From Various Sources

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 11

From Various Sources

The oldest living Scot, Alias Isabella Miller, of Boat of Alurthly, Caputh, near Dunkeld, is 106 years old. She herself cut tho cako with the 106 candles at the party recently—and her one regret was that her brother, Daniel, of Kensington Place, Camden Hill, London, who is 95, was not present. She has not seen him since 1914. Miss Miller has a clear recollection of Queen Victoria's visit to tho Highlands in 1844. She visited tho great 1851 exhibition in London, and speaks of tho time When no bridge spanned the River Tay, and travellers changed stago coaches by forrying across the river. She still reads hor newspaper without spectacles, knits socks and walks unaided in the garden daily. She has just completed six pairs of socks.

News of the engagement announced between Pilot-Officer Hugh Proctor Blundell, R.A.F., only son of Air. and Mrs. J. L. Blundell, Hawke's Bay, and Muriel Evelyn, youngest daughter of the late Air. P. S. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, Annfield, Brookfield, Renfrewshire, will be of interest to many New Zealanders. The engagement is announced, and the marriage will shortly take place, between Lieutenant Viscount Kelßurn, Royal Navy, eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Glasgow, and Dorothea, only daughter of Sir Archibald and Lady Lylo, of Glendelvme, Alurthly, Perthshire, wrote a London correspondent on January 20. Lord Kelburn, who is 26, is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Ho is at present home on leave at Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire, following two years' service in Chinu. Sir Archibald Lyle is the second baronet, and chairman of the Lyle Shipping Company, Limited. Four-year-old Luisim Parera, one of thousands of little dark-eyed Madrid children who cling to their mothers as bombs fall, may soon leave their warracked home to live in Hollywood. She is the niece of Grace Moore, the American film star. Who married her father's brother, Valentin Parera. Miss Moore, who has no children of her own, is planning to adopt her when she can get out of Madrid. People might liave been excused for thinking they were , seeing things when they paid a visit to tho Crystal Palace, London* a week or two prior to its destruction by fire. Red mice, blue mice, black mice, champagne mice, fawn mice, silver mice, cream mice, dovo-coloured mice, sablo mice and pearly mice were there on exhibition at tho show of mice, rats, rabbits and poultry. Six 'special trains brough; from every part of the British Isles, the 8000 exhibits displayed on two miles of benches. K.L.At., the Dutch air line, have decided to enlarge their corps of stewardesses, who are headed by Hilde Bongertman, a survivor of the crash, at Croydon on December 10, in which 14 lives were lost. Hitherto the air hostesses have worked chiefly on long routes, flying on the short routes only in winter. Next spring they will bo seen in all the air liners, as they have proved invaluable to passengers. The number of stewardesses will be increased from five to 20. The Swiss air line has girls in some machines, but only America has the complete system Holland now proposes to adopt. RARE DELICACY IN ORANGE CAKE Cream i-cup buter with half of lgcups sugar. Add remainder of sugar with 3 beaten eggs. Add Stevens’ "Cathedral Brand" Essence or Orange, l£-cups milk; and lastly $• teaspoon salt, 3-cups flour and 3-tca- 1 spoons Baking Powder (sifted together). Cover with orange icing, flavoured with! I Stevens’ ‘ 4 Cathedral Brand" Essence! of Orange.