IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

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NOIES Miss Burrows, of Wellington, is on a visit to Auckland. * * • Mrs.. C. Tonks, of Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, of Wellington, are visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooke, of Welling - ton, are at the Star Hotel. • • • Hr. and Mrs. F. J. Fox, of Melbourne, are at the Central Ho-tel. Miss N. McGrath, of Remuera, is visiting Napier and Gisborne. Miss Joy Bartley has returned to town after a visit to Rotorua. Mr. and Mrs. L. Andrews, of Napier, are staying at the Commercial Hotel. Mrs. V. R. Meredith and Miss June Meredith are visiting Marton and Auckland. Miss H. Date, of Sidney, is visiting Auckland, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. R. of Gisborne, are staying at the Commercial Hotel. * * * Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lord, of Christchurch, are staying at the Central Hotel. Mrs. E. Drury, of Christchurch, who has been visiting Auckland, • leaves shortly for her home. • * Miss N. Grant, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs. C. L. Hart, of Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. Watton, who have been staying at Mon Desir, have left for Rotorua. Mr. and Mrs. W. Stewart have returned to town from a holiday at Takapuna. Miss Goldie, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington, where she is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Bond. * * * Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Day, of Devonport, have returned after a trip to Whangarei and Russell. * * • Mrs. P. Blackie is a visitor from Wellington, and is staying with Mrs. L. Marshall, Epsom. + * * Lieut.-Commander Lingard and Mrs. Lingard are leaving Auckand early in April for a visit to England. Mrs. B. Finn has returned from a visit to Gisborne, where she was the guest of Mrs. Lawson Field. ~ Mrs. Trevor Bloomfield is on a visit to Rotorua, where she is staying with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Dumbleton. $e * * Mrs. M. Keesing, of Auckland, is at present in Wellington, where she is the guest of Captain and Mrs. Ivory. ♦ • Mrs. D. Borrie, of Wellington, is visiting Auckland and is staying with 'Mrs. W. G. Borrie, of Remuera Road. * « * Mrs. W. W. Snodgrass, of Nelson, is on a visit to Auckland, and is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. C. Duff, of Cheltenham. Mrs. James Hill left town to-day by the Maunganui, en route for England and the Continent, where she will spend , a long holiday. * * * Mrs. Desmond Williams, of Te Awamutu, is in town and is staying with her mother, Mrs. H. M. Hume, Kipling Avenue, Epsom. * * * Miss Ray Thomson, of Takapuna, left to-day by the Maunganui, en route for a visit to Egypt, the Continent and England. Mrs. A. B. Roberton, of Remuera Road, has returned to Auckland, after 'spending the summer holidays at j Paihia, Bay of Islands. j Miss Elsie M. Griffin, National General Secretary for the Y.W.C.A. of I Australia, is at present in Auckland, spending a holiday with her parents. Mrs. Vickers, of Melbourne, and Miss Conish and Miss Ruston, of Sydney, who have been staying at the Grand Hotel, motored to Rotorua yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Thompson and Miss Rona Thompson left Auckland today by the Maunganui, en route for a lengthy visit to England and the Continent. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan O’Meara, of Gisborne, and their famjly are in Auckland, and are staying with Mrs. O’Meara’s mother, Mrs. W. Blomfield, at Takapuna. Mrs. R. B. Caws, of London, arrived by the Maunganui on a short visit to New Zealand. She spent a few days in Auckland prior to her departure for Timaru, - where she will spend the remainder of her visit. A CHARMING NEGLIGEE If the Parisian fashion of naming their exclusive frock creations was followed by the designers at a certain big shop in town, then surely the charming negligee we envied recently would be called “Heart’s Desire’ for what more could any woman want ■than real duchesse lace, shimmering white satin, filmy georgette and hundreds of tiny pearls. The duchesse lace edges the square neck of the straight white satin slip. Over this falls a wrap in triple georgette, the loose flowing sleeves forming a cape-like back. Hundreds of tiny pearls edge the neck line of this wrap, which is a deep U-shape, and form a finely traced pattern over j the whole of the gown. HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO Vincent Maddi, a medical student at the University of Maryland, United States, set about the other day to smgke 50 cigars in eight hours, in an attempt to settle an argument on the question as to whether tobacco is harmful or not. For three hours he smoked steadily, with no apparent physiological reaction.- At the end of the next three hours Maddi’s pulse was 10S instead of 80; his respiration was 30 instead of 17; and his blood pressure had increased from 120 over 75 to 132 over SO. He was feverish, irritable, and restless. At the thirtieth cigar the test ended abruptly. Maddi had become suddenly ill. “I might j have suffered severe ill-effects had I ! continued,” he declared later.

BRIGHT BEDSPREADS (By VERA MERRELL.) The taste for bedspreads varies considerably, with the result that one’s choice of a bedspread for the daintily furnished bedroom, is very entensive just now. It would seem that there is much fondness for artificial silk taffetas, when they are brightly coloured; a reflection of the vogue in bedroom schemes at the moment. I saw this morning, in a shop in town, a salmon-pfnk taffetas bedspread for a double bed, worked with strange appliqued flowers, in purple and blue, stitched to the silk by pale green silks. The patterning here was quite slight, and did not lessen the vividness of the large expanse of bright pink. Another lovely bedspread of the same description was of Lincoln green taffetas worked with a scroll design in gold metal threads. Lace is Preferred There will always be some housewives who prefer lace to cover their beds, and for these, cream Swiss lace is seen laid over pink and blue coverlets. They give an appearance of lightness that the taffetas can never achieve, and, of course, there is the attraction of being able to change the coulour easily by renewing the coverlet. On coarse cotton, old English designs are embroidered in fine wools to make unique bedspreads. A firfn in the West End is selling a large number of these original bedspreads, and I was told that some customers bring their own designs to be copied. Table runners and table centres are worked in the same way, and are sometimes sold with the bedspread to ensure a harmonious scheme in the room. Cream cotton which is patterned with a large design in sugar-bag blue, creates another vivid spread, and this is popular because it washes so well. Eiderdown quits are most popular just now when covered with a shot silk. Orange seems a favoured shade in these shot silks, but there are more neutral shades as pale amber, and cardboard tones. A fawn printed sateenis aa very durable cover, and, very often, this is backed with plain fawn sateen. Black sateen follows the same plain-and-patterned scheme. Aneiderdown quilt could hardly surpass for richness the one I saw in a specimen house the other daj r . It was of black satin, embroidered on one side with lovely trails of flowers, in red, amber, and deep green. The idea of bright colours, and still more bright colours is likely to be maintained in the well-furnished bedrooms for a very long time to come. To deal effectively with fleas, mix half a pint good turpentine with half a pint good methylated spirit and dissolve in it 41b block camphor. Shake well and stand for three or four hours. Sprinkle this about the beds and you will sleep in peace. The smell is clean and refreshing.