovely points of delicate pieces while preserving them from dust and knocks. The price is only £6 10s.* '.' . Latest in Paris Fashions. Latest fashion details-from Paris are long, sheer handknit red wool stockings and" flat-heeled, ankle-strapped black patent shoes. Silk stockings, also in red, complete a summer scheme, with nav.y blue woollen coat and silk dress, with flag-printed front next plain navy back, showing a moderate sunbaslc decolletagc. Gay Pyjamas. , - ” In your sparch for winter, pyjamas have yoit- (yet called at the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Shop, the Square, and asked to see their striped lullaby suits? They are in the most fascinating colour combinations in S.W., W. and O.S. sizes beautifully cut and reasonably priced. Lovely and snug for winter wear they are reliable in quality and reasonably priced.* Croatian Broadcaster. A young girl in her early twenties, Miss Mariana Horvat-Ivanovic, lias arrived in England fo take up an important post. She is the latest recruit to the British Broadcasting Corporation foreign news announcers, and it will be her job to give the official 8.8. C. Yugoslav news in Croatian. June Specials. There’s no need to put up with gaps in your winter'wardrobe when you can get such amazing bargains in seasonable clothes at Slater’s, the Square. They are-.offering a series of special reductions for June and there’s ten or twenty-per cent,, off chic wool suits and wool frocks, ili a wide variety of styles, colours) and fittings.* • - , “Which Is Which?”

Lady)-Granville had a story recently for tile' women of Ramsey when she was*,, congratulating them on their knitting prowess, states an English writer. It was provided by her, husband, Vice-A-dmiral Lord Granville, the Lieutenant-Governor of-the Isle of Man.' The wife, of a service friend of his decided to take up knitting, and sent her husband the first_ two • products of her industry, explaining that they were a balaclava helmet: and a pair of socks. He wrote home, wanting to know which was which.