What To Throw

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 19

What To Throw

PONFETTI, please. In spite of ** the rude and undignified things that, churchwardens sometimes say, there is nothing prettier than the swirling colored discs. Old shoes are permissible, provided they don't hit anybody, and horse-shoes, provided, likewise, that the nails, m 'em don't puncture, the brand-new tyres of the bridal' car. ''

But don't throw rice. .There is a perfectly true tale of a Wellington bride who drove away with rice rattling, about her. ears and enough old shoes to feed ,the army for a month , dangling behind- her car.

A few weeks after her.wedding,,- . she was troubled by a slight, but continuous pain m her nose. This eventually became so bad. that she had to go to a doctor, when the horrid fact was revealed ' that a rice grain had lodged at the. top. of a nasal passage, germinated, and was well on its way to becoming a young rice plant! ' '■• uiiiiimiiiiimiiiiimuimiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiniiiini Says It With Smiles UVA 'WEBB-JONES', whose marriage -: to Signor Antonio Marotta has just been celebrated m Wanganui, is an exceedingly- interesting and attractive demoiselle. Despite the fact that her father, the editor of the "Wanganui Herald," is one of .the. goodly flock of the Methodist Church, Eva, herself, is' all for stage life,, and her voice has found a good deal of success, both at home and abi-oad. . .: . Her vocal recitals,,' during a recentAustralian tour, were well criticized, and she studied at the Sydney Conservatorium. While; perhaps, not a Melba,- she Is decidedly a trier m the world of music, and, with her husband's Influence and understanding to help her, may' go far. The dark-eyed, handsome young bridegroom is an opera singer himself and is reputed to know' exceedingly little of the English tongue. So perhaps Eva "says it with smiles." '-.'."#'■ # - # N.Z. Nurses Meet THERE have been doings m the nursing world this month. The shadow/ of the State examinations is over-hanging our little pink-uniform-ed ladies and probationers are racking their brains to remember the names of various fell diseases discovered by thoughtless, medical men. At Dunedin, the annual conference of New Zealand nurses has been concluded, and the president, Miss Young, hSd many things to say on this same question of examinations. '-. Some unenlightened folk have been asking' what it- shall profit a nurse to know the inner workings of a patient backwards, so to speak, when all her work is done , under supervision by one or more medicos. But Miss Young is thoroughly m favor of "nurses keeping, abreast with the scientific progress of the times, sharing the increased knowledge of the' medical man himself, and. .becoming, m short, a sort 'of medical second-lieutenant, instead of the oldfashioned . ward-pol-isher who was once found so satisfactory.