IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

SOCIAL NEWS

NOTES

Mrs. Lee Cowie leaves by the Aorangi for Honolulu, where she will spend the winter months.

Mr. and Mrs. IT. T. Merritt will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on a, visit to England.

Mrs. W. A. Skinner, of Wellington and her sister, Mrs. Bishop, of Dunedin are visitors to Auckland.

Miss V. Helmore, of Christchurch, is paying a visit to Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. T. C. Minhinnick, of Takapuna.

Sir Francis and Lady Boys, of Christchurch, will leave Auckland by the Aorangi en route for England.

Mrs. W. R. Wilson, of Auckland, accompanied by her daughter Betty, will leave shortly for Wellington, en route for America.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Murray, who have been guests at the Hotel Cargen, are at present visiting Kaukapakapa.

Mrs. G. Neal is a New Plymouth visitor to town and is the guest of Miss Taylor, of Remuera.

Mrs. Magnus Johnson has returned to Hamilton after spending a longholiday in Auckland.

Mrs. J. M. Haywood is a Wellington visitor to Auckland.

Mrs. A. R. Hislop, who has been visiting Auckland, has returned to Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. Ainsley have returned to 'Wellington after a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. Gerald Russell is a Christchurch visitor to Auckland.

Mrs. J. Morton is a New Plymouth visitor at present in Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, of Auckland were recent to Queenstown.

Miss Baker, of Auckland, is at present spending a holiday in Thames after a visit to Hamilton.

Mrs. A. Cross is a Wanganui visitor to Auckland.

The Misses Olive and Edith Green, of Palmerston North, are visiting Auckland and are staying with Mrs. J. i£elsey, Tawa Road, Onehunga.

Mr. and Mrs. Blackmore, of Palmerston North, are guests at the Grand Hotel. * * * Mrs. McLaren and Miss McLaren are .Vellington visitors to Auckland, and re staying at the Grand Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cook and Miss ’ook, of Tauranga, are among the ruests at the Hotel Cargen. * * * Miss Herd, of Sydney, is visiting Vuckland, and is staying at the Hotel largen. * * * Mrs. Mott, of London, is visiting Now Zealand. While in Auckland she will make her headquarters at the Hotel Cargen. Miss M. TNT. Davys, df Wellington, is i guest at the Hotel Cargen. Miss M. Dunstan is a Christchurch isitor to Auckland, and is staying at he Star Hotel. Miss Sale, of Napier, is at present aying a visit to Auckland, and is faying at the Royal Hotel. Miss R. Bell, of Cambridge, is a uest at the Royal Hotel. A Bring and Buy Sale has been armged by the Ladies' Committee of the •Tying Angel Mission to Seamen, and will take place in the Mission Hall, Tmily Place, to-morrow, Tuesday, fternoon. The proceeds of the sale vill be devoted to the Seamen’s Buildng Fund.

A FAREWELL PARTY

Mrs. W. E. Bush was the hostess on Saturday morning at a charming little tea party given in the Tudor rooms in farewell to Mrs. H. T. Merritt, who leaves with Mr. Merritt by the Aorangi to-morrow for a visit to England.

ATHENIAN CLUB

OPENING EVENING The opening meeting of the Auckland Athenian Club for the 1927 session was held in the Amateur Operatic Society’s hall, Grafton Road, on Saturday evening, Mr. Percy Free presiding over a large attendance. A tableaux typifying the ultraantique maiden as compared with the ultra-modern maiden opened the proceedings. Concert items alternated with dancing followed. The club is making very satisfactory progress, there being over 40 new applications for membership for the coming session.

In view of the increased number of applications, it has been '.ecided to limit the membership this year.

MUNDANE MUSINGS

WHY NOT BE YOUR OWN VISITOR Do you ever sleep in your spare-room when it is all ready for a visitor, with your very nicest things around? If you want to be the perfect hostess, do try this. Prepare everything just as you would for your most important guest, even to the bowl of dowers, and the carafe of fresh drinking water. You can’t get the visitor’s point of view unless you do. Usually one puts the finishing touches to the guest-room, then glances all round from the door to see that everything looks as charming as possible. But your guest doesn’t spend her time in the doorway; certainly she gets that very important first impression from it* but even the best of impressions may be blotted out by later experiences. BOOKS AND BLANKETS Suppose you want to read a little in your room before going to bed. You glance over the books provided.

Would they interest you? Do they leave the same selection of books there permanently, whether it’s Uncle John visiting you or your 18-year-old niece? Their covers are fresh, and go with the colour scheme, but what h.bout their contents? And wouldn’t a pleasant magazine be rather nice light reading at this time of night—a current one, to be topical. Of course, you’ve provided this room with a really cosy easy chair, but is it placed for decorative effect, or where you’ll get the best light on your book, or your sewing or your knitting? You’ll only know when you test it. Those lovely thick blankets you keep for your spare room —h’m-m, you didn’t realise they were quite so heavy until you’d been lying beneath them an hour or so. Your own eiderdown is so much lighter, though every bit as warm. You make a mental note to readjust the spare bed coverings. _ EMERGENCIES Arrange to stay In bed after the rest of the household is up and about; it’s worth the trouble Do the noises downstairs wake you? How much of the clatter of an awakening and uprising family penetrates to the guest-room? Had you realised just hpw much of your domestic arrangements your visitors were overhearing? You lie there and contemplate the room as. your guest will do. What catches the eye first? It is most likely not the thing you thought most prominent in the room. Could you arrange things more pleasingly for the visitor’s attention ? Do the windows and your curtains bear prolonged inspection in the early morning light? As you dress you notice an insipient ladder in your stocking. It must be repaired at once, and you start for your own room to get needle and silk. But wait! If youi were a visitor you couldn’t fetch things from your hostess’s room. Have you made provision for such very common little emergencies as this? All! In the dressing-table drawer a little work-bag full of .needles and black and white cotton, and a card of darning silk in that light shade which would be useful for the majority of silk stockings to-day. Scissors, too, a thimble, and some safety-pins. You help yourself, and reflect that so thoughtful a hostess will undoubtedly have taken care to provide also some notepaper and envelopes, a bottle of new ink, and a pen that will really write, in case you haven’t your foun-tain-pen, and blotting paper that actually absorbs. What a pleasant house to visit. You feel so thoroughly welcome and at home! If you can feel like that after a night in your own spare-room, I fancy it won’t often be unoccupied! For other people will certainly find that room attractive, too. A HANDY BRUSH In sweeping uncovered stairs, a medium-sized, soft paint brush will bo found an excellent article. It reaches the corners of the stairs and also between the sticks supporting the railing. A paint brush is very good, too. for use in cleaning dust out of any crevice, for it does the work better than a duster.