IN Town AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 4

IN Town AND OUT

Zs®mi KIM

NOTES Miss Xellie Wiltshire, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland, and is staying with Mrs. Collie, of Marsden Avenue, Mount Eden. Miss Forbes, of Lower Hutt, is at present paying a holiday visit to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Ainsley, who have been visiting Auckland, have returned to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Gryll were recent Wellington visitors to Auckland, and have now returned home. Mrs. Dunlevy, who was the guest of Mrs. Cunningham, in Wellington, has returned to town. Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Russell have returned to Christchurch after a visit to Auckland. Mrs. Sotham has returned to Tiraaru after a holiday spent in Auckland. Mrs. D. Cameron, of New Plymouth, is at present visiting Auckland. * * # Mrs. Trevethick was a recent Auckland visitor to New Plymouth, where she was staying with her sister, Mrs. Duncan. Mrs. Trevethick is now visiting Stratford. * * * Miss Elsie Sherriff, of Takapuna, was recently staying at the Mountain House at Mount Egmont. * * * Miss Bain, of Devonport, was among the recent visitors to Mount Egmont, and was a guest; at the Mountain House. Mrs. E. Lash has returned to New Plymouth after a visit to Auckland, where she was staying with friends. Mis'fe J. Beale and Miss Elcombe, of Stratford, are at present spending a holiday in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Derry, Who have spent some time in Auckland, have returned to Sydney. Miss Mona Burgin, provincial captain of the Auckland Girl Guides, is at present in Wellington on Girl Guide business, and is the guest of Mrs. A. T. Emerson, of Hataitai. Mrs. A. Walsh has returned to New Plymouth after a visit to Auckland, where she was the guest of Mrs. W. Walker. Mrs. Kemptliorne and Miss S. M. KemptJhorne were arrivals in Auckland to-day by the Ulimaroa from Sydney. Mrs. Mountfort, of Wanganui, accompanied by Miss Mountfort, arrived in Auckland to-day from Sydney by the Ulimaroa. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Young, of Masterton, who have been touring Australia by car, arrived in Auckland this morning by the Ulimaroa from Sydney. At a birthday party helc} in Papatoetoe last week there were three ladies whose ages aggregated 269 years. The eldest was 91, another was 90, and the junior member of the party was 88. One of the ladies had been at Papatoetoe for 83 years. The May number of the “Junior Red Cross” has some interesting news of Red Cross juniors throughout the world. An article on the kea and the weka, by Mr. F. W. Vosseler, will give information to juniors overseas of New Zealand’s birds. There is also a reproduction of the illuminated scroll presented to Mrs. M. Myers on the occasion of the presentation of the banner from the British to the New Zealand juniors. PEARL WEDDING CELEBRATED AT DUNEDIN A “pearl” wedding is an event that is rare in life, as it is seldom a couple enjoy connubial bliss for a period so lengthy as 65 years. The aged couple concerned in a happy event of that kind in Dunedin are Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Kilgour, of Cutten Street, St. Kilda, both of whom are in the enjoyment of excellent health. The occasion is rendered still more interesting by the fact that the bridesmaid of 65 years ago is also hearty and well to-day. This lady is Mrs. Walter Beck, of St. Kilda. Mr. and Mrs. Kilgour, who were married on May 13, 1862, at East Taieri, arrived in Dunedin in 1856 and 1860 respectively. Of the family of 10, five are still living. There are 31 grandchildren and 25 great-grand-children. Mr. and Mrs. Kilgour were entertained by a party of friends on Friday and presented with a well-filled wallet. DEATH OF MRS. EDWARD STRANGE The death occurred in Christchurch last Friday, of Mrs. Edward Strange, widow of the late Mr. Edward Strange, one of the founders of ) e well-known firm of Strange and Co. Born in Sydney in 1545, Mrs. Strange went to Christchurch in her 20th year. Her marriage to Mr. Strange took place at St, Andrew’s Church, in 1864, the officiating minister being the Rev. Charles Fraser. Mrs. Strange, who was aged S 3, is survived by four sons and six daughters, the sons being Edward (Melbourne), Harold (Temuka), Norman (Christchurch), and Raymond (Sydney), and the daughters Miss Strange (Christchurch). Mrs. C. Prust (Melbourne), Mrs. W. Goss, sen. (Christchurch), Mrs. T. Watt (Melbourne), Mrs. J. R. Wuidart (London), and Mrs. A. Mackrell (Invercargill). Her descendants include 20 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. ANOTHER FOOTING Modern woman, is fast evolving feet similar to a horse’s hoofs, according to Dr. Frank Furch, president of the Illinois Association of Chiropodists, because she insists on wearing shoes having heels too high, and selected to fit the eye rather than the foot. Her toes are shortening owing to their

cramped position in short, tight shoes; her foot is extending as the arch is forced up. and the calf muscles are shortening, with the ultimate result that they will resemble equine extremities, he says.

MUNDANE MUSINGS HERESIES! Do you ever want—oil, so desperately—to make the very most of yourself; to have the very best time you could, and to look and to be at you very best while you are yet youngenough to appreciate all these things? Of course you do! Well, then, you haven’t very much money, have you? “Never buy trash, dear girl! It doesn’t pay in the long run. You must buy a really good coat and skirt and one really expensive hat,” says an English writer. So you spend your “all” on that coat and skirt and that hat, and everything else goes short, and they last and last and last. And you’re sick to death of them, and you’ve had them altered, and now all the alteration in the world can’t prevent them from looking old-fashioned, and still there are years of wear in the beastly things. Let me whisper my first heresy. This needn’t be! Forget the dear folk who whisper it must be expensive and good. There are heaps and heaps of shops now where you can pick up the cheapest coats and skirts or frocks which cost very, very little, but which, with a smart cheap hat and irreproachable shoes and stockings, will pass anywhere—for a season—as better than they really are. Then in the spring or autumn you can be gay and fresh again in new clothes. So when they say, “It must be good!” the answer is, “Must it? It isn’t! ”

In the same way scrap that one good evening frock which lasts all one season and has to be, from motives of economy, done up for the following year. Certainly not, dear wiseacres! In these days of easy styles, cheap materials, and home-dressmaking, we’re going to have at least three evening dresses which won’t cost as much put together as your good one. You see, we like change and variety, and we’re going to have it, too. And, talking of variety, friends, what about our dear, good advisers who tell us one colour throughout for the girl of small allowance? If there is one thing calculated to give one the blues it is to see every garment one possesses expressed, as the fashion papers say, in one colour! "What a life! Why, every one of my cheap summer dresses and my cheap evening frocks is to be of a different colour. “But shoes and stockings!” gasp the wiseacres. Nonsense, in these days of biege and grey and nude and sunburn and flesh —the thing’s easy! Just the same idea, or heresy, applies to your houses. Cheap, gay cretonnes—covers and curtains that can be changed often because they cost so little, and we shall have both gaiety and variety—the salt and savour of young life. Vive the first heresy—cheapness for poor people.