IN TOWN AND OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

75mm. NEWS

NOTES Mrs. J. Goddis, of Takapuna, is on a visit to Wellington. * * <s Mrs. James Ames, of 'Wellington, is a visitor to Auckland. Mrs. R. Iv. Wilson, of Wellington, is at present in Auckland. Miss Jean Cowie, of Auckland, is spending a holiday in Wellington. Miss Melva Thomson of Remuera, is on a holiday to Wellington. Miss Barbara Putnam has returned to Wellington from a visit to Auckland. * # * Mrs. Bayly and Miss Audrie Bayly will leave Auckland soon on a trip to England. # * * Mrs. St. Paul, of Feilding, is visiting New Plymouth, and will later come to Auckland. Mrs. P. BE. Hulbert, of Remuera Road, leaves next week for a visit to Christchurch. Mrs. Alfred Nathan returns to Auckland from Sydney next week with Mrs. Nat Madison. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Hayward return to Auckland on Saturday after a tour of the South. * * * Mrs. Handson Abel and family, of Remuera, will leave for a visit to England early Aprih_ Mrs. Bennett, of Auckland, and her small daughter, are the guests of Mrs. T. Oldfield. Kaitieke. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carpenter are leaving for England by the Argyllshire from Wellington in March. Mr. and Mrs. Siddells have returned to Wanganui from a long holiday in Rotorua, Auckland and Wellington. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Robert Finlayson are returning to town next Monday, after spending a holiday at Thornes Bay. Mr. and Mrs. G. Crispin, of Bristol, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Henderson, of Okaihau, are staying at the Central Hotel: Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey Clark, who have been spending a holiday at Thornes Bay, will return to town on Monday. * * * Mrs. F. Weston and her daughter, Miss Ella Weston, of Auckland, are in Wellington, where they will spend a few weeks. * * * Miss Mary Geddes, who was injured in an accident last week, has recovered sufficiently to be able to return to her home from hospital. « * * Mrs. Anderson and Miss Cherry Anderson leave Auckland to-morrow week for India to visit Mr. D’Arcy Anderson and will then go on to England.

THE FAMILY IS AWAY

(By a LiOst Father) I have a strong sense of duty, but t shall think twice before I leave my family clown at the seaside again to finish the final week of the holidays by themselves. Naturally enough, I cannot afford to spend a month idling on the beach while the business goes to rack and ruin. So here I am living all by myself in town in a house which I do not recognise as my own. Everything is strange. To begin with, I have to cook my own breakfast, for the maid is basking on some saucy beach of her own. with not a thought for the master’s early morning- hunger. When I was a bachelor it was an easy matter. I broke the egg into the frying-pan with matchless skill, and watched the bacon contort itself into a gastronomic work of art. But now I do not even know where the egg is kept, and yesterday the bacon wasn’t delivered. Just imagine if my secretary were away from the office, and I couldn’t find my correspondence! Conceive the awful scene if we ran out of ink! Such is my position now that I am in charge of the house. It is not only empty of people, but apparently of provender! When I went out this morning I suddenly discovered that I was wearing dirty shoes, so back I had to go to clean them. When I came in this evening the house was wrapped in such deadly silence that I washed up simply to make a noise.' Otherwise, I had determined to go on using all the crockery until the supply was exhausted, by which time, with careful rationing, I hoped the family would return, and the dirty work resume its normal footing. In the evenings I had planned to do a little gardening, or those odd jobs which always want doing to the car. How nice and peaceful, T thought, to get down to these things without being disturbed.

Well, I have made an awful miscalculation. I find that I like being disturbed, that I hate not to be asked conundrums by Jennifer-!—she is the youngest—about the habits of the tortoise. And if John doesn’t hold the spanner while I am under the car, there doesn’t seem to be any object in tackling the confounded thing. In the house, in the garden, in the garage lam lost. As for going out in the evening I never in my life met a duller fellow than myself as company.

After all this, you know, I don't feel very well. I have just wired to the wife to say I am coming down for the final week-end. Do me good. It’s a mug’s game for a man in my position to occupy eight empty rooms in this enormous, this incredible, this unbearable establishment—my house!

BRIDGE PARTY

Mrs. A. Cerutty gave a delightful little bridge party at her home in Gardner Road, One Tree Hill, last evening, when she entertained four tables of players. The house was prettily decorated with hydrangeas and dahlias. To receive her guests Mrs. Cerutty wore a smart gown of blonde macrame lace girdled with absinthe green velvet. Miss Cerutty was wearing a frock of black satin. The guests included Mrs. Bloomfield, Mrs. Tattley, Mrs. Gribbin, Mrs. Salek, Miss Sharman and Miss Adkins.

PARTY FOR BRIDE KITCHEN EVENING An enjoyable kitchen evening was given last week by Mrs. Walter Strong, of 5S Walter’s Road, Edendale, in honour of the approaching marriage of Miss Mavis Peart. Mrs. Strong wore a smart frock of mulberry crepe de chine, relieved with touches of beige, to receive her guests, who numbered about 50. Miss Peart was in a pretty frock of ivory georgette, trimmed with swansdown. Mrs. H. Peart wore a flame frock of georgette embroidered with beads and sequins.

LADY ALICE’S FIRST FLIGHT Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, "Wednesday. Lady Alice Fergusson had her first airplane flight to-day, when, with Miss F. Dugda:e, she spent a quarter of an hour over the city in a Moth plane piloted by Captain Findlay. It was a perfect morning and her Excellency and Miss Dugdale enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Captain Orr Ewing also had a flight in a Bristol fighter piloted by Major Isitt.