YOUR DUTY TO YOUR PARTNER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 58, 31 May 1927, Page 5

YOUR DUTY TO YOUR PARTNER

If your dance hostess has asked you to “bring a partner,” you are partly responsible for him, and he will expect you to give hi mthe majority of the dances, or introduce him to other girls who will partner him. You should keep the supper dance especially on his behalf, and aliow him to see you home at the end. When he takes you to a dance you cannot promise dances to other people you meet there unless he suggests that occasionally. As your guest he is enan exchange of partners might be made titled to the whole of your attention. Even with the casual partner your hostess may introduce to you you must not fail in courtesy. It is very bad form to “cut” dances already arranged with others for the sake of some more favoured partner. When such an incident occurs through a mistake, you ought to offer immediate and frank apologies for your lapseBe in the ballroom or close by, when the next dance begins, in a position where your partner for it can find you without delay. It isn’t fair, or very polite, to keep him looking about for you until you choose to stroll up in company with your partner of the previous dance. DON’T LOOK BORED At a dinner party, when dinner is announced, and the partner introduced by your hostess approaches, you should lay your left hand in the arm ha offers, and so linked join the rest of the procession into the dining-room. Until talk at the table becomes more general as meal progresses one should converse with one’s dinner partrier. However dull and unattractive you may consider him, good breeding obliges you to conceal your opinion under an assumption of interest and pleasure in his company. It would be great rudeness to turn a cold shoulder to him, and show ah obvious preference for the man on your other side. The latter cannot attend very closely without the possibility of appearing to neglect his duties to his own partner. On the other hand, you would do better not to allow a fascinating partner to absorb you too pointedly, so that everyone else is excluded from your tete-a-tete. After dinner is over, of course, one is released from all partnerships and obligations, and may follow one’s preferences. A QUAINT PLANT FOR THE NURSERY A novel hanging-plant can be arranged for the little ones’ delight from a beetroot, a turnip, a large carrot or a mangel, wurzle. It is very simple to achieve and the children will bo thrilled to watch it grow. Get a fine specimen of one of the above-mentioned root vegetables. Fix some green string, raffia or wire, around it in such a way that it will hang basketwise when inverted. Scoop out a little of the inside from the bottom of the root and hang it in a good light. Now fill the small cavity with water, and see that it is always kept moist and suspended in an airy place. In a very short time interesting little green sprouts will appear and, as they grow, will turn upwards toward tin light in a very pretty manner. Soot a lovely hanging plant will be the result. which, in the case of the carrot will resemble a “carrot fern” upsid down. Double the life of your clothes pegs by soaking them in water for an hour jor two before using. Even split pegs ! may be restored to usefulness-this way if first bound together with string. Lemons that have become hard will ! be as good as ever if placed in the oven i to get thoroughly hot or else soaked ! in hot water for an hour or two.