Women’s Topics

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 302, 5 December 1936, Page 2

Women’s Topics

Social and Personal.

Igf V ■ Rutherford, New Plymouth, is . the the guest of Mrs. G. Hall. 3 Mrs. E. S. Rutherfurd was “at TOitae’’ on Friday afternoon. <Dr. Doris Gordon has returned from Bunedin. ■w' • ♦ • » .-t-Mrs. Marchant was “at home” this Afternoon at her residence, Cardiff. • • ' /LjMrs. Betts left for the King Counioif Friday morning. She will visit ids and relations in the district. rs. Hunt (matron of the Public pital) returned on Thursday, havconducted the nurses’ examina--8 in Palmerston North this week. ■ ' ' * tie pantomime “Elfin Dale,” having red such a success last Tuesday, performance will be repeated on BMonday next, the funds to be in aid %f the hospital radio set. Witfrs. A. Coleman gave a bridge Warty for her sister, Mrs. Thompson ton) on Thursday night. She her guests in a chic black rfilk marocain frock. Flowers were hydrangeas and yellow daisies, gphose present were Mesdames G. •Wall? E. S. Rutherfurd, Truby King, SE. H. Young. A. W. Budge, S. Macalis•ter, 'J. Fredric. .

'wMes M. Porritt, wearing becoming faiarlet floral georgette, entertained ’fijpme guests on Friday night at bridge Ils a farewell to Mrs. Don, Morris. The 28rawing-room was decorated with Sdplphini.ums, poppies, and a variety of gbeautiful blooms. Those present included Mrs. Morris, Mesdames S. Pitt, 1%?. S. Rutherfurd, E. H. Young, Hunt, hL. jFurrie, Truby King, L. Smith, K: feal R. Curtis, G. Graham. ,IE Mrs. J. B. Richards, Pembroke Moad, was “at home” on Thursday Mfternpon, may friends wishing to bid *’farewell to Mrs. Morris before her departure for Mi's. Richards her guests in a figured maro- . scain grey and pink gown. Her draw-tplg-rooni was decorated Cwith oriental poppies and spraxias. present were: Mesdames D. ITMorris, .Shaw (New Plymouth), W. H; ■fet. Young, L. Smith, L. Jardine, J. •pjYedric, Meslopp, W. J. Spence, and iMiss M. Porritt. ftlv • * • Bf’ Mrs. W. P. Mark, Brecon Road, gave Sjfe very jolly party on Thursday night tjfor Mrs.'D., Morris. ' Her drawinggrOom was artistically decorated with beautiful red roses. She was wearing very smart floral marocain gown of lautumnal tints. Her daughter, Miss Dune Mark, wore a frock of navy blue fgeorgette with white spots. The were Mesdames D. Mrris. K. L. Smith, P. Harrison, Misses *'M. Whittle, M. Malone, V. Sangster, *J. Hill, M. Purchase. ? • 'Mrs. E. S. Rutherfurd was hostess *Cm. Thursday afternoon at her resilience, Pembroke Road, the party ybeing given for Mrs. D. Morris prior s® her departure for Kawhia. Mrs. were a smart frock of -/floral crepe de chine with coatee of pink. She had lovely roses her drawing-room. Those present /■were Mrs. D. Morris, Mrs. S. Shaw, iMesdames ,N. Thorpe, S. Pitt, G. Hall, Q’ruby King, R. Curtis, S. Porritt, A. W; Budge, A. Coleman, H. Farquharson, K. Neal, H. Graham, T. Urwin, J. W. Spence, E. Buist, Misses M. Porritt, and N. Thorpe.

Mfs. Jolly, who has been holding bridge parties during the winter months in aid of the children’s health camp, held the last group for this year. The parties will be resumed in March nesg. year. These functions proved most successful and enjoyable. On Wednesday and Thursday following were the players: Mrs and Miss Porritt, Mr and Mrs E. S. Rutherfurd, E. H. Young, Mr and Mrs Allen, Mr and Mrs. J. Allen, Mr and Mrs Thomson, Mr and Mrs. North, Mr and Mrs Rawles, Mr and Mrs Heslop, Mesdames A. H. R. Amess, F. Bowler, Shannon, R. Tyrer, C. Marchant (Cardiff), Simonds, Townley, Misses N. Thorpe and Squires. The very useful sum of £3O has been collected.

Too Many Brides.

“Will you take this man to be your lawful husband?” asked the clergyman officiating at a marriage at Chrudim, in Bohemia. “I will,” said the bride. “I will,” shouted a woman somewhere on the left. “I will,” shouted a woman somewhere on the right.

There was a great commotion in the church, and it was half an hour before the wedding could proceed, says a cable message from Prague. The bridegroom, it was discovered, had proposed to three women. The two he had jilted conspired to wreck the wedding, but the bridegroom was too hardened even to blush. He called the police and had the women arrested on the charges of “interrupting a religious ceremony and acting in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace.” Then he went back to the altar—and married his waiting bride.

New Season’s Beach Wear. Beach wear this season has all the sea colours that prove irresistible to those to whom, the call of the surf is a perpetual lure. The colours of shells, the peculiar brick reds, the violet blues, all the changing sea shades trapped in wool, foam /whites merging into greens, the brilliant yellow-gold of the sand itself, coral, penguin black, with yel-low-like penguin bills, the anemone shades—are all incorporated into the new suites. Seagull white and grey, with scarlet from l«gs and bills—the combinations of colour are never ending.

White palm trees wave against a cruise-blue background on gome of the new suites, and the South Seas lend ..inspiration for the pareo and dress.iriaker types.] More tailored are those .costumes of coral jersey, which have •white trunks with striped legs. ’ Brown and white is a becoming colour scheme, with sun-tanned arms and legs. Sun-suits have been designed in infinite variety, with matching three-quarter-length coats, and worn with toeless sandals that are striped with gay colours or plain and dazzling white.

Royal Rooms. Queen Mary always has a model made of a room which is to be redecorated, and the King recently had models made of rooms at Fort Belvedere for the same purpose. ' So particular is Queen Mary that the furniture shall be placed exactly as she wishes, that she also has a plan made of each room. In order that the furniture shall not be put in wrong places during cleaning, Her Majesty has photographs taken'of the rooms and the housemaids are guided by them. Sometimes when a particularly beautiful model of a room has been made for her, Queen Mary presents it to the Children’s Gallery of' the Bethnal (Green Museum, where it usually fills a gap in the collection of homes from mediaeval times to the present day. , The children can see there a room which was modelled for Buckingham Palace, with a portrait over the mantelpiece, a fender-stool before the fire, and a single vase in a cabinet.

Colourful Shoes. At the recent International Shoe and Leather Fair in London, red, white, and blue shoes for men and women were exhibited. Will the men have the courage to don them, asks a correspondent. Women certainly will. They are elegant, striking, and patriotic. An illuminating feature of this exhibition is that women to-day have larger feet. During the past 15 years their feet have gradually increased in size. Why? More exercise in games, dancing and physical culture tend to increase the muscles, but at the same time develop more graceful and stronger feet. Ankles are slimmer, due to flat shoes; high heels congest circulation and coarsen the outline. Bunions are apparently an affliction of the past, soon to be extinct, though they have persisted in women over 45 to an extent of 60 per cent. —the legacy of an age that fitted shoes to feet as women wanted their feet to appear.

A “quiet. day” for womqjn was conducted in Holy’ Trinity Church, Fitzroy, by the Rev K. McFarland, Stratford, on Wednesday when members of the Stratford and Okato branches of the Mothers’ Union ‘took part with Fitzroy members. Holy communion was celebrated and .afterwards there were meditations and addresses by Mr McFarland.