IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

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I Mrs. W. Frye has returned to Hamilton after spending - a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. S. E. Lamb and Miss Lamb are Auckland visitors to Hamilton, where they are the guests of Mrs. H. C. Ross. Miss V. Moginie, who has been staying with Mrs. J. McNicol in Hamilton, has returned to Auckland. Mrs. R. J. S. Gray has returned to Hamilton after spending a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. E. 11. Hawken, of Auckland, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. F. Bollard, at Tamahere. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Fraser have returned to town from Wellington and have taken Mr. Justice and Mrs. Stringer's flat at Courtville during theirs absence. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Leighton are Wellington visitors at present in Auckland. Mrs. J. R. Williams, of Wellington, and formerly of the Wairarapa, is staying with her sister, Mrs. George Valentine, at Mount Eden. Colonel and Mrs. Bissett, who are recent arrivals in the Dominion, have left Auckland to settle in Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fox, of Wellington, are paying a visit to Auckland. * * * Mrs. S. J. Cantrell, of Wellington, is at present visiting Auckland. Miss A. Smith, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. W. A. Woodger, of Mount Eden. * * * Mrs. Mountfort and Miss Phyllis Mountfort, of Wanganui, returned to New Zealand recently by the Ulimaroa and are the guests of Mrs. Williams, of Mount Eden. Mrs. L. H. Hunt and Mrs. S. Coker, who have been staying with their mother, Mrs. T. McDonald, in Christchurch, have returned to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. George Anyon, of Wellington, who have been visiting the Bay of Islands, have returned to Auckland and are staying with their daughter. Mrs. J. W. Bailey, of Mount Albert. “I rather like the modern girl, especially when she is a worker. She is sane, marvellously sane, effitrient, and calm,” wrote Miss Viola Tree recently in a London daily paper. A number of prominent young French artists, who all speak English, have banded themselves together and have formed an association with the object of making visitors acquainted with the real art treasures of Paris. They offer to accompany anyone interested in the real artistic life of Paris and point out the best things to see. They call themselves the Art Promenades, and they include some wellknown painters, sculptors, and architects. * * * * A quaint comment comes from “North Wind,” who writes in an Englishman’s paper as follows: —Equal rights for children in the home? “Girls are called upon to be the mother’s help at home, to mind the baby, wash up, dust, and clean, sew, and cook,” said an official to the L.C.C. Education Department when discussing the possibilities of home-work; “boys on the other hand will not stand that sort of thing.” It is not generally asked of them. Three years of travel in foreign countries has failed to diminish the enterprise of Miss Vera Fridner, a Swedish woman who is working her way round the world. Miss Fridner accepts any position offered, to assist her on her way, from teaching and lecturing, to domestic service; her only financial help has been a portion of her salary, paid by the Swedish Education Department. She is at present on the staff of the Westgarth Central School, Melbourne. Miss Facer, whose recent sensational rescue from drowning of a would-be suicide at Wanganui has created a great deal of interest, arrived from London a couple of years ago and found employment with the Right Hon. Gordon Coates in the North of Auckland before going to Wanganui. Miss Facer received the following telegram from the Prime Minister: —“Mrs. Coates and I warmly congratulate you on your very plucky action the other day. Hope your health is none the worse for your adventure. Kind regards.—J. G. Coates.” A recent complaint by manufacturers that business was poor because women were wearing so much less clothing led to investigations as to the truth of the insinuation. It has been found that the average weight of indoor clothing worn by Mayfair women is about 15 ounces, while the complete outfit, including shoes and outdoor coat, tips the scales at three pounds four ounces. Then somebody had the thought of performing a similar test with the average well-dressed business man and discovered that he usually carries 12 pounds 11 ounces of weight in raiment. While in Canberra, the room that the Duchess of York used for her bedroom had primrose wallpaper and green scrim curtains with primrose casements. The bedspread was of beautiful pale blue satin- In the centre was a conventional design of water-lilies and tulips. These were exquisitely worked in mauve, gold, pale green, and a soft cherry colour. A small red and gold coronet was embroidered above the centrepiece, while the hem of the quilt is embroidered with water-lilies. The embroidery was done by an Irish woman, Miss Y’eats, of Cuala Irish Industries. The floor was covered with a grey Wilton carpet. Try cooking cracked eggs in a small pudding-basin placed in a saucepan of boiling water. Cook for the same length of time as in ordinary boiling. They will taste just as if they had been boiled, and the whites will not run. To keep a white panama hat always fresh-looking, rub French chalk into it with an old tooth-brush as soon as it is the least bit soiled. Its life can be prolonged indefinitely in this way. "White straw hats can be treated sim-