WHISPERS OF EVE

NZ Truth, Issue 1191, 27 September 1928, Page 18

WHISPERS OF EVE

GROWN AT HOME

AMONG the many gorgeous displaysof bloom on view at the Horticultural Show (held m Wellington's Town Hall) was one from the garden of Mrs. Sidney K^rkcaldie, who lives out Karori way. Mrs. Kirkcaldie's garden is almost a social asset to Wellington. As soon as "the flowers that bloom m the spring, tra-la," begin to do their duty, garden parties start, sometimes for charitable purposes. Then again, many d time and oft, the assiduous reader of social columns will see "decorations by Mrs. S. Kirkcaldie" attached to the description of some party or dance. The tale is told that when, m the early part of the year, pretty Daughter Jo stepped down the aisle with her soldierly bridegroom, something frightful happened to the florist's memory. First, the bouquets were late; then they were shockingly late; then the bridal group realized that the flowers were simply not going to arrive. It was a case of wedding without the florist's help — or ho wedding at all. But the garden, which was just then m its kindliest early autumn mood, came gallantly to the rescue and at the appointed time a charming bridal party entered St. Paul's carrying bouquets which only the initiated could have told from the florist's most sophisticated effort. • * •• ■ • TO AID MOTHEBS

AT one of the Winter Show stalls, two "'■ St. John's Ambulance nurses daily hold demonstrations of first aid, at ■which small Boy scouts are bandaged t -within an inch of their lives. The nurses stand by to render aid m cases of accident and one or two people have already obliged by cutting or bruising various parts of their anatomy, which, needless to say, is "jam" to the enthusiastic first-aiders. Also present is an ante - natal clinio stall at which young mothers - to - be can obtain information, Plunket booklets and so on. The welfare movements have done fairly well at the show, but it would be better still if some stall displayed a complete list of the New Zealand movements and institutions designed to aid mother and child.

BLUE AND GOLD QNE of the clubs which has adopted the scheme of hot-mealing its womenfolk during the x wintertime is the Lyceum, a cheery institution which has branches m all the main centres. The little Wellington rooms are all, dressed up m blue and gold, while some kind soul carries, out the floral decorations under the same scheme. Squat, blue vases sit on the little luncheon tables — you can have a table for one, two, three or four, just as you like — and over the edge of each vase bubble golden primroses, daffodils, pussy willows; and, for the blue note, bell hyacinths or violets. The rooms are probably the daintiest m Wellington, though too small for the club's lusty growth. 1 Tiny blue and gold ash-trays, some of them the work of an enamelling branch, show that the pdwers-that-be have no objection to a quiet cigarette after meals.

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