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Mr. and Mrs. Blakey, of Wellington, are staying at the Star Hotel. Visitors staying at the Hotel Cargen include Mr. and Miss Scannel, of Hastings. * * * Wellington visitors to Auckland staying at the Central Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. Philip Nathan. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson, of Christchurch, have arrived at Auckland. They are at the Royal Hotel. At the Star Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Wreaks, of Pukehuia. Miss E. Royle is a visitor to Auckland from Wellington. She is staying at the Star Hotel. * * * Miss Jean Mclndoe has returned home after a holiday visit to Rotorua. Mrs. C. F. Day is an Auckland visitor to Hamilton. * * * Miss Meg Kissling, who has been the guest in Hamilton of Mrs. Colin Taylor, has returned to town. Mrs. Islierwood has returned to Auckland after a visit to the Waikato, where she was the guest of Mrs. Hounslow, Leamington. Mrs. S. Blackley, of Wellington, ite at present paying a visit to Auckland. Miss Lilian Grey, well-ktnwn in amateur theatrical circles in Wellington, is at present in Auckland, where she will shortly be joined by her mother. * * Miss Linda De Renzy, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. Glendinning, of Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. T. Coverdaie, who were in town for the races and staying at the Hotel Cargen, have returned to Te Kawa. Miss Janet Murray has gone to Wellington to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Red Cross Society. * * # Mrs. de Sal is, who has been staying at Arundel, has now taken up her residence in Lochiel Road, Remuera. Miss Hines is a Wanganui visitor to Auckland, and is staying at Ghnalvon. Mrs. B. Meek, of Hamilton, is visiting Auckland as the guest of Mrs. A. W. Perkins, of Remuera. ROYAL SPRING CLEANING An activity that definitely concerns women very much more than politics is spring cleaning, but somehow one never connects such mundane operations with Buckingham Palace, or any Royal household, for that matter—one vaguely imagines that where kings and queens are concerned this sort of thing happens by the magic waving of a wand (says a London correspondent). But spring cleaning began in real earnest at Buckingham Palace after the King and Queen had left town last week. The Queen, who is fully cognisant of the ways of spring cleaning, made some supervisory advance plans before she left. When the Court returns for the beginning of the season in May the Palace will be like the proverbial new pin. The most important person connected with this siring cleaning is Airs. Bill, the Queen’s housekeeper at Buckingham Palace. Mrs. Bill has been in the Royal service for years, and the name by which she is known to all the members of the Royal family is “Lala.” She has held many varied and responsible positions, and for a time after Princess Alary’s marriage she was in charge of the Lascelles nursery, but on the retirement of Aliss Anne Clarke she slipped back into her old position as housekeeper. COURAGE OF MODERN GIRLS A recent American visitor talked to the Sydney “Daily Telegraph*' about modern girls, saying that one of the most important developments of the day is the psychology of the girl, and that she looked upon the girls as the most interesting study in the world. She had been travelling for a considerable time, and had taken much interest in the girls wherever she went, and found that the modern and emancipated young thing had a decided influence in shaping the course of the world. “Whatever we make of our girls we make of our nation,” she said, “that is an indisputable fact. One of the first things I noticed on my arrival here (Sydney) was your movement to inaugurate a ‘girls’ week,’ to take place in June. That, I think, is a very fine movement. In America, where we pride ourselves with being first in the field with almost everything, we have had our ‘boys’ week’ and our ‘mothers’ day,’ and all sorts of other days, but nothing tor the girls. I see that you coLild do without all tne others put together, if you take great and early heed of the girls. After all, if you put the girls to rights, you are ensuring the mother of the future and the boys of the next generation. That is logic.” The speaker then pleaded for “sane education” which would develop body, mind and spirit. She deprecated the developing of either without the other, and laid stress on the absolute necessity of all children having a chance to reverence somebody and something. Lack of reverence and lack of sense of responsibility were the leading faults in otherwise very fine people. “The girl of to-day is full of courage; she faces the tacts of life definitely; looks it full in the face; laughs at it and sets forth to conquer it. On her final attiUide rests the good of the world of to-morrow.” If the brass fittings of your front door are rubbed over daily with a soft duster on which a few drops of turpentine have been sprinkled, they will always look bright and will not require polishing in the ordinary Carved, chased or beaten brass should be cleaned by rubbing with the cut half of a lemon, then washed, dried and polished with a turpentine duster or with furniture polish. * * * To extract oil or greace stains from wall-paper make a paste of French chalk and benzine. Apply; leave on till quite dry; then brush off with a soft brush. Repeat if nooossary.